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Beach volleyball is particularly popular when the women play. In tiny tiny tiny bikinis. Mmmmmmm. No wonder it quickly became one of the most popular events at the Olympics! :D

(Interestingly, the men's beach volleyball teams get to wear shirts and shorts. My mom said they should at least be topless.)

Loved the 4x100 final, especially by beating out the French who trash talked beforehand, saying they'd "smash" the Americans. Oh, the look on their faces was priceless!

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For the ladies who may be interested, during regular AVP tournament play, the men tend to be shirtless.

When I play though, the shirt stays on. I don't want to compromise the crisp farmer's tan I've spent the summer refining....

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This may be the next best thing to the 4x100 relay from last night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woYG6Uq6OVU

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Look out, Phelps!

Everyone I talked to who saw that relay stood up cheering at the end, including my mom. That was fantastic.

One of the best thing about the Olympics is that there's always something to watch on tv. So far there's always something on NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, or USA, at all hours of the day. I do think that gymnastics sometimes is a little boring, mainly the floor exercise. I hate how it doesn't match up at all to the music. I foolishly switched to an NFL preseason game and missed Phelps winning a medal (but what else is new?) But this China-U.S.-Japan gymnastics competition going on right now is pretty exciting.

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What I don't get is how you can have two versions of the same sport in the Olympics.

Volleyball - fine.

Beach volleyball as well??

I really enjoy both versions of the game - but they're pretty much the same game are they not? From a sport perspective - not just a leery, have a dribble at the talent perspective.

I don't even know why football/soccer is in the Olympics.

You go George!!! :D

http://dropkicks.co.nz/modules/htmla...h_olympics.JPG

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You do know that Roy and HG - the commentators - are comedians right?

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I gathered that. But...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Moussambani

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Do you think Laura kicked his ass when they got back to the hotel?

Can't wait for the DVD documenting these Olympics. Hope the sound quality is ace for the opening ceremony.

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http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/bei...?urn=oly,99745

Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 9:29 pm EDT
Some Opening Ceremony fireworks were faked

By Chris Chase

If you watched the Opening Ceremony on Friday night, chances are you said something like, "no way that's possible" at least once. It turns out you were right.

London's Telegraph newspaper reports that some of the fireworks which appeared over Beijing during the television broadcast of the Olympic Opening Ceremony were actually computer generated. But -- hold on -- it's not necessarily as bad as you think.

The faked fireworks were actually set-off at the stadium, but because of potential dangers in filming the display live from a helicopter, viewers at home were shown a pre-recorded, computer-generated shot. It sounds dishonest, but I'm not sure it's such a terrible thing.

The Opening Ceremony is, at its core, just one big performance. And isn't it accepted that some things might not be legit at a performance? The final torch bearer wasn't actually running around the top of the stadium, does the fact that everyone could figure that out make it any less impressive? It might have been unnecessarily deceptive, but the firework-faking isn't really that big of a deal. But, if I found out that the lighted-drum thing wasn't on the up and up, then we'll have problems, China.