Beijing Olympics

[noel]

Think I'll give grits a miss, it sounds like something my cockatiel should be eating to aid his digestion.

[LDunlop76]

Yeah, it doesn't sound very appetising, does it?

[rocketmanjohn]

Grits looks like freshly prepared wallpaper paste and I would guess it tastes much the same. They all eat it down here, and claim to like it. When I see a plate of bacon and egg with a pile [I think the collective noun is a mess, my joke] of grits my stomach turns.
John

[shuffy]

More gold for Britain yesterday. We are third in the medal table,when did that last happen? Well done to all our team

[Spitfire]

It would have been an even higher total if it hadn`t (unexplicably), all gone wrong for the judo team. A brilliant total nevertheless.

[LDunlop76]

quote:

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Originally posted by muffers

I think it would take me a month to eat what Michael Phelps eat in one day. I wonder how good it is for his heart.

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This article reveals more - the journalist tries out Phelps' diet for a day. This quote from it made me chuckle:
Apparently, he worries about keeping his weight up. I'd worry about not sinking.

"I'm not surprised, dear," says Professor Janice Thompson, head of Bristol University's department of exercise, nutrition and health sciences, when, belching quietly, I return to my desk. "There's no way you should be able to eat what Michael Phelps eats. This is not even a normal athlete. I would not recommend this kind of diet for even a fit and serious competitor in, say, a 10km road race. This man is in a very, very different place to the rest of us. He's 6ft 4in and 192lb of pure joy. From a female perspective, obviously. Though I probably shouldn't say that."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/aug/15/foodanddrink.michaelphelps

[Alan Marsden]

International Wimbledon tennis players and the US Basketball players (all multi millionaires ) are at the Olympics , why are such people allowed into the Olympic arena while many other competitors have to endure financial hardship while training for years ?

Has amateur competition now to compete with overpaid entertainers ?

The Olympics has become a farce !

[noel]

Many of the competitors are paid Alan and have been for some time. One has to feel sorry for those who train for hours a day every day of the week with no or little financial help, but they are the ones whose faces are wreathed in smiles as they win a reward for their efforts. There is no doubt in my mind that the sports you mention Alan should not be in the olympics. I'm sure there must be many others asking the same question, why. On the other hand, ladies beach volley ball, now that's some sport.

[Alan Marsden]

I've not watched much of the Olympics so far , but last night I did watch the ladies dual bar (high and low ) gymnastics . I thought that the English girl was just as good as the winner, possibly better, then there was the nonsense of awarding the gold to the young Chinese girl and silver to the American girl even though they'd both got the same marks, and unlike the Chinese the American girl did a perfect landing , there surely should have been two gold medals ! She must have been very disappointed .

[noel]

Things like gymnastics are purely subjective. Remember the days of the old ice competitions when the Russian judges and East Germans marked everyon low except their own skaters.