Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games

[Coach C]

This was me when the Americans made the improbable comeback...

 

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[Andy]

Suck on that, Bernard.

 

Jason Lezak is a demigod. Holy crap.

[Derwood]

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[OleMissCub]

During the darkest days of WWII, valiant French resistance fighters hurled sticks of dynamite at the oncoming German hordes...the Germans lit them and threw them back.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

lol Bernard

 

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[TruffleShuffle]

wow, i'm the unofficial swimming commentator here at work, because the audio is off on the TVs, and i was telling people that the race was pretty much over - it was the world record holder with more than a half second lead. lezak definitely had the swim of his life - you get roughly 0.8-0.9 of a second "help" from your relay start. so lezak's relay split of 46.06 is completely insane - from a flat start, it would've been more than half a second faster than the old world record.

 

SUCK IT, FROGS.

[Omar]

They better play the full anthem this time.

[hardcorecubfan]

Lezak coaches himself!!! I am now beyond impressed esp. in the world of professional sponsored athletes and he had the opportunity to train at the Olympic facility near him

[OleMissCub]

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[SouthSideRyan]

Oh team Australia, shattered the world record time? Here's a bronze medal.

[Soul]

Might want to find something else besides smack talk Bernard, 'cuz you suck at it BUD.

 

Hahah. See where you are standing? It's lower than the Americans, no? Wonder why that is, eh?

 

:hello:

[hardcorecubfan]

think about it this way Mark Spitz (7 time gold medal winner) and the 72 team would have not even qualified for the olympics

[SouthSideRyan]

The girl that gave them the medals looks like she has no pants on.

[Andy]

Oh team Australia, shattered the world record time? Here's a bronze medal.

Haha, I love swimming.

[TruffleShuffle]

dear god. i cannot believe what i just saw!

 

bernard makes those comments then chokes it away.

 

his split of 46.74 was actually pretty good... if you'd told me that he would split high 46 i would've said no way he gets caught. i literally cannot believe that lezak swam that fast. i don't know if it was the most exciting race i've ever seen - mostly because i wasn't comfortable with how close bousquet went in against cullen-jones, and then when bousquet opened up half a body length (he split 46.63 - that's nuts for a #3 in a relay) lead i had pretty much given up on the u.s. only in the last 10 meters did i think they had a chance.

[Derwood]

you keep wondering at what point can they simply not go any faster, and then like 6 of the 8 teams break the world record. It's ridiculous

[Guest]

Bob Costas just conducted the worst interview with George Bush in the history of forever

 

We're just getting it. Yowza.

[hardcorecubfan]

didn't one of those reports say that the new swim suit could take off as much as a second this year and all the WR would be new?

[Soul]

World record broke by 4 seconds! Two teams broke the world record and didn't even medal! WTFH??!?

[Vanilla Ice]

just wanted to say holy [expletive]

[SouthSideRyan]

NBC5 was just showing the promotional video for Madrid's '16.

 

Looked like a Great Scott production.

[Magnetic Curses]

dear god. i cannot believe what i just saw!

 

bernard makes those comments then chokes it away.

 

his split of 46.74 was actually pretty good... if you'd told me that he would split high 46 i would've said no way he gets caught. i literally cannot believe that lezak swam that fast. i don't know if it was the most exciting race i've ever seen - mostly because i wasn't comfortable with how close bousquet went in against cullen-jones, and then when bousquet opened up half a body length (he split 46.63 - that's nuts for a #3 in a relay) lead i had pretty much given up on the u.s. only in the last 10 meters did i think they had a chance.

 

that's precisely why it was so excited.

[Magnetic Curses]

“The Americans?” Bernard recently told the sports newspaper L’Equipe, “We’re going to smash them. That’s what we came for.”

 

just sayin, i said this like 20 times already.

[Guest]

Bob Costas just conducted the worst interview with George Bush in the history of forever

 

We're just getting it. Yowza.

 

NBC's main coverage is pissing me off. There was this big deal made about how they got the Olympics to schedule Phelps' finals races in the morning Beijing time so they could show it live in the US and only the people on the stupid East Coast (and I assume Central time zone) actually get it live while we're stuck waiting three hours to watch it on tape delay. This despite Bob Costas claiming in the NBC studio "Coming to you live in less than 40 minutes, swimming". This is a pile of BS. Why couldn't they show it live everywhere in the U.S. Now you're waiting until 11 p.m. out here and you're inevitably going to lose viewers even though you could show it at 8 p.m. out here which would easily be the better time to show it. Not to mention that it would actually be LIVE if they did that. LAME.

 

/rant

[Andy]

NBC5 was just showing the promotional video for Madrid's '16.

 

Looked like a Great Scott production.

Go Chicago.

 

I want to see Tokyo get it if Chicago doesn't.