2008 Olympic Games

[Heald]

Just saw them in half and count the rings. That's what my great uncle used to do at those internment camps anyway.

[ssj4supernerd]

YES BELGIUM FINALLY GOT A MEDAL SILVER YEAH WOOHOO YEAH WOOT AWESOME


Oh and I'm dissapointed in our soccer club, I had hoped we could buttkick Brazil and get a bronze medal but ohwell. =(

[Mikachu Yukitatsu]

Our medals have been just blind luck. I mean they have come from sports Finns aren't believed to be good at, we have failed in what Finns are believed to be good at. We should be happy with the current medal count, or not, because like I said, it was luck. But what many of us are proud about is that we are ahead Sweden which hasn't got a single gold medal! Wow.

Now we are looking forward to the javeling throw finals today. That's where we believe we're good at.

[ssj4supernerd]

BELGIUM
HAS
OBTAINED
GGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL LDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD



So happy right now.

[mr_pikachu]

Cuban taekwondo athlete banned after kicking ref

This actually makes me wonder how the guy became a black belt. No self-respecting martial arts expert would ever attack a referee. If you can't control your emotions, you don't deserve that honorable title.

[Blademaster]

Fix'd.

[mr_pikachu]

What, you thought we were done with this topic? No, no, no. *wags finger* We haven't finished the discussion just yet.

Chinese gymnasts deemed of age, inquiry over

...But wait, there's more!

Documents confirm all six members of China's gold medal team at the Beijing Games were old enough to compete, the International Gymnastics Federation said on Wednesday. But it wants more answers from two members of China's 2000 squad - Dong Fangxiao and Yang Yun - saying it "does not consider the explanations and evidence provided to date in regards to these athletes as satisfactory."

[...]

Dong's official birthdate is listed as Jan. 20, 1983. But her accreditation information for the Beijing Olympics, where she worked as a national technical official, lists her birthdate as Jan. 23, 1986, said Andre Gueisbuhler, the FIG's secretary general.

[...]

In addition to Dong's Beijing accreditation, her blog says she was born in the Year of the Ox in the Chinese zodiac, which dated from Feb. 20, 1985, to Feb. 8, 1986. Dong has not denied that, but she refused last week to answer any questions about her age.

Yang, who also won a bronze medal on the uneven bars in 2000, said in a June 2007 interview that aired on state broadcaster China Central Television that she was 14 in Sydney. Yang, who is engaged to Beijing men's all-around champion Yang Wei, told the AP last week that she had misspoken, declining further comment.

Apparently this isn't the first time China's done shady things in regard to ages. Just adds to the skepticism. If Fangxiao and Yun were, in fact, under the minimum age limit, it could have huge ramifications for Chinese gymnastics.

The drama never ends!