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Wanna talk Olympics?
- Thread starter mrpackerguy
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I love watching the Olympics. Fencing has always been one of my favorites. I fenced for a while around 2008-2010, finishing in the top half of the tournaments I fenced in, but never high enough to get a rating. In the last year, I started playing soccer and rock climbing, so I've been watching a lot of those this year.
I really enjoy the sports that you don't see too often outside of the Olympics, like water polo, handball, and the indoor cycling. Every four years I have to relearn the rules to all of the sports.
I really enjoy the sports that you don't see too often outside of the Olympics, like water polo, handball, and the indoor cycling. Every four years I have to relearn the rules to all of the sports.
USA Men's Track & Field 4x100 relay team blew it again!
I can't believe it happened again...
I tried early on to watch the Mens Rugby 7's and NBC just kept screwing it up. Coverage of 1st quarterfinal didn't begin until almost half-time despite NBC's own published schedule. Bronze match coverage started with ~2.5 minutes left in the *game* - and it was a game that saw the Aussies (well, at least for those that actually *saw* it) get a red card and have to play 6-on-7. Not into basketball or beach volleyball (or skateboarding?) and as they appear to be the very biggest events, again based upon NBC's rah-rah coverage, I just haven't watched it since. Now I'm hearing that *break-dancing* is an Olympic sport? I honestly had to double check if it was some Onion or Onion-like joke story but, nope, it's a sport. I look forward to a future Olympics where "the dozens" is a sport. "Yo' country so fat when it sits around Europe, it sits AROUND Europe".
OK, back to shaking my fist at the squirrels on my lawn.
OK, back to shaking my fist at the squirrels on my lawn.
Man, I saw that and thought, "If FF were here, I would just hand him a consolation beer. Wouldn't even have to say a word."
At least the ladies rocked theirs!
Breakdancing is questionable, for sure. That said, the clip I saw was more entertaining, and more suited for the Olympics, than the dancing horses being made to do what looks like their version of the Riverdance.
Also, finishing water polo matches with shootouts sucks. I watched the end of the women's US/Australia match, it's virtually impossible for the goalies to stop anything. Only after each team made like 6 in a row did one goalie make a lucky stab for a stop, and that won the match. Meh.
You'd think they would get it right by now, they have four years every cycle to practice it! But the US women came through, Sha'Carri Richardson pulled them from 3rd place to the gold!USA Men's Track & Field 4x100 relay team blew it again!
I can't believe it happened again...
I'm not a fan of shootouts in any of the sports that use them (at least those I can think of, no doubt there may be exceptions).
Show jumping is very elegant, but dressage is goofy.
Somewhere, @FilterFunk is still beaming with joy after today's relay results. 
Oh, yes...I needed that!Somewhere, @FilterFunk is still beaming with joy after today's relay results.
I imagined the men's team saw the 100, then held a team meeting at which the only thing said was:
"Okay, we can't do that. We can't do that. WE. CANNOT... DO... THAT."
Very glad to see that they did not!
Oh wow, on two points:
1) Four seconds;
2) Jordan Chiles didn't do anything wrong. The people giving her crap over this suck.
apnews.com
1) Four seconds;
2) Jordan Chiles didn't do anything wrong. The people giving her crap over this suck.
Romanian gymnast could replace Jordan Chiles as bronze medalist in floor exercise after court ruling
The International Gymnastics Federation restored Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu to third in the women’s floor exercise final.
apnews.com
Whew! US men's basketball won as expected, but it was a fun game. Curry went nuts at the end.
Kudos to Wembanyama, he had an excellent game against a roster of Hall of Famers. He's going to be such a beast.
Kudos to Wembanyama, he had an excellent game against a roster of Hall of Famers. He's going to be such a beast.
I didn't think I would, but I actually liked Snoop Dogg's presence at the Olympics.
IMO, he didn't chew up the scenery or suck the air out of the venues. He just provided a light-hearted diversion. He was fun to watch, and he seemed to be having a great time. I especially liked seeing Snoop and Martha Stewart all dressed up for the equestrian events!
IMO, he didn't chew up the scenery or suck the air out of the venues. He just provided a light-hearted diversion. He was fun to watch, and he seemed to be having a great time. I especially liked seeing Snoop and Martha Stewart all dressed up for the equestrian events!
Women’s hoops today was a blast.
I learned you can 2 hand shove a player and it’s traveling lol. But wow, what a game.
I learned you can 2 hand shove a player and it’s traveling lol. But wow, what a game.
And I could not be more ready for kickoff in a few short weeks.
