American athletes booed at Olympics - all because of Bush.

[nomorelies]

If anyone had seen the mens or the female gymnastics you would have all seen the chanting of JAPAN in the mens before they commenced the High Bar and last night Romania in the floor.

The cheers when the Japanese finished a performance on the High Bar were of ecstasy. The American team realised that the crowd wanted the Japanese to win when Paul Hamm did a flawless performance but was only really cheered by the Americans in the crowd. After Carly Patterson had finished her floor routine before the Romanians started the crowd were cheering Romania. When they performed the cheers were like Greece had won the gold medal.

On FOX and Friends two journalists were shocked at the reaction American athletes got at the Fencing (sabre class) where the crowd booed the American when she won a point yet when the Hungarian won they were ecstatic. American divers were cheered at when they did a horrible dive. The american journalists asked the people why they wanted Venus Williams to lose "because i hate bush". Americans dont deserve this. This is getting worse and worse.

When Ian Thorpe of Australia beat Michael Phelps the cheers were some of the loudest at the games. When the South Africans and the Dutch beat the Americans in the Relay the crowd was the loudest of the games. Last night though it hurt America. The crowd wre going nuts when Thorpe began catching Kellar in the relay. The americans won by 0.13 hundreds of a second and the crowd were silence in disappointment bar the Americans celebrating (who also make a nosie).

American athletes are being booed because this country elected Bush/Cheney and his oil/nuclear/drug crony pals. These athletes have worked four years to achieve their dream and its being affected by the idiots that defend Bush. Take your country back and restore the respect that America deserves.

[nomorelies]

Disagree.

I am from Britain and the coverage here compared to Britain is shocking. Britain are awesome at Sailing and Rowing (Britain will clean up in most events).

America tv only shows what they are good at. China are becoming stronger and stronger. USA won every medal in the pool in 1976 bar the 200m Breststroke gold. Today Australia are just as competitive in the pool as America. Thorpe is a better swimmer than Phelps. America always won the relays in every sport but dont now. THis is because of money. Australia are stronger mentally than any country in the world. Just look at their cricket team.  

America has always encouraged women to play sport. Look at soccer and basketball - easy gold medals - but all the countries are catching up. Australia are producing girls. America no-longer dominates the pool. They lost the relay in the womens to Australia.

China are becoming the strongest olympic country. Russia always have an amazing second week in the games. America can no-longer rely on 20 gold medals.

- 100m freestyle - first time ever an American has failed to make the semi- finals.
- 400m relay - first time ever America failed to get gold or silver.
- 200M/400M MEDLEYS - first time ever american failed to get gold in female competition.

Its all about money. Australia have 20 million people but have invested in sport. If you took the result of Europe as a whole woulf they have more medals than America of course. America has 280 million people and loads of cash to invest in equipmet. Most atheltes that compete are amateurs. What percentage of americas team is amateur? 10%.

Britain has schoolteachers competing in Judo, chefs in sailing.

[nomorelies]

Around the world. America is 5:1 in number of 50m Olympic pools.

Regarding the gym. The chants of USA were Americans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you think the chants of Japan or Romania were Japanese or Romanian fans. 200 euros for a ticket - that five year salary for the averae Romanian.

Or perhaps when Williams was losing the doulbles they were all chinese. Why would th crowd cheer when the American missed a dive?

[nomorelies]

In the gym.

THEY KNOCKED IT DOWN TO 8 COUNTRIES.

So in pool 1 - russia, romaina, usa and china
 in pool 2  - australia, spain, ukraine canada.

All pools compteted on the same piece. So on the floor last night china went first- america, rom and rus watched.At the same time Ukraine were on the beam. So basically the only people to watch at the time are the team in pool A and the team in pool B. While usa finished the floor. Romania were getting ready and knew that 28.2 would win the gold from the three athletes. No competitor was performing. THE CROWD CHEERED ROMANIA BECAUSE THE CROWD WERE ROMANIANS???

Regarding Sycronize diving? Only the American perform. See its a diving arena for divers only. Thats it. The usa were the only ones to boo. and they did. NO ONE ELSE.

some one told me that Atlanta was a great games. So i guess you didnt see the games in barcelona or sydney?

Sydney has been the best games ever. 92% crowds for the whole olympics atlanta 63%.

[nomorelies]

First things first. Bush politicized the Olympics.

The game is FOOTBALL not SOCCER. stop being rude and have some manners. Your game is gridion not football.

Klutchkova is a fantastic medley swimmer who won both the 100 and 200m medleys in Athens and also in Sydney.

Since the emergence of Australia in 1998. Swimming is no longer COMPLETELY  DOMINATED by the Americans. Jenny Thompson has won 8 gold medals but all in relays. In 1998 Australia invested heavily in building swimming 50m pools. The coaches were told to focus only on freestyle. Their emerged the talents of Ian Thorpe, Grant Hackett, Michael Klim etc. In 2000 the Americans said they would smash Australia like guitars. Thorpe won the 400m freestyle and more importantly became the first ever swimming country to beat America in a relay. Now any person who understands Cricket will tell you that when Australia want something they get it. They would do anything to win.

America has the money to buy success. Britain has only adopted the Australia mentality in 2003. Japan has won three gold medals in the pool. America finished third for the first time in history.

In 1976, America won every gold medal bar 1 - 200 breststroke (David Wilkie). The backstroke and th butterfly is still dominated by america but Australia has revealed its plan to win the backstorke and buttrfly events in 2008. Australia are crackers about winning.

Countries around the world are now relsing that only time and money can get you olympic success. For the first time ever, Britain have people that only have to work part-time. Americans have always been prepared. They have talent of course but they have security in money and equipment. Others are only beginning to have this and the results will show in 4-8 years from now.

China will win the most gold medals in 2008 omittingly in events that arent world wide. Swimming will be spread over a large range of countries as more an more have 50m Olmypic pools. I do think that Australia will dominate the sport more than America especially in female sports. World records are being broken in the freestlye by Aussies.

As channel 7 in australia said after the 200m freestyle. Thorpe is the best swimmer in the world coz he takes on the best (pieter van der hoogenband + michael phelps) and beats the best. Thorpe became the first swimmer ever to win the 200m + 400m freestlye gold medals. A bronze in the 100m from lane 8 ensured that feat. Phelps is a great great swimmer. But he said he would beat thorpe and van der hoogenband in the 200m freestyle and he didnt.

Van der Hoogenband(winner of 100m free) has said that Thorpe is a better swimming than Phelps because the events are much more competitve than what phelps did. FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. NO AMERICAN MADE THE LAST 16 OF THE 100M FREESTYLE. - shows the spreading of power.

Phelps is a great swimmer. But Thorpe beat him. Tht was the race of the Olympics and tHORPE SHOWED TO THE USA THT THE CHANGE IN POWER HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN.