Olympic Swimming
 

Prelims start in a few hours

200 freestyle

Going for an upset.

OOSSAMA MELLOULI +500
100/500

Come on OUS!

is it televised live?

Still trying to figure that out. NBC's website is a clusterf.uck.

watching replay in the am..sucks.

It will interfere with my listening of Dave Johnson and Caton:D

Prelims should be live online.

Finals will be live on NBC tomorrow night.

Looks like NBC had some serious pull. Traditionally prelims are in the morning and finals at night in the same day. In Shanghai prelims are at night and finals the following morning.

So around 5 a.m. eastern prelims start and 9 p.m finals in prime american time. :D

:cool:

Swimming and waterpolo are really the only things I'm looking forward to watching. Although you wouldn't know anyone else was swimming besides Phelps and Amanda Beard from the promo's. I thought the Amanda Beard "promo's" were very tastefully done for the record.

In re: to USA waterpolo- Tony Azevedo (of Long Beach Wilson and Stanford) is arguably one of the (or the) best waterpolo players in the world. First player from the US to sign a million dollar contract to play professionally.... doing so with a club in Italy. That's insane considering the end game for an elite waterpolo player in the US is getting a partial scholarship to Stanford, USC, CAL, UCLA, etc... Getting a full scholarship means that you are probably under consideration for the national team and have been playing internationally with the junior-national team while in highschool.

USA v Serbia is on NBC wed morning and i think is the first US game televised. If you assumed the Serbians play dirty, you were correct.

Dave Johnson has a gig? One time (on TVG) I wrote that Todd guy, and told him that Caton was HER HIGHNESS QUEEN OF GREATER CHALKLAND. He loved that, because when she was at TVG she was really chalk crazy.I wish I had a fiddy for every time she said you can't pick your prices etc.

checkout the live internet feeds. i have onthe Equestrian now. it has picture-in-picture and can watch 3 events at one time. very cool.:)

i like the track meet the best. to me that is the summer olympics.

*Clapping*

YEAH, the much anticipated swimming thread.

The NBC site is a mess, I'm still trying to figure out what's when and what's live and what's being streamed. I still can't find the prelims from last nite.
The olympic site is a little bit better.

Dtide you should start a track thread.

Ous is up against it tonight. Diamond isn't showing any love on finals tonight. All bets are off.

Jensen looked great this morning and should give Hackett all he wants. Jensen wins and shatters his American record.

Right now Piersol is -150 to win the 200 back. Lochte is the only competition and he's got a busy schedule. Piersol will win and break the world record and I'm willing to take the odds considering they would be at least -1500 without Lochte in the race.

600/400

try this?
http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv_and_on...e=1080/tv.html

T&F starts aug. 15.

Same here.
Not really the field events, just the running.
High jump and long jump are ok.

give me the events that can be timed or measured (weight, height or distance), i don't like the team events or the ones that are rated by judges.

Exactly.
Gymnastics and Iceskating (for the winter)... ughhh.

I will watch the basketball though.

T & F is great, but my fav is women's beach volleyball. :D

misty & carrie coming up.:)

Phelps, just DOMINANT!

that was an incredible performance....and seems like a class act to boot.

The last world record holder in the 400 I.M. was Tom Dolan. The record was set at the 2000 games in Sydney. The time? 4:11.76.

Almost an eight second drop in the span of 8 years. Arguably the greatest athlete of all time.

argue it Coach...of all time?
:rolleyes:

I don't have to argue it. The results are there. He'll be the most accomplished Olympic athlete ever after this one and he's only 23.

Not denying what he accomplished, but you can't annoit a 23yr old as the "greatest athlete of all time"

I really could care less about swimming, but Torres last leg was cool to watch

I said arguably and you can't deny he's on the short list. To do so would be completely ridiculous.

Just how many times does he have to break a world record? At least 100, 200? ;)

I understand he shoots the boost.

Can somebody pleae wake up Henry kissinger at the usa hoops game...tv has caught him sleeping now twice...:eek:

What a bunch of Hackers those Chinese are. Guys tried to give Chris Paul and elbow, but Paul was just too fast for the guy.

ROR...... that was funny!

***********
Last nite was just great to watch Michael Phelps, very powerful!

GO DARA, GO DARA, GO DARA!!!!!!!!!

How about the 15 year old from RI finishing fourth, her life is about to profoundly change.

Looks very tricky for the cycling today.

I am eagerly awaiting the badmitton......;)

so Coach what's up for tonites predictions?

Women's 100 fly
1 Trickett
2 Magnuson
3 Li

Men's 100 Breast

1. Kitajima
2. Dale Oen
3. Rickard

Women's 400 Free

1. Pellegrini
2. Hoff
3. Adlington

Men's 4x100 free relay

1. U.S. and A
2. France
3. South Africa

Swimming experts; When did they start to do the fin motion when entering the water? Not bug on swimming but that has to be something new i.e. last couple olympics...

Spyder

France VS USA.....who wins??

Love the WORLD RECORD LINE thingy

USA USA USA USA

That was one fkn huge set of nuts on the veteran. Thats how you show the hell up for your country. You knock off the top ranked freestyler in the world and you gave him a head start.

UnGodly finishing leg!

We even have a brotha getting gold on this team......next a white guy from Cleveland wins the gold in the 100M......I haven't had this much fun watching the olympics since Spitz. Phelps quest for 8 golds is still alive!!

46 flat i swam alot in high school and thats absolutely insane. I thought we were dead when the french anchor hit the water first... No way jason should be able to stay with him,let alone make up time..... That was the **** legends are made of.

The French said they would crush us.
We took their little white glove and slapped them
with it.

The french are really comedy. First they start **** with me at the blackjack table, then they go and win the Arlington Million, and now they just got payback by getting snapped on the wire. Karma is a bitch. WEE WEE.....

Frenchies...


buhahahahahahah!!