internet olympics
 

7:30pm est. Equestrian Cross-Country

Watching right now with the upgraded microsoft video plug-in. Fantastic quality and an amazingly difficult course. Thanks for the heads up!

The wife is in heaven.

I am bored to the point of fermenting.

my wife is watching the little girls fly around the gym. i'd rather watch horse fly!

the quality is excellent! i've not tried the picture -in-picture yet.

the pic quality is great. tried the pic in pic... the other 3 screens are really small.

Badminton, fencing, field hockey, handball, judo and tennis.7am

WOW!!! I wasn't going to download yet another player add-on but glad I did excellent quality. PIP is cool too!!!!

Is there anything more bizzare than the scoring system in olympic boxing?

9pm woman's basketball.handball, field hockey, softball, greco-roman wrestling.
10pm archery, badminton, baseball, fencing, table tennis and weightlifting.

.....yes, there is...... me thinking i have a shot to make$$ at del mar and saratoga.

the bouts I've seen, this is totally stupid. guys beating the crap out of each other with no points scored????? this needs redone quick.

ALL events scored by judges should dropped from the olympics.

I'm just curious about something and don't really wanna start a(nother) Olympics thread.....

Who do you all root for? The USA in every single event? The cutest team? :D

Just wondering...

USA, unless not in the event, then Slovakia (family's heritage).

Nice answer and thanks for your honesty!

i find myself rooting against the chinese, cubans french.

USA of course unless absolutely no chance to medal, or not in the event. And then it depends on many different things, sometimes including the cute factor....:p

I watched the winter olympics in Canada once while skiing in Banff and staying at a friends home, it was kinda wierd being the only American.

It is kinda judged by judges but there are 5 and three have to all push a button within a second of each other after a clean shot. Totally retarded. You can watch a guy get hit with clean shot after clean shot yet there is no movement in the points. Then other times a guy gets a point for hitting the other guy in the gloves. Drop the freakin headgear and make em fight till one gets KO'ed or quits. I guess that is extreme but this other version is pretty unwatchable.

The judges sit in different areas, too. So only one may have a good angle to see the hit. It's crazy. The rule is that the white part of the glove has to land in the front of the head or body without touching any part of the other person's gloves, arms, etc first. I have no idea how these people can see something that's happening that quick. I've been watching a lot of the boxing on Universal HD, and the problems with the scoring haven't created any controversial winners yet, but it's only a matter of time.

i agree!! both summer and winter. would do away with that ridiculous figure skating for one!


i mean, synchronized swimming? who cares?! which one of the swimmers is faster? and don't even get me started on sync diving....

just because this is an olympics thread....
 

USA men's soccer lost to Nigeria and is OUT of the olympic tourny......LOL... soccer still sucks.:D

start times between 8:30-9:30pm
basketball, fencing, handball, field hockey, USA-Canada woman's softball, water polo, greco-roman wrestling.

So who is the leading team (cute factor) anyway?

11:30pm tonight USA-cuba baseball.
10:30pm china-taipei baseball.

11am friday on tv and internet track and field opens. 100m qualifying opens friday morning.
i don't see tyson gay winning it. his hamstring is worse than he is letting on. IMO. actually i'll be surprised if he makes the finals.

Volley Ball
 

Woman have a chance to take down the Chinese. In fifth and final set right now and up 12-6. Dropped the first two sets and making a nice comeback!

Spyder

individual show jumping on now.