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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 11:26 am
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Well, I'll be tuning in to watch the opening ceremony, although I hear that Australia team will be around third from last to enter the arena during the ceremony. In Chinglish it is Zhouzstralia, you see. The Oz athletes will stride into the smogpit with their uniform consisting of Akubra, checked-pattern flannelette shirt, and fleece tracksuit dacks
Anyhow the Australian Olympic Committee are predicting a final medal tally of 34:
20 Gold
10 Silver
14 Bronze
I'm only enthused as a couch spectator watching the running and swimming. In particular, the Women's diving .
 Nice.
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 11:36 am
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I must be one of the few people who could really give a toss about the Olympics.
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Johnmc
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 11:46 am
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The only events I'm ever really interested in are the 400 and 800 women's freestyle. And that's really only the ghost of the crush I had on Tracey Wickham back in '82.  
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Oldfart
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:07 pm
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| 2001 wrote: |
I'm only enthused as a couch spectator watching the running and swimming. In particular, the Women's diving .
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Sadly, Loudy Tourky/Wiggins (my fav fem diver) apparently will not be competing in Beijing due injury.
Apart from being a little hottie, I hear she also once stumped a reporter who asked her, "I understand you were born in Israel?". Her reply was, "Umm, well, Palestine actually."
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors become the portals of discovery (James Joyce).
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simont141
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:00 pm
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I'll watch the opening ceremony just for kicks, but apart from that I'm not sure. Womens volleyball is definately high up on the list, but the others that i would watch don't get much coverage (shooting, archery, wrestling, judo, boxing, etc.).
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:40 pm
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I concur Bwana, however...
| Oldfart wrote: | | she also once stumped a reporter who asked her, "I understand you were born in Israel?". Her reply was, "Umm, well, Palestine actually." |
... most amusing! 
I didn't come here looking for trouble, I just came to do the RP shuffle... break it down...
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aushuntercoal
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:52 pm
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Paging Roy & H.G. to Beijing. You are required in aforementioned city to entice watching of, at lease some events, encompassed in the Olympics.
Hope they're on, cause if they're not, the Olympics aren't either.
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xxxxlbear
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:52 pm
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I will definitely be watching the Beach Volleyball!!
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:21 pm
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I only watch live sport. No fun on TV.
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David Peters
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:58 pm
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Me I will be doing what a lot of others on here are going to do give the old DVD player a bashing, sport on TV bores me, yawn! Especially these inane coverages, where you get a couple of minutes of each sport rather than do one and show you all the way through!
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:37 pm
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| aushuntercoal wrote: | Paging Roy & H.G. to Beijing. You are required in aforementioned city to entice watching of, at lease some events, encompassed in the Olympics.
Hope they're on, cause if they're not, the Olympics aren't either. |
They will be on Triple J covering the Olympics from 1600 weekdays plus their usual Sunday spot.
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TheLoadedDog
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 11:33 pm
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I'm not at all sporty, but I do like watching the Olympic spectacle.
But not this time. The PRC can go and do anatomically impossible things to itself.
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Supt. of Printing
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:07 am
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I'll be watching, although I don't know which channel I'll be watching more of ~ 7 or SBS. At least with SBS they will be showing a complete event, not switching around from one thing to another as the mood takes them. And SBS have the program listings with coverage times unlike 7 who have start time for the day only.
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Supt. of Printing
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:39 pm
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Ah well, I am all set. The ABC - Chaser website is going to be getting a good flogging from me on the POD casting front. Once that has been cleared out, I shall make a move on Top Gear!
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. I like opening ceremonies, but keep them simple. 