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08-07-2012, 05:01 PM
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Re: Rafachat - vol. 79. Worst Olympics ever - onto USO :rocker2:
What happened?
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08-07-2012, 05:03 PM
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Come on, Ernest!
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Re: Rafachat - vol. 79. Worst Olympics ever - onto USO :rocker2:
I know, Hema  Apparently you didn't read back very carefully today 
star, they lost 15-21 20-22.
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08-07-2012, 05:11 PM
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08-07-2012, 05:36 PM
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08-07-2012, 05:38 PM
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Re: Rafachat - vol. 79. Worst Olympics ever - onto USO :rocker2:
knew that attention whore O'Sullivan would come back
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08-07-2012, 06:00 PM
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Re: Rafachat - vol. 79. Worst Olympics ever - onto USO :rocker2:
with the Chinese, blame the Beijing OG.
As the host country has a team qualified in every discipline they started to conscientiously learn any sport they werent so proficient in. i suspect the results in some sports just show up 4 years later.
As about the focus on the gold medals, i can speculate that's a communist habit. It was the same in Romania before 1989. Even I can say about myself that it took me a lot of time to start to appreciate the other medals too 
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08-07-2012, 06:05 PM
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with the Chines, blame the Beijing OG.
As the host country has a team qualified in every discipline they started to conscientiously learn any sport they werent so proficient in. i suspect the results in some sports just show up 4 years later.
As about the focus on the gold medals, i can speculate that's a communist habit. It was the same in Romania before 1989. Even I can say about myself that it took me a lot of time to start to appreciate the other medals too |
And there are things you can admire even outside of the medals.
The U.S. vaulter who came in 4th or 5th, did a super vault and stuck the landing. But, then he cheered and congratulated everyone who came after him and surpassed him. It wasn’t just a minor congratulations either, it was warm and enthusiastic. I was proud he was on the u.s. team just for that.
The Korean’s vault was amazing. |
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08-07-2012, 06:07 PM
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The high jump always has the hottest men 
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08-07-2012, 06:09 PM
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And there are things you can admire even outside of the medals.
The U.S. vaulter who came in 4th or 5th, did a super vault and stuck the landing. But, then he cheered and congratulated everyone who came after him and surpassed him. It wasn’t just a minor congratulations either, it was warm and enthusiastic. I was proud he was on the u.s. team just for that.
The Korean’s vault was amazing.
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What are you saying? 
We had the show our superiority over the vile imperialists, that's what the Olympics were for 
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08-07-2012, 06:17 PM
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What are you saying?
We had the show our superiority over the vile imperialists, that's what the Olympics were for |
And you did a good job. |
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08-07-2012, 06:17 PM
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Re: Rafachat - vol. 79. Worst Olympics ever - onto USO :rocker2:
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with the Chinese, blame the Beijing OG.
As the host country has a team qualified in every discipline they started to conscientiously learn any sport they werent so proficient in. i suspect the results in some sports just show up 4 years later.
As about the focus on the gold medals, i can speculate that's a communist habit. It was the same in Romania before 1989. Even I can say about myself that it took me a lot of time to start to appreciate the other medals too |
Well I read some Americans on another forum complaining that NBC's neglect of the silver and bronze medalists was deplorable. 
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Re: Rafachat - vol. 79. Worst Olympics ever - onto USO :rocker2:
womens 100m HURDLES
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08-07-2012, 06:17 PM
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Andreea the TURK ?
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08-07-2012, 06:19 PM
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Well I read some Americans on another forum complaining that NBC's neglect of the silver and bronze medalists was deplorable. |
Even some gold medal winners!
It’s hard to know with NBC what they are going to show or not show. Sometimes they show something so obscure — where the U.S. isn’t even involved.
Did get to see the Romney horse tho.
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08-07-2012, 06:19 PM
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she wasnt in SF 1 there
i'm thinking she must be in SF 2, in 10 minutes time
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Rafachat - vol. 79. Who cares about the AO? SA slam to start very soon! Bamos!
