OMG.... OMG. The US men's basketball team won the gold!!

:maroneysmirk:

Yeah, I'm impressed... Made it through the entire Olympics without watching 10 seconds of any of their games...

Became a fan of beach volleyball, looking for the Beach Volleyball channel...

I hope Maroney disappears, and don't see a single endorsement from her for ANY product..

All in all I really enjoyed these Olympics.. but it's just not the same.. loved watching.amateurs playing their hearts out for a CHANCE at fame and fortune.

I wish there were another 2 weeks of Olympics... it's over. :boo:

Opening ceremony = Bad

Closing ceremony = Worse

What where they thinking?

Opening ceremony = Bad

Closing ceremony = Worse

What where they thinking?

British humor? I had to change the channel, I kept flipping back 'n forth; mainly forth. :cds:

No way Spice Girls were amazing :faint:

Missed them while flipping...damnnnn

Now I have to wait 4 years to see another world class kayak race.

:killingme


MEAN PEOPLE!

:yay:


I dunno... I'm glad I didn't have to endure Baseball-only SportCenter highlights.

Became a fan of beach volleyball, looking for the Beach Volleyball channel...

OK, now is the time for the truth...Which did you like the best?

1) Womens Volleyball
2) Mens Volleyball
3) Womens Team Volleyball
4) Mens team Volleyball

OMG.... OMG. The US men's basketball team won the gold!!

:maroneysmirk:

Yeah, I'm impressed... Made it through the entire Olympics without watching 10 seconds of any of their games... .

High five! Me, too! :yahoo:

LiveLeak.com - Irish Olympic Sailing Commentary (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=510_1344196881)

:lmao: Stay with this one to the end......

High five! Me, too! :yahoo:

Not me. When I heard that they were actually losing to Lithuania, I HAD to tune in. But the b*stards pulled it out.

Not me. When I heard that they were actually losing to Lithuania, I HAD to tune in. But the b*stards pulled it out.

Imagine the locker room conversations and how much these guys planned on ####ing around on court to try and have at least a little fun with this.

For me, the Olympics lost their charm when it stopped being the Iron Curtain versus the Free World. So the last Olympics that really had my attention was 1988. The two previous ones I ignored because the boycotts made them irrelevant to me.

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, the only next bright spots for me were: the Dream Team, and the emergence of a women's gymnastic team that could actually compete and win.

Since that time, the strict inclusion of only amateurs has disappeared, and international competitions have become completely commonplace. Time was, the ONLY place you competed against the rest of the world internationally was the Olympics - you *became* the world champ once you got the gold, there. Now, we have world champs arriving at the Olympics with that distinction.

So I pretty much have no interest in it anymore.

But - if we host it here in DC, I will be in the stands.

Loved the woman's beach volley ball also, all were nice ASSets to the sport!!! :whistle:

I hope Maroney disappears, and don't see a single endorsement from her for ANY product..



Midol.

For me, the Olympics lost their charm when it stopped being the Iron Curtain versus the Free World. .

Charm? I used to hate that time period. We were truly amateur then and it would tee me off facing those cheating sob's and their, clearly, professional athletes and programs. So, yeah, I guess 'charm' is correct. At least we felt good about not being some sort of Drago robots.

Fond memories of Olympics XXX...

I will never forget the photo of the men's rowing team proudly standing at attention...:yay:

At least we felt good about not being some sort of Drago robots.

"I will break you"

No way Spice Girls were amazing :faint:

That was the best Lip-Synching EVER!!

Charm? I used to hate that time period. We were truly amateur then and it would tee me off facing those cheating sob's and their, clearly, professional athletes and programs. So, yeah, I guess 'charm' is correct. At least we felt good about not being some sort of Drago robots.

It did piss me off a little, back then. I remember an editorial cartoon around then that showed one of our track stars racing against a Russian in a dragster.

On the other hand, it reassured me that the American way was superior, because these guys were taking kids and churning them up, spitting them out, fashioning them their whole lives, eating, drinking and living nothing but their Olympic event - and often being beaten by a kid who just practiced on his own with his dad as coach. To me it was state versus individual, with individual winning an awful lot of the time.

I loved watching the Miracle on Ice - the hockey team. I was living just south of Lake Placid, but could not afford to go, but I swear you could hear the cheers all the way down to Albany. Again, same ideological divide - could kids with the personal drive and talent beat a team just with their own will to win - against a machine that had beaten NHL teams and beat the CRAP out of the NHL All Stars, including a 6-0 shutout.

The Rocky 4 thing was perfect - a chucklehead from Philly, punching meat in a meat locker - training himself - beating a guy just about genetically designed to beat him.

I loved it.

Then the two boycotts. What's the point of an Olympics if your toughest opponent doesn't show up?

By the time the 90's showed up, we had something I never thought I'd see - after seething for years for our "loss" in basketball in Munich - the Dream Team. A team that had some of the best players the world had ever seen. Teams that LOST to them were giddy with excitement that they played against Bird, Jordan, Ewing, Barkley and Johnson.

I guess after that, it just wasn't fun anymore. When our guys went to Sydney - a lot of these guys were replaying match-ups they'd seen before. The Olympics were simply no longer THE de facto indicator of world championship.

(In some respects, they never were - but - you were never "the fastest man alive" until you won the 100m at the Olympics.)

It did piss me off a little, back then. I remember an editorial cartoon around then that showed one of our track stars racing against a Russian in a dragster.

On the other hand, it reassured me that the American way was superior, because these guys were taking kids and churning them up, spitting them out, fashioning them their whole lives, eating, drinking and living nothing but their Olympic event - and often being beaten by a kid who just practiced on his own with his dad as coach. To me it was state versus individual, with individual winning an awful lot of the time.

I loved watching the Miracle on Ice - the hockey team. I was living just south of Lake Placid, but could not afford to go, but I swear you could hear the cheers all the way down to Albany. Again, same ideological divide - could kids with the personal drive and talent beat a team just with their own will to win - against a machine that had beaten NHL teams and beat the CRAP out of the NHL All Stars, including a 6-0 shutout.

The Rocky 4 thing was perfect - a chucklehead from Philly, punching meat in a meat locker - training himself - beating a guy just about genetically designed to beat him.

I loved it.

Then the two boycotts. What's the point of an Olympics if your toughest opponent doesn't show up?

By the time the 90's showed up, we had something I never thought I'd see - after seething for years for our "loss" in basketball in Munich - the Dream Team. A team that had some of the best players the world had ever seen. Teams that LOST to them were giddy with excitement that they played against Bird, Jordan, Ewing, Barkley and Johnson.

I guess after that, it just wasn't fun anymore. When our guys went to Sydney - a lot of these guys were replaying match-ups they'd seen before. The Olympics were simply no longer THE de facto indicator of world championship.

(In some respects, they never were - but - you were never "the fastest man alive" until you won the 100m at the Olympics.)

Ahhhhhh... You gotta watch "Bigger, Stronger, Faster"... perfect documentary on this.