thats the b team
whats the a team going to be like lol

great britain also got through to the final in that event finishing 3rd or 4th but they beat the british record by 5 seconds so well done to them.

yep
the swimming finals are on tonight at about 3ish in morning
ill stay up to watch them

I can beat them with my arms behind my back.... puicture that

All these flash opening ceremonies take a lot of hard work and dedication to produce, having said that i get bored quickly watching them after a while, no matter how many fireworks and summersaults they cram in.

And yeah China's human rights and green issues are appauling so it was only to be expected that they got the nod ahead of greener, fairer countries, due to naivity on the part of the judges.

Edited at 23:12 Sun 10/08/08 (BST)

Parts of the spectacular Beijing Olympics opening ceremony were faked, it has emerged.

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The global television audience of more than three billion people watched in amazement as a series of giant footprints outlined in fireworks proceeded through the night sky from Tiananmen Square to the Bird's Nest stadium - except they were watching a computer animation.

Even the giant television screens within the stadium itself broadcast the fake images.

Stunned viewers thought they were watching the string of fireworks filmed from above by a helicopter.

But in reality they were watching a 3D graphics sequence that took almost a year to produce.

It even included a 'camera shake' to mimic the effect of filming from a helicopter.

The dupe was revealed by China's Beijing Times. Speaking to the paper, the man responsible for the animation said he was pleased with the result.

"Seeing how it worked out, it was still a bit too bright compared to the actual fireworks,"

But most of the audience thought it was filmed live - so that was mission accomplished."

The designers even added some haziness to simulate the polluted Beijing skyline.

Broadcasters around the world had no choice but to show the footage because it all came from one feed provided by Beijing Olympic Broadcasting - the organisation responsible for filming the games.

The ceremony has also been strongly criticised by architect Ai Weiwei, who helped design the Bird's Nest stadium.

Writing on his blog, Mr Ai described the ceremony as "a recycling of the rubbish of fake classical culture tradition; a sacrilegious visual garbage dump and an insult to the spirit of liberty; low class sound play that's just noise pollution".

Mr Ai helped design the stadium alongside Swiss architect firm, Herzog and de Meuron.

But since then, he has become an outspoken blogger against the Olympics and the Chinese regime. Unusually, he has not been censored by the authorities.

disgrace

Murray did well, got knocked out first round, terrible

aye not as terrible as faking the opening ceremony tho

Woooo rebecca adlington and jo jackson was brilliant this season

Well this go's to show u shouldent trust anyone...

watched phelps in his 4th gold early hours this morning... he didnt look very happy when he fun... he has become a legend like. i hope he does get the 8

and the singing girrl at the beginningwas miming, as the real singer wasn't pretty enough... and the "cuter" girl couldn't sing

Yea thats well harsh I cud trip that other one over for that

just watched phelps win his 7th gold! was the closest swim ive seen a fingertip he won it by.. he is a legend like

We will be the laughing stock of the world, we've only just cleard out the rubble and hardley anything has been done yet...
but tht phelps is a swimming machine

phleps won again last night by 1 100th of a second

and rebecca adlington(GBR) owned everyone in the 800M freestyle Final and setting a new world record
2.60 seconds quicker than the previous world record

she was 6 seconds ahead of the silver medalist some italian girl lol

dont know her name

yeah i watched the adlington race aswell....the serbians but in a appeal against phelps but they declined the appeal so phelps still got his gold..

rebecca is a nottingham lass-

for winning gold at the olympics she is getting a massive bonus from the people of her home town- mansfield.

They are giving her a free day out at mansfield town.......LMAO

bet she wishes she was from manchester or london

phelps end up with ten medals- an olympic record?

USAIN BOLT!!!!!!!!!!!!