2008 Olympics

[dewnyc]

It's that excitement that I get every 2 years.
Are any of you watching the Olympics taking place right now?
Which sports and/or athletes will you be watching?
I guess we can talk about events here as they unfold.

For Korean athletes, I'm sure swimmer Park Tae-Hwan will be among the most-watched. I also hope to see some of the table tennis, where Ryu Seung Min is the defending men's singles champion.

It's nice that my cable TV system (in the US) has an NBC Olympic Korean Channel, showing an MBC broadcast. On there, I saw Choi Min Ho win South Korea's first Gold Medal, in judo.

[rooraa]

Park Tae Hwan won the gold metal!! I'm not sure which event it was...maybe 400? but he was amazing!! His time 3:41:86 I think

He was at the olympics 4 years ago when he was 14 but fell in the water before the race began and was disqualified! How embarressing and how that must have sucked for him! But now that he's back, he certainly didn't let his home country down!

[hyunwoo]

I saw both Choi Min Ho's Judo match and Park Tae Hwan's swimming (yes, 400m^^, rooraa) match, and they were AMAZING!!

Park Tae Hwan is awesome. He had the entire nation's expectations upon his shoulders, having become such a big commercial film star and all, but he did it! Great job.

[hyunwoo]

Here's Choi Min Ho's matches yesterday

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=vrwkVCHo0Go

[karen]

I don't normally like sports but every time the Olympics start that is all I want to watch. I spent most of yesterday and today tuned into the KBS watching and not understanding the commentary (my Korean is not that good yet) but still loving it.I really looking forward to watching the taekwondo matches when they start on the 19th.

[dewnyc]

Add a Gold in the archery women's team competition, to make it 6 in a row for Korea in that category.
It makes me think of the movie "The Host"

[hyunwoo]

Add a Gold in the archery women's team competition, to make it 6 in a row for Korea in that category.
It makes me think of the movie "The Host"

Same here It reminded me of that movie too
박성현 was the best! I'm looking forward to her next individual match

[ryans_class]

Being Australian, Is it OK if I mention the amazing turn around in the womens hokey? Korea 4 - 0 Australia at about half time, Korea 4 -5 Australia at full time.

[hyunwoo]

Being Australian, Is it OK if I mention the amazing turn around in the womens hokey? Korea 4 - 0 Australia at about half time, Korea 4 -5 Australia at full time.

Yeah Australia did really well!! I hope Korea will do better in the next match! 화이팅 ^^

[Keith]

As of today....

CHN 9 3 2 14
USA 3 4 5 12
KOR 4 4 0 8

Not bad I say!!!

[dewnyc]

Park adds a Silver Medal in the 200m free, finishing behind Michael Phelps (his 9th Gold Medal, tying for most Golds ever)

[dewnyc]

Korea makes it a double Gold in the archery team competition, winning the men's final by 2 points!

[dewnyc]

Jin Jong Oh takes Gold in the 50m pistol, finishing ahead of North Korea's Kim Jong Su

[shanshanchua]

Singapore beat Korea in the womens table tennis team event semi-finals. I'm really sorry that our win had to be over Korea, but this is REALLY very significant for Singapore, because this will be our first medal since 1960!!

[dewnyc]

Singapore beat Korea in the womens table tennis team event semi-finals. I'm really sorry that our win had to be over Korea, but this is REALLY very significant for Singapore, because this will be our first medal since 1964!!

Korea will next face the perhaps unlikely opponent of USA, with the winner advancing to the Bronze Medal match. I'll be following that with great interest. If USA can somehow beat Korea, and then either Japan or Hong Kong, it would be the country's first ever Olympic medal in table tennis. Singapore beat USA in the first match of the preliminaries.

Also, in archery, it's too bad both the men's and women's individual finals ended up with the Korean archer losing by 1 point, but the matches sure were exciting to watch.