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Unified Beretania

22-08-2008, 09:46

Albavona Capitol Sentinel Online
Disappointing finish for Pappalardo-Papadopoulos

Columbia, UCS- The women’s ten meter platform diving final proved to be a big disappointment for Alejandra Pappalardo-Papadopoulos, who finished tenth after topping the field in both the prelims and semifinal. That’s compounded by the fact that Hawaiian-Beretanian Ahulani Nua’alo won bronze in the final, her second medal of these Games.

“It was an accomplishment just being here and to see Ahulani up there on the podium is just the best,” Pappalardo-Papadopoulos commented after the final.

Pappalardo-Papdopoulos was considered to be a favorite by Fujisawan and Beretanian media to medal in the individual event and true to form, she dominated the preliminaries and semifinal.

Most of Beretania’s swimmers and divers are already looking forward four years to the next Olympics, where for Pappalardo-Papadopoulos, it’s a fresh chance at an individual medal. She’s not going home from Columbia empty handed though, having won a silver medal with Nua’alo in the synchronized 10m platform final.

As the Games in Columbia wind down, and Beretania’s Olympic Committee shifts it’s focus to the Winter Games, athletes like Pappalardo-Papadopoulos and Nua’alo can’t help but soak up every last bit of publicity before heading home to Unified Beretania, and reminisce and ruminate over their successes and failures.

Most recent results...

Men’s 4x100m Relay Semifinals
Elton Hass, Demetrius Siburt, Eldon Balter, and Kevin Ford Jr. have topped heat two and qualified for the final of that event.

Men’s 50km Walk
Roderick Bishop-Smith finished in thirty seventh with a total time of 4:12:47.

Taekwondo Men’s 80kg
Cleo Knox had a first round bye.

Taekwondo Women’s 67kg
Anna Boldysheva of Allanea defeated Ginny McKnight-Woo 8-5 in the first round.

Women’s 1500m
Ginger Moore advanced to the final of this event with a time of 4:08.18.

Women’s 5000m
Katie Nixon advanced from the semifinal with a time of 15:12.56. Katalina Ward failed to advance.

Taekwondo Women’s 57kg
Psyche Diotrephes won silver in this event after losing to Jasīʼyūn’s Heather Martin in the gold medal match.

Women’s 20km Walk
Juno West and Haley Adams finished fifth and sixth respectively, with times of 1:31:28 and 1:32:35.

Taekwondo Men’s 68kg
Courtney Walton was defeated by Prince Sebastian of Asteran in the second round.

Online Poll Results
What has been the biggest Unified Beretania bust of these Olympic Games?
DeShon Blankard, men’s 3000m steeplechase 38%
Ocean Norton, women’s shot put 28%
Alejandra Pappalardo-Papadopoulos, women’s 10m platform diving 26%
Juno West, women’s 20km race walk 6%
Sarasvati Channarayapatra, women’s swimming 2%

Which was the most surprising result?
Sheena Jacqueline Baker wins gold in women’s single sculls 37%
Felix Boone wins silver in men’s road time trial 31%
Psyche Diotrephes wins silver in women’s 57kg taekwondo 23%
Alejandra Pappalardo-Papadopoulos fails to medal in 10m diving final 9%

Fujisawan Territories

22-08-2008, 10:30

Hoji Metropolitan Daily Record Online
Latest Olympic results

Taekwondo Women’s 67kg
Yayoi Watanabe had a bye in the first round.

Boxing Men’s Featherweight
Michitoshi Kasamatsu lost to Salim Abdul-Rahim of Illrawq in his semifinal of this event.

Boxing Men’s Heavyweight
The beloved Fujisawan boxer Samba Kawaguchi simply known as Samba in the Territories defeated Bela Leen of Allanea in his semifinal.

Men’s 50km Walk
Iwao Tondo finished thirty first with a time of 4:04:47, Wao Iwaoshi finished thirty third with a time of 4:05:30, and Gen Masanay finished in thirty ninth with a time of 4:14:36.

Men’s 4x100m Relay
In the semifinals, the Fujisawan Territories team finished eighth in heat two, not advancing.

Diving Women’s 10m Platform
June Himacho finished eighth with a total of 520.76. Unified Beretania’s Ahulani Nua’alo won bronze, with a total of 550.51.

Women’s 1500m
Karina Hohki qualified for the final with a time of 4:08:58.

Women’s 200m
Kamlyn Tatsuya picked up a bronze medal for the Territories in this event, with a time of :22.03. Jaŋ Hyūg-sig of Jasīʼyūn won gold with a time of :21.90, and Mandee Fisher won silver with a time of :22.03.

Men’s 5000m
Ken Ryosama advanced from heat two of the semifinals with a time of 13:19.39

Taekwondo Women’s 57kg
Hana Matsukata lost to Park Toh Lee of Maineiacs in the first round.

Cycling Men’s BMX
In the final, Fujio Sumura took gold in what many Fujisawans considered to be a surprise result.

Women’s High Jump
Ui Bando advanced from the qualification round.

Women’s 20km Walk
Shizuri Sawamura finished in fifteenth with a time of 1:34:19, while Yuageil Akechi finished twenty eighth with a time of 1:38:42, and Kunie Ruchi finished in twenty ninth with a time of 1:39:06.

Men’s 800m
Agatmori Oku failed to advance from the quarterfinal, with a time of 1:46.35.

Kelssek

22-08-2008, 12:26

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OLYMPIC REPORT PODCAST - AUGUST 22, 2008

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Taeshan

22-08-2008, 17:13

A Team and a Dream. The Story of the Taeshan Olympic Team.

Well one of only two teams from Taeshan to make it to the semis the mens indoor Volleyball team will like there teamates on the beach be going for bronze. The team lost to Secristan and will not be competing for gol. I sux.

New Manhattan

22-08-2008, 18:19

Day 08–22 B results (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13945815&postcount=38) are now up.

Bears Armed

22-08-2008, 18:44

Day 08–22 B results (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13945815&postcount=38) are now up.

OOC: I'm a bit confused by what happened here _

Taekwondo—Men’s 80 kg—Quarterfinals

Kim Han Kung (MAI) 2–5 박보애 (Bag Bo-ā) (JSY)
Hayden Fegan (XAL) 4–1 Tan Par (BRS)
Cleo Knox (UBT) 6–2 Ralph Lang (NEW)
Gustavo Clark (CAF) 3–7 Migelo Alonso (COM)

Taekwondo—Men’s 80 kg—Semifinals

박보애 (Bag Bo-ā) (JSY) 10–7 Hayden Fegan (XAL)
Cleo Knox (UBT) 0–5 Migelo Alonso (COM)

Taekwondo—Men’s 80 kg—Finals

Gold Medal Match
[G] 박보애 (Bag Bo-ā) (JSY) 6–2 Migelo Alonso (COM) [S]

Repêchage First Round
Hisotoki Kate (FJT) +7–7 Kim Han Kung (MAI)
Jake Izturis (SEC) 7–5 Gustavo Clark (CAF)

Repêchage Second Round
Hisotoki Kate (FJT) 1–7 Hayden Fegan (XAL)
Jake Izturis (SEC) 1–6 Cleo Knox (UBT)

Bronze Medal Match
Hayden Fegan (XAL) 9–2 Cleo Knox (UBT)

Where did 'Hisotoki Kate' and 'Jake Izturis' come from for the Repechage? Should that have been 'Tan Par' and 'Ralph Lang' (who lost their matches in the Quarterfinals, like 'Kim Han Kung' and 'Gustavo Clark' who were given that second chance...), or are the rules for who gets through actually more complicated than that?

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Oh, and to clarify a point before you scorinate the [b]'Summer Vigil Fasting': As another nation sent three male competitors for this event, all three of the potential Bears Armed entrants whom I listed for it in my sign-up (rather than just the female and one of the two males) will have been participating in it after all. So that's _

Borren Moonsilver [Ursine, male](0.7), Hwat Yen [Hwa (i.e. anthropomorphic Giant Panda), male] (0.5),
Lorranna o HighPeaks [Ursine, female] (0.5).

Bears Armed

22-08-2008, 19:06

"FOURR gold medals behind them, now!" Siggurr growled. "This is intolerrrable. John Smith has a good chance against ReNwarr in the Men's Welterweight Boxing final, so hopefully we'll claw one back there, but the best we can hope forr in the Light-Heavyweight now is a brronze while they still have a chance at gold and a guarrantee of at least silver -- sorry, Halvarrh, no blame intended, I do realise that that Brumas kid was just luckier than you -- and they've got a 'gold medal' match and a 'bronze medal' one in the Women's fights too..."
"So what rreal chances to catch up do we have left? Wrrrestling, hokay, but what else? Men's Javelin Throw, maybe, because Errhabarra is really good at that; Table Tennis? Oh, if only the 'American' Football werrre a "medal event", because 'Clan Crimson' have done so well in that so far despite only converting to it from Rrugby earlier this year..."

Illrawq

22-08-2008, 19:15

Abdul-Rahim Rolls to Finals; Moghadam takes Bronze for Illrawq

It's been a great Olympiad so far for Salim Abdul-Rahim. However, the Illrawqi featherweight saved his greatest performance thus far for the semifinals.

Abdul-Rahim dazzled the crowd, with a referee's stoppage of opponent Michitoshi Kasamatsu of the Fujisawan Territories early in the second round, garnering a 20 point lead in just over 4 minutes of action, in what many are calling the best performance of the entire Olympiad. He was the only male competitor to earn a semifinal stoppage. The aggressive Kasamatsu tried to press the action early and often, however ran into major problems with Abdul-Rahim's speed and reach, and was unable to get anything started. An elated Abdul-Rahim said, "For the first time this Olympiad, I have been able to truly showcase my skills to the level I know I can perform at. I thank Kasamatsu for a great fight, he showed tremendous talent and heart. I look forward to the finals. Hopefully, I can make a repeat performance."

He will face boxing powerhouse Allanea's Alex Gong for the gold medal, who upended Coocoostan's Ricardo Martinez 23-20 in the other semifinal.

Light Flyweight Assad Moghadam lost in his Light Flyweight semifinal against Allanea's Josh Savage 38-35, but clinched the first Olympic medal in Illrawqi history, taking home the bronze.

Asteran

22-08-2008, 19:30

"Welcome to a special extended edition of Olympic Roundup. I'm Alan Eagle. After being absent for a few days thanks to the referee betting scandal, we're back with interviews and results, most of which you probably already know."

"First, we'll cover the results from the 20th. In Women's Windsurfer, Christine Richmond claimed a bronze medal, finishing just 5 points out of second. Kara Lynde finished 30th in the Women's 10000 meters swimming. Charles McDowell came in last in the Men's 200 meter final. John Greene failed to move on while David Seeman moved on in the Men's 800 meters. Craig Lister failed to advance while Kevin Richards just barely did in the Men's 5000 meters. Steve Bradshaw advanced to the Men's Pole Vault finals after clearing 5.65 meters. Eve Sheldon came in 7th in the Women's 400 meter hurdles. Cain McDaniels and Jeanne Torvalds both fell in their respective boxing quarterfinals. Alanis Gore failed to qualify for the Women's 10 meter Platform semifinals. Keith Greene fell in the second Repêchage round of the Men's 58 kilo Taekwondo, while Hanna Pohjola fell in the quarterfinals. Matt Ryti claimed Asteran's first gold medal after beating Corrwan o Whitewater of Bears Armed in the Men’s Freestyle 74 kilo Wrestling final. We'll be talking to him later in the program."

"Now, for yesterday's results. David Seeman failed to advance to the semifinals of the Men's 800 meters. Paula Foster failed to advance in the Women's High Jump. Sam Eagleton came 30th in the Men's 10000 meters swimming. Tom Waltman, Carl Dyk, and Leon Angle failed to advance out of their respective wrestling group stages. Kevin Richards failed to advance to the Men's 5000 meters finals by only a second. The Men's 4x100 relay team advanced to the quarterfinals after coming 4th in their heat. Julia Gold and Bertha Power advanced to the Women's 5000 meters finals. The Women's 4x100 relay team advanced to the next round after winning their heat. Prince Sebastian fell in the first Repêchage round of the Men’s 68 kilo Taekwondo contest, while Summer Jones won the bronze medal in the Women’s 57 kilo contest."

"And now, today's results. In athletics, the Men's 4x100 relay team came 7th in their semifinal heat, ending their chances for gold. The 4x400 relay team had the same fate in their heat. Steve Bradshaw came 5th in the Men's Pole Vault, finishing just out of medal contention. Julia Gold finished 11th while Bertha Power came home in 14th in the Women's 5000 meters finals. The Women's 4x100 relay team came last in the finals. The Women's 4x400 relay team came third in their heat, moving them on. Ariel Newman finished 9th in the Women's Long Jump."

"Asteran's only remaining boxer, Katherine Palmgren, lost in her semifinals match to Iris Roper, but still brought home a bronze medal. Leo Sayles and Patty Nielson both fell in their first ound Taekwondo matches. Maria Maxwell won bronze in Women’s Freestyle 48 kilo wrestling, while Laurie Baker failed to advance."

"Kay Letoux finished 12th and Lianne Partridge finished 39th in Women's Mountain Bike. Bill Gore advanced to the Men’s 10 meter Platform semis after finishing 7th."

"Now, we have Matt Ryti live with us via satellite. Matt, we apologize for holding this interview so late."

"No problem. I've been under cameras and microphones for the past couple of days."

"How does it feel to be Asteran's first gold medallist?"

"It's incredible. I thought Lena and Keith got a lot of attention for being the first, but I've been covered by magazines, newspapers, radio, and television. The king and queen both came to watch my match and congratulated me afterwards. I've been getting calls from friends and people I don't even know."

"Speaking of friends, did you see or hear about the Kapi celebration?"

"Oh yeah. I heard about it after the match. A friend called me and told me about it. The whole city was packed into the city square watching the match on screens. They told me that during the last 30 seconds, there was dead silence until the whistle went. After that, it was a party like no other. They even told me that they sang along with Asteran's Call while it was playing."

"Epic celebrations indeed. What's next for you?"

"Well, it's back to university after this. I'll keep wrestling and maybe even come back to defend my title. We'll see."

"Thank you, Matt. Congratulations."

"Thanks, Alan."

"Well, with just a couple of days left, Asteran has one gold, four silvers, and fourteen bronze medals for a total of 19. Come back tomorrow for more coverage as we wind down these games and be sure to watch our final review show after the closing ceremony. I'm Alan Eagle. Goodnight."

Zwangzug

22-08-2008, 20:09

The intro's nice, so we'll leave it in.

Steve: Wildness all around.
Lily: If you weren't convinced before, the final nail in the coffin of the endurance-not-speed myth was hammered today.
Steve: Three of them, actually, as racewalker Noah Mxho's three warnings saw him disqualified from the 50 kilometer race.
Noah: I'm a pretty easygoing guy, really, but seeing how big a deal this was must just have revved me up. I mean, I was really going at it, and I guess I just lost control and picked up my feet. The atmosphere was overwhelming...I didn't really understand how big the Olympics were, and this certainly wasn't what anyone plans on having their Olympic experience be like.
Yvette: Two of Zwangzug's brightest talents finished highly-but not quite enough for the podium. Emily Alvarez took fifth in the long jump.
Emily: Getting that first jump so far out there was amazing, and all I wanted was to go out there and do it again. My strides were too big, so I crossed the line. That messed up my rhythm even more, and to miss again my last time felt bittersweet.
Yvette: What lies ahead for you?
Emily: I'd really like to keep jumping, but I'm not sure where I'll be able to pursue that opportunity. Otherwise, we'll see.
Darryl: Mountain biker Lucia Corzan hoped to medal as well, having finished fifth in Querzakhi.
Steve: Erroneously reported as fourth by some incompetent announcers.
Darryl: This time around, she did finish fourth, two minutes behind Irritti ar Arrgrane.
Lucia (with a rather melodic accent): When you're out there in the middle of nowhere, you try and imagine a spurt across the line, at the end. It turns out not to matter once you get there, so all you can do is think about the mistakes you made before, which is sad.
Yvette: Kenneth Rigby advanced through the 10 meter diving preliminaries, the women's 4 by 100 meter relay team was sixth in the final, and another medal for Zwangzug in...kayaking.
Darryl: Irene Brigham, Solveig O'Keefe, Delilah Swarth, and Kaitlyn Fiske took bronze in the 500 meter race...but the road there wasn't easy.
Kaitlyn: Irene's a great kayaker-I mean, we all know, two races, that's pretty good, right?
Delilah: We all get mad at each other once in a while, but she was always the most, sort of, psycho about it.
Kaitlyn: When we weren't good enough for her...ooh, she'd let us know! Solveig was the one that sort of kept us together.
Solveig: Heh, I just work well with other people. Ultimately, we knew that we all wanted the same thing, so it was easy enough to try and get there.
Lily: And the race itself?
Irene: They didn't know we'd come third. I was like, "Look at that, that's us."
Delilah: We did so know.
Solveig: Those last couple seconds, I have no idea. But when I caught a glimpse of the Bluth Corporation team-oh, they knew.
Kaitlyn: It's still hard to believe, and I have no reason why it shouldn't have been Kylie, or some of the men, or the field hockey team. But today, we just had what it took.
Darryl: A split in baseball: Zwangzug's men beat Kanji Starter 4-2 to make the gold metal game against Newmanistan, in a rematch of the World Baseball Classic 7 final that's also taking place in the eighth tournament.
Yvette: The women, however, lost 3-1 to Secristan and will face Maineiacs in the bronze-medal match. Nadia Koves and Don Abuanza share their perspectives.
Nadia: The pressure's on us more than the men, we're the ones that could walk away with nothing.
Don: Nobody comes here to win silver, and you know it.
Lily: Newmanistan won the men's softball gold medal, 1-0 over West Pocono.
Steve: And speaking of men's softball-
Lily: Oh no.
Steve: We have a very special guest with us in the studio. Kristin Petzar is the coach of Zwangzug's very own national men's softball team...the Fighting Quaggas.
Kristina: Just because their average age is thirty-five and a good number use substances restricted under national law, if not strictly performance-enhancing, is no reason they should not have been allowed to participate in the Olympics!
Steve: You've long been a vocal advocate for your team, and many other athletes.
Kristin: The rowers? Female wrestlers and boxers? Where are they?
Lily: Could it be...not Zwangzug?
Kristin: If they're not here, who's going to step up and find them? Do you know how few people enter some of the events? And how many medals we could win if we did?
Yvette: So you think the country should focus on developing aptitude in events where it's most likely to win medals?
Kristin: Finally, somebody who understands!
Lily: Well...there's just one problem with that.
Kristin: Oh? And it is?
Steve: What's the point?
Kristin: To get medals.
Lily: For what?
Kristin: The country.
Steve: And...your point is?
Kristin: So we can have more! Forget these ties for twenty-ninth, we could be up there!
Lily: No.
Kristin: What?
Lily: The Olympics...they're not about proving which country is better than another. They're about...They're about the world coming together to compete.
Steve: They're about falsifying people's ages.
Lily: Sharing our losses and successes.
Steve: Drug tests and disqualifications.
Lily: Underdogs that triumph!
Steve: Rampant, shameless pyromania!
Kristin: Hey, what does this button do?
More music, completely unlike any we've heard before, starting quietly but quickly crescendoing gloriously.
Yvette: It provides the background for inspiring dialogues like the one twenty seconds ago.
Steve: Great timing.
Darryl: We're gonna edit this part out, right?
Steve: Of course.
Yvette: And in other news, Alex Douglas and Major Mariana Bonfim won the modern pentathlons.
Kristin: Is that sort of like the piathlon?
Darryl: Let's see...that's where you...run a bit over three kilometers, swim just past three hundred meters, keep your balance as you walk thirty-one fence posts. Then what?
Steve: Realize how meaningless the world is and shoot yourself?
Lily: That's the postmodern piathlon, idiot.
Kristin: This is the UCS, maybe they have phiathlons here...
Yvette: Irrational multisports are not even demonstration events. Let's just make all that clear.

Candelaria And Marquez

22-08-2008, 22:21

The Albrecht Herald Online>Sport>Olympics>Latest News
There’s always the field hockey…
James Merritt in Columbia

It came from perhaps the most predictable direction of all, but Team C&M finally have their third gold medal, and the women’s field hockey team a place in the history books. For not only did Emelina García’s side win the tournament, they achieved a truly unique distinction – scoring a goal from anything other than a penalty corner.

The late strike, coming from the fantastically gifted young forward Leigh Alexander, completed C&M’s recovery from a goal behind, after Victoria Aragón had equalised early in the second period. Dumbfounded by Terry’s effort, the Cafundulenses – who had, in truth, dominated the final – visibly wilted, leaving the Candelariasians to coast to victory.

After a series of performances like these, the question must surely be raised as to whether any number of these players are now capable to slot into the men’s team, come the next World Championships, such was the impression made in Columbia. At any rate, much of this squad could be around to contest the Olympic gold for years to come, with the final reflecting the changing of the guard in microcosm – the likes of Steph Nielsen, Sophie Babic and Teresa Medina may have started this game, but by the end C&M were fielded a side made up largely of teenagers. Be they draw from García incredible Castillo club or otherwise; the likes of Antonia Reyes, Mallory Edwards, Hayley Cavanagh, Lauren Simpson, Jonni Yongchaiyudh and Alexander herself could come to dominate the global game for two decades to come.

Land de Wood also underlined their potential by taking the bronze, their country’s first medal of the Games. The gold meanwhile was C&M’s eleventh, on a day when the islands’ women continued to stretch their lead on the men. Both silvers picked up were tantalisingly close to the biggest prize of all, with Daisy Mah losing a true epic against Marina Senaki to give Cafundéu bragging rights in the table tennis and Flower Upton pushed Wentland’s Axila Anderdottir all the way in the flatwater K-1 1000 metres only for her arms to give out in the dying moments. The men on the squad will have their chance to get their own back in the final couple of days of the Games however, with Dean Comley and Ossi Bartram set to be the focus of Candelariasian attentions from now on, in their respective boxing finals.

Coocoostan

22-08-2008, 22:30

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3 in, 1 out, Boxers finish semifinals

Coocoostan's highly touted boxing team finished the semi-finals today, with Light Heavyweight Jake Sutton advancing to the final. That was it. Maksim Glukhov matched his bronze in the last olympics, while Ykaterina Holmkvist became the first woman in the nation's history to medal in boxing. Ricardo Martinez lost his semifinal to win a bronze earlier in the day, meaning the team has a shot at matching their 1 gold, 3 Bronze performance at the last olympics, if Sutton can again win the final. His opponent is Alexandre Brumas Junior, of Roumberre, who, like the rest of the Roumberre team, have been solid and looks to outmatch Sutton on paper. Sutton isn't very loyal to paper matchups however, just ask Josh Nazlo, Silver Medallist and Gold-Medal favourite in Querzakhi.

Also in action today, the Women's Field Hockey side lost the Bronze medal match to Land De Wood, 2-1 in Extra Time. The team played well, with the midfielders moving the ball well and the team scoring most of their goals via deflections. With proper time to organize, they could make the podium next time.

Tomorrow evening brings the Women's Volleyball final Versus Cafundeu, which will be carried live on BSC in its entirety.

Wentland

22-08-2008, 23:24

"And they're off! Wentland immediately jump into a lead..."

Nan Ook was exhausted after her efforts. Her third final in a day and seeking her third gold. The solo outing was a piece of cake, she could even ease up and cross the line paddle aloft, to the joy of the Wentland support. The new record holder for most gold medals at the Games.

The second one...she had felt herself tying up at the end and only Angie Cook's powerful stroke-making had carried her over the line by a scant half-second. Angie Cook knew that Nan Ook's powers were fading but they kept it secret from their young wards.

"We'll go all out, OK? Try to break them in the first two fifty."

It wasn't quite working. Wentland were in the lead, but only by half-a-second at the first quarter. It had widened to three-quarters by half-distance but the other teams were still in touch.

However the stroke-making was going well. Solilla and Sommerland were acting as a unit, staying at the same constant and seemingly relentless pace. The Nanooks ere pushing them on verbally.

"Come ON...we've got them beaten...keep with it...stroke, stroke, stroke..."

Into the last hundred yards and the lead was a good four-tenths. Nothing was going to stop them now, surely?

Surely...

Angie Cook was the first to notice it. Sommerland and Solilla were too intent on their own race. But Nan Ook was finished. She had blown herself out. The paddle nearly slipped from her hand. "Come ON, Nan..." hissed Cook. "Come ON!!! Ten seconds more!!! TEN SECONDS!!!!"

Nan Ook somehow responded. But the rhythm had gone. Suddenly the driving duality of Sommerland and Solilla was not working with the Nanooks. They didn't know what was happening. All they could see was the fleet beginning to catch them. And they assumed it was their rhythm that was wrong. They tried to slow to match the Nanooks, only for them to get hopelessly out of sync.

And Asirda, Esēita, Marḍiya and Nahata smelled blood. They poured on the pressure. So did the Bluth and Zwangzug boats. The crowd was hoping to see history made with three golds in one day. Instead they were on their feet for a blanket finish. Four boats crossed the line. Bang bang bang bang.

Who had won?

The crews looked around expctantly. The Wentland crew were slumped over their oars. They somehow knew they had lost. They didn't even hear the Barantxu cheers when the scores were posted. They didn't hear the despair from the Bluth crew at having missed bronze by the width of an ant's toe. They didn't care that they had just held on to second place in the most thrilling flatwater race of all time.

They had lost.

Nan Ook had all those medals in her locker. But she was the most melancholic person in the entire Olympic village.

New Manhattan

23-08-2008, 00:24

Where did 'Hisotoki Kate' and 'Jake Izturis' come from for the Repechage? Should that have been 'Tan Par' and 'Ralph Lang' (who lost their matches in the Quarterfinals, like 'Kim Han Kung' and 'Gustavo Clark' who were given that second chance...), or are the rules for who gets through actually more complicated than that?
Only the athletes that lost to the eventual finalists (in judo, the semifinalists) enter the repêchage—the two losers in the round of 16 play the two losing quarterfinalists in the first round, and the winners of those matches play the losing semifinalists in the second round.

Unified Beretania

23-08-2008, 04:08

Carrie Stone: Welcome back to our Crosscom Beretania’s continuing Olympic coverage. Switching gears now to gymnastics. With the artistic side finished, rhythmic gymnastics is yet to be contested. Yesterday, qualifications for the rhythmic individual and group finals. Beretanians Haifa Az-Zahir and Rosalin Valenzuela failed to qualify for the individual final but Az-Zahir and Valenzuela qualified along with Sienna Fisher, Kristiana Priestwood, Melanie Snow, and Sahara Daniels in second for the group final behind the Ariddian Isles. The Fujisawans, who had both of their individual gymnasts qualify for the individual final, finished right behind us. Excellent showing from the Fujis.

Joining me now is Greta Gomez, the president of Gymnastica Beretania, the organization that oversees Unified Beretania’s participation in Olympic Gymnastics and organizes the national team for both artistic gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics.

Also with me is artistic gymnast Katie Yang and rhythmic gymnast Kristiana Priestwood.

Greta, starting with you, let’s get down to it. Beretania in women’s team artistic gymnastics was in fourth place after the opening qualification round, but finished seventh out of eighth in the team final. A bit of a disappointment, had some scattered success on the individual events, with Anastasia Kostrikova winning silver on the balance beam, and Courtney Daugherty winning silver on the uneven bars.

Dannie Boyle won bronze on the men’s side on parallel bars for Unified Beretania.

How do you sum up artistic gymnastics for Unified Beretania in these Olympic Games, and what are your expectations for rhythmic gymnastics?

Greta Gomez: It was our first foray in Olympic gymnastics. We knew who we were up against, but not how to get the results we wanted. It was a trial by fire, and now in the next Olympics, you’re going to see a much tighter team on both the men’s and women’s sides. We are seriously going to step up our training and preparation, and put more effort into building a team from the ground up that is capable of challenging Ariddia. That’s always been our goal. It still is. So we are going to make the changes in the way Gymnastica Beretania does business as usual, and become more efficient and put together a stronger, more unified team.

As far as rhythmic gymnastics goes, I think we’ll do a lot better simply because our rhythmic side is a lot more organized, and we have a pretty balanced team, skill wise. It’s unfortunate that we didn’t have Haifa or Rosalin qualify in the individual, but you know what? More power to the Fujisawans. That’s the kind of results that we’re shooting for.

Stone: Now a lot of people have been speculating that Ariddia has lost it’s edge in artistic gymnastics, just barely topping Cafundéu, and come next Olympics, it will be Cafundéu that will be the team to beat. If that’s the case, what adjustments do you make to your program to accommodate that shift of power if you will?

Gomez: I think Ariddia is still the team to beat. I doubt that will change between now and the next Olympics. So we’re not going to lose focus. Cafundéu is certainly another gymnastics superpower, and we respect that, but we consider Ariddia to be the world’s best, and to start out, we’re looking to be on the same podium with them at the end of the team finals and in the individual events.

Stone: Fair enough. Kristiana, I think most people back at home are less acquainted with rhythmic gymnastics than they are with artistic gymnastics. Tell us about the differences.

Kristiana Priestwood: Well, gymnastics in general is a very physical sport, it’s very hard on your body. I give the guys and girls on the artistic side much credit. Rhythmic gymnastics is all about expression and overall presentation, and it’s like a really insane artistic floor exercise. There are a lot of elements that are similar to dance. There are five hand apparatuses used in rhythmic gymnastics. Those are ropes, ribbons, hoops, balls, and clubs. It takes a lot more skill in rhythmic gymnastics that most people realize.

Stone: What do you think is a realistic expectation of your medal chances?

Priestwood: It’s really up in the air. I know there are lots of people who are disappointed with the way artistic gymnastics went, and I think it’s a chance to even that out if we medal on the rhythmic side. I think we can medal, but I doubt we’d win gold.

Stone: Katie, you’re going home without a medal, what do you think is in the future for Beretanian artistic gymnastics and how do you view your time here at the Olympics?

Katie Yang: I think it’s been great. I can say I tried my best, and that’s means everything. I’m happy for Anastasia and Courtney. They did great. You know, after these Games I’m going to retire from gymnastics to focus on figure skating. Right now, I’m ranked second in the country, and I’m going to try and make the Winter Olympics. So I’m going home from Columbia without a medal, but my Olympic career isn’t quite over just yet It’s been hard balancing out gymnastics and ice skating, but they’re both passions of mine and now I can focus on just one.

I think Beretania can only build on what they’ve started. I think it’s obvious that we could have done much better than we did at these games, but I think we’ve paved a trail for the next six gymnasts and they will probably exceed what I consider the poor performance that we put up in these Olympics. It’s hard to say what will happen. Only time will tell.

Stone: Kristiana, I notice that the friction that has plagued the artistic side of Beretanian gymnastics is not there on the rhythmic side. There’s really a team spirit and I noticed the comradery. Why is there that difference?

Priestwood: I used to do both rhythmic and artistic gymnastics. Artistic gymnastics is so cutthroat and competitive. You build up bitter rivalries with other gymnasts throughout your career. Everyone wants to be the best. But in rhythmic gymnastics, there’s an emphasis on teamwork, and it’s easier to build a team that gets along well, and works together.

Stone: Katie, what has been the most inspirational moment for you in these Olympics?

Yang: Definitely, it was watching Ajitawa Yukatsuko miss the women’s individual all around with appendicitis, and then rebound by winning silver on rings, and bronze on pommel horse a couple of days after surgery.

Stone: That was an incredible feat, I do agree. Greta, predictions.

Gomez: I think we’ll take bronze in women’s rhythmic group gymnastics.

Stone: Katie, you have a prediction?

Yang: No. We’ll just see what happens.

Stone: Alright. Well, Greta Gomez, Katie Yang, and Kristiana Priestwood, thanks for joining us. Women’s rhythmic gymnastics group final on the last day of competition. Don’t miss it. Good luck Kristiana, and good luck to you Katie as well, I hope we see you in the Winter Games.

Kelssek

23-08-2008, 04:31

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Cafundeu

23-08-2008, 04:34

From the Series "COC List Stars for Columbia":

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COC List Stars - Wagner Fontoura (Bocce) and Marcos Zacarias Moura (Summer Vigil Fasting)

After talking about sports that are popular in nearly all the world, and about traditional events of the Olympic Games, we, the editors of this magazine, had to make an article about some sports that entered in this Olympics as demonstration events. Although they do not award gold medals, they have their importance, as they introduce interesting sports to the countries, and are another way of integrating different cultures. And these Games were excellent in this point, as we had a lot of demonstration events, from the exciting and famous Bocce to the slow but challenging Summer Vigil Fasting.

From all these events, the bocce games were surely the most watched ones here in Cafundéu. After all, this sport has a good level of popularity inside the country, and is played by nearly everyone, just for fun, although the older people tend to master this sport and play professionally. The Retired Public Workers Club is the place where the best bocce players train. And, in the Olympic Games, bocce was an enormous success, one of the most watched demonstration sports, and one of the most commented ones. The players from many different nations gave their best to make a good performance, and it seemed that bocce conquered the hearts of everyone, and can return in the next Olympics again as a demonstration event.

For the women, the double from the Former Police Officers Asylum lost against the Wentland double in an epic game. But the men did their job and could win the event, with good victories over their opponents. Wagner Fontoura and Giuseppe Ramos Antonioli had few difficulties during their games, and seemed pretty happy in being able to participate in the Olympics. "This is a dream becoming true... such a marvelous athmosphere... lovely people, nice opponents, I must tell this to my grandgrandchildren," said Wagner Fontoura. Now they have many stories to tell to their friends when they resume their trainings in the Retired Public Workers Club, and will get prepared to play in more international competitions.

Other event that attracted a lot of people is the Summer Vigil Fasting, which will only end in the last day of the Olympics. Probably the most unusual sport of the entire Games, many people are following the athletes in this challenging event, interested to see how they are able to resist all those days. And Cafundéu has a representative in this event too: the former beggar Marcos Zacarias Moura, who accepted to travel to Columbia in exchange of a one-year supply of bread. But first, he'll have to fast for some time, and he is good of that, due to his experience in the streets.

But the demonstration events are much more than just Bocce and Summer Vigil Fasting. We had the Chess Boxing, the Croquet, the physical Tug-of-War, competitions as the Wheelchair Fencing and Racing... another excellent sport added was the Cliff Diving... those jumps were awesome, and we hope to see more of that soon... if the athletes are really willing to do that again, I mean... there was the American Football too, in which Cafundéu sent a team that didn't know the rules and suffered because of that, and the Lacrosse, which Cafundelense team didn't know even how to play that!

Green wombat

23-08-2008, 04:45

GREEN WOMBAT Olympic Update

3 bronze medals. That's all we have earned so far. That means we earned a bronze medal today, but where? Read below to find out!

ATHLETICS RESULTS (Advancers in BOLD):
Women’s Long Jump—Final:
Olga Guiterrez: 6.64/6.91/6.93/NM/6.53/6.80--6.93

DIVING RESULTS (Advancers in BOLD):

Men’s 10 m Platform—Preliminaries:
Randy Oster: 458.42 (5th)
Ryan Pitre: 373.48

Prux

23-08-2008, 04:50

Prux's Olympic Blog

Water Polo—Men’s—Semifinals:
We've clinched a medal and it will be either Gold or Silver, as the Waterpolo team outlsted Roumberre in overtime 11-10 to advance to the finals against Landau Institute. So no matter what happens, (hopefully a win) Prux will leave Columbia with a medal.

Score by Quarter:

Roumberre 3 2 1 2 2 10
Prux 2 2 3 1 3 11

That's all so far from Columbia, UCS.

Cafundeu

23-08-2008, 05:09

- GLOBO MULTIMEDIA -
Olympic news in our website! - Today with Breno Gavião

*script of the Breno Gavião comments*

Athletics - not an interrrrresting day for Cafundéu in the athletics, with nothing good to comment.

Boxing - day of semifinals in boxing... many of them. And this means lots of brrrrronze medals being awarrrrrded. For Cafundéu, Gorrrrrila, Leoa and Gabrrrrriela Almeida got them. Vladão and Paola Di Natale arrrrre in the finals.

Table Tennis (women's) - Marrrrrrina Senaki did what many thought it was impossible, winning the gold medal in the women's singles, defeating GG Fisher frrrrrom Kosovoe in the semifinals and Daisy Mah frrrrrom Candelarrrrria And Marrrrrquez in the final, winning this unexpected gold in a close game. She couldn't hide her tearrrrrs while listening to the Cafundelense anthem "Time is money", clearrrrly emotioned by her rrrrresult.

Volleyball (men's) - a huge disappointment for all the Cafundelenses this day, as our male indoor volleyball team lost in the semifinals to West Pocono (3-0) with a devastating scorrrrrre, being humiliated and sent to the brrrrronze medal game.

Football (men's) - a loss in the brrrrrronze medal match ended the parrrrticipation of our team in this Olympic Games. The rrrrresult was of 2-0 to Newmanistan.

Basketball (men's) - an excellent rrrrrresult of our team in the semifinals of the competition, and now they have guarrrrranteed at least the silver. In an excellent perrrrrrforrrrrmance, Cafundéu defeated Valanorrrrrra by the rrrrresult of 75-59 and must now defeat Nuevos Airrrrrres if it wants the gold medal.

Canoeing - no comments. We did nothing good.

Diving - the prrrrreliminarrrrries of the men's 10m platforrrrrrm motivated the Cafundelenses, as Matheus Inocêncio got the qualification in the second place, which can mean more medals to come.

Field Hockey (women's) - the final against Candelarrrrrria And Marrrrrquez was going to be a difficult game, everrrrrybody knew that. Although many people said that Cafundéu dominated the possession and the game, others claim that Candelarrrrria And Marrrrrquez deserrrrrved the win because their playerrrrrrs took advantage of their chances. In the end, the Cafundelense girrrrrls had to be happy with the silver medal.

Rhythmic Gymnastics - Cafundéu only has women in this event, so therrrrre's no need to put the worrrrrd "women's" next to the event name. In the qualification rrrrrround, Cafundéu got the qualification in both the individual (with both gymnasts) and the grrrrroup events.

Moderrrrrrn Pentathlon (women's) - the Cafundelense Arrrrrrmy Major Marrrrriana Bonfim used all her talent and abilities to win in the moderrrrn pentathlon, getting the gold medal. Her differential was in the equestrrrrrrian and fencing events, in which she could rrrrrreally get prrrrrecious points.

Synchrrrrrronized Swimming - opposite rrrrresults depending on the gender. The men, composed by the 8 brrrrotherrrrrs that worrrrrk in a local church didn't do well and ended the firrrrrst parrrrt of the event in the last place. The women, composed by prrrrrofessional athletes, did well and finished this parrrrt in the firrrrrst place.

Table Tennis (men's) - Andrrrrré Okitamone continues in the dispute, after defeating Kun Bai frrrrrom Maineiacs in the quarrrrrterrrrfinals.

Taekwondo - some wins, but most losses in this day.

Beach Volleyball (men's) - another heart-killing gold medal match in the beach volleyball. After losing the firrrrrst set (fighting until the end), Marrrrrcus Vinícius Farías and Rrrrrrrodrrrrrigo Garrrrcia won the game and conquerrrrred the so expected gold medal. They commemorating jumping over the supporrrrrterrrrrs. Their opponents seemed sad by their loss, but, in the end, all seemed happy in the prrrrrize cerrrremony, each of them holding their medals.

Beach Volleyball (men's) - well, Marrrrrcus Vinícius and Rrrrrrrodrrrrrigo Garrrrrcía werrrrrre the winnerrrrrs in the beach volleyball event, but which double got the silver medal. Well, morrrrre Cafundelenses, rrrrrepeating the all-Cafundéu final in the women's final too. Lúcio and Leopoldo trrrrried harrrrd to get the gold, but werrrre narrrrowly defeated. In the end, they had to admit their loss, although they could have ended winning that game.

Wrrrrrestling - our most experrrrrienced wrrrrrestling fighter ended winning the gold medal, using all her knowledge to have an advantage over her opponents. In the gold medal match, Derrrrrcy Gonçalves defeated Melissa Grrrreen frrrrom Allanea, and the gold medal seemed to be made for her.

New Manhattan

23-08-2008, 08:02

Day 08–23 A results (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13948099&postcount=39) are now up.

Unified Beretania

23-08-2008, 09:24

Albavona Capitol Sentinel Online
Recent Olympic results from Columbia

Taekwondo Women’s Over 67kg
Bracey Russell defeated Cafundéu’s Kelly Marshall in the first round.

Taekwondo Men’s Over 80kg
Sebastian Graham of Capitalizt SLANI defeated Lance Fisher in the first round of this event.

Men’s 10m Platform Diving
Maverick White qualified for the final with a total of 623.32.

Men’s Association Football
Capitalizt SLANI defeated Valnora to win gold in the final.

Men’s Rhythmic Gymnastics
Ariddian Abdel Andresen won gold, while Nicolae Teporescu of Bulgislavia took silver, and Tarcísio Coelho of Cafundéu took bronze in the individual final.

Women’s Handball
Secristan took gold, Jasīʼyūn silver, and Cafundéu bronze in the finals of this event.

Women’s Indoor Volleyball
Cafundéu won bronze, Coocoostan silver, and West Pocono bronze in the finals.

Fujisawan Territories

23-08-2008, 09:51

Hoji Metropolitan Daily Record Online
Recent Olympic results from Columbia

Men’s 10m Platform Diving
Higeuji Isu qualified for the final in third with a total of 664.97.

Taekwondo Men’s Over 80kg
Hwen Dan of Bears Armed defeated Yozo Miura 7-1 in the first round.

Taekwondo Women’s Over 67kg
Chikako Imo’o defeated Lena Scholten of Asteran in the first round.

Women’s Synchronized Swimming
The Fujisawan Territories finished third in their team technical routine, with 47.583.

Women’s Rhythmic Gymnastics
The Fujisawan Territories qualified for the final of the women’s rhythmic group gymnastics in third behind the Ariddian Isles and Unified Beretania, with a total of 47.825.

Yu’uki Takoka-Sanji and Koi Kobayashi both qualified for the women’s rhythmic gymnastics individual final in eighth and tenth respectively.

Women’s Lightweight Boxing
Shouko Ise was defeated by Newmanistan’s Stacey Bradford 25-15 in the her semifinal.

Women’s 4x400m Relay
The Fujisawan Territories team advanced from the heats topping heat three with a time of 3:24.11.

Men’s Pole Vault
Nagato Nambo won bronze in the final of this event. Gregory Opiy of Kenavt won silver, and Lenoid Rogozin of Kanji Starter took home gold.

Bears Armed

23-08-2008, 14:53

The national anthem that Bears Armed adopted quite shortly before the start of these Games -- 'Peace' -- is being played in their delegation's quarters, and sheets of paper with its words on are being handed out to the athletes, in the hope that if anybody does well enough in any of the few remaining events to get it played out at the podium again then everybody will actually get those words* right _

“I sing of peace, I sing of friendship,
I sing of peace and understanding;
I sing of friendship between all peoples,
May all peoples live in peace:
Bear and Harr'aynau, Hwa and Brocken,
May all peoples live in peace.
Bear and Smith-folk, Hwa and Human,
May all peoples live in peace."

"Peace for living, Peace for loving,
No more warring, No more grieving,
Understanding between all peoples,
May all peoples live in peace:
Bears and Humans, and all others,
May all peoples live in peace.”

“Let’s sing of peace, Let’s sing of friendship,
Let’s sing of peace and understanding;
Let’s sing of friendship between all peoples,
May all peoples live in peace:
Bear and Harr'aynau, Hwa and Brocken,
May all peoples live in peace.
Bear and Smith-folk, Hwa and Human,
May all peoples live in peace."

"We sing of peace, we sing of friendship,
We sing of peace and understanding;
We sing of friendship between all peoples,
May all peoples live in peace:
Bear and Harr'aynau, Hwa and Brocken,
May all peoples live in peace.
Bear and Smith-folk, Hwa and Human,
May all peoples live in peace,
May all peoples live in peeeace…”

Outside, the members of 'Clan Crimson' (the womens' 'American' Football team, who have not only chosen this name for themselves but had their fur dyed accordingly) are exercising ready for their next game... and their male counterparts, having lost a wager as to which of those two sets of players would progress furthest through the contest, are rather grumpily trying out "cheerleader" routines...

A line of chairs, in the shade, holds a number of other athletes who are still in contention for medals and who are waiting for the team's barber -- who has already dealt with all of 'Clan Crimson' -- to trim their pelts back by varying degrees so that they'll be less likely to overheat while competing. Athelbarr Errhabarra (men's Javelin Throw) has just been clipped to his own satisfaction, and is wandering off towards the refectory, leaving behind the wrestlers Ilda and Elga, boxers Halvarh Marrl-Thuleann and Denna o Barrdenn, all three members of the men's Mountain Bike entry, several canoeists, and the 'Eightwayist' monastic Hwa taekwondo-ist Hwen Dan.

The nation's three entrants for the men's Marathon race, who -- being Harr'aynau, rather than either Ursine or Hwa -- don't really have "pelts" that would need to be trimmed, are jogging together around the cluster of buildings.

And over in the stables, young equestrian Arwenna ar Thyrro is introducing her new best friend Kellie Bright to her horse 'Lighftoot'.
"Oh, do say that you'll come and visit my home, Kellie," Arwenna pleaded prettily. "You'll just love it at Castle ar Thyrro, and my parents keep saying that they wish I'd make more friends so I'm sure that they'd be happy to see you! We could go out riding around the estates together, and I could show you all of my favourite places, and you could teach me to shoot, and just think of the stories that you'd have to tell when you finally went back home again afterwards! The only Wentlanders to have visited our country before this have been a few wrestlers, and I doubt whether they went anywhere much outside of the towns where they were fighting... Oh, please, do say that you'll come..."

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(* which have been changed slightly from the ones that were used when it was entered, and came third, in the 2nd NSvision Song Contest...)

Kelssek

23-08-2008, 15:00

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OLYMPIC REPORT PODCAST - AUGUST 23, 2008

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Ariddia

23-08-2008, 15:42

TeleNet, PINA, gymnastics and eating disorders
Agence de presse ariddienne

State-owned television news network PINA has confirmed that it will participate in a Kura-Pellandi TeleNet documentary programme on eating disorders in gymnastics. The idea has generated some amount of curiosity in Ariddia, were gymnasts are national celebrities, but where no stories of such disorders have ever tainted the gloss of the stars’ reputations. Apparently, such is not the case in every country.

Aliw Set, one of Ariddia’s Golden Girls, has told us did she did not notice any “particularly skinny” gymnasts at the Columbia Games. “We all have to have a light build, but I don’t think anyone was severely underweight.”

Eating disorders are not a significant issue in Ariddia generally. The country rarely fields competitors in heavyweight categories –be it in judo, boxing, tea kwon do or weightlifting–, simply because there are few people in the PDSRA who might be qualified as overweight. Traditionally healthy diets, combined with values which frown on wastefulness, and a controlled economy which prevents overproduction, mean that Ariddians generally do not eat in excessive amounts. The country’s famous fast food branch Santé (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/sant.html) offers only nutritious food, rather than the junk often found in countries with ‘free market’ economies.

Have weight problems ever affected Ariddian athletes? In sports where weight categories determine competition, participants must carefully watch their weight, and maintain it at a desired level. This is the case notably in judo, one of the sports where Ariddia is accustomed to winning a number of gold medals.

“For a while I was a little above my category limit,” judoka Olivier Aleksanyan (men’s 90kg) says. “I had to watch myself and get back under the limit.” But his efforts were carefully monitored by a doctor, and Aleksanyan has never been skinny.

Slightly more contentious, perhaps, was Dong Yue Yan’s self-imposed weight gain. The tiny judoka (1m47, 39kg) competes in the super-lightweight category within the Ariddian Isles, and forces herself to put on weight to participate in the 48kg event at the Olympics.

“I do have to eat a lot, but I’m under medical supervision,” she explains. Her normal body weight, although very low, is a healthy one in relation to her small height, her doctor says, and is not the result of under-eating.

The only real controversy in regards to eating and sport has come in summer vigil fasting. There has been public concern over its effects on the health of Ariddia’s two representatives, Julian Singh and Aphrodisia Amanatidis – including calls for the Ariddian Isles not to condone the sport by competing in it. Prior to the Columbia Games, Singh had told the media that he had trained regularly, and that his body was used to fasting. Doctors have told the press that concern is warranted nonetheless, and that repeated fasting during practice may worsen the competitors’ health. The event will end tomorrow, and Ariddian Isles team doctors will be present to offer immediate assistance to Singh and Amanatidis. The controversy is likely to re-awaken at that point.

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Will they still be smiling tomorrow? Julian Singh and Aphrodisia Amanatidis, the Ariddian Isles’ representatives in summer vigil fasting, have created controversy.

New Manhattan

23-08-2008, 18:01

Day 08–23 B results (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13948833&postcount=40) are now up.

Coocoostan

23-08-2008, 19:01

Volleyballers win Silver, Sutton to fight in 24 hours.

Columbia-UCS

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It would have been a lot to expect, for Coocoostan to defeat the Cafundeun volleyball powerhouse in the gold medal match. With a 25-5,25-6,25-12 loss, the team settled for the silver medal. They appeared overmatched almost immediately, with the first two sets very one sided. In the third however, the Coocoostanis matched Cafundeu point for point until a timeout sent the gold medallists to victory. Still the team knows that they will be back where they are in a year and already seem optimistic. The strong showing has strenghtened calls for the reinstatment of the Professional Volleyball League, disbanded two years ago after low attendance. With most players from the olympic team having played in that league, it appears it developed a wide pool of talent with no one noticing. With the men making the final eight as well, the public remains angry the COC was content not to send them last year and tried to keep them out this year. Interim COC head Sergei Buznikin said he won't let such things happen. "We're targetting our successful sports for more funding and will look to include those who have been unfairly excluded next time." The medal brought the national count to 7, with boxer Jake Sutton in the gold medal match of the Light-Heavyweight tomorrow, it will increase to eight, a two medal improvement on last year, but still not good enough for Buznikin. "Twenty. With proper entries, we should have twenty medals."

Zwangzug

23-08-2008, 20:36

Synthe-organ music segues into…it sounds a heck of a lot like “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”, actually.
Yvette: As the Olympics wind down, Zwangzug racks up four medals from likely and unlikely places.
Darryl: When Wendy Phindruen signed up for the Ylompics, she had no idea she was beginning an international tradition of Zwangzug kayakers.
Yvette: Carl Mellon tries to explain it.
Carl: Uh…um…I dunno.
Yvette: Okay then, Mollie Traynor gives it a try.
Mollie: There’s this allure to it that I don’t think most sports have. A lot of the big team sports are just too unwieldy and complex, plain old running and swimming races are too…isolated. Here, we can work together or apart, there are enough different races that there are niches for a lot of us.
Carl: We’re a close-knit team, so we all sort of worked together well enough to push each other forward.
Mollie: …Metaphorically speaking.
Carl: Mmhmm. That.
Mollie: Also, you can sit down when you compete. Don’t know other sports like that.
Steve: Biking?
Mollie: Oh yeah.
Darryl: Zwangzug’s three men’s mountain bike competitors finished fourteenth, twenty-third, and thirty-third.
Steve: Carl, you entered both 1-man races, while some of the women doubled up in team events. Do they have a more, would you say, collectivist mindset?
Carl: Hahaha no!
Mollie: Irene Brigham?
Carl: Weeeell…I’m not sure. I guess I’m, personally, just a good solo racer. I don’t wanna speak for anyone else.
Darryl: Mellon won both his semifinal heats, but finished eighth in the 1000 meter final.
Lily: But today, he surged past Tavari Okima and Gervais Payne, who’d finished ahead of him in that race.
Carl: At the end, I was pushing Sharpe, with Jeno right behind.
Darryl: Kura-Pelland’s Derek Sharpe had taken gold in the thousand-meter.
Carl: And as I was crossing the line, I figured, whatever that time is, I’ve achieved something here. Everything I’ve put into this, it’s mattered. I had this good feeling about it, and then I saw I’d gotten the medal.
Darryl: Bronze for Mellon and Zwangzug, with the women soon to race.
Mollie: Hanna had just come near the end in the solo, so I was ready to step things up a little. We got off to an amazing start but I didn’t want to think about it too much. By the end though I was just yelling.
Yvette: Traynor and Hanna Olafsson had taken silver.
Darryl: In an event that needs no introduction, Zwangzug’s baseball teams competed in both gold and bronze-medal finals.
Lily: The women got a rematch against Maineiacs, their opponents from the group stage.
Yvette: A leadoff walk in the second turned into an unearned run on a Jamie Summers error, but Zwangzug were to win in style, adding two more in the seventh on Chela Palmer’s double. Amber Pastis went the distance for the shutout, and Zwangzug won bronze.
Darryl: Meanwhile, in a One Big Island clash, Secristan beat Newmanistan 10-5 for the women’s gold.
Yvette: The margin of victory in the men’s final wasn’t quite so extreme, though the Rockets did score five runs. But Zwangzug scored nine, with three crooked numbers in an offensive rout.
Lily: Old veterans and promising talents joined forces, and it was hard to tell who was the “second team”. Here’s how Alexei Shiomi put it.
Alexei: I’m not ashamed to say we’ve always known we were the best in the world, and today we can remind ourselves of that.
Steve: Would you say that baseball is an appropriate Olympic sport?
Alexei: Oh, of course.
Steve: Even with the World Baseball Classic going on?
Alexei: That might be a tournament with greater players, with greater teams. The Olympics are a greater tournament because of everything they are. When I pitch on that mound, I’m connecting to my country, to these other sports…and it’s a great feeling that baseball can be part of this.
Steve: What about tiebreaking methods? If games go into extra innings?
Alexei: Hmm…well, if all the games go like this? Then, we don’t have to worry about that!
Lily: There is no worrying left to do, as Zwangzug cements its passion for baseball with not one but two Olympic medals. Congratulations.

Fujisawan Territories

23-08-2008, 23:25

Hoji Metropolitan Daily Record Online
Recent Olympic results from Columbia
Fujisawan athletes win five last minute medals

GOLD
Ken Ryosama, men’s 5000m
Karina Hohki, women’s 1500m
Samba Kawaguchi, men’s heavyweight boxing

BRONZE
Ui Bando, women’s high jump
Yu’uki Takoka-Sanji, women’s individual rhythmic gymnastics

Columbia, UCS - The Territories seemingly saved the best for last, winning three last minute golds medals and two bronze medals.

First, Ken Ryosama finished first in the men’s 5000m final, with a time of 13:08.37. Baranxtu, Cikoutimi, and Otea’s Leop Tik won silver with a time of 13:08.50, and Tim Aorangi of Kura-Pelland won bronze with a time of 13:14.06.

Karina Hohki won gold in the women’s 1500m final, finishing with a time of 3:58.53. Margaret Dolan of Secristan won silver with a time of 3:58.81, and Gertrude Nike of Allanea won bronze with a time of 3:59.28.

The best boxer in Fujisawan history, simply known as Samba (pronounced Som-bah) in the Territories, is now an Olympic gold medalist. Samba Kawaguchi defeated Tom Nolte of Secristan in the final.

Ui Bando won bronze in the women’s high jump while Katherine Valencia of Capitalizt SLANI won gold, and Zoya Dovak of Bulgislavia won silver in the final of this event.

Yu’uki Takoka -Sanji won bronze in the women’s rhythmic gymnastics individual final, with a total of 104.675. Letícia França of Cafundéu won silver with a total of 105.375, and Jacqueline Isidoro also of Cafundéu, won gold with a total of 106.400.

With the Olympics coming to a close, all that remains for the Territories is the women’s rhythmic gymnastics group final, and the men’s marathon, in which Dayu Ina, Shunsho Inaba, and Sadauji Minabuchi will compete.

“It’s a great day for Fujisawans. It makes me proud to be Fujisawan. All my dreams have been realized, and I’m so happy not only for myself, but for my country,” Hohki said after winning gold in the women’s 1500m.

The Territories now have twenty six medals, eight of which are gold, three silver, and fifteen bronze.

Cafundeu

23-08-2008, 23:28

From the Series "COC List Stars for Columbia":

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COC List Stars - Júnia Abate (Archery) and Rômulo Strausser (Fencing)

Continuing our series about our main athletes in this Olympic Games, which are ending, we'll now talk about Archery and Fencing, sports that brought many frustrations to the Cafundelenses and (only in fencing's case) some happy moments. There is only day remaining in the whole games, and all the Cafundéu preparation for the events seemed to be rewarded, as the country was able to win more medals than any other country, and more golds too, which means that it is going to finish the Games in the first place in the medal chart, something that is going to be commemorated.

So, let's return to our review (or just normal comments) about these two sports, that were played during the first days of the Olympic Games, but only now we are going to talk about them. Before everything, an analysis of our performance in these sports. In archery, we had lots of good practicers that were willing to bring the gold to Cafundéu, but they failed to do so, and the country didn't win a single medal in the sport, something that was a disappointment for many. At least they were expecting some success in the team events when the athletes didn't win in the individual ones.

In fencing, all seemed to be disastrous for the Cafundelenses, who were unable to reach finals in the individual events, when the people expected to see the fencers battling for gold medals, both in the men's and women's competition. The best result that the country could get in these events were bronze medals, with Rômulo Strausser and Catarina Jade. But, in the team events, Cafundéu showed the ability of its fencers to the world. The country won most of the team events in fencing, bringing many gold medals home. It really seemed that, for Cafundéu's fencing, "union makes strength".

So now we'll not talk about the results, which are in the past and can't be changed. Let's talk about the athletes, who must be praised and respected for their results and talent in the sport they practice. In archery, one of the main Cafundelense competitors was Júnia Abate, who left the competition early. She has a lot of experience in difficult competitions, but this time this knowledge didn't help her. Another archery participant was Alice Abate, nephew of Júnia, who had the same fate of her aunt. In the men's competition, Breno Macaé went far, but didn't bring a medal home.

Fencing also was a sport which showed many talented competitors, including Cafundelense ones. The two main ones participated in all the individual events. Among the women, Ana Luiza Prado, who was considered one of the main contenders for gold medals in fencing. Well, that didn't happen, but she worked hard, reaching advanced stages. Among the men, Rômulo Strausser, who not only did participate in all the individual events, but in all the men's fencing competitions, winning gold medals in the team ones. By the way, the Cafundelense teams are to be praised for the excellent work they did.

Cafundeu

24-08-2008, 00:07

- GLOBO MULTIMEDIA -
Olympic news in our website! - Today with Breno Gavião

*script of the Breno Gavião comments*

These last two days arrrrre calmer ones, with fewer events taking place, but with morrrrrre medals being decided, as they arrrrrre days of finals! Let's check Cafundéu's rrrrresults!

Diving - Matheus Inocêncio starrrrrted the day in grrrrreat forrrrrm, finishing the semifinals in the firrrrrrst place. But didn't keep the perrrrrforrrrrmance in the final and didn't win a medal.

Handball (women's) - the women handball team finish its parrrrrticipation in the Olympic Games in a good way, after defeating Newmanistan in the brrrrronze medal match by the rrrrresult of 28-21 and earrrrrning a medal.

Table Tennis (men's) - Andrrrrré Okitamone followed the steps of his frrrriend Marrrrrina Senaki and carrrrrved his path to the gold medal today. Firrrrrst, he defeated the favourrrrrite Doctor Fábio Saci frrrrrom Landau Institute after six games. Later, in the final, he defeated Connor da Vincho frrrrrom kenavt, in a game that was a bit easier, but not easy. When rrrrreceiving his medal, he rrrrrepeated the rrrrreaction of Marrrrina, crrrrying too.

Volleyball (women's) - the rrrrresult in the final against Coocoostan, the victorrrrry and the gold medal, was an expected one, but the scorrrrrreline was imprrrrressive, showing that the team is clearrrrrly the best of the world. The girrrrrls didn't have any difficulties to defeat the silver medallists, and finished the game with a 3-0 win, getting the deserrrrrved gold medal. Coocoostan worrrrrked harrrrd, and their playerrrrrs seemed happy too after the initial shock of the loss. In the prrrrrize cerrrremony, the playerrrrrs made a homage to Laurinha, a player that got injurrrred and didn't go to the Olympics. Nathy and Daniela Zaad werrrre the best playerrrrrs of the competition.

Athletics - no medals to Cafundéu today, even in the sporrrrrts werrrrre our athletes had chances. But a good day for sporrrrt, with some good events taking place...

Canoeing - WHAT? Is this for rrrrrreal? Cafundéu won a gold medal in canoeing! Yes, the medals came with the ones that arrrrre prrrrobably the only Cafundelense athletes that werrrre hopeful of winning medals in this sporrrrt. Isadorrrrra Estrrrrradas and Patrrrrrícia Arrrrrrrce won the gold in the women's flatwater K-2 500m event. And therrrre was another medal! Jorrrrge Lobos won the silver medal in the men's flatwater C-1 500m.

Rrrrrhythmic Gymnastics - a rrrrresult that many people werrrre hoping to see: a gold medal in rrrrhythmic gymnastics. And it came, with Jaqueline Isidoro, in the individual competition. Her perrrrrforrrrrmances, beautiful and prrrrecise, werrrrre morrrrre than enough for her to win.

Rrrrrhythmic Gymnastics - and the parrrrrty in the prrrrize cerrrremony of the individual rrrrrhythmic gymnastics event was complete, as the young and talented Letícia Frrrrrança won the silver medal in the same event that Jaqueline won the gold. Both seemed extrrrrremely happy with their rrrrresults.

Synchrrrrronized Swimming - the final rrrrresults of this sport came, and Cafundéu had excellent news in both of the events (the team's men's and women's events). In the men's, the brrrrrotherrrrrs won some positions, something alrrrrready good, even if they didn't win medals. But the women werrrrre simply the best, and imprrrrressed the judges with their moves, completely coorrrrrdinated, something that earrrrned them the gold medal.

Ariddia

24-08-2008, 02:28

The Olympics so far (highlights: August 19-23)
Agence de presse ariddienne

Catch up on the latest action in Columbia, and find out how the Ariddian Islanders have been doing.

GYMNASTICS

Ariddian Islanders had won four gold medals in gymnastics in Columbia so far, not to mention medals of the other two colours, and there remained a few events in which to increase that total. Sae Iu was disappointing on the balance beam. He had won bronze in that event in Querzakhi, but made uncharacteristic mistakes this time round, and ended in ninth place. The gold went to João Carlos Mattar, of the Landau Institute.

The same Doctor Mattar was invincible on the horizontal bar, one of the Games’ most impressive events, and his compatriot Luiz Augusto Flamengo obtained bronze. In between the two, however, Jang Yong-Jun of Ariddia seized an impressive silver after a dazzling display, scoring 9.738.

The parallel bars provided arguably the most exciting competition, and gymnasts from Ariddia, Secristan and Unified Beretania battled it out in a close contest which left spectators shouting with excitement. Denis Vaillant, Jerry Lennon and Dannie Boyle were given exactly the same score, 9.713, and it took the judges’ ruling to award gold to the Ariddian. The other Ariddian in contention, young Ih Wal, finished a close fourth, 0.013 points behind his compatriot.

Then came the men’s trampoline, an event in which Abdel Andresen and Jang Yong-Jun of Ariddia had taken gold and silver in Querzakhi. The outcome in Querzakhi was exactly the same: Andresen took gold, improving his previous score of 41.1 by 0.2 points, while Jang took another silver, his score of 41.1 an improvement of 0.6 points on his result four years ago.

Upon seeing their scores, Andresen and Jang grinned, hugged each other, exchanged hugs and handshakes with their former opponents, then climbed back onto the two trampolines and began bouncing, re-enacting their performance in an unexpected and unauthorised encore. The crowd loved it, cheering wildly, and judges decided not to intervene, allowing the men and their supporters to celebrate in their own unconventional way.

“I know we shouldn’t have done that,” Andresen said afterwards, the Ariddian Isles’ flagbearer smiling and not looking in the least bit remorseful. “But we were thrilled, and it was the heat of the moment. We’d do it again, of course.”

For the women, it was all a lot more complicated. Aliw Set finished seventh on the balance beam, and Elu Sis sixth on the horizental bar. On the parallel bars, Sandrine Berthier ended up an agonising fourth, her score of 9.700 just 0.013 points short of a place on the podium.

Barely were the artistic competitions over when it was time for the spectacular rhythmic events. Ariddia’s two male representatives, Sae Iu (the defending champion) and Abdel Andresen, both qualified comfortably in the individual field, second and fourth respectively. And there was finally some good news for the women, as Sunny Mokhobo (the defending champion) qualified in first place, with 106.400 points – far below her personal best, or her Querzakhi score of 116.500. Anaïs Reed, silver medallist in Querzakhi, failed to qualify, an indication of her opponents’ skill. In the final, however, Mokhobo’s performance was not quite up to her usual indomitable standards, and she finished in a hugely disappointing fourth place.

“I wasn’t feeling at my best,” she admitted. “I don’t know why; I just didn’t quite flow into my routine. I’m very sorry, I apologise to the team and to everyone who supported me. In the end, Jaqueline was just the best here, and she makes a great Champion. All the best to you, Jacqs.”

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[i]Anaïs Reed, competing in rhythmic gymnastics.

Arguably the most important event for the rhythmic gymnasts was the team competition, and the Golden Girls came together to defend their Olympic title with a beautiful demonstration of fluid skill and graceful coordination. To the sound of applause, they took gold, as the only team to score above 50 points.

It was left to the men to do as well. In the individual event, Abdel Andresen lived up to the challege with magnificent style. He looked untouchable as he put in a performance close to perfection, and was clearly the crowd’s favourite. When it came to the score, there was no contest. Andresen blew away all opposition, claiming gold with 107 points, a full four points ahead of silver medallist Nicolae Teporescu from Bulgislava.

FOOTBALL

Football is often described as the national craze in Ariddia, so there was joy aplenty when the women successfully defended their Olympic title, taking gold by defeating Newmanistan 3-1 after extra time. It was not quite the 4-1 drubbing they had inflicted upon Qazox four years earlier, but it was a decisive victory nonetheless, and several of the ladies in black and red soon announced that they would be going out to celebrate.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

In boxing, Aa Shey looked fantastic in the quarter-finals of the women’s light flyweight; she was the only competitor to win her match by knock-out, when her perfectly aimed punch knocked the unfortunate Flávia Adahan unconscious, a minute and a half into round three. As the Landau Institute’s team doctors assisted Adahan, the referee stopped the contest and declared Shey the winner.

“I’m a bit sorry I knocked her out,” the Ariddian said afterwards. “I’m glad she’s all right. I don’t like hurting people. I just hit when I had a good opening, and she fell. Woops.”

Shey, who was competing at the Olympics for the first time, looked confident and in good spirits. She was considered the Ariddian Isles’ strongest hope for a medal in boxing. The country had never won a medal in that sport in any Olympic Games.

She went on to defeat Lauren Courtney of Newmanistan on points in the semi-final, 22-15. The small and lively Ariddian boxer let out a squeal of glee as she fought her way to a medal, her smile lighting up the ring.

In cycling, Andrew Hern, who had finished fourth in the final of the track keirin, won his semi-final in the track individual sprint, and faced Krytenia’s Damian Counago in the final. The two man sprinted a fast race and looked evenly matched, but Counago was first by twelve thousandths of a second, leaving Hern with the Ariddian Isles’ third silver medal in cycling at the Columbia Olympics.

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Yet another silver medal in cycling: Andrew Hern, in the track individual sprint.

Over in the men’s BMX, Carl Legendre came third in the seeding time trial. Disappointingly, he lost his edge in the quarter-finals, finishing sixth of his heat.

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Carl Legendre, here in the red top and black trousers, was another strong performer in cycling.

In diving, young Ua Le’s Olympics came to an end when she finished 21st in the 10 metre dive, her skilled and graceful performance earning her the comparatively high score of 289.65 – not quite enough to feature among the world’s eighteen best. She was smiling after the event.

“I think I do good,” she said in English; her native language is Wymgani. “I sewewishi… confiante maintenant. I think I do good time after too. Maybe elwio I to learn English,” she added with a lovely smile, before saying in Wymgani that she was going looking for her opponents to congratulate them… and add to her collection of autographs from her idols.

In the men’s event, Armand Savard qualified in thirteenth place. Facing an uphill struggle, he dropped to fourteenth in the semi-final, and did not advance. Green Wombat’s Randy Oster would eventually take gold, while Pete Wence won Omigodtheykilledkenny’s first medal of the Games – a bronze.

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Armand Savard dives for the Ariddian Isles.

In synchronised swimming, Mustapha Kanu and Jeremy Grover dazzled judges and spectators with the impecably coordinated movements of their hairy legs, and took gold with an excellent score of 95.000. Their technical score of 46.917 was way ahead of the competition, making the two men fresh revelations of Ariddian talent. They are the first Ariddian Islanders ever to win an Olympic medal in an aquatics event.

“Clearly we’re very pleased,” Kanu said. “I think our sport will attract a fair bit of attention, if only because people think it’s strange. And you know what they say about any publicity. In any case, we’ve won gold for the first appearance of men’s event at the Olympics, and that’s something we’ll always treasure.”

Fr. Antiochus and Fr. John of the Archregimancy, swimming in monastic robes, finished in last place. Kanu and Grover went to talk to them after the competition. When asked what he had said, Kanu explained:

“Just friendly athletes’ small talk, really. I was impressed by what they did. They made it more difficult for themselves with their robes, so their final score, taking that into account, was actually quite good.”

There was also good news for the women, Samantha Cohen and Pam Pham. With 94.500 points, they swam their way beautifully to a silver medal… and to national fame.

In table tennis, Christian Mohamed, who had already won gold in tennis, began his second event in perfect form, defeating Kosovoe’s Arey Fisher – 11-6, 11-8, 11-1, 11-4. Round three, against Alan Soma, was even more impressive, as the Krytenian was thoroughly outclassed despite slowly improving: 11-1, 11-2, 11-3, 11-5.

Hildebrando Pascoal of the Landau Institute proved a far more challenging opponent, however. Mohamed lost the first two sets (7-11, 8-11), before battling his way tenaciously to victory in the third (12-10). Looking calm, he restored the balance in the fourt set (11-7), before conceding the last two and dropping out of the Olympics. He shook hands warmly with Pascoal, conceding defeat.

“I could say it’s not easy to prepare for two different sports as I did, but that was my own decision, so I have only myself to blame. I thought I would be up to it, and I gave it my best. I can’t say I’m unhappy with my performance. But it also reminded me that I can always improve.”

In chess boxing, Nathaniel Smith proved one of the surprises of the Ariddian delegation, fighting his way to victory in his semi-final. He fell only to Douglas Keen of Kelssek in the final, giving the Ariddian Isles a silver medal in this unusual demonstration sport.

At the end of August 23, with the Olympics drawing to a close, the Ariddian Isles were in fourteenth place on the medal table, with 32 medals, of which 14 gold. Of the gold medals, one had come in football, one in synchronised swimming, one in tennis, three in judo, and eight in gymnastics.

Prospects for the final day of the Games included further medals in rhythmic gymnastics, and a gold or a silver for Aa Shey in boxing.

Over the course of the Columbia Games, there had been many surprises, good and bad. Among the starkest disappointments were the early eliminations of Darren Foams in judo and Youssef Kasmba in archery. Sunny Mokhobo dropping off the podium in rhythmic gymnatics, when she had qualified in first place and was the defending champion, was also a disappointment.

On the postive side, Ariddia’s gymnasts successfully defended their team titles in both the men’s and women’s artistic competitions, as well as the women’s rhythmic event (with the men’s to come tomorrow), against particularly strong opponents. It is an outstanding achievement, one of which the Dream Team and the Golden Girls can feel extremely proud.

Ariddia’s gymnasts remain legends in their field, and have, by now, accumulated a stunning number of medals over the course of the past three Olympics. Leaving aside gold medals in team events, Ariddians have won the following individual medals:

Abdel Andresen: 4 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze
Michael Gris: 4 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze
Sae Iu: 2 gold, 1 silver, 5 bronze
Jang Yong-Jun: 1 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze
Denis Vaillant: 5 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze
Josh Vidic: 3 gold, 1 silver
Ih Wal: 1 gold, 1 silver

Sandrine Berthier: 1 bronze
Hope Mathijsen: 1 gold, 2 silver
Sunny Mokhobo: 3 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze
Laure Mkrchyan: 1 gold, 1 silver
Anaïs Reed: 3 gold, 1 silver
Aliw Set: 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze
April Smithson: 1 gold, 1 bronze

All six Ariddian male gymnasts won at least one individual medal in Columbia; all except Sae Iu won at least two. Abdel Andresen and Denis Vaillant each won two individual gold medals. Andresen won three individual medals (two gold and a silver), as did Michael Gris (two silver and a bronze). Ih Wal won a gold and a silver for his Olympic debut.

As there was no rhythmic team competition at the first Olympic Games, and the men’s event has not yet taken place at the Columbia Games, a total of nine gold medals won in team competitions (and no medals in other colours) must be added to the individual totals: five for the women and four for the men. This makes Denis Vaillant, with nine gold medals, one silver and two bronze, Ariddia’s most successful Olympian of all times.

In Columbia, there were also gold medals in sports where Ariddians were not accustomed to stepping onto the podium. Christian Mohamed’s gold in tennis was not unexpected, but was very much welcome nonetheless. Grover and Kanu’s gold in synchronised swimming was no doubt the most high-profile surprise success of the Games, at least for Ariddian Islanders.

Less glamorous but also impressive were good performances from underdogs Catherine Deveaux in swimming and John Chesney in athletics, revealing fresh talents to be nurtured. Their names were unknown before the Columbia Games, but not any more.

C.O.A. President Eo Sheh described the Ariddian Islanders’ performances so far as “fantastic”, and praised the organising committee in the UCS for “smooth, efficient, exciting and overall wonderful Games”.

Omigodtheykilledkenny

24-08-2008, 02:45

Holy shit! I won a medal!! :eek2:

This is totally unexpected -- will be writing up an RP post later. Fucking awesome!

Unified Beretania

24-08-2008, 04:13

Albavona Capitol Sentinel Online
Latest Olympic results from Columbia

Women’s 1500m
Ginger Moore finished in tenth with a time of 4:06.43 in the final of this event. Karina Hohki of the Fujisawan Territories won gold with a time of 3:58.53, Margaret Dolan of Secristan won silver with a time of 3:58.81, and Gertrude Nike of Allanea won bronze, with a time of 3:59.28.

Women’s High Jump
Lynn Collingsworth finished tenth, while Katherine Valencia of Capitalizt SLANI won gold, Zoya Dovak of Bulgislavia won silver, and Ui Bando of the Fujisawan Territories won bronze in this event.

Diving Men’s 10m Platform
Maverick White finished in seventh in the final with a total of 683.86.

Taekwondo Men’s Over 80kg
Lance Fisher lost his bronze medal match to Kristóbalo Perató of JSY.

Taekwondo Women’s Over 67kg
Bracey Russell lost her bronze medal match to Chung Sun Mak of Maineiacs.

The women’s rhythmic gymnastics group final, and Elton Fieldson and Donte Sargent in the men’s marathon are all that’s left for Unified Beretania in these Olympics. Unified Beretania will fall short of their goal of winning nineteen medals, and a poor performance in the pool will haunt Beretania’s swimmers for quite some time.

By contrast, the Fujisawans did quite well, picking up five late medals, three of those gold. Ken Ryosama won the men’s 5000m, and Karina Hohki won the women’s 1500m, Samba Kawaguchi won the men’s heavyweight boxing final, Ui Bando won bronze in the women’s high jump, and Yu’uki Takoka-Sanji won bronze in the women’s rhythmic gymnastics individual final.

Qazox

24-08-2008, 05:16

QSPN.com/OLYMPIC COVERAGE

Day 15 and 16. The end of the Olympics, except for the shouting and the pointing of fingers.

Just waiting for any event involving Qazox to happen.

Stay tuned to QSPN, QSPN2, QSPNOcho, and QSPNInternational for live coverage of every Qazoxian event, and tune into QSPN.com for 24/7 live streaming video for any competition.

Cafundeu

24-08-2008, 05:18

From the Series "COC List Stars for Columbia":

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COC List Stars - Prince Miguel Van Tocco (Tennis) and Leandro Lobo (Basketball)

Time for the last article about our Olympic athletes. It all started when the COC sent (a bit late when comparing with other nations) the list with the 500 entries. Then, all the people from the country started to wait with anxiety the beginning of the Games, as they were sure that they would be able to see talented athletes, and many of them from Cafundéu, fighting for medals. Surely the COC's target since the beginning was to lead the medal chart, but no one inside the country could imagine that it'd be with such a big advantage. Cafundéu ended with most medals, showing that sport in our country is one of the main priorities. There were surprises, but there were deceptions too... magical days.

And we, the editors of this magazine, felt that it was necessary to reveal in details to our people the identity of our heroes in this Olympic Games, the ones that made the "Time is money" be played so many times, the ones that made the red-black-yellow flag be raised in the stadiums and other places, that made Cafundéu appear in newspapers from all around the world, as the country with the highest number of expert sportspeople, excellent athletes. Now that the games are ending, we should think if "winning" these Olympics was really our only goal... of course not. We could also see many other good athletes winning medals for other countries, be impressed by them and glad to be able to see them competing. The whole world produced this marvelous event.

Well, we'll say goodbye to you later, my dear readers. But first, we must talk about the two sports, the ones which this article is about. First, tennis. The events related to this sport didn't end in medals for Cafundéu, but were surely followed by many. Although there are many huge tennis competitions outside the Olympics, the best players were in the Games too, proving that the competition was really intense. Four players were the main ones for Cafundéu. Among the women, Ana Paula Klaeigh and Daniela Venturine. Both were put among the favourites in the event, but didn't go far. Our men had the same fate. Bernardo Tedesco lost in the first rounds, and our Prince, brother of the Empress, Miguel Van Tocco, lost in advanced stages. He is currently among the 10 best players in the world, something curious, as he is a member of the royal family.

And we end our series with the basketball. A popular sport in most parts of the world, it is a popular sport in Cafundéu too, although not at the same level of football and volleyball. But many people get dedicated to this sport, and really love it. Both our male and female teams are very competent, although the male is more famous due to its performance in international competition. The women's team has as best players Íris and Lina, the two of them being deadly in fast plays. Aninha and Helô are very good in taking rebounds and 3-points shots, and Karina is top defensively. About the men's team, they still can win a gold medal, so they're getting prepared for the final. Xororó and Jackson are excellent in defending, André Torre in passing and Michel in making sensational attempts at winning points. But the real key player is Leandro Lobo, who will surely lead the team in this final.

Ending our comments about tennis and basketball, we end this series of articles. We, the editors of this magazine, want to thank you for reading us. We'd also like to say that this was a special moment for us, to be able to talk about such great people. This Olympic Games still haven't ended and we are already anxious for the next edition, as this was surely a great experience for us. But, for now, we have to say goodbye to you. It was good while it lasted, and it seems to us that this even maybe was too short. Of course, this is our impression of this because we enjoyed it very much... even more because we were able to make this contact with you via these articles... but now, it's time to go. Thanks for reading us.

(OOC: of course, there'll be the daily review of the last day, so my RPs haven't ended. it's just that the editors of that magazine ended their participation)

Green wombat

24-08-2008, 05:22

GREEN WOMBAT Olympic Update

A break though! trailing by 2.50 points and one dive left. Randy OSter takes home the first Gold medal of the game for Green wombat, as he scored 86.45 to over take Vasily Vidova, who then would need only a 83.80 to clinch gold. Vidova got...79.80 and in a suprise to all, Randy Oster brought home the gold! 4 medals total, 1 gold, 3 bronze. Not great, not as many as we expected, but 4 is better than none.

ATHLETICS RESULTS (Advancers in BOLD):

DIVING RESULTS (Advancers in BOLD):

Men’s 10 m Platform—Semifinal:
Randy Oster: 458.42/198.86--657.28 (4th)

Men’s 10 m Platform—Semifinal:
Randy Oster: 198.86/508.08--706.94 (GOLD MEDALIST)

Prux

24-08-2008, 05:33

Prux's Olympic Blog

Basketball—Women’s—Bronze Medal Match:
With the 2 best players on the team out with injuries, The bronze medal match vs. Newmanistan seemed like a formality that Prux was going to lose. But every time the clocked stopped, there they were, just 1 or 2 points dwon. Trailing 62-61 with 6.5 seconds left, little-used Jacquetta Ruzich took the inbounds, dribbled a few times and lofted a shot just before the buzzer went off. It sailed through the air, hit the front of the rim and... In for a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give Prux its first ever Olympic medal 64-62 over Newmanistan.

Score by Quarter:

Newmanistan 13 17 18 14 62
Prux 15 14 20 15 64

That's all so far from Columbia, UCS.

Omigodtheykilledkenny

24-08-2008, 06:48

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Olympic medals are good for you and contain essential irons. Kennyite bronze medalist
Pete Wence tries to eat his. Capitalizt Olympic officials had been warned in advance by Kennyite
NOC members that this might happen, and were asked to coat their Olympic medals with a plastic
covering. It is uncertain if Commerce Heights actually took the Kennyites' advice, however.

Kennyites lord bronze medal over other Olympic nations
That's right, bitches! Kenny scored a medal! Take that, uhhh ... East Ying! Yeah!

COLUMBIA, United Capitalizt States (Allied Press) --- As the third Olympiad winds down in this beautiful Atlantian city, Kennyite diver Pete Wence has shocked nearly everyone in his home nation, and likely many present at this year's games, after scoring a bronze medal in the men's 10-meter platform dive. It is the first and only Olympic medal to be won by the Kennyites, who sent only four athletes to compete this year, and were not expecting any of them to come home with anything shiny.

Wence maybe least of all, since the 23-year-old former circus diver spent nearly his entire time in Columbia smoking himself retarded and binge-drinking at bars until ungodly hours of morning. When spotted by reporters at local pubs and asked if he had managed to get in any practice, Wence would only laugh mockingly, ramble on about having spent most of his short career "diving into buckets," and "You don't think I can handle this?" Then he'd challenge the reporters to a drinking contest. He always won.

The Kennyite placed 9th in the preliminaries earlier this week, qualifying for Friday's semifinals, where he climbed to 7th place with a cumulative score of 637.03. One might think Wence would have been jolted into a state of vigilance after such inexplicably strong performances, and one would have been wrong. He spent that night like he did every night, drinking and partying till he passed out in a pool of his own bathroom-floor decorations, and was spotted Saturday morning leaving the apartment of a local girl of questionable morals.

All the same, his performance that afternoon was something spectacular. At least we're very sure it was; we were too distracted by some blonde chick in the stands showing off nearly her entire rack in a low-cut top. Man, there should be laws against that kind of thing! Anywho, Wence scored an 85.71 on his final dive, allowing him to surge past Krytenia's Matthew Corry and steal the bronze. Meanwhile, someone named Randy Oster of Green wombat won the gold, and Vasily Vidova from someplace called Bulgislava took the silver.

Wence was moved to tears during the medal presentation ceremony (probably because there was too much chlorine in the water). He examined his bronze trinket curiously after it was hung around his neck, and asked if there was chocolate inside (and looked somewhat disappointed when told there wasn't). He sang the lyrics to his nation's national anthem loudly and off-key as the music played, only to realize that they don't play the national anthems of bronze medalists, retard, and you probably just insulted the wombatians by singing over their anthem. At least that's roughly what we overheard his coach yelling at him afterward.

And he was unavailable for comment, as corporate sponsors immediately rushed him off to have his picture taken for the new Wheatums box.

Closing ceremonies are scheduled to take place Sunday. Alex Tehrani, former secretary of state and newly designated ambassador to Allech-Atreus, will be in attendance. Whether Wence or any of the other athletes will actually show up is anyone's guess.

[OOC: Closing ceremonies are tomorrow, right?]

New Manhattan

24-08-2008, 12:26

Day 08–24 results (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13950814&postcount=41) are now up.

[OOC: Closing ceremonies are tomorrow, right?]
That’s the idea; since I didn’t have anything planned and my external hard drive is failing, I likely won’t RP it.

Newmanistan

24-08-2008, 15:02

(OOC: Sorry for my lack of RP down the stretch, I’m just in that mode that we all probably have all experienced known as RP burnout)

SWEENEY STUNS SUMMER VIGIL FASTING RIVALS

Columbia, Unified Capitalizt States- It was an event that many people were ready to hand to The Archregimancy. And why not? They certainly were the favorites in the demonstration event known as Summer Vigil Fasting in which they proposed to the Olympic Committee. The concept of the event definitely seemed right up their alley, but the other nations participating were not about to concede a victory. Because this contest was not just about Olympic glory, it was about showing your faith to the Lord, and when you put a group of some of His strongest followers together and add just a hint of friendly competition to it, anything can happen.

Father Sweeney, a member of the Loudon Diocese, would be the ultimate winner prevailing by a slim margin not over someone from The Arechregimancy, but in fact from someone from One Big Island itself, Father O’Harra from Secristan. For Sweeney, the closeness of the competition between himself and O’Harra gave new meaning to “Love Thy Neighbor.” We asked Sweeney what the last two weeks had been like for him, “It’s been a great two weeks. You get a group of people, and a couple bears, together that truly true followers of the Word of God, then you get a lot of common bonding. A lot of great stories were shared amongst us. The early stages were pretty easy, because I knew that I couldn’t show myself to have a less of a will against my opponents.” As far as the significance of his win for the Empire of Newmanistan, he replied, “I don’t really know. But maybe it will give us some recognition in the world as being a strong devout nation. We aren’t a nation that constantly wants to shove it in the faces of other people, but we have a strong will and a strong faith. So I am really proud of this accomplishment.”

Ariddia

24-08-2008, 18:10

Olympics: the final day
Agence de presse ariddienne

For some, the last day of the Games may be about watching the competition wind down before the magic of the closing ceremony. But for Ariddians, the hopes, tension, drama and excitement were still going strong. In fourteenth place on the medal table, could they haul themselves back up into the top ten?

Three Ariddians took to the start of the men’s marathon. All three successfully completed the race, and were fêted by their team mates. Edward Eden was fastest, coming in fifty-eighth place with a time of 2:25:16… fifty-eight seconds in front of compatriot Lo Ishiw, who was next to cross the line. The third Ariddian, Mxolisi Manana, looked close to abandoning the race on several occasions, but struggled on courageously. He staggered over the finish line on somewhat wobbly legs after two hours, thirty-three minutes and two seconds, smiling broadly but breathing with some difficulty. He was taken to see a doctor, and told to rest and recuperate. Frederick Ashton of Allanea took gold.

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Mxolisi Manana, in red and black for the Ariddian Isles, crosses the finish line of the marathon in 73rd place.

In summer vigil fasting, the Ariddian Isles’ Julian Singh and Aphrodisia Amanatidis had dropped out, failing to complete the event, the pangs of self-inflicted starvation too intolerable to endure. They are under medical care and recovering well. Ten other competitors also abandoned the competition, leaving eleven in contention at the close of the Games. Newmanistan’s Father Sweeney was declared the winner, while the Archregimancy’s Father Emilian the Emaciated finished a disappointing eleventh.

The Comité olympique ariddien has announced that it will not be sending participants to summer vigil fasting or to cliff diving in future Games, due to “unacceptable” health risks involved.

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Cliff diving (West Ariddia’s Vincent Millar pictured here) will no longer be considered an Olympic sport by the C.O.A..

There were twelve finals fought in boxing on the last day of the Games, only one of them involving an Ariddian. Bubbly boxing star Aa Shey took on Melissa Ball of Secristan in the women’s light flyweight. Shey displayed her usual skill and energy, defeating her opponent with the solid margin of 37 points to 26, and taking gold. It was Ariddia’s first ever Olympic medal in boxing, leaving aside Nathaniel Smith’s silver in chess boxing, and Shey was ecstatic.

“Omigod, I’ve done it, I’ve won!” she blurted breathlessly when cameras and microphones were thrust towards her. “I can’t believe it, I’m so happy, it’s incredible! I’ve done it! Woohoooo!!”

In gymnastics, the pressure was on, full blast. Ariddian gymnasts had never lost a team competition in the history of the Olympics, having won eight consecutive gold medals in team events. For the closing day of the Columbia Olympics, the men’s Dream Team were competing in the rythmic group event. A victory would not only maintain Ariddia’s spotless record, it would also enable Denis Vaillant to claim his tenth Olympic gold since his debut eight years ago.

“It was gold in Querzakhi with 48.775 points, a tremendously high score, and as we wait for the results to come up, I don’t think Ariddia will have scored that highly this time. They’ll have around 47 points… and will that be enough? Capitalizt SLANI can’t challenge them, Allanea can’t challenge them, and I don’t think Secristan or Newmanistan can either. It’ll be a medal, but the question is: What colour? This is the Dream Team, they’ve always come out on top, and nothing less than gold will– And the results are up! Oh, no! Forty-seven point zero zero zero! It’s ahead of the Maineiacs’ team, but it’s behind the Landau Institute! It’s a silver medal for Ariddia, and a huge disappointment! For the first time ever, Ariddia are not the Olympic champions in a gymnastics team event! Eight consecutive golds, and it ends here. The Landau Institute takes gold, with 47.250 points, and it’s a group silver for the Dream Team…”

Spectators applauded and cheered when the six Ariddians received their silver medals and waved from the podium, their smiles warm but a little forced, their disappointment unmistakable. The gymnasts of the Landau Institute had pulled off ‘mission impossible’, and beaten the Dream Team for the first time in Olympic history.

“We could have done better and we should have done better, but in the end the other team deserved to win, of course,” Denis Vaillant said. “I think there was a bit of media hype about me getting my tenth gold medal today, and, well, it hasn’t happened. It’s still a silver medal, though, and I only had one of those until now. So it’s not all bad.” Recovering his sense of humour, he added: “I suppose it means I’ll have to come back again in four years to get number ten.”

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Denis Vaillant, Ariddia’s most successful Olympian ever.

It was up to the women to restore some of the shine to Ariddian gymnastics. In the ryhthmic group event, Anaïs Reed, Aliw Set, Laure Mkrchyan, Sunny Mokhobo, Elu Sis and Sandrine Berthier came together in a display of spectacular grace and perfect coordination, winning Ariddia’s ninth ever Olympic gold medal in team gymnastics, and the Ariddian Isles’ sixteenth and last gold medal of the Columbia Games, scoring 49.550 points.

And with the Golden Girls’ excellent performance, the Ariddian Isles has climbed from fourteenth to ninth place on the medal table, thus finishing once more in the top ten. Of the country’s sixteen gold medals, nine came in gymnastics. Of the forty-eight participating nations, forty-six won at least one medal, and Cafundéu topped the chart with forty-one gold medals.

While there has been a lot for Ariddians to continue celebrating, thoughts will now be turning to the future. The C.O.A. has stated that it considers the joint delegation of the three Ariddian States to have been a success. Athletes from outside the PDSRA have performed strongly. From West Ariddia, Angela Ellice and Andrew Hern contributed three silver medals in cycling, while Christian Mohamed brought in a gold in tennis, and Julie Lanza won a silver medal in judo. The women’s synchronised swimming silver medallist duet consisted in Pam Pham of West Ariddia and Samantha Cohen of North-West Ariddia; West- and North-West Ariddians also featured alongside PDSRA athletes in the gold medal-winning women’s football team. Friendships have been forged, particularly in sports where Ariddian Islanders of different nationalities competed as a team. It is likely that the joint formula will be retained in four years’ time, perhaps with an even larger Limean contigent.

But many of Ariddia’s medallists were veterans of previous Games, and may now be considering retirement. There will certainly be fresh faces in gymnastics four years from now. In addition, the Columbia Games have revealed that Ariddians can hope to win medals in events outside the ‘traditional’ sports of judo, gymnastics and football. Medallists have sprung up in tennis (gold), synchronised swimming (gold and silver), boxing (gold), and badminton (bronze), not to mention bocce and chess boxing. The Ariddian Isles’ male fencers put in a highly encouraging performance, alongside the already famous Christina Zhang (silver). It may be time for the C.O.A. to widen its horizons and groom talents in a greater variety of events for the next Olympiad.

Ariddians have never won medals in athletics or swimming, and yet some competitors have shown considerable raw talent which deserves careful nurturing. Mélanie Sandré, the one-legged icon of Ariddian swimming, has said that she is seriously considering putting an end to her Olympic career; the next Olympics could be an opportunity to lead new Ariddian talent onto the world stage. Ariddia has swimming pools: the facilities are there to train future champions.

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Ariddia’s Mélanie Sandré may have competed for the last time.

Nor have Ariddians ever won medals in prominent sports such as basketball, canoeing, handball, or rowing, for example. The C.O.A. has never seriously considered entering athletes in shooting, wrestling or weightlifting. Who knows what hidden talents Ariddian Islanders may soon reveal in these events, if given a chance?

See you in four years.

(OOC: CH, thanks again for a great Games! I know how much effort it is, and it’s appreciated.)

Fujisawan Territories

24-08-2008, 18:48

Hoji Metropolitan Daily Record Online
Games of the III Olympiad Closing Commentary
A six letter word that still defines a nation
by staff writer Chihuzo Amarasa

Columbia, UCS - They came from seven islands in the Caribbean. Iwosaka, Sapsaki, Sanawa, Akihiro, Jokata, Narasaka, and Okazaki. They came to Columbia as a nation, unified in spirit, with a six letter word in their hearts. They came here to leave a legacy for all the generations of Fujisawans to come.

Not a single Fujisawan needs reminding of the Territories’ run in the fourth edition of the Di Bradini Cup, in which against all conventional odds, the Territories stormed to the final against Newmanistan. The Territories lost only their opening match, and the final, and the whole country rallied behind a deaf Hoji teen named Sakura Jo. What that moment, which has until now never been replicated had done, is instill that six letter word deep in the souls of every Fujisawan. Belief.

A light rain seemed to complement the tears streaming down the faces of my fellow Fujisawans who had gathered at Olympic Park Stadium in downtown Hoji to send our athletes off to Columbia. But these weren’t tears of sadness. These were tears of joy.

In the stadium built in the heart of a metropolis of contrasts, in a city torn between the influences of east and west, the stadium built to Olympic standards to train our brightest of athletes for these very games, held a captive audience of ninety thousand.

Before us, stood the athletes who would soon be headed to Columbia to represent their islands- their home. Joy turned to awe as one athlete in particular stepped forward to receive a lit torch from the President of the Fujisawan Territories Olympic Committee, Jiro Nakajitsu. As Jozenna Nai took the torch to a corner of the stadium and lit an eternal flame beneath the haunting, overcast sky, the crowd rose to their feet with patriotic pride. All the subsequent speeches about the eternal flame representing an everlasting Olympic spirit inside the Fujisawan people, and how much of a triumph it was just to make it this far, that all seemed vastly overshadowed by the very athletes that stood before us. We were just as eagerly anticipating their arrival in Columbia as they were. We felt every emotion they felt. We saw the expressions of pride and passion on their faces, and we identified with them.

Then in Columbia, we watched that same Jozenna Nai carry our flag in the Opening Ceremony. Just two days later, Jozenna Nai won our nation’s first Olympic medal.

No words can adequately describe watching Nai on the podium silently singing Keba Chiohosho Osa. Every Fujisawan had their own unique reaction, the most common being inward reflection upon the country we all call home. For that sweet, sweet instant in time, we could all forget about the hard times we find ourselves in, our troubles and cares seemed distant. Fujisawans could come together in unity, in celebration of achievement.

It seemed only fitting that she win the first medal, as she was chosen as the leader of the delegation at these Games, but there are no coincidences in life. Destiny is a concept interwoven throughout Fujisawan society, and it was certainly her destiny. Just as it was Ajitawa Yukatsuko’s destiny to miss the single most important event in her entire gymnastics career, the Olympic women’s individual all around, in which she had qualified in first.

These two weeks in Columbia have proven to be not only a physical endeavor, but a spiritual journey as well. A deeply spiritual people, I feel as though we have rediscovered ourselves as a nation through these Olympic Games.

I often find that the moments of smallest significance to the other countries of the world are our deepest. After qualifying in last place for the women’s artistic team all around, gymnasts Ajitawa Yukatsuko, Tokurin Chi, Tamehi Chi, Miwano Chi, Kikiwa Koriko and Sarina Kenmotsu took a break from warmups, for a team meditation just before the start of the final. The result was a heartbreaking yet improved fourth place tie with West Pocono, just outside of medal reach.

Most save for the Fujisawan media would overlook these Fujisawan gymnasts seated in a circle on the floor, seeking within themselves inner peace and focus for the task ahead. Yet it was moments like these that defined the Olympics for the Fujisawan Territories. Images to last a lifetime, forever imprinted in our hearts.

And I, like many, have come to the conclusion that the Olympics are not all about winning medals, but rather assembling the nations of the world together in universal spirit, it is about being the best we can be as human beings, leaving behind the flags and national anthems and ethnicities and races that serve only to identify us as separate peoples. Sure, there are moments of national pride, but celebration of human (and bear) achievement that knows no borders is the real purpose of the Olympic Games.

The Olympic spirit and the human spirit are one in the same. That was what was awakened in all of our athletes when Jozenna Nai finished first in the final of the women’s four hundred meter individual medley. All emotions were expended during these Games. Joy, elation, satisfaction, sadness, bitterness, disappointment, regret. The many emotions, that cross all borders, and transcend all nationalities, make up the human experience, the human condition. That is what unites the people who came to Columbia from all corners of the world.

What ignites that spirit from within is that six letter word that has defined our nation ever since a deaf Hoji teenager inspired us all. Belief pulsed through our athletes at these Games. Belief is what earned Ajitawa Yukatsuko two gymnastics medals just days after emergency surgery for appendicitis. Most would have given up. When everyone said it could not be done, Ajitawa proved everyone but herself wrong. She knew deep inside, that yes, it could be done.

I’ll never forget the expression on Samba’s face as he stood on the podium, while Keba Chiohosho Osa played in the background. Overlooked, his belief in himself earned him heavyweight gold. It wasn’t a look of arrogance, but rather one of personal satisfaction.

When our athletes come home to their respective islands, and all the media hoopla has died down, what will be left is individual spiritual growth, belief in self and in country. Old wounds will have been healed. A country will find itself united.

I can only imagine what it will feel like for our athletes as they soar through the clouds above Iwosaka on their return flight to the Territories. In Hoji, the breathtaking waterfront skyline, often invisible in a smoggy haze during the day, will seem all too familiar, yet the air will be full of change. A city that despite it’s differences, and for all it’s quirks, is always the place most of us call home.

It’s a sprawling city where it’s not uncommon to see orange robed monks walking down sidewalks flanked by enormous steel and glass skyscrapers along downtown streets with names like Commerce Avenue, Merchant Street, and Corporate Boulevard, to get from temple to temple.

The serene countryside of the more remote Jokata that gymnast Kikiwa Koriko calls home will welcome back it’s many Olympians. Though she comes home without a medal, Kikiwa comes home with an experience on the world stage that can only be felt at the Olympics, and the spiritual growth that comes with it.

Our brave men and women who serve in our armed services based on the island of Sapsaki, and competed in these games, will return to their military lives, but with a fresh world perspective. They will return with a sense of rejuvenation and renewed purpose.

Once a small Fujisawan colony in the Caribbean, this nation has completed it’s transformation into a modern, independent, free thinking, spiritual society. It is well on it’s way to establishing its international identity. The one thing that will keep our tropical paradise headed in the right direction is that little six letter word. Belief.

The Olympics in Review

GOLD
Jozenna Nai, women’s 400m individual medley
Jusan Gondasa, Hakinob June, Chiiemi Maro, men’s team archery
Kavajirak Matsunami, men’s 200m breaststroke
Kawaii Umezo, men’s hammer throw
Fujio Sumura, men’s BMX
Ken Ryosama, men’s 5000m
Karina Hohki,women’s 1500m
Samba Kawaguchi, men’s heavyweight boxing

SILVER
China Miyakus, Lo Xiao Xing, Amih Sawaoyot IV, women’s team archery
Chatchaha Azumaro, 100m butterfly
Ajitawa Yukatsuko, women’s artistic gymnastics- rings
Senami Yamato, Yu’uki Takoka-Sanji, Niji Kitta, Koi Kobayashi, Shoken Tsujimura, Karin Kanada, women’s rhythmic gymnastics group

BRONZE
Sumiko Kawasaki, women’s judo 52kg
Kavajirak Matsunami, men’s 200m freestyle
Reona Watari, women’s judo 70kg
Lo Xiao Xing, women’s individual archery
Kyosa’aya Toyota, women’s judo 78kg
Zakarii Buritan, men’s tennis singles
Ajitawa Yukatsuko, women’s artistic gymnastics- pommel horse
Shoji Heike, men’s artistic gymnastics- rings
Emmi Yoshioka, women’s 400m hurdles
Kamlyn Tatsuya, women’s 200m
Michitoshi Kasamatsu, men’s featherweight boxing
Nagato Nambo, men’s pole vault
Shouko Ise, women’s lightweight boxing
Ui Bando, women’s high jump
Yu’uki Takoka-Sanji, women’s rhythmic gymnastics individual

Deaths
Prior to the start of the Olympics, President Sen-Hime Ayabito lost her fifteen year old daughter Kauymi, and twenty year old nephew, Kanefusa Ayabito in a car accident in Downtown Hoji caused by a drunk driver.

President Ayabito had ordered flags in the Territories to be lowered to half staff in honor of Kayumi and Kanefusa “and all Fujisawans who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation in the name of freedom and independence,” to be raised upon the Fujisawans winning their first Olympic medal.

When Jozenna Nai won the women’s 400m Individual Medley, flags across the Territories rose triumphantly.

Also noted is the passing of Maccar ReNwarr of Roumberre, who died after collapsing following the athletics 200m heats.

Surgery
Artistic gymnast Ajitawa Yukatsuko was rushed into emergency surgery at a Columbia hospital after collapsing mere minutes from the start of the women’s individual all around final. She was found to have a mild case of appendicitis. With minimal pain killers and heavy meditation, she went on to win a silver and bronze medal on two separate apparatuses in the individual events just days later.

Births
With every end comes a new beginning. A niece of President Ayabito in Columbia for the Olympic Games, Chizuro Ayabito gave birth earlier than expected to a healthy baby girl of seven pounds, four ounces. Columbia Jozenna Ayabito, named for the city of her birth, and after the gold medal Olympian Jozenna Nai, was welcomed into the world by the healing Ayabito family with a traditional Fujisawan reincarnation blessing ceremony.

Final Results
Men’s Marathon
Dayu Ina finished in forty third with a time of 2:22:46, Sadauji Minabuchi finished in sixty seventh with a time of 2:30:06, and Shunsho Inaba finished in seventy fourth with a time of 2:34:03.

Women’s Rhythmic Gymnastics Group Final
The Fujisawan Territories won silver with a total of 48.900. Allanea won bronze with a total of 48.475, and the Ariddian Isles won gold with a total of 49.550.

Final Medal Count
27 medals, 8 gold, 4 silver, and 15 bronze.

Qazox

24-08-2008, 19:22

QSPN.com/OLYMPIC COVERAGE

Day 17 and the final chance at medalling for everyone. While Qazox underperformed here in Columbia, the future bodes well. Qazox is still emerging from the shell of the recent civil war, and the current Facist government is beginning to allow more freedoms, so maybe in 4 years, Qazox will ahve its Olympic coming out party.

Athletics—Men’s Marathon:
Frank Kelso lead at the halfway point and at the 20 mile mark, but just could not keep up that pace set by the eventual winner Frederick Ashton of Allanea, and faded to 21st. Michael Paloi and Jason Cavendish each were slowed by cramping and finished well back in the pack.

Frank Kelso: 2:19:41 (21st)
Michael Paloi: 2:20:46 (29th)
Jason Cavendish: 2:24:53 (55th)

Handball—Men’s—Bronze Medal Match:
Qazox jumped out to an early 11-4 lead and cruised to the 26-22 win, to bring home the bronze.

SCORE SUMMARY
Qazox 15 11 26
Gerainia 8 14 22

Qazox Goals Today:
Christian Jowett: 7
Hugh Lafon: 5
Clinton Villavicencio: 4
Cody Parkey: 4
Kurt Curtis: 2
Jamie Ehrhardt: 2
Darryl Longworth: 2

Overall Goals
Clinton Villavicencio: 57 (most goals this Olympics by any scorer)
Christian Jowett: 49
Hugh Lafon: 45
Cody Parkey: 31
Kurt Curtis: 23
Darryl Longworth: 15
Jamie Ehrhardt: 10
Own Goals- 1 (Secristan)

Qazox final medal tally:
1- Silver (Triathlon—Women’s: Kathrine Turlington)
1- Bronze (Men's handball)
Unoffical Gold in Men's Cliff diving by Juan de Leon.

Cafundeu

24-08-2008, 22:25

- GLOBO MULTIMEDIA -
Olympic news in our website! - Today with Breno Gavião

*script of the Breno Gavião comments*

And the last day ends, let's see Cafundéu's results on it!

Marrrrrathon - Tupã and Tarrrrrso finished the event, which is alrrrrready something. But Wallace was the only athlete that was unable to finish, due to a call frrrrrrom the naturrrrrre durrrrring the event, which happened due to a lasagna he ate the day beforrrrrre, which seemed to attack his stomach.

Basketball (men's) - in the final, our team played well and was close to the win, but ended losing the game against Nuevos Airrrrres.

Boxing - Paola Di Natale won the gold medal after defeating Marrrrrrrrie RrrrreNwarr in the final. Vladão didn't do the same, but the loss in the final fight against Kyle Nowak frrrrrom Newmanistan made him earrrrrn the silver medal.

Volleyball (men's) - a verrrry difficult game, but Cafundéu could defeat Taeshan by 3-2 to get the brrrrronze medal in the event.

Summer Vigil Fasting - Marrrrrcos Zacarrrrrias Mourrrrra couldn't rrrrresist when someone offered him a huge sandwich, and he left the competition after one week. An interrrrresting note is the identity of the Wentland parrrrticipant, Anorrrrrexia Nerrrrrvosa. She is a verrrrry thin girrrrrrl, who told the press: "I would like to be a model, but I'm too fat for it, so joining this event could help me. I only left the competition because I fainted, not because I started eating a lot..." Some people suggested to send the girrrrrrl to the Landau Institute.

In another news, Natália Frrrrrrranco (frrrrrom the swimming) will be Cafundéu's flag-bearrrrrer in the closing cerrrrremony, as she was verrrrry successful in these Olympics.

Zwangzug

25-08-2008, 00:14

Quieter, more pensive than before...
Deep voice trying to provide backstory: In June of 2003, the Fourth Revolution established the Empire of Bedistan. Now, one hundred and fifty years later in that esteemed past nation's calendar-
Lily: Remind me again why we are celebrating the independence of a country that no longer exists?
Steve: To send a subtle message about the pointlessness of celebrating the independence of countries that do?
Yvette: The Games of the III Olympiad came to their conclusion at Holmes Stadium. Frederick Ashton finished the marathon two minutes ahead of second-place Professor Abreu Vilela de Souza.
Darryl: Zwangzug's Owen Birch was twenty-second.
Steve: And just for those of you who still don't get it-Lily, this means you-the race doesn't actually have anything to do with the mythological Χρυσάεστος run.
Darryl: Both of Zwangzug's competitors in the summer vigil fasting competition were revealed not to have finished the event. Chelsea Hudson was removed from participation on the eighth day of competition.
Chelsea: It was an incredible spiritual experience, certainly. In the end, though? I think it's ultimately a personal choice, not something that should be a competition.
Steve: Oh shut up, we're trying to promote the-
This part someone does manage to edit out.
Darryl: Ms. Hudson, I do have one question about the event, if you don't mind.
Chelsea: Certainly.
Darryl: How, how did you do the national trials? You don't want anyone to have to try that twice.
Yvette: The competitors were preselected after filling out surveys about their spiritual yearnings and body mass index.
Darryl: ...Oh. Well. That explains that then.
Yvette: While the time delay prohibits a full summary of the closing ceremony, it was an impressive spectacle.
Steve: I think some guy, or perhaps gal, called upon the beings of different ages from many different places to assemble in an appropriate amount of time somewhere else.
Yvette: Is there anywhere else besides the UCS? That can pull this off?
Darryl: We'll figure it out as we go.
Yvette: Until then, grade to the COLOCOG, and here are some of Zwangzug's athletes with final thoughts on the competition.
Background music now, sort of catchy.
Cameron Vadja (steeplechase): The Olympics are just about...leaving everything behind. Once I step out onto that track, I want to soar above anything that gets in my way, and it's a place where I really do have that chance.
Amelia DuPont (tennis): I was joking with the volleyball players one day that games like ours, it feels like the only way to score is when your opponent messes up. And so whenever I take a second serve, I think about how lucky it is to get this sort of extra chance.
Alvin Drumm (track cycling): Honestly, nobody does it. There's no point whatsoever in saying "Hmm, I'm gonna get on a track and ride around in a circle really fast". I love it.
Nadia Koves (baseball): It's nice to go out with a win. It's even nicer to have the chance to play in the Olympics-the Capitalizts have done a great job making sure we all, men and women, get a chance to do it. And hey, Jasīʼyūn were the only team to beat our men, so they can't be all that bad either!
Eric Haus (sprint): Why me? I'm already sick of the question. I'm not sure what you want me to believe in, some sort of Olympic spirit, but that's not part of it. Having people think you'll do something great, none of that can ever be in your favor. But me? I won an Olympic medal.
Brigid Minot (slalom kayak): I'd just joked with the field hockey team about being in the final. I didn't want to let them laugh at me, but I also didn't want to let them down.
Lynn Mishra (field hockey): Us and the kayakers, mostly. But all around the village, I could see these people-different countries, different events, and I didn't even bother to remind myself that the real world isn't always like that. I want to be part of this Olympic dream, too.
Brigid: The course was nasty, the weather not that great...but I just went out there and gave it the race of my life.

Land de Wood

25-08-2008, 00:38

We won a medal

Hold on, hold on, surely there's been a mistake, I mean has it really taken us a few days to realise that we've won a medal. Who was meant to be keeping an eye on this Olympiad. Yes, I know the world cup qualifiers have started, but doesn't anyone realise that there are other sports apart from football.

Yes folks that's right, a few days ago, we won a bronze medal. A nice shiny bronze medal in the field hockey. The result of the bronze medal game was:
Coocoostan 1–1 Land de Wood [b] (1–2 AET)

It may have taken us to extra time, but we managed it nevertheless. This big shiny bronze medal, will be on proud display in the capital's town hall.

What do you mean the capital's a city not a town, and therefore has a city hall and not a town hall.

Um I don't think we actually get a big bronze medal? We don't, no actually each of the team get a bronze medal. Ah well, we could always display them in the town, I mean city, hall.

Well still this is a great achievement, we need to have a parade, we need trumpets, water cannons, open top buses. We've got much to organise, let's go and organise it and stop this random babbling.

Green wombat

25-08-2008, 03:34

GREEN WOMBAT Olympic Update

Last day and no more medals. But 4 total medals is still good, as no other Q-continuum nation won more than 2, and no other ones won gold.

ATHLETICS RESULTS:
Athletics—Men’s Marathon:
Victor Dube: 2:16:39 (5th) (New GW record, Old Record: 2:18:03 by Christopher Castellanos)
Christopher Castellanos: 2:23:19 (46th)
Samuel Kissinger: 2:32:42 (71st)

Prux

25-08-2008, 04:07

Prux's Olympic Blog

Water Polo—Men’s—Finals:
Leading 7-6 with 3 minutes left, Prux seemed almost assured of a Gold Medal, but then Landau Institute scored 3 times within 45 seconds and Prux had to settle for Silver.

Score by Quarter:

Landau Institute 2 2 2 3 9
Prux 3 0 3 1 7

That's all so far from Columbia, UCS.

Kelssek

25-08-2008, 11:57

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OLYMPIC REPORT PODCAST - AUGUST 24, 2008

http://media.switchpod.com/users/kelssek/olympicreport20080824.mp3

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The Olympic post-mortem begins
As participants and spectators cheer another successful Olympics, pundits begin the dissection of Kelssek's performance

MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 2008 | SPORTS | by KAREN SMITH and MATTHEW OAKLEY

Praises are raining down for another successful Olympic Games hosted by the Unified Capitalizt States, firmly establishing the capabilities of the organisers (as if they were ever in doubt) just as the pundits and critics begin to tear into the Kelssekian performance at them.

While most would say 29 medals, eleven of them gold, is nothing to complain about, complain some are nevertheless doing, particularly in the spectacular failure to achieve the spectacular and, in hindsight, rather foolish prediction by the Kelssek Olympic Committee of fifth place in the gold medal race.

Michael Rey of the National Sports Network launched one rant on the television last night, asserting the performance was "a failure, an abject failure."

"A deterioration of this magnitude, this just isn't acceptable," he told viewers of the nightly sports show NSN Tonight.

It is an unavoidable fact that Kelssek won 68 medals in Querzakhi, and has emerged with less than half that total from Columbia. As positively as one wishes to play this, there is explaining to do.

The KBC's Dan Macritch is quick to do some of it, telling his television captives just prior to the broadcast of the closing ceremony last night, "It was a very respectable peformance. The critics don't realise how much harder it was to compete this time around with more countries and tougher competition, and frankly if they think they can do better, I'd like to see them try."

Indeed, Kelssek is not the only nation that didn't live up to the bar set by the Querzakhi Games, with the exception of Cafundéu, most of the top nations from last year's event fell in ranking from Columbia.

The problem, says sportswriter John Cavendish, one pundit who is in the "it's still good" camp, is that expectations were too high after the euphoric haul from Querzakhi.

"We forgot very quickly how unexpectedly well Kelssek performed there and expected the same again. It didn't happen and it was never going to happen."

Nevertheless, he did concede he there were some bad disappointments. In particular, there was the failure of the men's water polo team, honed in one of the sport's few major professional leagues, to advance beyond the group stage.

"This was probably a bit on the low side, though to say it's was a failure is just out of touch with things. No one has a right to say this was a failure. Realistically we can expect something around 15 golds as a benchmark for the future," he adds.

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OOC: Thanks for another fantastic games, CH.

Bears Armed

25-08-2008, 16:54

Congratulations and thanks to Commerce Heights/New Manhattan for organising these Games!

Congratulations to everybody who took part (not just the medal-winners)!

Only the athletes that lost to the eventual finalists (in judo, the semifinalists) enter the repêchage—the two losers in the round of 16 play the two losing quarterfinalists in the first round, and the winners of those matches play the losing semifinalists in the second round.Okay, thanks, I'd though that it might be something along these lines, but these Games are my first experience with the 'repechage' concept.

And there were 2 bronze medals (rather than just 1...) awarded in each of the Boxing events, meaning no 'Bronze Medal matches' there, yes?

Just one final question about the scoring: What happened in the final of the Men's Javelin Throw? Was the distance for Marito Nint-Ipan's best try mis-stated in the table, or was he wrongly placed above several other competitors whose own best tries were better than the one reported here as his best?

Athletics—Men’s Javelin Throw—Final
Olympic record: 98.35 m (Curtis Blackburn [MIL]; Ashford, CAS)

Try 1 Try 2 Try 3 Try 4 Try 5 Try 6 Best
G Marito Nint-Ipan (BCO) 77.06 78.18 83.82 77.48 77.36 86.89 86.89
S Athelbarr Errhabarra (BRS) 86.74 80.53 83.54 81.64 77.30 84.67 86.74
B Onrry de Collini (RMB) 84.97 NM 78.38 83.59 82.76 80.11 84.97
4 Paul Hughes (JSY) 82.96 77.91 84.39 NM 78.61 78.48 84.39
5 Ross Larii (SRS) 82.85 83.92 76.87 NM 81.65 83.86 83.92
6 Julius Sardella (NEW) 83.73 79.16 78.97 NM 81.19 77.14 83.73
7 Augusto Marçal Santos (CAF) NM 82.88 74.98 NM 80.94 NM 82.88
8 Truman Harris (BLU) 82.35 77.93 75.83 76.52 77.74 NM 82.35
9 Arrtegarr ar Gerrain (BRS) 81.21 79.77 NM 81.21
10 Freddi Atu (TAE) 78.12 80.81 78.15 80.81
11 Kazu’uji Kawasie (FJT) 79.29 80.70 NM 80.70
12 Adalberre DeBrrunnyar (RMB) 68.50 80.33 78.39 80.33

Oh, and does anybody plan on producing a consolidated list of the medal-winners for all of the events?

Roumberre

25-08-2008, 17:10

Press release, re Maccar ReNwarr

An autopsy on M. ReNwarr, who died tragically whilst completing in these Games, has now been completed with our own doctor (Arrarn LeBruinne MD) in attendance: It revealed that the cause of his death was not just an "ordinary" heart-attack as had originally been thought... Apparently M. ReNwarr had a weak point in the wall between the two sides of his heart, which must have been there since his birth, and although it was eventually the stress involved in trying to win a qualifying race here that caused this to give way he was actually lucky to last this long as he must always have been at risk of such a sudden demise. We send our condolences, again, to his family.

Alexandre Brumas [senior],
Chairbear, Committee Olympic Roumberree;
Chancellor of the University of Baree.

Monsegnurr Androkles DuBwarr,
Chaplain to the Roumberree Olympic Team.

(Below is an extract from a letter that Alexandre Brumas wrote to his master, Prince Alberre of Roumberre...)

can most confidently assure Your Highness that the rumours are false in that respect. 'The Bear in the Orange Mask' is not your daughter the Princessina Callista, Mademurselle de Roumberre, competing as a boxer despite your command that she shun that sport (and in disguise to avoid your displeasure) as well as in the various Fencing, Equestrian and Badminton events for which you had approved her participation.
Neither is this woman an outlaw, hoping to win a pardon in exchange for bringing some extra glory to Roumberre, as certain elements in the foreign press have speculated.
No, this 'Bear in the Orange Mask' is in fact Corrinna d'Ursini, Duchess of Barr-Gundie, the estranged wife of your cousin Duch Adalberre. Her Grace contacted me in confidence when the teams for these Games were being selected, with the information that she was the fighter who had recently won several matches under that name in Bears Armed and saying that if turned down for this service in Your Highness's cause she would take advantage of her dual nationality to seek entry into the Games as a member of the Bears Armed delegation instead. In the light of this suggestion, and bearing in mind your own past promise of a favour to Her Grace, I chose to accept both her offer and her strong request for secrecy.
Her Grace is now fully recovered from the blows that she received while being defeated in the semi-final match for her contest, I am pleased to inform you, and has been parading around near the Duch to show off the medal that she won as this -- although only a 'Bronze' -- obviously trumps his own failure to win any medal at all in either of the two Fencing events in which he himself took part during these Games.

And now, Your Highness, to another matter. As you will have heard

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OOC: How many other nations managed to make a "clean" sweep of the medals for any event during these Games, to match the one that Roumberre managed in the Men's Discus Throw?

Which of your entrants won the most medals during these Games? Roumberre's best was Callista d'Ursini, 'Mademurselle de Roumberre', with 4 Golds (Badminton: Women's Doubles, Badminton: Mixed Doubles, Fencing: Women's Individual Foil, Fencing: Women's Team Foil) and 1 Silver (Fencing: Women's Team Epee).

New Manhattan

25-08-2008, 18:41

And there were 2 bronze medals (rather than just 1...) awarded in each of the Boxing events, meaning no 'Bronze Medal matches' there, yes?
Correct.

Just one final question about the scoring: What happened in the final of the Men's Javelin Throw? Was the distance for Marito Nint-Ipan's best try mis-stated in the table, or was he wrongly placed above several other competitors whose own best tries were better than the one reported here as his best?
I don’t see anything wrong with that table; Nint-Ipan got 86.89 m on his sixth try.

OOC: How many other nations managed to make a "clean" sweep of the medals for any event during these Games, to match the one that Roumberre managed in the Men's Discus Throw?
I believe that was the only such sweep.

Omigodtheykilledkenny

25-08-2008, 19:00

Neither is this woman an outlaw, hoping to win a pardon in exchange for bringing some extra glory to Roumberre, as certain elements in the foreign press have speculated.How many bear women are there in NS? :p

Qazox

25-08-2008, 20:44

Oh, and does anybody plan on producing a consolidated list of the medal-winners for all of the events?

maybe, if i have about 7 hours of uninteruptted computer time, i could make something for the Wiki.

Wentland

25-08-2008, 21:09

"Can you please tell me something, Mr Manager?"

"Yes, of course."

"Why, in the fasting round, did you pick the fattest woman in Wentland to take part?"

"We assumed she could live off her body fat for the duration of the event. If she came back under ten stone she would have lasted about a year."

"Don't you think there was a good reason why she was so fat?"

"Such as?"

"That she ate a lot?"

"Well, yes, but she was talking about going on a diet."

"So how long did she last before she grabbed one of the chocolate cakes being dangled before the fasters?"

"About six seconds."

Prux

26-08-2008, 05:04

Prux's Olympic Blog

While we didn't do as well as we'd hoped, Prux' first foray into the Olympics were fruitful and this nation awaits the 4th edition of both the Winter and Summer games.

Bears Armed

26-08-2008, 18:13

I don’t see anything wrong with that table; Nint-Ipan got 86.89 m on his sixth try.
(OOC: Oops! Somehow I only saw the contestants' first five tries... :$)

Sorthern Northland

27-08-2008, 08:24

Beningrad Morning Star

Curtain closes on quite succesful Games

Two weeks ago the world gathered in Columbia to witness the opening of the Third Summer Olympiad. Two weeks have of course since passed, and this morning the dust will be settling following the closing ceremony a couple of nights ago. In those two weeks we were treated to many great moments, for the Sortherners there was Fran Ventoso's gold in the Cycling Men's Road Race that started a gold rush, for fans of the underdog both micronations at the Games, San Adriano and An Blascaod Mór found themselves standing on the medal podium on a couple of occasions, with the An Blascaod Mór national anthem even getting an airing following their badminton gold. Of course for all that joy there was pain, Mike Caverndash being put out of the Road Race thanks to some reckless riding by another competitor. Death even cast it's shadow upon the games as Maccar ReNwarr ran his final 200m sprint.

Certainly the Games have proved to be beyond all expectations in terms of drama, quality, passion, competition and Sorthern medal hauls. Going into the Games, Sorthern Northland was typically pessimistic. The official medal target set by the Olympic Committee of Sorthern Northland was to get at least one gold. Pundits, athletes and everyday fans spoke of their hopes for a few medals here and there, with a gold somewhere along the way, that would be nice they said. No one, though dared to say fourteen medals. Considering Sorthern Northland sent one of the smaller delegations to the Games that total would have been ludicrous had it been suggested before the Games. But it is that number of medals that will be travelling on the Sorthern Airlines flight bringing our athletes back from Columbia later today. Even more impressive is that half of those medals are of the gold variety. Indeed it seems the only complaint we can have is that we failed to finish in 17th place in the medals table, a target set midway through the Games when it became clear we might do well.

Of course some may show concern at the lack sports winning us medals. The football teams in particular were a huge disappointment. Of the fourteen medals won, one bronze came in boxing, while two medals, a gold a silver were won in track and field events. The remaining eleven medals all came from cycling events. Whilst some may be concerned at other sports not winning medals the Olympic Committee of Sorthern Northland has said they are satisfied with the performance of most sports and that cycling was always going to be our best event.

The rise of Sorthern cycling has certainly been an epic one. A few years ago a Sorthern team entered the Tour de Qazox for the first time. There the set up was more amateur than a local cycling club. Sorthern Northland of course hosted a stage of that Tour and from that stage came what is now an iconic photo of what was Sorthern cycling. The photo (below) showed two of SN's riders riding through Beningrad during the Tour. Both are wearing normal everyday clothes not fit for cycle racing and as for the bikes, covered in rust, they are far from suitable for racing. Yet on that day, an interest in cycling awakened in Sorthern Northland. Cycling clubs were set up, proper racing bikes were made and the government pumped billions into developing the sport, a shrewd move as this Olympic Games has shown. From rags to riches, Sorthern cycling is now a world force and with Fran Ventoso (5 medals, 3 golds) and Mike Caverndash (winner of 1 gold and 1 silver medal) preparing to race at the upcoming Tour de Qazox, the rest of the cycling world should be in for a battle if they are to keep up with Sorthern Northland. These games were a terrific one for Sorthern Northland, and the start of what will surely be something great. That is all it is though, a start, from here, these Games are a benchmark for the future.

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From rags to riches: Sorthern cycling just a few years ago was a joke (top) , but with the likes of Fran Ventoso in winning form it bought home 11 medals for Sorthern Northland (below).

Cafundeu

28-08-2008, 03:35

CAFUNDÉU'S MEDALS LIST IN THE III OLYMPIC GAMES IN COLUMBIA

In chronological order:

Bronze - No.1 - Fencing - Ana Luiza Prado - women's individual sabre

Gold - No.2 - Judo - Arnaldo "Ligeirinho" Mendonça - men's 60kg

Bronze - No.3 - Shooting - Sargeant Vanessa Giriardi - women's 10m air pistol

Gold - No.4 - Diving - Jennifer Ross and Luciana Coutinho - women's synchronized 3m springboard

Silver - No.5 - Weightlifting - Daniela Tedeschi - women's 53kg

Gold - No.6 - Swimming - Natália Franco - women's 400m freestyle

Bronze - No.7 - Judo - Lívia Mattos Cisne - women's 57kg

Gold - No.8 - Swimming - Sarah Le Pascal - women's 100m backstroke

Gold - No.9 - Equestrian - M.Bamerindus, A.Menezes, A.Khalmar, I.Salvatore and A.Bamerindus - team eventing

Gold - No.10 - Equestrian - Marcos Paulo Bamerindus - individual eventing

Silver - No.11 - Equestrian - Alice Menezes - individual eventing

Bronze - No.12 - Fencing - Rômulo Strausser - men's individual sabre

Bronze - No.13 - Judo - Juliane Falcão - women's 63kg

Gold - No.14 - Weightlifting - Tobias de Azevedo - men's 69kg

Silver - No.15 - Gymnastics - F.Serrano, A.Ramires, A.Lima, C.Jimenez, L.Fessoto and N.Veloso - women's artistic team all-around

Bronze - No.16 - Swimming - M.Navarro, C.Eqüestre, H.Veras and V.Campo Belo - men's 4x200m freestyle relay

Silver - No.17 - Swimming - Natália Franco - women's 200m freestyle

Gold - No.18 - Swimming - Natália Franco - women's 200m individual medley

Gold - No.19 - Judo - Jorge "Japão" Miyako - men's 90kg

Silver - No.20 - Judo - Yasmin Hernandes - women's 70kg

Demonstration Sport Win - No.21 - Bocce - Wagner Fontoura and Giuseppe Ramos Antonioli - men's doubles

Bronze - No.22 - Swimming - Miguel Navarro - men's 100m freestyle

Silver - No.23 - Swimming - Sarah Le Pascal - women's 200m butterfly

Silver - No.24 - Swimming - N.Franco, G.Ramos, A.Ribeiro and J.Assunção - women's 4x200m freestyle relay

Gold - No.25 - Equestrian - A.Bamerindus, H.Marinho, A.Khalmar and M.Bamerindus - team dressage

Gold - No.26 - Fencing - F.Couto Pereira, K.Álamo and M.Xavante - women's team sabre

Silver - No.27 - Judo - Ilan Alves Ulsan - men's 100kg

Bronze - No.28 - Swimming - Miguel Navarro - men's 200m individual medley

Silver - No.29 - Swimming - Natália Franco - women's 100m freestyle

Gold - No.30 - Swimming - Vanessa Alves - women's 200m breaststroke

Gold - No.31 - Fencing - R.Strausser, M.Lima Vieira and V.Miller - men's team épée

Gold - No.32 - Fencing - A.Prado, B.Rossi and V.Viana - women's team épée

Bronze - No.33 - Weightlifting - Jéssica Souza Silva - women's 75kg

Bronze - No.34 - Sailing - Valéria Macedo and Renata Moreira - women's Star-class (keelboat)

Silver - No.35 - Shooting - Lieutenant Aline Motta - women's 25m rapid fire pistol

Gold - No.36 - Swimming - Miguel Navarro - men's 50m freestyle

Gold - No.37 - Swimming - Jennifer Assunção - women's 800m freestyle

Gold - No.38 - Swimming - Vanessa Alves - women's 200m backstroke

Silver - No.39 - Swimming - Sarah Le Pascal - women's 200m backstroke

Bronze - No.40 - Shooting - Marcus Vinícius Cadete - men's skeet

Bronze - No.41 - Weightlifting - Márcia Testa - women's over 75kg

Bronze - No.42 - Sailing - Marconde Ferraz and Júlio Cosme - skiff

Bronze - No.43 - Swimming - V.Campo Belo, H.Veras, G.Hill and S.Rivera - men's 4x100m medley relay

Gold - No.44 - Swimming - Natália Franco - women's 50m freestyle

Bronze - No.45 - Gymnastics - Ana Beatriz Lima - women's artistic floor exercise

Bronze - No.46 - Gymnastics - Cecília Castro Jimenez - women's artistic vault

Gold - No.47 - Weightlifting - Murilo Feroz - men's 94kg

Gold - No.48 - Sailing - Dirceu Gomes and José Carlos Peixoto - men's 470-class (two person dinghy)

Silver - No.49 - Sailing - Rita Guedes and Larissa Carvalho - women's 470-class (two person dinghy)

Gold - No.50 - Athletics - Wagner Souto da Silva - men's long jump

Gold - No.51 - Athletics - Vilma Natalina Conceição - women's discus throw

Silver - No.52 - Cycling - I.Koster, J.Maceno, D.Louros, G.Pontes - women's track team pursuit

Silver - No.53 - Equestrian - H.Marinho, M.Bamerindus, A.Bamerindus and A.Menezes - team jumping

Bronze - No.54 - Gymnastics - Fernanda Serrano - women's artistic rings

Silver - No.55 - Sailing - Roberto Soares - men's Laser-class (one person dinghy)

Gold - No.56 - Equestrian - Antônio Carlos Bamerindus - individual dressage

Bronze - No.57 - Equestrian - Heitor Marinho - individual dressage

Bronze - No.58 - Gymnastics - Renato Fishcer - men's trampoline

Bronze - No.59 - Gymnastics - Angélica Muniz Ramires - women's artistic horizontal bar

Gold - No.60 - Gymnastics - Laura Fessoto - women's artistic parallel bars

Bronze - No.61 - Gymnastics - Ana Beatriz Lima - women's artistic parallel bars

Gold - No.62 - Wrestling - Rose Piauí - women's greco-roman 63kg

Gold - No.63 - Sailing - João Miguel de Deus - men's windsurfer

Gold - No.64 - Sailing - Sabrina Vermelho - women's windsurfer

Silver - No.65 - Synchronized Swimming - Alex Silvério and José Carlos Santana - men's duet

Gold - No.66 - Synchronized Swimming - Anita Plini and Rebecca Germano - women's duet

Bronze - No.67 - Taekwondo - Milene Rodríguez - women's 49kg

Bronze - No.68 - Cycling - Gilmar Neogaradovsky - men's BMX

Gold - No.69 - Sailing - William Ferreira da Silva and Henrique Zacchi - men's Star-class (keelboat)

Bronze - No.70 - Football - women's

Silver - No.71 - Athletics - Nina Rodríguez - women's javelin throw

Gold - No.72 - Diving - Jennifer Ross - women's 10m platform

Bronze - No.73 - Taekwondo - Maurício Graziano - men's 68kg

Gold - No.74 - Beach Volleyball - Paola Leko and Grazielli Molly - women's

Silver - No.75 - Beach Volleyball - Alessandra Ventos and Daniela Paulista - women's

Bronze - No.76 - Wrestling - Michel Serdan - men's freestyle 96kg

Bronze - No.77 - Boxing - Júlio César "Gorila" Guimarães - men's super heavyweight

Bronze - No.78 - Boxing - Nayara "Leoa" Tasso - women's super heavyweight

Bronze - No.79 - Boxing - Gabriela Almeida - women's light flyweight

Silver - No.80 - Field Hockey - women's

Gold - No.81 - Modern Pentathlon - Major Mariana Bonfim - women's

Gold - No.82 - Table Tennis - Marina Senaki - women's singles

Gold - No.83 - Beach Volleyball - Marcus Vinícius Farías and Rodrigo Garcia - men's

Silver - No.84 - Beach Volleyball - Lúcio Sérvulo and Leopoldo Novaes - men's

Gold - No.85 - Wrestling - Dercy Gonçalves - women's freestyle 48kg

Bronze - No.86 - Handball - women's

Gold - No.87 - Volleyball - women's

Silver - No.88 - Canoeing - Jorge Lobos - men's flatwater C-1 500m

Gold - No.89 - Canoeing - Isadora Estradas and Patrícia Arce - women's flatwater K-2 500m

Gold - No.90 - Rhythmic Gymnastics - Jaqueline Isidoro - individual event

Silver - No.91 - Rhythmic Gymnastics - Letícia França - individual event

Gold - No.92 - Synchronized Swimming - B.Limão, C.Secco, M.Nozes, V.Dominguez, L.Lucien, V.Diniz, I.Ernani and J.Grendene - women's team

Gold - No.93 - Table Tennis - André Okitamone - men's singles

Silver - No.94 - Basketball - men's

Silver - No.95 - Boxing - Vladmir "Vladão" Novaes - men's lightweight

Gold - No.96 - Boxing - Paola Di Natale - women's welterweight

Bronze - No.97 - Volleyball - men's

Per medal type:

Gold medals:

No.2 - Judo - Arnaldo "Ligeirinho" Mendonça - men's 60kg
No.4 - Diving - Jennifer Ross and Luciana Coutinho - women's synchronized 3m springboard
No.6 - Swimming - Natália Franco - women's 400m freestyle
No.8 - Swimming - Sarah Le Pascal - women's 100m backstroke
No.9 - Equestrian - M.Bamerindus, A.Menezes, A.Khalmar, I.Salvatore and A.Bamerindus - team eventing
No.10 - Equestrian - Marcos Paulo Bamerindus - individual eventing
No.14 - Weightlifting - Tobias de Azevedo - men's 69kg
No.18 - Swimming - Natália Franco - women's 200m individual medley
No.19 - Judo - Jorge "Japão" Miyako - men's 90kg
No.25 - Equestrian - A.Bamerindus, H.Marinho, A.Khalmar and M.Bamerindus - team dressage
No.26 - Fencing - F.Couto Pereira, K.Álamo and M.Xavante - women's team sabre
No.30 - Swimming - Vanessa Alves - women's 200m breaststroke
No.31 - Fencing - R.Strausser, M.Lima Vieira and V.Miller - men's team épée
No.32 - Fencing - A.Prado, B.Rossi and V.Viana - women's team épée
No.36 - Swimming - Miguel Navarro - men's 50m freestyle
No.37 - Swimming - Jennifer Assunção - women's 800m freestyle
No.38 - Swimming - Vanessa Alves - women's 200m backstroke
No.44 - Swimming - Natália Franco - women's 50m freestyle
No.47 - Weightlifting - Murilo Feroz - men's 94kg
No.48 - Sailing - Dirceu Gomes and José Carlos Peixoto - men's 470-class (two person dinghy)
No.50 - Athletics - Wagner Souto da Silva - men's long jump
No.51 - Athletics - Vilma Natalina Conceição - women's discus throw
No.56 - Equestrian - Antônio Carlos Bamerindus - individual dressage
No.60 - Gymnastics - Laura Fessoto - women's artistic parallel bars
No.62 - Wrestling - Rose Piauí - women's greco-roman 63kg
No.63 - Sailing - João Miguel de Deus - men's windsurfer
No.64 - Sailing - Sabrina Vermelho - women's windsurfer
No.66 - Synchronized Swimming - Anita Plini and Rebecca Germano - women's duet
No.69 - Sailing - William Ferreira da Silva and Henrique Zacchi - men's Star-class (keelboat)
No.72 - Diving - Jennifer Ross - women's 10m platform
No.74 - Beach Volleyball - Paola Leko and Grazielli Molly - women's
No.81 - Modern Pentathlon - Major Mariana Bonfim - women's
No.82 - Table Tennis - Marina Senaki - women's singles
No.83 - Beach Volleyball - Marcus Vinícius Farías and Rodrigo Garcia - men's
No.85 - Wrestling - Dercy Gonçalves - women's freestyle 48kg
No.87 - Volleyball - women's
No.89 - Canoeing - Isadora Estradas and Patrícia Arce - women's flatwater K-2 500m
No.90 - Rhythmic Gymnastics - Jaqueline Isidoro - individual event
No.92 - Synchronized Swimming - women's group
No.93 - Table Tennis - André Okitamone - men's singles
No.96 - Boxing - Paola Di Natale - women's welterweight

Silver medals:

No.5 - Weightlifting - Daniela Tedeschi - women's 53kg
No.11 - Equestrian - Alice Menezes - individual eventing
No.15 - Gymnastics - F.Serrano, A.Ramires, A.Lima, C.Jimenez, L.Fessoto and N.Veloso - women's artistic team all-around
No.17 - Swimming - Natália Franco - women's 200m freestyle
No.20 - Judo - Yasmin Hernandes - women's 70kg
No.23 - Swimming - Sarah Le Pascal - women's 200m butterfly
No.24 - Swimming - N.Franco, G.Ramos, A.Ribeiro and J.Assunção - women's 4x200m freestyle relay
No.27 - Judo - Ilan Alves Ulsan - men's 100kg
No.29 - Swimming - Natália Franco - women's 100m freestyle
No.35 - Shooting - Lieutenant Aline Motta - women's 25m rapid fire pistol
No.49 - Sailing - Rita Guedes and Larissa Carvalho - women's 470-class (two person dinghy)
No.52 - Cycling - I.Koster, J.Maceno, D.Louros, G.Pontes - women's track team pursuit
No.53 - Equestrian - H.Marinho, M.Bamerindus, A.Bamerindus and A.Menezes - team jumping
No.55 - Sailing - Roberto Soares - men's Laser-class (one person dinghy)
No.65 - Synchronized Swimming - Alex Silvério and José Carlos Santana - men's duet
No.71 - Athletics - Nina Rodríguez - women's javelin throw
No.75 - Beach Volleyball - Alessandra Ventos and Daniela Paulista - women's
No.80 - Field Hockey - women's
No.84 - Beach Volleyball - Lúcio Sérvulo and Leopoldo Novaes - men's
No.88 - Canoeing - Jorge Lobos - men's flatwater C-1 500m
No.91 - Rhythmic Gymnastics - Letícia França - individual event
No.94 - Basketball - men's
No.95 - Boxing - Vladmir "Vladão" Novaes - men's lightweight

Bronze medals:

No.1 - Fencing - Ana Luiza Prado - women's individual sabre
No.3 - Shooting - Sargeant Vanessa Giriardi - women's 10m air pistol
No.7 - Judo - Lívia Mattos Cisne - women's 57kg
No.12 - Fencing - Rômulo Strausser - men's individual sabre
No.13 - Judo - Juliane Falcão - women's 63kg
No.16 - Swimming - M.Navarro, C.Eqüestre, H.Veras and V.Campo Belo - men's 4x200m freestyle relay
No.22 - Swimming - Miguel Navarro - men's 100m freestyle
No.28 - Swimming - Miguel Navarro - men's 200m individual medley
No.33 - Weightlifting - Jéssica Souza Silva - women's 75kg
No.34 - Sailing - Valéria Macedo and Renata Moreira - women's Star-class (keelboat)
No.40 - Shooting - Marcus Vinícius Cadete - men's skeet
No.41 - Weightlifting - Márcia Testa - women's over 75kg
No.42 - Sailing - Marconde Ferraz and Júlio Cosme - skiff
No.43 - Swimming - V.Campo Belo, H.Veras, G.Hill and S.Rivera - men's 4x100m medley relay
No.45 - Gymnastics - Ana Beatriz Lima - women's artistic floor exercise
No.46 - Gymnastics - Cecília Castro Jimenez - women's artistic vault
No.54 - Gymnastics - Fernanda Serrano - women's artistic rings
No.57 - Equestrian - Heitor Marinho - individual dressage
No.58 - Gymnastics - Renato Fishcer - men's trampoline
No.59 - Gymnastics - Angélica Muniz Ramires - women's artistic horizontal bar
No.61 - Gymnastics - Ana Beatriz Lima - women's artistic parallel bars
No.67 - Taekwondo - Milene Rodríguez - women's 49kg
No.68 - Cycling - Gilmar Neogaradovsky - men's BMX
No.70 - Football - women's
No.73 - Taekwondo - Maurício Graziano - men's 68kg
No.76 - Wrestling - Michel Serdan - men's freestyle 96kg
No.77 - Boxing - Júlio César "Gorila" Guimarães - men's super heavyweight
No.78 - Boxing - Nayara "Leoa" Tasso - women's super heavyweight
No.79 - Boxing - Gabriela Almeida - women's light flyweight
No.86 - Handball - women's
No.97 - Volleyball - men's

Other:

Demonstration Sport Win - No.21 - Bocce - Wagner Fontoura and Giuseppe Ramos Antonioli - men's doubles

Medals by category (G - gold ones / S - silver ones / B - bronze ones):

Swimming - 16 (8G, 4S, 4B)
Gymnastics* - 10 (2G, 2S, 6B)
Sailing - 8 (4G, 2S, 2B)
Equestrian - 7 (4G, 2S, 1B)
Volleyball^ - 6 (3G, 2S, 1B)
Judo - 6 (2G, 2S, 2B)
Fencing - 5 (3G, 2B)
Weightlifting - 5 (2G, 1S, 2B)
Boxing - 5 (1G, 1S, 3B)
Athletics - 3 (2G, 1S)
Synchronized Swimming - 3 (2G, 1S)
Wrestling - 3 (2G, 1B)
Shooting - 3 (1S, 2B)
Diving - 2 (2G)
Table Tennis - 2 (2G)
Canoeing - 2 (1G, 1S)
Cycling - 2 (1S, 1B)
Taekwondo - 2 (2B)
Modern Pentathlon - 1 (1G)
Basketball - 1 (1S)
Field Hockey - 1 (1S)
Handball - 1 (1B)
Football - 1 (1B)
Bocce - 1 (1 unofficial)

* - includes both artistic and rhythmic gymnastics
^ - includes both indoor and beach volleyball

Biggest winners (people with more than 2 medals):

Natália Franco (swimming) - 6 (3G, 3S)
Antônio Carlos Bamerindus (equestrian) - 4 (3G, 1S)
Marcos Paulo Bamerindus (equestrian) - 4 (3G, 1S)
Alice Menezes (equestrian) - 4 (2G, 2S)
Heitor Marinho (equestrian) - 4 (2G, 1S, 1B)
Miguel Navarro (swimming) - 4 (1G, 3B)
Ana Beatriz Lima (gymnastics) - 3 (1S, 2B)

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