Since the Women's Football/Soccer kicked off today to start things off I thought why not make an official thread where we talk about all of the games? I know there are at least some of you that wouldn't mind talking about it.

 

If you do not like or care for the Olympic games we do not need posts in here explaining that. If you do not want to be part of the discussion then please by all means keep out. This is solely a thread for discussing about the teams you root for, the games, the athletes, and keeping track of the overall games. If your posts to don't contribute they will be removed.

 

The official website for everything is here: http://www.olympic.org/ and here http://www.london2012.com/

 

Full list of all the sports in the 2012 London Olympics:

http://www.olympic.org/sports

Aquatics

• Diving
• Swimming
• Synchronized Swimming
• Water polo

Archery

 

Athletics

 

Badminton

 

Basketball

 

Boxing

 

Canoe kayak

• Slalom
• Sprint

Cycling

• Cycling BMX
• Cycling Road
• Cycling Track
• Mountain Bike

Equestrian

• Dressage
• Eventing
• Jumping

Fencing

 

Football

 

Golf

 

Gymnastics

• Artistic Gymnastics
• Rhythmic Gymnastics
• Trampoline

Handball

 

Hockey

 

Judo

 

Modern pentathlon

 

Rowing

 

Rugby

 

Sailing

 

Shooting

 

Table tennis

 

Taekwondo

 

Tennis

 

Triathlon

 

Volleyball

• Beach volleyball
• Volleyball

Weightlifting

 

Wrestling

• Greco-Roman
• Freestyle

 

Here is also the list of the Paralympics sports:

 

Archery

Athletics

Boccia

Track Cycling

Road Cycling

Equestrianism

Football 5-a-side

Football 7-a-side

Goalball

Judo

Powerlifting

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Table Tennis

Sitting Volleyball

Wheelchair Basketball

Wheelchair Fencing

Wheelchair Rugby

Wheelchair Tennis

 

 

So to kick things off which teams to do support? Which events are your favorites? Which athletes are you going to pay more attention to?

 

Also since the Women's Soccer scores for the first day are the only ones that I know are being put up (Sorry if you call it Football, I call it soccer) I'll put them up here:

These are the qualifiers they have to go through to the next round

Great Britain vs New Zealand: 1-0

Japan vs Canada: 2-1

United States vs France: 4-2

Cameroon vs Brazil: 0-5

Sweden vs South Africa: 4-1

Colombia vs Korea DPR: 0-2

 

The opening ceremony/official opening of the games does not start until the 27th! A leaked list of the music has been released and you can also see the overview of the dome!

http://www.digitalsp...r-playlist.html

 

The official song of the olympics has also been released for quite some time, the song is "Survival" by Muse.

 

http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=68mw8AE9l_g

Most decorated does not equal greatest. I think that Bolt is the greatest Olympian, but that's just my opinion. Phelps may have the most medals, but everyone has a different opinion on who they think the greatest Olympic athlete is.

 

Im talking logistically . He has the most medals .Therefore by performance he is ...Now if you want to go by strictly who you like and favor, ANYONE could be the greatest to you even with a fraction of the medals.

Congrats to the womens beach volleyball teams yesterday. USA vs USA.

 

Until he achieves everything Phelps did and MORE , he's not better. Also, since he now holds the record on Olympic medals he IS the greatest olympian. At least until someone else overtakes it and it took decades for someone ( phelps) to break the previous record.

 

Im talking logistically . He has the most medals .Therefore by performance he is ...Now if you want to go by strictly who you like and favor, ANYONE could be the greatest to you even with a fraction of the medals.

 

This.

Congrats to Bolt and the Jamaicans on sweeping the podium in the 200M!

Congrats to Bolt and the Jamaicans on sweeping the podium in the 200M!

 

YEA MON!

Congratulations to the female olympic diver of my country to get a bronze medal. She is also the first female Malaysian to ever won a medal!

 

Gold medallist Chen Ruolin (centre) of China poses on the podium with silver medallist Brittany Broben (left) of Australia and bronze medallist Pandelela Rinong (right) of Malaysia during the women's 10m platform victory ceremony at the Aquatics Centre on Thursday.

Congratulations to the female olympic diver of my country to get a bronze medal. She is also the first female Malaysian to ever won a medal!

 

Gold medallist Chen Ruolin (centre) of China poses on the podium with silver medallist Brittany Broben (left) of Australia and bronze medallist Pandelela Rinong (right) of Malaysia during the women's 10m platform victory ceremony at the Aquatics Centre on Thursday.

 

Brittany's only sixteen!

wow ladies soccer was really great this year, and I'm so proud of Canada and the USA's teams! They both did great, and I really wish these two competed in the final and not Japan tbqh. The Canada vs USA game was much more intense and the soccer (or football if you prefer to call it that) was overall better! Nonetheless that was a great run this year. c:

 

I was watching synchro swimming this morning, honestly I find it really amazing that the're able to do some of the things they do in their routines. However, I still find that and the artistic gymnastics a bit more of a fine art than a sport. I wont deny the fact that they do need to be in some kind of shape and have athletic ability to compete in the competitions though, I mean to be able to swim without touching the bottom and lift people into the air multiple times throughout and execute some moves with speed and precision is really, really outstanding.

Congrats to the US for winning a lot of events yesterday.

 

Congrats to the US female runners during the baton race yesterday.

Edited August 11, 201213 yr by Rob

Congratulations to Jamaica on winning the 4 x 100m relay, and to the US for not dropping the baton winning silver. And my deepest sympathies go out to the Canadians, who were told they won bronze and celebrated it, only to find out a few minutes later that they had been disqualified. We just seem to have the worst luck.

 

Also congratulations to my new favourite diver, Tom Daley, on the bronze medal.

Just look at him.

Edited August 13, 201213 yr by lizzie1238

So much Silver........

 

 

Good job by our Hockey and Basketball Teams though. They always seem to win a medal.

Bolt. Nuff said. USA vs Spain in basketball tomorrow. Rematch from 2008. Going to be epic!

Edited August 12, 201213 yr by Rob

Closing ceremony in just 2 hours 30 minutes. Reminder to some who wants to watch the closing ceremony today.

If our Swimming Team preformed like they usually do we would have finished higher.

 

Top 5 finish for 2016.

USA took control in the last couple days. Very good Olympics.

 

USA basketball beat Spain again. Awesome game.

 

See you in 2016....if I'm still alive.

Only 1 medal in K2.

 

At least it was a silver medal.

 

And Stomp were awesome in the closing ceremony-

Best picture from the Olympics