Olympic fan

[Tampa1257]

Warren, I do know what you mean! What sport are we watching again?????

Don't really care, just show the slow motion replay again, and again Please!

[Colt45]

I'm actually a fan of beach volleyball. I'll be rooting for May and Walsh in these Olympics.

[ArloGut]

I LOVE "CAMEL TOE"

[Shelby07]

I just opened up this thread. At first I was thinking "Geez... I almost passed this thread up!" After the last post I'm thinking "Crap! I wish I had passed this thread up!"

[Ken Gargett]

hard not to enjoy the beach volleyball.

not quite in the same category but i enjoyed this from the borowitz report.

Athlete without Compelling Personal Drama Expelled from Olympics

Diver Hid Details of Intact Family

A member of the U.S. Olympic diving team was disqualified from competition today when it was learned that he did not have a sufficiently compelling human storyline to exploit on the NBC telecast of the worldwide sporting event.

Tracy Klujian, the expelled diver, was not raised by a single mother, never had a career-threatening injury, and did not overcome a personal tragedy of any kind before making the Olympic diving team, U.S. Olympic officials revealed today.

"Had Tracy been involved in an organ donation, as either a donor or a recipient, that would have been acceptable to us," a diving team spokesman told reporters. "However, he was not."

According to sources close to the diving team, Mr. Klujian had concealed the fact that he comes from an intact middle class family who never lost their home to a flood, tornado, or typhoon.

But what may have sealed Mr.Klujian's doom, sources said, was his utter lack of a gravely ill family member to win a medal for.

"Tracy did his best to hide his background from team officials," one source said. "But when the truth came out, he was finished."

Speaking to reporters in Beijing, NBC Sports chief **** Ebersol was even less charitable, terming Mr. Klujian's actions "a reprehensible betrayal."

"We do our best to check out all of the athletes to make sure that their backgrounds are full of compelling human drama, but we can't catch everything," Mr. Ebersol said. "This is a case of one really bad guy exploiting the system."

[Daidemo]

I have tickets for beach volleyball women finals and will try to make a photo report for FOH members (for sure I will not forget my 500mm zoom lens at home!)

[GP012]

There's a beach volleyball hand signal tutorial floating around somewhere, but this will have to suffice until I find it:

[Ken Gargett]

part of the latest borowitz report -

In other Olympic news, China's hopes for winning more medals in women's gymnastics were dashed when one of their leading gymnasts vanished down a bathtub drain on Tuesday.

Immediately after Jiang Qimin's disappearance, Beijing authorities launched a search for the acclaimed seven-pound athlete.

Jiang had been the subject of speculation earlier this week as many foreign observers doubted China's claims that the two-foot-tall gymnast was sixteen years old.

In an interview with NBC's Bob Costas on Monday, Jiang sparked controversy with this response to a question about her age: "I want my sippy cup."

[fugwumpy]

» "I want my sippy cup."

LMAO! classic

[Guest Warren]

I can't say that I have ever been a huge fan of watching sport on TV but there is one sport I can't take my eyes off for some reason.

Don't know what the score is.

Don't even know who's playing .

But I do love this sport. For some reason.:-D

[Grasso]

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[ArloGut]

» THIS IS NOT "CAMEL TOE" IT IS "MOOSE KNUCKLE"

[Guest Warren]

» » THIS IS NOT "CAMEL TOE" IT IS "MOOSE KNUCKLE"

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I believe she once tried to play beach volleyball but Greenpeace kept towing her out to sea.