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1 posted on 08/12/2008 8:45:23 PM PDT by rawhide
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Story here:—http://www.sportsline.com/olympics/story/10929279


2 posted on 08/12/2008 8:46:37 PM PDT by rawhide
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This guy is AMAZING! Keep it up Michael. Go USA.


3 posted on 08/12/2008 8:46:43 PM PDT by ninergold3 (Christ would not vote for Barack Obama...Alan Keyes)
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Thanks for the update. I’m on the west coast, so if I stay up to see this on NBC, it will probably be 11:30 before I get to bed.


5 posted on 08/12/2008 8:50:20 PM PDT by July 4th
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SPOILER!!!!!


6 posted on 08/12/2008 8:53:23 PM PDT by Plutarch
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Hey thanks for spoiling it for me! Now I dont have to stay up and watch it.


7 posted on 08/12/2008 8:55:44 PM PDT by aft_lizard (One animal actually its eats its own brains to conserve energy, we call them liberals.)
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First time under 7 minutes, wow, I was really impressed. Phelps was like half of the pool length ahead when the second leg started to swim. Go USA!


10 posted on 08/12/2008 9:04:33 PM PDT by claymax ("Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all." Alexander the Great)
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Anybody that doesn't want to know the results in advance of an event being aired on tv should know better than to log onto the internet.....and especially FR.

That said, you're still an inconsiderate clod for posting this in the fashion in which you did.

11 posted on 08/12/2008 9:15:50 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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My post on another thread:

Holder of 10 world records already Spitz predicted brashly he would win six golds at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. However, he won only two team golds: the 4 x 100 meter freestyle, and the 4 x 200 meter freestyle relays. In addition, Spitz finished 2nd in the 100 m butterfly. In this event he was beaten by fellow American Doug Russell by 1/2 a second despite holding the world record and having beaten Russell in the previous 10 times they had swam against each other in that year.[2] Russell did briefly match Spitz's world record in late August of 1967, holding the world record equally with Spitz for five days before Spitz regained it solely on October 2 1967.

As a result of being beaten by Russell, Spitz did not get to swim in the 4 x 100 m Medley Relay which gave Russell his second Gold medal and the USA team another World Record swim. He also finished third in the 100 m freestyle at the same games.

At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich (West Germany), Spitz was back to maintain his bid for the six gold medals. He did even more, winning seven Olympic gold medals, a feat still unequaled by any other athlete in a single Olympiad. Further, Spitz set a new world record in each of the seven events (the 100 m freestyle, 200 m freestyle, 100 m butterfly, 200 m butterfly, 4 x 100 m freestyle relay, 4 x 200 m freestyle relay and the 4 x 100 m medley relay).

Spitz became one of only four Olympic greats to win nine career gold medals, together with Larissa Latynina, Paavo Nurmi, and Carl Lewis.[3] At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Michael Phelps briefly joined the elite group, until he surpassed them by winning his 10th and 11th career gold medals, only a day after his ninth.

12 posted on 08/12/2008 9:17:06 PM PDT by purpleraine
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This guy is just amazing!! In fact the entire American swim team is pretty damned awesome.


15 posted on 08/12/2008 9:23:57 PM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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This guy is just amazing!! In fact the entire American swim team is pretty damned awesome.


16 posted on 08/12/2008 9:23:57 PM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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This guy is just amazing!! In fact the entire American swim team is pretty damned awesome.


17 posted on 08/12/2008 9:23:57 PM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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If the result is in the thread title, a [SPOILER ALERT!] does no good.

The thread title needs to change.


20 posted on 08/12/2008 9:29:37 PM PDT by Plutarch
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Ah, didn’t the headline just give away the results? it’s hard to overlook the headline.


25 posted on 08/12/2008 9:39:34 PM PDT by psjones (u)
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If you put the freakin’ result in the HEADLINE, the word “spoiler” just before it doesn’t do much good.

Thanks a heap.


28 posted on 08/12/2008 9:43:32 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert (Marxist Obama will trash the USA for the next 30 years. Vote McCain!)
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‘ya know, putting the words Spoiler Alert right next to the actual spoiler really doesn’t help much. Since the next word was Phelps, your brain can’t help but register the info while you try to try to avert your eyes. Sigh.....


33 posted on 08/12/2008 10:05:40 PM PDT by BreitbartSentMe (Ex-Dem since 2001 *Folding@Home for the Gipper - Join the FReeper Folders*)
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This can’t be live since those of us on the East Coast already saw it. Check the thread below this in Breaking News.


40 posted on 08/12/2008 10:33:22 PM PDT by RDTF (my worst nightmare is being on jury duty sequestered with 11 liberals)
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First time I watched it tonight. The swimming event was cool...gymnastics was boring IMO though.


45 posted on 08/12/2008 10:47:22 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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Boy, the testosterone is heavy tonight! Give it a rest.
47 posted on 08/12/2008 10:49:48 PM PDT by jonsie
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BAAD RAWHIDE!!! Image and video hosting by TinyPic TELLIN' THE TRUTH!!! Image and video hosting by TinyPic Image and video hosting by TinyPic YOU PISSED IN THEIR POOL!!!...BWahahaha...;0)
51 posted on 08/12/2008 11:18:56 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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If the french weren’t pnwned enough at the olympics by US swimmers, Australia’s Thorpedo said before the olympics that their was no way Phelps could win 7 golds.


52 posted on 08/13/2008 12:08:15 AM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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