NBC Day 10 Bikes, Bars, Bolt, and Boards!

[ioana]

Rosolova was married to Lukas Rosol (the guy who beat Nadal at Wimbledon)

Ha! I briefly wondered why the name sounded familiar. that NBC chacked the other Czech hurdler, Hejnova's race. I really like her!

[oleada]

Ack, that American pole vaulting chick looks so much like a classmate I hated!

[A.H.Black]

I really liked the piece about Greenwich and longitude. There is a good book about Harrison and his clocks here - http://www.amazon.com/Longitude-Geni...ison+longitude

OK - so when all of you are tuning out for a while, what are you tuning into instead?

[my little pony]

That would be uh-may-ziiing! It'd really keep my attention span a lot better throughout the entire games. Selfish, yes Although would they be able to turn the Olympic stadium around quick enough from opening ceremonies?

tg will prepare an elaborate spreadsheet w all of those details so they cant deny her

[my little pony]

OK - so when all of you are tuning out for a while, what are you tuning into instead?

i'm reading the leni riefenstahl autobiography that has been on my shelf forever, i figured it was sort of olympic related.

[jeffisjeff]

NBC is trying to convince us that the 400M hurdle winner is really an American. We'll take the credit.

[HisWeirness]

Gymnastics on!

UB finals.

(apparently rings still do not exist )

[BigB08822]

Felix Sanchez had something other than a picture of his his grandmother stuffed in that suit.

[Matryeshka]

Gymnastics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's here, and that damn song. I hate this song with an epic, epic passion.

[Matryeshka]

Like Gabby and all, but DAVVVAAAIIII MUSTY!!!!

[A.H.Black]

i'm reading the leni riefenstahl autobiography that has been on my shelf forever, i figured it was sort of olympic related.

sounds good to me.

[Prancer]

Gymnastics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's here, and that damn song. I hate this song with an epic, epic passion.

God, yes. I will be glad when gymnastics is over just so I never have to hear it again.

[Theatregirl1122]

Switching athletics and swimming would be genius. I'm always frantic trying to keep up with everything the first week and then bored the second week.

I managed to get distracted during the gabby fluff and missed the start of He. Oh sure, now that they're finally playing gymnastics. Thank goodness for DVR.

[March_Hare]

NBC is trying to convince us that the 400M hurdle winner is really an American. We'll take the credit.

And CTV is trying to convince us that Missy Franklin is really really (well, at least partly) Canadian

Edited to add:
Next up tonight: CTV's Brian Williams interviewing Missy *and* her parents ::

[HisWeirness]

NBC milking the wait for Komova's score for all it's worth...

and commercial...

[Michalle]

Komova looks like the sad heroine of some tragic Hans Christian Anderson short story.

[Fridge_Break]

Gymnastics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's here, and that damn song. I hate this song with an epic, epic passion.

I like the song, just not how much they've chopped it up and overplayed the pieces of it!

[flipforsynchro]

Komova's nongold Olympics makes me so

[BigB08822]

So did they take off for Komova hitting the bar? This is when I want to see deductions. I assume so, since she would have had around 8 tenths in deductions without the hit. That is actually too little (for that routine) but I don't see 1.3 in deductions without something being taken for hitting the bar. They probably took it easy on the rest of her deductions, though.

[jeffisjeff]

And CTV is trying to convince us that Missy Franklin is really really (well, at least partly) Canadian

I saw that. I was in NB the week before the Olympics and I saw so many mentions of Missy being from NS! Each time I'd go and and make a snide comment, and then my Canadian husband would go .