Are you watching...
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Topic: Are you watching...
Posted By: mummy_becks
Subject: Are you watching...
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 2:14pm
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... the Olympics??? If you are, ae you choosey about what you are watching??? I love watching the swimming and gymnastics. I get very bored with the team sports (hockey ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
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Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 2:18pm
| We have the TV set up here in the office and it comes on at 12.30. Some relief for us really, as we're so understaffed it's scary and we need the break every now and then. Love watching the swimming and gymnastics, I also like the hockey (cos I played for so long), DF likes the badminton (he used to play) and we also like the rowing, equestrian and synchronised diving. Not so keen on the sailing, handball, soccer, basketball.... |
Posted By: BuzzyBee
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 2:28pm
OMG Handball is in the Olympics? 
I used to HATE having to watch my friends play that in primary, how monotonous would that be watching it on telly LET ALONE doing it as a career. |
Posted By: BuzzyBee
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 2:29pm
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I'm like you ladies, I just like the diving/synchronized swimming, gymnastics and ....hmm there was something else.
I much prefer the winter Olympics. I like the Bob Sledding, , ice skating ...ahhh the list goes on. |
Posted By: fairsk8
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 2:36pm
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Not that kind of handball Mum2Lucas, it is a team game and they have to score goals.
I have been watching quite a bit of Badminton, I a little in awe of the players. The game is so fast but the shuttlecock moves slow, and the reach on some of the players is amazing. Also watch the rowing, gymnastics, weightlifting, swimming and can't wait for the track and field events to start. ------------- http://www.bump-and-beyond.com/"> 
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Posted By: BuzzyBee
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 2:45pm
Ohhhh...... 
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fairsk8 wrote:Posted By: ohanlon82
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 3:34pm
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I used to love handball - the one in the Olympics is not as good LOL
Love watching the swimming.. All the other sports are ok.. They all get better next week with more finals etc  ------------- http://lb2f.lilypie.com/TikiPic.php/RPaODBg.jpg |
Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 3:40pm
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Tha handball is kind of like soccer, netball and basketball all mixed in to one....they have nets at each end of the court that they score goals in (like soccer goals I mean), they throw the ball to each other, can't run with it, I think they can dribble but only for about 2 steps and the ball is quite little...
That 4 x 200m relay was amazing, I can't believe they smashed the world record so easily! |
Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 4:13pm
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Everytime I have switched over the team sports have been on, and normally countries I don't care about either so have turned it back off. I prefer the winter olympics as I love watching the ice skating and I don't mind the skiing either. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: Deez
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 4:22pm
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Yep and we like to watch swimming, track and field, Basket Ball and gymnastics and Rowing -------------  
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Posted By: Neeks
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 4:35pm
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Yep I'm really picky about what I watch
Diving, Gymnastics & Equestrian - That's about it really And Steph the Handball they play at the Olympics is like Soccer with your hands so not the playground type of handball (four or two square) that we grew up with -------------  
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Posted By: MonicaMouse
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 4:51pm
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Have had the tv on while vaccuuming and yeaaooooouch that weightlifter..... I had to look away and then they replayed it, ------------- 
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Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 5:46pm
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Oh my gosh , i know monicamouse, we have the tv on in the surgery (very distracting while im suctioning) and i walked in as they replayed that part, i nearly dropped the tray i was holding
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 7:31pm
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german friend of mine plays handball in a local competition, its very popular in germany
i'm hanging out for next week, athletics has always been my fav olympic event to watch ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: lovingmummyhood
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 7:32pm
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Yeah, kind of. I have a tiny tv on in the afternoons on mute in class (our topic is the olympics so it does link to work) and every now and then we turn it up for a bit - like when NZ is on, or Phelps is racing :) Lots of fun! I remember sitting in Biology at high school watching Danyon Loader :)
Oh, and of course I watch the equestrian! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 7:38pm
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I hadn't really thought of the olympics until last night/today. I'd like to show my girls some of the gymnastics but googling timetables for tv didn't prove very helpful. It looks like there will be male gymnastics sometime tomorrow and women's g. sometime on Friday. Anyone know more specific than that?
I used to watch the iceskating when I was little, I would love to show my girls that too. -------------  |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 7:45pm
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ooops a bit late T - it was on this afternoon for a good amount of time - the girls loved watching it. They are replaying it again sometime this evening - maybe you could tape some for them?
Ayja got up last night a few times and each time was captivated by the synchronised diving - she reckons "when i'm 18 I'm going to do that"  ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 7:45pm
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T have a look http://tvnz.co.nz/content/1897464 - here as it is the schedule. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 7:50pm
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I'm loving it. LOVE the rowing, the swimming, diving, gymnastics (OMG they all look about 10) got into the weightlifting today till that guy dislocated/ broke his arm (spew)
Not so much of the team stuff but watched hockey today. My fave is rowing and swimming though. Have surprised myself how much I have enjoyed watcing it. Oh and I love the pursuits cycling. ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 7:55pm
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I love the diving too. My MIL was in the Olympic team for NZ back in 1976 but she got pregnant and couldn't go (we blame my BIL it is all his fault). ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 8:21pm
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I get bored with watching it, altho I do enjoy the swimming (I used to swim competitively, but I wasn't that great!) and the gymnastics.
Dad watches it 24 hours a day pretty much, Mum reckons he'd watch flies crawling up the wall if they called it sport... ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 8:33pm
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i get bored if i watch it for too long also emma......i love the gymnastics though, can watch that for hours. the syc swimming and diving is good too
i saw the news clip for that weight lifter tonight!   DH came to see what i was fussing about and i just couldn't bring myself to watch it again.........my god the pain!!!------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 8:35pm
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Emma your dad sounds like my dad ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 9:01pm
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That weightlifter was we saw it at work when it actually happened and they replayed it in slow motion....man did my stomach turn!!!
Err....yeah ok I admit I watch most of it 
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Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 9:30pm
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yeah i got the pleasure of seeing the poor weight lifter too (gee ,i wonder what the new fave youtube video will be )
How old ARE the girls that do gymnastics, cos as Annie said , they look like they are 10 |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 9:34pm
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There was an article saying that the chinese have faked the girls ages and that they are really young not the age they say they are. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 9:35pm
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Wouldn't surprise me, they've been a bit deceptive about the opening ceremony so why not their athletes as well... ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: Neeks
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 9:36pm
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Yea, I saw that article Becks and they say that they are 16ish?? WTF??? Those girls have no body shape like a young child not a teenager -------------
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 9:38pm
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http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=1886512&ch=&cl=9245872&src=newzealand - Here is the vidoe report about the gymnists ages. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Neeks
Date Posted: 13 August 2008 at 9:40pm
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I'm sorry but the Chinese really don't know how to win friends and influence people.. I say there is something fishy going on with the Chinese athletes too
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