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Just saw the 100 hurdles for women. Lolo Jones had the gold. Its too bad she hit the second to last hurdle. She would have won the gold and a white womam with the silver or bronze. She spoke after,and exhibited class. NBC showed her mother and black looking sister. Where was the deadbeat father? As always nowhere to be found. God If I was Lolo's father I would crawl under a rock for month then poisen myself. Lolo no doubt exhibits her whiteness as a sportswoman.
 
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I think gymnastics are fine. I was on a gymnastics club for a year when I was a kid. This doesn't change the fact that to compete at the highest level, you have to be 5 foot 2 and 120 pounds. In my opinion, this immediately removes Yang Wei from any "greatest athlete" discussion.

But, if you feel that the Chinese men's gymnastics team is the best collection of athletes ever assembled, who am I to argue.
 
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I wish BMX racing was around when I was 10 years old. That's what I would have done instead of trying to be a cornerback.
 

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I think you have to be 10 to fit on those bikes..... Here is what the Olympics is supposed to be about.......Nikpai hopes his medal can serve as message of peace

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Updated: August 20, 2008, 12:59 PM ET

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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Noor Ahmad Gayezabi said a silent prayer while watching the small family TV with his 13-year-old son. "Help Nikpai. Help Nikpai. Help Afghanistan."

Then he watched his country win its first-ever Olympic medal.

Rohullah Nikpai defeated world champion Juan Antonio Ramos of Spain on Wednesday to earn the bronze medal in the men's under 58-kilogram taekwondo competition, sparking applause, wide smiles and laughter in homes, restaurants and ice cream parlors around the country.

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Rohullah Nikpai

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Rohullah Nikpai of Afghanistan said he hoped his bronze medal in taekwondo -- the first Olympic medal ever won by his country -- can serve as a message of peace for his war-torn country.
"When I saw that he won, I jumped up and hugged and kissed my son," Gayezabi said. "I was crying."

President Hamid Karzai immediately called to congratulate Nikpai. He also awarded him a house at the government's expense, said Humayun Hamidzada, the president's spokesman.

"I hope this will send a message of peace to my country after 30 years of war," Nikpai said.

The victory led all of Afghanistan's evening newscasts.

"I am so happy. I cannot express my feelings in words," said Mohammad Akbar, 33, who watched on a TV at his Kabul pharmacy. "While I was watching the match I was clapping I was so happy."

Nikpai, who is 21, started learning the Korean martial art when he was 10 because his brother had found a club in Kabul to train. Not only was it an escape from the daily rigors of life in a country that not been at peace since the 1970s, he turned out to be good at it.

Exceptionally good.

When Gayezabi met Nikpai, they were both living at a refugee camp in Iran during the years of war that embroiled Afghanistan in the 1980s and 1990s. The two competed together on a refugee taekwondo team.

Nikpai came to Kabul four years ago, Gayezabi said. In the mornings he lifted weights and in the evenings he practiced martial arts. In between he earned money cutting hair as a barber.

With success came better training conditions. After being selected for the national team six months ago, he was able to use a special gymnasium.

But in a country where sports take a distant place behind the realities of war, few resources are dedicated to training athletes.

"My training situation is a lot like the situation in my country," Nikpai said. "It's not good."

Gayezabi had a lucky few hours of electricity that allowed him to watch his former teammate's victory. He feared he would only be able to listen on the radio since Kabul averages about four hours of municipal electricity a day.

"I was crying because I was remembering back when we were both on the Afghan refugee taekwondo team in Iran," Gayezabi said.

Only four Afghan athletes came to Beijing, representing a country that had never won an Olympic medal and is sinking ever deeper into war as the Taliban insurgency escalates.

Sprinter Robina Muqimyar -- who in 2004 broke the gender barrier on the Afghan Olympic team -- was last in a field of 85 women in the 100 meters, with a time of 14.80. She ran with a scarf covering her head.

Teammate Massoud Azizi finished 76th in the men's 100. He trains in Kabul's National Stadium, where the Taliban once staged regular public executions, wearing jogging shoes because his spikes won't dig into the track's cracked, concrete surface.

But Nikpai, who is 21, has claimed a spot among his sport's elite.

Afghanistan will get another chance at a medal in taekwondo. Nesar Ahmad Bahave is competing in a heavier weight class.

Hussein Rachmati, a taekwondo teacher who works in the gym where Nikpai trains, said Nikpai prepared for the Olympics with a Korean teacher. He placed second in the World Taekwondo Federation's qualifying event in Vietnam last year.

Afghans gathered around an ice cream shop TV in Kabul broke out in wide smiles and passed around congratulations to one another after watching Nikpai's win, said Abdul Wafi, a 28-year-old university student.

"It is wonderful that an Afghan athlete can win a medal in the world Olympics," said Wafi. "It is a great achievement for Afghanistan."

The top U.N. official in Afghanistan, Kai Eide, said the Olympic win shows that Afghanistan can compete on the global stage against the world's best athletes.

"Young people should draw hope and inspiration from this Olympic win," Eide said in a statement. "Today, Afghanistan has demonstrated that it can and will succeed in the face of adversity with the determination, commitment and hard work of its most precious resource -- the young people of Afghanistan."

Along with the president's offer of a house, Nikpai's bronze medal comes with a cash prize.

Ehsanullah Bayat, chairman of the Afghan Wireless Communication Company, earlier announced that he would award any Afghan athlete who won an Olympic bronze $10,000, along with $50,000 for a gold medal and $25,000 for a silver, said Khalid Andisha, a spokesman for AWCC.

"It is a great victory for Afghanistan," said Mohammad Sukran, an 18-year-old student. "In a country like Afghanistan, the only thing we hear about all the time is violence and fighting. This is finally good news for Afghanistan."

Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press
 
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Not one word of thanks from the Afgan athletes to the United States who frred them from the iron rule of the Taliban.
Ungreatful Bastards.
 

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screamingeagle said:
Not one word of thanks from the Afgan athletes to the United States who frred them from the iron rule of the Taliban.
Ungreatful Bastards.


Yes, we invaded their country solely out of altruistic motives so that they could enjoy the glories of freedom and democracy. It had nothing to do with building and controlling key oil pipelines and trying to establish dominanceover Central Asia. The Afghansshould be grateful we have decided to permanently occupy their country, just as U.S. taxpayers should be grateful to fork over trillions of dollars on behalf of the military-industrial complex's endless and unwinnable war there, and the families of the thousands of maimed and dead American soldiers should be grateful to have lost their sons to such a noble effort. I guess Pat Tillman's family are ingrates too.
 

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Don, that about sums it up. Expanding "Empire" while everything breaks down at home. Will we be able to pull out of this nosedive before its too late, or are we already way to close to the ground to do anything about it; I hate to think about it.
 
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I don't care about women's sports, but the US softball team lost in the final. I was happy to see that.
 
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It's amazing how badly US wrestling sucks. A truly pathetic performance in Beijing, actually worse than the garbage attempt put in by the boxing team, considering how big wrestling is in the states. Few box anymore, but every high school has a wrestling team. NCAA wrestling is popular.

Wrestling has lost a few athletes to football and MMA but they should be able to deliver more than two medals. Total crap.

The US operates the best swimming program in the world, and were it not for that, America would have lost the medal race to China. The swim team delivered over 30 medals. The US cannot rely on the swim team to win the medal count in London.
 

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nevada said:
I don't care about women's sports, but the US softball team lost in the final. I was happy to see that.


Did the "diversity" bother you? I do like the fact that the Asian teams are usually homogenous.

Are you also rooting against the US womens volleyball team?

The US women did to Cuba what the stunning Serbian women should have done. The Cubans weren't very good at digging and, contrary to the Caste media, they did not "destroy" the Serbians. Yes, they (the Cubans) won 3 games to zero. Yes, the Serbians could have taken it to extra games. But, the scores were close and looking through my objective eyes, I could tell that the Cuban "athletes" weren't the POWERHOUSE, at least this year, that the media were building them up to be.

Serbia WOULD have beaten the Chinese team that Russia failed to defeat and played horribly against.
 
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Dude, I do not follow women's sports at all. I barely know what's going on. All I know is when the sports media is trying to shove some women's non-sport non-story down my throat.

It's pretty obvious that they pick out a few particular women's teams ahead of time which they think can win in some non-sport, and then instead of covering decent white guys in an actual, competitive sport, they spend their time doing fluff coverage.

Now, I'm glad NBC did not cover wrestling, boxing, or judo in primetime, because the US performance in combat sports was downright trash, but I could have done without the 30 hours of women's beach volleyball.
 

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Sir, I'm not a fan of women's beach volleyball either! Handball sucks too!

During these Olympics, the commercials have been incredibly disgusting. Non-stop filth.

Many Olympic "sports" are lame, but I would rather support a woman's team that is full of Whites and not one that is overflowing with "touchy-feely diversity-loving" nonsense.

Were you bothered by the whining of the media and US team because softball won't be an Olympic sport in 2012? Is that why you were "happy to see that" result? Edited by: Deadlift
 
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The caste system is trying to make a comeback. First there is the son of illegal immigrants who won a gold medal for the US in wrestling. While they like him because he is an anchor baby, they are bothered by his flag waving. These feelings may be genuine. He knows what dump Mexico is. He is less likely to be kidnapped in the US. As for the families that were displace by his illegal parents, the MSM does not care they never do.
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This is from mike Downey's column in the Chicago La Raza (used to the the Tribune) "Athletics is the Olympic word for track and field. And this sport's answer to the amphibious Phelps is an islander with thunder in his right shoe and lightening in his left- Bolt, the king of Kingston, the pride of the carribean." Sounds like Downey wants to lay next to him.
If the US B-Ball team wins, we will never hear the end of it.
 

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The worlds strongest man is once again a Caucasian and for the first time in 8 years a White European. I wonder if this will big news in the US.....
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Did you watch the 105KG weightlifting?

The 20-year-old Belarussian phenom ran an absolute clinic to capture Gold.

2 Russian Bulls' captured the silver and bronze. I enjoyed watching that a lot more. There were a few incredible lifts in the Super Heavy group, but I didn't enjoy that group overall.

The depth is at 105KG!

Dmitriy Klokov is an animal. He looks like an intense Southern man! He got Silver in 105.

Here's video of him in 2004:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce0ew3uui8I


Enjoy!
 

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call me a weirdo, but i enjoy watching some women's sports.

i caught part of the Norway-Korea women's handball game, and it was a physical, fast-paced competition. and Norway's chicks were gorgeous. i enjoy women's soccer, too. just not as much as the men's. volleyball is cool with me, too. both indoors and outdoors. those women are athletes.

i also saw a few minutes of women's field hockey yesterday between Spain and the USA... it was not that interesting. however, it seemed like every chick on the field was good looking. goes without saying, they were all white.
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I also liked watching the handball competition Jimmy C and would love to see that sport catch on in this country. Those Hungarian and Romanian Handball chicks were athletic and beautiful to watch.
 
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Jeremy Wariner came in second.
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A silver medal is nothing too bad. Damn I wish he could have won. Just lost to a better runner on this day.
 

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Has anyone noticed when the Asians make mistakes, in any event, the commentator often describes it as 'rare'. I find that funny, because they seem to have caught them saying this at least a half-dozen times. Then they go on about their 'awesome precision'.
 

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Deadlift said:
white is right said:
The worlds strongest man is once again a Caucasian and for the first time in 8 years a White European. I wonder if this will big news in the US.....
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Did you watch the 105KG weightlifting?

The 20-year-old Belarussian phenom ran an absolute clinic to capture Gold.

2 Russian Bulls' captured the silver and bronze. I enjoyed watching that a lot more. There were a few incredible lifts in the Super Heavy group, but I didn't enjoy that group overall.

The depth is at 105KG!

Dmitriy Klokov is an animal. He looks like an intense Southern man! He got Silver in 105.

Here's video of him in 2004:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce0ew3uui8I


Enjoy!
No weightlifting is sporadically covered. CBC would rather show beach volleyball and BMX racing then real Olympic sports....
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Americans rave about CBC coverage, but I find it a longer version of NBC coverage(horrible and biased towards stupid sports). The Olympics are about faster, higher and stronger. New sports are more about equipment and bastardization of traditional sports to make them telegenic....
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While we are on the subject, opium growers should be greatful for our presence. The Taliban would burn down their crops and kill them. We do not. The least they could do is to give us a cut of the action. The same with the oil countries. The UAE made 380 million dollars a day, give us half! We are protecting them.
The basic problem is that we do not have warriors leading us. We have businessmen, second rate failures. If we had warriors they would know how to keep the economy humming. WW II was the good war because so many people made money in the war industries, and the GIs would receive other benefits. Korea and Vietnam was good for the economy also. A good economy means a good war.
BTW, did they ever build that pipeline across Afganistan? I have not heard anything. There was much talk about this in 2000.
Meanwhile back to the Olympics.
 

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Black Cuban kicks ref in the face. [url]http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/taekwondo/news?slug =ap-tae-taekwondo-dispute&prov=ap&type=lgns [/url]


BEIJING (AP)â€â€￾A Cuban taekwondo athlete and his coach were banned for life after Angel Matos kicked the referee in the face following his bronze-medal match disqualification.


Cuban coach Leudis Gonzalez offered no apology for Matos' actions during the men's over-80 kg (176 pounds) match.


Matos was winning 3-2, with 1:02 in the second round, when he fell to the mat after being hit by his opponent, Kazakhstan's Arman Chilmanov. He was sitting there, awaiting medical attention, when he was disqualified for taking too much injury time. Fighters get one minute, and Matos was disqualified when his time ran out.


Matos angrily questioned the call, pushed a judge, then pushed and kicked referee Chakir Chelbat of Sweden. Matos then spat on the floor and was escorted out.
 

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lol @ Chakir Chelbat of 'Sweden.'

That sounds about the same as Cheick Kongo, of 'France.'

Here is a pic of the Cuban kicking the 'Swede:'

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Malicious douchebag. That is clearly an assault and should be punished accordingly.
 

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Black athletes viciously attacking officialsat sportingevents isnot an uncommon theme. We've posted several of these reports over the years.
 

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I have to admit that I would be capable of doing something like this in a fixed basketball game.
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