Somebody on OG said the 2012 opening ceremony should be given to Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May on a budget of £1000 each! I'd vote for that! Or David Tennant and lots of flying Daleks.
Well done for those English Folks. So it's all over now. It's been a great Olympics games. (I still think Sydney was better ... but only just)
They should have Daleks at every venue to exterminate any judge or coach who cheats, or any athlete who shows bad sportsmanship!
Jeremy Clarkson should be banned by court order from having anything to do with the 2012 games. Can't stand the man.
Opening Ceremony, Top Gear-style. I think that would be fantastic. "Ambitious, but rubbish." Genius. Maybe the TrekBBS should be in charge of it!
You got the order wrong, let me fix that for you: 1 USA 36 38 36 110 2 China 51 21 28 100 3 Russia 23 21 28 72 4 Great Britain 19 13 15 47
Indeed. It's my favorite kind of basketball game. Neck and neck all the way up, and then the U.S. just takes it downtown. J.
^ The English always rank it by the number of gold medals. I think that is the way IOC rank it as well. Even in the past games the US media has ranked the countries by the number of gold. This time they just bended that tradition a bit.
Well, just going by "feeling", I'd say that these Olympics were more successful for China than for the USA without a doubt. Imo, it would be really to tough to argue otherwise, regardless of that medal count, even if you disregard the fact that a gold medal is worth a lot more than silver/bronze.
Yep, I can see it now: YOU HAVE BEEN CAUGHT CHEAT-ING... EX-TER-MIN-ATE, EX-TER-MIN-ATE, EX-TER-MIN-ATE! And then along comes the Doctor () to explain to the surviving judges that cheaters never prosper in the long run...
Yeah, you guys are right. It's just funny that if you go to US web sites like SI.com you will see the medal rankings listed like I reordered them: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2008/
I was (surprisingly) rather impressed. They had ten minutes and I thought they used it really well. I'm a big fan of the umbrella, newspaper, bowler hat, red bus stuff so long as it isn't entirely overused.
I think the best way to compare nations is to awards 3 points for a gold, 2 points for a silver and 1 point for a bronze. If that is done the final scores are China 223 USA 220 Russia 139 Great Britain 98 Australia 89 Germany 83 France 70 Korea 67 Italy 52 Japan 49
I missed the Redeem Team win the gold. I figured they'd win by 20 so I skipped it. Damn...missed a good one.
I invite anyone who had NBC's coverage inflicted on them to vote in my thread in the TV & Media forum
Everyone in the Olympic Stadium will dissapear until a skinny man wearing a suit and brown trench coat picks up the torch to run with it haha NBC used the dragonheart theme