no more Olympics,give me the US Open

[SoCal10s]

I am strangely disinterested in the Olympics this year...probably because I find the human rights violations by the Chinese government (like mowing down Tibetan refugees at the border trying to escape to Nepal) reprehensible. NBC has made this Olympic feel like a big Chinese show ,seeing Bush in the crowd makes me want to puke. It feels and smells like politics, and not a true sporting event. Questionable scoring interpretations,is worse than a 'blind lines judge'. Give me the US open even without Justine H.,it's still better than this year's olympics ...

[i love t3nn1s]

while i do agree with most of what you wrote....i juss have one question....

why did you post this on the junior league section?????

[BigTennisFan1]

I guess he could have posted it on "Junior Tennis at Gitmo" but that would have taken away from his point about China being a human rights violator ... lets fix our own house first before going to complain about our neighbor's.

[10schick]

I am strangely disinterested in the Olympics this year...probably because I find the human rights violations by the Chinese government (like mowing down Tibetan refugees at the border trying to escape to Nepal) reprehensible. NBC has made this Olympic feel like a big Chinese show ,seeing Bush in the crowd makes me want to puke. It feels and smells like politics, and not a true sporting event. Questionable scoring interpretations,is worse than a 'blind lines judge'. Give me the US open even without Justine H.,it's still better than this year's olympics ...

How about thinking about the positive part of the Olympics? There are athletes there competing from all over the world, many have trained all of their life to go to the Olympics. The Olympics are about them, their hard work, perseverance, discipline and most of all the sacrifices they have made. World and Olympic records are being made every day. Let's give an applause to the athletes! :smile:

I am however, disappointed about the tennis coverage, their into something like the quarterfinals, and I haven't seen any tennis yet.

Like you though, ..... I am ready for the US Open, at least then we'll see some tennis.

[SoCal10s]

R-Fed lost,the Williams sisters lost and NBC is a no show for tennis.. come on Blake,and the Williams sisters are American products and Blake just pulled off the biggest upset of his life,where's NBC... Mary Carillo was doing a piece on Chinese food and eating BBQ scorpions,great job NBC idiots ...

[tennisrocks5]

I am however, disappointed about the tennis coverage, their into something like the quarterfinals, and I haven't seen any tennis yet.


The only tennis I've seen is a Federer match against Thomas Berdych(I think) and a Nadal match against the Italian Starace guy, so it is disappointing coverage.

[BradBaughman]

How about thinking about the positive part of the Olympics? There are athletes there competing from all over the world, many have trained all of their life to go to the Olympics. The Olympics are about them, their hard work, perseverance, discipline and most of all the sacrifices they have made. World and Olympic records are being made every day. Let's give an applause to the athletes! :smile:

I am however, disappointed about the tennis coverage, their into something like the quarterfinals, and I haven't seen any tennis yet.

Like you though, ..... I am ready for the US Open, at least then we'll see some tennis.

what is so positive about a regime that trashes their people and even is bold enough to say one 7yr.old is to ugly to put her on tv to sing ,, there is a thing called convictions and we here in the USA have become guilty of losing our moral bearings about wrong and right, im must admit im guilty some but socal10's is right!

[JMS]

For all of you complaining about coverage, all you have to do is go to nbcolympics.com for the live feed. It's not that difficult people, i watched all four quarterfinal matches today.

[10schick]

what is so positive about a regime that trashes their people and even is bold enough to say one 7yr.old is to ugly to put her on tv to sing ,, there is a thing called convictions and we here in the USA have become guilty of losing our moral bearings about wrong and right, im must admit im guilty some but socal10's is right!

As I said before: There are athletes there competing from all over the world, many have trained all of their life to go to the Olympics. The Olympics are about them, their hard work, perseverance, discipline and most of all the sacrifices they have made. World and Olympic records are being made every day. Let's give an applause to the athletes!

I'm not talking about ugly teeth, singing children, ceremonies mean people or otherwise! IT'S ABOUT THE ATHLETES.... read carefully, possibly slowly.

[tenniscrazed]

As I said before: There are athletes there competing from all over the world, many have trained all of their life to go to the Olympics. The Olympics are about them, their hard work, perseverance, discipline and most of all the sacrifices they have made. World and Olympic records are being made every day. Let's give an applause to the athletes!

I'm not talking about ugly teeth, singing children, ceremonies mean people or otherwise! IT'S ABOUT THE ATHLETES.... read carefully, possibly slowly.

What does all this have to do with the cost of tea in china :)

[ClarkC]

read carefully, possibly slowly.

Read this carefully and slowly: You are posting in the wrong forum.

[10schick]

Read this carefully and slowly: You are posting in the wrong forum.

Chill out. I am only responding to the original post and then to someone who didn't understand my response to the original poster..... see #1 & #7 Have a nice day. Hope it goes well. :)

[10schick]

For all of you complaining about coverage, all you have to do is go to nbcolympics.com for the live feed. It's not that difficult people, i watched all four quarterfinal matches today.
Thank you, that's awesome. I finally got to see some matches.

[10schick]

What does all this have to do with the cost of tea in china :) :) Just responding to the original post, although it may be in the wrong thread... you too, have a nice day.

[SoCal10s]

For all of you complaining about coverage, all you have to do is go to nbcolympics.com for the live feed. It's not that difficult people, i watched all four quarterfinal matches today.
thanks for posting up this info... went to the site and just watched Djokovic blow an overhead to lose to Nadal in the 3rd.. went down in tears.. great match....

[SoCal10s]

As I said before: There are athletes there competing from all over the world, many have trained all of their life to go to the Olympics. The Olympics are about them, their hard work, perseverance, discipline and most of all the sacrifices they have made. World and Olympic records are being made every day. Let's give an applause to the athletes!

I'm not talking about ugly teeth, singing children, ceremonies mean people or otherwise! IT'S ABOUT THE ATHLETES.... read carefully, possibly
slowly.
no one here is criticizing the athletes,all athletes are pure(except for those who cheat,age,steroids,ect.)and all they want to do is compete and prove to themselves and the world that they can achieve..I'm trying to point out that China's athletes are just being used to show the rest of the world. Poor Yao Ming really needs a long rest to mend his ailing body,but does China give him a break ? no.. he's out there for China's glory...

[BigTennisFan1]

no one here is criticizing the athletes,all athletes are pure(except for those who cheat,age,steroids,ect.)and all they want to do is compete and prove to themselves and the world that they can achieve..I'm trying to point out that China's athletes are just being used to show the rest of the world. Poor Yao Ming really needs a long rest to mend his ailing body,but does China give him a break ? no.. he's out there for China's glory...

Be careful: your statement applies to your home and home athletes too ... perhaps even more so. For, have you not been watching these and past Olympics? If you are going to point fingers, first look into the mirror. Once you have any moral authority (which we lost since 2003, btw, if we had any to begin with) to point fingers, then you may.

Flags are easy to wave. Mirrors are heavy to look at.

I don't see China occupying lands faraway, or creating special legal voids to hold people without rights of attorney or trail ... just sort of winging it and making rules up as they go along.

I am out of these forums as of today, be well.

[tenniscrazed]

Be careful: your statement applies to your home and home athletes too ... perhaps even more so. For, have you not been watching these and past Olympics? If you are going to point fingers, first look into the mirror. Once you have any moral authority (which we lost since 2003, btw, if we had any to begin with) to point fingers, then you may.

Flags are easy to wave. Mirrors are heavy to look at.

I don't see China occupying lands faraway, or creating special legal voids to hold people without rights of attorney or trail ... just sort of winging it and making rules up as they go along.

I am out of these forums as of today, be well.

^^^ He's right you know, "flags are easy to wave, orders are easy to give. Mistakes, and mirrors are hard to swallow"

[clint999]

while i do agree with most of what you wrote....i juss have one question....

why did you post this on the junior league section?????