Beijing 2008

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Lets discuss the games.
Is anyone watching the opening ceremony?

EDIT: Wow! the man running around the outside of the stadium was fantastic!

the opening was f*****g epic the light drums and the scroll

EDITED BY LOETKOE: Please, no swearing

No swearing please.

The opening was really a spectacle, amazing!

It was great!
The man running around the outside was just brilliant...

Some of the cotumes of the nations were a bit strange, but we have to respect their culture.

it's quite funny how they praise the Buddhist religion but back when the Buddhist movement started the Chinese rejected it and persecuted the Buddhists and they still do "free Tibet" and all that jazz

I expected the show to be great, but this was just awesome! I loved the part when all the Chinese showed us some high level Tai Chi I hope the Olympia will be a good one, enjoy it!

I dont care about Olympics. Just not interested.

I'm watching the gymnastics section now
South Korea keep falling off, they're having no luck.
Britain did well, but the best so far are, Belarus, Germany, China and Japan.

These games are going to be great!

Admin wrote:...These games are going to be great!

...Just hope the Munchen 1972 wont happen again...

I think we all agree with that, Waltsuh...

My favourite part of the ceremony?

BIG STOMPY FIREWORK SHOES OF DEEEAAAAATH.

and was it just me half expecting a nuke to go off?

Trilbydude wrote:I think we all agree with that, Waltsuh...

My favourite part of the ceremony?

BIG STOMPY FIREWORK SHOES OF DEEEAAAAATH.

and was it just me half expecting a nuke to go off?

What with the political problems over there, anything COULD of happened.

Two men had to be escorted out of the dressage arena for protesting against democracy.

First gold medal for Spain! looking forward to get some more... we wanna beat our 22 medals record (Barcelona '92)

about the opening, yeah, it was awesome. I was petrified... but we must not forget one thing: people around the stadium are living in a dump, in slums. The Chinese wants the "poor" people not to get close neither to the stadium nor to the places taken over by the media. They don't want to show China's hidden face.

Absolutely. they demolished houses to make the stadiums...

I was half expecting the Olympic chairman guy to suddenly say "Oh, and let's not forget about tibet."

he probably didn't because of the whole rhyme thing...

I hope there won't be any terrorist attack... for example in a final game of some sport.

Loetkoe wrote:I hope there won't be any terrorist attack... for example in a final game of some sport.

Just read in the newspaper that an American tourist got killed by a Chinese guy who killed himself after that

yeah, but things like that happen all the time. they're only publicizing it because of the games.

It's simple. The Olympics are the countries of the world coming together to participate in nearlly every sport.
It sohuld be left that way, but because of poilitics, democracy etc. It will never be that way.

True, unfortunately. the best we can hope for is a great games.

Yeah, but Britain have 1 medal!
It sucks, women's cycling we got it for

XD it's the BMX-ing I'm looking forward to.

That will be good, very surprised that's in the olympics, but then again, I think it should contain all sports.
Snooker, golf, Motor Racing (special Olympic cars)... Would be good

Admin wrote:...Motor Racing (special Olympic cars)... Would be good

Then i would have something to watch in olympics.

I think it would be great .

I'm currently watching basketball U.S.A vs China on eurosport

My money's on China.

They're winning everything else at the moment

USA are destroying them at the moment though, the score's:

56-41... 3rd period