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08-16-2004, 04:30 PM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
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Olympic Coverage
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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I don't know why they even talked about it. He never had a chance.
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My guess is that he was as far from track and field doping scandals as they could find, and they needed some hero for this Olympics. He qualified for the most competitions, so he got the "Next Spitz" mantle. They give it every year.
The only "next Spitz" this year is Jenny Thompson, who is only one medal behind Spitz (and Matt Biondi) for swimming. This is her fourth Olympics, and she's the most decorated female athlete we've ever had at the Olympics. She took two years off after Sydney to go to Med School, and she doesn't seem to have suffered for it.
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08-16-2004, 04:38 PM
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#4082
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Moderator
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Olympic Coverage
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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The only "next Spitz" this year is Jenny Thompson, who is only one medal behind Spitz (and Matt Biondi) for swimming.
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I'm all for Jenny, but it's remarkable that she has yet to win a gold medal individually. |
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08-16-2004, 04:39 PM
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#4083
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Random Syndicate (admin)
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Olympic Coverage
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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I'm all for Jenny, but it's remarkable that she has yet to win a gold medal individually.
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I know. I think her best hope was the 100m fly. I think she took the world championship last year in that event, but somehow she couldn't do it this year. She does still have the 50m free.
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08-16-2004, 04:44 PM
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#4084
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Registered User
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Olympic Coverage
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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I know. I think her best hope was the 100m fly. I think she took the world championship last year in that event, but somehow she couldn't do it this year. She does still have the 50m free.
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"You're forgetting what the Olympics are all about : giving out medals of beautiful gold, so-so silver and shameful shameful bronze."
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No no no, that's not gonna help. That's not gonna help and I'll tell you why: It doesn't unbang your Mom.
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08-16-2004, 04:49 PM
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#4085
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halfsharkalligatorhalfmod
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Random Thoughts on the Olympics
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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Norway has many beaches. I was serious. Why wouldn't they have a beach volleyball team?
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More importantly, when they look like that, why does it matter? I'm just happy that they do.
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08-16-2004, 04:53 PM
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#4086
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halfsharkalligatorhalfmod
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Olympic Coverage
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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
[Long post, so skip if you don't want to read an Olympic-sized rant.]
Okay, I'm sick of this shit. Every year it gets worse. The Olympics needs to form a subsidiary that handles all of the Olympic Coverage. NBC fucking sucks large, not-female-beach-volleyball ass.
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The olympics PPV for the Barcelona games was incredible. Unfortunately, I think that we were the only household that ordered it.
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08-16-2004, 05:01 PM
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#4087
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Cocteau?
"You only get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity so many times."
-- Steelers CB Ike Taylor on starting Saturday's game against the Lions
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No no no, that's not gonna help. That's not gonna help and I'll tell you why: It doesn't unbang your Mom.
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08-16-2004, 05:01 PM
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#4088
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Livin' a Lie!
Join Date: May 2003
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Olympic Coverage
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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I'm curious if they will use the story about the U.S. woman swimmer (I think)* who killed her boyfriend and a teenager in an auto accident several months ago and who will be serving a jail sentence after the Olympics and how the kid who she (accidently) killed's family doesn't think that she should be allowed to delay her jail sentence until after the games. Maybe that one isn't uplifting enough.
*ETA: just remembered it is a U.S. woman synchronized swimmer.
EATA: here's a story about her: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5196638/
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Thaaaat's OK. We've only seen her every 60 seconds on Sports Center. |
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08-16-2004, 05:06 PM
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Apathy rocks!
Join Date: Apr 2003
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Speaking of the Olympics
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Originally posted by sunnybunny
I have sworn up and down that I keep seeing Kerri Strug (the gymnast who landed on one foot, to clinch the women's team gold or somethign like that) on the streets of D.C. around my office. I'd point her out and people would say "nah, that's not her.
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She was on a recent episode of Trading Spaces too!
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08-16-2004, 05:11 PM
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Flaired.
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Speaking of the Olympics
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Originally posted by Anne Elk
She was on a recent episode of Trading Spaces too!
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And who can forget her heartwarming appearance on 90210? |
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08-16-2004, 05:14 PM
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#4091
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World Ruler
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Speaking of the Olympics
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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
And who can forget her heartwarming appearance on 90210?
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bilmore?
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08-16-2004, 05:17 PM
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#4092
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Registered User
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If Costanza can learn Portuguese...
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No no no, that's not gonna help. That's not gonna help and I'll tell you why: It doesn't unbang your Mom.
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08-16-2004, 05:20 PM
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#4093
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Speaking of the Olympics
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Originally posted by Anne Elk
She was on a recent episode of Trading Spaces too!
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I didn't think I could do it, but then I tried really, really hard and I DID IT!
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08-16-2004, 05:22 PM
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#4094
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Hello, Dum-Dum.
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Signs that Slave was the inspiration for "Lathe of Heaven."
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08-16-2004, 05:26 PM
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#4095
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Hello, Dum-Dum.
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What do you call a woman with no arms and no legs in an airport? The plaintiff.
ETA: "A head, one bottom and a torso cannot possibly fly on its own."
--- Soon-to-be fired Air France employee |
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