I can't wait for Friday! I love the Olympics! (Women's Soccer) Team USA scored two early goals and rolled to an easy 3-0 women's soccer win over host Greece in the first competition of the Olympics. http://sports.yahoo.com/oly/news;_y...N0bQ--?slug=ap-greece-ussoc&prov=ap&type=lgns
For the first time, all 28 Summer Olympic sports will be on the TV menu. NBC, with its six affiliated TV outlets, also will give American viewers their first Olympic sportscasting in Spanish, first Olympic high-definition TV and, via nbcolympics.com, first Olympic video highlights online. Olympic TV traditionally focused on getting up close and personal with the marquee athletes, but NBC's buffet will cater to all appetites. Its 1,210 total TV hours will be greater than the U.S. TV hours from the last five Summer Games combined and will create, literally, round-the-clock coverage spread across the network, MSNBC, CNBC, USA Network, Bravo and Spanish-language Telemundo. (NBC's HDTV service, by itself, will show Olympic programming 24 hours a day.) Daily TV schedule http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/athens/tv-schedule.htm
They don't excite me as much as they did when I was 8-12, but I still love them. My favorites are the men's sprinting/relay events, boxing, and the hardest to admit: gymnastics
I printed out the TV Schedule last night from usatoday. I love HDTV. I can't wait for Swimming, Gymnastics, Diving, Hoops and Track/Field.
Ever since Mary Lou nailed that vault I've been an olympics gymnastics junkie. This year I get to watch it with my 4 year old daughter. Check out the olympic previews on TWC iControll in the free section. I watched them the other night with my kids and now they are excited about watching the olympics.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/08/magazine/08OLYMPIC.html But the outcome of the Trials left Phelps with decisions to make. The weather in Athens will likely be blisteringly hot. And because the organizers of the Games ran out of time to finish all the Olympic sites, the outdoor competition pool, intended to have a roof for shade, will be exposed to the sun. Relays (which were not contested at the U.S. Trials) will add to Phelps's fatigue. He always knew that he would have to drop an individual event, but which one? Crocker beat him fairly decisively in the 100-meter butterfly -- by 0.39 seconds -- but Phelps kept that on his Athens menu and vowed that in the four weeks between the Trials and the Summer Games he would improve his starts. (Crocker established his winning margin in the first 15 meters, then just held Phelps off the rest of the way.) That left a choice between the 200-meter backstroke -- an event in which Phelps is ranked second in the world and one that he has completed in just a little more than a half-second behind Peirsol's record -- and the 200-meter freestyle, in which Phelps is the top-ranked American, but nearly two seconds off the world record. The 200 free had an additional factor to consider: the king of the event is Thorpe. ''It would work well with his schedule,'' USA Swimming's Skinner noted, ''but then he would have to face the big boy, the Big Kahuna.'' That would send some athletes running in the other direction, but not Phelps (even if he could run). He sat at the press center podium each night after the Trials, wearing his baseball cap, slouching and looking, well, kind of goofy. He kept saying that he could not yet reveal his plan for Athens, but it seemed clear what he would do. Each time he was asked if he would stay in the 200 free, he answered, ''I love to race against the best.'' On the final day of the Trials, Phelps made it official: he dropped the backstroke. (''Phelps, Thorpe in Race of the Century,'' a newspaper headline declared in swim-mad Australia.) ''One thing I always wanted to do was race Thorpe in a freestyle event,'' Phelps said of his decision. ''It's something I haven't had the opportunity to do so far in my career. . . . I think it is probably the best opportunity for me to be able to swim in probably the fastest 200 freestyle heat in history.'' It may not have been the wisest strategy -- even Spitz suggested that if Phelps was serious about seven golds, he would stay away from Thorpe -- but the Boy Wonder is a true sportsman. Yes, he wants the big medal haul. And Spitz's record. But what Michael Phelps really hungers for is something the ancient Greeks would have approved of -- a good, fast race.
I don't even care about swimming but that got me pumped. My favorite olympic memory: 92 games in Barcelona. Dereck Redmond of the UK pulls his hamstring in the 400, but jumps up and keeps hobbling with tears of pain on his face, and all of the sudden his dad runs onto the track and helps him finish the race.
you and me both! went to Kenny & Ziggy's for lunch today...if we could mix olympic boxing and those sandwiches, we'd have quite an event. i'll be rooting like hell for that lone iraqi boxer this time around. great story.
That was the perfect example of the Olympic spirit. Watching the Thorpedo and Phelps should be fun. As a Brit, about the only thing I have to look forward too is the Women's Marathon.
Yeah I can't wait!! Indoor and beach Volleyball is the Ultimate Olympic Sport, Basketball, track and field, badminton and table tennis is pretty fun to watch too, soccer, maybe some cycling.
You dog! I'm hungry!! I skipped lunch today to run errands. Methinks I will be cooking a larrrrrge dinner tonight! Yes I will be rooting for the Iraqi boxer as well. Coached by Houston boxing legend Maurice "Termite" Watkins.
i think you'll be ok admitting to liking gymnastics. who doesn't like gymnastics? it's the figure skating of the summer olympics (or vice versa). something no one gives a crap about and yet something everyone absolutely loves once every 4 years. the summer olympics are so badass. all the swimming, all the gymnastics, all the track and field things, then you throw in basketball? what's not to like. figure skating, speed skating, and skiing from the winter olympics are nice, but don't hold a candle to the big 3 of the summer olympics. this year with phelps going for so much and matching up with thorpe swimming gets even better. this year the basketball has so much more competition and drama than in years past. should be a great olympics.
No Way! I give total props to gymnasts. Think you could do a back flip onto 4 inches? Or hold the iron cross? Those people are studs and studets
I'm hoping the U.S will dominate again anyone have stats on how many medals we won in total for 2000?
