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just my guess but geno likely just chewed some backside. i am not a b-ball expert but that aussie was getting some easy shots. that sure seemed like lax post defense
But he seems such a gentle spirit!
I love that the announcers are slagging a German throwing a javelin about 53 meters.
eta: Those mini Mini Coopers are weird, but adorable.
Suarez could be 200 points better.
Of course, many athletes don't go all out in 1500 unless they have to.
You can follow here.
Oh ####!
Most events allow multiple people from the same country to qualify and get medals and they if are good enough to medal they would likely qualify for a unified team. I don't think too many of these medals came from events where they get multiple medals, but only one person from each country qualifies, but there might be a few. It might also be offset some lesser success in team events, they would have more teams, but each team wouldn't be as good (for example a combined Russia/Lithunania basketball team would be better).
It's just a fun thing to screw around with though and not worth putting more effort into. It does give the indication that former Soviet Union would still be a powerhouse though, but many of best competitors are now spread about several different countries.
They are the dominant force in women's weightlifting, three of the golds are there. Don't mess with a Kazakh woman, she can break you half. The others are in Men's Road Race, Women's Triple Jump and Men's Weightlifting.
It's worth putting effort into it because it's a fun thing to screw around with.
That's how 90% of my baseball-reference looks end up being over an hour long.
I hope our dissolution is more USSR than Yugoslavia.
Not me. I can't wait to get at those smug Iowans with my guns!
way better than his first throw
US 24, next is 'x' (who will not medal this year) with 5.
Top for men: Lithuania captured bronze their first three Olympics, 'x' also has three bronze.
Top for ladies: Australia has medaled the last four Olympics, losing the GM game to the US in the last three (they'll play for the bronze this year, after losing again to America, this time in a semifinal)
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In another hoops note, every team that shared a pool with the US men's team has a negative point differential for the tourney, save Argentina (+24) - team USA's next opponent.
edit: Nope, they only have 4.
Seems like most of stars from that came to the NBA from those teams came from the what became smaller countries, Sabonis and Marciulionis were from Lithuania and Petrovic and Kukoc from Croatia. Vlade is a Serb, were there any old school Russians who ended up being good NBA players?
I guessed correctly, but for a completely wrong reason, I thought they might gotten a few bronze in 80's because they had a famous star player who was around forever, but the medals go back way further than that.
If only Australia's men were as good as their women, they'd have the inside track at the claim.
edit: Though there is a US former congressman named Dick Swett.
Also sitting 1-2 in the triple jump, with 1 jump to go.
It's REALLY hard to make up 200 points in the 1500m unless someone falls down or gets a cramp.
Suarez needs to make up 218 points. Scoring in the 1500m (like all dec events) is not linear.
Suarez's personal best is 4:16.70 (from 2008, worth 834 points), while his seasonal best is 4:23.26 (789 points).
Hardee's personal best is 4:42.23 (from 2006, worth 666 points), while his seasonal best is 5:06.67 (522 points).
Now, Hardee's 2012 run was the Olympic trials, and he might not have been pushing all that hard (since he had the 2nd spot wrapped up by then).
Lloyd scores a bolt from outside the box to put the US up 2-0 over Japan.
US up 5-2 on Spain in the pool.
Things are looking a lot like Olympicmas.
Would MMA be a viable Olympic sport? It seems to be popular around the world and has used tournament formats successfully in the past. The next Olympics are in Brazil where it is obviously big.
i don't understand that approach
It's too bad. I'd love to see what he could do - although I have no idea how much letting up a few meters short really costs. .05?
I am guessing to annoy me. Which it does every time. And as soon as I can run faster than him ....
4(?) MMA fights to the gold? I can't see it in a 2 week span.
He'll be back. 29 is no age for a sprinter, and Jamaica expects him there.
EDIT: Maybe he'll take a shot at running 400m one of these years. I still would expect him to run 100-200 in Rio.
i am surprised none of you deprived souls isn't posting lecherous comments about the nordic looking ref
And with that, the US ties China in gold.
eta: And with that, the US passes China in gold. And we've got another gold on tap after the final leg of the decathlon.
4:08 WR
4:14 9000p
4:30 Olympic Record.
#### YEAH!
Didn't they used to have tournaments where they would 3-4 times in one night?
Yeah, in the bad old unregulated days.
OK, so where are the rest of the likely golds?
US - Both Basketball, women's 4X100 and 4X400, possibly women's VB. Any others?
China? probably some TKD for sure, maybe boxing.
Men's for sure. The US women are a touch better. SB for US is 41.64, Jamaica is 42.37, behind Trinidad and Ukraine as well. In the 100, Jamaica got 1 and 3, but US got 2, 4, 5. Their top 2 are probably better than the US, but the US is deeper.
Men's 4x400 is possible gold. Women's High jump, too.
Great Britain has done great on their home turf- I hope they take 3rd in total medals to go along with their very, very impressive 25+ gold.
Most sports allow multiple entrants from a country in an event, but do set some sort of limit. Otherwise, the entire start list in ping pong and diving would probably be filled with Chinese.
"They are the dominant force in women's weightlifting, three of the golds are there. Don't mess with a Kazakh woman, she can break you half. The others are in Men's Road Race, Women's Triple Jump and Men's Weightlifting."
They have very quickly become a superpower in weightlifting, men's and women's, by pumping money in, and by in one case, recruiting disgruntled lifters from other countries (Svetlana Podobedova, the 75kgs champion, is Russian, the Kazakhs recruited her to lift for them). In weightlifting, even a little money goes a long way.
"Would MMA be a viable Olympic sport? It seems to be popular around the world and has used tournament formats successfully in the past. The next Olympics are in Brazil where it is obviously big."
Doubt it. It isn't that popular around the world. It is more that is has a cult following around the world, and that cult following tends to be of the same demographic as the BBTF demographic. Also, it is yet another unarmed martial art, when boxing, judo, wrestling, taekwondo are already in.
How do you make a "non-violent" MMA that would be suitable for the Olympics? It seems like the Olympics prefers martial events that are about technical superiority, rather than "winning the fight" -- thus the disparity between Olympic and professional boxing.
It is definitely annoying. I'm a javelin thrower/coach myself, and we work entirely in meters. When someone quotes a distance in feet, I understand it, but I mentally translate it the same way you might do with a foreign language.
Rudisha is god!
How do you make a "non-violent" MMA that would be suitable for the Olympics? It seems like the Olympics prefers martial events that are about technical superiority, rather than "winning the fight" -- thus the disparity between Olympic and professional boxing.
I liked the old days when the fencing was fought with sharps to the death.
Usually doesn't bug me, but yesterday it did. I wanted him to have back to back Golds and back to back ORs in the 1-2. Oh well.
that's because no one ever has to envision 260 feet at one time. But if you say 27 feet instead of 8.23 meters they'll understand the feet.
The WR run was really impressive because he just went out by himself, no lead out at all. The rest were dragged kicking and screaming to those records by Rudisha.
All eight places set the record for that place. It was the perfect race.
I screamed awkwardly at a television in the bar I was at. I ran the 800m in college and that was just insane.
The other medalists were 18 and 17 years old. They will be threats to Rudisha very soon.
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