Olympics 2008

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

We're not the Chinese people who must believe what they are told, or at least not question it, or face imprisonment.

No, we are the people who will have to make political protest inside Freedom Cages far from observation.



China's got us beat ... but only by degree.



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I like all the things about the Olympics that €uro does, and i agree with Alex that the ceremonies would be far, far and far better live. But i remember when the Winter Olympics came to Utah, the opening and closing ceremonies were way beyond my means.


So i content myself with TV as a poor man's substitute. I can tolerate it ... but what I cannot stomach is being told what I'm about to see in 10 seconds throughout the entire 4 hours of the ceremony. Gak.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

No, we are the people who will have to make political protest inside Freedom Cages far from observation.

Indeed. But I would suggest that it isn't as close as you would say, but that's a discussion for a different forum.

Or remove the homeless populations so that our sities look good when in the national spotlight, whether for the Superbowl as AZ and the city of Glendale did, or for the dem convention and what Denver is doing.

[Stan4dSteph]

We got to see the dress rehearsal for the opening ceremonies when I volunteered at the Atlanta games in 96. It was very cool. We also got to skip all the boring speeches and the endless parade of nations, which is fun but only if you can fast forward through some of it. I like critiquing the fashions...

[Moonliner]

Wow. They have changed the way gymnastics is scored. No more perfect 10's. You can now get 14, 15, even 17 points.

Originally Posted by news

Spurred in part by the judging errors at the 2004 Olympics, the international gymnastics federation, known as the F.I.G., changed the system to better differentiate one gymnast’s routines from another’s.

Gymnasts now receive separate marks for degree of difficulty and for execution in each event. The two are added to obtain the overall score, which usually ranges from 14 to 17 for top-level gymnasts.

It is only possible, but not probable, for a gymnast to score a 10.0 in the execution appraisal.