The London 2012 Olympic Games...

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dr150

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#3 on the Italian women's water Polo team is a tank. She must be the enforcer


There seems to be one on every team.

The ladies USA WP team also has a sumo wrestler.

Not an athlete in an sense of the world...except when she gets into the water where the water and her fat supports those heavy joints to transform her into a dolphin.


 
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I hate hte olympics. I only get basic cable so I am forced to watch running and swimming. And 90% of the time they show backstories that I give two shits about.

Why not show me soemthing interesting like badmitton or table tennis. This sucks.
 

benzylic

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There seems to be one on every team.

The ladies USA WP team also has a sumo wrestler.

Not an athlete in an sense of the world...except when she gets into the water where the water and her fat supports those heavy joints to transform her into a dolphin.

the girl on the italian team looked to be just as big.

I hate hte olympics. I only get basic cable so I am forced to watch running and swimming. And 90% of the time they show backstories that I give two shits about.

Why not show me soemthing interesting like badmitton or table tennis. This sucks.

they do show that, unfortunately its just on at midnight when they do the recap. in any case install that vpn and stream the bbc feed, theres a link in the first post. people in this thread seem to be enjoying that.
 

Northern Lawn

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You guys shouldn't be making fun of these Athletes. It just so happens she is the world champion of the 10 meter belly flop.. biggest splash ever recorded.



There seems to be one on every team.

The ladies USA WP team also has a sumo wrestler.

Not an athlete in an sense of the world...except when she gets into the water where the water and her fat supports those heavy joints to transform her into a dolphin.


 

mshan

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Just saw Usain Bolt run in 100m semi-finals (NBC Olympics website has live video).

He ran 9.87 and took his foot off accelerator maybe starting 1/3 - 1/4 way to finish line (he was pulling away, then just let the pack come back to him, and even seemed to downshift further near finish line).

Wonder what he is going to run in finals?

(anyone know what time finals are supposed to be live today?)
 

KLin

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Just saw Usain Bolt run in 100m semi-finals (NBC Olympics website has live video).

He ran 9.87 and took his foot off accelerator maybe starting 1/3 - 1/4 way to finish line (he was pulling away, then just let the pack come back to him, and even seemed to downshift further near finish line).

Wonder what he is going to run in finals?

(anyone know what time finals are supposed to be live today?)

Final is at 1:50 pacific, 4:50 eastern.
 

mshan

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Thanks.

Haven't been following carefully.

I heard comment that this track is fast.

Any idea of what sort of time is predicted to be needed to win?
 

Slew Foot

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There seems to be one on every team.

The ladies USA WP team also has a sumo wrestler.

Not an athlete in an sense of the world...except when she gets into the water where the water and her fat supports those heavy joints to transform her into a dolphin.




Oh the Huge Manatee!
 

KentState

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The US vs Turkey volleyball match is pretty exciting to watch, plus the game is pretty good.
 

rh71

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lol there is a trampoline team at my daughters gymnastics. its pretty neat to watch. but err. a Olympic event? yeah i was surprised to hear that

I clicked on the highlights from 8/4 video and in it was a sport called WALKING and it showed people doing a fast walk. ARE U SERIOUS?!?!
 

Broheim

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I clicked on the highlights from 8/4 video and in it was a sport called WALKING and it showed people doing a fast walk. ARE U SERIOUS?!?!

race walking is hard, don't knock it until you try it.
 

sactoking

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#3 on the Italian women's water Polo team is a tank. She must be the enforcer

She probably plays the hole at 2m. You have to be big and tough for that position because in water polo there's a very high threshold before a foul is called. Back in the day when I was swimming and playing water polo regularly we used to joke about having to wear 20 swimsuits if you were playing at 2m because 19 of them would get ripped off by the time the game was done.
 

Slew Foot

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Pisses me off that they have all these totally lame ass sports but got rid of baseball and softball because the US keeps kicking everyone's ass
 

mugs

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I clicked on the highlights from 8/4 video and in it was a sport called WALKING and it showed people doing a fast walk. ARE U SERIOUS?!?!

"Stride length is reduced, so to achieve competitive speeds, racewalkers must attain cadence rates comparable to those achieved by Olympic 400-metre runners—and they must do so for hours at a time since the Olympic events are the 20-kilometre (12 mi) race walk (men and women) and 50-kilometre (31 mi) race walk (men only)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racewalking
 

SSSnail

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Pisses me off that they have all these totally lame ass sports but got rid of baseball and softball because the US keeps kicking everyone's ass
Yeah, it's pretty stupid, basically the Olympics now is all about limiting the US gold medals intake and introducing as many stupid "sports" as possible.


Things that need to be changed with the Olympic.

Shooting: here's a gun, now shoot at the target. None of that fancy aids shits on the gun or the shooter.

Archery: here's a bow and arrows, now shoot at the target. None of that fancy aids shits on the bow or the shooter.

Get rid of subjective scoring events, because it's... well, subjective. Fucking biased judges will give the event away, which is entirely bullshits. Result based events ONLY.

Get rid of stupid backyard past time "sports", to call these "sports" is insult to the real athletes that are devoting their life and blood into competing.

Now, let's play.
 

Northern Lawn

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Yeah, it's pretty stupid, basically the Olympics now is all about limiting the US gold medals intake and introducing as many stupid "sports" as possible.


Things that need to be changed with the Olympic.

Shooting: here's a gun, now shoot at the target. None of that fancy aids shits on the gun or the shooter.

Archery: here's a bow and arrows, now shoot at the target. None of that fancy aids shits on the bow or the shooter.

Get rid of subjective scoring events, because it's... well, subjective. Fucking biased judges will give the event away, which is entirely bullshits. Result based events ONLY.

Get rid of stupid backyard past time "sports", to call these "sports" is insult to the real athletes that are devoting their life and blood into competing.

Now, let's play.

Yeah, and to make in even more American they should do the shooting and bow and arrow contests on a live game farm and from horse back. Oh wait better not let people with bow and arrow on horse back, the Americans would by instinct shoot them thinking they were Inidians. Cowboys and Inidians, nothing more American then that
 

SSSnail

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Yeah, and to make in even more American they should do the shooting and bow and arrow contests on a live game farm and from horse back. Oh wait better not let people with bow and arrow on horse back, the Americans would by instinct shoot them thinking they were Inidians. Cowboys and Inidians, nothing more American then that
I was being reasonable, you're just being idiotic.
 

WelshBloke

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Yeah, it's pretty stupid, basically the Olympics now is all about limiting the US gold medals intake and introducing as many stupid "sports" as possible...

I dunno, the swimming seems pretty medal heavy, that suits the USA. 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m....theres 17 golds on offer for swimming up and down.
 

MontyAC

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I dunno, the swimming seems pretty medal heavy, that suits the USA. 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m....theres 17 golds on offer for swimming up and down.

I agree, the US seems to get most of their medals in swimming and track and field.
 
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