The New Zealand Medal Tally Thread

[edabomb]

Looks like team NZ are already lagging behind...



http://www.stuff.co.nz/4644274a26500.html

Angela Marino should be in there! Apart from her it's a pretty average NZ team though.

 

[CycloneSteve]

Looks like team NZ are already lagging behind...
Sexiest female Olympians named (+pics)

Stuff.co.nz | Tuesday, 05 August 2008

The 50 most beautiful women competing at the Beijing Olympics have been named. An internet magazine has put together a list detailing their top 50 sexiest female athletes and a relatively unknown Canadian, Alexandra Orlando, ranks number one ahead of more well-known beauties such as Maria Sharapova and Amanda Beard.
Disappointingly, no New Zealand athletes are included in the list while six Australians are featured.

Sorry....I dont get it.....

This

or this

Alexandra Orlando Amanda Beard

Or even

and well...

Jennie Finch Maria Sharapova

And I havent even mentioned the Aussies!!!! Nor the countless beauties I saw in the athletes parade at last nights opening ceremony.
In conclusion, I think there are plenty more good looking ladies in this years Olympics than Ms. Orlando.

 

[CycloneSteve]

Angela Marino should be in there! Apart from her it's a pretty average NZ team though.

Yeah with a name like Marino, I'm not suprised you like her.

 

[BeeeeeRad]

Wow the Kiwi rowers did bloody great last night, all looked really comfortable. The Evers-Swindell twins shocked me with how easily they won now they are in the final next weekend - should be a medal there I would think.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Wow the Kiwi rowers did bloody great last night, all looked really comfortable. The Evers-Swindell twins shocked me with how easily they won now they are in the final next weekend - should be a medal there I would think.

If they're on form the twins are a certainty, hopefully at least both they and the men's four will be in the medals.

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

tbh I agree with the poll, Orlando is much better looking than Finch (bloke), Beard (bloke), and Sharapova (ugly). Infact those last 3 are shockers imo.

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

omg, TV1 has just gone off air as Burmester was about to race!!!

Fellow Kiwis, are you also experiencing the same problem?

 

[Floods]

yep, off air here too, the website is down as well for me.

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

Unbelievable, I think we've missed it

 

[Tom Shines]

4th.

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

ffs Tom, they were probably going to show it again without giving away the result

 

[Sir Biffo]

Yeah it would have changed had you not watched it live. NZ robbed again.

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

Somehow the coverage managed to cut out just long enough to miss Burmester's race, and now they're carrying on with no mention of it as though nothing has happened?

 

[parra-matters]

whats the NZ medal count now?

 

[SpaceMonkey]

whats the NZ medal count now?

Ask us again when we've actually contested more than two finals.... sucks not being from a swimming country, you have to wait 4 days before you start to look decent. The total should look good come sunday with the rowing finals.

Re Burmester, top effort, he let the race for the first couple of laps and was right on the pace until the end.

 

[parra-matters]

so besides rowing what events can we expect to see a Kiwi on the dias?

 

[African Monkey]

Valerie Vili in the shot put.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Sarah Walker in the BMX (go Kawerau!)

 

[SpaceMonkey]

A couple of the yachties

Barbara Kendall on the Sailboard

Bevan Doherty in the Triathlon

 

[Beavers Headgear]

so besides rowing what events can we expect to see a Kiwi on the dias?

Very good chances

Shotput
Triathlon
BMX
Kayaking
Track Cycling

Outside chance

Mens 1500m
Womens 10000m