Athens 2004 Olympics (Split)

[Jens]

Henin Hardenne and Clijsters are my favourite women's singles players, I hope Henin wins

Yarrr!!! First gold for belgium!!! Henin won against Mouresmo (sp?) in only 2 sets (6-3; 6-3)

too bad Clijsters didn't enter the olympics too... she could have gotten silver or bronze

[ahoteinrun]

They wouldn't take it off... I seems to be a big part of the olympics...
BTW, has anyone seen any of the equestrian events yet?? I checked the scedule and there have already been a few, but nothing on tv yet..

They'd take it off... if it wasn't for tradition.
Equestrian is one of the hardest sports to prep for; because you've got to ship horses from all over the world; and when you're doing that, diseases... and quarantines come into play. Horses aren't easy to ship. I do believe theres at least a month of quarantine (if not more) for a horse to go overseas; and there was a big fit with the greeks not wanting to let any horse from North America through because of Mad Cow (*eyes roll*).

It's just... difficult.
And if you can tell by the amount of TV time they get... well... *shrugs*

[Igg]

The 3 day eventing and individual events have happened.
3 day Eventing:
Gold- France
Silver- Great Britain
Bronze- USA

Individual:
Gold- Leslie Law, Great Britain
Silver- Someone, USA
Bronze- Pippa Funnel, Great Britain

Excuse spellings >.<

[Ixistant]

OK. Here is the current top 20 in rankings for each country (based on Gold Medals and if 2 or more countries have the same amount of Gold Medals it comes down to Silver and Bronze.

1 USA United States
2 CHN China
3 JPN Japan
4 AUS Australia
5 GER Germany
6 RUS Russia
7 FRA France
8 ITA Italy
9 UKR Ukraine
10 KOR Korea
11 GBR Great Britain
12 NED Netherlands
13 GRE Greece
14 ROM Romania
15 TUR Turkey
16 BLR Belarus
17 HUN Hungary
18 SVK Slovakia
19 GEO Georgia
20 THA Thailand

UK is in 11th place! We're almost in the top 10! Go us!

[Igg]

I've got an 11th and 17th then. Good good ^^

Hoping for a Paula Radcliffe Gold, and hopefully we'll get at least one gold from Kelly Holmes? Maria Mutola is looking strong though...her qualifying time might fool you but that was easy for her.

[Atamand]

Ay, Phelps did it. Or rather, the U.S. relay team finished it for him. He tied the Olympic record with 8 medals. Yay.

[Yoshi]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/3998 ... ish300.jpg
And that's how close it was. 0.08 seconds

Kelly Sotherton's being rather impressive in the heptathlon

Ah, I hate that story. Cause of that, Canada's got 0 golds, 2 silvers, and 1 bronze. We suck. XD

[Ixistant]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/3998 ... ish300.jpg
And that's how close it was. 0.08 seconds

Kelly Sotherton's being rather impressive in the heptathlon

Ah, I hate that story. Cause of that, Canada's got 0 golds, 2 silvers, and 1 bronze. We suck. XD

Don't be a sore loser! Anyway the marathon is on, and I still think Paula's going to win.

EDIT: NO! NONONONNONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHE LOST! SHE PULLED OUT! I CAN'T BELEIVE IT!

[Igg]

That marathon was painful to watch >.<

[Shifty]

and there was a big fit with the greeks not wanting to let any horse from North America through because of Mad Cow (*eyes roll*).

Yeah, but I noticed alot of the ridders weren't with their own horses... Horses from different countries, which I thought was odd.

[(*Dranzer*)]

Doesn't canada have like 5 medals now?

[Igg]

Great Britain got our first track gold...and possibly are only one, although Kelly Holmes has a good chance of the middle-distance double..

[Christopher]

We now have 2 golds, no silver, no bronze. Not doing very well at all this year. I watched the mice muscley lady poll vault her way to a new record though and that was gool, though the Morrocan track dance is kinda disturbing...

[Soda]

israel won its first gold medal in sailing or surfing or whtever. thats good.

[tomatie]

Anky van Grunsven and Salinero got Holland gold *dances*