Summer Olympics 2004

[Rumpy]

Yeah, the mens relay was awesome. Track and Field events started today.

[Yoshi]

And the medal ass whipping has begun: USA 29, China 22. There are some other countries that don't matter that have a few too.

[Opaque]

Yeah, the mens relay was awesome. Track and Field events started today.

Sweet.

Anyone know where to find an easy to navigate list of the events and their times?

[child810]

For the few moments I've watched the only interesting thing was how fucking gay the announcer was during gymnastics. The guy reeeeealy loved gymnastics, and was very open with his criticisms.

[Rumpy]

Sweet.

Anyone know where to find an easy to navigate list of the events and their times?

nbc.com is your best bet. They have 3 or so of their channels (bravo and msnbc I think) showing stuff starting around noon. They should have a listing of all the events, results and times/channels for what they are showing.

[The_Meach]

Men's 100m Free.

Hoogenband comes back big down the stretch to out-touch the RSA guy for back-to-back 100 gold. Awesome.

Plus Thorpe w/the bronze! Say what you will about Phelps but Thorpe and Hoogenband are making great cases for themselves as the greatest freestylers ever.

[AstroBlue]

And the medal ass whipping has begun: USA 29, China 22. There are some other countries that don't matter that have a few too.

China is still comming first though, since it has 1 more gold. Not that "that" will matter in 8 or so days...


Ukraine has 5 Gold, that's awesome!

And Australia still punches WAY above our weight, so suck it!

[arjue]

we should divide medal total by population size to determine the winner.

And as for the swimming relay, we had a star swimmer swim with unhealed injuries, so if he was in good nick, BAM!

[Yoshi]

And Australia still punches WAY above our weight, so suck it!

Light weight.

we should divide medal total by population size to determine the winner.

It's the socialist Olympics, ladies and gentlemen!

[The_Meach]

The problem w/dividing medal totals according to population size?

Big countries, countries that would benefit from depth, aren't allowed to benefit from that depth. Why? B/c countries can't enter more than 2 participants per event.

If the US could send as many athletes as could meet the time standard...well...

Also, every gold won by a guy from Trinidad counts way more (using the population scale) than a gold won by a guy from Russia/China/US.

Oh, and how many top athletes train here?

The fairest thing to do is just count medals.