As a CA I like order. Could you please consider posting all your Olympic threads here?
Mike and others we can only expect to slide down the medals table as time goes by. Realistically who else can get gold.
I have not watched the Olympics yet but must take a peek before its over. I did see that some little Chinese girl was so fast she was matchng the best men!! Has she been nailed for doping yet?
Thanks for the order Beano.
The chinese chick ain't little :) she is young 16 years old. but an awesome talent. She swam the last 50 metres of her event faster than the winner Ryan Lochte in the mens event. But it was not a WR as she was slow on the first 50.
hahahaha we wil wait and so........those chinese is well known for juicing there sportsmen
Typical of the Yanks. "She was faster than us, and she beat us......................... has to be doping.............."
if she has a adam's apple then its a dead give away :)
after her faggot comments on the Boks, karma seems to have come back and bite stphanie rice on the ass. i have seen several different news footage of her crying and crying and apparently its not all at the same time.
aussie foxsport are saying theres a saffa woman competeing who has male characteristics, does anyone know what im talking about and is this true???
and why do some countires have bugger all medals rank higher then other countires who have a ton??? i mean south africa have 3 medals, but australia have 9, is it the most gold that matters, thats the only thing i can put it down too.
yawwwwwwwn, wake me when 7s is introduced, LMAo, :P
hahahaha sasuke well i dont know about the steph rice story but i will check that out. i am not sure to what woman you are talking about but our flag bearer was banned for a while ext but she is back again. personally i must admit i know she was tested and she is legit apprantly so i dont know anything more than that. maybe someone else can shed some light on that but to my knowledge castor is cleared to race.
yes the teams are just posted to accourding to there gold medals. if the teams are tied for amount of golds then they are judged to there silver medal count ext ext ext
hahaha we having the same debate here in the London, as currently SA is ranked higher than GBR too :P
It isn't a weighted system in anyway and apparently people are only concerned with gold :)
If your news agents are talking about our sprinter, Caster Semenya. That's so 3 years ago... And she has been proven to be a lady... an ugly lady, but a lady none the less.
yep thats the chic im talking about and its the aussie media, i got npothing to do with those factles douche bags. but they were making a song and dance about her saying technically she can compete in both mens and womens events??? o_O pretty stink thing to say, but i was curious, thought it might have been a sex change of sorts.
has america won more gold then china ??? just asking cos i thought america always tops the olympics and figured they are giving china the gold to pay of their debt, lol. apparently china owns almost a quater of americas debt, o_O wowsers, is this true???
Bongani this 16 year old girl was faster in the last 50 meters than the guy who won the mens event!!
Come on how is that possible?
Ek was this over 100 meters?
What events are the Chinese cleaning up on.
Sasu
Let me explain how the list system works. First count is number og gold medals won - if that is eaual then the enxt count is how many silver medals won - and the same with the bronze.
However, the key is the number of gold medals won - a team can win 1 gold medal and 25 silver and bronze - they will still be below the medal list against a team that has only won 2 gold medals and nothing else.
I was wrong about New Zealand though - they won a gold medal this morning and can add 1 bronze one to their total.
The problem for Australia is a lack of medals in the pool - always their strongest component. There is very little further opportunity for them to win swimming medals - where in 2000 they ruled the roost. They may win the 50 meter freestyle - but that is also a big may. I do not think that they are doing well in this Olympics - must be in moarning by now.
Beeno
Le Clos said that a 100 meter race is too short for him - but we never know after the final. He has the fighting spirit of a lion and can pull it off. There are still a few other potential medal winners that could come through. I am thinking of the 50 meter breaststroke, the 4x100 medley, and even one in athletics. If we can win in rowing - the door is wide open for others as well..
Thanks Mike by our modest standards we could have a good Olympics.
well even kazakstan is up there so i reckon borat must surly be drunk already
i am really happy for them....this type of exposure will have a lof of spin offs for them. bigger sponser money ext ext
things are really looking good
1 more gold and we equal our best ever gold haul in 1912, I think :)
I am hoping for 1 or 2 silver and bronzes would be nice to get a few more. Fantastic for SA sport in general.
Yup, a little Chinese girl swims a faster last 50m then an American Man and it's cry wolf from the Americans. Hmmmmmmm I wonder what an Athlete is doing who has won 19 Olympic Medals. Noooooo, no doping suspicions going on there. He's pure talent, right?
canrugby
There is a huge problem with drugs in sport, Before 2000 there was a factory in California that produced undetectable drugs. The result was that the Sydney Olympics was the biggest drug fest ever. Many of the athletes in that Olympics was discovered to be filled to the top with undetectable drugs after the factory was discovered and the samples retested. A number of medals were withdrawn as a result. The most questionable druggy was Ian Thorpe - the 17 year old wonderboy of the 2000 Olympics - who won 7 golds if my memory serve me correctly. After the factory was discovered Thorpe vanished from site - he never competed in another Olympics.
However, during the Olympics in Sydney the Americans were screaming about doping of Chinese swimmers. It was a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black. The worst offenders were from America and Australia. Sport is for those two countries virtually a religion - so anything goes.
Insofar as Phelps is concerend - I do not think he needs drugs - his feet are large enough to serve as flippers. His shoe size is 23 - so that must be his personal advantage over normal human beings.
