The London 2012 Olympic Games...

[Timorous]

The Women's team pursuit final was a demolition. Team GB won by 5 seconds and broke the world record again.

 

[redgtxdi]

that was both a horrific meltdown by the US team and an incredible comeback by the Russians in Men's VB

+ infinity

I just have no words. Shame would be a step up from what the US men's team should be feeling right now. Epic failure of the most epic degree. Match point v zilch to an utter meltdown of a loss.

Did I mention epic? :facepalm:

 

[spacejamz]

dammit...nbcolymics.com has been awesome since Monday, but now is stuttering...

 

[sdifox]

dammit...nbcolymics.com has been awesome since Monday, but now is stuttering...

go bbc?

 

[spacejamz]

Phelps gets another gold....

 

[busydude]

Black man representing Sweden? Now I've seen everything.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Silver in the 10k?

 

[lupi]

long distant running pretense intense on the last couple of laps.

 

[RichUK]

Gb ftw.

 

[dr150]

Rosie MacLennan has restored Canada's honor by securing her country's ONLY Gold in the....trampoline.

Untold riches await her as she endorses trampolines to youngsters at Sports Authority.

 

[OlafSicky]

Rosie MacLennan has restored Canada's honor by securing her country's ONLY Gold in the....trampoline.

Untold riches await her as she endorses trampolines to youngsters at Sports Authority.

So is this a national sport in canada ?

 

[mugs]

What's with the hate for the trampoline? The stuff they do is pretty cool. It's like diving, but they have to land on their feet and keep going. It's not like all of the other gymnastic events are unassisted. How do you think they get so high on the floor exercise and the vault?

None of us could do anything close to what the gymnasts do on the trampoline.

 

[PingviN]

Black man representing Sweden? Now I've seen everything.

This really is nothing new and/or special. We have several black athletes competing on an international level.

 

[Sephire]

Galen Rupp won silver, 10000 meters. Where the heck this guy came from?

He is gonna run again at the 5000 meters.

 

[Newbian]

So is this a national sport in canada ?

If it doesn't involve ice or a moose then nope.

 

[SSSnail]

Oh wait, China and Canada can also compete for gold in handball. Seriously, did people just go to a playground and pick up these "sports" to be in the Olympics?

Tetherball next!

 

[Northern Lawn]

Oh wait, China and Canada can also compete for gold in handball. Seriously, did people just go to a playground and pick up these "sports" to be in the Olympics?

Tetherball next!

Hey SSSnail, at least Canadians Don't get taxed on their medals like they do in the States. Seriously, I couldn't believe that if an American wins a medal you have to pay income tax on it as if you earned it working and was paid an ounce of gold or silver. We also are not taxed on lotteries

 

[SSSnail]

Hey SSSnail, at least Canadians Don't get taxed on their medals like they do in the States. Seriously, I couldn't believe that if you win a medal you have to pay income tax on it as if you earned it working and was paid an ounce of gold or silver. We also are not taxed on lotteries

If you love your country, you'd want to pay taxes too. Maybe that's a bit too deep for you to understand, but I didn't expect you to.

 

[Printer Bandit]

Gold medal = worth $800
Silver medal = $500
Bronze medal = $3 <--- LOL

 

[Northern Lawn]

If you love your country, you'd want to pay taxes too. Maybe that's a bit too deep for you to understand, but I didn't expect you to.

I thought if an American loves their country they hide their money in shell corporations in the Caymen Islands and Swiss bank accounts?

 

[SSSnail]

I thought if an American loves their country they hide their money in shell corporations in the Caymen Islands and Swiss bank accounts?

Nah, those are treasonous traitors. Their time will come.

 

[Northern Lawn]

Nah, those are treasonous traitors. Their time will come.

Their time comes this November.

Romney... ombama....

Talk about being stuck between a rock and hard place. I think I would vote Romney because he's made money in business including successfully manage the summer OLYMPICS and even installed Romneycare successfully in Maryland. While Obama is an imbecile, liar, muslim (i know hes' not but so what) and fakes his birth certificate. Can't trust someone that doubles down on GW's stupidity.

Yeah I'm Canadian and I know more about America then most yanks.

 

[Zim Hosein]

1. USA 26 13 15 54
2. CHN 25 16 12 53

Pretty close thus far I must say!

 

[SSSnail]

Pretty close thus far I must say!

Not really, their medals are mostly badminton, table tennis, trampoline, etc... Those don't count. :thumbsdown:

 

[Northern Lawn]

I think population wise England is the big winner so far. 60+million people and 29 medals.

USA vs China are tied for medals with 54-55, but China has 5 times your population.

Canada has 10 medals, but if we had 10x the population (like USA) we'd have 100 medals

If Britain had 320 million people they might have 150 medals

You Yankees better pick up the pace, this is getting embarrassing.