The Olympics

[Dreamaniaccomic]

Did you know there's already been a protest against China's occupation of Tibet? Apparently, some guy climbed one of the huge poles outside the stadium and unfurled a HUGE banner protesting the above. He was arrested and detained without access to the U.S Embassy (Yeah, he was american) and then forced to return to the U.S.A on his own money.
Anyone know more of the details?

[Bustertheclown]

Did you know there's already been a protest against China's occupation of Tibet? Apparently, some guy climbed one of the huge poles outside the stadium and unfurled a HUGE banner protesting the above. He was arrested and detained without access to the U.S Embassy (Yeah, he was american) and then forced to return to the U.S.A on his own money.
Anyone know more of the details?

Couldn't care less about a hippie douchebag.

[McDuffies]

You'd care if you were from Tibet.

[Asarea]

YEAH go for GOLD ... 4x gold for Germany, that's the moment I start to get some olympic spirit ^^

But back to the thing with Tibet ... did the american sport stars care that much for the Tibet theme, too? In Germany the newspapers an journals were full of the discussion about showing their opinions to humans rights during the games.

[Bustertheclown]

You'd care if you were from Tibet.

I care about Tibet. I just don't care about the ineffective tactics of hippie douchebags with misguided morals and too much time and money on their hands.

[McDuffies]

True, climbing up a pole doesn't generally impress high state officials... Maybe he was intending to jump from the pole when some Chinese politician was passing and fall on him?

[Killbert-Robby]

He was just hugging it because it was reminiscent of a tree maaaaaaaaan

[Rkolter]

YEAH go for GOLD ... 4x gold for Germany, that's the moment I start to get some olympic spirit ^^

But back to the thing with Tibet ... did the american sport stars care that much for the Tibet theme, too? In Germany the newspapers an journals were full of the discussion about showing their opinions to humans rights during the games.

I don't know about the sports stars (and we have the guy with eleven gold medals - a new record. So nyah. ) But the media have mentioned it on a few occasions during newscasts about the olympics.

[Col]

It was quite refreshing to see the US men's gymnastics team celebrating over a bronze medal. I always find it frustrating when people look so depressed over not winning the gold. Come on! Silver or bronze is still a great accomplishment to reach in your sport that most people never get.

[Killbert-Robby]

Actually, people with bronze usually look happy enough

My reasoning:
If you got bronze, you've JUST made it. You almost didn't get anything. You've scraped though, you've tried hard, there you go.
If you've got gold, damn, you've won! You are NUMERO UNO

Its the silvers that look depressed. Because they just missed that gold.

[McDuffies]

When you get the bronze that means you've just won the last game. When you get silver, that means you've just had a chance at gold and you blew it.

[Rkolter]

It was quite refreshing to see the US men's gymnastics team celebrating over a bronze medal. I always find it frustrating when people look so depressed over not winning the gold. Come on! Silver or bronze is still a great accomplishment to reach in your sport that most people never get.

I'm with you on this. If I was the third best in ALL OF HUMANITY at something, I'd be thrilled beyond measure.

[Bustertheclown]

It was quite refreshing to see the US men's gymnastics team celebrating over a bronze medal. I always find it frustrating when people look so depressed over not winning the gold. Come on! Silver or bronze is still a great accomplishment to reach in your sport that most people never get.

I'm with you on this. If I was the third best in ALL OF HUMANITY at something, I'd be thrilled beyond measure.

Meanwhile, the women's gymnastics team gets silver, and are all crestfallen about it. That kind of pressure must be hard to take.

ALSO: The Romanians got bronze in the women's competition, and I didn't see ONE shot of the Romanian team in the broadcast. Fucking lame. I know that the Chinese/American story was the most important to us, but it would have been nice to spread the interest around the floor even a little bit.

[Ahaugen]

Did you know there's already been a protest against China's occupation of Tibet? Apparently, some guy climbed one of the huge poles outside the stadium and unfurled a HUGE banner protesting the above. He was arrested and detained without access to the U.S Embassy (Yeah, he was american) and then forced to return to the U.S.A on his own money.
Anyone know more of the details?

He knew the risks when he got the freaking visa to head to a country run by a totalitarian, one-party regime. he went there, willingly broke the rules, and they kicked him out. I have no sympathy

[Warofwinds]

Oh, the drama!

"Swedish Wrestler Ara Abrahamian throws away medal in Olympic hissy fit"

Underage chinese athletes?

American gymnasts hint of cheating?

And did you see the video of the weightlifter whose elbow dislocated mid-lift? AH!

[Cope]

And did you see the video of the weightlifter whose elbow dislocated mid-lift? AH!

I do not want to see that.

....

oh god, I'm gonna end up searching youtube for it, aren't I?

[Dreamaniaccomic]

Only if you think you will. I have successfully avoided watching Charlie the Unicorn despite hearing about it for the first time at least a year ago.

[Warofwinds]

Women's gymnastics tonight was amazing! I was riveted the whole time! It was refreshing to see them all being good sports about it at the end, though some of the judges' scoring was....rather arbitrary it seemed. Meh. A good ending! I wish they showed more than just the first group! In the background there was always more girls going through rotation, but we never got to see it

[Bustertheclown]

I wish they showed more than just the first group! In the background there was always more girls going through rotation, but we never got to see it

That's always the way I feel about it. It seems like this Olympics, U.S. tv has been pretty bad about not showing anything that was removed from U.S. or China in gymnastics. Yeah, they're the two big stories, but they could have cut away during some of the downtime.

By the way, I admit that I didn't even know she existed before yesterday, but I now officially have a crush on Nastia Liuken. U.S. gymnastics has always been so focused on little powerhouses in the past, it was awesome to see someone that graceful (and comparatively tall) win the gold.

Track and field starts tomorrow! I always hope they show the throwing and jumping events more than they do. I'm completely uninterested in the sprinting events, even though they're the big "glory" events.

[Warofwinds]

The kayaking was actually pretty cool. I didn't think it would be, but they made this awesome artificial course.

The archery was intense. I just wish I could remember all of these competitors' names. Meh.