Here is a cool interview with the US Women’s Soccer Team:
Here is a cool interview with the US Women’s Soccer Team:
The US Women’s soccer team beat Brazil 1-0 today to win the Gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Carli Lloyd scored in over time (extra time in soccer) to lead the United States to victory over Brazil. This was the US Women’s soccer team’s third gold in four Olympics. US goalkeeper Hope Solo, was said to have made a lot of great saves. I have not seen their victory yet, but I expect it to be fun to watch.
Congratulations to the US Women’s Soccer team for their gold medal win.
There will be no medal for the U.S. men’s soccer team, as they were eliminated from the Olympic tournament after a 2-1 loss to Nigeria. The U.S. played a man down for most of the game after Michael Orozco was ejected for elbowing a Nigerian player while they were going for the ball.
Frankly, from the written descriptions, it seems like it was a bit of over-kill to remove him from the game. Players tussle all the time while going for the ball. There’s a big difference between an accidentally thrown elbow and a punch in the face. It would seem to me that, especially at the Olympics, there would be some benefit of the doubt given. It’s a shame that the United States soccer team’s Olympic hopes were dashed by one error in judgement.
You could pretty much start watching the Olympics at midnight and just watch it straight through tomorrow.
Your local NBC affiliate will be showing men’s volleyball overnight. Then, from 1-5 a.m., you can see a replay of tonight’s primetime. Tomorrow morning, you can see the U.S. basketball team against China. Also in the morning, rowing preliminaries, women’s cycling and men’s water polo. In the afternoon, check out men’s beach volleyball and more cycling. In the evening, cycling finishes up and there are swimming prelims. Primetime brings Michael Phelps going for a second gold in the men’s 4×100m free relay. There’s more swimming, with the women’s 400m free, men’s 100m breast, and the semifinal of the women’s 100m back stroke. The U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics team starts their quest for gold, and the first diving gold medals of the Games will be awarded. Late night, you can check out women’s volleyball.
On MSNBC, you can watch men’s soccer: Italy vs. South Korea, women’s field hockey: USA vs. Argentina, and men’s handball: South Korea vs. Germany. In tennis, Roger Federer of Switzerland plays Dmitry Tursunov of Russia. Also, men’s volleyball, men’s water polo, badminton, men’s handball, and the men’s trap shooting gold-medal final.
CNBC will feature tennis and boxing.
USA is showing men’s basketball, women’s badminton, equestrian team eventing dressage, women’s tennis, men’s soccer, women’s archery team final, women’s weightlifting 53kg final, and the gold-medal final in men’s 56kg weightlifting.
Online, you can watch archery, badminton, basketball, cycling, equestrian, fencing, handball, field hockey, judo, rowing, sailing, shooting, soccer, tennis, water polo, and weightlifting.
I have obligations that prevent me from posting on Saturday, but I didn’t want to leave you hanging completely, so here’s what’s available for your viewing pleasure on Saturday.
During primetime Saturday night, you can watch men’s gymnastics qualifying rounds, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh doubtless trouncing a Latvian beach volleyball team, and gold medal rounds in the men’s 400m free, the women’s 4×100m free relay and the men’s and women’s 400m IM. Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff will be Americans to keep an eye on in the swimming.
Online, you can watch women’s archery, badminton, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s cycling, equestrian, fencing, handball, field hockey, judo, rowing, sailing, shooting, women’s soccer, tennis, water polo and weightlifting.
