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- L-Town Expatriate
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Are you talking Hamm, or did I miss another one?
At last check, Gay and Spearmon are still in. SOOIEE!
At last check, Gay and Spearmon are still in. SOOIEE!
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Man the cameraman for this ceremony blows.
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Yeah I like how when they were showing Roger Federer, his face was obscured by the Swiss flag for most of the time and they tried like 3 times to find an advantageous angle.ashkenaziCD wrote: Man the cameraman for this ceremony blows.
Seriously, the Opening Ceremonies were cool. When I had the mute button and the closed captioning on so I didn't have to listen to the NBC tards. Get used to it y'all! This is gonna be a long 2 weeks of Bob Costas and John Tesh!
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I hate Bob Costas.
Also, my favorite awful cameraman moment was when they had those blocks that moved up and down, making waves and ripples, and they decided to zoom in on the actual boxes instead of the design they made.
Also, my favorite awful cameraman moment was when they had those blocks that moved up and down, making waves and ripples, and they decided to zoom in on the actual boxes instead of the design they made.
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Don't be dissing the only seemingly decent St. Louis connection to the Olympic movement! St. Louis couldn't even put their Olympic stadium in their own city limits!!ashkenaziCD wrote: I hate Bob Costas.
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I grew up partially in St. Louis and I'm ashamed to admit he's from there. He's a raging idiot.
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As I said, seemingly decent.ashkenaziCD wrote: I grew up partially in St. Louis and I'm ashamed to admit he's from there. He's a raging idiot.
KC: Maurice Green. Courtney McCool. Tara Nott. 'Nuff said
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I believe there's a KC Central HS alumn on the US track team this year too... Muna Lee? I think that's the name.L-Town Expatriate wrote: KC: Maurice Green. Courtney McCool. Tara Nott. 'Nuff said
But yeah, Bob Costas sucks. And his hair? Totally a rug.
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Ahh, yes. I completely forgot about her until this morning. You say "track olympian" around here and you get drowned out by Hog Calls for Tyson Gay.redliberte wrote:I believe there's a KC Central HS alumn on the US track team this year too... Muna Lee? I think that's the name.L-Town Expatriate wrote: KC: Maurice Green. Courtney McCool. Tara Nott. 'Nuff said
But yeah, Bob Costas sucks. And his hair? Totally a rug.
So let's make it simply:
KC: Muna Lee. 'Nuff said.
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As a taxpaying resident of St. Louis I must say, anyone has every right to diss on Bob Costas. He deserves it. He commits various oral acts on his audience that the rules of this site prevent me from describing in graphic detail, but let's just say he leaves them with a happy ending.L-Town Expatriate wrote:Don't be dissing the only seemingly decent St. Louis connection to the Olympic movement! St. Louis couldn't even put their Olympic stadium in their own city limits!!ashkenaziCD wrote: I hate Bob Costas.
And also let's not eulogize the 1904 Games too much, as much as they did for St. Louis. It was, after all, the host of the games where they had the Anthropology Games and had human beings as living exhibitions not unlike we'd have pandas at the zoo.
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LOLOLOLOLOL.scphilli wrote: As a taxpaying resident of St. Louis I must say, anyone has every right to diss on Bob Costas. He deserves it. He commits various oral acts on his audience that the rules of this site prevent me from describing in graphic detail, but let's just say he leaves them with a happy ending.
Yes, the relay was teh awesome.
And may I just add... Bela Karolyi is totally the personification of Kyle's stupid "In Soviet Russia..." jokes. Despite the fact that Bela Karolyi is, in fact, Romanian.
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Have you ever heard of Yakov Smirnoff?
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Wonder what Yakov's saying in light of the whole Russia-invading-Georgia-because-they-think-Georgia-is-invading-Russia war?
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Gotcha. I've seen Yakov's billboards in Branson, but never heard his jokes. God forbid I thought that bit was original.
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That was definitely the emotional highlight so far. Our whole family was glued to the TV. I kept hoping Lezak could catch him, but I honestly didn't think it would happen until I he took off from that last turn.Ford08 wrote: Did anyone see the awesome come from behind victory in the 4x100 relay last night? It was pretty much amazing, take that France!!!!!
Being a track guy myself, I can't wait for track and field to get going this weekend.
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I can't wait for more headlines like "Gay Takes Record In 100M"FordATeam/CC wrote:That was definitely the emotional highlight so far. Our whole family was glued to the TV. I kept hoping Lezak could catch him, but I honestly didn't think it would happen until I he took off from that last turn.Ford08 wrote: Did anyone see the awesome come from behind victory in the 4x100 relay last night? It was pretty much amazing, take that France!!!!!
Being a track guy myself, I can't wait for track and field to get going this weekend.
At first I thought they were being unusually direct, then I realized, oh no, that's his last name.
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He cramped up.scphilli wrote:I can't wait for more headlines like "Gay Takes Record In 100M"FordATeam/CC wrote:That was definitely the emotional highlight so far. Our whole family was glued to the TV. I kept hoping Lezak could catch him, but I honestly didn't think it would happen until I he took off from that last turn.Ford08 wrote: Did anyone see the awesome come from behind victory in the 4x100 relay last night? It was pretty much amazing, take that France!!!!!
Being a track guy myself, I can't wait for track and field to get going this weekend.
At first I thought they were being unusually direct, then I realized, oh no, that's his last name.
As a result, Arkansas' Olympic highlight at the moment is a swimmer from Malaysia who transferred this year from Wisconsin smashed their country's record in some 200m race. Despite placing 5th in her semi heat.