NationStates Jolt Archive

Today marks the beginning of the Olympics with the Opening Ceremonies.

However, the games have already begun with several soccer matches taking place! On Wednesday, the female Team USA took on the Greek Female Soccer team and Defeated them 3-0! Other scores are:

Sweden 0 - Japan 1
Germany 8 - China 0
Brazil 1 - Australia 0

On the male side the scores for wednesday were:

Greece 2 - South Korea 2
Mali 0 - Mexico 0
Argentina 6 - Serbia and Montenegro 0
Tunisia 0 - Australia 0

Thursday Scores

Female

No Games Played

Male

Paraguay 4 - Japan 3
Ghana 2- Italy 2
Costa Rica 0 - Morocco 0

And in a stunning and I do mean stunning UPSET! The Iraqi National Team beats the Heavy Medal Favorite Portugal 4-2!

Scores will continued to be posted as well as what medals are awarded throughout the games!

Let us hope that the Olympics go off without a hitch!

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!

Woohoo! I love the Olympics. You always end up getting a sob story about some athlete that should have died 5 years ago but ended up fighting adversity to win a medal.

But seriously...its just downright fun to watch the games....each and every one. I don't care if its gymnastics, track, basketball, or whatever. In fact, watching the rafting events just rock! You not only get to be nationalistic, you get to watch the United States kick the rest of the world's butt!

Heh, no lose situation for us Americans. Oh, and for the rest of the world...saying you're not winning medals because you've chosen not to....that's just funny.

By the way, there is a swimmer named Inge for the Norwegian team (or is it Danish, I can't remember) who is REALLY HOT!

the olympics always begin in the middle of the night, like, after midnight!

luckily, in 2008 i can get to watch the olympics without staying up late! :D

Yeah, that was pretty cool for the Atlanta games, not having to see the games at odd hours. It was nice having them in my time zone....and even hearing "GREETINGS Y'ALL!"

Yeah, that was pretty cool for the Atlanta games, not having to see the games at odd hours. It was nice having them in my time zone....and even hearing "GREETINGS Y'ALL!"

That was fun Thunderland! Australia though was a bit rough but still fun watching it. Same will be here too! I guess I won't watch ESPN for awhile! LOL

If only I lived in Sydney when the olympics were on last...I had to amuse myself on TV. Meh.

This is about the only time I get interested in sport. lol.

Iraq to win soccer Gold medal!

Maybe ... it's early days yet. :p

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Inge's in the middle.....rwar!

Wait, the German female soccer team beat the Chinese soccer team EIGHT to ZERO? Ouch!

Wait, the German female soccer team beat the Chinese soccer team EIGHT to ZERO? Ouch!

That was my reaction!

Due to timezones, the Opening Ceremonies has begun in Athens. Most in the US won't be able to see it until later tonight!

Eight PM on NBC!

LET THE GAMES BEGIN

That was my reaction!
Phear teh German Female Soccer Team. Moahahaha!!

Phear teh German Female Soccer Team. Moahahaha!!

LOL! They do look good this year though, I will say that! Should be an interesting matchup between US and Germany if they meet up somewhere in the medal round.

LOL! They do look good this year though, I will say that! Should be an interesting matchup between US and Germany if they meet up somewhere in the medal round.
Well I wonder whats bigger.. the Olympics or the american superbowl. Does anyone know how many TV watchers worldwide watch the opening of the Olympic Summer Games and the american superbowl?

Well I wonder whats bigger.. the Olympics or the american superbowl. Does anyone know how many TV watchers worldwide watch the opening of the Olympic Summer Games and the american superbowl?

I think the Super Bowl is actually bigger but that is my opinion.

Well I wonder whats bigger.. the Olympics or the american superbowl. Does anyone know how many TV watchers worldwide watch the opening of the Olympic Summer Games and the american superbowl?You are talking about second place...rite?

I think the Super Bowl is actually bigger but that is my opinion.
Well and mine is that the Olympics are bigger and seen by more people worldwide. Also the international character of the Olympic games and their "age" make them the largest and most impressive show of mankind's cultural achievements to date.

Well and mine is that the Olympics are bigger and seen by more people worldwide. Also the international character of the Olympic games and their "age" make them the largest and most impressive show of mankind's cultural achievements to date.

OK this I won't argue but I do think that here in the US, The Superbowl is the premier sporting event

Augh!
The budget for opening and closing ceremonies of these olympic games is 50 million euros... most of which is spent on opening ceremonies...
Been watching it for 25 minutes now... and can't do much more than to wonder where the 35 or so millions went... absolute shite.

Its 9:15 in Athens and the opening ceremonies have begun! To bad I can't see it until 8:00 PM ET tonight :(

So far, I am mightily impressed...

You are talking about second place...rite?I dont have the numbers...or links...but my logic tells me that...the top spot is a soccer gamr...maybe the secong and third too...i dont know how fat back are the SuperBowl...or the Olymping-opening-Day...
chances are the Biggest TV-event in the Olympics is....a Soccer game. :D

I dont have the numbers...or links...but my logic tells me that...the top spot is a soccer gamr...maybe the secong and third too...i dont know how fat back are the SuperBowl...or the Olymping-opening-Day...
chances are the Biggest TV-event in the Olympics is....a Soccer game. :D

Well I'm talking AMERICAN RATINGS! The Super Bowl is the most watched program here in America probably because of Commercials!

I can't wait to see the Opening ceremonies so please don't spill the beans! :)

I dont have the numbers...or links...but my logic tells me that...the top spot is a soccer gamr...maybe the secong and third too...i dont know how fat back are the SuperBowl...or the Olymping-opening-Day...
chances are the Biggest TV-event in the Olympics is....a Soccer game. :D

Usually the olympics are considered event seen by the most viewers, football (or soccer if you insist) world championships as the 2nd biggest event.

There are about all 200 summink countries attending to these olympics... and the only country not showing the games live is Indonesia.

Anyone notice that Google has gotten into the Olympic spirit?

http://www.google.co.uk/logos/summer2004_opening.gif

I missed a sport from Yesterday! Archery has also taken place!

I'm not going to post all of the standings but the top 20 are:

1 South Korea Sung-Hyung Park 682
2 South Korea Sung-Jin Lee 675
3 South Korea Mi-Jin Yun 673
4 China Ying He 667
5 China Juanjuan Zhang 663
6 Chinese Taipei Shu Chi Yuan 658
7 Poland Justyna Mospinek 657
8 Greece Evangelia Psarra 652
9 Italy Natalia Valeeva 650
10 Chinese Taipei Hui Ju Wu 649
11 China Sang Lin 647
12 Ukraine Natalia Burdeyna 643
13 India Dola Banerjee 642
14 Ukraine Tetyana Berezna 640
15 Russia Margarita Galinovskaya 639
16 Turkey Natalia Nasaridze 639
17 Great Britain Naomi Folkard 638
18 Germany Cornelia Pfohl 638
19 United States Jennifer Nichols 638
20 India Sumangala Sharma 638

That is Individual Qualification for Women! Team ones in the next post!

Female Team Archery Competition:

1 South Korea Sung-Jin Lee, Sung-Hyung Park, Mi-Jin Yun 2030
2 China Ying He, Sang Lin, Juanjuan Zhang 1977
3 Chinese Taipei Li Ju Chen, Hui Ju Wu, Shu Chi Yuan 1924
4 Poland Iwona Marcinkiewicz, Justyna Mospinek, Malgorzata Sobieraj 1913
5 India Dola Banerjee, Reena Kumari, Sumangala Sharma 1900
6 Germany Anja Hitzler, Wiebke Nulle, Cornelia Pfohl 1890
7 Turkey Damla Gunay, Zekiye Keskin, Natalia Nasaridze 1890
8 Greece Evangelia Psarra, Elpida Romantzi, Fotini Vavatsi 1885
9 United States Stephanie Arnold, Janet Dykman, Jennifer Nichols 1880
10 Ukraine Tetyana Berezna, Natalia Burdeyna, Kateryna Palekha 1878
11 Russia Natalia Bolotova, Elena Dostai, Margarita Galinovskaya 1873
12 Great Britain Naomi Folkard, Helen Palmer, Alison Williamson 1869
13 France Alexandra Fouace, Berengere Schuh, Aurore Trayan 1847
14 Japan Yukari Kawasaki, Sayoko Kawauchi, Sayami Matsushita 1847
15 Australia Deonne Bridger, Jo-Ann Galbraith, Melissa Jennison 1844

Men's coming up!

Men's Individual Qualification:

1 South Korea Dong-Hyun Im 687
2 Sweden Magnus Petersson 673
3 Italy Marco Galiazzo 672
4 South Korea Kyung-Mo Park 672
5 South Korea Yong-Ho Jang 671
6 Ukraine Dmytro Hrachov 671
7 Russia Baljinima Tsyrempilov 668
8 Denmark Hasse Lind 666
9 Japan Hiroshi Yamamoto 664
10 Chinese Taipei Szu Yuan Chen 663
11 Chinese Taipei Ming Huang Liu 663
12 Australia Tim Cuddihy 663
13 France Jocelyn De Grandis 663
14 Netherlands Wietse van Alten 661
15 Ukraine Viktor Ruban 660
16 United States Richard Johnson 660
17 Japan Yuji Hamano 660
18 Chinese Taipei Cheng-Pang Wang 659
19 Italy Ilario Di Buo 659
20 Australia Simon Fairweather 658

Men's Team Qualification:

1 South Korea Dong-Hyun Im, Yong-Ho Jang, Kyung-Mo Park 2030
2 Chinese Taipei Szu Yuan Chen, Ming Huang Liu, Cheng-Pang Wang 1985
3 Italy Ilario Di Buo, Michele Frangilli, Marco Galiazzo 1985
4 Ukraine Dmytro Hrachov, Viktor Ruban, Oleksandr Serdyuk 1985
5 Japan Takaharu Furukawa, Yuji Hamano, Hiroshi Yamamoto 1970
6 Sweden Jonas Andersson, Mattias Eriksson, Magnus Petersson 1963
7 Australia David Barnes, Tim Cuddihy, Simon Fairweather 1962
8 Mexico Jorge Pablo Chapoy, Eduardo Maga??a Poot, Ren?? Serrano Gutierrez 1942
9 Netherlands Pieter Custers, Wietse van Alten, Ron van der Hoff 1940
10 India Satyadev Prasad, Tarundeep Rai, Majhi Sawaiyan 1938
11 United States Richard Johnson, John Magera, Victor Wunderle 1936
12 France Jocelyn De Grandis, Franck Fisseux, Thomas Naglieri 1911
13 Greece Georgios Kalogiannidis, Alexandros Karageorgiou, Apostolos Nanos 1833

Usually the olympics are considered event seen by the most viewers.wanna bet?

Well I'm talking AMERICAN RATINGS!It was WORLD ratings all the way...go back to page 1...and read it again...slowly :D

here it is...
Well I wonder whats bigger.. the Olympics or the american superbowl. Does anyone know how many TV watchers worldwide watch the opening of the Olympic Summer Games and the american superbowl?

wanna bet?

I do Actually.

I do Actually.Allrite..i bet..out of the top of my head that:
bet#1 the highest sports TV ratings ever is for a Football(soccer) game...
bet#2 the second highest sports TV ratings ever is for a Football Game...
bet#3 the single most watched sport at the Olympics is Football...
bet#4 The super bowl...TV ratings...are small beans compared to the WC :D

Allrite..i bet..out of the top of my head that:
bet#1 the highest sports TV ratings ever is for a Football(soccer) game...
bet#2 the second highest sports TV ratings ever is for a Football Game...
bet#3 the single most watched sport at the Olympics is Football...
bet#4 The super bowl...TV ratings...are small beans compared to the WC :D

You might be right. As an european I was sure football events were bigger than American football ones... wasn't sure about olympics though... but after a bit of research I can say European footy championships had more tv following than Sydney olympics (in Europe!)... so I guess I owe you... how big was the bet again?? ;)

Allrite..i bet..out of the top of my head that:
bet#1 the highest sports TV ratings ever is for a Football(soccer) game...
bet#2 the second highest sports TV ratings ever is for a Football Game...
bet#3 the single most watched sport at the Olympics is Football...
bet#4 The super bowl...TV ratings...are small beans compared to the WC :D

USA TV Ratings

Number 1 most watch would probably be the olympics this year.
Number 2 most watch would be the Super Bowl (NFL not Soccer)

You might be right. As an european I was sure football events were bigger than American football ones... wasn't sure about olympics though... but after a bit of research I can say European footy championships had more tv following than Sydney olympics... so I guess I owe you... how big was the bet again?? ;)
*Revz slaps da BunyDuck on the back of the head*...done :D

Number 1 most watch would probably be the olympics this year.
Number 2 most watch would be the Super Bowl (NFL not Soccer)
The bet says *biggest ever*...not 2004 only
but even with your timeframe restriction...I stand by my 4 Bets ...Cos Im so confident... :cool:

but after a bit of research I can say European footy championships had more tv following than Sydney olympics ..I wonder If EURO2004...was bigger than Japan2002...I mean given the Odd hours for Live coverage...

The Super Bowl might be above the Olympics, but it doesn't matter, neither of them are even close to the World Cup.

Olympic Opening: estimated 4 Billion TV watchers world wide
202 nations attending

(I am not 100% sure but I think the US and UK were booed when they entered)

I'm most anxious to see how US swimmer Mike Phelps does. This guy may make history by winning the most gold medals here. And he's only 19. Well, before he gets a shot at that record, he has to get past Ian Thorpe. He was very good at 2000, but I doubt he'll be a match for Phelps.

I noticed the commies were last (boo)


i was waiting for the chinese to enter the stadium with the "people's army of china"

T-80s parading and a firework display of scuds

I noticed the commies were last (boo)


i was waiting for the chinese to enter the stadium with the "people's army of china"

T-80s parading and a firework display of scuds
The chinese already entered. Peaceful and a large team too. The US have the largest (not sure of the number) with China being 407 athletes.

Yes, Let the Games Begin!

I love the Olympics! Especially boxing, basketball, and gymnastics. But I have to admit, kayaking is pretty cool!

Naïve as I am... peace during the games... (as IF!).

Superbowl = crap

More people watch the World Cup. As Football is better.

The Greeks will put on a great show.

The superbowl rules.

Superbowl = crap

More people watch the World Cup. As Football is better.

The Greeks will put on a great show.

Since you are european, our football is different than your football. We call it soccer here and Football is more popular here than soccer is.

Football actually rules the airwaves here when its the post-season and the superbowl draws out the most viewers because of the commercials.

Since you are european, our football is different than your football. We call it soccer here and Football is more popular here than soccer is.

Football actually rules the airwaves here when its the post-season and the superbowl draws out the most viewers because of the commercials.

And.... Everywhere else in the World?

They watch football. Not that awful sport of people running into each other.

Since you are european, our football is different than your football. We call it soccer here and Football is more popular here than soccer is.

Football actually rules the airwaves here when its the post-season and the superbowl draws out the most viewers because of the commercials.

I don't understand, people watch this superbowl thing because of the advertisements? Please explain, I'm intrigued. How can the adverts be more notable than the programme??

I don't understand, people watch this superbowl thing because of the advertisements? Please explain, I'm intrigued. How can the adverts be more notable than the programme??They are awesome...they are so good...they are forbiden in Canada....
Wach out for the Canadian TV-Police (CRTC)...

I don't understand, people watch this superbowl thing because of the advertisements? Please explain, I'm intrigued. How can the adverts be more notable than the programme??

Because it is the most premier event! Basically people watch because alot of products run new commercials during the event. Most of them are pretty funny. Its a good way to get the family to watch the event! Some don't care about the game but will watch it due to the commercials. I don't know the rational behind it but that is how it is! The guys watch the game, everyone else the commercials!

PS: Am watching the opening ceremonies and we are up to Italy in the Parade of Nations!

A very nice round of applaus for Afghanistan, USA, and Iraq!

A very nice round of applaus for Afghanistan, USA, and Iraq!

The US is hated in Greece, sorry to break it to you but the rest of the World doesn't take kindly to your illegal Wars.

The US is hated in Greece, sorry to break it to you but the rest of the World doesn't take kindly to your illegal Wars.

Nazi! BACK OFF or I will file a complaint!

Incase you didn't watch it, USA DID RECEIVE a big round of applaus! Unlike you, they make a distinction between the GOVERNMENT and CITIZENS!!!!

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/sports/article.adp?id=20040813160709990008

The Pagentry was great. I enjoyed it throughly!

3000 years of history is just amazing! :)

Keep it up Greece!

Croatia receives a big welcome!

Britian received a great welcome most like what the US received. The opening ceremonies have been wonderful to watch.

Can't wait for the Italian Winter Games in 2006!

The First Medal has been awarded in Women's 10m Air Rifle!

Country Medal Athlete Performance (Points)
China Gold Li Du 502.0
Russia Silver Lioubov Galkina 501.5
Czech Republic Bronze Katerina Kurkova 501.1

Congratulations to Li Du on winning the first Gold of these olympics!

Men's 10m Air Rifle final is still to come!

Women's Basketball is also underway and our first game is in the books!

W Australia 85-73
L Nigeria

Right now, US is leading New Zealand 53-22 with a minute and a half to go!

Boxing has also started! Here are the results as I have them right now!

W Algeria (Nabil Kassel) 41-36
L Brazil (Glaucelio Abreu)

W United States (Andre Dirrell) 25-18
L China (Dabateer Ha)

W Cuba (Yordanis Despeigne) 36-24
L Canada (Jean Pascal)

And in basketball! Team USA is just Pounding New Zealand 63-24 at the half!

Fencing:
Men's Individual Sabre Quarterfinal
L Ukraine (Vladimir Lukashenko) 12-15
W Ukraine (Vladyslav Tretiyak)
W Hungary (Zsolt Nemcsik) 15-14
L Romania (Mihai Covaliu)
L Russia (Serguei Charikov) 13-15
W Italy (Aldo Montano)
W Belarus (Dmitry Lapkes) 15-9
L Russia (Stanislav Pozdniakov)

Handball
W Spain 31-30
L South Korea
W Hungary 33-28
L Egypt

Women's Field Hockey
W Netherlands 6-2
L South Africa

Rowing

Women's Single Sculls Heats

Heat1
1 Germany Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski 7:35.20
2 Switzerland Carolina L??thi 7:49.88
3 Netherlands Femke Dekker 7:55.50
Heat2
1 Czech Republic Mirka Knapkova 7:25.23
2 New Zealand Sonia Waddell 7:36.15
3 Chile Soraya Jadue 7:58.28
Heat3
1 Belarus Ekaterina Karsten 7:45.16
2 United States Jennifer Devine 7:55.10
3 China Suli Mu 7:58.90
Heat4
1 Bulgaria Rumyana Neikova 7:35.66
2 Russia Irina Fedotova 7:51.71
3 Sweden Frida Svensson 7:54.29

Overall top 15

1 Czech Republic Mirka Knapkova 7:25.23
2 Germany Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski 7:35.20
3 Bulgaria Rumyana Neikova 7:35.66
4 New Zealand Sonia Waddell 7:36.15
5 Belarus Ekaterina Karsten 7:45.16
6 Switzerland Carolina L??thi 7:49.88
7 Russia Irina Fedotova 7:51.71
8 Sweden Frida Svensson 7:54.29
9 United States Jennifer Devine 7:55.10
10 Netherlands Femke Dekker 7:55.50
11 Spain Nuria Dominguez 7:55.60
12 Chile Soraya Jadue 7:58.28
13 China Suli Mu 7:58.90
14 Argentina Analia Marin 8:01.56
15 Brazil Fabiana Beltrame 8:02.92

Rowing

Men's Single Sculls Heats

Heat1
1 Belgium Tim Maeyens 7:17.68
2 Switzerland Andr?? Vonarburg 7:23.43
3 Hong Kong, China Hiu Fung Law 7:28.16
Heat2
1 Czech Republic Vaclav Chalupa 7:13.84
2 Australia Craig Jones 7:19.71
3 Slovenia Davor Mizerit 7:24.60
Heat3
1 Argentina Santiago Fernandez 7:22.52
2 Austria Raphael Hartl 7:34.61
3 Uzbekistan Vladimir Chernenko 7:38.27
Heat4
1 Norway Olaf Tufte 7:12.53
2 Great Britain Ian Lawson 7:24.01
3 Brazil Anderson Nocetti 7:26.81
Heat5
1 Germany Marcel Hacker 7:17.55
2 Cuba Yuleidsy Cascaret 7:19.45
3 Netherlands Dirk Lippits 7:21.19
Heat6
1 Estonia Juri Jaanson 7:13.74
2 Bulgaria Ivo Yanakiev 7:28.97
3 Italy Matteo Stefanini 7:31.54

Overall Top 20

1 Norway Olaf Tufte 7:12.53
2 Estonia Juri Jaanson 7:13.74
3 Czech Republic Vaclav Chalupa 7:13.84
4 Germany Marcel Hacker 7:17.55
5 Belgium Tim Maeyens 7:17.68
6 Cuba Yuleidsy Cascaret 7:19.45
7 Australia Craig Jones 7:19.71
8 Netherlands Dirk Lippits 7:21.19
9 Argentina Santiago Fernandez 7:22.52
10 China Hui Su 7:23.19
11 Switzerland Andr?? Vonarburg 7:23.43
12 Great Britain Ian Lawson 7:24.01
13 Slovenia Davor Mizerit 7:24.60
14 Brazil Anderson Nocetti 7:26.81
15 Hong Kong, China Hiu Fung Law 7:28.16
16 Bulgaria Ivo Yanakiev 7:28.97
17 Peru Gustavo Salcedo 7:29.06
18 Chinese Taipei Ming Hui Wang 7:29.99
19 Italy Matteo Stefanini 7:31.54
20 Austria Raphael Hartl 7:34.61

Men's Pair Heats--Rowing

Heat1
1 Australia Drew Ginn, James Tomkins 6:55.04
2 Serbia and Montenegro Mladen Stegic, Nikola Stojic 6:58.11
3 Great Britain Rick Dunn, Toby Garbett 6:58.95
4 Argentina Marcos Morales, Walter Naneder 7:02.29
5 Slovenia Andrej Hrabar, Matija Pavsic 7:05.36
Heat2
1 South Africa Donovan Cech, Ramon Di Clemente 6:57.06
2 Croatia Niksa Skelin, Sinisa Skelin 7:01.28
3 United States Artour Samsonov, Luke Walton 7:11.81
4 Czech Republic Petr Imre, Adam Michalek 7:26.19
Heat3
1 New Zealand George Bridgewater, Nathan Twaddle 6:54.75
2 Canada David Calder, Christopher Jarvis 6:56.23
3 Italy Giuseppe De Vita, Dario Lari 7:03.12
4 Germany Jan Herzog, Tobias K??hne 7:14.16

Official Standings:

1 New Zealand George Bridgewater, Nathan Twaddle 6:54.75
2 Australia Drew Ginn, James Tomkins 6:55.04
3 Canada David Calder, Christopher Jarvis 6:56.23
4 South Africa Donovan Cech, Ramon Di Clemente 6:57.06
5 Serbia and Montenegro Mladen Stegic, Nikola Stojic 6:58.11
6 Great Britain Rick Dunn, Toby Garbett 6:58.95
7 Croatia Niksa Skelin, Sinisa Skelin 7:01.28
8 Argentina Marcos Morales, Walter Naneder 7:02.29
9 Italy Giuseppe De Vita, Dario Lari 7:03.12
10 Slovenia Andrej Hrabar, Matija Pavsic 7:05.36
11 United States Artour Samsonov, Luke Walton 7:11.81
12 Germany Jan Herzog, Tobias K??hne 7:14.16
13 Czech Republic Petr Imre, Adam Michalek 7:26.19

Women's Pair Heats--Rowing

Heat1
1 Belarus Yulia Bichik, Natallia Helakh 7:27.79
2 Great Britain Cath Bishop, Katherine Grainger 7:34.66
3 Germany Maren Derlien, Sandra Goldbach 7:44.00
4 France Sophie Balmary, Virginie Chauvel 7:49.70
5 United States Sarah Jones, Kate MacKenzie 7:53.78
Heat2
1 Romania Georgeta Andrunache, Viorica Susanu 7:29.77
2 Canada Darcy Marquardt, Buffy Williams 7:42.36
3 Bulgaria Anna Chuk, Milka Tancheva 7:52.45
4 China Huanling Cong, Xueling Feng 7:53.30
5 New Zealand Nicola Coles, Juliette Haigh 9:37.53

Official Standings:

1 Belarus Yulia Bichik, Natallia Helakh 7:27.79
2 Romania Georgeta Andrunache, Viorica Susanu 7:29.77
3 Great Britain Cath Bishop, Katherine Grainger 7:34.66
4 Canada Darcy Marquardt, Buffy Williams 7:42.36
5 Germany Maren Derlien, Sandra Goldbach 7:44.00
6 France Sophie Balmary, Virginie Chauvel 7:49.70
7 Bulgaria Anna Chuk, Milka Tancheva 7:52.45
8 China Huanling Cong, Xueling Feng 7:53.30
9 United States Sarah Jones, Kate MacKenzie 7:53.78
10 New Zealand Nicola Coles, Juliette Haigh 9:37.53

Men's Double Sculls Heats

Heat1
1 France Adrien Hardy, S??bastien Vieilledent 6:45.76
2 Czech Republic Milan Dolecek, Ondrej Synek 6:50.67
3 Australia Peter Hardcastle, Brendan Long 6:52.34
4 Germany Ren?? Bertram, Christian Schreiber 6:58.22
5 Cuba Yoennis Hernandez, Yosbel Martinez 7:02.95
Heat2
1 Italy Rossano Galtarossa, Alessio Sartori 6:40.82
2 Great Britain Matthew Langridge, Matthew Wells 6:48.13
3 United States Aquil Abdullah, Henry Nuzum 6:52.34
4 Poland Michal Jelinski, Adam Wojciechowski 7:00.38
5 Hungary Gabor Bencsik, ??kos Haller 7:05.20
Heat3
1 Slovenia Iztok Cop, Luka Spik 6:45.26
2 Norway Morten Adamsen, Nils Torolv Simonsen 6:49.90
3 Estonia Tonu Endrekson, Leonid Gulov 6:58.80
4 Lithuania Kestutis Keblys, Einaras Siaudvytis 7:07.13

Official Standings:

Italy Rossano Galtarossa, Alessio Sartori 6:40.82
2 Slovenia Iztok Cop, Luka Spik 6:45.26
3 France Adrien Hardy, S??bastien Vieilledent 6:45.76
4 Great Britain Matthew Langridge, Matthew Wells 6:48.13
5 Norway Morten Adamsen, Nils Torolv Simonsen 6:49.90
6 Czech Republic Milan Dolecek, Ondrej Synek 6:50.67
7 United States Aquil Abdullah, Henry Nuzum 6:52.34
7 Australia Peter Hardcastle, Brendan Long 6:52.34
9 Germany Ren?? Bertram, Christian Schreiber 6:58.22
10 Estonia Tonu Endrekson, Leonid Gulov 6:58.80
11 Poland Michal Jelinski, Adam Wojciechowski 7:00.38
12 Cuba Yoennis Hernandez, Yosbel Martinez 7:02.95
13 Hungary Gabor Bencsik, ??kos Haller 7:05.20
14 Lithuania Kestutis Keblys, Einaras Siaudvytis 7:07.13

b]Women's Double Skulls Heats[/b]

Heat1
1 New Zealand Caroline Evers-Swindell, Georgina Evers-Swindell 7:25.57
2 Great Britain Elise Laverick, Sarah Winckless 7:29.75
3 Ukraine Nataliya Guba, Svetlana Maziy 7:39.02
4 France Gaelle Buniet, Caroline Delas 7:41.23
5 Russia Julia Kalinovskaya, Olga Samulenkova 7:54.75
Heat2
1 Germany Britta Oppelt, Peggy Waleska 7:28.89
2 Bulgaria Anet-Jaklin Bushman, Miglena Markova 7:35.46
3 Romania Camelia Mihalcea, Simona Strimbeschi 7:39.32
4 Australia Donna Martin, Jane Robinson 7:41.20
5 Italy Gabriella Bascelli, Elisabetta Sancassani 7:46.66

Official Standings:

1 New Zealand Caroline Evers-Swindell, Georgina Evers-Swindell 7:25.57
2 Germany Britta Oppelt, Peggy Waleska 7:28.89
3 Great Britain Elise Laverick, Sarah Winckless 7:29.75
4 Bulgaria Anet-Jaklin Bushman, Miglena Markova 7:35.46
5 Ukraine Nataliya Guba, Svetlana Maziy 7:39.02
6 Romania Camelia Mihalcea, Simona Strimbeschi 7:39.32
7 Australia Donna Martin, Jane Robinson 7:41.20
8 France Gaelle Buniet, Caroline Delas 7:41.23
9 Italy Gabriella Bascelli, Elisabetta Sancassani 7:46.66
10 Russia Julia Kalinovskaya, Olga Samulenkova 7:54.75

Men's Four Heats

Heat1
1 Canada Cameron Baerg, Tom Herschmiller, Jake Wetzel, Barney Williams 6:26.38
2 Poland Mariusz Daniszewski, Jaroslaw Godek, Artur Rozalski, Rafal Smolinski 6:30.72
3 Czech Republic Jakub Makovicka, Karel Neffe, Jan Schindler, Petr Vitasek 6:31.23
4 Croatia Igor Boraska, Marko Dragicevic, Petar Milin, Damir Vucicic 6:34.05
5 Romania Florin Corbeanu, Ovidiu Cornea, Daniel Mastacan, Gheorghita Munteanu 6:40.16
Heat2
1 Great Britain Edward Coode, James Cracknell, Matthew Pinsent, Steve Williams 6:20.85
2 Italy Luca Agamennoni, Dario Dentale, Raffaello Leonardo, Lorenzo Porzio 6:22.58
3 Slovenia Janez Klemencic, Miha Pirih, Tomaz Pirih, Gregor Sracnjek 6:25.36
4 United States Garrett Klugh, Wolfgang Moser, Jamie Schroeder, Mike Wherley 6:30.01
Heat3
1 Australia David Dennis, Robert Jahrling, Tom Laurich, David McGowan 6:21.97
2 New Zealand Mahe Drysdale, Donald Leach, Carl Meyer, Eric Murray 6:22.91
3 Germany Bernd Heidicker, Philipp St??er, Sebastian Thormann, Jochen Urban 6:33.14
4 Russia Evgenij Jigulin, Aleksandr Litvintchev, Sergey Matveyev, Vladimir Volodenkov 6:36.93

Official Standings:

1 Great Britain Edward Coode, James Cracknell, Matthew Pinsent, Steve Williams 6:20.85
2 Australia David Dennis, Robert Jahrling, Tom Laurich, David McGowan 6:21.97
3 Italy Luca Agamennoni, Dario Dentale, Raffaello Leonardo, Lorenzo Porzio 6:22.58
4 New Zealand Mahe Drysdale, Donald Leach, Carl Meyer, Eric Murray 6:22.91
5 Slovenia Janez Klemencic, Miha Pirih, Tomaz Pirih, Gregor Sracnjek 6:25.36
6 Canada Cameron Baerg, Tom Herschmiller, Jake Wetzel, Barney Williams 6:26.38
7 United States Garrett Klugh, Wolfgang Moser, Jamie Schroeder, Mike Wherley 6:30.01
8 Poland Mariusz Daniszewski, Jaroslaw Godek, Artur Rozalski, Rafal Smolinski 6:30.72
9 Czech Republic Jakub Makovicka, Karel Neffe, Jan Schindler, Petr Vitasek 6:31.23
10 Germany Bernd Heidicker, Philipp St??er, Sebastian Thormann, Jochen Urban 6:33.14
11 Croatia Igor Boraska, Marko Dragicevic, Petar Milin, Damir Vucicic 6:34.05
12 Russia Evgenij Jigulin, Aleksandr Litvintchev, Sergey Matveyev, Vladimir Volodenkov 6:36.93
13 Romania Florin Corbeanu, Ovidiu Cornea, Daniel Mastacan, Gheorghita Munteanu 6:40.16

Because it is the most premier event! Basically people watch because alot of products run new commercials during the event. Most of them are pretty funny. Its a good way to get the family to watch the event! Some don't care about the game but will watch it due to the commercials. I don't know the rational behind it but that is how it is! The guys watch the game, everyone else the commercials!

Eh? You Yanks are crazy =/

Men's 10m Air Pistol

Top 15

1 Russia Mikhail Nestruev 591
2 China Yifu Wang 590
3 Russia Vladimir Isakov 584
4 North Korea Hyon Ung Kim 583
5 Bulgaria Tanyu Kiryakov 583
6 Armenia Norayr Bakhtamyan 582
7 South Korea Jong Oh Jin 582
8 North Korea Jong-Su Kim 582
9 China Tan Zongliang 582
10 Tajikistan Sergey Babikov 581
11 Poland Wojciech Knapik 580
11 Belarus Igor Basinsky 580
13 Serbia and Montenegro Andrija Zlatic 579
13 Romania Sorin Babii 579
13 United States Daryl Szarenski 579

Swimming results will come in for the Semi-Finals and Final Races! Thanks for your understanding.[b]

[b]Softball

L Japan 2-4
W Australia

Women's Doubles 1st Round--Table Tennis

W Tunisia (Ben Kahia/Guenni) 4-2
L Algeria (Menaifi/Nechab)
L Chile (Rodriguez/Vega) 0-4
W Venezuela (Perez/Ramos)

Men's Singles 1st Round
L Senegal (Mohamed Gueye) 0-4
W Germany (Torben Wosik)
W Argentina (Song Liu) 4-1
L Japan (Shu Arai)
W India (Achanta Sarath Kamal) 4-1
L Algeria (Sofiane Boudjadja)
W Nigeria (Monday Merotohun) 4-0
L DR Congo (Momo Babungu)
L Vietnam (Kien Quoc Doan) 1-4
W Italy (Min Yang)
L United States (Khoa Nguyen) 1-4
W Australia (William Henzell)
L Japan (Ryo Yuzawa) 1-4
W Dominican Republic (Lin Ju)
W Poland (Tomasz Krzeszewski) 4-0
L Brazil (Hugo Hoyama)

[b]Women's Singles 1st Round[b]

L South Korea (Yoon Ji Hye) 3-4
W United States (Tawny Banh)
L Venezuela (Fabiola Ramos) 1-4
W Italy (Laura Negrisoli)
W Thailand (Nanthana Komwong) 4-0
L India (Mouma Das)
W Israel (Marina Kravchenko) 4-0
L Greece (Archontoula Volakaki)
W Nigeria (Funke Oshonaike) 4-0
L Chile (Berta Rodriguez)
W Serbia and Montenegro (Silvija Erdelji) 4-0
L Tunisia (Nesrine Ben Kahia)
L Algeria (Leila Boucetta) 0-4
W Chinese Taipei (Huang I-Hwa)

Because it is the most premier event! Basically people watch because alot of products run new commercials during the event. Most of them are pretty funny. Its a good way to get the family to watch the event! Some don't care about the game but will watch it due to the commercials. I don't know the rational behind it but that is how it is! The guys watch the game, everyone else the commercials! you guys are crazy. :confused:

A very nice round of applaus for Afghanistan, USA, and Iraq!
eh?!? uk and usa were booed. :rolleyes: what did you expect :confused:

Women's Indoor Team Preliminary Round

L Cuba 2-3
W Germany
L Dominican Republic 0-3
W Russia

Men's Beach Team 1st Round

L Norway (Kjemperud/Hoidalen) 0-2
W Sweden (Berg/Dahl)
W Germany (M. Dieckmann/Reckermann) 2-0
L Puerto Rico (Hernandez Cruz/Papaleo)

Women's Beach Team 1st Round

L China (Tian Jia/Wang Fei) 0-2
W Australia (Lochowicz/Pottharst)
W Germany (Pohl/Rau) 2-0
L China (Wang L/You W H)

This Concludes this Update!

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Softball

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Should not be an Olympic sport..

you guys are crazy. :confused:


eh?!? uk and usa were booed. :rolleyes: what did you expect :confused:

We were not Booed Lotringen! If there were boos, they were drowned out! Besides Greece does make a distinction between the populace and the Government! It was a wonderful round of applause. I could pull up the article if you don't believe me!

you guys are crazy. :confused:


eh?!? uk and usa were booed. :rolleyes: what did you expect :confused:

I am sorry, but whatever your views about the UK and USA or anything to do with politics for that matter, from what I saw (via neutral SVT Swedish tv) was that the UK and USA both received a cheer and warm welcome. So did Turkey, Greece's long-time enemy. Palestine and Irak also got big cheers. ((By the way, I say this as someone who is against the war in Irak)).
The Greeks are not the most favourable to US and UK foreign policy - BUT, they know that the Olympics should be above politics.

I thought the opening ceremony was carried out very well and without any politics.

I am sorry, but whatever your views about the UK and USA or anything to do with politics for that matter, from what I saw (via neutral SVT Swedish tv) was that the UK and USA both received a cheer and warm welcome. So did Turkey, Greece's long-time enemy. Palestine and Irak also got big cheers. ((By the way, I say this as someone who is against the war in Irak)).
The Greeks are not the most favourable to US and UK foreign policy - BUT, they know that the Olympics should be above politics.

I thought the opening ceremony was carried out very well and without any politics.

I totally agree Borgoa

More Results are in for the sport of Boxing

W Hungary (Karoly Balzsay) 29-24
L Tunisia (Mahamed Sahraoui)

W Russia (Gaidarbek Gaidarbekov) 35-13
L Philippines (Christopher Camat)

W Uzbekistan (Sherzod Abdurahmonov) 34-16
L Turkey (Serdar Ustuner)

And Team USA Clobbers New Zealand 99-47 in women's basketball!

We were not Booed Lotringen! I could pull up the article if you don't believe me!
i dont care about biased articles i believe what ive heard myself.
but it doesnt matter, so forget it ok? ;)

i dont care about biased articles i believe what ive heard myself.
but it doesnt matter, so forget it ok? ;)

Some guy stated on here that he watched it on Neutral Swedish TV and he heard no booes either so get off it.

I might just be me, but I get tired of the Olympics after the opening ceremony has finished.

Indoor Volleyball Women's Game:

Germany Beats Cuba 3 sets to 2!

We were not Booed Lotringen! If there were boos, they were drowned out! Besides Greece does make a distinction between the populace and the Government! It was a wonderful round of applause. I could pull up the article if you don't believe me!

Perhaps on FOX, but here in EU we don't have censureship and heared the boohs. Off course the US and Israel got some applause from their own citizens in the public, nothing more.

The Greek citizens are even more anti extreme republican governments then their own government that is rather neutral against the US. About 90% is against Bush (not against the US people but today, both are seen as the same monster, just like Americans can/ were not able to make a difference between between the Nazi's and the other Germans (the majority).

Perhaps on FOX, but here in EU we don't have censureship and heared the boohs.
I dont know about that Swedich channel...But we chated about it with my friends from 4 different countries...and they say there was some boos...and Israel got the Silent treatment...

Maybe that swedish channel belongs to Sky-News :D

Perhaps on FOX, but here in EU we don't have censureship and heared the boohs. Off course the US and Israel got some applause from their own citizens in the public, nothing more.

NBC not Fox! LOL! And trust me, if there were booes they were few in number and was drowned out by the applause

The Greek citizens are even more anti extreme republican governments then their own government that is rather neutral against the US. About 90% is against Bush (not against the US people but today, both are seen as the same monster, just like Americans can/ were not able to make a difference between between the Nazi's and the other Germans (the majority).

Ok i'll give you the German Comment but look at the times back then! Here is abit different. I think the Greeks did a wonderful job and the crowd did give USA a very warm welcome as well as a warm welcome to Turkey and Great Britian and Most defintely for Iraq and Afghanistan. Cyprus even received a very warm welcome.

Goes off to watch the US/Brazil Soccer game

I dont know about that Swedich channel...But we chated about it with my friends from 4 different countries...and they say there was some boos...and Israel got the Silent treatment...

Maybe that swedish channel belongs to Sky-News :D

Agree 100%. That is what I posted before. In fact some boos and silence for Israel.

BTW I hope when the cycling ends in 15 min. it will be a great champ that winns and not a nobody like mostly in the Olympic cycling, a guy you never hear from again.

Bettini leads with a unknown Portugese.

And just from the radio: the Iranian sporter came back on his decission and will fight the Israeli because the Olympic comitee would exclude him for all his fights in other categories too.

I dont know about that Swedich channel...But we chated about it with my friends from 4 different countries...and they say there was some boos...and Israel got the Silent treatment...

Maybe that swedish channel belongs to Sky-News :D

It was on SVT1, the main channel of Sveriges Television ("Sweden's Television"). It's the public service broadcaster, and is editorially independent of anything, much like BBC in Britain.

I didn't hear any boos for USA and UK, quite the opposite - cheers. And I was surprised, as I would have maybe expected boos.

Nobody was booed, but yes, Israel did get the silent treatment. This was the closest to any overtly negative (ie booing) response as there was.

I think the Greeks did a wonderful job
I think that to :p


and the crowd did give USA a very warm welcome
Yeah, but I think that most came from the US public.Most people in the stadion are not the common and real Greeks but the rich upperclass and company people at the opening of the games. I know the country and what is in the hart of the people in the streets. If you have spend a time there, you can not blind yourself for where their sympathie lies.


as well as a warm welcome to Turkey and Great Britian and Most defintely for Iraq and Afghanistan. Cyprus even received a very warm welcome.

Goes off to watch the US/Brazil Soccer game

That is for sure

It was on SVT1, the main channel of Sveriges Television ("Sweden's Television"). It's the public service broadcaster, and is editorially independent of anything.let me tell you a little secret...The Media is almost never Politically Independent...
The BBC may be somewhat Independent....and If your SVT! has acheived that...good for them.

I think that to :p


Yeah, but I think that most came from the US public.Most people in the stadion are not the common and real Greeks but the rich upperclass and company people at the opening of the games. I know the country and what is in the hart of the people in the streets. If you have spend a time there, you can not blind yourself for where their sympathie lies.



That is for sure

I would agree with you that the Greeks are certainly far from the most pro-American country in the world!!!
But most Greeks realise that the Olympics are above political. Greece is after all the home of the olympics, and the home of the olympic truce. They realise that the opening ceremony of an Olympic Games is not the time or the place to make a political statement by booing atheletes in an Olympic team.

let me tell you a little secret...The Media is almost never Politically Independent...
The BBC may be somewhat Independent....and If your SVT! has acheived that...good for them.

It's not really a secret! The printed media is almost never totally independent, and few tv chanels are completely (have you seen the American Fox News channel on satellite!!). But SVT comes as close as is possible.

I think the Super Bowl is actually bigger but that is my opinion.

But Seeing that there is more people in the world then in the US. It's quiet likely that the Olypics are bigger, since the ENTIRE world watches it.

... the home of the olympic truce.....BTW the American Generals have said *fukk the truce*...they signed it...but they wont abide...

Its an open invitation to Target Americans in the Games...

USA defeats Brazil in Ladies soccer 2-0 with the goals coming from Mia Hamm and someone that I can't spell of the top of my head!

We were not Booed Lotringen! If there were boos, they were drowned out! Besides Greece does make a distinction between the populace and the Government! It was a wonderful round of applause. I could pull up the article if you don't believe me!

What do you mean 'The Government', perhaps if you hadn't have armed Turkey in thier genocide against the Greek Cypriots the Government would not have adopted such an anti-US attitude.

Anyway, Anyone know how the Greeks are doing at Basketball.

Nazi! BACK OFF or I will file a complaint!

Incase you didn't watch it, USA DID RECEIVE a big round of applaus! Unlike you, they make a distinction between the GOVERNMENT and CITIZENS!!!!

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/sports/article.adp?id=20040813160709990008
The US and UK were partly booed and partly cheered. Not *only* cheered. Do you really expect 72.000 people with the majority of them hating the US/UK, to cheer for you and forget politics and world events altogether? Dream on.

What do you mean 'The Government', perhaps if you hadn't have armed Turkey in thier genocide against the Greek Cypriots the Government would not have adopted such an anti-US attitude.

Anyway, Anyone know how the Greeks are doing at Basketball.

Yawns

Nazi, out of my thread please. This is for the Olympics and not for political bashing. State something on how the games are going or get out!

The Turks were warmly greeted. Greece puts the games above Politics as I do and as should everyone.

The Greek Woman's team is currently playing according to the schedule! No score that I can find at the moment.

Yawns

Nazi, out of my thread please. This is for the Olympics and not for political bashing. State something on how the games are going or get out!

The Turks were warmly greeted. Greece puts the games above Politics as I do and as should everyone.

The Greek Woman's team is currently playing according to the schedule! No score that I can find at the moment.

Meh, The Turks didn't really get cheered, like 150 other countries they got a mild reception but no boos.

The Cypriot team on the other hand, got a massive cheer, it was brilliant.

Meh, The Turks didn't really get cheered, like 150 other countries they got a mild reception but no boos.

The Cypriot team on the other hand, got a massive cheer, it was brilliant.

They were greeted warmly as was Cyprus. So far the games are going well and that is all that counts!

Swimming Women's 100M Butterfly Semi-Finals
Note: only one with times and numbers are noted

Semi-Final Heat1
1 Poland Otylia Jedrzejczak 58.10
2 Slovakia Martina Moravcova 58.66
3 United States Jenny Thompson 58.91
4 United States Rachel Komisarz 59.34
5 Italy Ambra Migliori 59.59
Semi-Final Heat2
1 Netherlands Inge de Bruijn 57.50
2 Australia Petria Thomas 57.93
3 Australia Jessicah Schipper 58.63

Mens 400M Individual Medley
United States Gold Michael Phelps 4:08.26
United States Silver Erik Vendt 4:11.81
Hungary Bronze L??szl?? Cseh 4:12.15

USA Takes the Gold and the Silver! Congratulations to all Athletes in this Event.

USA beats Norway in Pool D play in Beach Vollyball in straight games 2-0

does it really matter if there were boos or not, we should be cheering on every athlete, regardless of nationality and be proud of the few good enough to make it there in the first place :)

does it really matter if there were boos or not, we should be cheering on every athlete, regardless of nationality and be proud of the few good enough to make it there in the first place :)

HERE HERE!!!

China wins the 10 meter Sync Spring diving competition.

Followed by Russia(Silver) and Australia(Bronze)

Congratulations to the Chinese on winning the gold medal.

Well Phelps will only be able to win 7 Golds since the relay team took bronze :(

Australia lost to Team USA in softball 10-0

China loses to Spain in men's basketball

IRAQ DEFEATS COSTA RICA 2-0 AND MOVES ON TO THE NEXT ROUND OF THE OLYMPIC SOCCER COMPETITION!

Summer games I don't think are that big of a deal.. I prefer the winter games.. hmm maybe because Canada always does better in the winter games.. *LOL*

There is an un-corfirmed rumor that Puerto-Rico kicked the Dream Team collective ASS...

I guess that would be the major news...

this is always a special time . were not gonna win much medals but no-1 is gonna beat awsome paula radcliffle . did any brits c sarah price crying after her swim . it was upsetting for her

Another men's basketball score and an UPSET!

PUERTO RICO DEFEATS TEAM USA IN MEN'S BASKETBALL 92-73

Baseball:

Greece 0 Netherlands 11
Cuba 4 Australia 1
Italy 0 Japan 12

Men's Basketball:

Angola 73 Lithuania 78
Italy 71 Australia 69
China 58 Spain 83
Argentina 83 Serbia and Montenegro 82
Puerto Rico 92 USA 73

Women's Road Race Cycling

Gold: Australia-Sara Carrigan
Silver: Germany-Judith Arndt
Bronze: Russia-Olga Slyusareva

Shooting: 10M Air Pistol Results

Gold: Ukraine-Olena Kostevych
Silver: Serbia and Montenegro- Jasna Sekaric
Bronze: Bulgaria-Mariya Grozdeva

Mens Trap Result:

Gold: Russia-Alexi Alipov
Silver: Italy- Giovanni Pellielo
Bronze: Australia-Adam Vella

Soccer:

Final:
Costa Rica 0 Iraq 2 (Final)

Unknown finals but here are the scores as I have them:
Japan 1 Italy 3
Morocco 0 Portugal 2
Paraguay 0 Ghana 0

Swimming:

Women's 400M Freestyle:

Gold: France-Laure Manaudou
Silver: Poland-Otylia Jedrzejczak
Bronze: USA-Kaitlin Sandeno

Men's 100M Breaststroke

Gold: Japan-Kosuke Kitajima
Silver: USA-Brendan Hansen
Bronze: France Hugues Duboscq

Summer games I don't think are that big of a deal.. I prefer the winter games.. hmm maybe because Canada always does better in the winter games.. *LOL*

Then why did USA beat Canada in the *Cough* Medal Count in 2002? LOL!

OK here are some updated scores from previous post in Soccer:

Paraguay 1 Ghana 2

Japan 2 Italy 3

Morocco 1 Portugal 2

Baseball:

Canada 0 Tiapie 7 (Sorry Steph)

I actually managed to watch the opening ceremonies twice....... Once at night and then the next morning since my son fell asleep during the first viewing.

I loved the 3000 years of history and especially the part of the "future". That was lovely.

I haven't been watching that many of the matches/games, but I try to watch a little bit during each set of viewing times. I think all of the atheletes should be praised for getting to the games.

Did anyone else hear about how some of the French Canadian pilots (not sure if that is right or not... feel free to correct me if I am wrong) helped the Iraq players get to the games? That was very nice and shows what the games are truly about..... Unity and Peace.

I actually managed to watch the opening ceremonies twice....... Once at night and then the next morning since my son fell asleep during the first viewing.

I loved the 3000 years of history and especially the part of the "future". That was lovely.

I haven't been watching that many of the matches/games, but I try to watch a little bit during each set of viewing times. I think all of the atheletes should be praised for getting to the games.

Did anyone else hear about how some of the French Canadian pilots (not sure if that is right or not... feel free to correct me if I am wrong) helped the Iraq players get to the games? That was very nice and shows what the games are truly about..... Unity and Peace.

It was actually the Australians that flew the Iraqis to the game :)

As for the athletes, I do applaud them for getting here. Even if they don't win, they're champions in my book. The 3000 year history part of the opening ceremonies was probably the best moment of the ceremony. That and the Iraqi delegation entering the stadium.

So far the games have gone off without a hitch and that is how I like seeing the games. Anything can happen in the Olympics. Upsets happen (See above and previous posts) and I love an upset.

Then why did USA beat Canada in the *Cough* Medal Count in 2002? LOL!

Umm, because you beat us in the medal count every year? LOL, your 300 million people against our 35 million? hehe

Umm, because you beat us in the medal count every year? LOL, your 300 million people against our 35 million? hehe

LOL!!! :) had to get the jab in there! :D

It was actually the Australians that flew the Iraqis to the game :)

As for the athletes, I do applaud them for getting here. Even if they don't win, they're champions in my book. The 3000 year history part of the opening ceremonies was probably the best moment of the ceremony. That and the Iraqi delegation entering the stadium.

So far the games have gone off without a hitch and that is how I like seeing the games. Anything can happen in the Olympics. Upsets happen (See above and previous posts) and I love an upset.
The Iraqi athletes trained in Cologne (Germany) :)

The Iraqi athletes trained in Cologne (Germany) :)

That I did not know! All I knew was that the Australians flew them there. And we freed their country to put them in Germany for the Aussies to fly to Athens! HEHE!!

Thanks Formal Dances for correcting me on how the Iraqis got to the games.

Umm, because you beat us in the medal count every year? LOL, your 300 million people against our 35 million? hehe
Well, then is stands to reason that the 1.3 Billion of China and the almost 1 Billion of India should dominate all, right?

Well, then is stands to reason that the 1.3 Billion of China and the almost 1 Billion of India should dominate all, right?

Money, money, money... you guys have more of it :P

Thanks Formal Dances for correcting me on how the Iraqis got to the games.

Quite welcome

Money, money, money... you guys have more of it :P

I know I have heard of it somewhere. wonders where her credit card went as well as her wallet

Indoor Volleyball

Men's:

Italy wins 3 sets to 1 over the USA

The Medal Count to this time:


Country
China 9 total Medals (6G, 2S 1B)
Australia 8 total Medals (4G, 1S, 3B)
United States 8 total Medals (1G, 4S, 3B)
Russia 6Total Medals (1G, 3S, 2B)
Japan 5 Total Medals (4G, 1S, 0B)

Money, money, money... you guys have more of it :P
So because we have more money than China, and India, and becuase we have more people than Canada. You can explain away anything, can't you. You have an excuse for everything.

So because we have more money than China, and India, and becuase we have more people than Canada. You can explain away anything, can't you. You have an excuse for everything.

FoB, Steph is actually right in this regard. China and India are great in the Olympics, mostly summer as is USA! The USA and other nations are good in winter too because of the money that is necessary to train people for the events they're in. Canada, though a winter nation and is good in hockey, isn't that high in the middle count. Mostly because of one thing! That is money.

FoB, Steph is actually right in this regard. China and India are great in the Olympics, mostly summer as is USA! The USA and other nations are good in winter too because of the money that is necessary to train people for the events they're in. Canada, though a winter nation and is good in hockey, isn't that high in the middle count. Mostly because of one thing! That is money.
I am sure that money had nothing to do with today's embarassment of the Basketball team. They have billions spent on them by the NBA to hype them around the world, and they are a joke. Money also can't replace natural talent and national pride which factors a lot into the olympics.

I am sure that money had nothing to do with today's embarassment of the Basketball team. They have billions spent on them by the NBA to hype them around the world, and they are a joke. Money also can't replace natural talent and national pride which factors a lot into the olympics.

Relax dude, hehe, must you argue and fight about every thing? It's okay to just have a calm non-combative conversation.. you're always so bitter. It's okay, it's just sports..lol :cool:

Go Canada Go

Iraq won again in soccer, good for them.

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer04/soccer/news/story?id=1859865

You not only get to be nationalistic, you get to watch the United States kick the rest of the world's butt!

*cough* the americans just lost a BASKETBALL (thats ur game u know) match againt Puerto Rico*cough*

Goddammit, anyone else saw the American-Puetro Rican basketball game?

America lost by around 15 or so points.

Sad thing was, it's the only US Basketball loss since NBA players were allowed to play. NBA players dammit!

*cough* the americans just lost a BASKETBALL (thats ur game u know) match againt Puerto Rico*cough*
We did unusually terrible, if you listened to commentaries, we're never like that. Especially when we have NBA players.

We did unusually terrible, if you listened to commentaries, we're never like that. Especially when we have NBA players.

or is the rest of the world getting the hang of it? actually i dont care, i live in denmark and we suck at all but handball (weee.. joy....) FOOTBALL FOREVER! (the best thing america has yet made/invented)

As of right now the medals are as follows:

China 8 total Medals 5G 2S 1B
Aust 8 total Medals 4G 1S 3B
USA 8 total medals 1G 4S 3B
RUS 6 total Medals 1G 3S 2B
Jap 5 toal Medals 4G 1S 0B
Fra 5 total Medals 1G 2S 2B

or is the rest of the world getting the hang of it? actually i dont care, i live in denmark and we suck at all but handball (weee.. joy....) FOOTBALL FOREVER! (the best thing america has yet made/invented)hmm...Football was Invented by the Brits...at least that s what the Brits say :D

hmm...Football was Invented by the Brits...at least that s what the Brits say :D


True, that would be soccer in America - not football.

Day 3 Results so far!

Archery-In Progress

Badmitton-In Progress

Baseball

Chinese Taipei 3 vs. Australia 0
Canada 9 vs Italy 3

Basketball (Womens)

New Zealand 81 vs S.Korea 73
Niger 73 vs Japan 79
Czech Republic 61 USA 80

Beach Volleyball
Mens
Switzerland Beats Australia 2 sets to 1 in Pool E
Argentina Beats Republic of South Africa 2 sets to 0 in Pool F

Women's
Norway Beats Puerto Rico 2 sets to 1 in Pool D
Bulgaria Beats Germany 2 sets to 1 in Pool E
(UOF)China Beats Mexico 2 sets to love in Pool F

Boxing-In Progress

Equestrian-In Progress

Fencing-Foil Semi-Final

Italy-Cassara beats Great Britian-Kruse 15-8
France-Guyart Beats Germany-Joppich 15-12
Russia-Ganeev beats Italy-Vanni 15-14
Italy-Sanzo Beats China-Wu 15-10

Field Hockey-Women's Prelims

Argentina defeats Japan 3-1 in Pool A
Australia Defeats the Republic of South Africa 3-0 in Pool B

More to come in a second!

Handball

S. Korea Defeats Russia 35-32 in Pool A
Croatia Defeats Slovakia 27-26 in Pool A
Spain defeats Iceland 31-23 in Pool A

Judo-Medals

Men's Extra Lightweight (60kg/132lbs)
Gold: Japan-Tadahiro Nomura
Silver: Georgia-Nestor Khergiani
Bronze: S. Korea-Choi Min Ho
Bronze: Mongolia-Khashbaatar Tsagaanbaatar

Men's Half Lightweight (66kg/145lbs)
Gold: Japan-Masato Uchishiba
Silver: Slovakia-Jozef Krnac
Bronze: Bulgaria-Georgi Georgiev
Bronze: Cuba-Yordanis Despaigne

Women's Extra Lightweight (48kg/106lbs)
Gold: Japan-Ryoko Tani
Silver: France-Frederique Jossinet
Bronze: China-Feng Gao
Bronze: Germany-Julia Matijass

Women's Half Lightweight (52kg/114lbs)
Gold: China-Xian Dongmei
Silver: Japan-Yuki Yokosawa
Bronze: Belgium-Ilse Heylen
Bronze: Cuba-Amarilys Savon

Shooting

Women's Trap Qualification
1 AUS BALOGH Suzanne 66
2 ESP QUINTANAL Maria 65
3 GER KIERMAYER Susanne 62
4 USA LOPER Whitly 62
5 CAN NATTRASS Susan 61
6 KOR LEE Bo Na 60
7 SMR FELICI Emanuela 60
8 JPN TAKEBA Taeko 59
9 GBR GIBBINS Sarah 58
9 ITA PELOSI Roberta 58

Men's Air Rifle Qualification
1 CHN ZHU Qinan 599
2 CHN LI Jie 598
3 IND BINDRA Abhinav 597
4 SVK GONCI Jozef 596
5 KOR CHEON Min Ho 595
6 GER ECKHARDT Maik 595
7 USA PARKER Jason 594
8 KOR JE Sung Tae 594
9 SVK MESZAROS Matej 594
9 USA EMMONS Matthew 594

Women's Trap Final
1 AUS BALOGH Suzanne 66 22 88
2 ESP QUINTANAL Maria 65 19 84
3 KOR LEE Bo Na 60 23 83
4 USA LOPER Whitly 62 20 82
5 GER KIERMAYER Susanne 62 17 79

Men's Air Rifle Final
1 CHN ZHU Qinan 599 103.7 702.7
2 CHN LI Jie 598 103.3 701.3
3 SVK GONCI Jozef 596 101.4 697.4
4 KOR CHEON Min Ho 595 101.6 696.6
5 GER ECKHARDT Maik 595 101.3 696.3

Softball
China 4 vs Canada 2
USA 3 vs Japan 0

It is true that the current general feeling in Hellas (Greece) is relatively anti-American. This has to do with Bush and his policies though and not with US citizens. You got to remember here that Greece had a dictatorship from 1967 until 1974 which was supported by the CIA and most people still remember that. This resulted in a lot of Greeks immigrating to Germany, the US, Australia (the first big wave of immigration was during the greek civil war 1944-1949) and other places around the world. This huge diaspora has made Greeks more empathic to people from other countries since most have relatives living there. After the collapse ot the communist block though the country is experiencing a huge and unprecedented influx of refugees and immigrants so xenophobia is on the rise.

That said, Phelps was a joy to watch on the opening day! Shame about Kenderis and Thanou, the Greek commitee did the right thing to ban them before the IOC hearing. The tradition during the Olympic games has always been to cease all hostilities between all nations since ancient times.

A Greek.

COmment on the GAMES and not POLITICS!!!! This is a NON-POLITIC THREAD!!!

COmment on the GAMES and not POLITICS!!!! This is a NON-POLITIC THREAD!!!
The Games themselves are very politized

The Games themselves are very politized

Comment on the GAMES!! I don't care about the politics of it! I want impressions of how the games are going so far.

BTW.....you are doing a good Job with all the updates...plz keep it up.

Thank you FD.

BTW.....you are doing a good Job with all the updates...plz keep it up.

Thank you FD.

Your welcome!

Its a pain at times. Alot of this I haven't seen yet but its fun seeing who wins then see how they actually won it! :D

Update:

Beach Vollyball
Men's
Canada defeats USA 2 sets to love in Pool E

Women's
(INP)Norway leads Switzerland 1 set to love in Pool D

Handball-Men's

Greece and France are tied at 15! Game still in progress

Softball

Greece leads Italy 2-0 in the third inning!

Water Polo
Women's

USA 7 vs Hungary 6 In Pool B
Australia 6 vs Italy 5 in Pool A
Russia 8 vs Canada 6 in Pool B
Greece and Kazikstan are in Progress and I don't have a score

Basketball

Women's

Unofficial Result:

Spain 75 China 67

Beach Volleyball
Women's

Norway beats Switzerland 2 sets to 1 in Pool D

Field Hockey

(INP) China leads New Zealand 2-1

Handball
Men's

(UOF) France beats Greece 25-23

Softball

(UOF) Greece defeats Italy 2-1

VolleyBall
Women's

S. Korea defeats Greece 3 sets to 1

Water Polo
Women's

Greece beats Kazikstan 8-6

Update:

Baseball

Netherlands is beating Japan 3-2 in the 2nd inning
Greece and Cuba have begun to play

Handball
Men's
Brazil and Hungary are in progress! No score posted as yet!

Softball
Greece defeats Italy 2-1
Chinese Taipie and Australia is in progress with the score tied at 0

Volleyball
Women's
USA and Germany are in progress in the first set with the score tied at 15 points

Medals won today as of this moment:

JUDO: Women's Lightweight (57kg/125lbs)
Gold: Germany-Yvonne Boenisch
Silver: N. Korea-Kye Sun Hui
Bronze: Cuba-Yurisleidy Lupetey
Bronze: Netherlands-Deborah Gravenstijn

JUDO: Men's Lightweight (73kg/161lbs)
Gold: S. Korea-Won-Hee Lee
Silver: Russia-Vitaly Makarov
Bronze: Brazil-Leandro Guilheiro
Bronze: USA-Jimmy Pedro

SHOOTING: Men's Air Rifle
Gold: China-Zhu Qinan
Silver: China-Li Jie
Bronze: Slovakia-Jozef Gonci

SHOOTING: Women's Trap
Gold: Australia-Suzanne Balogh
Silver: Spain-Maria Quintanal
Bronze: S. Korea-Lee Bo Na

WEIGHTLIFTING: Women's 58kg (128lbs)
Gold: China-yanqing Chen
Silver: N. Korea-Song-Hui Ri
Bronze: Thailand-Wandee Kameaim

Update:

Baseball

Netherlands is still leading Japan 3-2 in the 4th Inning
Cuba is leading Greece 3-1 in the 6th

Women's Basketball

Greece is leading Brazil 57-56 in the 3rd

Beach Volleyball
Men's
Germany defeats Sweden 2 sets to love
Greece and Portugal have just started

Field Hockey

China defeats New Zealand 2-0
S. Korea and Netherlands are in Progress with The Netherlands leading 3-1

Handball

(UOF) France beats Greece 29-25
(UOF) Hungary beats Brazil 20-19

Softball

(UOF) Australia defeats Chinese Taipie 1-0

Swimming

200M Freestyle
Gold: Australia-Ian Thorp (Olympic Record Time)
Silver: Netherlands-Pieter Van Den Hoogenband
Bronze: USA-Michael Phelps

100M Women's Backstroke
Gold: USA-Natalie Coughlin
Silver: Zimbabwa-Kirsty Coventry
Bronze: France-Laure Manaudou

Mens 100M Backstroke
Gold: USA-Aaron Peirsol
Silver: Austria-Markus Rogan
Bronze: Tomomi Morita

Women's 100M Breaststroke
Gold: China-Xuejuan Luo (Olympic Record Time)
Silver: Australia-Brooke Hanson
Bronze: Australia-Leisel Jones

Volleyball
Women's

USA leads Germany 2 sets to one and winning Set 4 15-14

Update:

Baseball
Japan leads Netherlands 4-3 in the 6th
Cuba leads Greece 5-1 in the 8th

Women's Basketball

Brazil leads Greece 84-74 in the 4th

Beach Volleyball

Portugal Leads Greece 1 set to love in Pool F

Field Hockey

The Netherlands defeats S. Korea 3-2

Men's Handball

Germany and Egypt has just started

Softball

(off) Greece defeats Italy 2-1
(off) Australia defeats Chinese Taipie 1-0

Women's Volleyball

USA beat Germany 3 sets to 1

Update:

Mens Team Gymnastics

Romania is leading after 3 rotations followed by South Korea and the USA!

Its a sea-saw battle in Men's Gymnastics Final

Japan is now number 1 with US right behind them followed by China in the Fourth Rotation!

Your welcome!

Its a pain at times. Alot of this I haven't seen yet but its fun seeing who wins then see how they actually won it! :D


Do you update the 3 fencing disciplines too?

Was a nice final at with the "floret" today.

Do you update the 3 fencing disciplines too?

Was a nice final at with the "floret" today.

All I really have is foil!

Foil results are

Men's Individual Foil
Gold: France-Brice Guyart
Silver: Italy-Salvator Sonzo
Bronze: Italy-Andrea Cassara

That is all I have for Fencing Foil! Sorry.

Sync 3m Springboard Mens Final Results

GREECE TAKES GOLD (1st ever Diving Gold)
Germany the Silver
Australia the bronze!

Congratulations to the Greeks on their 1st Diving Gold Medal! :)

Sync 3m Springboard Mens Final Results

GREECE TAKES GOLD (1st ever Diving Gold)
Germany the Silver
Australia the bronze!

Congratulations to the Greeks on their 1st Diving Gold Medal! :)

Congrats to the Greeks - wow that competition was the biggest upset I've seen in a while

Congrats to the Greeks - wow that competition was the biggest upset I've seen in a while

Telling me! Russia and China both blew it and I thought the Americans were going to win it and they blew it! :(

Welcome to the Olympics where anything can happen.

Men's Gymnastic Update!

USA is 3rd going into the Final Rotation! Romania is 1st followed by Japan!

I'm not all that familiar with the Olympic game system... any chance of the USA getting some sort of wild card second chance in basketball? It'd be a real shame if we are completely out of our best game. Seems like we finally have a reason to make Puerto Rico a state though... keep them from competing against us (we probably should have made them a state already in my opinion, but then we'd have to remake all our flags and we'd no longer have an even 50)! Oh well, even if Puerto Rico wins, you could consider it as a half win for the US.

I'm not all that familiar with the Olympic game system... any chance of the USA getting some sort of wild card second chance in basketball? It'd be a real shame if we are completely out of our best game. Seems like we finally have a reason to make Puerto Rico a state though... keep them from competing against us (we probably should have made them a state already in my opinion, but then we'd have to remake all our flags and we'd no longer have an even 50)! Oh well, even if Puerto Rico wins, you could consider it as a half win for the US.

It was only one game! There are still plenty to play. US Can still make the quarterfinals and the medal round afterwards.

We already have 50 states Lenbodia! If Puerto Rico becomes a state, it'll be the 51st state. Puerto Rico is a Territory of the USA and not a state.

Japan wins men's gymnastics team competition.
U.S.A second, Romania third.

Great competition, this one was neck and neck all the way!

Men's Gymnastics is in the Books

Gold goes to Japan
Silver to the USA
Bronze to Romania

Way to go to the US Men's team who win their first Men's Olympic Medal since 1984!

Another Update:

Women's Volleyball

Russia leads Cuba 2 sets to 1 and is down 14-11 to Cuba in the 4th set!

Women's Beach Volleyball

(UOF) USA beats Canada 2 sets to 1 in Pool D
Australia Defeats Greece 2 sets to 1 in Pool F

Field Hockey

Netherlands defeat S. Korea 3-2

Volleyball

Cuba defeats Russia 3 sets to 2! It is now being Protested!

Woohoo!

Greece = Gold!

We already have 50 states Lenbodia! If Puerto Rico becomes a state, it'll be the 51st state. Puerto Rico is a Territory of the USA and not a state.

Um... I kinda already knew that. That's why I said that if they joined we'd no longer have a nice neat number like 50, instead having an odd one (and a prime number no less) like 51. Thanks for the answer to my question though, I just wasn't sure if losers got to continue or not.

Um... I kinda already knew that. That's why I said that if they joined we'd no longer have a nice neat number like 50, instead having an odd one (and a prime number no less) like 51. Thanks for the answer to my question though, I just wasn't sure if losers got to continue or not.

Yw.

I also misread your comment regarding Puerto Rico. I apologize for that!

Medal Count:

China 10G 4S 1B
Australia 6G 2S 4B
USA 3G 5S 5B
Russia 1G 5S 2B
Japan 5G 1S 1B
France 2G 2S 3B
Italy 2G 2S 1B
Netherlands 0G 2S 3B
Germany 1G 2S 1B
Turkey 2G 0S 1B

This rounds out the top 10 to date!

Anyone see the Men's pommelhorse competition (part of the larger Men's gymnastics competition)? That is INSANE. I don't even think there are muscles in your body that actually DO what they did. It's like watching a fish go rock-climbing. Anyways, good job USA in getting the silver, and to Japan for getting the gold. I think Romania got the bronze, but I am not sure. China, the favorite to win, was in 8th I think.

Medal Count:

China 10G 4S 1B
Australia 6G 2S 4B
USA 3G 5S 5B
Russia 1G 5S 2B
Japan 5G 1S 1B
France 2G 2S 3B
Italy 2G 2S 1B
Netherlands 0G 2S 3B
Germany 1G 2S 1B
Turkey 2G 0S 1B

This rounds out the top 10 to date!

Ouch China is dominating, as always. someone needs to show them the earlier point that they are too poor to have so many medals. Then maybe they'll give a few of those medals back.... Haha that'll be the day.

All I really have is foil!

Foil results are

Men's Individual Foil
Gold: France-Brice Guyart
Silver: Italy-Salvator Sonzo
Bronze: Italy-Andrea Cassara

That is all I have for Fencing Foil! Sorry.

Foil is "Floret" or "Fleuret". International fencing language is French (also in the US)

Foil is "Floret" or "Fleuret". International fencing language is French (also in the US)

Did not know that! Just going by whats on the webpage and I think the Sabre Finals are today!

First update today:

Baseball

Someone please tell me this is an upset!
Canada beats Netherlands 7-0

No Surprise in this game:Chinese Taipei beats Greece 7-1

Basketball

China beats New Zealand 69-69 in Group A
Australia creams Angola 83-59 in Group B
Lithuania is beating Puerto Rico 49-44

Beach Volleyball
Men's
Spain Beats Switzerland 2 sets to 1 in Pool C
France beats Germany 2 sets to 1 in Pool B
Brazil Beats Cuba 2 sets to love in Pool B

Women's
Czech Republic beats Japan 2 sets to 1 in Pool A
Cuba beats Republic of South Africa 2 sets to love in Pool B

Field Hockey
Men's
S. Korea defeats Great Britian 3-2
Australia and Argentina tied at 2 each

Handball
Women's
Ukraine leads China 15-10 in First Half

Softball
USA Beats China 4-0
Canada Beats Japan 1-0 in the 8th

Volleyball
Argentina beats Tunisia 3 sets to 2 in Group A
Serbia and Montenegro Beats France 3 sets to Love
Russia Beats Australia 3 sets to Love

Water Polo
Italy beats Australia 8-4 in Group B
Germany Smacks Egypt 13-3 in Group B

Other events to follow! Medals of the Day post to come later!

Update:

Basketball

Lithuania defeats Puerto Rico 98-90 in Group B
Italy is beating Serbia and Montenegro 12-4 in the first quarter

Beach Volleyball
Men's
Austria (BERGER Nikolas and GOSCH Florian) beat Austria (NOWOTNY Robert and GARTMAYER Peter) 2 sets to love in Pool C

Women's
Brazil takes the first set 21-17 over Italy in Pool B

Women's Handball
Ukraine beats China 26-21 in Pool A
Hungary and Greece have just started in Pool A

Softball

Chinese Taipie and Greece have just started.

Men's Volleyball

USA leads Netherlands 2 sets to love and leads the 3rd set 16-11 Pool B

Men's Waterpolo

USA leads Kazikstan 8-4 in Group A

Water Polo Update:

US Mens just defeated The Kazikstani Mens team 9 to 6!

US is now 2-0 in competition. Way to go USA!

Update:

All USA players in Table Tennis have been officially Eliminated

Update:

Baseball

Australia and Italy have started playing

Basketball

Serbia and Montenegro is beating Italy 55-50 in the 3rd

Beach Volleyball

Women's
Brazil beats Greece in 2 sets to love in Pool C

Field Hockey
Men's
Republic of South Africa is beating India 2-1 in the 1st half in Pool B
Pakistan is beating Egypt 1-0 in Pool A

Handball

Womens
Hungary pounds Greece 33-20 in Pool A

Soccer
Women's
Nigeria leads Sweden 1-0 in Group E
Germany leads Mexico 1-0 in Group F
Brazil Leads Greece 1-0 in Group G
USA Leads Australia 1-0 in Group G

Softball

Chinese Taipie beats Greece 2-0

Volleyball
Mens
USA Beats Netherlands 3 sets to love

WaterPolo
Serbia and Montenegro Beats Russia 4-3

Update:

Basketball

Serbia and Montenegro beats Italy 74-72 in Group A
Argentina is beating Spain 40-35 in Group A

Beach VolleyBall
Women's
Brazil beats Greece 2 sets to love in Pool C

Men's
USA and Norway are knotted 1 set each

Field Hockey
India beats The Republic of South Africa 4-2 in Pool B
Pakistan Smacks Egypt 7-0 in Pool A
Spain and Germany are knotted at 0 in Pool A (1st Half)

HandBall
S. Korea is beating Denmark 14-13 in Group B (1st Half)

Soccer
Women's
Sweden Beats Nigeria 2-1 in Group E
Germany beats Mexico 2-0 in Group F
Brazil smacks Greece 7-0 in Group G
USA and Australia Tied at 1 in Group G

Men's
Mali is beating S. Korea 2-0 in Group A (1st Half)
Greece and Mexico are tied at 0 in Group A (1st Half)
Argentina leads Australia 1-0 in Group C (1st Half)
Serbia and Montenegro vs Tunisia is about to start in Group C

Softball
Australia pounding Italy 7-0 in the 5th

Volleyball
Greece is Leading Poland 2 sets to 1 and leads set 4 8-5

Update:

Basketball

Argentina leads Spain 60-58 in Group A

Beach Volleyball
Men's
Norway beats USA 2 sets to 1 in Pool A

Women's
USA Leads Netherlands 1 set to love in Pool A

Field Hockey
Netherlands Beats New Zealand 4-3 in Pool B
Spain and Germany are tied at 1 in the second Half In Pool A Competition

Gymnastics
Halfway through the 2nd Rotation US leads followed by Ukraine and France with Romania Fourth

Handball
Denmark and Korea tied at 29 in Pool B
France and Spain has just started in Pool B

Soccer
Mali beats South Korea 2-0 in Group A
Mexico Leads Greece 1-0 in Group A
Argentina leads Australia 1-0 in Group C
Tunisa leads Serbia and Montenegro 1-0 in Group C

Softball
Australia beats Italy 7-0 (UOF)

Volleyball
Greece beats Poland 3 sets to 1

Women's Gymnastics Update:

We have just gone into the final rotation with Romania number 1, USA number 2 and Russia number 3

Its Official in WOmen's Gymnastics

Gold goes to Romania
Silver to the USA
Bronze to Russia

In Basketball

USA leads Greece 57-53 end of the third Quarter

Medals Awarded at this time:

Fencing: Men's Individual Epee
Gold: Switzerland-Marcel Fischer
Silver: China-Wang Lei
Bronze: Russia-Pavel Kalabkov

FENCING: Women's Individual Sabre
Gold: USA-Mariel Zagunis
Silver: China-Tan Xue
Bronze: USA-Sada Jacobson

GYMNASTICS: Women's Team
Gold: Romania
Silver: USA
Bronze: Russia

JUDO: Women's Half Middleweight (63kg/139lbs)
Gold: Japan-Ayumi Tanimoto
Silver: Austria-Claudia Heill
Bronze: Cuba-Driulus Gonzalez
Bronze: Slovenia-Urska Zolnir

JUDO: Men's Half Middleweight (81kg/178lbs)
Gold: Greece-Ilias Iliadis
Silver: Ukraine-Roman Gontyuk
Bronze: Brazil-Flavio Canto
Bronze: Russia-Dmitri Nossov

SHOOTING: Men's Double Trap
Gold: United Arab Emirates-Ahmed Almaktoum
Silver: India-Rajyavardhan S. Rathore
Bronze: China-Wang Zheng

USA SURVIVES GREECE 77-71 in Mens Basketball

SHOOTING: Men's Free Pistol
Gold: Russia-Mikhail Nestruev
Silver: S. Korea-Jin Jong Ho
Bronze: N.Korea-Kim Jong Su

SWIMMING: Men's 200m Butterfly
Gold: USA-Michael Phelps
Silver: Takashi Yamamoto
Bronze: Great Britian-Stephen Perry

SWIMMING: Women's 200m Freestyle
Gold: Romania-Camelia Potec
Silver: Italy-Frederica Pellegrini
Bronze: France-Solenne Figues

SWIMMING: Women's 200m IM
Gold: Ukraine-Yana Klochkova
Silver: USA-Amanda Beard
Bronze: Zimbabwe Kirsty Coventry

SWIMMING: Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay
Gold: USA
Silver: Australia
Bronze: Italy

Update:

Baseball
Australia beats Italy 6-0
Japan beats Cuba 6-3

Basketball
Spain beats Argentina 87-76 in Group
USA Beats Greece 77-71 in Group B

Beach Volleyball
Women's
USA Beats Netherlands 2 sets to love in Pool A
Norway Beats Germany 2 sets to 1 In Pool C

Men's
Brazil beats Australia2 sets to love in Pool A

Fieled Hockey
Spain and Germany ened in a 1-1 tie in Pool A!

Gymnastics
Gold: Romania
Silver: USA
Bronze: Russia

Handball
France beats Spain 27-20

Soccer
Mali and S. Korea ended in a 3-3 tie in Group A
Mexico Beats Greece 3-2 in Group A
Argentina beats Australia 1-0 in Group C
Tunisia beats Serbia and Montenegro 3-2 in Group C

Softball

Well I don't know how many times I posted this but Officially, Australia beat Italy 8-0

Volleyball
Brazil Beats Italy 3 sets to 2 in Group B

WaterPolo
Greece Beats Spain 8-5 in Group B
Hungry beats Croatia 10-8 in Group A

You sure are doing a good job keeping this thing going. My hats off to you.

Did not know that! Just going by whats on the webpage and I think the Sabre Finals are today!



Do you know what time? Pacific time... and which NBC channel is gonna show it.

You sure are doing a good job keeping this thing going. My hats off to you.



Do you know what time? Pacific time... and which NBC channel is gonna show it.
Fencing - Women's Individual Sabre Semifinals and Bronze Medal Match: USA's Sada Jacobson and Mariel Zagunis compete

5:00 Pacific Time on Bravo for Individual Sabre! But you'll have to wait because you'll have to go through the tennis match before you can get to fencing. Foil was yesterday I believe it was.

And thanks considering most of the matches are before WE even see them! *giggles* I don't mind either.

Meh, 'Team' USA seemed to be up to fouling a lot today in Basketball.

Meh, 'Team' USA seemed to be up to fouling a lot today in Basketball.

looked that way. At least they still won. :)

Well ladies and gentlemen, It is official! The olympics have returned to Anciet Olympia with the Shot Put Competition. I will post those results in a second. But first, the first results are in and here they are:

Baseball
Netherlands defeats Italy 10-4
Australia beats Japan 9-4 (UOF)

Basketball
Czech Republic beats China 98-83 in Group B
Australia pounds Japan 97-78 in Group A
USA leads S. Korea 31-28 in the 3rd in Group B

Beach Volleyball
Men's
Republic of South Africa beats Portugal 2 sets to love in Pool F
Switzerland beats USA 2 sets to 1 in Pool E
Australia is leading Canada 1 set to love in Pool E

Women's
Bulgaria beats China 2 sets to love in Pool E
Australia beats Mexico 2 sets to love in Pool F

Canoe/Kayak
Men's Whitewater C-1 Final C1 Canoe Single
1 FRA ESTANGUET Tony 95.79 0 189.16 -
2 SVK MARTIKAN Michal 94.03 2 189.28 0.12
3 GER PFANNMOELLER Stefan 94.57 0 191.56 2.40
4 AUS BELL Robin 95.35 0 192.83 3.67
5 CZE INDRUCH Tomas 97.06 0 195.28 6.12

[i]Women's Whitewater K-1 Final K1 Kayak Single[i]
1 SVK KALISKA Elena 106.29 0 210.03 -
2 USA GIDDENS Rebecca 107.06 0 214.62 4.59
3 GBR REEVES Helen 105.87 4 218.77 8.74
4 FRA DICKENS Peggy 107.85 6 218.80 8.77
5 CZE HILGERTOVA Stepanka 109.44 0 220.75 10.72

Field Hockey
China beats Spain 3-0 in Pool A
Netherlands Beat Germany 4-1 in Pool B

Handball
Croatia beats S.Korea 29-26 in Pool A
Iceland beats Slovakia 30-25 in Pool A
France and Hungary are in progress in Pool B

Softball
Chinese Tiapie Beats Italy 1-0
Australia beats China 5-0 in 8 innings

Volleyball
Dominican Republic beats USA 3 sets to 2 in Group B
S. Korea beats Kenya 3 sets to love in Group A
China and Cuba are tied 1 set each in Group B

WaterPolo
Australia beats Kazahkstan 9-4 in Group A
Canada beats USA 6-5 in Group B (UOF)

At the half:

USA Leads South Korea 39-32 in Women's Basketball

Team USA beats S. Korea 80-57 in Women's Basketball.

Update:

Baseball

Official score is in! Australia beats Japan 9-4

Basketball

USA beats S. Korea 80-57 in Group B
Greece is beating Nigeria 26-13 in the first

Beach Volleyball
Women's
Canada beats Norway 2 sets to love in Pool D

Men's
Game just started between Puerto Rico and Sweden in Pool D

Handball
France beats Hungary 26-23 in Pool B

Softball
USA and Canada have just begun

Volleyball
Cuba beats China 3 sets to 2 in Group B
Japan leads Greece 1 set to love and is losing 2nd set 11-16

Water Polo
Russia and Hungary have just started in Group B

Update:

[Softball
USA and Canada have just begun

I hear the US has been kicking ass in softball.. I won't hold my breath for Canada..*LOL*

I hear the US has been kicking ass in softball.. I won't hold my breath for Canada..*LOL*

20-0 in 4 games! yea I say that is kicking ass! LOL!

20-0 in 4 games! yea I say that is kicking ass! LOL!

Well, we beat you in waterpolo.. that sport is so gay.. if the water was ice, and had a goalie and hockey sticks, with skates and a puck, then it would be fabulous..lol :D

Well, we beat you in waterpolo.. that sport is so gay.. if the water was ice, and had a goalie and hockey sticks, with skates and a puck, then it would be fabulous..lol :D

LOL!!!!

4-0 USA and now the bases are loaded for Team USA in the 3rd! :D

Update:

Baseball

Canada and Greece have started

Basketball
Greece beats Nigeria 83-68 (UOF)

Beach Volleyball
Mens
Sweden Defeats Puerto Rico 2 sets to 1 in Pool D
Germany Leads Norway 1 set to love in Pool D

Field Hockey
S.Korea leads S. Korea 2-0 in the first half

Handball
France beats Hungary 28-23 as the official result in Pool B
Greece beats Egypt 26-25 in Pool B

Softball

USA Beats Canada 7-0 in Mercy Rule game (5 innings)

Volleyball
Japan beats Greece 3 sets to 1 in Group A

WaterPolo
Russia beats Hungary 9-8 in Group B
Greece and Italy have started in a Group A matchup

Update:

Baseball

Canada leads Greece 1-0 3rd Inning
Cuba and Taipie have just started

Beach Volleyball
Men's
Norway beats Germany 2 sets to 1 in Pool D

Field Hockey
S. Korea beats South Africa 3-0

Handball
Russia and Spain have just started playing

Softball
Greece and Japan have just started

Volleyball
Germany and Russia have started with Germany leading 9-8 in the 1st set

Water Polo

Italy beats Greece 7-2 In Group A

USA is taking off in the medal count. 27 now, China with 22, AUS with 16.

UPDATE:

Baseball
Canada beats Greece 2-0
Cuba is hammering Chinese Taipie 8-1

Basketball
Official Score: Greece beats Nigeria 83-68 in Pool A
Russia beats Brazil 77-67 in Pool A
SPain handing it to New Zealand 28-6 in the first Quarter

Beach Volleyball
Women's
USA beats Switzerland 2 sets to 1 in Pool D
Greece leads China 1 set to love in Pool F

Men's
Argentina beats Greece 2 sets to love

Field Hockey
Japan beats New Zealand 2-0 in Pool A

Gymnastics
Men's All Around

The Men's All-Around is over! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PAUL HAMM IN A INCREDIBLE RUN FROM BEHIND WINS GOLD!!! HERE IS THE RESULTS:

Gold: USA-Paul Hamm
Silver: S.Korea-Dae Eun Kim
Bronze: S.Korea-Tae Young Yang

Congratulations to the medalists and to Paul Hamm for becoming the First American Male EVER to win the All-Around Gold

Handball
Spain beats Russia 29-26 in Pool A
Germany and Brazil are in Progress with Germany winning 18-12 in the 1st Half of Pool B competition.

Soccer

Today ended the Soccer Prelims! Scores are as follows:

Paraguay beats Italy 1-0
Japan beats Ghana 1-0
STUNNING AND I DO MEAN STUNNING! COASTA RICA BEATS PORTUGAL 4-2 KNOCKING PORTUGAL FROM THE QUARTERFINALS! WAY TO GO COASTA RICA
Morocco beats Iraq 3-2 but Iraq still wins Group D!

Softball
Japan beats Greece 6-0

Volleyball
Russia beats Germany 3 sets to love in Group B
Italy leads Brazil 2 sets to 1 with Brazil leading 23-15

Medals awarded today will be posted soon! Congrats to all medal winners today

Medals Awarded Today are as follows:

ARCHERY: Women's Individual
Gold: S.Korea-Park Sung Hyun
Silver:S.Korea-Lee Sung Jin
Bronze: Great Britian-Alison Williamson

CANOE/KAYAK: Men's Whitewater C-1
Gold: France-Tony Estanguet
Silver: Slovakia-Michal Martikan
Bronze: Germany-Stefan Pfannmoeller

CANOE/KAYAK: Women's Whitewater K-1
Gold: Slovakia-Elena Kaliska
Silver: USA-Rebecca Giddens
Bronze: Great Britian-Helen Reeves

CYCLING: Men's Time Trial
Gold: USA-Tyler Hamilton
Silver: Russia-Viatcheslav Ekimov
Bronze: USA-Bobby Julich

CYCLING: Women's Time Trial
Gold: Netherlands-Leontien Van Moorsel
Silver: USA-Dede Barry
Bronze: Switerland-Karin Thuerig

EQUESTRIAN: Individual Eventing
Gold: Germany-Bettina Hoy
Silver: Great Britian-Leslie Law
Bronze: USA-Kim Severson

EQUESTRIAN: Team Eventing
Gold: Germany
Silver: France
Bronze: Great Britian

FENCING: Women's Individual Foil
Gold: Italy-Valentina Vezzali
Silver: Italy-Giovanna Trillini
Bronze: Poland-Sylwia Gruchala

JUDO: Women's Middleweight (70kg/154lbs)
Gold: Japan-Masae Ueno
Silver: Netherlands-Edith Bosch
Bronze: China-Qin Dongya
Bronze: Germany-Annett Boehm

JUDO: Men's Middleweight (90kg/198lbs)
Gold: Georgia-Zurab Zviadauri
Silver: Japan-Hiroshi Izumi
Bronze: Netherlands-Mark Huizinga
Bronze: Russia-Khasanbi Taov

SHOOTING: Women's Double Trap
Gold: USA-Kim Rhode
Silver: S.Korea-Lee Bo Na
Bronze: China-Gao E

SHOOTING: Women's Sport Pistol
Gold: Bulgaria-Maria Grozdeva
Silver: Czech Republic-Lenka Hykova
Bronze: Azerbaijan-Irada Ashumova

SWIMMING: Men's 100m Freestyle
Gold: Netherlands-Pieter Van Den Hoogenband
Silver: Republic of South Africa-Roland Mark Schoeman
Bronze: Australia-Ian Thorpe

SWIMMING: Men's 200m Breaststroke
Gold: Japan-Kosuke Kitajima
Silver: Hungary-Daniel Gyurta
Bronze: USA-Brenden Hansen

SWIMMING: Women's 200m Butterfly
Gold: Poland-Otyalia Jedrzejzak
Silver: Australia-Petria Thomas
Bronze: Yuko Nakanishi

SWIMMING: Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay
Gold: USA (WORLD RECORD TIME)
Silver: China
Bronze: Germany

TRACK & FIELD: Men's Shot Put
Gold: Ukraine-Yuriy Bilonog
Silver: USA-Adam Nelson
Bronze: Denmark-Joachim Olsen

TRACK & FIELD: Women's Shot Put
Gold: Russia-Irina Korzhanenko
Silver: Cuba-Yumileidi Cumba
Bronze: Germany-Nadine Kleinert

WEIGHTLIFTING: Women's 63kg (139lbs)
Gold: Ukraine-Natalya Skakun
Silver: Belarus-Hanna Batsiushka
Bronze: Belarus-Tatsiana Stukalava

Congratulations to all of our medal winners today

Medal Count after the 5th day of competition

United States of America 10 gold, 10 silver, 9 Bronze = 29
China 11 Gold, 7 Silver, 4 Bronze = 22
Australia 6 Gold, 7 Silver, 9 Bronze = 16
Russia 3 Gold, 6 Silver, 6 Bronze = 15
Japan 8 Gold, 3 Silver, 2 Bronze = 13
Germany 3 Gold, 2 silver, 5 Bronze = 10
South Korea 2 Gold, 5 Silver, 3 Bronze = 10
Italy 3 Gold, 4 Silver, 2 Bronze = 9
Netherlands 2 Gold, 3 Silver, 4 Bronze = 9
Ukraine 5 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze = 7

Day 6 of the Olympics and here are the results as they stand:

Basketball
New Zealand Beats Serbia and Montenegro 90-97 in Group A
Spain Beats Italy 71-63 in Group A
USA Beats Australia 89-79 in Group B
Puerto Rico is beating Angola 19-17 First Quarter in Group B

Beach Volleyball
Women's
Italy beats the Republic of South Africa in Pool B
Japan beats Netherlands 2 sets to 1 in Pool A
Brazil Beats Cuba 2 sets to Love in Pool B

Men's
Australia Beats Norway 2 sets to Love in Pool A
Spain beats Austria 2 sets to Love in Pool C
Switzerland beats Austria 2 sets to Love in Pool C
Cuba beats France 2 sets to love in Pool B

Field Hockey
Netherlands beats Republic of South Africa 3-2 in Pool B
Pakistan beats S.Korea 3-0 Pool A

Handball
S.Korea beats Angola 40-30 in Pool B
China beating Greece 15-6 in Pool A

Softball
China beats Taipie 1-0
USA beats Greece by Mercy Rule 7-0
Japan and Italy are in progress with the scored tied at 0

Volleyball
Italy beats Australia 3 sets to Love in Group B
Brazil beats Netherlands 3 sets to 1 in Group B
France Beats Poland 3 sets to Love in Group A
Serbia and Montenegro beats Tunisia 3 sets to Love in Group A

Water Polo
Serbia and Montenegro beats Kazahkstan 9-5 in Group A
Hungary beats USA 7-5 in Group A
Spain and Australia have just started playing

Update:

Basketball
Puerto Rico slips by Angola 83-80 in Group B
Argentina is beating China 41-21 at the half in Group A

Beach Volleyball
Women's
Germany Beats Brazil 2 sets to 1 in Pool C

Men's
Brazil Leads USA 1 set to Love in Pool A

Field Hockey
Germany pound Egypt 6-1 in Pool A
Spain Beats Great Britian 2-1 in Pool A
New Zealand and Argentina are tied at 1 in Pool B
Australia and India are also tied at 1 in Pool B

Handball
Ukraine leads Brazil 11-10 in Pool A

Softball
Japan beats Italy 1-0
Australia is beating Canada 1-0 in the 4th inninng

Volleyball
Greece and Argentina are tied 1 set all with Argentina leading set 3 24-22

Water Polo
Spain beats Australia 8-4 in Group B
Italy Beats Germany 10-5 Group B

This concludes this update!

Olympic Opening: estimated 4 Billion TV watchers world wide
202 nations attending

(I am not 100% sure but I think the US and UK were booed when they entered)

What are you talking about? The US team got a resounding cheer apparently, as did the Afghans and Iraqis...

Update:

Basketball
Argentina Beats China 82-57 in Group A
Lithuania beats Greece 98-76 in Group B

Beach Volleyball
Men's
Brazil beats USA 2 sets to love in Pool A
Germany Beats Brazil 2 sets to love in Pool B

Women's
USA beats Czech Republic 2 sets to love in Pool A
Greece and Norway are tied 1 set all in Pool C

Field Hockey
New Zealand beats Argentina 3-1 in Pool B
Australia beats India 4-3 in Pool B

Gymnastics

ITS OFFICIAL! Carly Patterson Makes it a US Sweep of the GOLD in the All-Around! The results are as follows:

Carly Patterson (USA) in 1st, Svetlana Khorkina (Russia) in 2nd, Nan Zhang (China) in 3rd!

Handball
Ukraine beats Brazil 21-19 in Pool A
Denmark beats Spain 23-21 in Pool B

Softball
Australia beats Canada 1-0

Volleyball
Argentina beats Greece 3 sets to 1 in Group A
Russia beats USA 3 sets to 1

Water Polo
Greece beats Egypt 15-4 in Group B
Russia beats Croatia 9-8 in Group A

This concludes this update!

As soon as the storm I'm in is over, I will post the medals for the day. Sorry for the delay in them but alas, I don't want to ruin my computer!

Meh, I'll post em :D

US - 35 (14 G, 11 S, 10 B)
China - 29 (14 G, 9 S, 6 B)
Russia - 23 (3 G, 9 S, 11 B)

Meh, I'll post em :D

US - 35 (14 G, 11 S, 10 B)
China - 29 (14 G, 9 S, 6 B)
Russia - 23 (3 G, 9 S, 11 B)

Not what I was talking About! This is what I was talking about! LOL

Medals Won Today:

ARCHERY: Men's Individual

Gold: Italy-Marco Galiazzo
Silver: Japan-Hiroshi Yamamotto
Bronze: Australia-Tim Cuddihy

BADMINTON: Mixed Doubles

Gold: China (Ling Gao and Zhang Jun)
Silver: Great Britain (Gail Emms and Nathan Robertson)
Bronze: Denmark (Mette Schjoldager and Jens Eriksen)

Fencing: Men's Team Sabre
Gold: France
Silver: Italy
Bronze Russia

Gymnastics: Women's All-Around
Gold: USA-Carly Patterson
Silver: Russia-Svetlana Khorkina
Bronze: China-Nan Zhang

Judo: Men's Half Heavyweight (100kg/220lbs)
Gold: Belarus-Ihar Makaru
Silver: S.Korea-Jang Sung Ho
Bronze: Germany-Michael Jurack
Bronze: Israel-Ariel Zeevi

Judo: Women's Half Heavyweight (78kg/172lbs)
Gold: Japan-Anno Noriko
Silver: China-Liu Xia
Bronze: Cuba-Yurisel Laborde
Bronze: Italy-Lucia Morico

Shooting: Men's Running Target
Gold: Germany-Manfred Kurzer
Silver: Russia-Alexander Blinov
Bronze: Russia-Dimitri Lykin

Shooting: Women's Skeet
Gold: Hungary Diana Igaly
Silver: China-Wei Ning
Bronze: Azerbaijan-Zemfira Meftakhetdinova

Swimming: Women's 100m Freestyle
Gold: Australia-Jodie Henry
Silver: Netherlands-Inge De Burijn
Bronze: USA-Natalie Coughlin

Swimming: Men's 200m Backstroke
Gold: USA-Aaron Peirsol
Silver: Austria-Markus Rogan
Bronze: Romania-Razvan Florea

Swimming: Women's 200m Breaststroke
Gold: USA-Amanda Beard
Silver: Australia-Liesel Jones
Bronze: Germany-Anne Poleska

Swimming: Men's 200m IM
Gold: USA-Michael Phelps
Silver: USA-Ryan Lochte
Bronze: Trinidad and Tobago-George Bovell

Weightlifting: Women's 69kg (152lbs)
Gold: China-Chunhong Liu
Silver: Hungary-Eszter Krutzler
Bronze: Russia-Zarema Kasaeva

Congratulations to all of our medal winners

Welcome to day 7 of the Olympics!

Here are the results and in progress events as I have them right now!

Baseball
Italy defeats Chinese Taipie 5-4
Japan beats Canada 9-1

Basketball
Russia beats Japan 94-71 in Group A
New Zealand beats China 79-77 in Group B
USA Beats Spain 71-58 in Group B

Beach Volleyball
Women's Round of 16
Italy beats Germany 2 sets to 1
Australia(Cook and Sanderson) leads Australia(Lochowicz and Pottharst) 1 set to love

Field Hockey
S.Korea and Australia tied 2 all in Group B
Argentina beats New Zealand 3-0 in Group A

Handball
S.Korea beats Iceland 34-30 in Pool A
Spain Beats Slovakia 41-28 in Pool A
Greece Downs Brazil 26-22 in Pool B
Hungary and Germany have just started

Softball
Canada beats Italy 1-0
USA beats Chinese Taipie 3-0

Volleyball
China downs Germany 3 sets to Love in Pool B
Cuba downs Dominican Republic 3 sets to Love in Pool B
S.Korea downs Japan 3 sets to Love in Pool A
Brazil leads Greece 1 set to Love in the 2nd set and leading that 20-16

WaterPolo
Italy beats Kazahkstan 8-6 in Group A
USA Beats Russia 8-4 in Group B

This Concludes this update!

UPDATE:

Baseball
Greece is beating Australia 3-0 in the 1st

Baskebtall
Czech Republic beats S.Korea 97-75 in Group B

Beach Volleyball
Women's Round of 16
Australia(Cook and Sanderson) beats Australia(Lochowicz and Pottharst) 2 sets to love

Men's Round of 16
USA beats Germany 2 sets to 1(UOF)

Field Hockey
Republic of South Africa is beating Germany 2-0 in the 2nd Half

Handball
Hungary beats Germany 30-29 in Pool B

Soccer
Women's Quarterfinals
USA and Japan tied at 1 in the 2nd Half
Nigeria beating Germany 1-0 in the 2nd Half

Softball
Australia beats Greece 3-2

Volleyball
Brazil downs Greece 3 sets to Love in Group A

Water Polo
Hungary beats Canada 5-4 in Group B
Greece and Australia tied 7 all in Group A

This Concludes this Update!

UPDATE:

Baseball
Australia is beating Greece 10-5 in the 7th
Cuba leads Netherlands 9-0 in the 5th

Basketball
Australia leads Greece 59-30 in third in Group A

Beach Volleyball
Men's Round of 16
Spain beats Sweden 2 sets to Love
USA beats Germany 2 sets to 1 (Official)
Switzerland beats Portugal 2 sets to Love

Women's Round of 16
Cuba and Canada have just begun play

Field Hockey
Republic of South Africa beats Germany 3-0 in Pool B
Japan leads Spain 2-0 in the 2nd Half

Handball
Croatia beats Russia 26-25 in Pool A (UOF)

Soccer
Mexico and Brazil are tied at 0 in the 1st half
Sweden and Australia have just begun play

Volleyball
Italy downs Kenya 3 sets to love in Group A

UPDATE:

Baseball
Australia beats Greece 11-6
Cuba beats Netherlands 9-2

Basketball
Australia beats Greece 77-40 in Group A
Brazil is beating Nigeria 70-58 in Group A

Beach Volleyball
Women's Round of 16
Canada beats Cuba 2 sets to love
Brazil beats Greece 2 sets to Love

[i]Men's Round of 16[i]
Brazil and Norway are tied 1 set all start of 3rd Set

Field Hockey
Japan beats Spain 2-1 in Pool A

Handball
Croatia beats Russia 26-25 (Official) in Pool A
France Beats Egypt 22-21 in Pool B

Soccer
Brazil beats Mexico 5-0
Sweden beats Australia 2-1

Softball
Japan beats China 2-0

Volleyball
Russia beats USA 3 sets to 2 in Group B

Medals Awarded Today:

ARCHERY: Women's Team
Gold: South Korea
Silver: China
Bronze: Chinese Taipie

BADMINTON: Men's Doubles
Gold: South Korea(Dong-Moon Kim and Tae-Kwon HA)
Silver: South Korea(Lee Dong Soo and Yoo Yong Sung
Bronze: Indonesia(Eng Hian and Flandy Limpele)

CANOE/KAYAK: Men's Whitewater C-2
Gold: Slovakia(Pavol and Peter Hochschorner)
Silver: Germany(Stefan Henze and Marcus Becker)
Bronze: Czech Republic(Ondrej Stepanek and Jaroslav Volf)

CANOE/KAYAK: Men's Whitewater K-1
Gold: France-Benoit Peschier
Silver: Great Britian-Campbell Walsh
Bronze: France-Fabien Lefevre

CYCLING: Women's 500m Time Trial
Gold: Australia-Anna Meares
Silver: China-Jiang Yonghua
Bronze: Belarus-Natalya Tsylinskaya

CYCLING: Men's Kilometer Time Trial
Gold: Great Britian-Chris Hoy
Silver: France-Arnaud Tournant
Bronze: Germany-Stephan Nimke

FENCING: Women's Team Epee
Gold: Russia
Silver: Germany
Bronze: France

JUDO: Men's Heavyweight (100+kg/220+lbs)
Gold: Japan-Keiji Suzuki
Silver: Russia-Tamerlan Tmenov
Bronze: Estonia-Indrek Pertelson
Bronze: Netherlands-Dennis Vand Der Geest

JUDO: Women's Heavyweight (78+kg/172+lbs)
Gold: Japan-Maki Tsukada
Silver: Cuba-Dayma Beltran
Bronze: China-Sun Fuming
Bronze: Russia-Tea Donguzashvili

SHOOTING: Women's 50m Rifle 3 Pos.
Gold: Russia-Lioubov Galkina
Silver: Italy-Valentina Turisina
Bronze: China-Wang Chengyi

SHOOTING: Men's 50m Rifle Prone
Gold: USA-Matt Emmons
Silver: Germany-Christian Lusch
Bronze: Belarus-Sergei Martynov

SWIMMING: Men's 100m Butterfly
Gold: USA-Micheal Phelps (Olympic Record)
Silver: USA-Ian Crocker
Bronze: Ukraine-Andriy Serdinov

SWIMMING: Women's 200m Backstroke
Gold: Zimbabwe-Kirsty Coventry
Silver: Russia-Stanislava Komarova
Bronze: Germany-Antje Buschschulte
Bronze: Japan-Reiko Nakamura

SWIMMING: Men's 50m Freestyle
Gold: USA-Gary Hall Jr.
Silver: Croatia-Duje Draganja
Bronze: Republic of South Africa-Roland Mark Schoeman

SWIMMING: Women's 800m Freestyle
Gold: Japan-Ai Shibata
Silver: France-Laure Manaudou
Bronze: USA-Diana Munz

TABLE TENNIS: Women's Doubles
Gold: China(Nan Wang and Yining Zhang)
Silver: South Korea(Lee Eun Sil and Seok Eun Mi)
Bronze: China(Niu Jianfeng and Guo Yue)

TRACK & FIELD: Men's 10,000m
Gold: Ethiopia-Kenenisa(Olympic Record)
Silver: Ethiopia-Sileshi Sihine
Bronze: Eritrea-Zersenay Tadesse

TRACK & FIELD: Men's 20km Walk
Gold: Italy-Ivano Brugnetti
Silver: Spain-Francisco Javier Fernandez
Bronze: Australia-Nathan Diakes

TRAMPOLINE: Women
Gold: Germany-Anna Dogonadze
Silver: Canada-Karen Cockburn
Bronze: China-Huang Shanshan

WEIGHTLIFTING: Women's 75kg (165lbs)
Gold: Thailand-Pawina Thongsuk
Silver: Russia-Natalia Zabolotnaia
Bronze: Russia-Valentina Papova

Congratulations to all medal winners today

Medal Count after Day Number 7!

United States of America 17G, 12S, 11B = 40
China 15G, 11S, 10B = 36
Russia 5G, 11S, 12B = 28
Australia 8G, 5S, 8B = 21
Japan 12G, 4S, 3B = 19

Yea, I'm an Olympic nut too, but in the snowy climate of Canada, the underfunded-we-have-2-months-of-summer-to-train-in athletes don't do so great. Bring on 2006 and hockey!! (Every year, it snows in Calgary, Canada in July or August.)

I demand more Olympic sports that involve our nation's youth rubbing their crotches on inanimate objects.

Day 8: 1st UPDATE:

Baseball
Japan beats Chinese Taipie 4-3 in 10 innings
Cuba defeats Canada 5-2

Basketball
Puerto Rico beats Australia 87-82 in Group B
Spain beats Serbia and Montenegro 76-68 in Group A
Argentina leads New Zealand 47-42 at the half in Group A

Beach Volleyball
Men's Round of 16
Germany beats Australia 2 sets to Love
Brazil and Switzerland have just started

Field Hockey
Korea destroys Egypt 11-0 in Pool A
New Zealand beats India 2-1 in Pool B

Handball
France leads Angola 12-6 in First half of Pool B

Volleyball
USA beats Australia 3 sets to 1 in Group B
Italy beats Netherlands 3 sets to Love in Group B
Poland leads Tunisia 2 sets to 1 and leads 4th set 18-14

WaterPolo
Hungary drowns Kazahkstan 14-4
Italy sinks Egypt 13-4

This concludes the 1st update of Day 8

Day 8 second UPDATE:

Baseball
Australia and Netherlands have just begun play

Basketball
Argentina escapes New Zealand 98-94 in Group A
Italy Dunks China 89-52 in Group A

Beach Volleyball
Men's Round of 16
Australia beats Republic of South Africa 2 sets to love

Women's Round of 16
USA downs Czech Republic 2 sets to Love

Field Hockey
Australia and India are tied 2 all in the 2nd half
Netherlands leads Argentina 2-0 in 1st Half

Handball
France beats Angola 29-21 in Pool B
Ukraine beats Greece 29-20 in Pool A

Soccer
Mali and Italy are knotted at 0 in the 1st half
Iraq and Australia are knotted at 0 at the half

Volleyball
Poland defeats Tunisia 3 sets to 1 in Group A
Serbia and Montenegro defeats Argentina 3 sets to 1

Water Polo
Germany drowns Italy 11-5 in Group B
Greece escapes Australia 10-9 in Group B

This Concludes UPDATE number 2!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/medals_table/default.stm

Latest medal count

(this is not good...down to 5th..)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/medals_table/default.stm

Latest medal count

(this is not good...down to 5th..)

USA is still at the top :)

if your talking great britian you've dropped to 9th!

Make that 4th!

I was talking Australia (local site isn't up-to-date)

Gold in the 1500m swimming!

Day 8 UPDATE #3

Baseball
Australia is hammering Netherlands 19-1 in the 3rd. I hope there's a mercy rule here! Netherlands needs it!
Italy and Greece are knotted at 0 in the 1st

Basketball
No Update at this time

Beach Volleyball
Women's Round of 16
No Update at this time

Men's Round of 16
No Update at this Time

Field Hockey
Australia beats Republic of South Africa 3-2 in Group B
Netherlands beats Argentina 4-2 in Group B

Handball
S.Korea and Spain have just begun play in Pool B

Soccer
Mali and Italy are tied at 0 and it looks like its in extra time!
IRAQ BEATS AUSTRALIA 1-0 AND MOVES ON TO THE SEMI FINALS! IRAQ WILL BE PLAYING FOR A MEDAL! WAY TO GO IRAQ!

Volleyball
Greece leads France 1 set to Love and is tied 1-1 in the 2nd Set

Water Polo
No update at this time

ONCE AGAIN! CONGRATULATIONS TO IRAQ FOR MOVING ON TO THE SEMIFINALS! GO FOR THE GOLD!

This concludes Day 8 Update #3

Make that 4th!

I was talking Australia (local site isn't up-to-date)

Gold in the 1500m swimming!

Ahh! Ok! And a Bronze in Tennis too I see!

I'll post all medal winners at around 5 PM ET!

ONCE AGAIN! CONGRATULATIONS TO IRAQ FOR MOVING ON TO THE SEMIFINALS! GO FOR THE GOLD!


I know everyone in my little corner of the US (including me) are rooting for 'em. If anyone deserves it, it's these guys.

Against all adversity, Iraq has its newest heroes.

Take that medal home, guys, take that medal home.

In Men's Basketball:

USA is leading Lithuania 49-44 at the half! This concludes a scoring update!

Result update to come after the game is over!

LET'S GO TEAM USA

UPDATE:

Baseball
I guess there was a mercy rule however, the final is Australia 22 and Netherlands 2!
Italy leads Greece 7-6

Basketball
Lithuania beats USA 94-90 (USA IS NOT Eliminated so don't even think it)

Beach Volleyball
Women's Round of 16
USA downs China 2 sets to Love

Men's Round of 16
Canada downs Argentina 2 sets to love

Field Hockey
Spain beats Pakistan 4-0 in Pool A
Germany beats Great Britian 4-1 in Pool A

Handball
S. Korea downs Spain 36-21 in Pool B
Brazil and Hungary have just begun play in Pool A

Soccer
Argentina leads Costa Rica 2-0 in the 1st Half
Paraguay leads S.Korea 1-0 in the First half

Volleyball
Greece beats France 3 sets to 2 in Group A

Water Polo
Serbia and Montenegro beats Croatia 11-8

Carolina Klüft!!!! Just won gold for Sweden in Heptathlon!! :)

Carolina Klüft!!!! Just won gold for Sweden in Heptathlon!! :)

All Medal results will be posted at the end of the day today! In other words, in about 2 more hours! LOL

All Medal results will be posted at the end of the day today! In other words, in about 2 more hours! LOL

Like the rest of Sweden, I was having a happy outburst! :D

Like the rest of Sweden, I was having a happy outburst! :D

Its allowed! LOL! :D

Update:

Baseball
Greece downs Italy 12-7

Basketball
Greece leads Angola 67-35 in Group B

Beach Volleyball
Women's Round of 16
Germany beats Greece 2 sets to 1
Brazil and Bulgaria are just underway

Handball
Hungary is beating Brazil 35-26 in Pool A

Soccer
Argentina beats Costa Rica 4-0
Paraguay beats S.Korea 3-2
Italy beats Mali 1-0 in extra time

The Semi-Finals are set:
Iraq vs Paragua
Argentina vs Italy

Volleyball
Brazil leads Russia 2 sets to love with a tie in the 3rd set at 22

Waterpolo
Russia beats USA 9-7 in Group A

This concludes this update!

Final Update:

Basketball
Greece dunks Angola 88-56 in Group B

Beach Volleyball
Women's Round of 16
Brazil defeats Bulgaria 2 sets to 1

Handball
Hungary defeats Brazil 35-26 in Pool A

Volleyball
Brazil defeats Russia 3 sets to Love in Group B

Tennis-Men's Doubles Gold Medal Game is still going on and is in the 4th set! As soon as this goes final, I will include the results in an updated medal post

Day 8 Medals that were awarded:

Archery: Men's Team
Gold: S. Korea
Silver: Cinese Taipei
Bronze: Ukraine

Badminton: Women's Doubles
Gold: China (Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei)
Silver: China (Sui Huang and Ling Gao)
Bronze: S. Korea (Kyung-Min Ra and Lee Kyung Won)

Badminton: Men's Singles
Gold: Indonesia-Taufik Hidayat
Silver: S.Korea-Shon Seung Mo
Bronze: Indonesia-Sone Dwi Kuncoro

Cycling: Men's Individual Pursuit
Gold: Great Britian-Bradly Wiggins
Silver: Australia-Brad McGee
Bronze: Spain-Sergei Escobar

Cycling: Men's Team Sprint
Gold: Germany
Silver: Japan
Bronze: France

Equestrian: Team Dressage
Gold: Germany
Silver: Spain
Bronze: USA

Fencing: Men's Team Foil
Gold: Italy
Silver: China
Bronze: Russia

Rowing: Women's Double Sculls
Gold: New Zealand (Geogina and Caroline Evers-Swindell)
Silver: Germany (Britta Oppelt and peggy Waleska)
Bronze: Great Britain (Elise Laverick and Sarah Winckless)

Rowing: Men's Double Sculls
Gold: France (Sebastien Vieilledent and Adrien Hardy)
Silver: Slovenia (Iztok Cop and Luka Spik)
Bronze: Italy (Rossano Galtarossa and Alessio Sartori)

Rowing: Men's Four
Gold: Great Britain
Silver: Canada
Bronze: Italy

Rowing: Women's Pair
Gold: Romania (Viorica Susanu, Elena Serban(-Parvan), and Georgeta Andrunache)
Silver: Great Britain (Cath Bishop and Katherine Grainger)
Bronze: Belarus (Natallia Helakh and Yuliya Bichyk)

Rowing: Men's Pair
Gold: Australia (Drew Ginn and James Tomkins)
Silver: Croatia (Niksa and Sinisa Skelin)
Bronze: Republic of South Africa (Donovan Cech and Ramon Di Clemente)

Rowing: Women's Single Sculls
Gold: Germany-Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski
Silver: Belarus-Yekaterina Karsten
Bronze: Bulgaria-Rumyana Neykova

Rowing: Men's Single Sculls
Gold: Norway-Olaf Tufte
Silver: Estonia-Juri Jaanson
Bronze: Bulgaria-Ivo Yanakiev

Sailing: Men's 470
Gold: USA (Kevin Burnham and Paul Foerster)
Silver: Great Britain (Joc Glanfield and Nick Rogers)
Bronze: Japan (Kazuto Seki and Kenjiro Todoroki)

Sailing: Women's 470
Gold: Greece (Sofia Bekatorou and Emilia Tsoulfa)
Silver: Spain (Sandra Azon and Natalia Via Dufresne)
Bronze: Sweden (Therese Torgersson and Vendela Zachrisson)

Sailing: Men's Finn
Gold: Great Britain-Ben Ainslie
Silver: Spain-Rafael Trujillo
Bronze: Poland-Mateusz Kusznierewicz

Sailing: Women's Yngling
Gold: Great Britain
Silver: Ukraine
Bronze: Denmark

Shooting: Men's Rapid Fire Pistol
Gold: Germany-Ralf Schumann
Silver: Russia-Sergei Poliakov
Bronze: Russia-Sergei Alifirenko

Swimming: Men's 1500m Freestyle
Gold: Australia-Grant Hackett (Olympic Record Time)
Silver: USA-Larsen Jensen
Bronze: Great Britain-David Davies

Swimming: Women's 4x100m Medley Relay
Gold: Australia (World Record Time)
Silver: USA
Bronze: Germany

Swimming: Women's 4x100m Medley Relay
Gold: USA (World Record Time)
Silver: Germany
Bronze: Japan

Swimming: Women's 50m Freestyle
Gold: Netherlands Inge De Bruijn
Silver: France- Malia Metella
Bronze: Australia-Lisbeth Lenton

Table Tennis: Men's Doubles
Gold: China (Lin Ma and Chen Qi)
Silver: Hong Kong (Ko Lai Chak and Li Ching)
Bronze: Denmark (Michael Maze and Fin Tugwell)

Tennis: Men's Doubles
Gold: Chile (Fernando Gonzelaz and Nicolas Massu)
Silver: Germany (Nicolas Kiefer and Rainer Schuettler)
Bronze: Croatia (Mario Ancic and Ivan Ljubicic)

Tennis: Women's Singles
Gold: Belgium-Justine Henin-Hardenne
Silver: France-Amelie Mauresmo
Bronze: Australia-Alicia Molik

Track & Field: Women's 100m
Gold: Belarus-Yuliya Nesterenko
Silver: USA-Lauryn Williams
Bronze: Jamaica-Veronica Campbell

Track & Field: Women's Discus
Gold: Russia-Natalya Sadova
Silver: Greece-Anastasia Kelesidou
Bronze: Belarus Irina Yatchenko

Track & Field: Women's heptathlon
Gold: Sweden-Carolina Kluft
Silver: Lithuania-Austra Skujyte
Bronze: Great Britain-Kelly Sotherton

Trampoline: Men
Gold: Ukraine-Yuri Nikitin
Silver: Russia-Aleksandr Moskalenko
Bronze: Germany-Henrik Stehlik

Weightlifting: Women's 75+kg (165+lbs)
Gold: China-Gonghong Tang
Silver: S.Korea-Jang Mi Ran
Bronze: Poland-Agata Wrobel

Weightlifting: Men's 85kg (187lbs)
Gold: Georgia-George Asanidze
Silver: Andrei Rybakou
Bronze: Greece-Pyrros Dimas

FINALLY GOT IT WRITTEN DOWN! Top 5 Nations in the Medal Count to come!

The Medal Count After Day number 8:

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 19G, 15S, 12b = 46
CHINA 18G, 13S, 10B = 41
RUSSIA 6G, 13S, 14B = 33
AUSTRALIA 11G, 6S, 10B = 27
GERMANY 9G, 7S, 11B = 27

Australia has set a new record for an away olympics....!

We have? Were we wearing our pants?

Welcome to day 9 of the XXVIII Olympiad in Athens!

Results at the moment are:

Baseball
Chinese Taipie defeats Netherlands 5-1
Japan defeats Greece 6-1

Basketball
Czech Republic defeats New Zealand 74-57 in Group B
Russia Dunks Nigeria 93-58 in Group A
Australia defeats Brazil 84-66 in Group A
Greece leads Japan 7-3 in the First of Group A action

Beach Volleyball
Men's Quarterfinals
Switzerland defeats USA 2 sets to love
Germany and Australia have just begun play

Women's Quarterfinals
Brazil(Ana Paula Connelly and Sandra Pires) defeats Brazil(Adriana Behar and Shelda Bede) 2 sets to 1

Field Hockey
Germany defeats S.Korea 3-2 in Pool B
New Zealand defeats Spain 3-2 in Pool A

Handball
Slovakia beats S.Korea 26-23 in Pool A
Croatia defeats Spain 30-22 in Pool A
France Beats Germany 27-22 in Pool B
Hungary and Greece have just begun play

Softball
Japan beats China 1-0 (China is eliminated
USA beats Australia 5-0
Japan and Australia have just begun the Bronze Medal Game

Volleyball
Germany Spikes Dominican Republic 3 sets to Love in Group B
Japan Spikes Kenya 3 sets to Love in Group A
China Spikes Russia 3 sets to Love in Group B
Italy and Greece are in progress with Italy up 2 sets to love and leading Set 3 14-9

Water Polo
Canada defeats Kazahkstan 11-4 in the Women's Final Classification 7-8

This Concludes this update!

Update of Day 9 of the XXVIII Olympiad:

Baseball
Cuba leads Italy 4-0
Canada and Australia are tied at 0

Basketball
Greece slips past Japan 93-91 in Group A

Beach Volleyball
Men's Quarterfinal
Australia beats Germany 2 sets to Love

Women's Quarterfinal
USA Beats Germany 2 sets to Love

Field Hockey
China defeats Argentina 3-2 in Pool A

Handball
Hungary beats Greece 26-22 in Pool B

Softball
Australia beats Japan 3-0 and will play Team USA AGAIN for the gold medal
Japan walks away with the Bronze Medal

Volleyball
Italy Beats Greece 3 sets to Love in Group A
Brazil Leads S.Korea 1 set to love and leads set 2 4-1

Water Polo
UPSET UPSET!!!! Greece beats Russia 7-4 and moves on to the medal Round! RUSSIA IS ELIMINATED!!!
Italy Defeats Hungary 8-5 and will take on Team USA in the Semi Finals

Greece vs Australia and Italy vs USA in the Semi-Finals

This Concludes this update!

HORRAY for Great Britain and it 5 NEW GOLD MEDALS

*watches Paula Radcliffe running, and wonders why shes crying*

Looks heartbreaking, whatevers up...

HORRAY for Great Britain and it 5 NEW GOLD MEDALS

Hummm I hate to break it to ya but they've only wone 5 Golds throughout the entire olympics!

The USA has won 20 so I guess I should Say Congratulations for USA and its 20 NEW GOLD MEDALS!

Or Congratulations China and its 21 NEW GOLD MEDALS!

Wait till the winter games, Canada will have it's revenge.. (I hope) *LOL*

The real dream team is the Iraqi soccer team.

The real dream team is the Iraqi soccer team.

tru dat alla

Wait till the winter games, Canada will have it's revenge.. (I hope) *LOL*
I'll laugh so hard if we dominate hockey....

Wait, do we play hockey in the winter games? I haven't followed the Olympics till this time.

Final Update:

Baseball
Canada Hammers Australia 11-0

Basketball
USA Dunks China 100-62 in Group B
Spain slips past S.Korea 64-61 in Group A

Beach Volleyball
Women's Quaterfinals
USA downs Canada 2 sets to love
Australia defeats Italy 2 sets to 1

Men's Quarterfinals
Brazil downs Switzerland 2 sets to love
Spain beats Canada 2 sets to 1

Field Hockey
Netherlands defeat Australia in Pool B

Handball
Russia beats Iceland 34-30 in Pool A
Brazil beats Egypt 26-22 in Pool A

Volleyball
Brazil Spikes S.Korea 3 sets to love in Group A
USA Blocks Cuba 3 sets to love

This Concludes this update! Medals awarded today coming up!

Medals Awarded today are as follows:

CYCLING: Women's Individual Pursuit
Gold: New Zealand-Sarah Ulmer
Silver: Australia-Katie Mactier
Bronze: Netherlands-Leontien Van Moorsel

DIVING: Women's 10m Platform
Gold: Australia-Chantelle Newberry
Silver: China-Lishi Lao
Bronze: Australia-Loudy Tourky

FENCING: Men's Team Epee
Gold: France
Silver: Hungary
Bronze: Germany

GYMNASTICS: Men's Floor Exercise
Gold: Canada-Kyle Shewfelt
Silver: Romania-Marien Dragulescu
Bronze: Bulgaria-Jordan Jovtchev

GYMNASTICS: Men's Pommel Horse
Gold: China-Haibin Teng
Silver: Romania-Marius Urzica
Bronze: Japan-Takehiro Kashima

GYMNASTICS: Men's Rings
Gold: Greece-Dimosthenis Tampakos
Silver: Bulgaria-Jordan Jovtchev
Bronze: Italy-Yuri Chechi

GYMNASTICS: Women's Uneven Bars
Gold: France-Emilie Lepenne
Silver: USA-Terin Humphery
Bronze: USA-Courtney Kupets

GYMNASTICS: Women's Vault
Gold: Romania-Monica Ruso
Silver: USA-Annia Hatch
Bronze: Russia-Anna Pavlova

ROWING: Women's Eight
Gold: Romania
Silver: USA
Bronze: Netherlands

ROWING: Men's Eight
Gold: USA
Silver: Netherlands
Bronze: Australia

ROWING: Women's Ltwt. Double Sculls
Gold: Romania-Constanta Burcica and Angela Alupei
Silver: Germany-Claudia Blasberg and Daniela Reimer
Bronze: Netherlands-Marit Van Eupen and Kirsten Van Der Kolk

ROWING: Men's Ltwt. Double Sculls
Gold: Poland-Tomasz Kucharski and Robert Sycz
Silver: France-Frederic Dufour
Bronze: Greece-Nikolaos Skiathitis and Vasileios Polymeros

ROWING: Men's Ltwt. Four
Gold: Denmark
Silver: Australia
Bronze: Italy

ROWING: Women's Quadruple Sculls
Gold: Germany
Silver: Great Britain
Bronze: Ukraine

ROWING: Men's Quadruple Sculls
Gold: Russia
Silver: Czech Republic
Bronze: Ukraine

SAILING: Women's Europe
Gold: Norway-Siren Sunby
Silver: Czech Republic-Lenka Smidova
Bronze: Denmark-Signe Livbjerg

SAILING: Laser
Gold: Brazil-Robert Scheidt
Silver: Austria-Andreas Geritzer
Bronze: Slovenia-Vasilij Zbogar

SHOOTING: Men's 50m Rifle 3 Pos
Gold: China-Jia Zhanbo
Silver: USA-Mike Anti
Bronze: Austria-Christian Planer

SHOOTING: Men's Skeet
Gold: Italy-Andrea Benelli
Silver: Finland-Marko Kemppainen
Bronze: Cuba-Juan Miguel Rodriguez

TABLE TENNIS: Women's Singles
Gold: China-Yining Zhang
Silver: N.Korea-Kim Hyang Hi
Bronze: S.Korea-Kim Kyung ah

TENNIS: Women's Doubles
Gold: China-Li Ting and Sun Tian Tian
Silver: Spain-Conchita Martinez and Virginia Ruano Pascual
Bronze: Argentina-Patricia Tarabina and Paola Suarez

TENNIS: Men's Singles
Gold: Chile-Nicolas Massu
Silver: USA-Mardy Fish
Bronze: Chile-Fernando Gonzalez

TRACK & FIELD: Men's 100m
Gold: USA-Justin Gatlin
Silver: Portugal-Francis Obikwelu
Bronze: USA-Maurice Green

TRACK & FIELD: Men's Hammer
Gold: Hungary-Adrian Annus
Silver: Japan-Koji Murofushi
Bronze: Belarus-Ivan Tikhon

TRACK & FIELD: Men's High Jump
Gold: Sweden-Stefan Holm
Silver: USA-Matt Hemingway
Bronze: Czech Republic-Jaroslav Baba

TRACK & FIELD: Women's Marathon
Gold: Japan-Mizuki Noguchi
Silver: Kenya-Catherine Ndereba
Bronze: USA-Deena Kastor

TRACK & FIELD: Men's Triple Jump
Gold: Sweden-Christian Olsson
Silver: Romania-Marian Oprea
Bronze: Russia-Danila Burkenya

Congratulations to all the medal winners! Updated Medal count to come! It will include the Top 5 nations as well as Canada and Greece! Any other national requests please Telegram me

Updated Medal Count after Day 9:

1. United States of America 21G, 21S, 15B = 57
2. China 22G, 14S, 10B = 46
3. Russia 7G, 13S, 16B = 36
4. Australia 12G, 8S, 12B = 32
5. Germany 10G, 9S, 12B = 31

Other nations
10. Great Britian 5G, 7S, 7B = 19
15. Greece 4G, 1S, 3B = 8
27. Canada 1G, 2S, 1B = 4

Welcome to Day 10 of the XXVIII Olympiad!

1st Update today:

Basketball
Spain blocks New Zealand 84-80 in Group A
Lithuania dunks Australia 100-85 in Group B
USA sidelines Angola 89-53 in Group B
Serbia and Montenegro continues China's woes by leading 43-37

Field Hockey
New Zealand beats Republic of South Africa 4-1 in Pool B
Spain beats Egypt 3-0 in Pool A

Handball
S.Korea beats France 30-23 in Pool B
Brazil leads China 13-11 in 1st Half

Softball
USA wins the gold by defeating Australia 5-1! Yes that is 5-1. Australia managed to score on USA.

USA wins the Gold, Australia the Silver and Japan the Bronze

Volleyball
France beats Tunisia 3 sets to 1 in Group A
Russia beats Italy 3 sets to 2 in Group B
Netherlands spikes Australia 3 sets to love in Group B
Poland Leads Argentina 2 sets to 1 and trails the 4th set 23-20

Water Polo
Germany and Australia tied 6 all in Group B
Croatia beats Kazakhstan 5-4 in Group A
Spain and Egypt have just begun play

This concludes this update!

Ok! This First before I move on to the next update which will be the next post here!

The first game of the Female Soccer Semi-finals is in the books.

USA took a 1-0 lead in the First half but in extra minutes at the end of the Second half, Germany struck tying the game at 1 all forcing extra periods!

In the First Extra time, O'Reilly knocks in the go ahead goal to make 2-1 and that is how the game ends.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Team USA will play for the Gold medal in soccer by defeating Germany 2-1 in Overtime! Good Job Team USA and hats off to Germany on a well played game.

The real dream team is the Iraqi soccer team.Go Irak!!! Go Irak!!!

*Places $300 bet on Paraguay*
*and $200 on an all South America Gold Game* :cool:

I'm glad they finally beat their arch-rivals, something they couldn't do in the World Cup. Although Hamm and Chastain bring big name recognition to the team, their presence on the team might actually be hurting the whole. Hamm is 32 and Chastain is in her late 30's. With the talent pool so large for the younger generation, there were players more deserving of being on the team. But as a last hurrah, getting to the Gold Medal game is wonderful. I just hope Sweden loses because they seem to have our number.

Now the rest of the update:

Basketball
China slips by Serbia and Montenegro 67-66 in Group A
Italy and Argentina are tied at 49 in Group A

Beach Volleyball
Women's Semifinal
Brazil defeats Australia 2 sets to Love
USA(Kerri Welsh and Misty May) Defeat USA(Holly McPeak and Elaine Young) 2 sets to love

Brazil(Behar/Bede) Will face USA(Welsh/May) for gold
Australia(Cook/Sanderson) will face (McPeak/Young) for Bronze

Men's Semifinal
Australia and Spain have just begun play

Field Hockey
Pakistan defeats Great Britain 8-2 in Pool A
S.Korea and Germany tied 2 all in Pool A
India and Argentina are tied 1 all in 2nd Half Pool B
Netherlands leads Australia 2-1 in 1st Half of Pool B

Hanball
China beats Brazil 28-23 in Pool A
Ukraine beats Hungary 23-22 in Pool A

Soccer
USA beats Germany 2-1 in Overtime to advance to the finals

Volleyball
Poland beats Argentina 3 sets to 2 in Group A
Serbia and Montenegro leads Greece 2 sets to 1 and is down 10-8 in Set 4

Water Polo
Spain beats Egypt 12-4 in Group B
Hungary beats Russia 7-6 in Group A

This Concludes this update!

Go Irak!!! Go Irak!!!

*Places $300 bet on Paraguay*
*and $200 on an all South America Gold Game* :cool:

I'll take this and place a 100 dollar bet on Iraq! Of course this is not real tender so its worthless :p

Lets go Iraq! Win the Gold for you homeland.

I'm glad they finally beat their arch-rivals, something they couldn't do in the World Cup. Although Hamm and Chastain bring big name recognition to the team, their presence on the team might actually be hurting the whole. Hamm is 32 and Chastain is in her late 30's. With the talent pool so large for the younger generation, there were players more deserving of being on the team. But as a last hurrah, getting to the Gold Medal game is wonderful. I just hope Sweden loses because they seem to have our number.

Well it should be underway by now! It is Past 900 PM Athens time!

Whoever USA plays, it'll be a good game to watch!

GO USA!

... Of course this is not real tender so its worthless :p
We could make it a kissing bet :D

We could make it a kissing bet :D

Then my bf will kill you! :D

Then my bf will kill you! :DWell...if he preffers to pay himself :fluffle:

:D :D

Well...if he preffers to pay himself :fluffle:

:D :D

HAHA!!!