Olympics

[xmetal2001]

All right, congrats mark phelps, he won the first gold medal for the US this olympics in the 400 meter

in other news, womens velleyball lost
good game girls
(yes I know many of them)

But luckily they aren't yet eliminated.

[Trick]

When's fencing on? I wanna see the stabby-stabby, missed it last olympics.

Sad when rythmic dancing and stupid crap like that get tv time over something as cool as two guys stabbing each other.

[xmetal2001]

I'm hoping to see lots of badminton and shooting! This is the only time when I get to see ANY of that stuff on TV.

[_tMAN]

yeah all the fun stuff is never on at normal times. I just want to see some dang soccer, badminton, fencing, and maybe some swimming.

[ryanshep]

im raelly looking forward to the race walking...anyone know when its on?

[DJBacon06]

Just heard her name on the news a few minutes after reading this post...Ooo shes being interviewed right now.

Is she in high school??? She looks college atleast.

She's not in high school anymore, she graduated this year. Bute yeah, that makes her a freshman in college.

[Bolter]

USA lost at Basketball to a South American team. By 20ish points. What happened?

or did I read that wrong?

[Dryden]

USA lost at Basketball to a South American team. By 20ish points. What happened?

or did I read that wrong?

Yup. Puerto Rico simply out played the USA. With as diverse as the NBA has become over the last 6 to 7 years, the rest of the world has just about caught up. The "me first" and fast break, slam dunk style that the USA NBA'ers play isn't going to cut it against other professional teams that play a team game. Just look at the 2002 World Championships for an example ... I mean ... the USA actually had to qualify to play in the Olympics.

I think the USA NBA talent is still the cream of the crop, but the team just isn't going to be competitive when we're merely sending the 3rd best or 4th best players from any NBA roster - AI being the obvious exception.

We should've just sent the whole Pistons team.

[taylor492]

Yup. Puerto Rico simply out played the USA. With as diverse as the NBA has become over the last 6 to 7 years, the rest of the world has just about caught up. The "me first" and fast break, slam dunk style that the USA NBA'ers play isn't going to cut it against other professional teams that play a team game. Just look at the 2002 World Championships for an example ... I mean ... the USA actually had to qualify to play in the Olympics.

I think the USA NBA talent is still the cream of the crop, but the team just isn't going to be competitive when we're merely sending the 3rd best or 4th best players from any NBA roster - AI being the obvious exception.

We should've just sent the whole Pistons team.

Yeah, Tim Duncan and Lebron James just plain suck

[sharpshooter1286]

eric vendt, who won the silver in swimming, went to my high school woot woot!