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Post subject: The Olympics Club  Posted: July 28th, 2008, 12:10 am |
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Welcome!! To the Olympics fanclub!!
Please post your name, countries you support and favorite events
Founder: LadyOfRohan: USA- Swimming, Diving, and Gymnastics(Summer) // Ice Hockey (Winter)
Members:
Nurrantiel Mashiara: USA- Gymnastics and Swimming (Summer)
Haldir o Lórien: Canada- Archery(Summer) // Skating and Curling (Winter)
Eäryendë: USA- Gymnastics, Swimming, and Diving (Summer) // Speed Skating, Figure Skating, Bobsled and Luge (Winter)
Lor En Estel: USA- Gymnastics and Equestrian
Dark, Queen of Angmar: Canada: Fencing, Archery, Equestrian, Swimming, Diving, and Track and Field (Summer) // Ice Hockey, Luge, Skeleton, Bobsledding, and Skiing (Winter)
Captain Faramir: Australia and Canada- Swimming and Diving
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Post subject: Posted: July 28th, 2008, 12:34 am |
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Whoo! I love watching the Olympics. Though I have to say I love the winter as well as summer. 
Country I support? USA, of course. Though I love watching everyone and root for whoever catches my fancy, be they the underdog or really cool.
Favorite events...hm. That one's harder. I like the swimming and gymnastics probably the most in the summer ones, and the figure skating and skiing are just pretty cool. Hopefully I get to watch more this year than I have gotten to other years. I really want to see some of the archery and fencing.  _________________ going on a journey through my old claims
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Post subject: Posted: July 28th, 2008, 12:51 am |
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Archery - One that I definitely love watching... I know one of the Canadian athletes too - Crispin Duenas - he used to participate in the same provincial tournament as me. Course I'm nowhere near as good xD
Skating - I've watched skating since I was about 4 and I love the sport... the skaters are amazing to watch!
Curling - A cute sport... I've also watched it since I was about 4 years old and it's still quite interesting!
I'd love to see some fencing... I've never caught it while watching the Olympics on TV but I'm interested.
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Post subject: Posted: July 28th, 2008, 12:56 am |
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Welcome both of you! Glad you could come!
Nurr- Yes, swimming and gymnastics are my favorite too....though I have to admit, diving is amazing
Haldir- Yes, skaters are amazing..you are talking to one by the way^_^
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Post subject: Posted: July 28th, 2008, 12:58 am |
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Neat... I'm a skater too! It's interesting how almost nobody that I know can ice skate... kinda random, but I used to think that everyone could ice skate  _________________
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Post subject: Posted: July 28th, 2008, 1:01 am |
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I'm actually an ice hockey player, I've played for 14 years. I did ice skating for a couple of months so I could go into ice hockey. I was a very aggressive skater and I didn't really like being graceful 
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"Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles."
"I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls."
Married Finn Jones on March 24th, 2009
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Post subject: Posted: July 28th, 2008, 2:19 am |
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I'll join  I support the US because... that's where I live. (actually, I live in Austin [Texas] where many of the diving competitors hail from, because they dive with Univ. of Texas, which apparently has a good aquatics team/program.)
Summer: Gymnastics, Diving (synchro and platform especially), Swimming
Winter: Figure skating, some Speed skating, some Bobsled/Luge
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Post subject: Posted: July 28th, 2008, 12:19 pm |
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Welcome!! Glad you're here
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"Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles."
"I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls."
Married Finn Jones on March 24th, 2009
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Post subject: Posted: August 7th, 2008, 1:15 pm |
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Of course I've got to join. I support the U.S.A.. My favorite events are gymnastics and the equestrian events(namely show jumping and eventing).
As far as the Hamm brothers being out, I hadn't heard that. Now I'm sad. I liked them!
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Post subject: Posted: August 8th, 2008, 12:04 am |
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Me me me!!
Dark, Queen of Angmar! Canada all the way, I love supporting my home country, I'm so patriotic.
For the summer olympics, I watch Fencing, and Archery whenever I can. I used to participate in both.
I also watch horse competitions (jumping and dressage), being very close to several horse jumpers.
I also watch swimming/diving, being very proud of all of the Canadian athletes in this area.
And the track and field athletes, there's a guy from my town participating in the hammer throw, so that's exciting.
For the winter sports I watch hockey, since it's such a big deal to us Canadians.
I also watch the luge/skeleton/bobsledding.
I also love the skiing, both downhill, the fancy stuff and the crosscountry.
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Post subject: Posted: August 8th, 2008, 10:58 am |
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Post subject: Posted: August 8th, 2008, 2:59 pm |
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yeah, I try to watch as much as possible, watching the Olympics is a tradition for me. I remember watching the last winter olympics and being on A-U, and writing down all of the Canadian medal winners, and having a party for one when we won something. I'm not at all athletic anymore so this is my "sporty" outlet.
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Post subject: Posted: August 9th, 2008, 6:49 pm |
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LadyOfRohan-We really needed Paul Hamm. China is very good in the gym category. He and his brother would have been a big help.
Darky- Watching the Olympics is also a tradition for me. I'm actually watching the dressage part of the equestrian three day eventing, and I just watched a Canadian. She had a gorgeous horse.  Didn't catch her name though. _________________
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Post subject: Posted: August 10th, 2008, 12:36 am |
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Lor- I know, I agree...I was very impressed by Alexander Artemev's pommel horse however
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"Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles."
"I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls."
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Post subject: Posted: August 10th, 2008, 1:00 am |
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^ OMG yes I saw Artemev's pommel horse routine... I was like, holy bejeezus! 
Also, Horton and Spring's bar routines... they get the momentum going and I'm like, they're going to go flying off any time!
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Post subject: Posted: August 10th, 2008, 2:56 am |
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Hey add me up, LOR. Opening ceremony was beyond greatness. I amazingly support Australia(diving, swimming) and Canada(do not know yet) ,though Canadians end up being the last which is pretty lame I guess, just about in anything where Turks did not get involved with. Sorry but US and China pisses me off. I do not know much of the Olympics because I was kinda not interested when I was a kid. Btw, I felt sorry when 3 US got stabbed in the first day by some crazy Chinese. Hope that never happens again.
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