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Not surprising since the Olympics have become as political as ever. It's just another round of sore losers and bad winners and hypocritical fingers pointing to doping. I was watching Real Sports on HBO and they did a corruption at the Olympics special. One segment was on the Beijing Olympics and they accused China of using the Olympics to cover-up some scandal over something causing kidney stones in children. The claim was because China didn't want to look bad during the Olympics, little coverage of this was disclosed on TV to warn parents. I thought China covers-up everything so the Olympics had nothing to do with it. They also used the precision of the drummers in the opening ceremony as something sinister in the way they were that precise and coordinated. It was explained back then there was a computer program sending signals to the drummers through earpieces you can see they were wearing. How convenient for them to leave that part out. In the end they concluded why the Olympics are so corrupt is because of how much money is being made. And who's fault is that? According to them it's all these corrupt countries bidding for and running the Olympics. And not reported that was a result of seeing how much money can be made from the corporate commercialization of the Olympics and their endorsements which was the criticism of the Atlanta games.
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The Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony had set the bar too high for any one nation to over come it.:D
 
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I don't know how they judge synchronized diving but I was just watching it and the British men's team 2nd to last dive where they were in 5th place going into it, the two were totally unsynchronized tumbling down clearly seen in the slow-mo yet they got a huge score that put them in third and they won the bronze beating the Germans.
 
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I don't know how they judge synchronized diving but I was just watching it and the British men's team 2nd to last dive where they were in 5th place going into it, the two were totally unsynchronized tumbling down clearly seen in the slow-mo yet they got a huge score that put them in third and they won the bronze beating the Germans.
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My favorite part of the Olympics so far! This makes Long Qingquan China's second male double Olympic Champion weightlifter! Hopefully, we will see equally heroic performances from Lu Xiaojun (men's 77kg reining Olympic champion) and youngster Tian Tao (men's 85kg) on Wednesday and Friday 7pm Rio time respectively.
 
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Yip, the psychological fun and games they play make it interesting as well.
By chance I watched some of the fencing where the Chinese girl won a bronze.
Well done I thought as its usually a sport dominated by the Europeans with some Koreans making some inroads into the sport..
The atmosphere was great. A darkened room lit by white green red fluorescent lighting. As the competitors made their way to the fighting area dressed in their gear and sword thingy, the 'Star wars' Darth Vada Theme played in the background.
Da Da Da Dah Deh DaDah De Dah, created a great atmosphere.
 
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Great games so far. Been really enjoying watching in the evenings after work.

Current medal count:

USA Total Medals 22 - G:6 S:8 B:8
PRC Total Medals 16 - G:7 S:3 B:6
Rus Total Medals 12 - G:3 S:6 B:3
ITA Total Medals 09 - G:3 S:4 B:2
AUS Total Medals 08 - G:4 S:0 B:4
 
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