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komtengi
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 Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 3:35 am Post subject: Koreas first Gold Medal |
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In Judo...
congrats
Choi Min Ho |
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nautilus
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Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 3:37 am Post subject: |
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| He used almost exactly the same move to win each bout. |
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Whirlwind
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 3:38 am Post subject: |
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Great, gold medal. But to the Korean sports announcers... Shut up. Seriously. I mean whenever any Korean team or athlete is involved they let out these bloodcurdling screams like, "AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH." It sound like you are either copulating with a wolverine or are burning to death in a fire. Really annoying. Just try to relax and learn to win with a bit of dignity.  |
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aboxofchocolates
Joined: 21 Mar 2008
Location: on your mind
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 3:39 am Post subject: |
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icicle
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
Location: Gyeonggi do Korea
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:07 am Post subject: |
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| Whirlwind wrote: |
| Great, gold medal. But to the Korean sports announcers... Shut up. Seriously. I mean whenever any Korean team or athlete is involved they let out these bloodcurdling screams like, "AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH." It sound like you are either copulating with a wolverine or are burning to death in a fire. Really annoying. Just try to relax and learn to win with a bit of dignity. |
I have personally coped with the commentators by turning the sound down because I could not understand what they were saying ... but the vision alone was enough to work out what was going on.
I gave up last night watching the opening ceremony because the Korean commentary really distracted me but I needed sound to hear the ceremony... But I now have a very very good English version of the Opening Ceremony to watch that I managed to get today ... so I am going to enjoy it now.
One slightly frustrating thing to me is that there are 3 different Korean networks broadcasting the Olympics but generally they are all showing the same thing at the same time ... |
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icicle
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
Location: Gyeonggi do Korea
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:07 am Post subject: |
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| Whirlwind wrote: |
| Great, gold medal. But to the Korean sports announcers... Shut up. Seriously. I mean whenever any Korean team or athlete is involved they let out these bloodcurdling screams like, "AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH." It sound like you are either copulating with a wolverine or are burning to death in a fire. Really annoying. Just try to relax and learn to win with a bit of dignity. |
I have personally coped with the commentators by turning the sound down because I could not understand what they were saying ... but the vision alone was enough to work out what was going on.
I gave up last night watching the opening ceremony because the Korean commentary really distracted me but I needed sound to hear the ceremony... But I now have a very very good English version of the Opening Ceremony to watch that I managed to get today ... so I am going to enjoy it now.
One slightly frustrating thing to me is that there are 3 different Korean networks broadcasting the Olympics but generally they are all showing the same thing at the same time ... |
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SirFink
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:14 am Post subject: |
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Did you see the guy's cauliflower ears? Ewww.  |
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inthewild
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:22 am Post subject: |
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| Anyone else see it live? It was a cool way to win, throwing him like that. |
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icicle
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
Location: Gyeonggi do Korea
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, I saw it live .... I ended up seeing more Judo today than I have ever seen before ... I was waiting for the swimming to start ... I knew that I would at least be able to see the Australians in the mens 400m heats becuase Park was swimming for Korea ... and I was ... But not any of the other swimming. As an Australian traditionally I think that most of the Olympics I have ended up watching is the swimming (I guess because there are always lots of Australian's competing and we do usually end up with many of our medals in the swimming. |
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Sapa
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:56 am Post subject: |
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| i agree, it is slightly annoying that they choose to show the exact same thing on all of the channels! I'm hoping this changes. Will they show much of the other sports that don't involve Korea? |
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spyro25
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 5:52 am Post subject: |
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one thing that really pissed me off today though about the Korean coverage of the games
was watching the women's wieghtlifting, and got almost to the end, when the Korean woman placed fourth. as soon as they knew the korean wasn't going to win a medal, they cut the broadcast, meaning you didn't see how the others did or the medal ceremony or anything. IMO that is a really crappy thing to do..... |
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icicle
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
Location: Gyeonggi do Korea
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 6:13 am Post subject: |
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| spyro25 wrote: |
one thing that really pissed me off today though about the Korean coverage of the games
was watching the women's wieghtlifting, and got almost to the end, when the Korean woman placed fourth. as soon as they knew the korean wasn't going to win a medal, they cut the broadcast, meaning you didn't see how the others did or the medal ceremony or anything. IMO that is a really crappy thing to do..... |
True ... .. But this is also pretty much what each of the countries do with their own broadcasts ... Focus on the sports in which they have competitors ... especially the ones where they are likely to win medals ... I think the main reason I had never really seen Judo at previous Olympic games is because Australia does not do particulary well in Judo so the TV network didn't show much of it. |
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traxxe
Joined: 21 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 6:22 am Post subject: |
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I saw the Judo when, I got a knock on my door because I was booing too loud I guess.
Didn't understand the angry ajoshi. They were mad last night I think when I cheered America. They cheer for Korea loud, both Koreas in fact....
The screaming commentator sucked. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 6:55 am Post subject: |
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| A Korean winning at a Japanese martial art? You don't say. Didn't some people on this board say that Koreans were only good at Tae Kwon do? |
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Whirlwind
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:05 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, perhaps some of that Japanese ancestry is showing up in the bloodlines  Oh, sorry...I forgot. Koreans are pure. Sorry about that. |
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