2012 Summer Olympics

great team work by us so far!!! gambare nippon!!!

ohhhhhh no ... we lost ... 3-1 T.T to mexico.... oh welll, very proud of our youth, they worked very hard, lacked concentration but a good tournament overall...

yuki otsu , kiyotake is for our senior team!!!!

YESS GO MEXICO

Ganso wrote:

Funkentelechy wrote:I know they lost on purpose lol and blatantly so

What?no they didnt........oh,who am i kidding

this is what i dont get, losing on purpose and getting in the right placement for favourable matchup happens all the time in other sports... but badminton gets punished, altho it was wayyyyyyyyy too blatant, but nature is the same, no?

not really saying spain definitely lost on purpose, but there would be suspicions, and it definitely happens in nba and nhl etc.

also.... what a sight today in 110m hurdle today, the massive chinese hero liu xiang, who won china's first athletics gold in 2004 athens, carried an injury to the game today, in the round 1 heat 6 run, he crashed into the first hurdle and hurt his heel (apparently broken and is getting surgery currently). he was in the tunnel already, but turned around to finish the race (kind of, obviously not over the hurdles) by jumping on one leg.....

i personally believe he just wanted to finish the race bcuz in 2008 he quit without taking a run, and there were chinese supporters furious with that decision. other runners helped him off after, some people thought he was faking on "chinese twitter" because he was under too much pressure to win in the final had he made it, but i believe that is bullshit, and it was very touching to see him finishing the race on one leg. HUGE respect

tonger wrote:also.... what a sight today in 110m hurdle today, the massive chinese hero liu xiang, who won china's first athletics gold in 2004 athens, carried an injury to the game today, in the round 1 heat 6 run, he crashed into the first hurdle and hurt his heel (apparently broken and is getting surgery currently). he was in the tunnel already, but turned around to finish the race (kind of, obviously not over the hurdles) by jumping on one leg.....

i personally believe he just wanted to finish the race bcuz in 2008 he quit without taking a run, and there were chinese supporters furious with that decision. other runners helped him off after, some people thought he was faking on "chinese twitter" because he was under too much pressure to win in the final had he made it, but i believe that is bullshit, and it was very touching to see him finishing the race on one leg. HUGE respect

yeah that was pretty emotional, thats what Olympic is about..

Doubled our Gold medal tally again! Sally Pearson and Anna Meares (beating Pendleton!) bringing it home.

Ganso wrote:

Funkentelechy wrote:I know they lost on purpose lol and blatantly so

What?no they didnt........oh,who am i kidding

You guys rallied great and clutched victory from the jaws of defeat.

Spoiler:

May-Treanor and Walsh-Jennings vs Kessy and Ross in the beach volleyball final

All American Final

BhritanniaBhlue wrote:May-Treanor and Walsh-Jennings vs Kessy and Ross in the beach volleyball final

All American Final

And Aly Raisman! What a boss! Destroyed the floor routine. And a bronze in the balance beam to boot.

Won our 3rd Gold in Wrestling as i said. in table we are at 12 now.

Women's Semi Final boxing today, Mary Kom vs Nicola Adams. Nervous.

*bleep* off Adams, Atleast another bronze.

FFs Ivan Zaytsev is so good for Italy....He's carrying them over USA at the moment.

China has 8 Gold Medals in Ping-Pong and 8 Gold Medals in Badminton FFS

HOW ARE THESE OLYMPIC SPORTS???

BhritanniaBhlue wrote:China has 8 Gold Medals in Ping-Pong and 8 Gold Medals in Badminton FFS

HOW ARE THESE OLYMPIC SPORTS???

actually 5 in badminton and 4 in table tennis. always wondered why people dont consider these sports....what do you definite as sports? something has contact? or something that america can compete in?

at least olympic comittee limits 2 entries per country in these programs, unlike swimming and track & fields where usa can throw on 20 people per program. i fail to see the logic in this.

Lol someone who says table tennis and badminton aren't real sports has obviously never played them, they are really physical demanding and it takes a lot of skill tbh.

tonger wrote:

BhritanniaBhlue wrote:China has 8 Gold Medals in Ping-Pong and 8 Gold Medals in Badminton FFS

HOW ARE THESE OLYMPIC SPORTS???

actually 5 in badminton and 4 in table tennis. always wondered why people dont consider these sports....what do you definite as sports? something has contact? or something that america can compete in?

at least olympic comittee limits 2 entries per country in these programs, unlike swimming and track & fields where usa can throw on 20 people per program. i fail to see the logic in this.

Zhao Yunlei 2 Golds
Tian Qing 1 Gold
Lin Dan 1 Gold
Cai Yun 1 Gold
FU Haifeng 1 Gold
Zhang Nan 1 Gold
Li Xuerui 1 Gold

Thats 8 gold, not 5.

Zhang Jike 2 Golds
Li Xiaoxia 2 Golds
Ding Ning 1 Gold
Wang Hao 1 Gold
Guo Yue 1 Gold
Ma Long 1 Gold

Thats 8 gold, not 4.

Also China had 17 athletes for Badminton...

It's actually 5 gold medals in Badminton, double winner do not count as 2 medals but 1, just like football winners doesn't count for 23 medals

Freeza wrote:It's actually 5 gold medals in Badminton, double winner do not count as 2 medals but 1, just like football winners doesn't count for 23 medals

By double winner you mean pairs?

BhritanniaBhlue wrote:

Freeza wrote:It's actually 5 gold medals in Badminton, double winner do not count as 2 medals but 1, just like football winners doesn't count for 23 medals

By double winner you mean pairs?

Yeah doubles is pairs, there is only 5 different competitions in Badminton, 3 of them doubles.

I see, well then I suppose I owe Tonger an apology - my mistake

Freeza wrote:just like football winners doesn't count for 23 medals

yes it does

no worries bhends

however as for amount of players entered per program is concerned, its 2 teams per event, such as 2 pairs allowed for women double, 2 pairs allowed for men double, 2 people allowed for women single and 2 people allowed for men single etc

kind of like how jordyn wieber got screwed over in gymnastics all around. if these sports put a limit on number of participants, then why not athletics and swimming?

Why has Spain basketball been such shite since Beijing?

tonger wrote:no worries bhends

however as for amount of players entered per program is concerned, its 2 teams per event, such as 2 pairs allowed for women double, 2 pairs allowed for men double, 2 people allowed for women single and 2 people allowed for men single etc

kind of like how jordyn wieber got screwed over in gymnastics all around. if these sports put a limit on number of participants, then why not athletics and swimming?

Im pretty sure swimming is capped?

I think its 2/3 swimmers per individual event