Golds - 7 or total medals - 35?? Actually Golds are now 8 given Tallent was bumped up from silver to gold.
Unfortunately this is often pretty true.I wish I could share your optimism, but the Yanks seem to always find a way to beat our swimmers at the Olympics, they are superior "racers" forged in their cutthroat college system and their district/regional/state/national trials system.
The yanks aren't as confident as usual for their swimming team, which means they will probably win 10-12 rather than 14 to 16 golds but they will get 30+ medals.I wish I could share your optimism, but the Yanks seem to always find a way to beat our swimmers at the Olympics, they are superior "racers" forged in their cutthroat college system and their district/regional/state/national trials system.
In the past people who are interested in a particular sport start a new thread. I've started an athletics one the last couple of Olympics, for either London or Beijing it was 2, one for track events and one for field events. I've also started a swimming thread, a rowing thread one games and a cycling thread as well. Then people start general discussion threads, sometimes completely ignoring the discussion going on in the sporting threads, and other times to reflect stuff not covered in those sports threads, ie about commentators, TV coverage, too many bloody ads etc.
I was there that night. I was looking at an old post from Beijing about The Times - 50 greatest Olympic Moments to see how it stacked with the NBC list and found this post I made in it.The replay always brings goosebumps- Great call by Dennis Commetti.
Klim's lead off leg was the key, the Americans were always playing catch up in their first 50 metre legs from then on, and in the second leg they were carrying the piano on their backs for the last 15 or 20 metres.
I think we are a big chance to win it this Olympics as well, might be the the big chance for Magnussen to redeem himself
I wish I could share your optimism, but the Yanks seem to always find a way to beat our swimmers at the Olympics, they are superior "racers" forged in their cutthroat college system and their district/regional/state/national trials system.
Becoming very likely now that Andrew Bogut will not he participating at these games - for reasons other than his current recovery from injury or fears for the Zika virus.
But the "cover story" will be "the injury".
Luc Longley was the same wasn't he?
This. Probably our best opportunity to medal for a while
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. why is it always us who complains about this? or it seems to be us and the west. 
"Olympics: Australia to boycott Rio athletes village, 'not safe, not ready' - team chief"
Kitty making friends already
im sure it will be fine in the end. this always happens before the games. even the Sydney games had some of this (not that i am old enough to remember)
Nope not Sydney. There was no problem with the athletes village built by the private sector at Newington, which although it was an existing suburb with old navy ammunition depot it was turned into a new residential area which now houses about 30,000 people. It was finished about 5 months before the first athlete arrived. The big problem with Sydney 6 months before the games was the train system, derailments and other issues until they go the pre split up into 4 train business CEO Ron Christie in to fix things. Edit some point in the late 1990's NSW trains were split into 4, City trains, freight, country trains and others (coal trains etc), all were corporatized ready to be privatized at some point, which they never have been. There was a lack of co-ordination and it cause big problems. Christie came in because he ran the whole system before the split for a decade or so.
