Olympics 2008

Bugger, I've got to go - competition challenge at 1530.

C'MON MOSS! Do it for the Bay!

He came fourth and i didn't see any of it, blank screen from 2.20 to 2.30. Glad i wasn't the only one!
Grrrrr so so angry with tvnz right now

i saw it in wellington on freeview. but apparenlty it didnt work for most of the country.  clark007e2008-08-13 15:17:20

I listened on Radio Sport - got the whole thing!

I watched it on the Internet. 1.54.35, which I think is an NZ record (?).

Have to agree, he actually had me interested in the competition. Especially when the Togolese guy went and was in gold medal position for about half the race.

I flicked channels (was watching discovery) and got the final lap. I'm on Saturn cable TV. They're livid on Newstalk ZB. "I came home from work early to watch it" etc etc. Glad I'm missing most of it, every now and them I take a glimpse and it seems to be a lot of repeating going on.

god anyone see the Hungarian weightlifter today....his arm dislocated as he tried to lift 100and something kgs!!

Have we won any bloody medals yet?

Nope

Drysdale came 3rd in the semi final, but I am hoping that was because he eased off the pace at the end to conserve energy.  He was even with the geezer who beat him last year with 500 meters to go, but just managed to scrape into 3rd place to qualify for the final

for f**ks sake, our double sculls team (considered hot favourites for gold) have scrapped into the final in 3rd place as well.  We were creamed by the aussies.

I said its going to rain medals on Saturday, hmmmm that rowing performance suggests we may be lucky to get a drip

Still Vili, track cycling and bmx to go though so not all is lost. but i feel the sea of fourths may have begun today

if only there was sheep-shearing, boyracing and child abuse in the Olympics...

Nah the asian countries would own the boyracing, all the good ones in NZ are asians!

That had to hurt!

Has anyone noticed that a whole bunch of commentators are still referring to Czechoslovakia? I mean, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have been separate countries for 15 years. That's 4 Summer Olympics. Get your facts straight farken.

I'm looking at you John McBeth...

His arm was at a odd angle & his legs were twitching!!  Remember Graham May from the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Chch?

Classic Wongo, didn't those fans in the front few rows move fast!

I think they were the judges/referees LG.

8. f**king. Seconds.

Phelps is a freak.

... and if one more person says "for a nation of our size we punch above our weight" or similar...

for a ntion of its size Togo puches well above its weight . Seiously though for us to statistaclly do better than Togo we need to pull in 45 medals. 1 in 4 of their athletes has a medal, are we likely to get that????? Doubtful!

update??

We haven't won a medal.
port     Athlete     Event     Start (NZ)
Hockey     Women's Prelim Pool B     NZL v GBR     1:00 a.m.
Rowing     Storm Uru/ Peter Taylor     Men's Lightweight Double Sculls Semi-finals A/B     8:00 p.m.
Rowing     Coxless Fours     Men's Final B     8:50 p.m.
Rowing     Emma Twigg     Women's Single Sculls Final B     8:50 p.m.
Sailing     Tom Ashley     Men's Windsurfer -RS:X - Races 5 and 6     5:00 p.m.
Sailing     Barbara Kendall     Women's Windsurfer -RS:X - Races 5 and 6     5:00 p.m.
Sailing     Andrew Murdoch     Men's One Person Dinghy-Laser - Races 4 and 5 (Delayed)     5:00 p.m.
Sailing     Jo Aleh     Women's Laser radial - Races 4 and 5 (Delayed)     5:00 p.m.
Sailing     Dan Slater     Heavy Weight Dinghy-Finn - Race 8 (Delayed)     5:00 p.m.
Swimming     Moss Burmester/ Corney Swanepoel     Men's 100m Butterfly - Heats     11:40 p.m.
Swimming     Melissa Ingram     Women's 200m Backstroke - Heats     12:33 a.m.

NZ is the sh*ttest nation on the planet.

I'm burning my passport as we speak.

My new name is Togo Pie.

f**k off....

We've got the wind, the rain.....

AND THE PHOENIX!

Surely you've learned not to take Frankie seriously by now Gangsta/RKR/Daniel.

Rowing got cancelled...

You forgot dljourdain, wumbo and Pure Genius

and how did you know my name was Daniel?Gangsta!2008-08-14 22:02:55

I know things....

Quite clearly your stalking me. Or It's been said multiple times on here.

0 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze = 0.