2008 Beijing Olympics

[shetuck]

Originally Posted by Buckeyeskickbuttocks

Doo!

Admin is suck!

Admin is dead!

Bry_an is a pr_ick!

[Bucklion]

Brother Fidel just knows that what the ref really told that guy is that it is impossible to win a football game without scoring a TD if the other team does...dude needed a boot to the head.

[Muck]

Originally Posted by KyleDawson

Castro defends athlete who kicked judge in face

Still an ass.

[tibor75]

Originally Posted by jwinslow

You're on quite a roll lately, accidentally epitomizing that which you're trying to mock.


Outside North America, Super Bowl XLII was distributed by the NFL and NFL International. Overall, the game was available to an estimated potential audience of one billion viewers within 223 countries and territories.

Venus Williams won in straight sets in two hours, a match that garnered a 2.5 rating, 8 share and 3.7 million viewers.

You're comparing the potential world audience for one event and the actual US audience for another?
Brilliant!

[MililaniBuckeye]

Originally Posted by tibor75

Proper comeuppance for an athletic nation that is so ignorant that it refers to professional sports championships as "world" championships. A nation that is so ignorant is calls the Manning brothers the most famous sports siblings.

Feel free to leave it any time, tent boy...

[jlb1705]

...Or we can just settle this debate the dignified way: by licking cookies.

Welcome to the Double Stuf Racing League - Venus and Serena Williams join the DSRL

[martinss01]

Originally Posted by Buckeyeskickbuttocks

Tibor roots for the "unexpected" with a special inclination for the failure of the favorite. Just a hunch.

couldn't disagree more. from what i have seen tibs doesn't seem to care much who the favorite is. i say this because there were multiple instances where the heavy favorite was not an american, was beaten, and tibor didn't even seem to realize it happened. leezak beating out barnard for example. or the us women's 8's winning in rowing beating the heavily favored aussies who had won the last 4 in a row. they ended up taking bronze btw. the chinese hurdler who couldn't compete due to injury. or just imagine for a moment the boyish glee he would be posting with right now if there were some form of controversy in which shawn and nastia might have to forfeit their medals instead of the chinese women. you honestly think he would have been as hands off over that story as he has been with the chinese girls?

tibs posts are directed toward the audience, not the athlete. if this were a brazilian soccer forum tibs would be going ape [censored] about how the brazilian women's beach vball didn't even make it to the medal round. or that dalhauser and rogers whipped the brazilian men's ass. the brazilians were 5-2 against them going into the match.

tibs is a troll, and a rather pathetic one at that. reading a tibs post is akin to watching the same tampon commercial 10 times inside of 30 minutes during a football game. it doesn't really generate any negative emotions and to be honest, it did amuse me the first few times. but now? its just kinda... why?

Originally Posted by shetuck

I meant ironic in the sense that we suspect that they're cheating. So what do we do? We hack into their computers.

haven't followed the story too closely. but im guessing that at some point the chinese made that information public knowledge by providing it for official review to allow the gymnasts to compete. any actual hacking probably occurred to make sure what was on public record matched what the chinese provided originally. i suppose you could say we shouldn't have hacked their records to verify. but with the absence of a true world court it is impossible to subpoena records or obtain a search warrant. so im not certain what other options are available.

Originally Posted by tibor75

Getting 10 more medals and about 15 fewer golds isn't a medal victory.

so... your saying getting 10 more medals does not equate to a "medal" victory? interesting, any chance you could explain to me how a medal victory works then?

Proper comeuppance for an athletic nation that is so ignorant that it refers to professional sports championships as "world" championships. A nation that is so ignorant is calls the Manning brothers the most famous sports siblings. Venus and Serena anybody? Don't they actually play a sport that the world cares about?

not to my knowledge, no.

[jwinslow]

not to my knowledge, no.

[Flocka]

Originally Posted by tibor75

Proper comeuppance for an athletic nation that is so ignorant that it refers to professional sports championships as "world" championships. A nation that is so ignorant is calls the Manning brothers the most famous sports siblings. Venus and Serena anybody? Don't they actually play a sport that the world cares about?

Stupid Americans. They are the same people who don't even realize Anika Sorenstam is a better athelete than Michael Jordan ever was.

[jwinslow]

Looks like my numbers were a bit off from my first source.

It was because of this pent-up rivalry, and the fact that this match became the longest recorded match in Wimbledon men’s history, that it gained a peak of 12.7 million television viewers worldwide and TV presenters, such as John McEnroe reporting for NBC, became as emotional as the players and viewers

Started off with 2 million viewers, grew to 13 thanks to the rain delay and competition.

Super Bowl XLII drew in about a billion international viewers.

The game earned the record for total viewership as 148.3 million watched all or part of the contest, supplanting the 144.4 million that eyed Super Bowl XXXVIII on CBS in 2004, the Patriots’ 32-29 win over the Carolina Panthers

150 in US. 850 million outside the US.

But don't let that stop your tennis smack

On a sidenote

Super Bowl XLII came up second to the M*A*S*H series finale, which averaged 105.9 million viewers for CBS on Feb. 28, 1983. At its peak during the fourth quarter, the game was even closer to the Alan Alda series, averaging 105.7 million from 9:30 p.m. through 10 p.m.(ET)

[JCOSU86]

Originally Posted by martinss01

couldn't disagree more. from what i have seen tibs doesn't seem to care much who the favorite is. i say this because there were multiple instances where the heavy favorite was not an american, was beaten, and tibor didn't even seem to realize it happened. leezak beating out barnard for example. or the us women's 8's winning in rowing beating the heavily favored aussies who had won the last 4 in a row. they ended up taking bronze btw. the chinese hurdler who couldn't compete due to injury. or just imagine for a moment the boyish glee he would be posting with right now if there were some form of controversy in which shawn and nastia might have to forfeit their medals instead of the chinese women. you honestly think he would have been as hands off over that story as he has been with the chinese girls?

tibs posts are directed toward the audience, not the athlete. if this were a brazilian soccer forum tibs would be going ape [censored] about how the brazilian women's beach vball didn't even make it to the medal round. or that dalhauser and rogers whipped the brazilian men's ass. the brazilians were 5-2 against them going into the match.

tibs is a troll, and a rather pathetic one at that. reading a tibs post is akin to watching the same tampon commercial 10 times inside of 30 minutes during a football game. it doesn't really generate any negative emotions and to be honest, it did amuse me the first few times. but now? its just kinda... why?

Best description of him I've read on this forum. GPA

[jlb1705]

reading a tibs post is akin to watching the same tampon commercial 10 times inside of 30 minutes during a football game. it doesn't really generate any negative emotions and to be honest, it did amuse me the first few times. but now? its just kinda... why?

[ScriptOhio]

China's gold medal gymnasts are in the clear. Its team that won the bronze medal eight years ago, however, still faces questions.
International gymnastics officials on Wednesday closed their 5?-week investigation into the ages of the Chinese gymnasts at the Beijing Olympics, saying the documentation provided confirms they were old enough to compete. But the 2000 squad remains under scrutiny, particularly Dong Fangxiao and Yang Yun.
"The FIG does not consider the explanations and evidence provided to date in regards to these athletes as satisfactory," the International Gymnastics Federation said in a statement.
Dong got a Beijing Olympics credential with documents that suggest she was only 14 in 2000, said Andre Gueisbuhler, secretary general of the FIG. Her blog also indicates she was underage in Sydney.
Yang, who also won a bronze medal on the uneven bars in 2000, said in a June 2007 interview that aired on state broadcaster China Central Television that she was 14 in Sydney. Gymnasts must turn 16 during the Olympic year to compete.
"It will probably still take awhile before we can unravel all the legal" matters, Gueisbuhler said. "We have the [statute of limitations], and you have applicable law is also a factor."
Doubts about the ages of China's current gymnasts swirled for months before the Beijing Olympics, with media reports and online records suggesting some girls could be as young as 14. Three days before the games ended, the International Olympic Committee asked the FIG to look into the matter one last time.
The investigation was expanded after questions were raised about the 2000 team.
"We did not have another choice," Gueisbuhler said last week. "If we want to remain credible, then we have to look into things."

Entire article: ESPN - 2008 Chinese gymnasts cleared, but 2000 team eyed - Gymnastics