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What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 7/1/2008 9:17:06 PM
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raspberry331
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What is your favorite Olympic moment?
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 7/1/2008 10:56:56 PM
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Kerry Strug sticking her vault landing on a injured ankle in Atlanta 1996 (thus help to win gold for the gymnastics team). Saw this first hand and was up on my feet in cheers.
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 7/2/2008 4:07:27 AM
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Beating the Soviets in hockey in 1980 and going on to beat the Finns (led by Jari Kurri) for the gold! "Do You Believe In Miracles?!"
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 7/2/2008 8:35:35 PM
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Winning the gold in basketball in 1992 though I didn't get to watch the last 5 minutes of it because it was like 75 degrees, sunny, a slight breeze and that slight breeze knocked out my cable. :X
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 7/2/2008 9:36:46 PM
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Beating the Soviets in hockey in 1980 and going on to beat the Finns (led by Jari Kurri) for the gold! "Do You Believe In Miracles?!"
Remember at the time we had double digit inflation, interest rates, and unemployment. We had a clue-less president who said that America was caught in a great malaise.
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 7/4/2008 6:54:47 AM
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Beating the Soviets in hockey in 1980 and going on to beat the Finns (led by Jari Kurri) for the gold! "Do You Believe In Miracles?!"
Not sure if this is my absolute favorite, but it ranks WAY up there on my list.
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 7/4/2008 12:55:41 PM
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2002 Gold Metal Hockey Game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Canada's First Gold Metal in Hockey in 50 years
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 7/7/2008 1:08:54 AM
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It's a tie between Tara Lipinski winning the Olympic gold medal in 1998 and Sarah Hughes winning it in 2002. In 1998 my mother told me Michelle Kwan had won, but I refused to believe her, and I was right! Sarah Hughes' win was amazing because she went from 4th in the short program to 1st in the long, which tends to not happen. Plus no one expected her to win, though my mother was rooting for her!
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 7/17/2008 3:57:04 AM
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Kerry Strug sticking her vault landing on a injured ankle in Atlanta 1996 (thus help to win gold for the gymnastics team). Saw this first hand and was up on my feet in cheers.
Yeah that was my favorite moment too. But IMO, the '96 olympics were the best period...despite that bombing. I like how it just went on, sending the message that one idiot and his ignorance wont stop anything.
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 7/17/2008 9:54:22 AM
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1976, Shun Fujimoto on the rings with a broken knee, dismounting from the rings from eight feet above ground and keeping his balance after landing on his feet.
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 7/17/2008 10:23:08 AM
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Torville & Dean's perfect ice dance to Ravel's Bolero in 1984.
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 7/17/2008 10:28:16 AM
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Torville & Dean's perfect ice dance to Ravel's Bolero in 1984.
Yep, have to agree with this too - absolutely incredible! Truly one of the classics of all time. 
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 7/17/2008 12:29:33 PM
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This was a really tough one! Besides my choice, there was the US hockey team, the US sweep of the 100 meters in 1968, and the US Women's softball win in the last Olympics.
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 7/17/2008 2:08:21 PM
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Not an Olympic moment, but the "getting there" thing...
I was coached by the best running coach. He's also a triathlete. He went to Worlds last year and placed 13th. Awsome athlete. Last June, he was hit by a car and broke his pelvis and both arms. His athletic career is over. Through all of this, he wasn't able to continue to coach all his athletes, so I gave up my slot. We have continued to email on occasion.
A couple weeks ago, I received THE BEST news: my (former) coach is going to Beijing! He's been coaching some of the Olympic triathletes. Now, he's been chosen to coach the triathlete team!!!
After his accident, he could have just given up. But he didn't. So his athletic career is basically over. He has competed since then, but not seriously. Now, he's focused on coaching. And look how far he's come!!!
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 7/17/2008 2:14:41 PM
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Beating the Soviets in hockey in 1980 and going on to beat the Finns (led by Jari Kurri) for the gold! "Do You Believe In Miracles?!"
Remember at the time we had double digit inflation, interest rates, and unemployment. We had a clue-less president who said that America was caught in a great malaise.
Looks like nothings changed in 28 years!  We still have the clue-less President!
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 7/18/2008 9:20:00 AM
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Almost everything about the 1984 summer games in LA ... Mary Lou Retton, Carl Lewis, the mens' gymnastic team ... good stuff!
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 8/5/2008 11:35:44 PM
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It's hard but some great ones. 1980 was well-known because of the bad state of the nation. Kerri's Vault was a big lie. It took place at 5 in the afternoon to please the European Broadcast Union (which outpaid NBC, since governments were involved) and America didn't know about it until late into the night, despite the record crowd to watch an Olympic gymnastics event of over 35,000 (remember the Georgia Dome was split in half for this).
Mary Lou's vault came in a "tainted" Olympics according to most historians because the Soviets weren't in Westwood and she beat a gymnast who lied about her age. (Ekaterina Szabo, now a gymnastics coach in France, was 17, not 16 as listed. Romanian gymnasts' ages were frequently falsified to enter meets before they were eligible. This nearly led to the arrest of Daniela Silivas (now Harper), the Romanian who was All-Around Champion in Seoul, when she applied for a marriage licence in Cobb County (where she currently resides with her husband Scott, and their two children, Jaden and Ava). She had to call the hospital in Romania to get her real birth certificate because she was given a forged certificate to enter meets underage.)
P. S. Bobby did meet Mary Lou personally and has her autograph in his collection. It's one of his keepsake autographs he still has even though it's been 18 years since that. It was fun for a 14-year old to meet her at 22.
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 8/6/2008 9:35:52 AM
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-The closing ceremonies!
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 8/7/2008 4:07:54 PM
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-The closing ceremonies!
Good one!
While I like the events, the media coverage with all their individual and cultural gooey gooey stuff is a bit too much.
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 8/8/2008 10:02:03 PM
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Donovan Bailey winning the 100m in Atlanta.
2002 Canadian Hockey team winning the Olympics.
Jamie Sale and David Pelletier skating their Love Story long program perfectly at the 2002 Olympics.
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 8/9/2008 6:56:38 AM
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Almost everything about the 1984 summer games in LA ... Mary Lou Retton, Carl Lewis, the mens' gymnastic team ... good stuff!
Wasn't that one boycotted? Easy to win a medal when all the toughest competitors stayed home!
Why does it matter that the gymnast she beat was 17 or 16? I know these days international gymnasts have to be at least 16, but that's a recent rule. The Atlanta games had 14 year olds on the team, and they had to put a stop to that.
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RE: What is your favorite Olympic moment? - 8/10/2008 7:51:14 AM
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Wasn't that one boycotted? Easy to win a medal when all the toughest competitors stayed home!
I doubt any of the competetors would say it was "easy to win".
Okay, okay, I'll rephrase. It was easier to win without most of the Soviet block competing. Gymnastics isn't easy, but getting the gold medal is less of a challenge when your top competitors are absent. The Romanians were there, but most of the other gymnastics power houses were not.
I feel sorry for Mary Lou Retton and all the others who won a gold at those games. They'll never know if they could have won at a full Olympics. But it's America's own fault for boycotting the Moscow Olympics.
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