Olympic Games 2004 in Athens,Greece

ATHENS, 27 August - Robert KORZENIOWSKI (POL) proved once more why he is considered by many to be the best walker ever when he won his fourth Olympic gold medal by taking the Men's 50km Walk, finishing in 3:38.46.
He just missed the Olympic record of 3:38.29 set in 1988 by Vyacheslav IVANENKO (URS) at the Seoul Olympics.
KORZENIOWSKI, who succesfully defended the title he had won at Sydney, added to his gold collection previously amassed in the 50km Walk in Sydney and Atlanta as well as his gold in the 20km Walk in Sydney.
Smile

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Congrats.

Germany until now today
canoe: two gold medals, two silver

boxen
one bronze

medal ranking place 6. Very Happy

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groszi wrote:

ATHENS, 27 August - Robert KORZENIOWSKI (POL) proved once more why he is considered by many to be the best walker ever when he won his fourth Olympic gold medal by taking the Men's 50km Walk, finishing in 3:38.46.
He just missed the Olympic record of 3:38.29 set in 1988 by Vyacheslav IVANENKO (URS) at the Seoul Olympics.
KORZENIOWSKI, who succesfully defended the title he had won at Sydney, added to his gold collection previously amassed in the 50km Walk in Sydney and Atlanta as well as his gold in the 20km Walk in Sydney.

I've just calculated that these lunatics are averaging a walking speed of 8.5mph! Shocked

For 3 and a half hours! Shocked

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Grand Duke wrote:

I've just calculated that these lunatics are averaging a walking speed of 8.5mph! For 3 and a half hours!

exactly,

but that is more,of course, than a usual walker.

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two bronze medals for Germany

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I know, Thok. An average walking speed is around 3.5 mph. I was very surprise how fast it was though. I would have guessed about 6.5mph before I worked it out. There's always someone in the walking events who gets disqualified for "running" in the last few km, which makes me laugh.

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Husker, Thanks for the info about the rudder. Makes sense.

I watched the walking race. All of it. KORZENIOWSKI was amazing. The temperature was over 90 degrees F. Despite the enormous effort and ability, it looks, well, strange. And just a little silly.

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Grand Duke wrote:

There's always someone in the walking events who gets disqualified for "running" in the last few km, which makes me laugh.

example, the German athlet. :-)

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Mountainbike women
Gold
Gunn-Rita Dahl (Nor)

Silver
Marie-Helene Premont (Can)

Bronze
Sabine Spitz (Ger) :-)

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handball men

semifinal 1 Croatia 33 - 31 Hungary MOU, your country is in the final. :-)

semifinal 2 Germany - Spain under way Go Germany!

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during 2nd half

13:13 Germany - Russia

excited game.

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YES
Germany 21 - 15 Russia

that means the final is Germany - Croatia .

MOU,that will be the revance for the defeat in February. Very Happy

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MyOwnUsername wrote:

He predicts silver for handball team that will probably disappoint... And he doesn't mention waterpolo team that should grab a medal...
We'll see - I disagree with him

fbaezer wrote:

Let's see what's left with real chances:... the olympic walkers (these fellers have only failed to win a medal once since 1984)

This says a lot about the so-called A2K sports experts Smile

MOU, I saw the last the ten minutes of Croatia-Hungary (the only handball Mexican TV has showed). Great team. Congrats.

As for us, things are not good, but not as bleak, with three silvers (athletics, cycling and tae kwon do) and one bronze (tae kwon do).

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BTW, one must admire Robert Korzeniowsky.
His pace at the 50 km race walk was incredible, in terribly hot weather conditions.
It's his third straight olympic gold in that distance (plus one gold in 20 km. in Sydney).
This Polish athlete is the best race walker in history. A living legend.

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MyOwnUsername wrote:

He predicts silver for handball team that will probably disappoint...

I full agree with him, silver for Croatia, gold for Germany. :-)

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bronze medal for Germany in hockey men. 4:3 against Spain :-)

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Thok wrote:

bronze medal for Germany in hockey men. 4:3 against Spain :-)

Not to rain on your parade, but Australia just won the gold. First time ever for the men's hockey team, and takes us to 17 gold medals for the games, which is the most we've ever won Very Happy

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men's olympic basketball
sorry if I sound unpatritoic but I think our over-paid, obnoxious NBA players are earning a deserved humiliation.

With the exception of Tim Duncan and maybe only a couple others, I find it hard to cheer them on for a bronze medal.

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Wilso wrote:

Not to rain on your parade

That's not a parade. Congrats to you and Australia.

im4bigal, welcome to a2k and you are right.

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Thok wrote:

handball men

semifinal 1 Croatia 33 - 31 Hungary MOU, your country is in the final. :-)

Thok, my country is world champion Wink

And Olympic one, of course, but you just have to wait for that two days Very Happy

Seriously, I think it's going to be great game. Croatia was better during tournament, straight 7-0 record. Germany lost from Hungary (!) and France, but in game against Russia Germans were brilliant, so it's going to be really open game....

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