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Aug 9 2008, 7:31 PM
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A True Fairy
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From: Greece
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Olympics are always special for Greeks, no matter were they are hosted. Being the birth-place of the Olympics, we are always hype for them. I am glad I saw my first, and only in my lifetime, home games in 2004. When the Greek team marched first in the stadium, we all jumped and cheered with our scarfs and flags. Funny though, the showed our exiled former king Constantine, now an IOC member, saluting the team instead of showing our political delagation. While this has raised commosion in Greece, I actually preferred it, rather than them showing our "dignity and honesty(as much as you saw it, I saw it ??: )" politicians. To actually feel the olympics, you should visit Olympia, about an hours drive from my place. That was were the ancient games were held. Last time I went there in 1994, they had the whole area with trash, but they renovated and cleaned it for the 2004 games. Actually, they hosted the weight-throwing events there, and it was a great scene and feeling, although I was in Athens at the time helping with the other events.
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SIKOSETO, TO TIMIMENO, THEN BORO, THEN BORO NA PERIMENO
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Aug 10 2008, 11:47 PM
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Mythix Fairy
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From: somewhere over the rainbow
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I know, Zhanneel, I want to go to an Olympic event sometime. But I doubt I will -.- Well, I got really close, I guess. I was in Beijing earlier this summer, and saw the Olympic Village. So like, if ever there was some way to bend the fabric of time or something, I could technically be there at the games ^^ ♥
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Aug 11 2008, 12:42 AM
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Cosmix Fairy
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From: Escaping the Matrix
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That's still pretty awesome that you got to go to Beijing at all! I'm jealous ^^. Looks like tonight it's gymnastics and diving: my favorites!! I love the sports that require you to contort your body into almost impossible shapes and twists, hence why I love these two! The Chinese are kicking major booty, as if we didn't know . But they so deserve it, they look awesome!
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Aug 11 2008, 4:19 AM
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Cosmix Fairy
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From: Escaping the Matrix
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The most I can do in diving is just let myself fall straight down into the water off the side of the pool. Any higher than that and I'll get vertigo =P.
In order to root for everyone's country on the forums, I'm going to attempt to name them all (based on current place of residence):
United States, Canada, Iceland (not sure I remember if they were in the parade...), Netherlands, England, France, Greece, Croatia, Russia, India, Singapore, Australia, Serbia
....oh, I know I'm forgetting some. The list looks a bit short. Anyone got a location to add? =)
Edit: Germany
Anywho, hope you're enjoying the Olympics!
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Aug 11 2008, 6:22 PM
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Cosmix Fairy
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Oh geez! I saw the men's relay last night. That's was so freaking close with the French! I felt really bad for the French men's team =(. I know they weren't saying such nice things about the US, but I almost wanted them to just have the spotlight for once against the US swimming. Either way, I was excited to see the US men win! Later in the evening I remember watching the Russian gymnasts and thinking "gosh, their flips are so clean and straight" and then announcers said that those girls were just not in the same league as the Chinese and US gymnasts. I guess to me the Russian girls looked amazing and I thought they would possibly parallel the Chinese, but I'm not a judge so I must not be seeing what they see. I really want to see the men's gymnastics too, but in the US they really only broadcast what they think Americans want to see. It's really biased. I'll probably have to catch it on the Olympics website. QUOTE (Tecna 01 @ Aug 10 2008, 01:42 AM) Yup.I know that Olympics is coming. But unluckily I dont have tv. I was thinking, since you have the internet (and maybe if it's a fast connection) you could watch some of the events on your computer. For the US we have nbcolympics.com which I'm sure you could use unless you have a better site you could watch them on. But that might be more of a hassle for you.
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Aug 11 2008, 6:55 PM
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Cosmix Fairy
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From: somewhere over the raiinbow
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Well here in Canada they show mostly Canadians only, but I guess if none of the Canadians are competing at the moment, or its like the finals of something, than they play something else, like how they showed the entire America beating China in basketball game. I heard there was some controversy in the mens gymnastics, like how there were judges of competing countries, so they gave the Canadian team low scores on purpose, making them finish 9th and not making it to the next round even though they deserved to.
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Aug 11 2008, 7:49 PM
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Cosmix Fairy
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From: USA
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OK, wow. Yeah, during all the games I've been watching, I've been torn on who to root for, because there's a tooon of countries represented on this forum...-_-" Except for the people from STL. There's, like, 6, even though 1 is from East St. Louis, but that still counts even though it's Illinois. @Zhanneel: Add the UK to the list!
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