2008 OLYMPICS!!!!!!!!!!!! XD

[JohnnyAR]

Wow its amazing!

[Kandybar]

China puts on a pretty good show.

[BrightHeart76]

Every Olympics I get excited thinking the opening ceremonies are going to be AWESOME.  Then every year I find myself thinking...there's got to be something better on TV.

I'm sure it's much more exciting in real life.  Heck I admit that I'm impressed by the technology they used.  But honestly, I'm just watching to see the American Team come in, then I'm turning the channel.

Anyone know when the Fencing competitions are being held?

[Opera_ghost]

Beijing set a new level to the opening ceremonies.
I was quite amazed when watching.
I actually watched the entire thing this year, and was glad I made that choice.

I wish I had a schedule. . I'd rather not miss the Archery competitions by working during them.

[JohnnyAR]

I wish to see the shooting

[otakuapprentice]

they put on quite a good show.

[Kandybar]

Fencing's on tomorrow, I think.

[Shinsengumi]

Yeah, they did put on a good show. I like it

[G.I.R]

I see.

[otakuapprentice]

im pretty much just waiting for table tennis, shooting, and the cycling events; everything else, i might watch if its interesting.

[Kazuko]

Peru owns at shooting \o/

I cant wait for my country to go up in fencing, shooting, wrestling and swimming =)

I hope were in volleyball this year too

GO PERU \o/

[JTchinoy]

as soon as they said china was hosting 4 years ago, shit instantly went down the drain.

7 years ago.  :) and i don't think it'll be shit.

and aznmagic, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_China
says communism is the ruling political party of china.  care to elaborate? ^_^ IIRC, it's because of communist rule that the government was able to enforce all of the pollution regulations in beijing.  they shut down the factories, forced taxi drivers to learn SOME english, and banned half the cars on the road.  That's not something a democratic government could do so easily, if im not mistaken.

You need to take plsc101 man. China is Communist IN NAME ONLY. Cmon...free market reforms, private ownership of property and cancellation of government quotas in most products. Hell, North Korea calls itself Democratic People's Republic of Korea. I dunno bout you...but they don't seem very democratic. Names are tricky like that...

You need to give me solid facts, because you're throwing these tidbit factoids with no explanations of their significance to the discussion.  free market reforms answer what?  private ownership means what? what does this prove? the corporation that owns the factories decided to lose 45 days worth of money for the good of the country?  I'm sorry but I have never known modern corporations to do things that cause them to lose over a month's worth of revenue just for the good of the country's image.  What political system are they?  just running around saying they aren't really communists gives me ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA on what political system you're inferring that they are. So please give me a better reply.

*sigh* yeah...those things I said...communists aren't supposed to do those things.  You know the whole state ownership stuff? China got rid of that years ago and turned it to private ownership. State ownership of industry is supposed to be a communist/socialist kinda thing. A rather important facet of communism in fact. Calling a country communist when it adheres to so many capitalistic principals is...well...uneducated to put it nicely.

If you want to pin a political system on China, I guess you could call it a single party, oligarchical state with bits of socialism mixed in. But take into account that France is more socialist than China and you have an idea just how socialist China is.

okay i see where you're coming from then.

OMG I CAN WATCH THE OLYMPICS LIVE!!! THANK YOU INTERNET!!!

[SOawesomeness]

I want to watch swimming and gymnastics. And the running comps. That's pretty much it. (:

[Barnes]

Womens volleyball: USA vs. Japan=Damn. Pretty evenly matched now.

[JohnnyAR]

When's the shooting?

[G.I.R]

Don't know.  But the stabbing already occoured.

[aznmagic2015]

US women's fencing takes all medals!

[SOawesomeness]

This sucks. D: Just because I don't have an Intel-based mac, I can't watch the Olympics on NBC.com... I have to wait until I come back to America. D:

[Silent One]

Finally I got a chance to post on my thread. China's opening is awesome! Thing is, NBC cut out some parts like the after show and all. (It is mostly singers singing and all that after what you see on NBC. I am sad because I am unable to see it.) Plus, DAMN! China is like seriously pwning the United States. Anyway, GO USA/CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XD

[Edit]

I just checked the medal count. I am completely shocked at the position China is in and the United States is in. It is a very heated battle with them and China leading so far. By the way, here is a link to see the current medal count and whatnot.

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/medals

[Kaura117]

U.S. Sports has been in the crapper for quite a few years now. The fact that we still have anything close to Olympic-caliber athletes is... encouraging.

The U.S. Basketball team's utter dominance on the court was a beautiful sight. As well as Women's Fencing's clean sweep of the field.