The end of the Olympic Games

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Cricket is stupid. it's just plain stupid. It's like baseball for wusses.

Football (soccer) and icehockey...
The best two sports by far.

 

Actually baseball is for wusses. Cricket is for upper class twits (and I am one), faggots, inbred people and so forth.

Hence maybe it should be included in the winter olympics and hockey moved to the summer with the rest of normal sports.

[This message has been edited by Christopher_Lee (edited February 25, 2002).]

 

I think Cricket actually was an olympic sport once. About 1908 or 1912 the games were held in London (White City), and I think they included cricket. talk about pandering to the locals.

Other excellent olympic sports have included Tug of war I think, and certainly high jump and long jump without a run-up.

Sport isn't what it once was I say.

 

Someone who knows this, tell me, what was the vbest total of one person winning GOld medals?

Samppa Lajunen had 3.

Ara
(Mean, nasty... thing with a habit of infecting people with odd ideas...)

 

Eric Heiden (USA) won 5 gold medals in speed skating (in the same olympics). Ole Einar Bjørndalen (Norway) is second with his 4 biathlon gold medals during the last two weeks.

Bjørn Dæhlie (Norway) won 8 olympic gold medals in cross country skiing during the 90s (Albertville -92, Lillehammer -94 and Nagano -98). Together with 4 silver medals, he is the most succesful olympian ever.

 

Overall I think it was one of the better winter games. Good coverage and not a overwelming number of sob stories. Good events with lots of drama and action. I just wish the less popular events received more air time. I don't care if an American is in them I just want to see stuff I normally don't have a chance to.

I'm looking forward to Greece in 2004

 

To be fair, no one cared if there was an american in any of the events. The way the (american) producers dictated what was shown in other countries around the american participants was poor. As was the favouring of the american sportsmen (clean the track in the womens skeleton final? just before the two americans run...)

 

You sound very sure about this matter. I went to www.olympics.com and guess what - Norway still has "only" 11 gold medals. Not to mention the US-Americans rate the countries by total medals - Norway would have to get 13(!!!) more medals to come colse to Germany

 

Well, in the Finnish Ice Hockey team there is this guy, Raimo Helminen.... these were his sixth Olympics. That's a record

Ara
(Pinting out itty bitty little details.... )

 

Maertyn: silver and bronze is loss. We only count the victories .

 

Taking medals away from a person in the olympics is no small matter so it isn't done in 5 minutes(lot's of politics and shit)

But to quote Bush "Make no mistake, the evildoers will get what is coming to them"(or something like that)

The IOC president has actually made an official statement that they will lose their medals.

 

It was a fun olympics. Watching in America can be frustrating (as noted above). It was nice to see some events that did not prominently feature American competitors. I hope they do more of this in the future.