"I am feeling very Olympic today" Sanka Coffie

Can you name the movie from the quote in the title?

There are only four days between the start of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games and I can't wait to watch international rowing at its most intense and focused level. The level of preparation that these athletes have demonstrated for a few trips down the race course is unfathomable and I'm sure everyone can't help but question their preparation - after all, who can go into an Olympic rowing event being completely confident of the result?

Two discussion points come to mind when thinking about the Olympics - do you treat the rowing as another regatta? Using the same routines, warm-ups, and race plans or do you try and do something special? This also extends to the volume and intensity of work that is required to win the World Championships and what the coaching staffs and athletes imagine the requirements are to win the Olympics - how much is enough and how much is too much? The results will tell the story and I wonder if everybody who does not win a gold medal (almost everybody!) will say I did enough, I needed to do more, or I needed to do less. Wouldn't that be an amazingly informative poll?

The second discussion point is how much "experience" plays out in having a successful Olympic Games and dealing with pressure. Does increased media exposure and the external trappings of intensity make the Olympic Games so stressful or is it the perceived importance of the event because the athletes have made such a sacrifice to make it there? Does anybody know whether first-time Olympic athletes have a better or worse record of success at the Games? Let's be honest that if you're good enough to make the Olympics you probably have had at least some experience dealing with pressure-filled situations - shouldn't that prepare you to deal with the type of adversity that comes with increased exposure and expectation? Then again, maybe you just can't understand it if you haven't been in that type of situation before.

Either way, get your DVRs, VCRs, DVDs, and other recording devices ready because here it the complete schedule for all of the Olympic rowing events posted here.