Olympics

Meltdown99 said:

Jesus Christ...fuck they even have rock climbing...lol.  What next hiking?  

You would think Canadians might excel at rock climbing...but we likely suck at that.  

Is bowling being added soon?

lastexitlondon said:

Golf is harder than many that are stall warts. I say golf yes 

JOEJOEJOE said:

I wonder if the rest of the world jokes about the fact that the U.S. doesn't really excel in the Olympic shooting events?

lastexitlondon said:

tempo_n_groove said:

lastexitlondon said:

Golf is harder than many that are stall warts. I say golf yes 

My reason for no on Golf is that we have a competition every week sometimes 2 of them.  There is no need for it.

Basketball  soccer the  same though  . Many sports play  weekly 

tempo_n_groove said:

So yesterdays Olympics watching.  I don't do the news so I won't ruin it when I watch.

We are going to have a stacked final in the mens 200m.  We have 4 finalists.  One of them (Lyles)let up really early and almost got passed by 2 others.  He almost shot himself in the foot. He ended up tied with them.  Crazy.

Womens 800m was a fantastic race!  Athing Mu the 19yo will hopefully be around for a while. She went hot and won the gold.  Another teenager, Hodgkinson from Britain won Silver and Rodgers outkicked the rest of the field for Bronze.  The two teens will be rivals for years.  Should be fun to watch in the future.

Womens 400m hurdles was great too, Sydney McClaughlin took gold and broke the world record, hers.  She is an amazing runner and I have someone else to root for since Lolo Jones and FloJo.  Dalila Muhammad took silver but there was this girl that came from behind w a serious acceleration that really made me notice, Femke Bol.  As impressive as Sydney was, Bol was amazing to watch come out of nowhere.

Gymnastics Biles got a bronze, good for her.  To hear her cheering for other competitors was nice too, even if they were from China.  That is what the Olympic spirit is supposed to be though right? Guan and Tang from China took silver and gold.

Mens Horizontal Bars.  Tokyo's Kitazono fell off the bars a few times.  Got back up with a smile and finished the competition.  His country is hopefully proud of him because he got right back up. Silver was Srbic and bronze was Nagorny from ROC.  Russians weren't allowed to compete this year under their flag because of all the doping they got caught doing so they are under Russian Olympic Committees colors. American Brody Malone got the "worst finish an athlete can get" as stated by the pompous announcers NBC seems to have.  Nothing is good enough for these people "that's a deduction, that's a tenth".  They remind me of that "Aunt" Geico commercial.  Expired, expired, expired...  Anywho.  Gold.  Tokyos Hashimoto.  He was a pleasure to watch in any event.  Congrats on the gold.  The horizontal bar had me more amazed than the uneven.  What these men did was spectacular.

Yeah.  I geek out watching.  No updates on the diving.  Sorry.  Not really my thing.

Meltdown99 said:

Have they added tubing down a lazy river?  

F Me In The Brain said:

tempo_n_groove said:

So yesterdays Olympics watching.  I don't do the news so I won't ruin it when I watch.

We are going to have a stacked final in the mens 200m.  We have 4 finalists.  One of them (Lyles)let up really early and almost got passed by 2 others.  He almost shot himself in the foot. He ended up tied with them.  Crazy.

Womens 800m was a fantastic race!  Athing Mu the 19yo will hopefully be around for a while. She went hot and won the gold.  Another teenager, Hodgkinson from Britain won Silver and Rodgers outkicked the rest of the field for Bronze.  The two teens will be rivals for years.  Should be fun to watch in the future.

Womens 400m hurdles was great too, Sydney McClaughlin took gold and broke the world record, hers.  She is an amazing runner and I have someone else to root for since Lolo Jones and FloJo.  Dalila Muhammad took silver but there was this girl that came from behind w a serious acceleration that really made me notice, Femke Bol.  As impressive as Sydney was, Bol was amazing to watch come out of nowhere.

Gymnastics Biles got a bronze, good for her.  To hear her cheering for other competitors was nice too, even if they were from China.  That is what the Olympic spirit is supposed to be though right? Guan and Tang from China took silver and gold.

Mens Horizontal Bars.  Tokyo's Kitazono fell off the bars a few times.  Got back up with a smile and finished the competition.  His country is hopefully proud of him because he got right back up. Silver was Srbic and bronze was Nagorny from ROC.  Russians weren't allowed to compete this year under their flag because of all the doping they got caught doing so they are under Russian Olympic Committees colors. American Brody Malone got the "worst finish an athlete can get" as stated by the pompous announcers NBC seems to have.  Nothing is good enough for these people "that's a deduction, that's a tenth".  They remind me of that "Aunt" Geico commercial.  Expired, expired, expired...  Anywho.  Gold.  Tokyos Hashimoto.  He was a pleasure to watch in any event.  Congrats on the gold.  The horizontal bar had me more amazed than the uneven.  What these men did was spectacular.

Yeah.  I geek out watching.  No updates on the diving.  Sorry.  Not really my thing.

I was interested to see if Mu would smash the final, as well.  Cool that she did.  Love her style of just going as hard as she can.

Track would be boring if it were on all of the time, to me, but I dig it at the Olys.  I know some spots follow it every year...

We caught some diving on Sunday.  The Chinese women were so much better than everyone else....and someone who knows next to nothing about diving (me) could see that.  Pretty crazy to see how ridiculously graceful they looked.

Watched none yesterday...sounds like they had lots of good action.

Meltdown99 said:

Have they added tubing down a lazy river?