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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

It's not an excuse, baby, it's a fact. Athletes get doped up, because they need to: time to get over the delusion that it's all in the name of fair play and good sportsmanship.

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ORIGINAL: celticlord2112

kittin, saying something is "necessary" is condoning it.

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ORIGINAL: snappykappy

heck even the divers are 14 why not the female gymnasts

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

It's not an excuse, baby, it's a fact. Athletes get doped up, because they need to: time to get over the delusion that it's all in the name of fair play and good sportsmanship.

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ORIGINAL: colouredin

and im saying the once ina  blue moon, phelps, bolt, wiggins, hoy they are the reasons i watch the olympics, if i wanted to get bogged down in drama i would read about national conflicts, every day there are things like that to read about, newspapers thrive on reporting all the shit that we as human beings are capable of, whats wrong celebrating the occasions that there are actually people doing fantastic things?

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ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

[I wouldn't dream of raining on your national hero Michael Phelps' parade. Put your head in the sand all you like, though: perhaps you could make it into a sport discipline all of your own . 

Still can't get past that froggie defeat in the 4 x 100 freestyle can you sun kittin.

That was perhaps the biggest highlight of the Olympics....at least for swimming. Funny the French were actually trash-talking before that race.

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BEIJING (AP)—China proved an acquisitive first-time Olympic host, topping the gold-medal chart with one of the most dominating and diverse performances ever. The United States, Britain and an array of small nations also had reasons to celebrate.

China’s haul of 51 gold medals was the largest since the Soviet Union won 55 in Seoul in 1988. Fielding athletes groomed since childhood in sports academies, it won medals in 25 different sports, including its first ever in sailing, beach volleyball and field hockey.

Not since 1936, when Nazi Germany prevailed at the Berlin Olympics, had a country other than the U.S. or the Soviet Union/Russia led the gold medal list.

The United States trailed well behind the Chinese in golds with 36, the first time since 1992 it didn’t lead the category. But the Americans did break their own mark for total medals in a non-boycotted Olympics; they won 110 in all, two more than their previous high set in 1992 and 10 ahead of China’s overall tally this year.

Britain, getting an early jump on its host role for the 2012 Summer Games, had its best Olympics in a century with 19 gold medals—good for fourth place behind the Russians. Its cyclists and sailors were the class of the field, and 19-year-old Rebecca Adlington stunned the swimming world with two golds in distance events.

It was also a satisfying Olympics for many of the world’s weaker sporting nations. A record 87 nations won medals, seven more than the previous high in Sydney in 2000, and a dozen nations won either their first-ever gold medal or first medal of any color.

If there was a prominent loser at the games, it was Russia, whose team was deprived of 10 athletes due to doping accusations. The Russians finished a distant third in both gold medals, with 23, and overall medals with 72—down from 27 and 92 four years ago in Athens. Germany and Japan also fared noticeably worse than in Athens.

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ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy

"China’s haul of 51 gold medals was the largest since the Soviet Union won 55 in Seoul in 1988."
 
And look what happend to the Soviet Union!

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ORIGINAL: FatDomDaddy

"China’s haul of 51 gold medals was the largest since the Soviet Union won 55 in Seoul in 1988."
 
And look what happend to the Soviet Union!

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ORIGINAL: celticlord2112

kittin, saying something is "necessary" is condoning it.

No, it isn't. Next .

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Do you honestly believe that human beings could have reached the level of competition they have reached today without resorting to drugs?

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

Well, I'm glad to see that the wonderful fair play spirit of sports is alive and well on these shores: line up, they're going to award the Pierre de Coubertin medal for good sportsmanship :-) .