She sort of hides it behind sunglasses when playing, so the ass is enough.

See, I think that the US played their best game of the tournament here. Yeah they gave up 11 shots in the first half, but watching the game you see that most of those shots were contested rips from 25+ yards out. Nothing to be ashamed of.

Nigeria got two good chances in the run of play (outside of the final few minutes when it was do or die) and they put both home. I wish we could've seen a true 11x11 game with both teams at full strength (we were both missing two starters to yellow accumulation). I think it could've been one of the most exciting games of the tournament with the way both teams were playing and attacking.

Yeah its pretty easy to dominate when you're playing a man up against a team that doesn't have a true defender on one side of the field. the US played well especially in the 2nd half. If Parkhurst doesn't slip and fall twice who knows what happens

Guys don't delude yourselves. Nigeria are and were a way better side than the USA.

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1. China 17 Gold 5 Silver 5 Bronze 27 Total
2. -USA 10 Gold 8 Silver 11 Bronze 29 Total
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lol @ 17 out of 27 being Gold...

Do you think China will win most Gold this olympics?

No track and field hasnt even started and they suck at that...USA will have most medals and most golds mark my word...

Looking fwd to track starting this weekend and seeing Jeremy Wariner win again hopefully and more US sprint domination. 100 m men's should be siiiick (if Tyson Gay is healthy).

well China does have the defending men's 110m gold medalists.

Synchronized diving is the lamest thing ever, why would anyone ever take this up?

I suppose if you are into diving and you can't make the individual diving team, you go to the B Team diving event.

in general sure, but when they nail a dive it looks pretty badass

The real question, is why is diving being shown in the prime time slot? NBC could show anything they want here, but they show just about the worst thing they could show. I'd rather watch handball (and I think handball is lame).

Man NBC is just pulling out all the soft interest filler stories tonight.

These Norwegein chicks are really happy after every point.

Yeah, it seems completely speculative to extrapolate how a 11-on-11 game would have been based solely on Nigeria's dominance while a man up.

As mentioned upthread, the USA played Altidore at LM and Rogers at LB after the red card. Both were forced to defend when they are probably used to focusing on attack 90+ percent of the time. Not sure why Nowak never took out Kljestan -- even my sister and her fiance (neither of whom follow soccer) could tell that he was by far the worst player on the field with all the giveaways and poor tackling.

Also not sure why Nowak didn't choose to attack sooner. At worst, the USA could have drawn even more fouls and gotten more set piece opportunities. Very disappointing that they couldn't bury one of the open headers.

The crowd was actually very pro-Nigeria in the first half, and actually started booing Guzan for his constant time-wasting. But once the USA equalized, they had switched sides and totally rooting for an equalizer.

Second game between Argentina and Serbia was quite amusing. Instead of watching the match, every few minutes the 48,000 or so Chinese fans would either chant "Messi! Messi!" (who was on the bench) or start the Wave. Or as folks outside the USA call it, the Mexican Wave. The Chinese are evidently obsessed with the Wave. It seemed like a complete novelty to them.

Biggest pops from the crowd were when Messi or Kobe appeared on the video scoreboard.

Apologies if this was already posted:
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer...ory?id=3532682

The story is so bad, it's almost like you are reading The Onion.

It doesn't get any better than this:

"We have great respect for the Far East and its people, some of my best friends in Toronto are originally Chinese, including one of our sponsors, the brand Li Ning," Calderon wrote.

This is just too hilarious... from here: http://rhog.blogspot.com/2008/08/olympic-fail.html

....I don't think so. In fact, it looks incredibly difficult and definitely takes some special training and a keen eye for mistakes. I wonder how a guy would get into it though, but I thoroughly appreciate the women's sport.

I think the judging is flat out horrible though, usually it all works out that the best team wins in the end, but from routine to routine it's incredibly inconsistent, I have no idea how they prevent partisanship.

If Phelps wins a silver medal does he just like throw it in the trash?

One of the announcers commented at some point that the Chinese synchronized divers are often former gymnasts. Presumably non-world-caliber gymnasts). It would seem like something you can transition to if you're not quite finishing first in some similar event.

Anyone watching Spain vs Germany B-Ball right now? Spain making a good run.

22-3 run for Spain tee hee

Wow Espana esta en fuego!

Frriggin UK newspapers (they were who brought this up), they've had a thing for Spain since a few years back and are ready to point at the silliest thing as soon as they can. Effin hypocrits

imagine the value if he sells it, owning michael phelps olympic medal from the epic chinese olympics would be worth insane much