Infendo Giveaway: New International Track & Field - UPDATE
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 at 11:44am by Blake
Wanna win a free copy of New International Track & Field for DS? Then name your top 10 moments from the 2008 Olympiad in the comments, and we’ll pick the best entry. Free game in exchange for your thoughts — can’t be that (well you could, if we sent out free games at random, but we don’t). Winner will be selected by the end of the week, so get to commenting.
[UPDATE: Congratulations to Hoodoo .. he was chosen at random from the entries we received. Congratulations!]
August 25th, 2008 at 10:06 am
The best moment and for me what the Olympics is all about was the 110 women’s huddles. One of United States great athletes lost the race with a miscue on the 9th huddle but the moment i am thinking of is the second place Australian winner. When they caught her on camera she was screaming and crying over getting a silver. The lady left it on the field and to see her dreams reached where amazing. There was something pure about her emotions over winning a silver metal of all things. To be that is what the whole event is about. True athletes competing for their country’s and themselves. She won silver and seeing her jump like a school girl made a memorable Olympic moment for me.
August 25th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Plus she was hot!
Shouldn’t this contest be done privately by email? People are going to be putting down a lot of the same answers. Can’t we switch this contest over to a private email?
August 25th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
10. Bejing looked amazing.
09. USA women Beach Volleyball still undefeated.
08. Netherlands goal at the last minute.
07. USA didn’t tie with CHINA at individual gymnastics. Stupid software.
06. Bolt fast as a thunder 9:6x but is he a good sportman or olympian?
05. The Cube changes color.
04. Phelps butterfly WR.
03. Spain lost against the redeem team, but they had them good.
02. 2:06:32 26.2 milles.
01. Count down with the drums opening night.
August 25th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
10) The empty protest zones that were designated by the Chinese authorities. (http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/beijing08/2008/08/200881364858581505.html).
9) The fact that two old ladies are going to spend a year in forced labour camps for applying to use one of these zones
(http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/08/20/6514421-ap.html).
7) The true spirit of sport embodied in underage atheletes (http://vybes.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/olympics-hacked/) from a system in which they are selected for a sport according to their physical stature and proceed to train endless to the detriment of their development as a normal human being.
6) The president of the IOC treating one of the only cool people to come out of these games (Jamaican runner Usuain Bolt) like a piece of shit. (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/2008/08/blasting-bolt-i.html)
5) The squandered opportunity for China to make human rights concessions, as embodied by their brashness in censoring journalists access to internet sites the regime doesn’t care for. (http://english.ntdtv.com/?c=145&a=4275)
4) The displacement of 200,000 relatively impoverished Chinese to make way for the construction of Olympic facilities. (http://preciousmetal.wordpress.com/2008/02/17/2-million-displaced-by-beijing-olympics-40000-jailed/)
3) The outright removal of ‘unwanted people’ to clean up the image of China for Western visitors during the games [picture says it all in this one] (http://johnibiii.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/beijings-pre-olympic-removal-of-unwanted-people/)
2) The amusing irony of the man who designed China’s olympic stadium boycotting the games (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-CdWcszb_8)
1) Yeah, I guess they played some nice sports too.
- Pardon my sarcasm, but as a whole the event sickened me. Congratulations to people like Michael Phelps and the amazing Usuain Bolt and the other athletes who enjoyed successes they’ve aspired to since they were children. I just wish they had a forum that was as pure as their dedication in which to display their talent. I’ve got just a slight feeling of doubt that I won’t win International Track and Field [ :(! ] but at least I’ve still got an old copy of California Games to drown my sorrows in :D! HACKEYSACK!
August 25th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
10. US Men’s Basketball
9. US Women’s Volleyball Final
8. Austrailia’s Dive to Beat China for Gold
7. Olympic Race Walking. Seriously. Watch it.
6. Liu Xiang just trying to run the 110m hurdles injured
5. Usain Bolt’s 100m & 200m
4. Phelps Wins 8 Gold Medals
3. Women’s 4×400(Monique Henderson! Go Morse!)
2. Beijing Opening Ceremonies
1. Men’s 100m Butterfly
August 25th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Wow Tylor! My jobless life doesn’t feel so bad right now.
August 25th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
The American girls falling from silver to bronze on the gymnastics only to have Shawn and Nastia get gold on individual events later on.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:04 am
10. China saying the smog in their air was actually fog. Sure China, sure.
9. Jamaican Usain Bolt’s “lightning” speed. The guy was celebrating before he finished the 200m, and he still broke the world record! Insane!
8. U.S. Womens soccer team winning the gold. What a redemption after their disappointing performance at the World Cup. Wii Fit really does work!
7. Woman’s beach volleyball! Yummy!
6. French swimmer Alain Bernard’s saying: “The Americans? We’re going
to smash them. That’s what we came here for.” And then getting his ass kicked by U.S. in the 400-meter relay! Oh you French, when will you ever learn?!
5. U.S. hurdler Lolo Jones heart break fall with two hurdles left costing her the gold. The agony on her face as she stood on the field thinking of what might have been. So so very sad.
4. China cheating in womens gymnastics. 16 year old girls losing their baby teeth? Sure China, sure.
3. 18 year old U.S. women’s gymnast Nastia Liukin winnng a gold medal. It was nice to actually see a “woman” perform and win in “women’s” gymnastic!
2. Michael Phelps amazing run of eight gold medals. He has to be part dolphin. He just has to…
1. The opening ceremony. Seriously that was the greatest show I’ve ever seen. Ever. And I go to Las Vegas every couple of months.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:06 am
I just have to be honest…
10. Women’s Beach Volleyball
09. Women’s Beach Volleyball
08. Women’s Beach Volleyball
07. Women’s Beach Volleyball
06. Women’s Beach Volleyball
05. Women’s Beach Volleyball
04. Women’s Beach Volleyball
03. Women’s Beach Volleyball
02. Michael Phelps, the merman, decides to leave the depths of the sea to participate in the games amongst humans.
01. The China government deciding that the child singer for the opening wasn’t cute enough so they swapped her out…. classic.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
10. Having Bob Costas as a host. The dude was up like a million hours over those 2 plus weeks covering the games. There is no one else besides maybe Al Michaels that you want to see that much. He rarely screwed up, and he made you care about almost all the events. Bang up job, and hope he does it again in 2010 for the winter games.
9. USA Women’s Soccer. Yes, they won it in 2004, but let’s remember. Soccer is not America’s sport. It’s the rest of the world’s. But our women don’t care. Unlike basketball, when they stole gold from countries that were supposed to win it last time, they proved that they were supposed to win it in 04 by doing it again in 2008. Now if only the men could pull off a miracle and do the same.
8. Yes, Women’s Beach Volleyball was fun to watch. The Nike logo was well placed and May and Walsh made you not want to miss a minute. But, think about what this duo did. They won 108 straight matches. Talk about going a long time without an off day. They were steady, consistent, excellent, and the best. It’s too bad they have to retire to “start their lives,” but they will always be remembered.
7. The “Redeem Team” doing what they were expected to do - win the gold medal. Anything less would have been a disappointment, but they did make sure to win with style and a solid spread every game. They were no Dream Team, as MJ and company would destroy this team, but they did what needed to - reestablish USA’s dominance in it’s own sport.
6. Usain Bolt of Jamaica, completely obliterating both the 100 and 200 meter dashes. You do not win a sprint race against an Olympic Field that easily. He was inhuman. Yeah, what he did in the 100, celebrating before the finish was cocky, but he crossed in first with the world record, and gold medal. And toss a 4 x 100 world record in the mix for the heck of it.
5. The opening/closing ceremony. You can say what you want about China, but they put on a heck of a show to open and close the Olympics. They did a lot of things wrong behind the scenes, but what they presented was A quality.
4. In the women’s marathon, Constantina Tomescu of Romania had the guts to go out in front of the pack and try to win it without just sitting and kicking. She built up a minute lead and never let it go. She was 38, this was her last shot, and going out like that was very dangerous. Amazing that she held on for the win.
3. Michael Phelps and the 8 gold medals and 7 World Records. Most people are lucky to be the greatest in one event in the world, but he was the best at 8 events. He had to put in so much more work to maintain not just a level of speed but endurance to withstand all those races.
2. Lolo Jones, right after losing a sure gold medal by hitting the 9th of 10 hurdles, has to do an interview. She kept her composure, made no excuses for her hitting that hurdle, and congratulated the winner. Then she showed her crying under the bleachers, and I felt so bad for her. That is no more true example of a gracious loser.
1. The men’s swimming 4 x 200. Australia had no reason to lose that race, with the world record holder anchoring and with him starting in the lead. But the American Jason Lezak swims him down and wins by 0.08 seconds. It took a team effort, which is what the Olympics is all about (USA team). And the complete obliteration of the world record in that race.
I hope not too much was misspelled. As for worst moment(s), though not asked for - The overall showing off men and women’s track and field. Many did not qualify to finals, chokes in the finals, dropped batons, and not even our foreign imports (Legat among others) could bring home gold. Boo.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Choosen at random? I put all that thought into my answer, and you choose it at random? I’m feeling a bit gipped guys…