I just came here to say the 100m dash was one of the best finishes to a race I’ve ever seen - wild!
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If you looked at either of those guys and are trying to say their girls, I have a bridge to sell you.
Germany pulls out of mixed triathlon after girl swims in the River and gets sick.
I don't know if I'm the only one, but seeing these medal winners (even in sports I don't care about) brings tears of joy to my eyes. I guess it's my patriotism for my country. It's nice to come together for a change and support our country while they compete against the world.
The 100m was insane. Dude was in last place at 40m but kept accelerating while everyone else decelerated. He had the worst start of everyone. I thought he came up short and would have easily won if it were 110m. The photo finish results surprised me.
I also really enjoyed seeing that cyclist just blow everyone away at the end. Looks like she could have went for many more miles without slowing down. She didn't even make the team, but the one who did gave her the spot. Glad she did.
The women in the swimming relay destroyed the competition. They knew they were winning and just wanted to see by how much they could. Blew the world record away.
The men unfortunately came up short of the gold in their relay. The announcer sounded like he was trying to make excuses for them citing some cheating by China recently.
The women are definitely outperforming the men in the Olympics so far. Think the men might get things going this week.
The 100m was insane. Dude was in last place at 40m but kept accelerating while everyone else decelerated. He had the worst start of everyone. I thought he came up short and would have easily won if it were 110m. The photo finish results surprised me.
I also really enjoyed seeing that cyclist just blow everyone away at the end. Looks like she could have went for many more miles without slowing down. She didn't even make the team, but the one who did gave her the spot. Glad she did.
The women in the swimming relay destroyed the competition. They knew they were winning and just wanted to see by how much they could. Blew the world record away.
The men unfortunately came up short of the gold in their relay. The announcer sounded like he was trying to make excuses for them citing some cheating by China recently.
The women are definitely outperforming the men in the Olympics so far. Think the men might get things going this week.
Not like the U.S. hasn’t lobbied for extreme sports, flag football and breakdancing to be included in hopes of padding the medal count.
-maybe flag football... but Asian countries will crush breakdancing.
-the chinese have a system set up and it works... same as it was with the ussr.
^the the Australian government has an entire centralized "school" system set up for promising athletes. Similar things exist elsewhere.
-what is telling to me is that international athletes in: track and field/swimming/tennis/golf et al come to the US to train/go to school/earn money/enjoy US tax policy... then compete under their birth flag.
^nothing wrong with that. UK T&F and Tennis have benefitted from the system. It just reinforces the *fact* the the USA is the gold standard of athletic performance.
-the chinese have a system set up and it works... same as it was with the ussr.
^the the Australian government has an entire centralized "school" system set up for promising athletes. Similar things exist elsewhere.
-what is telling to me is that international athletes in: track and field/swimming/tennis/golf et al come to the US to train/go to school/earn money/enjoy US tax policy... then compete under their birth flag.
^nothing wrong with that. UK T&F and Tennis have benefitted from the system. It just reinforces the *fact* the the USA is the gold standard of athletic performance.
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Super exciting race with the top 4 separated by only 3 hundredths of a second. Wow! But the time of 9.79 isn't anything special. It'll probably be many more years before any sprinter approaches Usain Bolt's 9.58.
Some random thoughts:
1. The 4 person kayak racing is awesome.
2. Badminton is amazing to watch also. Such a fen event.
3. The sport that the US is good in that surprises me the most is fencing.
4. A good trivia question to get people with. In it's history, the top 2 sports that the US has their most medals in is track and field and swimming. What is the next sport they have the most medals in? Shooting
1. The 4 person kayak racing is awesome.
2. Badminton is amazing to watch also. Such a fen event.
3. The sport that the US is good in that surprises me the most is fencing.
4. A good trivia question to get people with. In it's history, the top 2 sports that the US has their most medals in is track and field and swimming. What is the next sport they have the most medals in? Shooting
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Watching Finke’s coach pull his hat down and ball was really moving for me. Loved see the Netherlands reaction as they won the mixed relay. Seeing athletes who don’t win seem genuinely moved for those who do is really special, as well.
Oh, and mothers and fathers in the stands. Joy!
Bolt, in his prime, on the Paris track may have beaten his WR.
They said the American was the fastest man, but that depends on if you are his nose or his toes. If the latter, the Jamaican may be a nail faster.
There are 35 swimming events. That's a freakin lot!
And there are 48 track and field events (granted a lot more variety, like the 100m is very different than the shotput).
And there are 14 gymnastics events (I would have guessed more, but I guess they just show all 14).
So, I would answer swimming, just assuming swimming has been in the Olympics for a long time too with a lot of events.
One of my younger cousins is into fencing and I've gone to a few of her meets. I was shocked at how big it is. Massive field house with probably 50 different areas (no clue what a fencing "field" would be called) for matches and they were almost always full. Very well organized, tons of different age groups and classes and the kids came from all over the northeast. A lot of the kids had former Olympians as their coaches and it was pretty obvious there was a lot of money in it.
It kind of blows my mind that Florence Griffith Joyner and Jackie Joyner Kersee still have track records from 1988
Finke broke a record that stood since 1998, I think they said. Being the fastest ain’t easy (so it appears).
Sorry, I meant track and field and swimming, not gymnastics. Here are gold medals in US history:
Track and field - 346
Swimming - 266
Shooting - 58
Wrestling - 57
Gymnastics has 43
I have no idea what they imagined would happen. I wouldn't even swim at Boonesboro. Rivers are horrible. Urban rivers are unimaginable.
The most horrible/fantastic sports of recent years are the terribly risky sports like snowboarding, parkour, skateboarding, and the like. If there were competitive parkour our cities would be turned into Spiderman sets with people jumping around buildings like confetti at a parade. But those are the kinds sports that kids play spontaneously these days.
Valerie Allman = my heroine today. She won another Gold medal in women's discus.
