It would probably help if I were British, but this is one of the more confusing opening ceremonies I've ever seen. Why is there a freakin' grassy knoll in the middle of the stadium?

Apparently, you don't have to be in tip-top condition to compete in archery.

APIAD wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

Apparently, you don't have to be in tip-top condition to compete in archery.

Of course I found it awesome.  USA's team was very young.  Looked like none of them were over 25.  They missed a couple shots that cost them.  The ending was in our favor but it was pretty dramatic.

I was watching the South Korean team at the time. The Olive Garden has apparently made its way to Seoul.

The U.S. Women's Volleyball team is impressive. There's a tall, slender African-American woman who jumps so high she might hit her head on a rafter.

It really doesnt bug me that Phelps is not winning.  Looks like he should have spent less time over the last 4 years smoking pot and more time in the pool.

This brand of ping-pong is a lot easier than the version we played in college. Our objective was not to spill the beer we had in our hand.

Are these women in the pool?  Their shoulders are as wide as mine.

I feel badly for the World Champion gymnastics girl who didn't make it to the finals because she gotten beaten out by two of her teammates.
And I feel badly for me because one of the girls who made it to the finals is from Massachusetts and suddenly everyone around here is an expert analyst about the balance beam.

"Unless someone falls I really dont see a difference in what one does over the other."

Aye. I'm wary of the sports that are judged, because as you say absent a meltdown it always seems like the person or team that's supposed to win ends up winning. I watched the synchronized diving with my wife yesterday, and I swear neither one of us could tell which team was better than the other, but unless the Chinese team started doing dual belly flops, they were going to walk away with the gold medal. But I didn't turn the channel because one of the Italian divers looked really, really good in her swimsuit.

APIAD wrote:

Was she the one that filled out the bottom half of her swimsuit more fully then the others?

That was one of the Canadian divers. The Italian woman was kind of a butterface, but everything else appeared to be in top form.

APIAD wrote:

Do swimmers and divers not have boobs or do the suits just squash them down?

Probably a little of both

forsberg_us wrote:

APIAD wrote:

Do swimmers and divers not have boobs or do the suits just squash them down?

Probably a little of both

Didnt you say you worked with an exswimmer?  Do some investigating.

I know it's a cliche to point out the British have bad teeth, but that doesn't make it any less true. With all the advances in orthodonture, they're just being difficult at this point.