<p>do any of you watch archery? it's not the coolest of sports but it's pretty fun to watch.. the koreans are darn good archers..</p>
<p>^ i watched part of it yesterday and heard the chinese crowd was not pleased... lol. i don't know why, but the koreans are just good at shooting stuff in general o_O</p>
<p>why are koreans good at shooting stuffs? tradition?</p>
<p>^ that seems sorta racist...</p>
<p>seriously though, michael phelps is incredible to watch in action</p>
<p>The 4x100 relay was amazing.</p>
<p>nah, I don't think its that racist, it is the truth. We tend to sweep archery and shooting. I have no idea why. o_O I think we just tend to focus on one thing... like in winter olympics everybody just focuses on speed skating.</p>
<p>Fa-la-la-lena, I think it's also awesome that the men's gymnastics team got Bronze. Their team was very diverse! They had a Russian guy (who barely made it on the team but owned at the pummel horse), an asian guy, an indian guy, and the rest were white.</p>
<p>Women's gymnastics got a silver..... kinda disapointing. I'm a big Alicia Sacramone fan and she just missed on some of her routines....</p>
<p>Alicia Sacramone is the greatest thing since sliced bread. So beautiful. Felt so bad for her when she fell, both times.</p>
<p>Even if Sacramone hadn't fallen, the US still would have gotten silver. 2 falls = 1.6, plus a few step out of bounds from her and the others on floor is around 2 points... and the Chinese beat the US by more than 2 points.</p>
<p>Nastia's bar routine was pretty much amazing.</p>
<p>Michael Phelps is THE greatest swimmer of all time. So far, he has won every contest in a record-breaking style! </p>
<p>I am very anxious to see Liu Xiang in the hurdle event. His name is even bigger than Yao Ming in China. I have heard that there are a lot of people in China who have no clue who Hu Jin Tao is, yet they are very familiar with Liu Xiang. </p>
<p>Oh, one more thing. I have noticed that Chinese news channels have China ranked as # 1 as they base their system on the total numbers of Gold won while Americans like NBC, Yahoo, and etc. have U.S.A ranked atop of China as their system is based on the total medal counts. :)</p>
<p>1,2,3,4, LET'S Go China!</p>
<p>What's everyone's opinion on the Chinese gymnast age controversey?</p>
<p>I think people need to stop being jealous that China's actually good at something.</p>
<p>Rutiene: "oh no you didn"
China's pretty much amazing at diving, gymnastics, ping pong, shooting, weightlifting (hard to imagine), etc etc. Who cares if that girl is not 16! If she is younger and thus more inexperienced than the older girls, she should actually get major props for being a brave kid out there winning GOLDS.</p>
<p>As for watching woman's gymnastics.. it wasn't too exciting watching the Chinese girls' faces... but damn, Liukin and Samantha are smokin hot! I'm sure most of u dudes were drooling watching the American girls (with the exception to the tiny one, no offense) running up the pommel horse in slow mo. Watching them step up to the podium, walking to the next event, doing floor exercises when the camera was behind them wasn't too bad either. :D</p>
<p>Anyway... Phelps is a god.</p>
<p>Liu Xiang is not bigger than Yao Ming.. Yao is bigger.. and he earned more than Liu last year..</p>
<p>and the ranking system is usually by the no. of golds won.. maybe the NBCs, Yahoo all know that China will win more golds than the US this time around..</p>
<p>Rich Hobo, being younger in gymnastics makes it easier, not harder. Younger girls have a different center of gravity, above the waist, rather than below the waist and they have a better strength to weight ratio. Not to mention that they may be too young to really understand how dangerous their tricks are. There's a reason for age rules. It puts the competition on an even footing.</p>
<p>One of the commentators mentioned something to the effect of "the older the gymnast, the more aware they are of the pressure and importance of their performance", while younger atheletes tend not to make as many nervous missteps.</p>
<p>The Chinese gymnasts are clearly underage. Anyone with eyes could see that those girls were not 16--the minimum age required to compete. The Russians and the Romanians have been doing this for years, but the Chinese atheletes were even more blatantly flouting the rule.</p>
<p>I don't dispute that the Chinese gymnasts were better (overall) than the American team, but they shouldn't have been competing in the first place. The age rules are in place not only to ensure even footing in the competition, but to prevent young atheletes from suffering severe and career-ending injuries.</p>
<p>Not only to prevent injuries but also to leave them some time to get an education. If you've reached that level of performance at 12 or 13 years old, you've spent A LOT of time in the gym. Maybe too much to squeeze in any education to speak of.</p>
<p>And did anyone else get a good laugh when you heard the proof of the gymnast's ages was their passports? As if those couldn't be falsified!</p>
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<p>I'd like for Liu to win, but given that Dayron Robles recently broke Liu's world record, it's not going to be easy for Liu.</p>
<p>"I think people need to stop being jealous that China's actually good at something."</p>
<p>Hahahaha.</p>
<p>Last night I had a dream about abused little Chinese girls being forced to do gymnastics all day. I just don't like the fact that since China won the gold it makes it okay to steal little 3 year olds from their homes and force them to become Olympians, and while making sure that they don't eat anything that would make them grow.</p>
<p>Kudos to the Chinese gals, but our US gals looked much healthier.</p>