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Imagine the medal table if the USA didn't have Phelps as well! At the moment I am supporting everyone who is not Chinese in the olympics because it is boring having one country dominate.

I thought it was funny yesterday in one of the women's swimming relays UK left two of their best swimmers out of the heats to rest them for the final and then didn't qualify. Owned!

Also, why does the UK team compete as Great Britain and Northern Ireland with the three letter abbreviation GBR? No one will say "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" they will all just say "Great Britain" or "Britain" and the abbreviation GBR excludes Northern Ireland entirely. UK is a shorter name and is more accurate. It annoys me when non-brits don't know the geographical distinctions between UK, Great Britain, British Isles and the constituent nations so it's even more annoying when a representative team of the UK gets it wrong itself.

UK and Ireland is a bit the same as the Netherlands and Belgium.

Actualy people from outside these countries can see this as Italy and Malta / France and Luxembourg / USA and Canada / France and Andorra / Spain and Portugal.

Here's the map of Europe X(

http://www.nationsonline.org/maps/countries_europe_map.jpg

My God, that guy from Hungary must be in so much pain!! I did not know elbows could end up in such a weird angle!

weightlifting

he sort of bent his elbow in the wrong way

which weight category?

nm, found it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1044258/Pictured-The-horrific-moment-Olympic-weightlifter-turns-elbow-front.html

for anyone interested but didn't get to see it (like me)

http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza.be/mediatheek_olympia/1.359258

ouch

He's hungarian...

no i lold at the columbian weight lifter, totally different guy to the hungry man

and yes Joor i would cry possibly even 3x as hard

but some say he purposly did it... hes meant to be a world champ, yet on the playback, he was holding the bar like a n00b
But still bad luck for him

go australia!!!!
even though i havnt the apathy to watch the events

I think the weight lifter was Hungarian, he may or may not have also been hungry, but that would not help anyone here identify him because that doesn't come across too much on TV.