2008 Olympics!

[Lonemagpie]

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.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

4 Great Britain 19 13 15 47

not gonna sniff at that Well done team GB, best games ever (when we didn't cheat I'm looking at you 1908)

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)

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Or David Tennant and lots of flying Daleks.

David Tennant HAS to carry the Torch. I'm boycotting the games if he doesn't.

 

[Timewalker]

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.

They should have Daleks at every venue to exterminate any judge or coach who cheats, or any athlete who shows bad sportsmanship!

 

[cultcross]

Jeremy Clarkson should be banned by court order from having anything to do with the 2012 games. Can't stand the man.

 

[Cali]

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.

Opening Ceremony, Top Gear-style. I think that would be fantastic. "Ambitious, but rubbish."

They should have Daleks at every venue to exterminate any judge or coach who cheats, or any athlete who shows bad sportsmanship!

Genius. Maybe the TrekBBS should be in charge of it!

 

[Brolan]

1 China 51 21 28 100
2 USA 36 38 36 110
3 Russia 23 21 28 72
4 Great Britain 19 13 15 47

not gonna sniff at that Well done team GB, best games ever (when we didn't cheat I'm looking at you 1908)

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

 

[Roger Wilco]

Opening Ceremony, Top Gear-style. I think that would be fantastic. "Ambitious, but rubbish."

Plus: a huge budget - it would be fucking awesome!

 

[Amaris]

Oh yeah! USA beats Spain 118 to 107.


J.

Now THAT was a game worthy of being a title game. It'd have belonged front and center in any NBA finals.!

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.

 

[cultcross]

1 China 51 21 28 100
2 USA 36 38 36 110
3 Russia 23 21 28 72
4 Great Britain 19 13 15 47

not gonna sniff at that Well done team GB, best games ever (when we didn't cheat I'm looking at you 1908)

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

51 > 36

Or is this a general awesomeness thing?

 

[Brolan]

1 China 51 21 28 100
2 USA 36 38 36 110
3 Russia 23 21 28 72
4 Great Britain 19 13 15 47

not gonna sniff at that Well done team GB, best games ever (when we didn't cheat I'm looking at you 1908)

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

51 > 36

Or is this a general awesomeness thing?

110 > 100

 

[Daedalus12]

^ 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.

 

[Roger Wilco]

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.

 

[Timewalker]

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.

They should have Daleks at every venue to exterminate any judge or coach who cheats, or any athlete who shows bad sportsmanship!

Genius. Maybe the TrekBBS should be in charge of it!

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...

 

[Brolan]

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/

 

[StolenThunder]

Don't think much of the 2012 intro - a red bus, a handful of jiggling chavs in civvies (no costumes), and Beckham kicked a ball. Doesn't bode well - you *know* the 2012 opening ceremony is going to be a parade of Minis and Pearly Kings & Queens... With no mention of millennia of culture, history and innovation...

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.

 

[Miss Chicken]

1 China 51 21 28 100
2 USA 36 38 36 110
3 Russia 23 21 28 72
4 Great Britain 19 13 15 47

not gonna sniff at that Well done team GB, best games ever (when we didn't cheat I'm looking at you 1908)

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

51 > 36

Or is this a general awesomeness thing?

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

 

[Jack Bauer]

I missed the Redeem Team win the gold. I figured they'd win by 20 so I skipped it. Damn...missed a good one.

 

[Brolan]

I invite anyone who had NBC's coverage inflicted on them to vote in my thread in the TV & Media forum

 

[Samurai8472]

Or David Tennant and lots of flying Daleks.

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