View Full Version : Olympics - 1 month away!
Cooter
07-08-2008, 07:48 AM
So, the Olympics are coming...what events are your favorites?
I have a cousin back in Virginia who is one of the top swimmers in that state, we are all hoping he may be a contender in 2012.
Swimming, track and field, and beach volleyball(I went to school with Misty May) are my favorites to watch.
IheartMillerLite
07-08-2008, 07:55 AM
I love watching the swimming! And I still find myself watching gymnastics too. Beach volleyball is a great one too!
Kymery
07-08-2008, 08:12 AM
Well, I love the gymnastics!
honkytonkangel
07-08-2008, 08:35 AM
I like the rowing since thats what I did in college and my coach was the former Aussie womens team coach......
Kymery
07-08-2008, 08:52 AM
I like the rowing since thats what I did in college and my coach was the former Aussie womens team coach......
Screw that sport...buy a boat with a motor!!!:D
Cooter
07-08-2008, 09:14 AM
i remember watching misty may play at all the games in high school and thinking "damn, this girl is going to be huge", you could just tell she had this ability that was so far above what had been seen before. nice to see it all worked out, haha!
I try and catch a little bit of everything. One "professional" sport I'm not to keen on is boxing but it's completely different in the Olympics and I try not to miss a moment of it.
Kymery
07-08-2008, 02:19 PM
Whats that silly sport where they broom the ice so the marble weight can slide down the ice and knock each other out?? And they call that a sport....I watch it cuz it is funny!
Curling...that's it? And WHYYYYYY do they call it curling?
IheartMillerLite
07-08-2008, 02:23 PM
I've always wanted to know why they called it that. So random!!
Kymery
07-08-2008, 02:32 PM
Ok, and Badminton??? hmmmm another questionable sport in my mind.
Cooter
07-08-2008, 02:50 PM
that game is intense! i once got injured playing badminton in high school, scratched cornea! took a cock to the eye, a shuttlecock, that is.
festivalfan
07-08-2008, 02:55 PM
I took a badminton class last year at the community college. Everyone around me laughed at me for the whole semester. Those "amateurs" kicked my butt. Not as easy as it looks, but it's fun
Kymery
07-08-2008, 03:02 PM
that game is intense! i once got injured playing badminton in high school, scratched cornea! took a cock to the eye, a shuttlecock, that is.
hahaha...phew...scared me there for a second.
My ex twisted his angle playing that! (but he deserved it!)
WHY do they call it a Shuttlecock? Someone had tooo much time on their hands.:eek: errr...ummmm brain...:rolleyes:
hahaha...phew...scared me there for a second.
My ex twisted his angle playing that! (but he deserved it!)
WHY do they call it a Shuttlecock? Someone had tooo much time on their hands.:eek: errr...ummmm brain...:rolleyes:
I have so many wise guy posts
But this is a family rated forum
scarr
07-08-2008, 05:59 PM
Curling - The word derives from the Scots language verb curr, which describes a low rumble (a cognate of the English language verb purr). The word does not take its name from the motion of the stones, although today a stone deviating from a straight-line trajectory is said to curl.
Shuttlecock - The "shuttle" part of the name was probably derived from its back-and-forth motion during the game, resembling the shuttle of a loom; the "cock" part of the name was probably derived from the resemblance of the feathers to those on a cockerel.
golf - The word golf may be a Scots alteration of Dutch "kolf" meaning "stick, "club" and "bat"
Not "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden"
Kymery
07-08-2008, 06:07 PM
Curling - The word derives from the Scots language verb curr, which describes a low rumble (a cognate of the English language verb purr). The word does not take its name from the motion of the stones, although today a stone deviating from a straight-line trajectory is said to curl.
Shuttlecock - The "shuttle" part of the name was probably derived from its back-and-forth motion during the game, resembling the shuttle of a loom; the "cock" part of the name was probably derived from the resemblance of the feathers to those on a cockerel.
golf - The word golf may be a Scots alteration of Dutch "kolf" meaning "stick, "club" and "bat"
Not "Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden"
Thank you...and the Golf one will come in handy, that is the business I am in! Good info!
watched some kind of swimming finals last night and that was pretty intense. what ARE all the summer olympic sports?
hillbillyRockstar
07-11-2008, 06:30 AM
I can't wait to see USA Basketball waste all the other teams out there.
Kymery
07-15-2008, 11:31 AM
how sad is this? What a way to go...
http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/story/8347046?MSNHPHMA