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OGEE OGELTHORPE
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Post by OGEE OGELTHORPE »

Cmon Canada no medals, I'm :oops: to be your neighbor.

Wheres Ben Johnson when you need him.
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Post by pistol »

Congrats to Phelps for passing the entire men's gymnastics and diving teams as world's biggest momma's boy...

Phelps must hold the world record for a 23 year-old man kissing his momma on tv...

Phelps has one lovely momma... estranged her boy from his dad... put him on ADHD drugs (only on school days... yes, that's a real disease?)... and a public school principal ta boot.

The U. S. of A. should be proud.
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Post by Can't Never Tried »

pistol wrote:Congrats to Phelps for passing the entire men's gymnastics and diving teams as world's biggest momma's boy...

Phelps must hold the world record for a 23 year-old man kissing his momma on tv...

Phelps has one lovely momma... estranged her boy from his dad... put him on ADHD drugs (only on school days... yes, that's a real disease?)... and a public school principal ta boot.

The U. S. of A. should be proud.
So what popgun! 8 gold metals in one games is incredible, you obviously know zip about the sport, so why not just stick to HM hugging! :roll:
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pistol wrote:Congrats to Phelps for passing the entire men's gymnastics and diving teams as world's biggest momma's boy...

Phelps must hold the world record for a 23 year-old man kissing his momma on tv...

Phelps has one lovely momma... estranged her boy from his dad... put him on ADHD drugs (only on school days... yes, that's a real disease?)... and a public school principal ta boot.

The U. S. of A. should be proud.
What's the matter - did he rebuke the HM swimming recruiters?
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Post by UpNorthStars »

pistol wrote:Congrats to Phelps for passing the entire men's gymnastics and diving teams in medal count!

The U. S. of A. should be proud.
I agree!
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Post by tomASS »

OGEE OGELTHORPE wrote:Cmon Canada no medals, I'm :oops: to be your neighbor.

Wheres Ben Johnson when you need him.
I think they might win one in the trampoline :lol:

Their national anthem needs to be heard but they might have to wait for the winter olympics
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Post by OGEE OGELTHORPE »

tomASS wrote:
OGEE OGELTHORPE wrote:Cmon Canada no medals, I'm :oops: to be your neighbor.

Wheres Ben Johnson when you need him.
I think they might win one in the trampoline :lol:

Their national anthem needs to be heard but they might have to wait for the winter olympics
The pressure is off the Canadians, they strike gold in womens wrestling :lol: Oh Canada!!
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OGEE OGELTHORPE wrote:
tomASS wrote:
OGEE OGELTHORPE wrote:Cmon Canada no medals, I'm :oops: to be your neighbor.

Wheres Ben Johnson when you need him.
I think they might win one in the trampoline :lol:

Their national anthem needs to be heard but they might have to wait for the winter olympics
The pressure is off the Canadians, they strike gold in womens wrestling :lol: Oh Canada!!
I think they also hit in rowing.... All the big sports.

Too bad there isn't an Olympic lumberjack competition. They'd kick ass.
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Post by Can't Never Tried »

Did anyone else see those 2 tiny Chinese gymnast standing next to Liukin.

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijin ... oly,101564

Yep 16 yrs old...ok then :roll:
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Post by tomASS »

Can't Never Tried wrote:Did anyone else see those 2 tiny Chinese gymnast standing next to Liukin.

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijin ... oly,101564

Yep 16 yrs old...ok then :roll:
They discovered the fountain of youth and all athletes must drink from it at an early age :wink:

Isn't chinese read from right to left? so really 12 years of age would be 21 so no problem or else they are 61 :lol:
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Post by DMom »

tomASS wrote:
Can't Never Tried wrote:Did anyone else see those 2 tiny Chinese gymnast standing next to Liukin.

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijin ... oly,101564

Yep 16 yrs old...ok then :roll:
They discovered the fountain of youth and all athletes must drink from it at an early age :wink:

Isn't chinese read from right to left? so really 12 years of age would be 21 so no problem or else they are 61 :lol:
I think you are on to something TA.

Are they standing on the podiums? I know when I was watching it I noticed that Nastia was taller than them on the podium, but that would be a huge difference.
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I don't get it... Maybe it's because I'm in a baseball/football mindset, but I'm of the opinion that if you're 20, been training since you were about 2, and can't beat a 13 year old, you don't really deserve to gripe.

I understand that you become less flexible when you get older (I haven't been able to bend my knees for about 15 years), but you're telling me that flipping around on those bars with arms and pushing off a vault (or whatever that thing is after they vault) is somehow beneficial before you're able to develop arm strength? I don't buy it.
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Post by Can't Never Tried »

Govs93 wrote:I don't get it... Maybe it's because I'm in a baseball/football mindset, but I'm of the opinion that if you're 20, been training since you were about 2, and can't beat a 13 year old, you don't really deserve to gripe.

I understand that you become less flexible when you get older (I haven't been able to bend my knees for about 15 years), but you're telling me that flipping around on those bars with arms and pushing off a vault (or whatever that thing is after they vault) is somehow beneficial before you're able to develop arm strength? I don't buy it.
Agreed :wink:
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Post by DMom »

Can't Never Tried wrote:
Govs93 wrote:I don't get it... Maybe it's because I'm in a baseball/football mindset, but I'm of the opinion that if you're 20, been training since you were about 2, and can't beat a 13 year old, you don't really deserve to gripe.

I understand that you become less flexible when you get older (I haven't been able to bend my knees for about 15 years), but you're telling me that flipping around on those bars with arms and pushing off a vault (or whatever that thing is after they vault) is somehow beneficial before you're able to develop arm strength? I don't buy it.
Agreed :wink:
Karolyi was saying in an interview that it's because the younger kids don't understand the pressure. For them it's just another day at the gym. So, when the college age girls were knowing that 19 years of training was coming down to the next 10 seconds of their life, they choke. A twelve year old has another chance, and they know it.

course this is the same guy that said years ago that once a girl grew hips they were useless as a gymnast, maybe it has more to do with that.
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DMom wrote:
Can't Never Tried wrote:
Govs93 wrote:I don't get it... Maybe it's because I'm in a baseball/football mindset, but I'm of the opinion that if you're 20, been training since you were about 2, and can't beat a 13 year old, you don't really deserve to gripe.

I understand that you become less flexible when you get older (I haven't been able to bend my knees for about 15 years), but you're telling me that flipping around on those bars with arms and pushing off a vault (or whatever that thing is after they vault) is somehow beneficial before you're able to develop arm strength? I don't buy it.
Agreed :wink:
Karolyi was saying in an interview that it's because the younger kids don't understand the pressure. For them it's just another day at the gym. So, when the college age girls were knowing that 19 years of training was coming down to the next 10 seconds of their life, they choke. A twelve year old has another chance, and they know it.

course this is the same guy that said years ago that once a girl grew hips they were useless as a gymnast, maybe it has more to do with that.
I thought I heard that that the reason for the rule in the first place was to not put that kind of pressure on a kid... If they're not feeling it anyway, what's the difference? Friggin' Romanians.

Besides, that Johnson chick is only 16, so she should still have another shot in 2012, right?
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Post by Can't Never Tried »

Govs93 wrote:
DMom wrote:
Can't Never Tried wrote: Agreed :wink:
Karolyi was saying in an interview that it's because the younger kids don't understand the pressure. For them it's just another day at the gym. So, when the college age girls were knowing that 19 years of training was coming down to the next 10 seconds of their life, they choke. A twelve year old has another chance, and they know it.

course this is the same guy that said years ago that once a girl grew hips they were useless as a gymnast, maybe it has more to do with that.
I thought I heard that that the reason for the rule in the first place was to not put that kind of pressure on a kid... If they're not feeling it anyway, what's the difference? Friggin' Romanians.

Besides, that Johnson chick is only 16, so she should still have another shot in 2012, right?

:shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Can't Never Tried wrote:
Govs93 wrote:
DMom wrote: Karolyi was saying in an interview that it's because the younger kids don't understand the pressure. For them it's just another day at the gym. So, when the college age girls were knowing that 19 years of training was coming down to the next 10 seconds of their life, they choke. A twelve year old has another chance, and they know it.

course this is the same guy that said years ago that once a girl grew hips they were useless as a gymnast, maybe it has more to do with that.
I thought I heard that that the reason for the rule in the first place was to not put that kind of pressure on a kid... If they're not feeling it anyway, what's the difference? Friggin' Romanians.

Besides, that Johnson chick is only 16, so she should still have another shot in 2012, right?

:shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Still have a little of the Eastside verbiage in me.

It was either that or "broad". I figured I would've set off Dmom if I tried that. :wink:
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Post by Can't Never Tried »

Govs93 wrote:
Can't Never Tried wrote:
Govs93 wrote: I thought I heard that that the reason for the rule in the first place was to not put that kind of pressure on a kid... If they're not feeling it anyway, what's the difference? Friggin' Romanians.

Besides, that Johnson chick is only 16, so she should still have another shot in 2012, right?

:shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Still have a little of the Eastside verbiage in me.

It was either that or "broad". I figured I would've set off Dmom if I tried that. :wink:
And that would bother us how ? :?
Ya know there is no title IX on the "bored"
:lol:
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Post by DMom »

Can't Never Tried wrote:
Govs93 wrote:
Can't Never Tried wrote:
:shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Still have a little of the Eastside verbiage in me.

It was either that or "broad". I figured I would've set off Dmom if I tried that. :wink:
And that would bother us how ? :?
Ya know there is no title IX on the "bored"
:lol:
As the token Harding grad on the "bored"I would have to take offense to what Govs has to say, most of the eastside females I know are much more "broads" than they are "chicks" :wink: and what fun would be if I wasn't mad????
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DMom wrote:As the token Harding grad on the "bored"I would have to take offense to what Govs has to say, most of the eastside females I know are much more "broads" than they are "chicks" :wink: and what fun would be if I wasn't mad????
I'm no expert on the east side, but the last time I drove through (with the doors locked) I didn't see any chicks OR broads. Mostly I saw what Imus got in trouble for...
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Post by tomASS »

Title what???? :lol: :lol:

I thought it was Entitled IX, but I better be careful since my daughter (and my pocket book ) are benefitting from her soccer scholarship ..........so never mind.

Govs I agree that if a younger person can beat an older person there is nothing wrong with that. I don't disagree the toddler might be a better gymnast than the older ones, but why have age rules then? just do away with them instead of making a mockery of them.
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Neutron 14 wrote:
DMom wrote:As the token Harding grad on the "bored"I would have to take offense to what Govs has to say, most of the eastside females I know are much more "broads" than they are "chicks" :wink: and what fun would be if I wasn't mad????
I'm no expert on the east side, but the last time I drove through (with the doors locked) I didn't see any chicks OR broads. Mostly I saw what Imus got in trouble for...
:lol: :lol:
Ahh yes !!!! this is the Neut we miss..........


Not that baseball guy!
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Can't Never Tried wrote:
Neutron 14 wrote:
DMom wrote:As the token Harding grad on the "bored"I would have to take offense to what Govs has to say, most of the eastside females I know are much more "broads" than they are "chicks" :wink: and what fun would be if I wasn't mad????
I'm no expert on the east side, but the last time I drove through (with the doors locked) I didn't see any chicks OR broads. Mostly I saw what Imus got in trouble for...
:lol: :lol:
Ahh yes !!!! this is the Neut we miss..........


Not that baseball guy!
I don't recall Imus ever getting in hot water for anything related to finely tuned athletes, pillars of community, or handsome devils.
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Govs93 wrote:
Can't Never Tried wrote:
Neutron 14 wrote: I'm no expert on the east side, but the last time I drove through (with the doors locked) I didn't see any chicks OR broads. Mostly I saw what Imus got in trouble for...
:lol: :lol:
Ahh yes !!!! this is the Neut we miss..........


Not that baseball guy!
I don't recall Imus ever getting in hot water for anything related to finely tuned athletes, pillars of community, or handsome devils.
You sound like Wild Bill with the beginning of that rebuttal :lol:
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.... finely tuned athletes, pillars of community, or handsome devils.
yep, that's the eastside I remember :roll:
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