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Tell that to the friends and family of two American servicemen.
Don't they still have to fight for the bronzes? There's not just 'two losing semifinalists get bronze', there's a whole system of extra matches and two bronze medal fights.
(At least in judo.)
Also, based on what I'm seeing in my twitter feed, the US Men's Gymnastics team that was supposed to be the Greatest American Men's Gymnastics Team of All Time... isn't. At least, not on this day.
Or more correctly, the contact rules in soccer were once more relaxed, and it did kinda turn into a blood sport, with skilled players being kicked into retirement, by being kicked repeatedly in the knees and ankles, with goalkeepers notoriously clotheslining opposing forwards.
Gaah. Stupid MSNBC showing women's basketball instead of fencing.
BTW: Men's Saber was unwatchable. There was zero defense, just two guys lunging at each other every 1.5 seconds and both screaming and fist pumping after each clash.
the wizardry of the 21st century is a bit unsettling at times
that is a serious comment
OTOH, at least USA Basketball wouldn't have to adapt to the rule that you can take three steps after you stop dribbling.
How you can have THREE touches without a second running off is mind boggling. The first double touch that came at 1 second, ok. But the second? It's like they never started the clock. Then they let it run down during the halt, so the ref put the whole second back on.
GET A CLOCK WITH TENTHS AND HUNDREDS! ITS THE FREAKING OLYMPICS!
Also, I read somewhere (Might have been The Classical) that the star of the US Women's Team Handball team is basically a former volleyball and softball player who only picked up the sport after softball was dropped from the Olympics and she didn't make the volleyball team.
For the olympics. For the sport of fencing. Complete and utter ###########. This would be embarrassing if it happened at a Y12 in Busckport, ME.
That is really stupid, and explains why the Korean was fencing so defensively. And not having a clock with hundredths of a second is also really stupid. Which is too bad, because I'm finding epee to be only slightly less awesome than foil. Like dueling with deathwands.
Yeah, the precision of epee fencing can be fun. It's gotten better since they instituted rules to prevent noncombativity (bouts going all three rounds and ending 3-2 were not unusual). Also there are no weird right of way rules for the uninitiated.
But this is horrible.
"Second things first Yes, this has 'major incident' written ALL over it.
Basically, as time is running down in the extra minute (Shin has priority), there's a series of doubles, One with one second left on the clock. Referee resets fencers engarde too close together, tries to fix it, Heidemann takes a step forward, repeat several times...
One second on the clock:
Engarde, Pret, Allez...
Hediemann advance-fleche, double touch.
Still :01 on the clock.
Repeat above...
This time it sounded like the clock didn't start at all.
After the halt, time keeper starts clock, time expires...
Referee puts a full second back on the clock (since that's all you can do with these boxes (pretty much any fencing box)), Korean coach protests...
Engarde-ready-fence:
Touch for Hediemann...
Cue Koreans flipping out....
And that's where we're at."
the other fencer was from where?
HW: Germany
In normal play, field hockey seems like a faster paced soccer with less control of the ball. I can't believe they have to hunch for the ball and can only use one side of the stick. I also can't imagine blocking a shot with your body.
thanks. i was just curious.
some Swiss athlete just got dumped for a racist tweet
so scoreboard for Olympics expulsion so far is:
Steroids: 2
Twitter: 2
And then there's this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ima_Hogg
Shooting at a live target might be a smidgen controversial though.
Back at the Paris 1900 Olympics, they had a live pigeon shooting event. Here's one mention:
http://www.whqr.org/post/live-pigeon-shooting-and-other-odd-olympic-games
The winning fencer was German.
Boxing has been surprisingly interesting -- maybe it's just me, but have found Teddy Atlas's commentary very interesting and informative. That's one nasty scar on the side of his face, though.
I jumped back in the feed, nearly an hour, to the end of the match. 3 restarts in :01, and then the judge still felt the need to add another :01 back. I know next to nothing about fencing, but it seems the Korean fencer was screwed big time.
edit: Rather, all South Koreans that I've gotten into political arguments with. Not all South Koreans.
they are obviously making better $$$ playing beach volleyball, than indoor but Walsh probably wouldn't make this year's roster IMO, even if she would definitely be a servicable OH on the team, though at 34, not nearly as durable (she's had shoulder surgery) as the younger folks on the team. No insult to Walsh, just don't think she'd could take the grind of indoor at this age with that many swings on her. In her hay day, she was every bit as talented as Destinee Hooker, Logan Tom and Jordan Larson. The US team is really good this year.
Misty May, doubt it, as I can't remember the last time she played indoor (1999?) (she didn't like the grind) and she's had a couple surgeries, including achilles after the Dancing with the Stars app., she's 35, nah, though she'd still be good enough to play Setter for some of these other countries. I'm not dogging her, she was an awesome player at LBSU (NCAA POY) in the mid late 90s though.
I mean, they aren't all Sylwia Gruchala, but definitely easy on the eyes, most of them.
http://www.gdanskfencing.com/img/zawodnicy/2_1114631637.jpg
http://bi.gazeta.pl/im/6/5193/z5193776X.jpg
Fixed.
I dunno, for whatever reason a lot of men don't like tall women, so maybe you'd still have a chance. I'm with you, though.
In my experience, tall women don't like dating shorter men, either.
Could someone provide a link to do this? I don't have cable TV, so I can't access the site normally. I looked at the NBC site to try to find where to get the four hour pass, but I couldn't find it.
But there's a huge distinction between "good enough to be on the US team" and "medal-worthy", at least in that sport. Heck, right now there's a huge distinction between the former and "good enough to qualify for the Olympics". If you can qualify by winning the Pan Am Games, but your team goes 0-5, losing a match to the eventual qualifier (Brazil) by a score of 50-10, you have a long way to go.
If you're doing it right, volleyball is not a contact sport. Basketball players should be expected to be more muscular.
I mean, China does have a rather ugly history as far as doping and other bendings of the Olympic rules, and the state-run program of the Chinese isn't that different from the USSR and East German programs that, lord knows, kept up with and often surpassed our free-market doping. And the jump in her numbers are rather striking.
But on the other hand... she's just 16! It's not like she's been swimming for years and then suddenly at the age of 25 became a world-beater. It's entirely possible she went through a spurt. And it also isn't like she has come out of completely nowhere- SI had her projected as winning silver in the 200 IM....
cross country tests bravery
jumping tests stamina/strength
Okay, the Ye Shiwen doping questions. Is this just us Americans/Westerners being sour grapes, or might it really be something.
I mean, China does have a rather ugly history as far as doping and other bendings of the Olympic rules, and the state-run program of the Chinese isn't that different from the USSR and East German programs that, lord knows, kept up with and often surpassed our free-market doping. And the jump in her numbers are rather striking.
But on the other hand... she's just 16! It's not like she's been swimming for years and then suddenly at the age of 25 became a world-beater. It's entirely possible she went through a spurt. And it also isn't like she has come out of completely nowhere- SI had her projected as winning silver in the 200 IM....
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China, East Germany, the USSR / Russia, are not some amorphous blob. The USSR / Russia (some of the sports scientists, coaches) actually viewed the East Germans with disdain, even contempt. Just because the programs are overtly state supported and run does not mean that they are all the same.
For one, China, (like the USSR / Russia in the past), is succeeding in a wide variety of sports, men and women, from weightlifting to gymnastics to diving to ping pong to shooting to even synchronised swimming. If they are engaging in systematic doping, that means they have discovered a whole passel of undetectable performance enhancing substances, or a whole variety of techniques to evade detection.
What is far more likely, especially based on people who have seen their various sporting programs, including Chinese coaches who have left and are working in other countries, is that they have a rational and systemic method of sports development (and in the sport I am most familiar with, and follow most closely, weightlifting, they have a very rational system of development, with national and provincial training centres), backed up by government money, in a society with a very large population, where even with all the economic growth over the last 20 years, the funding provided by the government is a big incentive for a young athlete as a way out of poverty.
Russia is no longer all that succesful because the money has been reduced significantly, the system has fallen into (somewhat) disrepair.
Ye Shi Wen might be doping. But, it is unlikely that the entire Chinese swimming program, or even worse, the entire Chinese sports program is doping.
Cricufixion?
Good.
This has been done before with limited resources by BALCO.
The nice thing with state-sponsored doping is that you get the synergistic effects from running both doping and anti-doping labs.
The nice thing with state-sponsored doping is that you get the synergistic effects from running both doping and anti-doping labs."
No it hasn't. What BALCO did is absolutely nothing compared to what would need to be done for dope to win in the wide variety of sports that the Chinese are winning in. It would mean that in at least certain aspects of sports physiology, and biochemistry, the Chinese are WAYYYYYY ahead of the rest of the world.
as was also done in the fencing appeal.
She doesn't look that freakish to me.
I did like the headline in this post, which I came across while googling her.
Edit: For the sake of comparison, here are some East German swimmers.
It's as if they want to make it look shady.
Race Imboden, USA's best foilist in 50 years, is shredding the crap out of some hapless Brazilian in the round of 32.
If Race wins (not really in doubt at this point, up 11-4) he will face former world champ Andrea Baldini of Italy in the round of 16. Tough draw, but he can do it!
Note on Baldini: he was suspended from Athens for testing positive in a drug test. I think he was later cleared.
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