Official Summer Olympics Thread

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » August 15, 2008 10:50 am

diverg wrote:From the Beijing Olympic website:

(BEIJING, March 27) -- On the occasion of the 500-day countdown to the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games, the Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) unveiled the Games' medals.

BOCOG Executive Vice-President and chairman of the evaluation panel Jiang Xiaoyu attended the unveiling ceremony and delivered a speech at the Capital Museum on Tuesday.

The medals are designed with inspiration from "bi", China's ancient jade piece inscribed with dragon pattern. The medals, made of gold and jade, symbolize nobility and virtue and are embodiment of traditional Chinese values of ethics and honor.

The medals are 70mm in diameter and 6mm in thickness. On their obverse side, the medals adopt the standard design prescribed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) -- a drawing that represents the winged goddess of victory Nike and Panathinaikos Arena, while on their reverse side, the medals are inlaid with jade with the Beijing Games emblem engraved in the metal centerpiece.

Noble and elegant, the medals are a blending of traditional Chinese culture and the Olympism. It gives the winners of the Games great honor and acclamation as recognition of their achievement.

The IOC has strict stipulation on the Olympic medals' material, identification, weight, size and drawing. The medals for the champion and the runner-up are made of pure silver, and the champion's medal must be plated with gold weighing not less than six grams each. For the first time jade is used for the Olympic medals. The design not only meets the IOC requirements, but also expresses praise and honor that the Chinese people cherish for the Olympic Spirit and the Olympic athletes.

In his speech, Jiang Xiaoyu said the Beijing 2008 Games medals will be a major part of the Olympic legacy for China. The design of the medals is a result of hard work and enthusiasm of many people. The medals, he said, embody strong Chinese style and elegant art, and are a harmonious combination of the Chinese culture with the Olympism, making them a vehicle to spread the Olympic Spirit and the concepts of the Beijing Games, as well as to showcase Chinese culture and arts, and the high levels of design and technology.

the irony of this, given their activities already...

springparrot · Post by **springparrot** » August 15, 2008 11:47 am

Thank you for the info Greg and Dez
I thought it was jade, but wasn't sure

springparrot · Post by **springparrot** » August 15, 2008 11:49 am

1 United States 14 13 19 46

as of 10:50 cdt

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » August 15, 2008 11:56 am

Thanks for the update Molly!!!

springparrot · Post by **springparrot** » August 15, 2008 11:57 am

I'm so proud, that I'm going to post all the winners

United States
Medal Athlete Event
Cycling Road
Gold Kristin Armstrong Women's Ind. Time Trial
Bronze Levi Leipheimer Men's Ind. Time Trial
Equestrian Eventing
Silver Gina Miles Mixed Individual
Fencing
Gold Mariel Zagunis Women's Individual Sabre Final
Silver Sada Jacobson Women's Individual Sabre Final
Bronze Becca Ward Women's Individual Sabre Final
Bronze Team United States Women's Team Sabre Final
Artistic Gymnastics
Gold Nastia Liukin Women's Individual all-round Final
Silver Shawn Johnson Women's Individual all-round Final
Silver Team United States Women's Team Competition Final
Bronze Team United States Men's Team Competition Final
Judo
Bronze Ronda Rousey Women's Middleweight (63-70kg) Final
Shooting
Gold Team United States Men's Double Trap (150 targets) Final
Silver Matthew Emmons Men's 50m Free Rifle Prone (60 shots) Final
Silver Team United States Women's Skeet (75 targets) Final
Bronze Jason Turner Men's 10m Air Pistol (60 shots) Final
Bronze Team United States Women's Trap (75 targets) Final
Swimming
Gold Michael Phelps Men's 200m Free
Gold Michael Phelps Men's 200m Butterfly
Gold Aaron Peirsol Men's 100m Back
Gold Ryan Lochte Men's 200m Back
Gold Michael Phelps Men's 200m Medley
Gold Michael Phelps Men's 400m Medley
Gold Team United States Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay
Gold Team United States Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
Gold Rebecca Soni Women's 200m Breast
Gold Natalie Coughlin Women's 100m Back
Silver Matt Grevers Men's 100m Back
Silver Aaron Peirsol Men's 200m Back
Silver Katie Hoff Women's 400m Free
Silver Christine Magnuson Women's 100m Butterfly
Silver Rebecca Soni Women's 100m Breast
Silver Team United States Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay
Bronze Jason Lezak Men's 100m Free
Bronze Peter Vanderkaay Men's 200m Free
Bronze Larsen Jensen Men's 400m Free
Bronze Ryan Lochte Men's 200m Medley
Bronze Ryan Lochte Men's 400m Medley
Bronze Natalie Coughlin Women's 100m Free
Bronze Margaret Hoelzer Women's 100m Back
Bronze Natalie Coughlin Women's 200m Medley
Bronze Katie Hoff Women's 400m Medley
Bronze Team United States Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay
Track and Field
Silver Christian Cantwell Men's Shot put Final
Bronze Shalane Flanagan Women's 10000m Final
Wrestling Greco-Roman
Bronze Adam Wheeler Men's 84-96kg

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green1 · Post by **green1** » August 15, 2008 2:44 pm

springparrot wrote:Artistic Gymnastics
Gold Nastia Liukin Women's Individual all-round Final
Silver Shawn Johnson Women's Individual all-round Final
Silver Team United States Women's Team Competition Final
Bronze Team United States Men's Team Competition Final

What's the difference between Artistic Gymnastics and Gymnastics?

ph4ever · Post by **ph4ever** » August 15, 2008 2:51 pm

green1 wrote:
springparrot wrote:Artistic Gymnastics
Gold Nastia Liukin Women's Individual all-round Final
Silver Shawn Johnson Women's Individual all-round Final
Silver Team United States Women's Team Competition Final
Bronze Team United States Men's Team Competition Final
What's the difference between Artistic Gymnastics and Gymnastics?

artistic gymnastics involves dance and a ribbon on a stick

springparrot · Post by **springparrot** » August 15, 2008 8:02 pm

ph4ever wrote:
green1 wrote:
springparrot wrote:Artistic Gymnastics
Gold Nastia Liukin Women's Individual all-round Final
Silver Shawn Johnson Women's Individual all-round Final
Silver Team United States Women's Team Competition Final
Bronze Team United States Men's Team Competition Final
What's the difference between Artistic Gymnastics and Gymnastics?
artistic gymnastics involves dance and a ribbon on a stick

from wiki
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, agility and coordination. Artistic Gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). It typically involves exercises on uneven bars, balance beam, floor exercise, and vault (for women), and high bar, parallel bars, still rings, floor exercise, vault, and pommel horse (for men). It evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks, including skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and circus performance skills.
Other forms of gymnastics are rhythmic gymnastics, various trampolining sports and aerobic and acrobatic gymnastics.

Dezdmona · Post by **Dezdmona** » August 15, 2008 8:08 pm

ph4ever wrote:
green1 wrote:What's the difference between Artistic Gymnastics and Gymnastics?
artistic gymnastics involves dance and a ribbon on a stick

I believe your confusing artistic gymnastics with rhythmic gymnastics.

creeky · Post by **creeky** » August 15, 2008 8:28 pm

Bob Roberts wrote:
springparrot wrote:CONGRATS TO REBECCA SONI
Wow! Hell of a race! Love hearing the USA chant over world-wide TV! Did you see the Aussie at the end? She was sucking wind!

A virus has hit some of the aussie swimmers - she had asthma. Could see the officials giving her a puffer.

springparrot · Post by **springparrot** » August 15, 2008 8:57 pm

creeky wrote:
Bob Roberts wrote:
springparrot wrote:CONGRATS TO REBECCA SONI
Wow! Hell of a race! Love hearing the USA chant over world-wide TV! Did you see the Aussie at the end? She was sucking wind!
A virus has hit some of the aussie swimmers - she had asthma. Could see the officials giving her a puffer.

yup--some of our teams has had it too

creeky · Post by **creeky** » August 15, 2008 9:16 pm

springparrot wrote:
creeky wrote:
Bob Roberts wrote:
springparrot wrote:CONGRATS TO REBECCA SONI
Wow! Hell of a race! Love hearing the USA chant over world-wide TV! Did you see the Aussie at the end? She was sucking wind!
A virus has hit some of the aussie swimmers - she had asthma. Could see the officials giving her a puffer.
yup--some of our teams has had it too

We are now worried - as the "biggest swim" of all is tomorrow. Grant Hackett in the 1500m has the virus.. and he is asthmatic as well ..... he swum a olympic record in the heat yesterday - we are worried he "spent" himself doing that ...... going for this third gold in a row in the 1500m. We have to have faith - he won in Sydney with Glandular Fever and in Athens with a partially collapsed lung.
The 1500m is the "kentucky darby" type thing for us - everyone stops and watches ..... even if they have not watched any of the other races - so a LOT of pressure on him when he is sick

tikitatas · Post by **tikitatas** » August 15, 2008 9:36 pm

Time for my daily "Free Tibet".

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » August 15, 2008 10:10 pm

I'm comfortable enough in my own skin to admit I also enjoyed watching the men play beach volleyball.

That was a good match that they just showed.

Bob Roberts · Post by **Bob Roberts** » August 15, 2008 10:12 pm

HOLY CRAP! PHELPS!

Dezdmona · Post by **Dezdmona** » August 15, 2008 10:13 pm

Bob Roberts · Post by **Bob Roberts** » August 15, 2008 10:14 pm

I think his mom passed out.

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » August 15, 2008 10:14 pm

Bob Roberts wrote:HOLY CRAP! PHELPS!

Can't believe Cavic didn't touch first. He was two inches away and just floated in.

Bob Roberts · Post by **Bob Roberts** » August 15, 2008 10:16 pm

So what about the Men's Beach Volleyball result?

pojo · Post by **pojo** » August 15, 2008 10:21 pm

Bob Roberts wrote:So what about the Men's Beach Volleyball result?

the americans won the rubber match