I liked the part when the blocks were moving together in like waves and patterns and symbols and things. And in the end people popped out of all of them. That was the best. And I think that they didn't waste all of the money. I think that they were just trying to become important on the world stage. That is very important to them.
The flying dude was pretty cool, but favorite part was when they were all in those columns and I thought it was all by computer but there were people in them lol
They spent over $100 million on the opening ceremony alone, and they have spent a grand total of $40 billion so far for the Olympic Games. If anyone wants to top the games in Beijing, they will have to spend over $40 billion, which few countires will be willing to do.
I missed the opening ceremonies, but USA has showed a lot of heart in the team events. The men's volleyball team was able to hold on against Venezuela the day after the coach's father was stabbed to death and wife was put in critical condition. I know very little about swimming, but I was getting pumped when USA came back to oust the arrogant French in the men's 4x100 free relay. They were 1 and half body lengths back to the best 100 meter freestyle swimmer in the world and an aging Lezak rode his wave to make a move in the last 50 meters. Then, the men's gymnasts were able to pull out a bronze medal with a completely new team since they lost their top 2 gymnasts. They really stepped up, and they had the Chinese and Japanese nervous at their own game. It was obvious how political the event was when the Americans had two flawless high bar performances that went for 15's when the Chinese had mediocre performances for 16's. Then, the soccer team played the best soccer ever from the 20th-85th minutes. They completely outplayed the Dutch, who were rated the best team in Europe going into Beijing. They come away with the tie, and if they beat Nigeria, win their group. I am also really pumped to see the 200 meter breast because I am family friends with one of the competitors. Although USA has the highest medal count, China leads in golds, but once track and field starts, China won't be able to hang. The olympics are so cool because for 3 years and 330 (or so) days I don't give a **** or know anything about gymnastics, swimming, etc, but during those couple weeks, I really get into it.
I noticed that too, and that is the exact reason why I prefer watching something like swimming as opposed to gymnastics. In swimming you either swim the fastest to win, or you don't. Although gymnastics are amazing to watch as the athletes do amazing flips and ****, I really hate watching the judges scoring. Canada's team got ****ing ripped off when it came to qualifying for gymnastics final. Some supervisor told the judges to lower Canada's score for some bullshit reason, putting Canada out of the final. Also, they did not give Canada's Kyle Shewfelt enough space for his floor routine, lowering Canada's score further. The coach was furious.
I just hope we win the olympics. I really love watching the volleyball, swimming, and gymnastics. I agree, the gymnastics was super biased. The announcer on that was REALLY annoying also. U.S.A. will catch up in golds when track and field starts, I agree.
Yes, I noticed how bad the announcer was too. I agree with you Troop on the other events. It is all about who can throw this the furthest, get the most points, be the fastest, etc, but it is still pretty amazing what they do. I also think the Chinese men are roiding and the Chinese women are underaged, but of course, can't prove anything.
LOL. I think most athletes are roiding. That Spanish guy who won the men's bike race failed the drug test. I'm sure there are many more.
Cycling has been ruined by performance enhancing drugs and of course, the departure of Lance. I used to be a huge fan that watched the event every day, but I never watched a stage for more than two days because of those two reasons. I'm also not a bandwagon fan, who only watched when Lance was around because I watched before and after his tour wins. Baseball has also gotten pretty bad because of them. I find it hard to watch any pro sport because of cheating and players only motivation is their next paycheck. I still watch and love the NFL and NBA, but the game just isn't the same anymore. The high school and college game is so much purer especially for players that don't have a future in the game because they leave it all on the field since it is their last game ever. Nothing is like the atmosphere at a division 2 or 3 rivalry football game. On topic, look at the Chinese women. They look like middle schoolers. The last one is the worst.
At least my favorite sport has yet to be contaminated by steroids, hockey. As far as I know. I don't see the need for hockey players to take steroids as it is all short bursts of energy and then a longer rest. It is really too bad that performance enhancing drugs have tainted sports in way that takes credibility away from the athletes.
Yes, but no one cares enough about hockey (other than you damn Canadians) to cheat :joker:. To keep this thread about the Olympics, my family friend, Scott Spann, is about to swim the 200m breast semi's.
I heard it was animated because it was too hard for China to the real thing. I lost a lot of respect for them when I heard that and the girl lip synching.
Holy crap! I am friends with an Olympic finalists. Scott Spann just got second in the 200m breast semi's. He got second to Kitajima, who has the world record, by .4 seconds. He has swam in my pool, and I trained him from a young age (I joke about the second part). Edit: Sorry about the double. I just got so pumped when it happened.
I liked the parts with the drum true, as log as that was not fake I am ok with it... This is the day I level up. To an ASKAR
Almost! Actually super, you are right and wrong. they spent more than $300,000,000 just on the opening ceremony, and then more than $200,000,000 on the actual olympics, such as building the birds nest and water cube. for a grand total of $600,000,000. or 600 million dollars. so much for making china rich, now they have like no money. at all.
^^^ LOLZ. Those numbers are way off. The Birds Nest Stadium would have costed way over $200 million alone. On the six main buildings, over $3 billion was spent, and that is only 6 of the 31 stadiums, not to mention the 59 training centres. Between infrastructure, energy, transortation, water-supply projects, ect... do you get how absurdly wrong your numbers are now? This was by far the most expensive Olympic Games ever, total costs coming to almost $41 billion in preparations.
They were well over 600 mil dude. Do you really think that much money would put a dent in their economy?
Yeah really, $600 million isn't that much for a country to spend.... LOL, how many billions in debt is the US...?