Games of the XXIX Olympiad

[Ptarmigan]

The best opening ever!

[JonathanBelles]

Are there any videos of the Ceremony? YT has all of theirs removed I wanted to watch some of it again.

[RL3AO]

Americans have 3 in the quarterfinals in Women's sabre fencing.

[RL3AO]

Americans guarantee at least two medals in fencing. Could get all three.

[Derek Ortt]

road race has been a snoozer so far... hopefully we will see some attacks in the final 100K

[Derek Ortt]

its being broadcast live, online

I've been watching the road race for the last 4.5 hours

[RL3AO]

We have two Olympic threads going. One here and one it sports. Just keep them both or what?

[RL3AO]

Women's 48kg Weightlifting

Chen Xiexia - China
Sibel Özkan - Turkey
Chen Wei Ling - Chinese Taipei


Men's 10m air pistol

Pang Wei - China
Jin Jong Oh - South Korea
Kim Jong Su - North Korea

[chadtm80]

Dang I am sorry I missed the intro.

P.S. USA Basketball tomorrow morning 10:15 est



The talent on this team is unreal

[CajunMama]

We have two Olympic threads going. One here and one it sports. Just keep them both or what?

I feel that more people will see this thread here in OT. jmo

[RL3AO]

Women's 10m air rifle
G: Katerina Emmons (Czech Republic)
S: Lioubov Galkina (Russia)
B: Snježana Pejčić (Croatia)

Weightlifting - Women's 48 kg
G: Chen Xiexia (China)
S: Sibel Özkan (Turkey)
B: Chen Wei Ling (Chinese Taipei)

Men's 10 metre air pistol
G: Pang Wei (China)
S: Jin Jong Oh (North Korea)
B: Kim Jong Su (South Korea)

Cycling - Men's road race
G: Samuel Sánchez (Spain)
S: Davide Rebellin (Italy)
B: Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland)

Judo - Women's 48 kg
G: Alina Alexandra Dumitru (Romania)
S: Yanet Bermoy (Cuba)
B: Paula Paretto (Argentina)
B: Ryoko Tani (Japan)

Judo - Men's 60 kg
G: Choi Min-Ho (South Korea)
S: Ludwig Paischer (Austria)
B: Rishod Sobirov (Uzbekistan)
B: Ruben Houkes (Netherlands)

Fencing - Women's individual sabre
G: Mariel Zagunis (United States)
S: Sada Jacobson (United States)
B: Rebecca Ward (United States)

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Medal count after day 1
## NOC G S B T
01 CHN 2 0 0 2
02 USA 1 1 1 3
03 KOR 1 1 0 2
04 CZE 1 0 0 1
04 ESP 1 0 0 1
04 ROU 1 0 0 1
07 AUT 0 1 0 1
07 CUB 0 1 0 1
07 ITA 0 1 0 1
07 RUS 0 1 0 1
07 TUR 0 1 0 1
12 ARG 0 0 1 1
12 CRO 0 0 1 1
12 JPN 0 0 1 1
12 NED 0 0 1 1
12 PRK 0 0 1 1
12 SUI 0 0 1 1
12 TPE 0 0 1 1
12 UZB 0 0 1 1

[RL3AO]

If your an American and this don't give you chills, the get out of the country!

[Category 5]

If your an American and this don't give you chills, the get out of the country!

Way to go girls!

[Brent]

Total Viewers:
NBC: 35.31 million, CBS: 4.02, CW: 3.77, ABC: 3.30, Fox: 2.32

Adults 18-49:
10.3 rating/32 share, CW: 1.2/ 4, ABC: 1.1/ 4, CBS: 1.1/ 3, Fox: 1.0/ 3

NBC's coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony in Beijing was the best overnight rating ever for non-U.S. Olympic Opening Ceremony earning a 21.5/37 (8-11:19 p.m. ET/PT). Additionally, NBCOlympics.com saw its most traffic ever on Friday with 70 million page views, 10 times more than the seven million page views on the opening day of the Athens Games. The overnight rating for the Opening Ceremony was a 19 percent increase over Athens in 2004 and 16 percent higher than Sydney in 2000, according to Nielsen Media Research data released today.

NON-U.S. OPENING CEREMONY OVERNIGHT RATINGS:
1) Beijing - 2008 - 21.5/37
2) Sydney - 2000 - 18.5/32
3) Seoul - 1988 - 18.3/33
4) Athens - 2004 - 18.0/30
5) Barcelona - 1992 - 16.5/32

·Opening Ceremony in Atlanta in 1996 earned 27.2/47;

TOP 10 METERED MARKETS FOR OPENING CEREMONY:
1) San Diego - 26.5/49
2) West Palm Beach - 25.7/42
3) Sacramento - 24.3/43
4) Denver - 24.2/43
T5) San Francisco - 24.1/47
T5) Baltimore - 24.1/41
7) Indianapolis - 23.9/42
8) Salt Lake City - 23.5/49
9) Nashville - 23.4/37
10) St. Louis - 22.9/42

[Brent]

If your an American and this don't give you chills, the get out of the country!

WOW.

[Chacor]

Georgian team is on the verge of making an almost-unprecedented step of withdrawing its team from the Games after the official opening ceremony. Hasn't happened since Montreal 1976.

[JonathanBelles]

LOL at the Male Beach Volleyball event I can hear "Who Let the Dogs Out" in the backround

[Ivanhater]

Latvia beats the number 1 team the United States in Beach volleyball

[JonathanBelles]

Latvia beats the number 1 team the United States in Beach volleyball

yea, too bad.

[Ivanhater]

Well the men can still come back and win, maybe just a bad 1st game, of course the womens beach volleyball may and walsh are also the number 1 team...