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Would you want to be in a bikini when it's only 55-60 degrees? Scratch that thought........Roadie in a bikini........<shudder>

From what I read on the BBC, the ticket issue is even perplexing to the Brits. It sounds like they are blaming the IOC and their system for allotting tickets. The same empty seats were seen in Beijing, Athens and Sydney. I know a ton of US fans were doing 1 day flights to places like Spain and Portugal to get Olympic tickets. You had to get them in person quite literally in convenience or grocery stores oddly enough. If you went to like Madrid you could get tix for equestrian events and table tennis but if you hopped another plane to Barcelona you could get tix there for events like crew and archery. So they were flying over there, buying the tix then flying back home while playing hookey from work for 2 days. The original thought was to call a friend in the UK to get tix but even the folks in the UK had no way of getting tix for themselves...........maybe that's why so many people turned out for the cycling road races, no tix needed for that.
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Old 07-31-2012, 10:01 PM
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Would you want to be in a bikini when it's only 55-60 degrees? Scratch that thought........Roadie in a bikini........<shudder>


... is the lipstick too much?
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Old 08-01-2012, 08:50 PM
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Oh geez........oh the humanity, Badminton of all sports just had a major scandal break yesterday evening and today it really broke loose. 8 players were DQ'ed after intentionally trying to throw their matches. This is starting to turn into a very memorable 30th Olympiad. I loved the Chinese coaches excuse, "Bad day," yeah right they were playing worse than a 5 year old plays the game yet they were the #1 pair in the world.

I see our men's gymnasts continued the choke job today, we muster 1 bronze medal in the all-around.

Phelps won a record 19th medal yesterday in swimming which gives him the title, "Greatest Olympic Athlete Ever" in his final Games.

How about the Brit's women's soccer team in their first Olympics knocking off Brazil to win their group yesterday? Watched most of that game Live, got a little chippy there in the 2nd half. Of course it looks like they drew Canada next with the winner possibly playing the US for the chance to play for the gold.
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can't tell the americans from the turdishstans....seems to be a lack of patriotism going on this year.

too many games of "keep away" ...you know, variations of soccer.

too many male huggers. Can't these tinker bells try to act like men, when they are representing a nation?

, and what's with this "we are the world crap?"
I still hate those stinking socialists and commies and want to beat them horribly, and humiliate them.
I want to send them back to the rat infested hole they came from and listen to the lamentations of dare vimmin.
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I think they said Phelps finishes his career with 22 medals? The previous record was 18, he matched that record in Gold medals alone for his career.

Great stuff by Usain Bolt, he let up in the semi's for the 100 and still ran a 9.83, had he pushed it it's thought he might have lowered his World Record or come VERY close to it. Holds on to his crown as World's Fastest Man with ease, even a water bottle thrown from the stands couldn't hold him back.

Heartbreaker for the Men's Soccer team from Great Britain. Should have won it in regulation but missed a spot kick then lost the game later in a shootout. And Andy Murray, FINALLY beats Federer in tennis. Flat smoked ol' Roger in straight sets just a few weeks removed from Federer beating him on the same court for the Wimbledon title.
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Final day is upon us, the US have finally gone triple digits in the medal count. It's not 110 like in Beijing though. Looks like we have "won" again by that stat.

Great show by the Brits and really neat backstory for their home Games. After only getting 1 gold medal in Atlanta in '96 they completely revamped what they were doing, 16 years of work finally came to fruition as they enjoyed their best Games ever and it was on home soil.

Anyone catch the 185 lb wrestling match with the US and I think Azerbaijan? What a joke by the officials, the US wrestler got completely jobbed. What should have been a 3-3 tie with 1:15 left in the 2nd turned into a 6-0 match over major decision. The US got had a 1 point takedown but gave up a 1 point reverse and 2 point back before getting a 1 point reversal and 1 point escape. Instead the officials gave a 1 point takedown to the opponent, 3 back points and 2 reversal points. How can you give 2 reversal points if he's the one who you gave the takedown and back to without giving the US guy a reversal and escape point? I don't even understand what match they were watching to give the opponent a takedown credit, he got single leg picked right onto his back(which is a takedown for the US) but he rolled thru it and reversed.
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The London 2012 Olympics was really done successfully and i seen a lot of athlete at improve.
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