Investigation: What is your most memorable Olympic moment of 2008 Beijing Games? Who is your sports star?
So tell us what you think. What is your most memorable Olympic moment of the 2008 Beijing Games?
Carol Huynh’s gave tearful celebration on the gold-medal podium after the women’s 48-kilogram freestyle event. (Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press).
Watching Adam Van Koeverden give his heartfelt interview…and then watching him make a comeback with the Silver Medal win.
I think we forget sometimes that these athletes are just human beings with exceptional skills.
Van Koeverden has shown why Canadians are so well loved around the world ~ humility, professionalism, hard work and great talent.
Thank you to all the Olympians who were good enough to even get the chance to compete at the Games…in the end, it’s all about the journey~
I think watching all Canadian athletes receiving their medals. That is especial for the athletes and for us Canadians whom appreciate their efforts for winning and seeing the Canadian flag going up. Watching Simon Witfield almost win the triathlon is one thing that is going to stay with me. That day my wife and me were screaming and jumping, cheering for Simon, especially when he took the lead in the final 200 meters of the race, that was an exciting moment. The second moment of the olympics is the medal ceremony of Carol Huynh receiving the her gold medal in wrestling and the first awarded to a Canadian athlete in these olympics. Last but not least, watching Peruvian marathon runner Constantino Leon finish the race. That was very especial because he just happens to be from a small town high up in the Peruvian Andes, the same town where my dad is from. I was born in Peru and came to Canada in 1991, I must say that I am proudly Peruvian, but I learned to love my new home, Canada.
VIVA CANADA, VIVA EL PERU!!!
So many great moments, Canadian and otherwise. Including Van Koeverden describing how much he grew in 48 hours. And the personal, painful triumph on Lamaze’s wonderful face.
I’ll just add my favorite Canadian quote - it’s from last summer’s Pan Am Games, but I think we saw it bear fruit in Beijing. Head coach and Swimming Canada CEO Pierre Lafontaine: “Stop being a Canadian, and just beat people.”
That cracks me right up!Reply to Liz Dean:
You’re making some pretty bold accusations there… I’m wondering if you work for the USOC and are paid under the table yourself. Funny how only losers bitch and moan when they lose, point fingers and make accusations rather than look in the mirror and thinking perhaps you could’ve worked harder.
So easy to direct blame elsewhere and make excuses, it just shows your true character. Politics aside, unless you’re a professional judge, you’re just another couch critic, so because you saw on tv half way around the world what you thought was a good routine while munching on your doritos, and if things didn’t go your way then the whole system was corrupt and “RAPED” as you put it.
Or might be be possible that you’re 100% right… that all 51 Gold medals achieved by corrupt bribery, that China didn’t deserve any of them, the timing mechanisms must’ve been rigged, the judges bribed, or perhaps a flu virus was spread intentionally in the Olympic village to weaken the opponents.
If you want to find fault in something you’ll see what you want to see and nothing anyone can say will change your mind. We can argue this till the cows come home and I’m not trying to change your opinion because its pointless.As Simon Whitfield said at the Closing Ceremonies, my favourite moment was Carol Huynh’s win and her genuine heartfelt reaction to the national anthem.
Now that the competition from the Games of the 29th Olympiad has come to a close, it’s time to have your say on the enduring images of the Beijing Olympics.
Canadian athletes gave the nation plenty to talk about. The men’s rowing eight, for example, rebounded from their crushing defeat in 2004 by capturing gold. Equestrian Eric Lamaze, who successfully battled his personal demons, completed a clean round in a jumpoff to win the individual show jumping event.
And then there’s wrestler Carol Huynh’s tearful celebration on the gold-medal podium, or kayaker Adam van Koeverden’s disappointing eight-place finish in the K-1 1000 competition.
On the international front, who can forget Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt’s dance celebration after basically jogging the final 10 metres of the 100 event in world-record time. American swimmer Michael Phelps won a record eight gold medals, but his lasting impression could be outreaching Serbia’s Milorad Cavic at the last possible moment to win the 100 butterfly.
Host China won more gold medals than any other nation in Beijing, but will probably never get over the sight of seeing their superhero, 110 hurdler Liu Xiang, withdraw from the heats with a right foot injury.
So tell us what you think. What is your most memorable Olympic moment of the 2008 Beijing Games?
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We of the Jive School at http://www.rocknroll.vc are of the opinion that it is high time that dance was included as a discipline in the Olympics. An energetic dance, such as Jive, demands agility, timing and grace, and is a “purer”, and older, and more natural, form of activity than many of the present olympic disciplines that require modern machinery/technology to work.
For instance, who can perform an high jump without an inflatable bag to land on? The same goes for pole vault, not to mention the modern laminates for the poles. How about gymnastics and cycling? You can see how the poorer countries excel when it is simply a test of human skill and endurance, but fail, and frequently not even represented, where special equipment is required.
Well, perhaps we should consider an alternative - something one might fairly call a “True Olympics” where no aids are permitted, only protective apparel, such as gloves for boxing, guards for fencing and helmets for riding, and nothing else but shoes, shorts and vest. Now, that’s a truer test.
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“Carol Huynh receiving the her gold medal in wrestling”
This madness has to stop. You are mildy crazy to support strength and power events for women. Young girls in their early teens will be taught activities that will eventually give them the biceps and quads bigger than the average male. They will walk like weightlifters and weigh more than their future boyfriends.
Sport should develop and enhance the different traits of the sexes - let men be strong, let women be nimble and let both be fit, fast, and flexible. A good athlete is graceful, or at least, that is the objective.
Do you really want your daughters to with their shoulders, rather than their hips?
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correction:
Do you really want your daughters to walk with their shoulders, rather than their hips?