No need to be a sourpuss, Hagen Stamm. Your guys scored that last goal on an illegal restart. That's like scoring an easy goal in soccer, onl y to find you're off-sides. You can't be blaming the ref in this case. You denied yourself an opportunity. Go back to your pub in Deutschland and cry in your bier, you cheat.
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MIsty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh will face Tian Jia and Wang Jie in the gold-medal match in beach volleyball after sweeping the Brazilians.
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Actually, I found out that we were NOT facing Russia in our women's volleyball quarterfinal...instead, it's Italy. This will be fun.
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I just learned a new thing: table tennis is a sport where Nigirians can best us in. It's not restricted to soccer. David Zhuang wouldn't stand a chance at beer pong. The failure.
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Henry Cejudo, don't let us down against Japan's Tomohiro Matsunaga. If we can bounce them in volleyball, soccer and softball, you can do the same against this guy.
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Bloody hell. The Angels are now on a 2-game losing streak. Wake up, gentlemen.
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Flickering lights go on as I halt Dad's downloading to do mine's. I only have four or five hours to go on a downloading feast and get my games downloaded. I like my speeds to go as fast as they can go, preferable 100 kB/sec at the minimum. Currently I am taking care of a soccer match between the USA and Canada on the women's side. One of the parts is being taken care of by Megaupload, the other on ADrive, which has a 50 kB/sec limit. After the part by Megaupload is done, I am reactivating uTorrent, beause I have to make sure that the lights don't stop blinking.
I mean, I have so many games that I couldn't download due to the bottleneck, and I am lucky enough to be able to halt the Dad's download to get some of my files done. When his is stopped, mine's flies like the wind.
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Hallelujah, we got another medal coming our way! Whether it's gold or silver reamins to be seen in women's water polo, but we withstand a monumental comeback by the Aussies in a 9-8 win. Bring on the Netherlands. This should be our chance to get back at them for what their 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay team did to us. Make the most of it. Can't stress it more than that.
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I decided, "Ah, screw the ADrive files. If I go one file each on MegaUpload, I will be clocking at 188 kB/sec."
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Dammit. Another gold for China, with Li Xiaopeng taking it in the parallel bars. And the USA finsihes out of the medals in synchronized swimming. Russia gets the gold, Spain the silver, and China and Japan tie for the bronze. The USA finished fifth.
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Looks like Cejudo didn't let us down, defeating Matsunaga by points, 5-2. And the duo of Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin made it a 1-2 combo for the States. This time, Johnson takes the gold in the balance beam, with Liukin grabbing the silver. Cheng Fei took home the bronze for China.
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In sailing, Anna Tunnicliffe brought home the silver in the women's laser radial. And yet another gold for China, as the young, brash, but always amazing Zou Kai caps off their artistic gymnastics campaign with a gold in the high bar, with Jonathan Horton taking home a silver. Fabian Hambuechen gave Germany a bronze.
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The Koreans were the next to fall to the women's basketball team, 104-60. Russia and Becky Hammon is next for them. Shouldn't be a problem.
Italy was unable to hold off the Americans in women's volleyball, as they dropped a 5-game heartbreaker to Jenny Lang Ping's crew, 20-25, 25-21, 19-25, 28-18 and 15-6. Next up: Cuba. Ramones send help.
The USA baseball team is on a little bit of a tear, taking out Chinese Taipei 4-2. That should give them a spot in the medal round.
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This has been a really good year for the Chinese men in gymnastics. Lu Chunling and Dong Dong (yes, that IS his real name) make it a 1-3 finish for the hosts in the men's trampoline event. LIkewise for the divers, He Chong and Qin Kai make it a 1-3 finish in the men's 3-meter springboard final.
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Meanwhile, Sanya Richards taken the bronze for the USA in the women's 400 meters, with Great Britain's Christine Ohuruogu crashing the Jamaica sprint party a bit to take the gold (Shericka Williams gave the island a silver). Of course, though, Dawn Harper gave the States something to cheer about, with a gold in the 100-meter hurdles.
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THe next big small country hero to deliver was Rashid Ramzi of Bahrain. His win in the men's 1,500 meters should give him some nice financial endowments and such from his majesty the King.
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Poor Steffen Peters. He could have been on the podium...but finished fourth in the dressage individual grand prix freestyle event at Sha Tin (in Hong Kong). Another of those would-be feel-good stories for the Americans at these games. Sigh.
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Argentina upstages the Brazilians, 3-0 in men's soccer and will face the Nigerian s for the gold. A mer formality? Stay tuned.
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26 golds, 26 silvers, and 27 bronzes, with 5 days to go. Hmmm.
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