Let the Olympic Games Begin !!!!

[isawlogs]

I think he is part dolphin    Man can he swim .  8)

[pigman]

I watched a badminton match this morning. 8) They sure don't play like we do in the back yard. It seems they try to kill that poor birdie every time they hit it.

[Gary_C]

I watched a badminton match this morning.  They sure don't play like we do in the back yard. It seems they try to kill that poor birdie every time they hit it.

I sure wish I had seen the badmition matches. I used to play that indoor competition badminton and it is the toughest racket sport there is. That game can have a lot of deception and takes good racket skills as well as strong legs. A lot of fun.  8)

Also some of the world class athletes in other sports use badminton as a conditioning sport.

[SwampDonkey]

I can see Gary now, chasing that birdie and tipping it over the net.  :D :D

[asy]

I missed the viewing today :( all I managed to see was a few minutes in a shop on the TV there where the aussies got a gold for something.

Wish I'd seen it.

I did manage to see some of the Mens Gymnastics the other night and gosh was it AWESOME. :D

asy :D

PS: I love badminton too!!!  :D

[Tom]

Track and field is supposed to have started and ESPN has the contract.  I still haven't seen any of it.  I keep hunting on the TV, but it is being allusive. :-\

[Jeff]

I watched track events today on I think it was, cnbc. 100m qualifying  I think shotput is supposed to be on primetime nbc tonight but could be wrong.

It does seem like the track athletes are the ones that seem to swagger and the ones that get caught doping the most, at least that's how it seems to me from what I see on T.V.

[Dodgy Loner]

I don't have a TV at home, but I visited my folks this weekend and got a healthy dose of the Olympics .  A few things I learned:  1) Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympian ever.  I don't think there has ever been a human body more perfectly suited to swimming.  2) Usain Bolt is probably the fastest man to ever walk the earth.  He could have run a sub 9.6 in the 100 m dash if he hadn't started jogging with 20 meters to go .  I wish I could watch him in the 200 m final.  3) Shawn Johnson is my future wife, she just doesn't know it yet ;).

[WDH]

3) Shawn Johnson is my future wife, she just doesn't know it yet ;).

With a name like Shawn Loner, she might balk .

[Jeff]

He should take her name and be called Dodgy Johnson.  :D

[Radar67]

He should probably let her graduate high school first.  :D

[pigman]

Most people would say that Usain Bolt was way too tall to be a sprinter, but I suppose no one told him. That is what I like about track and field events, they don't weigh or measure the athlete, they just time or measure the outcome. My daughter was told in highschool by several that she was too small and skinny to be a sprinter and that she should be a distance runner, but when she to went to the state meet all comments stopped.

[Dodgy Loner]

He should probably let her graduate high school first.  :D

I'm in no hurry ;D.  Dodgy Johnson sounds pretty catchy, actually :D.

[WDH]

Whats that an anagram for?

[isawlogs]

  I am watching the closing ceromonies of the games .....  8) 8) 8)

  Gotta saye that the Chinese people can be proud of the outcome , sure was a pleasure to watch and have a look at there country and their culture during the games , sure they made a few things look better ... but hey its a step in the right direction I think 

[WDH]

I agree that it is a step in the right direction.  The Chinese people were very proud to host the games, and it showed.  I learned a lot more about China than I knew as a result of the exposure.  It is a nation with awesome potential. 

I see change in the wind as China moves headlong into the modern world.  They seem to be adapting and opening up to how the rest of the world does things without giving up their storied traditions.