Did they really put HRMs on parents watching?
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Did they really put HRMs on parents watching?
Watched mens gymnastic team finals. They showed all the USA routines and scattered routines from other teams with a heavy emphasis on falls and other screw ups, esp by Japan and China, giving the impression that the US was killing them. The Chinese and Japanese routines were on average harder enough than the US that they could afford to screw up and still beat the US, which was ecstatic to get bronze. (What do you call a bronze medalist? Loser.) I get the impression that after adding up the degree of difficulty of all the routines the experts have a pretty good idea within a place or two the final standings before the first routine. Nice to see Japan beat China.
It helps to watch with my gymnast/coach/judge wife doing commentary.
Watching futbol (Spain vs Egypt) ad there are no announcers.
And I think I prefer it to all the inane chatter. :D
I'm seeing stories about some of the swimmers testing positive for COVID. Just a few now, but you know it's going to get worse. All those athletes in close proximity at the competition and in the Athletes' Village. This could get bad. I hope people start masking up!
Definitely liked the no-announcer match.Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
Now watching the USA/GUI match - nice free kick by Mihailovic.
Openly satanic sports ceremony.
Interdasting
France doesn’t owe you anything. Vibes.Quote:
Originally Posted by sb
Good God sb is such a complete and utter moran. And I've got him on ignore. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bennymac
Another viewing option is CBC's Gem app. I have yet to try it. Not sure if it is only accessible in Canada though, but that won't be an issue for the vpn users.
NBC is unwatchable to me. I love ya Snoop but you'd think USA is the only country competing watching their coverage.
Man I love the Olympics.
Just saying it.
Also, US Women’s gymnastics team is next level.
Track and Field is coming up... Looking forward to some WRs, hopefully the women's 800 finally gets broken.
And I'll point out the obvious, track and field athletes are the most beautiful human beings on the planet. It's just ridiculous.
Who else loves handball? It was fun to play in school back in Ukraine.
Can't argue with that. And I said it three years ago, I'll say it again - any one of these women rugby player could absolutely kick my ass.Quote:
Originally Posted by plugboots
Ya, I wish people wouldn't quote him.Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
The two men's basketball games I watched yesterday sounded like they were being announced by the local public access channel. It was awful.Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
Surfing third round was fun in double overhead teahupoo.
Germany even sucks in the medal rating these days( wirst ever apparently?). Is there anything we're not bad at? [emoji3]
I love finding myself getting dialed into sports that I don't normally see or even fully understand. The table tennis, MTB, 3 x 3 basketball and rugby have been highly entertaining.
Rugby 7’s is incredible, that’s a new one for me.
Table tennis is excellent.. Watching a Swedish kid beat the number 1 rated player was wonderful.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
It’s going to be a great series of Finals for T&F; lots of good storylines and potential WR outcomes. Stoked!Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
Well apparently they were the only ones in the tournament. At least that was the impression I got. With a couple of guest appearances by Brazil and Italy so we could see people falling.Quote:
Originally Posted by plugboots
Unbelievable conditions. Also, in 20 years of watching big wave surfing I've always heard it pronounced Cho-poo, to the point of even abbreviating it to Chopes, but all the NBC talking heads are pronouncing it like it's spelled.Quote:
Originally Posted by subtle plague
I don't watch surfing outside of what I see on TGR's socials and even I thought "Cho-poo" is how its pronounced. Did a double take when I heard NBC saying otherwise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
As far as I know Polynesian is fairly similar to German in pronouncing the Letters so I think nbc should be correct. An a is an ah not ae and so forth. An o is oh and not like the oo in too.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
I don't think the wsl hat cares much about pronounciation.
I think teh-ah-hoo-poh-oh (to roughly translate that into freedom language) is correct.
So you're saying a bunch of stoner surfers have been pronouncing it wrong all these years!?
Have you ever skied a couloir? Ya know, a "cooler".
Just make em all watch this video. (They should have already.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaYDIL-NzL8
Speaking of surfing, an amazing still was posted earlier, but for those who haven't seen it this ride and finish was pretty amazing...
https://youtu.be/YjSF14cgSU8?si=K_xHbax6aGB1KDgG&t=208
Going forward...
After his agonizing victory a few days ago in the XCO event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, reaffirming the gold medal he won in Tokyo, Tom Pidcock is already focused again to face the road race event that will take place next Saturday, August 3rd, where he is positioned as one of the top contenders for the win.
https://en.brujulabike.com/pidcock-r...r-olympic-gold
Any gymnastics experts here? I've noticed that most of the female competitors (or the top ones, anyway) do vaults where they enter from a round-off onto the vault, but I've yet to see one of the males do that. They all seem to spring directly onto the vault.
Upper body strength and higher horse?Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
I think some floor exercise specialist male gymnasts sometimes do Yurchenko/round off type vaults?
and the women’s stronger lower body.Quote:
Originally Posted by PNWbrit
That’s how I understand it.
Okay, that makes some sense.
D White is still my favorite basketball player.
So…45 years ago I was a college gymnast. Back then it was a deduction if you hit the horse low, meaning you had to pre jump and get your heels up before touching and pushing off. Anyway, I just say this because the rules subtly change almost constantly and the points/valuation change almost constantly, so it’s hard to keep up.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
It certainly wouldn't surprise me if part of the reason women are doing certain vaults is because Simone Biles started doing them and everyone else followed, but I don't know enough about the history of the event to know if that's true.
Handball is for wimps. Dodge ball needs to be an Olympic sport. Just remember the 5 D's of dodge ball, "Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge."Quote:
Originally Posted by Lvovsky
I feel like dodgeball has more of a place in the Olys than breakdancing. Since when is dancing a sport? It also seems like all the newer sports that have been included are judged sports.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toadman
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Originally Posted by Toadman
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Do they have Ice Dancing still in the Winger Games?Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Agreed, olympic level dodgeball sounds like an outstanding addition to the games. Maybe a dual sport combo w piss drinkin
As far as I know Winger doesn't have a games yet, but they were pretty awesome :)Quote:
Originally Posted by mcski
Showin' your age, there, Gramps. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Im late to the comments sections but -
I love Snoop, but when did he become our country’s mascot?
The “prime time in Paris” is unbearable. So many commercials. I’ve been loving fubotv, watch any event for a few days after it happens.
Mens mountain biking was amazing, bmx freestyle was fun to watch. Lebron is a beast. The Olympics are awesome