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Is it just my imagination, or is NBC really screwing the pooch on these Olympics?

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2012 Olympics Mega Thread with Polls

Postby saxitoxin on Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:49 pm

In this thread I shall ask your opinion on various pressing issues related to the 2012 Olympics in London. The poll will occasionally change.

QUESTION 1

Which Olympic event of yesteryear do you wish would be reinstated for the 2012 Olympics?

    Croquet (Reigning Champion: France) - discontinued in 1900 after only France participated

    Roque; American-Rules Croquet (Reigning Champion: United States) - discontinued in 1904 after only the United States participated

    Golf (Reigning Champion: United States) - discontinued in 1904 but will return in 2016

    Tug of War (Reigning Champion: United Kingdom) - discontinued in 1920 due to declining popularity; City of London Police Team won final gold

    Baseball (Reigning Champion: South Korea) - discontinued in 2008 due to unpredictable length of games and limited appeal
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Re: 2012 Olympics Mega Thread with Polls

Postby Haggis_McMutton on Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:59 pm

Definitely tug of war.

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Re: 2012 Olympics Mega Thread with Polls

Postby saxitoxin on Fri Mar 09, 2012 3:43 pm

Haggis_McMutton wrote:Definitely tug of war.

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Are those regulation uniforms?
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Re: 2012 Olympics Mega Thread with Polls

Postby Pedronicus on Fri Mar 09, 2012 4:40 pm

Did you know that no high jumper in the history of high jumping has never managed to stay off of the ground for more than a second?
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Re: 2012 Olympics Mega Thread with Polls

Postby Symmetry on Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:28 pm

Pedronicus wrote:Did you know that no high jumper in the history of high jumping has never managed to stay off of the ground for more than a second?


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Re: 2012 Olympics Mega Thread with Polls

Postby Haggis_McMutton on Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:43 pm

saxitoxin wrote:
Haggis_McMutton wrote:Definitely tug of war.

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Are those regulation uniforms?


Yes, but we have a petition going around to make it compulsory to play in the buff, AS NATURE INTENDED.
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Re: 2012 Olympics Mega Thread with Polls

Postby saxitoxin on Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:33 pm

Haggis_McMutton wrote:
saxitoxin wrote:
Haggis_McMutton wrote:Definitely tug of war.

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Are those regulation uniforms?


Yes, but we have a petition going around to make it compulsory to play in the buff, AS NATURE INTENDED.


wrong kind of tugging
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Re: 2012 Olympics Mega Thread with Polls

Postby saxitoxin on Fri Jul 27, 2012 3:34 pm

Bankrupt Spain Gets Free Uniforms from Charity

Spanish Olympians are learning a painful lesson as they suit up for Friday's opening ceremony in London: You get what you pay for. With Spain on the brink of bankruptcy, its Olympic committee decided to save money this year. It got its Olympic uniforms for free, from the Russian designer Bosco, which also provided kits for the Russian and Ukrainian teams. But several Spanish athletes have taken to Twitter to express their distaste for the freebie clothes they're required to wear.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetorch/2012/ ... rms?live=1


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Re: 2012 Olympics Mega Thread with Polls

Postby BigBallinStalin on Fri Jul 27, 2012 4:16 pm

Do the Olympics reinforce nationalism and heteronormativity?

I'd say, "Hell yeah, Beebs! and the nation-states fund these venues with no consent from their governed."
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Postby Woodruff on Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:30 am

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Re: 2012 Olympics Mega Thread with Polls

Postby Army of GOD on Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:28 pm

New Zealand's looks good on girls. Spain and Germany are just awful though.
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Re: 2012 Olympics Mega Thread with Polls

Postby Army of GOD on Sun Jul 29, 2012 2:29 pm

also I'm watching the US/Montenegro Water polo game right now and it makes me question why water polo exists. So god damn boring.
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Re: 2012 Olympics Mega Thread with Polls

Postby Campin_Killer on Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:15 pm

Baseball...

Gotta wonder why Water Polo is an Olympic sport but not baseball...
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Re: 2012 Olympics Mega Thread with Polls

Postby Lootifer on Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:37 pm

Army of GOD wrote:New Zealand's looks good on girls. Spain and Germany are just awful though.

NZ uniforms are actually kinda cool, its just most of our athletes are ugly as sin so it kinda backfires.

Maybe would should dress the spanish athletes in NZ uniforms, and the kiwis in Spains; that way we can have ugly/ugly and sexy/sexy?
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Re: 2012 Olympics Mega Thread with Polls

Postby Lootifer on Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:40 pm

Campin_Killer wrote:Baseball...

Gotta wonder why Water Polo is an Olympic sport but not baseball...

Yeah why dont we add cricket while we're at it... /snooze.

I for one HATE the fact 7s Rugby is being added in 2016.

Olympics should be about individual or small team performances. Leave the big sports to their world cups imo (though BB doesnt have a world cup does it?)
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