Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games

[hardcorecubfan]

Well, Ben Askren wrestled tonight. He won his first match by fall, but was up against last Olympics' bronze medalist in the 2nd round, and was eliminated. In order for Ben to have moved on, the person he lost to would've had to advance to the medal round by beating his next opponent, who is the defending gold champion. That didn't happen, so Ben was eliminated.

 

Tough draw for him, with the bronze and gold medalists from Athens in his portion of the bracket, but it's still pretty impressive that he was able to make it to the Olympics just a little over a year removed from college wrestling, and he even won a match by pinfall.

 

 

He wrestled well considering wrestling is one of the only sports that you don't peak until mid-30's

[jersey cubs fan]

Leryn Franco is hands down the hottest Olympian.

 

http://www.pbase.com/crespoide/personal_2007_calendar

 

why does any olympic athlete that anyone thinks is hot have to have a face like ivan drago?

 

If Ivan Drago looked like that I'd go gay.

 

you'd sleep with ivan drago? awesome.

 

I don't know how much sleeping we'd be doing.

[TruffleShuffle]

usain bolt.

 

Needs a battery of drug tests ASAP. There is no way anyone should be winning races by jogging while everyone else is busting a blood vessel running as hard as they can

 

he's not jogging obviously. his stride is a lot longer than everyone else so it makes it look like he's not running hard, but he didn't break michael johnson's record by coasting.

 

and i'm pretty sure that he's being tested, just like everyone else.

[CubinNY]

usain bolt.

 

Needs a battery of drug tests ASAP. There is no way anyone should be winning races by jogging while everyone else is busting a blood vessel running as hard as they can

 

he's not jogging obviously. his stride is a lot longer than everyone else so it makes it look like he's not running hard, but he didn't break michael johnson's record by coasting.

 

and i'm pretty sure that he's being tested, just like everyone else.

It's Ganja. I ran faster when I lived in Jamaica.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

screw men's vollyeball, I'm gonna catch an episode of American Chopper I've probably already seen 4 times

[TruffleShuffle]

that men's volleyball match was a great one, and played out just like the women's match yesterday - u.s. lost set 1, won set 2, lost set 3, then won sets 4 and 5. they're on to the medal round as well.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I finished watching it when I realized it was the 5th set and remembered I bleed red, white, and blue. USA! USA! USA!

[reggiemiller rules]

Yu Darvish pitching against the US team on MSNBC right now.

[OleMissCub]

With all the talk about 16 year old gymnasts...check out a truly beautiful woman:

 

javelin thrower from Paraguay named Leryn Franco....one of the hottest girls I've seen in a long time.

 

http://www.pbase.com/crespoide/personal_2007_calendar

[Viral al Maximo]

With all the talk about 16 year old gymnasts...check out a truly beautiful woman:

 

javelin thrower from Paraguay named Leryn Franco....one of the hottest girls I've seen in a long time.

 

http://www.pbase.com/crespoide/personal_2007_calendar

 

I'm glad this gallery is so popular, it was posted earlier in the thread too... :grin:

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Yu Darvish pitching against the US team on MSNBC right now.

she's dreamy

[Ding Dong Johnson]

is that the same Tanaka that was with the Indians?

[Guest]

usain bolt.

 

Needs a battery of drug tests ASAP. There is no way anyone should be winning races by jogging while everyone else is busting a blood vessel running as hard as they can

 

I do find it interesting that, as they were saying on the broadcast, Bolt and Spearman were very even runners for years and then - all of a sudden - Bolt gets a whole lot faster than Spearman.

 

Not accusing him, but something seems odd with that.

 

last year at the world championships, tyson gay EASILY beat bolt in the 200m finals. this is when bolt had a reason to run hard, staring at tyson's back, and bolt couldn't have run faster than a 19.85. now, all of the sudden, a year later, he's running that race a half second faster and coasting to victory.

 

there's no way, there's just no way.

 

Bolt is about to turn 22 whereas Tyson Gay just turned 26. I'm not guaranteeing he's clean by any means but couldn't some of it just be getting stronger and better as he gets older?

[Guest]

Yu Darvish pitching against the US team on MSNBC right now.

 

Thanks, I got the Tivo running because of the heads up.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Yu Darvish pitching against the US team on MSNBC right now.

 

Thanks, I got the Tivo running because of the heads up.

be prepared for some witty banter on ham during the bottom of the 5th...

[shnsajax]

With all the talk about 16 year old gymnasts...check out a truly beautiful woman:

 

javelin thrower from Paraguay named Leryn Franco....one of the hottest girls I've seen in a long time.

 

http://www.pbase.com/crespoide/personal_2007_calendar

 

So many potential comments to make about her throwing my javelin.

[C.C.]

With all the talk about 16 year old gymnasts...check out a truly beautiful woman:

 

javelin thrower from Paraguay named Leryn Franco....one of the hottest girls I've seen in a long time.

 

http://www.pbase.com/crespoide/personal_2007_calendar

 

I posted this on the last page, but one can never get enough of Franco.

[CubinNY]

Holy crap these dudes covering baseball are worse than terrible.

 

One dude wants to move the bases back 3 feet so there will be no close plays.

[SouthSideRyan]

Holy crap these dudes covering baseball are worse than terrible.

 

One dude wants to move the bases back 3 feet so there will be no close plays.

 

Wow. Speechless.

[TruffleShuffle]

Holy crap these dudes covering baseball are worse than terrible.

 

One dude wants to move the bases back 3 feet so there will be no close plays.

 

http://www.feebleminds-gifs.com/exploding-head.gif

[hardcorecubfan]

usain bolt.

 

Needs a battery of drug tests ASAP. There is no way anyone should be winning races by jogging while everyone else is busting a blood vessel running as hard as they can

 

I do find it interesting that, as they were saying on the broadcast, Bolt and Spearman were very even runners for years and then - all of a sudden - Bolt gets a whole lot faster than Spearman.

 

Not accusing him, but something seems odd with that.

 

last year at the world championships, tyson gay EASILY beat bolt in the 200m finals. this is when bolt had a reason to run hard, staring at tyson's back, and bolt couldn't have run faster than a 19.85. now, all of the sudden, a year later, he's running that race a half second faster and coasting to victory.

 

there's no way, there's just no way.

 

Bolt is about to turn 22 whereas Tyson Gay just turned 26. I'm not guaranteeing he's clean by any means but couldn't some of it just be getting stronger and better as he gets older?

 

I watched the 200 meters WC five times and the 200 Olym. 10 times. Bolt had one sucky start in the WC, he stood straight up in the block, I have hs kids start better. Tyson is known for a good start especially the first 15 meters and a great finish after 120 meters. Bolt has refined his block skills and has learned to run a turn very well. His arm speed in the olympics, around the corner, is much faster than the WC, thus producing greater leg length out onto the straight-a-way

[abuck1220]

he increased the length of his leg??!!

[hardcorecubfan]

he increased the length of his leg??!!

 

Stride :blush:

 

better yet stride length

Edited August 21, 2008 by hardcorecubfan

[Joe_Cub]

he increased the length of his leg??!!

 

those emails i'm getting must be legit after all

[jaydee]

i would love to put a large amount of money on Bolt being caught doping sometime in the next 10 years. It may take a while, but the guy is not clean.