Olympics preview

Description: In anicipation of this four yearly sporting event, leave your opinions on possibilities and probablities here.

Newest Review: ... everything they can to stack the deck. Look at the new events lately, Snowboard, Baseball, and Basketball, and look how it is turning out for them!! baseball, (Americas pastime and they can barely beat Taiwan and Cuba) then this year they blocked about half of the athletes from the former Soviet Union from getting visas to come here in order to better their chances of winning medals. I ... more

... think the Yanks ought to get a clue from what the Soviets did in 1980 in MOCKBA when they put in events like Sambo. Sambo is a Russian Acronym for Self defense without weapons, obviously nobody e ...more

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Olympics preview: 2002 Winter Olympics (1003 words)
by - written on 11/02/02 (Very useful, 45 readings)
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Let's talk about the Olympics. Truthfully I am pretty annoyed by the current Olympiad for a number of reasons. So hang on for a few chuckles and hopefully I will get my point across. Basically I am pretty ticked with those arrogant Americans. As you all know I am living in America and so all of my coverage is courtesey of NBC from the USA and CNBC from Canada. For some reason the Americans only want to see their own people compete in some sort of Jingoistic stupidity where they think we would rather see some Yank bumble along into 12th place instead of watching the best athletes in the world perform. This has been the case in skiing and snowboarding so ... Read the complete review

A brief history of the Olympic (484 words)
by - written on 22/03/01 (Useful, 509 readings)
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The Olympics are so big that millions of people watch it every four years. So hears a brief history of the important dates of whats happend in the olympics Olympic dates and what happened 1936 Berlin In 1936 Adolph Hitler was trying to change the Olympic games by not letting Jews or Blacks win and take part in the Olympic games. Jesse Owen a black athlete became a hero to black people and Jews. He defied Hitler by winning four gold medals. One in the 100 metres, one in the 200 metres, one in the 4 times 100 metres and the other one in the long jump. ... Read the complete review

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