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Aug 14, 2008 | 09:48 AM

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Behemoth, it's not that I want the American's to do badly or anything, I'd rather see them win than 99.9% of the other countries. Canada and Germany being my home countries I cheer them on as much as I can, and with Canada sucking it up out there I have to throw my full support behind them, maybe they'll get at least one medal out of it

. But I will cheer for the U.S if neither of my other countries are involved.

Aug 14, 2008 | 01:44 PM

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A friend of mine was a member of the U.S. team a long time back (he used a wooden pole in the pole vault). He did not place, but considers it one of his life's greatest experiences.

Aug 15, 2008 | 07:48 AM

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6 golds,6 world records,he broke his own world record last night in the 200m IM.................dont even know what to say anymore,just keep it up

Aug 15, 2008 | 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by freirefishing

what length pool you talking, a backyard one??

It's a massive pool-I'm guessing at least 30 feet long.

Aug 15, 2008 | 09:18 AM

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lmao...............

Aug 15, 2008 | 10:57 AM

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Phelps is an amazing swimmer and athlete. The guys body structure is perfect for swimming and his level of motivation is obviously top notch.

I recall watching Mark Spitz in '72 and Phelps performance is just as riveting.

Aug 15, 2008 | 09:30 PM

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Unbelievable.

Gold medal was stolen tonight from Cavic.

Aug 15, 2008 | 09:37 PM

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Digital timing sensors tend not to lie, they don't have political biases, and they're not worried about who your favorite is. Nothing was stolen.

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Aug 15, 2008 | 09:40 PM

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For the past 2 days in qualifying Cavic was beating Phelps and he did beat him again tonight.

Aug 15, 2008 | 09:48 PM

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Take it up with Omega timepieces.

Aug 15, 2008 | 09:49 PM

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Define how Cavic beat Phelps but Phelps beat him? Curious... how does qualifying have anything to do with the actual race? Are you saying the Chinese Government favors the USA?

Aug 15, 2008 | 09:52 PM

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TV replays clearly shows who won. Even people on NBC who are broadcasting are surprised.

And of-course Serbia is not allowed to protest. I wonder why ...

Aug 15, 2008 | 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Kepler4

Define how Cavic beat Phelps but Phelps beat him? Curious... how does qualifying have anything to do with the actual race? Are you saying the Chinese Government favors the USA?

Exactly...if the Chinese government had a way to skew the results away from Phelps, you'd have to know they'd do it in a heartbeat. But instead, we're presented with an argument that suggests that the human eye monitoring a replayed video tape can discern things down to 1/100th of a second, but a pressure sensitive stopclock that is calibrated to at least 1/1000th of a second is inaccurate...riiiiiiight.

By the way...Cavic doesn't seem too upset about the silver....he doesn't look like he feels he was robbed. He must have way more faith in the timeclocks than other people do.

I will stand by my previous assertion...take it up with Omega timepieces.

Aug 15, 2008 | 10:04 PM

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Phelps can keep his gold, but the entire world saw what happened tonight.

Serbian protest were rejected immediately ... I guess people from Olympics were afraid with what they might found.

Aug 15, 2008 | 10:10 PM

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Nobody's afraid of anything.....you can't argue with a clock that's synchronized with all 8 lanes...there's no conspiracy, no grassy knoll, no smoking gun, no backroom payoff....Phelps won.

I didn't even think he was going to win, myself...but the clock surprised me. I was glad to see it.

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