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Beijing 2008: The Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Use this thread for general comment. I'm sure we'll talk about the basketball somewhere else, but unless you want to start individual threads for archery and the 4x200m freestyle relay, this will be fine.
I am excited. I don't know how many of you care, but I like the Olympics. (However, I think China is favored to win the most medals this year  )The USA woman's soccer team dropped their first game to Norway today. Ugh. Isn't the US team heavily favored in the woman's competition? http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...60383&&cc=5901
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08-06-2008, 10:01 AM
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Who wants to discuss table tennis with me?
 I'll be wasting too much time at work watching the table tennis online.
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08-06-2008, 10:07 AM
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Just tell me where to look.
Do we (U.S.A) have any good table tennis players?
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I'm not really up on the international table tennis scene, but the U.S. historically has a horrible team.
Here's what you need to know about how good China is at table tennis. When Chinese Olympic table tennis players fall off of the team, they go change their citenzship and immediately become the best player for just about any country they go to. I believe the U.S. currently has a women's player that fits that. I think the best hope of to keep China from the sweep (Gold in men's/women's singles and men's/women's doubles) is a dude from Germany.
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08-06-2008, 10:20 AM
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We haven't had a transcendent table tennis player since Forest Gump.
China are the heavy, heavy favorites.
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08-06-2008, 11:24 AM
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sweet. i hope we win at least one gold medal
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haha, China all the way
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08-06-2008, 03:04 PM
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go alicia sacramone!!!!!
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08-07-2008, 07:57 AM
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FYI, Dish Network reached an agreement with NBC to show the 24 hour dedicated olympic basketball and soccer channels. FIOS already has them in their lineup.
I haven't seen that DirecTV has them yet but I have to think they will before it all gets started. One thing though, these channels are HD, and I haven't heard about any SD alternate channels for them. So you may have to have the HD package with your provider. If you don't get the channels, you should be able to watch basically anything you want online. I tried out the online feed yesterday during a women's soccer match and it was very good quality.
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08-07-2008, 08:26 AM
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I am pretty pumped about all the HD programming. Supposedly NBC is making every second of their coverage available in HD with those channels, USA HD and CNBC HD.
Awesome
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Mens Soccer
USA 1 Japan 0 http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report?id=250997&cc=5901 I wish some of these games were on at civilized times, but we're 13 hours away so...
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anyone know if nbc will be streaming the opening ceremony? or will there be a link anywhere?
I can't wait to watch at work..to make Friday morning go by faster
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08-08-2008, 12:18 AM
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I think I'll just flip to it tomorrow night from time to time to see what's going on. I don't need to watch it live. Plus it's in HD in prime time.
I'm sure you'll be able to find it somewhere online tomorrow morning. I just want to see Dirk carry the German flag, and I'm kind of interested in which "foreign" dignitaries they show on the tube. Isn't Bush going?
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Go Dirk.
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yeah i know. i'm rooting for germany for the rest of the medals... |
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anyone have a link??
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08-08-2008, 08:35 AM
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Link (Not the best quality but in English)
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08-08-2008, 08:52 AM
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Not working for me
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08-08-2008, 08:56 AM
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It works! Maybe to slow connection or a Firewall problem, Popupblocker, etc...
I use IE try this if other Browsers don´t work.
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08-08-2008, 08:58 AM
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Must be my firewall at work...Thanks anyways Zoid. Justin TV usually works at home
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Yes, companies usually block such connections...
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Another Link (Good quality, but in German)
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08-08-2008, 09:29 AM
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Wow...we have a lot of athletes.
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08-08-2008, 09:34 AM
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U.S. guys are dressed up very well
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08-08-2008, 09:35 AM
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The order of countries can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Su...l_flag_bearers They're on 147 right now on my feed.
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Go and translate it live... Have fun!
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so i can get a glimpse of my boy dirk
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I'm just watching this one El Zoido posted in the other thread
http://de.justin.tv/nern2 I think you said it didn't work for you.
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The region of China is so screwed up right now. Taiwan is competing as "Chinese Tapei" and Hong Kong is competing as its own country. Weird.
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Booooo Sweden.
They may as well be wearing Red Wings jerseys....stupid swedes 
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i'm watching this. just watched Sweden go by
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sweet! i'm waiting for germany 198!
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gotta poop brb
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Looking good dirk!
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im back
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dammit
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Don't worry, you can catch it again tonight on NBC at like 10:00 eastern or whenever it will finally get over.
Or you can see him in your ginormous signature image. edit: He looked really happy, and maybe a little overwhelmed. It was cool. Very happy for him.
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