the tennis has been real odd.... the williams sisters, fedderer, even murray, great tennis pro's all out to... who?..

 

nice to see so many brits in the swimming finals.... filling last place!

 

Tennis is not too much of a surprise, all of them have one eye on the US Open, which isn't that far away, and will be saving themselves for that instead.

 

And for an island surrounded by water, :lol: you'd think we'd be better at swimming. Maybe by 2012 things will pick up.

Swimming has been great for us considering past performances :cheer:

 

The tennis annoys me, it seems like no-one cares. They should put squash back in <_<

Swimming has been great for us considering past performances :cheer:

 

The tennis annoys me, it seems like no-one cares. They should put squash back in <_<

 

 

bring back squash for 2012 :cheer:

 

It's mad! :lol: and so fast.

 

Surprised there isn't Olympic Golf :lol:

Phelps gets 7 Golds then...

 

The race was brilliant. The ending... :lol: Poor guy who came 2nd, just lost out of the final touch as Phelps did one giant butterfly stroke at the end to get the touch first.

Oh, Phelps was amazing! It was one one-hundredth of a second, yes?

 

Also - guess what? There are plenty of people who have been watching the Olympics purely to watch the Olympics, not to see China. *cougheveryonecough* I don't give a $h!t where they're held, I just want to watch!

 

Anyway. I am so proud of our team! :cheer: Shawn, Nastia, and Michael are all annihilating. Dara Torres and Jonathan Horton have also done very well.

Rebecca Adlington win's second gold in the swimming :w00t:

 

 

Rebecca Adlington win's second gold in the swimming :w00t:

 

stunning performance...a world record too, and she only went for the experience! :cheer: sports personality of the year anyone?

 

kelly sotherton slips to 5th... gold is out of reach now i think...

 

ben ainslie will get at least a silver in the sailing thingy...

stunning performance...a world record too, and she only went for the experience! :cheer: sports personality of the year anyone?

 

kelly sotherton slips to 5th... gold is out of reach now i think...

 

ben ainslie will get at least a silver in the sailing thingy...

Ben Ainslie will get gold. He can finish 5 places behind the other guy in second and will still win gold!

 

We've won bronze in the women's doubles in rowing, one of them was from Rustington :cheer:

Golden Saturday for Team GB is well under way.

 

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Rounded up into torture camps: the 'undesirables' China doesn't want you to see

Dail Mail.co.uk

By Andrew Malone

Last updated at 2:28 AM on 16th August 2008

 

The bleak concrete walls topped with razor wire and the sentries in towers at the gates are a chilling reminder of a different era.

 

On the nearby roads, heavily armed guards patrol relentlessly, checking both drivers and pedestrians, constantly alert.

 

Meanwhile, less than 30 miles away, the world's attention is focused on the world-famous 'Bird's Nest' Olympic stadium and the other venues where a global audience of two billion is watching the Games and enjoying the spectacle of the 'new' China.

 

The Beijing regime has deployed an army of 500,000 smiling volunteers to help foreigners find their way around the teeming capital city.

 

Blades of grass have been individually combed. Signs have been erected in English.

 

Spitting has been banned and taxi drivers have been told to wear ties.

 

But there's none of that here in the suburb of Daxing, where the only 'venues' are the five camps into which thousands of China's 'undesirables' have been swept from the streets of Beijing and locked up.

 

Here, down bumpy, unlit roads, is where old habits die hard for China's brutal totalitarian communist regime.

 

These camps are being used to imprison - without trial or legal representation - people that the regime wants the world to believe do not exist amid the miracle of modern China.

 

From street children, hawkers, the homeless and prostitutes, to the mentally ill, black migrants, drug dealers and gays caught in public bathhouses, the camps on the outskirts of the city started filling up with Beijing's 'undesirables' last year as part of the Chinese regime's determination to present what it sees as an acceptable face to the world.

 

It is all eerily reminiscent of the build-up to the 1936 Games in Berlin, when the government cleared similar 'undesirables' from the streets.

 

Under Hitler's regime many of the Nazi concentration camps bore the slogan Arbeit macht frei (Work makes you free) at their gates.

 

In China, the camps bear the slogan 'Re-education Through Labour'. (It's a peculiar irony that Beijing has been so determined to use the English language to welcome the world, that street signs even bear the chilling words.)

 

The camps themselves are festooned with banners in Mandarin Chinese stating that 'you must be punished according to the laws of the Olympics', and reveal the extraordinary lengths to which the Chinese are prepared to go to in order to convince the world of the country's success.

 

Working up to 16 hours a day and held in cramped, unsanitary cells with only one toilet bucket for dozens of inmates, the existence of the jailed 'undesirables' is something China has done its best to hide.

 

The policy of 'people clearances' began last year and those taken in were moved to the camps on the outskirts of Beijing, which were built in the 1960s for the purposes of 'cleansing' the minds of dissidents opposed to the state.

 

By using torture, brainwashing techniques and the use of heavy labour, Chairman Mao was determined to convince opponents of the error of their ways.

 

The camps have been used in more recent times to hold dissidents, lawyers and followers of religions banned by the government.

 

But sweeps of the city ahead of the influx of foreign visitors have meant these dissidents have been joined by a new list of victims, who have until now been allowed to work freely in the capital.

 

Deploying thousands of undercover police, as well as uniformed groups of youths wearing red shirts and armbands, strenuous efforts have been made to ensure the city has been purged of all 'anti-social' elements.

 

African immigrants to Beijing have been rounded up from popular tourist areas such as San li Tun, Beijing's equivalent of Soho.

 

The patrols of the red- shirted groups are constant. Even now, with the Games under way, some residents are not safe from arrest and incarceration.

 

'Tony', a Nigerian entrepreneur who has lived in China for the past three years, watched as dozens of his African friends were arrested last month. He hasn't seen them since.

 

'I started running when I saw what was happening,' he told me. 'I've heard they are in the camps. I'm just keeping my head down until you lot [foreigners] go and hoping it all returns to normal.'

 

With the few remaining black people and some gay men banned from entire areas, along with instructions from the authorities that they should not be served in bars or restaurants, witnesses say thousands of others have been bundled into unmarked vans and taken to the camps on the outskirts of the city.

 

According to prison camp sources, who risk incarceration and torture for simply speaking about what happens inside the camps, the 'undesirables' are separated into male and female groups.

 

They are then put to work in vast hangar-like sheds, where they are forced to make chopsticks and soft toys - the very goods that are being peddled on the streets of Beijing to tourists visiting the Olympics.

 

Inmates are forced to work through the night.

 

In some of the other camps - all located in the Tuan He district in the Daxing suburb of Beijing, less than an hour's drive from the Bird's Nest stadium - the ' undesirables' are forced to clean beans and other Chinese foods - which are then sold by the communist authorities to private businesses serving the influx of foreigners.

 

Punishment is brutal for those who try to resist. According to my camp informant, women who do not work hard enough are stripped naked for days on end - something regarded as particularly shaming in Chinese society.

 

Another favoured method of punishment is called the Tiger Bench - where 'undesirables' are forced to sit upright on a long bench with their hands tied behind their backs. Their thighs are also tied to the bench - and bricks placed under the feet to raise them off the floor.

 

Human rights groups say some victims are forced to remain in this position for days on end, causing excruciating pain.

 

Those who complain or refuse to eat in protest at their detention are force-fed - with guards holding their mouths open and tipping food down their victims' gullets, making them choke and vomit. There are more than 1,000 of these camps located around this country of more than 1.3 billion people.

 

In 2005, the authorities opened one Re-education Through Labour Camp to United Nations investigators investigating claims that inmates were being killed and their organs 'harvested' and sold to wealthy Chinese desperate for transplants.

 

Nothing untoward was found. The camp had even been painted ahead of the UN visit.

 

Dissidents claimed later that victims are transferred from camp to camp whenever any brutality is discovered by outside bodies.

 

The sweep of the city is good news for the prison camp guards, who are making extra money from the Olympics.

 

Sources say they are getting as much overtime as they want a result of the thousands of 'undesirables' rounded up.

 

Phelim Kine, a spokesman for New York-based Human Rights Watch, said: 'The purge of migrants, sex workers and beggars during the Olympics is a reflection of the obsessive concern that nothing can remain on the streets that clashes with the government's carefully applied veneer of "stability" and "harmony".

 

'Beijing is unique for the unprecedented scale of the campaign to sterilise the city ahead of the Games of elements embarrassing to the Chinese government's status as a rising power.'

 

The existence of the camps - and the admission by Chinese officials that people can be locked up without trial there for up to four years - will add to the growing sense that Beijing is trying to hoodwink the world; with the complicity of the International Olympic Committee.

 

After British journalists were roughed-up and detained in Tiananmen Square this week, and a relative of the U.S. volleyball coach was murdered by an unemployed Chinese man protesting about government policies, Olympic officials stressed they were 'very proud' about how Beijing 2008 is progressing.

 

When China won the rights to the Olympics, IOC president Jacques Rogge boasted that hosting the Games would improve China's human rights record.

 

Tellingly, Wei Wang, a Chinese official, yesterday denied that his country had made any such promises to improve human rights.

 

'After 30 years of reform, China has developed greatly. People enjoy more freedom. People are living a good life. Everyone is happy. That's a fact.,' he said.

 

'Of course, there are exceptions. But they need to take the legal process and procedures to resolve any issues.'

 

Much the same could have been said in Germany in 1936 - and it would have had just as hollow a ring to it.

 

As Susan Bachrach, a historian and expert on the Berlin Games, says: 'Hosting the Olympics presented the Nazi leadership with an extraordinary opportunity to project the illusion of a peaceful, tolerant Germany under the guise of the Games' spirit of international co-operation.

 

'That effort was largely successful, and the regime scored a major propaganda victory.'

Beijing must hope that its propaganda effort will be every bit as effective.

 

The Chinese believe that at the end of the Games, the world will be left with happy memories of a spectacular event.

 

But for those who were deemed 'undesirable' and dumped into prison camps without trial, the memories of the 2008 Olympics will be very different indeed.

 

And another day...... yet another Chinese scandal :angry:

 

Beijing Olympics: 'Ethnic' children exposed as fakes in opening ceremony

 

Daily Telegraph.co.uk

By Richard Spencer in Beijing

Last Updated: 11:04AM BST 15 Aug 2008

 

Another section of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony has been exposed as faked - the children supposedly representing the country's 56 ethnic groups were in fact all from the same one, the majority Han Chinese race.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00790/china-ethnic-olympi_790981c.jpg

The Chinese flag is carried by 56 children representing 56 ethnic groups within modern China Photo: EPA

 

The children accompanied the soldiers carrying in the national flag at the most solemn moment of the ceremony.

 

They were dressed in costumes associated with the country's ethnic minorities, including those from troubled areas such as Tibet and the muslim province of Xinjiang. Such displays of "national unity" are a compulsory part of any major state occasion.

 

But the children were all from the Han Chinese majority, which makes up more than 90 per cent of the population and is culturally and politically dominant, according to an official with the cultural troupe from which they were selected.

 

"I assume they think the kids were very natural looking and nice," Yuan Zhifeng, deputy director of the Galaxy Children's Art Troupe said.

 

The official guide to the opening ceremony said that the children did not just represent but "came from" China's ethnic groups.

 

"Fifty-six children from 56 Chinese ethnic groups cluster around the Chinese national flag, representing the 56 ethnic groups," it said.

 

This point was put to Wang Wei, executive vice-president of the Beijing organising committee at a press conference today.

 

"I think you are being very meticulous," he said. He said it was "traditional" to use dancers from other ethnic groups in this way.

 

"I would argue it is normal for dancers, performers, to be dressed in other races' clothes," he said. "I don't know exactly where these performers are from."

 

The initial triumph of the opening ceremony has already been clouded by revelations that the little girl who sand "Hymn to the Motherland", a patriotic Chinese anthem, was lip-synching to the pre-recorded voice of another girl who had been told she was not pretty enough to appear. The "footprint fireworks" shown on television were also pre-recorded and digitally enhanced.

 

The discovery that the children representing ethnic groups as diverse as Mongolians and members of the Li group from the south-western mountains were all in fact Han will hardly be noticed in China, where such practices are normal.

 

Nevertheless it is a sign of how sensitive ethnic relations in China are. At national Communist Party and state congresses, while the Han Chinese delegates all wear suits, carefully chosen members of ethnic minorities are told to wear traditional costume.

 

"Minority dances" are a regular part of state-sponsored entertainments, with performers coming from all over the country without having to belong to the relevant group.

 

These Games are a disgrace, a farce and the Olympics should never, ever, ever have been awarded to Communist China! :angry:

 

 

And another day...... yet another Chinese scandal :angry:

 

Beijing Olympics: 'Ethnic' children exposed as fakes in opening ceremony

 

Daily Telegraph.co.uk

By Richard Spencer in Beijing

Last Updated: 11:04AM BST 15 Aug 2008

 

Another section of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony has been exposed as faked - the children supposedly representing the country's 56 ethnic groups were in fact all from the same one, the majority Han Chinese race.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00790/china-ethnic-olympi_790981c.jpg

The Chinese flag is carried by 56 children representing 56 ethnic groups within modern China Photo: EPA

 

The children accompanied the soldiers carrying in the national flag at the most solemn moment of the ceremony.

 

They were dressed in costumes associated with the country's ethnic minorities, including those from troubled areas such as Tibet and the muslim province of Xinjiang. Such displays of "national unity" are a compulsory part of any major state occasion.

 

But the children were all from the Han Chinese majority, which makes up more than 90 per cent of the population and is culturally and politically dominant, according to an official with the cultural troupe from which they were selected.

 

"I assume they think the kids were very natural looking and nice," Yuan Zhifeng, deputy director of the Galaxy Children's Art Troupe said.

 

The official guide to the opening ceremony said that the children did not just represent but "came from" China's ethnic groups.

 

"Fifty-six children from 56 Chinese ethnic groups cluster around the Chinese national flag, representing the 56 ethnic groups," it said.

 

This point was put to Wang Wei, executive vice-president of the Beijing organising committee at a press conference today.

 

"I think you are being very meticulous," he said. He said it was "traditional" to use dancers from other ethnic groups in this way.

 

"I would argue it is normal for dancers, performers, to be dressed in other races' clothes," he said. "I don't know exactly where these performers are from."

 

The initial triumph of the opening ceremony has already been clouded by revelations that the little girl who sand "Hymn to the Motherland", a patriotic Chinese anthem, was lip-synching to the pre-recorded voice of another girl who had been told she was not pretty enough to appear. The "footprint fireworks" shown on television were also pre-recorded and digitally enhanced.

 

The discovery that the children representing ethnic groups as diverse as Mongolians and members of the Li group from the south-western mountains were all in fact Han will hardly be noticed in China, where such practices are normal.

 

Nevertheless it is a sign of how sensitive ethnic relations in China are. At national Communist Party and state congresses, while the Han Chinese delegates all wear suits, carefully chosen members of ethnic minorities are told to wear traditional costume.

 

"Minority dances" are a regular part of state-sponsored entertainments, with performers coming from all over the country without having to belong to the relevant group.

 

These Games are a disgrace, a farce and the Olympics should never, ever, ever have been awarded to Communist China! :angry:

 

JESUS!!! That is just scandalous.... Could you imagine if at the 2012 Olympics in London, Boris Johnson "blacked up" white kids to claim that they were representatives of London's Afro-Caribbean community and then said "Oh, but we're just following the traditions of the "Black and White Minstrel show"..... The outcry would be deafening..... <_< Same fukkin' principle here folks.....

Golden Saturday for Team GB is well under way.

 

But any of you who are watching this on the BBC are supporting this:

Rounded up into torture camps: the 'undesirables' China doesn't want you to see

Dail Mail.co.uk

By Andrew Malone

Last updated at 2:28 AM on 16th August 2008

 

The bleak concrete walls topped with razor wire and the sentries in towers at the gates are a chilling reminder of a different era.

 

On the nearby roads, heavily armed guards patrol relentlessly, checking both drivers and pedestrians, constantly alert.

 

Meanwhile, less than 30 miles away, the world's attention is focused on the world-famous 'Bird's Nest' Olympic stadium and the other venues where a global audience of two billion is watching the Games and enjoying the spectacle of the 'new' China.

 

The Beijing regime has deployed an army of 500,000 smiling volunteers to help foreigners find their way around the teeming capital city.

 

Blades of grass have been individually combed. Signs have been erected in English.

 

Spitting has been banned and taxi drivers have been told to wear ties.

 

But there's none of that here in the suburb of Daxing, where the only 'venues' are the five camps into which thousands of China's 'undesirables' have been swept from the streets of Beijing and locked up.

 

Here, down bumpy, unlit roads, is where old habits die hard for China's brutal totalitarian communist regime.

 

These camps are being used to imprison - without trial or legal representation - people that the regime wants the world to believe do not exist amid the miracle of modern China.

 

From street children, hawkers, the homeless and prostitutes, to the mentally ill, black migrants, drug dealers and gays caught in public bathhouses, the camps on the outskirts of the city started filling up with Beijing's 'undesirables' last year as part of the Chinese regime's determination to present what it sees as an acceptable face to the world.

 

It is all eerily reminiscent of the build-up to the 1936 Games in Berlin, when the government cleared similar 'undesirables' from the streets.

 

Under Hitler's regime many of the Nazi concentration camps bore the slogan Arbeit macht frei (Work makes you free) at their gates.

 

In China, the camps bear the slogan 'Re-education Through Labour'. (It's a peculiar irony that Beijing has been so determined to use the English language to welcome the world, that street signs even bear the chilling words.)

 

The camps themselves are festooned with banners in Mandarin Chinese stating that 'you must be punished according to the laws of the Olympics', and reveal the extraordinary lengths to which the Chinese are prepared to go to in order to convince the world of the country's success.

 

Working up to 16 hours a day and held in cramped, unsanitary cells with only one toilet bucket for dozens of inmates, the existence of the jailed 'undesirables' is something China has done its best to hide.

 

The policy of 'people clearances' began last year and those taken in were moved to the camps on the outskirts of Beijing, which were built in the 1960s for the purposes of 'cleansing' the minds of dissidents opposed to the state.

 

By using torture, brainwashing techniques and the use of heavy labour, Chairman Mao was determined to convince opponents of the error of their ways.

 

The camps have been used in more recent times to hold dissidents, lawyers and followers of religions banned by the government.

 

But sweeps of the city ahead of the influx of foreign visitors have meant these dissidents have been joined by a new list of victims, who have until now been allowed to work freely in the capital.

 

Deploying thousands of undercover police, as well as uniformed groups of youths wearing red shirts and armbands, strenuous efforts have been made to ensure the city has been purged of all 'anti-social' elements.

 

African immigrants to Beijing have been rounded up from popular tourist areas such as San li Tun, Beijing's equivalent of Soho.

 

The patrols of the red- shirted groups are constant. Even now, with the Games under way, some residents are not safe from arrest and incarceration.

 

'Tony', a Nigerian entrepreneur who has lived in China for the past three years, watched as dozens of his African friends were arrested last month. He hasn't seen them since.

 

'I started running when I saw what was happening,' he told me. 'I've heard they are in the camps. I'm just keeping my head down until you lot [foreigners] go and hoping it all returns to normal.'

 

With the few remaining black people and some gay men banned from entire areas, along with instructions from the authorities that they should not be served in bars or restaurants, witnesses say thousands of others have been bundled into unmarked vans and taken to the camps on the outskirts of the city.

 

According to prison camp sources, who risk incarceration and torture for simply speaking about what happens inside the camps, the 'undesirables' are separated into male and female groups.

 

They are then put to work in vast hangar-like sheds, where they are forced to make chopsticks and soft toys - the very goods that are being peddled on the streets of Beijing to tourists visiting the Olympics.

 

Inmates are forced to work through the night.

 

In some of the other camps - all located in the Tuan He district in the Daxing suburb of Beijing, less than an hour's drive from the Bird's Nest stadium - the ' undesirables' are forced to clean beans and other Chinese foods - which are then sold by the communist authorities to private businesses serving the influx of foreigners.

 

Punishment is brutal for those who try to resist. According to my camp informant, women who do not work hard enough are stripped naked for days on end - something regarded as particularly shaming in Chinese society.

 

Another favoured method of punishment is called the Tiger Bench - where 'undesirables' are forced to sit upright on a long bench with their hands tied behind their backs. Their thighs are also tied to the bench - and bricks placed under the feet to raise them off the floor.

 

Human rights groups say some victims are forced to remain in this position for days on end, causing excruciating pain.

 

Those who complain or refuse to eat in protest at their detention are force-fed - with guards holding their mouths open and tipping food down their victims' gullets, making them choke and vomit. There are more than 1,000 of these camps located around this country of more than 1.3 billion people.

 

In 2005, the authorities opened one Re-education Through Labour Camp to United Nations investigators investigating claims that inmates were being killed and their organs 'harvested' and sold to wealthy Chinese desperate for transplants.

 

Nothing untoward was found. The camp had even been painted ahead of the UN visit.

 

Dissidents claimed later that victims are transferred from camp to camp whenever any brutality is discovered by outside bodies.

 

The sweep of the city is good news for the prison camp guards, who are making extra money from the Olympics.

 

Sources say they are getting as much overtime as they want a result of the thousands of 'undesirables' rounded up.

 

Phelim Kine, a spokesman for New York-based Human Rights Watch, said: 'The purge of migrants, sex workers and beggars during the Olympics is a reflection of the obsessive concern that nothing can remain on the streets that clashes with the government's carefully applied veneer of "stability" and "harmony".

 

'Beijing is unique for the unprecedented scale of the campaign to sterilise the city ahead of the Games of elements embarrassing to the Chinese government's status as a rising power.'

 

The existence of the camps - and the admission by Chinese officials that people can be locked up without trial there for up to four years - will add to the growing sense that Beijing is trying to hoodwink the world; with the complicity of the International Olympic Committee.

 

After British journalists were roughed-up and detained in Tiananmen Square this week, and a relative of the U.S. volleyball coach was murdered by an unemployed Chinese man protesting about government policies, Olympic officials stressed they were 'very proud' about how Beijing 2008 is progressing.

 

When China won the rights to the Olympics, IOC president Jacques Rogge boasted that hosting the Games would improve China's human rights record.

 

Tellingly, Wei Wang, a Chinese official, yesterday denied that his country had made any such promises to improve human rights.

 

'After 30 years of reform, China has developed greatly. People enjoy more freedom. People are living a good life. Everyone is happy. That's a fact.,' he said.

 

'Of course, there are exceptions. But they need to take the legal process and procedures to resolve any issues.'

 

Much the same could have been said in Germany in 1936 - and it would have had just as hollow a ring to it.

 

As Susan Bachrach, a historian and expert on the Berlin Games, says: 'Hosting the Olympics presented the Nazi leadership with an extraordinary opportunity to project the illusion of a peaceful, tolerant Germany under the guise of the Games' spirit of international co-operation.

 

'That effort was largely successful, and the regime scored a major propaganda victory.'

Beijing must hope that its propaganda effort will be every bit as effective.

 

The Chinese believe that at the end of the Games, the world will be left with happy memories of a spectacular event.

 

But for those who were deemed 'undesirable' and dumped into prison camps without trial, the memories of the 2008 Olympics will be very different indeed.

 

 

Can you say the words "illegal internment"....? Or perhaps the words - "ethnic cleansing" or "concentration camp".... Any and ALL are appropriate here..... <_<

 

But yeah, everyone just carry on believing that all is wonderful, nothing's going on, nothing to see here..... -_- You bloody stupid, naive people who bang on about the "wonderful sporting spectacle" need to wake up and smell the coffee..... <_< Like it or not, you ARE giving this sort of thing your indirect support when you watch these games - stop sitting on the fukkin' fence...... Our athletes have an excuse - they were TOLD to shut up or face being thrown off the team, the rest of us dont have this excuse for not being outraged.....

 

And some of you actually criticised the bloke who tried to grab the Olympic Torch in London, like HE was the bad guy.....ROFLMAO......No, he was 100% SPOT ON to try and wrest away the Olympic torch (and by extenstion what it SYMBOLISES ) from this foul, fascistic State who have UTTERLY pished on every principle that the Olympic Games was founded on - the Ancient Greeks and the architects of the Modern Olympics must be spinning in their graves.... -_-

 

Repeat after me....

 

ARBEIT MACHT FREI.....

 

HEIL HITLER

 

Oh, sorry, er, shocking to you....? Well, you'd all might as well be saying this if you continue support these games in the face of this absolute outrage....

Look - we all know why China got these games: it was decided at the same IOC meeting that saw Samaranch replaced as IOC president by Rogge. Samaranch was apparently furious in 1993 when Sydney were awarded the Olympics in 2000 over Beijing.

 

Er, which kinda proves emphatically that the whole damn thing is political..... You cannot keep politics away from sport, especially the Olympics... Impossible.....

 

Another Bronze for the track cycling :cheer: by Chris Newton. Also 2 bronzes and 1 gold in rowing :cheer: . What an amazing finish in the coxless 4 :w00t: . Oops i forgot Adlington got her 2nd gold :yahoo:

 

Still 2 gold medal possibilities today in sailing! :w00t:

 

Well done to all the GB athletes

 

:D :D :D

Edited August 16, 200816 yr by Harve

Bronze medal in pursuit :cheer: (i paused it so i'm a bit behind, the gold medal race has probably already happened but i don't know the result :P )

Usain Bolt is quite scary :unsure:

Today is great day for Serbia, we won our first medals in Beijing. :w00t: Firstly, Cavic with silver medal in swimming, who was in line with Phelps. And later, Djokovic won and finished on 3rd place. :yahoo:

Today is great day for Serbia, we won our first medals in Beijing. :w00t: Firstly, Cavic with silver medal in swimming, who was in line with Phelps. And later, Djokovic won and finished on 3rd place. :yahoo:

Serbia were sooooo close to Phelps. He nearly didn't make 8 gold medals then. It would have been amazing (for some people obviously) for someone to deny Phelps 8 golds.

Serbia were sooooo close to Phelps. He nearly didn't make 8 gold medals then. It would have been amazing (for some people obviously) for someone to deny Phelps 8 golds.

 

Yeah I agree. :lol: But the difference between Phelps and the Serbian guy was Phelps had it in him at the end. The Serbian guy thought he'd one the race, and was just calmly reaching for the finish line, whereas Phelps knew he was getting beat and went straight for it at the end - was a brilliant race anyway.

 

Excellent for Britain today though! Bit disappointed that Sotherton didn't get a medal in the Heptathalon, but I think she had a bit too pressure on here, and was pretty confident that she'd win, which probably caused her downfall. Hopefully more of the same tomorrow for GB.

 

I think we're guaranteed at 4 medals tommorow, all of which could be gold. :w00t: