ShOgUn_LI
Newly Enlightened
Go Australia sports! And Japan Judo! hehehe
The athlete I'm rooting for most is Michael Phelps (swimming) - he's on track to win more medals than anybody previous.
In this Olympiad, he already set a new world record in one of the swimmimg events. :thumbsup:
GO PHELPS!!!
That relay race last night was incredible!
Go Australia sports! And Japan Judo! hehehe
Nice showing for the Mens' Gymnastics Team, Bronze.
Not bad at all for loosing Paul and Morgan. Loosing them really brought down our potential scores. The rest of the guys really stepped up; too bad they had to falter a bit at the end, but they managed to stay in the third place spot.
If only the NBC commentators would SHUT UP! Not only are they annoying, but what they sometimes is an opinion at best, downright misleading and incorrect one one comment tonight. :shakehead Sorry /rant
Oh and Go Phelps! I concur! USA Swimming is definitely doing great today/tonight.
If only the NBC commentators would SHUT UP!
Phelps is an amazing athlete. However, there seems to be many more medal opportunities in swimming than other events. Seems a bit unbalanced. Surely someone like Lebron James is equally as talented as Phelps, yet they don't give out medals after every basketball game or for most offensive rebounds, best 3 pt. shooting, etc.
...snip... If you take the time to learn about what someone like him has done leading up to this Olympics (or Lance Armstrong in his Tour de France as another example) you would realize there is no comparison to the dedication, time, and work put in by any basketball player, however good.
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I guess you mean the now defunct Kissena Cycles. And yes, it boggles the mind how much these pros work. I recently put a second bike computer which calculates calories on one of my bikes. A fairly long, hard workout for me is a 25 mile or so ride, generally taking about 1.5 hours, depending upon traffic/road conditions. And I'm usually pretty spent afterwards. The calorie counter tells me this is perhaps 1300 or 1400 calories. Add in another 2500 or so just for basic metabolism. I'm hard pressed to burn 4000 calories on a good cycling day, and these pros burn 12000! I doubt my body could physically do that much work day in and day out, to say nothing of the mental discipline required to train/eat/sleep. In my mind, these guys earn every penny of their endorsements and every ounce of their gold medals.I got to meet an olympic gold medalist a couple of times (came into the bike shop that used to be in my neighborhood to show the owner the gold - the owner had been the head of USCF youth development), and he talked about his training routine. Mind you, everyone in the room was a "club rider" except for me. (I was just below that level). The workouts he talked about were amazing, and we were invited to a casual "OK, I won the olympics a week ago, I can relax for a week or two" training day.
BOGGLE is the word for how HARD he works
With Philips, he says he basically does 3 things in his life. Train, EAT, sleep, and that's the way it's been for years (guy eats like 12000 calories a day, every day - now look at his body - NO fat. That means he's BURNING 12000 calories a day....)