Topic: 2012 Summer Olympic Thread

Nice! Where do you play water polo? It's one of those sports that never gets much exposure - I'm not even sure I knew that Australia had a team...

Nice back when I took Tae Kwon Do I knew a few guys from the US Taekwondo team that were in the 2000 Olympics. Sadly though that was before streaming was around a whole lot so I never got to watch them since they didn't televise the Tae Kwon Do events.

I might watch the running,and the female swimming(for obvious reasons)

Watching the swimming (we know The Phelps in real life for years. , running, gymnastics, and the basketball. And maybe I'll watch a little tennis and water polo, we will see.
@Aviator what's their name? (the person you know in the olympics)

i got tickets for the olympic football or as you americans call it (in snapes it-looks-like-your-up-to-something-voice) soccer

For those in the US it looks like NBC will be covering the games again this year. You can get a full schedule on NBC.com.

Getting really bored of all this boring soccer.
All the other sports need to hurry up and start. D:

I think the Japanese public broke Twitter after their team beat Spain 1-0 (and REALLY should have made it 3 or 4!)

Been hearing lots of stories lately about how amorous the athletes get in the Olympic Village. In public and everything!

Go Japan!

BTW, was it the men's team or women's team? I'm not really into soccer, but from what I've been hearing on NHK World the past few days, the Japanese are really excited about the women's team for some reason.

The men. They're in with a medal shot now.

The women also won and are a strong Gold medal chance, since they are the world champions.

@Clayton Adain Roach.

I thought there was more than one, but oh well.

I've never given Soccer much thought, but I'm watching a match between Honduras and Morocco just for the heck of it. It's currently tied (big suprise there) 2-2. It's more watchable than I'd thought it'd be, but I still don't get why the world goes nuts for the sport (but then again, I don't care who wins, so that could have something to do with it).

One question though, does anyone know why Morroco is abbreviated as MAR instead of MOR?

I've never given Soccer much thought, but I'm watching a match between Honduras and Morocco just for the heck of it. It's currently tied (big suprise there) 2-2. It's more watchable than I'd thought it'd be, but I still don't get why the world goes nuts for the sport (but then again, I don't care who wins, so that could have something to do with it).

Once you learn how soccer works you'll realise that it's one of the most strategic sports in existence. It's like animated chess.

That may still bore you, but luckily there's a few dozen other sports to follow, huh

Animated chess... no wonder I'm not that fond of watching it.
Just like chess, it can be fun to play but boring to watch.

Speaking of other sports, is Baseball an Olympic sport? I want to say yes, but I can't quite remember, lol.

Anyhow, the Honduras and Morocco soccer match ended in that 2-2 tie. Also just finished up watching a match between South Korea and Mexico (rooted for SK, the game ended in a 0-0 tie).

UAE (United Arab Emirates) vs Uruguay is about to start, but I've had enough soccer for one night, so I'm going to stop here.

BTW, I believe all the matches were recorded from earlier in the day (I passed by the UAE/Uruguay match earlier on another channel).

@RR529 Yeah, most of the games were roughly 12 hours or so ago.
Mostly overnight here, so I couldn't really watch too much of it even if I wanted to.

Bring on the track events.

And as always, I'll be rooting for....

Jamaica!

no its not an olympic sport not an more anyway

But it was an Olympic sport previously, so you're both right