2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing

By gregb0b
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TuchMiWiWi

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holy shat..

that was feking fast.

he should've ran full speed to set the highest record though..... he shouldn't of backed off near the end..

I don't dispute that he is the best right now... but not only him has set new records in recent years.

I was a big fan of Linford Christie and he is an all time great but to compare him with this guy when hes wearing modern footwear and gear its hard to say.

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He definitely touched the wall first. That gif does a good job showing it.

Calvic glided in the end to touch the wall while Phelps took an extra 1/2 stroke which is how he managed to touch the wall much quicker. Had Calvic not glided, he would've won.

It was an amazing race.

Yeah that Gliding was a Major mistake.

That's the nature of sports, there is always somebody as good/better than you, you can't afford to make ANY mistakes.

WOW BeiJing really looks good!

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I am Reid

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Why the **** would NBC not show the mens 200m and 400m opening events live? I mean seriously, what the **** did they show for the last two hours? Their coverage is horrible, and if they stop showing USA basketball live, im petty much going to be done with these olympics.

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Why the **** would NBC not show the mens 200m and 400m opening events live? I mean seriously, what the **** did they show for the last two hours? Their coverage is horrible, and if they stop showing USA basketball live, im petty much going to be done with these olympics.

Thats why I wish other non-cable stations could show the olympics with NBC and/or NBC can use the substations in digital TV and offer more. 3.1 for the main broadcast commentary stuff events that they do and 3.2-3.4 other events.

I cant wait for the 4x100m and my personal favorite 4x400m relays in track.

edit: Damn, Liu Xiang (China) is out of the 110m hurdles.

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I am Reid

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That why I wish other non-cable stations could show the olympics with NBC and/or NBC can use the substations in digital TV and offer more. 3.1 for the main broadcast commentary stuff events that they do and 3.2-3.4 other events.

Actually im glad they dont use the sub channels, i wish they would stop using those things. They have like 4-5 different channels(NBC, CNBC, Universal, ect...) for this, using the sub channels would only degrade the picture quality of the HD channel. They have an HD version of all the channels they are using to broadcast on, but choose to show tapped events. During the primetime slot on a sunday, starting at 8 they could have show the event finals for gymnastics, and easily cut it into an hour since it was taped, and then took us to the LIVE track and field events such as the 200m and 400m, but noooo. They stretch out the taped events and stupid stories for like 4 hours. They have all these channels at their disposal, and choose to show tapped events.

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Why the **** would NBC not show the mens 200m and 400m opening events live? I mean seriously, what the **** did they show for the last two hours? Their coverage is horrible, and if they stop showing USA basketball live, im petty much going to be done with these olympics.

NBC isn't showing track events live because they want the most viewers possible for it, which is in the primetime hours (late night, which is morning in China -- and most track finals are at night there).

It's bullcrap for the fans who want to see it live, but it's still smart business.

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