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Olympic draw:

*USA, Netherlands, Nigeria, Japan.
*Argentina, Ivory Coast, Serbia, Australia.
*Brazil, Belgium, China, New Zealand.
*Italy, Cameroon, South Korea, Honduras

Where is Mexico?

agentesecreto wrote:Where is Mexico?

Home or as you would say, a casa.

Bah.

I was ebing sarcastical. As my friend J-Leo would say.

He, he, he, me too.

Not a total loss for you, it got rid of your boy Sanchez.

That is the silver lining.

Good Bye Ego Sanchez.

Russia's Ksenia Semenova won gold at last year's gym worlds. The only Russian to so.


America's reigning world champion Shawn Johnson


American Nastia Luikin is also expected to do well.


Paul Hamm is the currently olympic champion, and will defend his title in Beijing.


current men's world AA gold medalist Fabian Hambuchen


left to right, current world champion Fabien Hambuchen, Maxim Deviatovsky, Yuri Ryazanov


Deviatovsky was in the running for an AA medal but fell which took him out of the running. He was so angry with himself, Deviatovsky stormed out of the arena which is forbidden under FIG rules. It was a surprise that Russia was not penalised for that. But he was suspended from the national team. Isabelle Severino of France is also out of the Olympics because of a broken foot. An injury she got during the Euros. The US and Cina are expected to fight for the gold medals in all categories i Beijing. But I could not tell you anything about the Chinese teams. Their turnover is so high, I am just unable to keep up But He Kexin is expected to win gold on the bars, she scored 17.000 recently which is one ofthe highest scores by a woman so far under this new scoring system. For Romania, Steliana Nistor and Sandra Izbasa are the best gymnasts they have so far, but the Romanians may challenge for bronze.

More protests in Seoul against China's policies. This time protestors are also protesting China's repatriation of North Korean defectors.
But once again there was thousands of pro-China demonstrators, apparently they are Chinese students and residents waving huuuuuge Chinese flags.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7369471.stm

Palo did ask once about the one legged swimmers, so here she is...

Natalie Du Toit is 24 has qualified for the Olympic 10km race. Despite losing a leg 7 years ago.

I'm looking forward to seeing the Croatian high jumper chick.

will there be a prediction thread for the olympics futbol games/??

No.

...soup for palo.

bah

...black sheep.

Obama sheep.

Argentina's definitely gotta be considered above and beyong the clear favourites for the Gold Medal

Messi, Aguero and Gago in Argentina football team for Olympics

Goalkeeper: Oscar Ustari (Getafe-Spain) and Sergio Romero (Az Alkmaar- Holland)

Defenders: Pablo Zabaleta (Espanyol-Spain), Ezequiel Garay (Racing de Santander-Spain), Fabricio Coloccini (Deportivo la Coruna-Spain) Federico Fazio (Sevilla-Spain) and Fabian Monzon (Doca Juniros-Argentina)

Midfielder: Fernando Gago (Real Madrid-Spian, Ever Banega (Valencia-Spain), Javier Mascherano (Liverpool-England), Juan Ramon Riquelme (Boca Juniors-Argentina) and Jose Sosa (Bayern Munich-Germany)

Forwards: Sergio Aguero (Atletico Madrid-Spain), Lionel Messi (Barcelona-Spain) and Ezequiel Lavezzi (Napoli-Italy)

That is quite an impressive roster.

Looks like no Robinho, no Messi.

Italian Olympic team ....

Abate, Ignazio (Milan),
Acquafresca, Robert (Cagliari),
Bocchetti (Genoa),
Cigarini, Luca (Parma),
Coda, Andrea (Udinese),
Consigli, Andrea (Atalanta),
Criscito, Domenico (Genoa),
De Ceglie, Paolo (Juventus),
De Silvestri, Lorenzo (Lazio),
Dessena, Daniele (Parma),
Giovinco, Sebastian (Juventus),
Marchisio, Claudio (Juventus),
Montolivo, Riccardo (Fiorentina),
Motta, Marco (Udinese),
Nocerino, Antonio (Palermo),
Rocchi, Tommaso (Lazio),
Rossi, Giuseppe (Villareal) and
Viviano, Emiliano (Brescia).

Four reserves: Candreva, Ranocchia, Russotto and Sirigu

fu**in Barcelona is not letting Messi go.

Still don't understand WHY China got the Olympics...

I predict they will be the WORST hosts ever!

I predict that medal-wise, they will end up in the top two. Probably on second place, behind the USA.

Where is Buzz anyway? Wasn't she the olympics specialist?

Don't know about Buzzz. But I do know Boye is dancing in the streets after Norway's women's soccer team beat the U.S. Norway jumped out to an early lead, getting two goals in the first four minutes, to beat the U.S. 2-0.

As Pierre de Coubertin would have said : "let the games begin"

The one with the logo is cool}

Ah, Boye dancing naked in the streets again... happy not to be in norway.

Hypocracy:

As the wolds big time consumer of Chinese goods, the USA should place emphasis on that and not the feel good blah blah to ruin the Olympics.

BOOO: Chinese authorities prevented US Winter Olympics gold medalist Joey Cheek, a leading advocate for an end to violence in the Sudanese province of Darfur, from traveling to the Games.

BRAVI: The US team selected a refugee from the Darfur conflict to be their flag-bearer at Friday's opening ceremony.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hoF ... F4nSvwqPNw

BTW: Aren't the mens' football games off today?

BOOO: Journalism. He is a refugee from Sudan, not from the Darfur conflict.

What's a little geography between refugees.

BTW: Captain are you still in China?

The women played yesterday and the men this morning. Italy defeated Honduras 3-0 with goals from Giovinco, Rossi (PK) and Acquafresca (PK). The US edged Japan 1-0. Brazil eked one out against I forget. Don't remember the other results.

Did not someone volunteer to put together a prediction competition? I guess a bit late now.

Brazil squeaked by Belgium (1-0) and Argentina beat Ivory Coast (2-1, with a goal Messi). Good start for Italia. Italy leads the group as S. Korea and Cameroon tied. Next match is Monday against the Koreans.

some close games there today if we go by the scores. I guess we put the two SA giants on a pedestal that if they don't win by 2 or 3 every game it's a let off.

RE: Joey Cheek denied VISA

another stupid liberal do-gooder.

this idiot should spend more time being concerned about America's problems. Like the 50M without healthcare.