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Way to show your olympic spirit by NiteMare on 04-08-2008 at 08:41 AM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/n...4/08/wtorch108.xml
the flame going out, countries threating to pull out and boycott the olympics, this years olympics are almost ruined before they've begun :\
RE: Way to show your olympic spirit by djdannyp on 04-08-2008 at 09:23 AM
i always thought it was always gonna be shit
the minute it was awarded to beijing, china would've scoured the entire country for any 8-15 year olds with ANY athletic potential and had them in militaristic training camps grinding them to the bone...so basically the whole thing's gonna be flooded with chinese athletes and just not make it a fair competition
i hope i'm proved wrong (that's if any countries bother to turn up now!) but sadly i think i won't be
RE: Way to show your olympic spirit by aNILEator on 04-08-2008 at 09:42 AM
afaik it was the police who extinguished the flame in Paris and decided to do the journey on a bus for peoples safety, I'm quite pleased to see people taking a stand actually, and be honest very few people give a damn about the olympics these days, why should we have spirit?
RE: Way to show your olympic spirit by Spunky on 04-08-2008 at 11:34 AM
quote:
Originally posted by NiteMare
this years olympics are almost ruined before they've begun
Good ¬_¬ If it was upto me we wouldn't be having it in 2012
RE: Way to show your olympic spirit by Volv on 04-08-2008 at 11:47 AM
This could be related to the end of the world thread! The 2008 olympics are bad, just wait for 2012! 
RE: Way to show your olympic spirit by Svip on 04-08-2008 at 01:04 PM
I thought the olympics were about putting aside political differences and compete on an unbiased platform.
RE: Way to show your olympic spirit by GiantSpider on 04-08-2008 at 01:57 PM
quote:Everything is politics. And good, its about time the leaders of the western countries realised there are people who are sick of the way the Chinese government do things, no matter how cheap they make things for us.
Originally posted by Svip
I thought the olympics were about putting aside political differences and compete on an unbiased platform.
RE: RE: Way to show your olympic spirit by djdannyp on 04-08-2008 at 02:06 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Svip
I thought the olympics were about putting aside political differences and compete on an unbiased platform.
There's so many things wrong with that sentence....being a sports scientist i should launch into a CookieRevised style essay reply, but i'm simply gonna say that there's been political boycotts of the olympics virtually every games since the 1950s
and as for it being an unbiased platform, there's been cheating in numerous forms (drugs, bribrery, equipment tampering) since the olympics began
i can only hope that your reply was laced with huge quantities of sarcasm that are undetectable over the internet if not.....then *sigh*
RE: RE: Way to show your olympic spirit by matt on 04-08-2008 at 04:26 PM
quote:
Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
Good ¬_¬ If it was upto me we wouldn't be having it in 2012
we are going to be dead by that time
2012!
RE: Way to show your olympic spirit by aNILEator on 04-08-2008 at 04:44 PM
quote:
Originally posted by djdannyp
quote:
Originally posted by Svip
I thought the olympics were about putting aside political differences and compete on an unbiased platform.
There's so many things wrong with that sentence....being a sports scientist i should launch into a CookieRevised style essay reply, but i'm simply gonna say that there's been political boycotts of the olympics virtually every games since the 1950s
and as for it being an unbiased platform, there's been cheating in numerous forms (drugs, bribrery, equipment tampering) since the olympics began
Either you misquoted or you really don't understand him in the slightest.
The Olympics SHOULDN'T be about political differences or be biased, you're trying to say that it should be or something?
but then I have my opinions about sports 'scientists'.
Oh also on defense of Svip, there is nothing wrong with his sentence at all, it even has a full stop at the end.
Whereas there are things wrong with yours in the first 3 words.
RE: Way to show your olympic spirit by RaceProUK on 04-08-2008 at 07:34 PM
quote:If you're a sports scientist, shouldn't you be figuring out how to make Lucozade better?
Originally posted by djdannyp
There's so many things wrong with that sentence....being a sports scientist i should launch into a CookieRevised style essay reply
quote:Cheating isn't the same as bias.
Originally posted by djdannyp
and as for it being an unbiased platform, there's been cheating in numerous forms
RE: Way to show your olympic spirit by Voldemort on 04-08-2008 at 07:40 PM
that golden gate people are win
RE: Way to show your olympic spirit by GiantSpider on 04-08-2008 at 07:46 PM
quote:Just add more glucose to Relentless and re-badge it as Lucozade +.
Originally posted by RaceProUK
If you're a sports scientist, shouldn't you be figuring out how to make Lucozade better?
RE: Way to show your olympic spirit by aNILEator on 04-08-2008 at 08:20 PM
relentless is godlike!
I tried to get them to sponsor stuffcast, competitions etc they were interested, but then we disbanded 
RE: RE: Way to show your olympic spirit by djdannyp on 04-08-2008 at 09:30 PM
quote:
Originally posted by aNILEator
quote:
Originally posted by djdannyp
quote:
Originally posted by Svip
I thought the olympics were about putting aside political differences and compete on an unbiased platform.
There's so many things wrong with that sentence....being a sports scientist i should launch into a CookieRevised style essay reply, but i'm simply gonna say that there's been political boycotts of the olympics virtually every games since the 1950s
and as for it being an unbiased platform, there's been cheating in numerous forms (drugs, bribrery, equipment tampering) since the olympics began
Either you misquoted or you really don't understand him in the slightest.
The Olympics SHOULDN'T be about political differences or be biased, you're trying to say that it should be or something?
but then I have my opinions about sports 'scientists'.
Oh also on defense of Svip, there is nothing wrong with his sentence at all, it even has a full stop at the end.
I understand him perfectly. the olympics SHOULD be like that......but they're not. so by saying "i thought the olympics were about..." blah, blah appeared to be saying that they were like that, when the truth is far from it. The thing wrong with his sentence is the content of it....and there's nothing wrong with mine either if it's taken as speech (which it was meant to be), don't start a petty grammar war cos i'm also an english student, so I'm hardly going to make a mistake like that, I was just abbreviating "there are" to "there's" which is a perfectly acceptable thing to do outside of formal situations
and whilst we're commenting on grammar, it should be "in defense"
quote:
Originally posted by RaceProUK
Cheating isn't the same as bias.
I never said it was, but cheating by officials (one of the things i was referring to by "many forms") would count as bias and therefore i'm correct
also, as for both of your views on sports scientists, i'd suggest that you're very badly informed and that if you engage in ANY kind of sporting activity (including watching) then your sport would be VASTLY different (read 'non-existent') in its current form without sports scientists
I don't mean to offend anyone with any of this, just I feel pretty strongly about things like this and don't take well to criticism on subjects on which I am very well informed, especially when people are largely just nitpicking because they have no argument, or making sweeping generalisations and so I will fight my corner
RE: Way to show your olympic spirit by RaceProUK on 04-10-2008 at 08:40 PM
quote:That still sounds more like cheating than bias to me. Bias is more usually a judgement made subjectively as opposed to objectively. Bias can exist without rules violations, whereas cheating is only rules violations.
Originally posted by djdannyp
quote:I never said it was, but cheating by officials (one of the things i was referring to by "many forms") would count as bias
Originally posted by RaceProUK
Cheating isn't the same as bias.
Though I admit, cheating can lead to apparent bias e.g. bribes.
As for my views on sports scientists, I believe I have a pretty good understanding of what they do i.e. apply science to improve sports-people's performance. So making Lucozade better kinda falls into that
RE: Way to show your olympic spirit by Adeptus on 04-11-2008 at 02:38 AM
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quote:That's a nice thought, but it hasn't historically been that way:
Originally posted by Svip
I thought the olympics were about putting aside political differences and compete on an unbiased platform.
Olympic boycott overview
1972 Israeli Olympics team killed in Munich
1976 Montreal Olympics boycott
1980 Moscow Olympics boycott
1984 Los Angeles Olympics boycott
So, the recent events are nothing out of extraordinary. Despite what you've been told, the Olympics have been a political instrument for at least the last 75 years.