That was an awful match to watch. The Cuban guy just never figured out the Thai guy's length and had no chance. The Thai got all of his points counter-punching. It was textbook Olympic boxing (very boring but very effective). If the Cuban had been more aggressive and thrown more punchs, maybe he would have had a shot, but I doubt it.
http://www.nbcolympics.com/taekwondo/news/newsid=251304.html#kicked+out+cuban+banned+outburst Here's a link to the video of the match.
The light heavyweight gold has an Irish boxer competing for it...any idea what channel and when it will be on here in Houston?
Is the basketball game going to be on tonight/very early tomorrow morning or is it not going to be shown just not live?
holy crap, at the brink of 8 out of 8 golds, with a 33 point lead, china chokes hard core with a horrible dive and the aussie dominates his 3.8 dive and gets the gold (112.10 was the highest score i've seen this week). then the other chinese guy sucks and doesn't medal. saved their 2 worst dives of the entire week, men or women, for the end.
What an incredible moment for that Aussie. He stuck the dive when everything was on the line and was overcome by emotion after realizing what it meant. "You just won the Olympics!" Priceless moment. The Chinese guy who dived after him may have been shellshocked.
the one that didn't medal is a sub anyways. he didn't know he was going to dive until a couple of days ago. the silver won't receive as much money as gold. i think in some sports, a gold gets you 1 million RMB. that's a lot of money.
Even though I already knew the result, watching the last leg of the women's 4x400 final gave me the chills.
Richards just ran determined and with a chip on her shoulder. She wasn't going to get anything less than gold on this one. That Russian knew it too.
1 million RMB is only from the State Sports Administration. Rich private foundations will give much more than that. I remember each Athens gold medalist got around 4.5 million RMB, or $700K, from various award in 2004.
wow, that's even better. they deserve it. sacrificed their youth for this moment. the reward will pretty much take care of them and their families for decades if they don't waste the money.
It pays off to be a little bit nicer to the host nation Both US men's and women's 4X400 relay teams wore red today, to "honor the host nation", and they both won!
man wariner was just flying on the final leg of the 4x400. he even seemed to turn it up in the final 100. solid wins for our 400 relay teams.
