Beijing Olympics 2008

[The Kraig]

Men's Judo:

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Watching live, Malek Mohammadi (Iran) just RAPED some Slovenian. He accidentally headbutted the guy, who then made a big deal about it, but once the fight was restarted he drove him down into the mat FACE FIRST with his entire body directly above him, while gripping his legs with his other arm nearly breaking his neck, and then he obviously had to flip over onto his back quickly before his head ripped off. Malek Mohammadi wins by ippon.

Was fucking insane. The Slovenian got up and seemed fine afterward, which is equally insane.

Upon reading it, my description of it is shit. Just find the replay.

Edited August 12, 2008 by The Kraig

[Zaz]

Womens Synchronised Diving spoilers

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And we win our first silver medal through Melissa Wu and Briony Cole. Woo!

Guess who won

Also, turns out quite a few of the fireworks in the Opening Ceremony had been pre-recorded, and some other parts were 'faked' as well.

Edited August 12, 2008 by Zaz

[GhostMachine]

So on the BBC website I just read that Baseball is gonna be replaced by Ultimate Frisbee at the London Olympics in 2012. That's brilliant news if it's true.

Squash should probably replace tennis too

Ultimate Frisbee makes about as much sense as Curling, which is in the Winter Olympics, despite not being a sport.

Personally, I think they need to add either Jacks, Shuffleboard, Hopscotch or Tiddleywinks for the 2012 games.

[TheTruth]

If hot dog eating is a sport, anything can be a sport.

[Timmoru Suzuki]

Not watched any of the Olympics until last night. I watched the highlights of the teenage kid doing Syncronished swimming, then watched the mens Judo final, which was quite enjoyable.

I'm vaguely interested in the wrestling and weight lifting, and thats about it now. There's other events I'd watch if the TV was on and I was lazy, like swimming I guess.

I read a report last night that Blake Aldridge, the guy who partnered the kid in syncronised swimming has pretty much blamed the kid for them coming last. I can't find the report again now, but it made him seem like a complete arse-hole.

Edited August 12, 2008 by timmayy Aaron XXIV

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Ugh my worst fear has been realised. We're stuck with the Greco-Roman Wrestling here in Japan. I don't even understand the sport but it looks a little homoerotic.

[Timmoru Suzuki]

I saw some of that live when the Commonwealth games were in Manchester. Can be fun, can be boring, depends fight to fight.

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

So on the BBC website I just read that Baseball is gonna be replaced by Ultimate Frisbee at the London Olympics in 2012. That's brilliant news if it's true.

Squash should probably replace tennis too

Ultimate Frisbee makes about as much sense as Curling, which is in the Winter Olympics, despite not being a sport.

Personally, I think they need to add either Jacks, Shuffleboard, Hopscotch or Tiddleywinks for the 2012 games.

Curling is a sport.

[IAceI]

Ultimate Frisbee is awesome. We played it for laughs with our Sports Studies teacher once and he was fucking amazing.

Edited August 12, 2008 by IAceI

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Ugh I wish I could have watched Emms/Robertson against the Chinese number 2 seeds in the mixed doubles badminton earlier. The final game was supposed to have been AWESOME.

Edited August 12, 2008 by ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster

[SilentBob2004]

Who saw the womens weighlifting earlier? Had the 'Unintentional Comedy Moment Of The Olympics' moment so far. A Chinese woman had to lift her weights for a gold medal, but if she failed she got nothing. She failed and fell to the floor crying her eyes out, then walked off to the backstage area still crying. She turns the corner into the backstage area to see her trainer, but as she goes round the corner she accidentally SMACK's her head on the wall, making her scream and cry even louder!

[Liam]

Who saw the womens weighlifting earlier? Had the 'Unintentional Comedy Moment Of The Olympics' moment so far. A Chinese woman had to lift her weights for a gold medal, but if she failed she got nothing. She failed and fell to the floor crying her eyes out, then walked off to the backstage area still crying. She turns the corner into the backstage area to see her trainer, but as she goes round the corner she accidentally SMACK's her head on the wall, making her scream and cry even louder!

She was Russian or Romanian, not Chinese. Was hilarious though.

And yeah Hammy, the Badminton was awesome.

[IAceI]

...At what point in time was that woman ever even remotely Chinese?

I'm at a loss for words if someone actually saw that and thought she was maybe Chinese.

[The Kraig]

Bwaha, it's on YouTube already!

[IAceI]

Complete with an amazingly unfunny Kraig quip in the comments section.

[Adam]

I thought she'd done it on purpose!

[The Kraig]

Complete with an amazingly unfunny Kraig quip in the comments section.

It wasn't supposed to be funny?

[IAceI]

Then just bad?

[The Kraig]

Just a well-suited caption.

[SilentBob2004]

To be honest, I was on the computer at the time, didnt pay much attention to the nationality but thought i saw a China flag next to her name. Oh well.