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Two great photo collections. The first one is general highlights, the second is pretty girls.

http://stuff.thdesign.be/forum/varia/OS.html

http://www.stern.de/olympia2008/foto...ia/635404.html

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08-25-2008 , 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Perplexity

Two great photo collections. The first one is general highlights, the second is pretty girls.

http://stuff.thdesign.be/forum/varia/OS.html

OMG. Midway through, that weightlifter in the green...his right arm...yikes.

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08-25-2008 , 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Uncle Wimp

When the runners went by Tianamen Square, the Canadian announcer brought up the 1989 uprising and said more than 100 protesters were killed. Did NBC say anything like that or reference China's civil rights history? If they did, I missed it.

Not during the marathon. I don't recall NBC really mentioning anything political (not related to gymnastics scoring obv). I think that even ESPN mentioned more civil-rights-in-China things than NBC did, and that's really not ESPN's normal spiel.

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08-25-2008 , 11:55 AM

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Not during the marathon. I don't recall NBC really mentioning anything political (not related to gymnastics scoring obv).

Unless you count Costas grilling President Bush in an interview when Bush apparently thought he'd be chit chatting about sports.

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08-25-2008 , 12:38 PM

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Unless you count Costas grilling President Bush in an interview when Bush apparently thought he'd be chit chatting about sports.

I missed that one; didn't watch all of the marathon.

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08-25-2008 , 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Quicksilvre

I missed that one; didn't watch all of the marathon.

the interview with Bush wasn't during the marathon.

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08-25-2008 , 12:51 PM

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When do I get my gold medal for dominating the total posts in this thread?

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08-25-2008 , 01:43 PM

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wow this too
http://olympicgirls.net/

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08-25-2008 , 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Fermion5

the interview with Bush wasn't during the marathon.

Oh. Well...no harm done then

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08-26-2008 , 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Kevmath

Sevens rugby is one of the sports that could be added to the 2016 games (along with baseball, softball, karate, roller sports, golf, and squash).

They are thinking about adding softball and baseball just after they removed it??

makes sense i guess...

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08-26-2008 , 05:48 AM

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They're trying to get back on. Sounds like it's a long shot. Softball is all upset because they think they've been lumped in with baseball, which has been lumped in with general foreign disfavor at America over Iraq. Also the fact that until Japan this olympics, they crush the competition so badly.

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08-26-2008 , 08:20 PM

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I don't understand the argument that softball isn't just baseball for women. From what I can tell, that's exactly what it is. I don't see why softball should be any less associated with baseball than the heptathalon is with the decathalon.