It was a pleasure for us portugueses, to have you all in our country!I hope you will be back soon!
Congratulations Greece:)
well done!

aawwww Now that is what i call a lovely person to come and say something like that. Must be my hug that did it :o)

Thanks for a great tournament aissi :o)

yes, MadMonkey it was:))
thank you for everything!

That's all i have to say on the topic......lol

An American Lance, Legstrong rules the Tour de France ... :D ... ~*~

Well actually its a french who leads, but of course Lance is still the Nº 1 :-)

But for what is concern of me its the big help that the Portuguese Azevedo is giving to the American, well done José! :-))))

one is, behind the 'official' tête and one, in mins behind Lance ... :) Jan Ullrich
seems to retire from his ambitions and Andreas is the new tcom star, ranking 4 ... ~*~

Congratulations to Todd Hamilton on winning the The Open at Royal Troon after going through a 4 hole play off with Ernie Els.
He started the tournament as a rank outsider on odds between 500 & 750-1, landing a £720,000 first prize :-)

Been invited to show my car club off on a stand at a motoring event at Silverstone racing circuit in August :o)

well its sort of sport related LOL

Nice one, Steve! Good luck with that and have fun.

Thanks Bumble :o)

Whats the event Steve, anything worth going to watch? :-)
Will there be a bar there more to the point lol

Ill try to find a link for you

Ever since Beckham moed to Real Madrid, I was curious about how the spanish accepted him. I know in England he was either loved or loathed, so how is it in Spain? Any spaniards that can answer that?

British heavyweight Danny Williams knocked out Mike Tyson in the 4th round in Louisville, Kentucky last night :o)

....while singing 'Moon River'.

Any predictions of Olympic Medal counts?

2000 Olympic Medal Count (of countrys with at least 10 total:

(country) (Gold) (Silver) (Bronze) (TOTAL)
United StatesUnited States (USA) 40 24 33 97
RussiaRussia (RUS) 32 28 28 88
ChinaChina (CHN) 28 16 15 59
AustraliaAustralia (AUS) 16 25 17 58
GermanyGermany (GER) 13 17 26 56
FranceFrance (FRA) 13 14 11 38
ItalyItaly (ITA) 13 8 13 34
CubaCuba (CUB) 11 11 7 29
Great BritainGreat Britain (GBR) 11 10 7 28
South KoreaSouth Korea (KOR) 8 10 10 28
RomaniaRomania (ROM) 11 6 9 26
NetherlandsNetherlands (NED) 12 9 4 25
UkraineUkraine (UKR) 3 10 10 23
JapanJapan (JPN) 5 8 5 18
HungaryHungary (HUN) 8 6 3 17
BelarusBelarus (BLR) 3 3 11 17
PolandPoland (POL) 6 5 3 14
CanadaCanada (CAN) 3 3 8 14
BulgariaBulgaria (BUL) 5 6 2 13
GreeceGreece (GRE) 4 6 3 13
SwedenSweden (SWE) 4 5 3 12
BrazilBrazil (BRA) 0 6 6 12
SpainSpain (ESP) 3 3 5 11
NorwayNorway (NOR) 4 3 3 10

Just one prediction from me:
Finland (FIN) 0 0 0 0 ;)

In the 2000 Olympics, Finland had:

FinlandFinland (FIN) 2 1 1 4

And our squad seems even worse this time.. But you'll never know, we might get a few medals this time also. Swimming, sailing, shooting and track&field (men's hammer, men&women javelin, men shot putt) are events where we have a very small chance to get some medals.

PARIS (Reuters) - France playmaker Zinedine Zidane announced Thursday that he was ending his international career after a 10-year spell with Les Bleus.

"My international career is over now," said the 32-year-old playmaker on his Web Site. "I called the coach yesterday to let him know I had made up my mind. I think it was the right time to say 'stop'. At least, it was the time for me to do so," he said.

France coach Raymond Domenech confirmed the news as he unveiled his squad for next week's friendly against Bosnia.

"Zidane will not play for France anymore. I'm sorry about it. I would have liked him to carry on. He thought he had to leave the place to young players," said Domenech.

Zidane has had a long and successful career with France, winning the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 European championship.

His retirement closes a glorious chapter in French soccer history with only goalkeeper Fabien Barthez remaining from the team that beat Brazil to become world champions in 1998.

Zidane's announcement came after defenders Lilian Thuram, Bixente Lizarazu and captain Marcel Desailly all called time on their international careers since the end of Euro 2004.

"This is the end of a story," Zidane said. "It's important to know when your time to go has come. Some players had done it in 2000 and in 2002. Others like me are doing it now."

The French number 10 who earned 93 caps and scored 26 goals for France said that he had been considering his international retirement for quite some time.

any bets ?
:) ... ~*~

follow me to the cave ... we'll watch beach-volleyball, women ...
the bikini rules have been sharpened. *wink wink*
they must not be wider than 4 cms ... yay ... ooops I mean cool ... ~*~

There are no problems such as I mentioned in my previous message on this board. I just posted it to every board so all could see my opinion. I learned big lesson today that sometimes it is good to keep your opinions to yourself so as not to ruffle feathers. My apologies to this site.

I am not all that sport minded but since I live in the area keep informed of the winnings of the Buffalo Bills. My brother and his wife have a great knowledge about football but I have trouble keeping track of who the quarterback is or isn't. I hope they do better this year than last; that's all.

Just to let you know, no one was upset or mad that you let your opinions be known. It was just the way it was done, that is spammed on many boards including many which were off topic.

I wanted Phelps to win the record, but it didn't happen, now I just want him to beat Thorpe...LOL

Please can we all keep this board for what it meant for, Sport from all over the world.
I am ver busy for until the weekend, so dont have alot of time to get on to.
Obvioulsy Fencer still can if he sees something he does not like & is off subject, BUT i am sure he has better things to do.
I don't want to set this board to having 'All posts must be approved'

Ivan Hlinka, one of the greatest hockey players ever has died after a car accident.
Respected and loved both in Europe, Canada and USA

RIP

USA's swimming relay team has won another gold! Good job guys.

Omy, MUSICLOVER, I live so close to Buffalo NY yet I hate the Bills.sorry

Why do you "HATE" them?

Today in Athens the race from most consider the Queen event of the games was a very fast race, with the Portuguese Francis beat the Europe record and earn Silver. 4 athlets were below 9.90, an extraordinary race. The others medals went for the americans. Looking forward the 200 meters the predilect event of the portuguese sprinter.

I forgot to tell that the american Justin Gatlin won...

Ferjo..Here in USA the show it on TV at 8 pm, about 4 hours too late :(

Sorry Andersp, I guess being an European has some advantages once in a while ;-)
Well even already know the resul I still recommend that you see the race.

Ferjo...I just (9.30 pm ET) watched the high jump, fun watching for a swede :)

I watched that too, most enjoyable, The sedes are doing very well in the olympics :)

Sorry thats supposed to be swedes lol

How do they sleep at night?

I'd like to know the same thing...

This time in 1500 meters men's. Rui Silva ran an extraordinary last lap, from almost last place until reach the third place. Congrats Rui.

Congratulations Portugal!

Thanks footballgirl! :-)

The Olympic games are somewhat exciting to watch but the judging part needs alot of work on. I'm wondering if they are going to have a "head" judge at each event to look over everything in the near future? Just curious

Nothing about this religious nut pushing Vanderlei de Lima off the road?

what an idiot eh, he also ran towards F1 cars last year on hanger straight of silverstone during grand prix

I think the organisers are giving the marathon running an extra prize aint they?

I dont understand why that guy isn't already in a secure institute for criminal lunatics. It was great to see VdL smiling and doing his aeroplane wings on the last stretch despite arguably having been deprived of first place.

Dechy was so much more graceful and elegant compared to that goon Bovina. Tennis needs more Dechys.

Is tennis ballet?