Olympic athletes/stories in the news.

[RICHARD]

I watched a T and F competition from Europe today. It was great.

I laughed when I saw the javelin throw.

After a throw I notice this little buggy come out on the grass with a javelin on it.

Later on the close up is of a tiny VW Bug that a guy is controlling from the sideline. They use it to take back the javelins to the athletes.

The women's high jump was fun to watch!

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I heard that two U.S. women athlete's suffered broken bones in the tune-ups.
A soccer player broke her leg and a gymnast broke her ankle. All that work and to have that happen.


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This is the last year for woman's softball in the Olympics. This really stinks-especially when they put in stupid sports like bicycle moto cross. There already are annual extreme sports competitions for them, Why do they need the Olympics? I do like to watch people stuff their heads into the dirt when they do the bike/motorcycle stunts, but 30 seconds riding a bike in the dirt isn't any where near 'olympian'.

[Grace]

I had heard about the soccer player - she had a titanium rod inserted yesterday. Broke both fibula and tibia - ouch!! I can relate to that.

Just went looking for the gymnast. I think they are taking that expression - Break a leg - much too literally.

[Grace]

Terrible news - Michael Lohberg, the coach of Dara Torres, will not be with her in China. He is now at NIH, in Bethesda, being treated aggressively for Aplastic Anemia.

This is an awful disease. The bone marrow basically shuts down and no longer produces blood cells. Without treatment death can occur within 2 weeks.

He is receiving transfusions right now. They won't allow him to shave because his platelet count is so low, if he even nicked himself he could bleed out.

[Grace]

- Lopez Lomong, one of the 'Lost Boys' from the Sudan.

From CNN -

A U.S. athlete who overcame the chaos of war in Sudan to become a middle-distance runner in the United States will carry the American flag during Friday's opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Games.

Lopez Lomong, a 23-year-old competitor in the 1,500-meter race, will lead the U.S. Olympic team as the flagbearer.

Teammates chose him Wednesday, the U.S. Olympic Committee said in a statement.

[RICHARD]

HBO ran a story about him on the monthly sports show.

Wow, he had one heck of a road to hoe. Good on him.

[smokey the elder]

I'm really glad the team picked that Sudanese guy. He sounds like a good person.

[RICHARD]

DUDE!


If anyone knows who the cute U.S. soccer ref for the women's games is - let me know....I think her name is Cary/Kari/Carri Sykes.

Otherwise I am going to marry a woman pole vaulter.......Abs like that belong on a mutant!

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Did anyone notice the American Flag that Phelps didn't bother to pick up after his race?

He was walking along the side of the pool when someone threw an American Flag into the area next to the first row. He bent over the railing to look at it and backed away. A photographer picked it up and attempted to hand it MP, buyt he turned and walked away.

Hmmmm, that kinda sucked.