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The French Lose Like Cowards in Mens 400 Meter Relay

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32 comments

  1. buckeye bob

    gives a new meaning to being underwater – strange

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  2. The Contractor

    Take that frenchie!

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  3. Danny

    ^great news there

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  4. alphadawgg

    They got their mustaches and chest hairs punched off.

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  5. JakeGint

    400 m swimming or running?

    If we’re talking track, just match them up in heats with the German teams, and you’ll see some records broken.

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  6. The Fly

    Wake up Jake!

    Track isn’t for another week.

    The U.S. just displayed Godliness against the Frenchies. It was awesome.

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  7. JakeGint

    That’s because the French weren’t forced to throw down their rifles and shuck their khakis on “the wrong side of the Loire,” if you know what I mean.

    It’s all about incentives.

    I don’t watch much “Orympics,” btw. It’s football season. You can keep the political theater.

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  8. buckeye bob

    Only two more and we can have Olympic Rings – watch out for Naty gas tomorrow

    http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

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  9. Aris

    cheese eating surrender monkeys

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  10. The Fly

    Auxillium Pharma mentioned positively in Sizing Up Small Caps – Barron’s (37.86 )

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  11. Mr. Feltersnatch
    Mr. Feltersnatch

    http://redmeatblog.com/archives/2005/02/boycott_french.html

    You can also substitute the “boycott France” title on the Uncle Sam picture with “To Press 1 for English”

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  12. DPeezy

    That relay was quite possibly the greatest swimming race I’ve ever seen. USA!

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  13. mdawsz

    Shanghai making fresh lows.

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  14. Gio

    what an ending!

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  15. ottnott

    Truly an awesome race overall, with the top two teams beating the old World record by about 4 seconds in a sprint relay.

    But that last leg…how does a human go a 46.0 100 meters, even with a relay start?

    I give it the Most Amazing Win title, but second most amazing and still the most exciting would be the 4×200 relay at the 84 LA games. Anchor leg for the U.S. was Bruce Hayes – less than 6-feet tall and known as a distance swimmer. For Germany, it was Michael Gross, over 6’7″ and the world record holder in the 200. Hayes started with a lead, but it was basically gone after 50 meters. Gross slowly pulled ahead, but Hayes reeled him back in over the last 30 meters and won by .04 seconds.

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  16. Juice

    Who the hell is Broadpoint Crapital? They downgraded CLNE fm Strong Buy to Buy. Fuckers must not be fully on board for the 14 b/o.

    Next resistance btw 15.50 – 16.0

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  17. Captain Hazelwood
    Captain Hazelwood

    Weren’t they running off at the mouth before the race in the same way I was running off course before I ran her aground? **hic**

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  18. Juancho

    Thank goodness the water in Beijing is cleaner than the air.

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  19. Caffeinated

    Chinese admit that 400M relay was computer generated. USA did not really win. Check it out.

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  20. Scum Bucket Bitchez
    Scum Bucket Bitchez

    Chinese admit that 400M relay was computer generated.

    390M more like. The Chinese have little rulers.

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  21. boca

    Well Dexter definitely reads here… or is someone from here. Interesting 🙂

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  22. DPeezy

    Obviously the iBC hitmen need to hunt that guy down (or kick him down some stairs at least). Not only is he stealing from the site, he’s over 47 1/2 y.o. Egregious!

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  23. Aris

    god, the last thing you need here are fucking YHOO wingnuts. you may as well issue the negative karma in multiples of 10.

    *edit

    typical quotes from a YHOO message board:

    ‘did anyone listen to the CC? what’s going on? it must be good news because the stock is up. should i hold?’

    -followed by the same person a few posts later-

    ‘what are you talking about? they announced their earnings. do your homework before posting, idiot.’

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  24. dexter_new_york

    “The Fly” throws shit at me, even when I don’t fuck up a trade, just because he’s a dick.

    He’ll throw anything at me. Chicken bones. Milkshakes. Stapler removers. Midgets. Whatever is handy.

    Don’t be haters.

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  25. boca

    haha Fly’s trader servant…

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  26. Scum Bucket Bitchez
    Scum Bucket Bitchez

    Ha! DSB is a yahoo flunky!!

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  27. boca

    Scum Bucket Bitchez loves us. 🙂

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  28. DSB

    Ha! Scum Bucket Bitchez = dexter.

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