<p>[2008</a> Beijing Summer Olympics | Alicia Sacramone Profile & Bio, Photos & Videos | NBC Olympics](<a href=“http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=622/bio/index.html]2008”>http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=622/bio/index.html)</p>
<p>[2008</a> Beijing Summer Olympics | Anna Willard Profile & Bio, Photos & Videos | NBC Olympics](<a href=“http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=1484/bio/index.html]2008”>http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=1484/bio/index.html)</p>
<p>I am a total fan of gymnastics. When I found out Sacramone attended Brown, I was like, "More the reason to go!" Haha...</p>
<p>meanwhile, stanford has over twenty times as many people going</p>
<p>elpope, i doubt stanford has 40+ olympians, but either way, anything having to do with another school isn't relevant to this thread</p>
<p>there are obviously several brown students and alumni in the Beijing olympics, i just highlighted two that seem to be getting a lot of media attention--Alicia Sacramone for being the leader of the women's gymnastics team and Anna Willard for representing the U.S. in a new olympic event</p>
<p>Alicia is an awesome, awesome girl. Not bad considering the Ivies are not considered a bastion of sports talent.</p>
<p>YouTube</a> - Alicia Sacramone - Throwing a punch</p>
<p>Alicia punching a drunk guy</p>
<p>hahaha, I was wondering if I should post that</p>
<p>olympic update</p>
<p>anna willard in today's boston globe
Willard</a> is drawing on her roots - The Boston Globe</p>
<p>alicia sacramone in today's new york times
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-OLY-GYM-Event-Finals.html?hp%5B/url%5D">http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-OLY-GYM-Event-Finals.html?hp</a></p>
<p>that punch would have been so much funnier if it was unplanned at fishco and not planned on the steps of Sigma Chi. </p>
<p>i think that guys name is Sam. I can't quite make out his face.</p>
<p>and what the hell is steeplechase?</p>
<p>steeplechase is like a horserace with people instead of horses lol.
3000m, with like 28 giant hurdles and every fourth one has a big pool (puddle) of water that they have to run through for what ever reason. I had no idea what it was till this week either, but it gives curling a run for its money in the dumb olympics dept. lol.</p>
<p>that's clearly Thete, not Sigma, notice the broken brown bench on the porch, and the fact that the building extends off to the side, which Olney does not.</p>
<p>Steeplechase is a long distance race where they jump over hurdles that often contain pools of water behind them, it's pretty intense.</p>
<p>YouTube</a> - 2007 NYPA Steeple Chase Water Pit, Runner Falls</p>
<p>There are plenty of videos of hilarious falls, but I tried to find one that showed more of the race.</p>
<p>^^oh, my bad my bad. tremendous apologies :)</p>
<p>alicia highlights
2008</a> Beijing Summer Olympics - Gymnastics | Athlete Photo Galleries, Event Photographs | Event Pictures | NBC Olympics</p>
<p>Alicia Sacramone <3 ::sigh::</p>
<p>i'm sorry, but that's an olympic sport how?</p>
<p>ClaySoul, how fast can you run a 5k in which you have to jump over 3.5ft hurdles with an 8 foot pool of water behind them?</p>
<p>despite the unideal performance, alicia appears to be the second most popular U.S. olympian after phelps</p>
<p>i wish she'd gotten bronze in the vault</p>
<p>I really wish I could hear the judges justify that the chinese girl falling during her vault was a better performance than Alicia's.</p>