Spockydog Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 5 minutes ago, Slick Mongoose said: Holy shit what a race. Fair play to the Ausiies, they rode brilliantly. Yeah, what a race. Had me out of my seat and punching the air. I guess Sir Bradley will soon be introduced as Lord Wiggins of Modville. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 2 hours ago, Tywin et al. said: I have found the dumbest Olympic sport: Race Walk You kidding? I watched that for an hour the last go around, fascinated by how strange it was. They issue fucking yellow cards for raising a foot the wrong way for god's sake; how can I not watch? Even though I know the result I am watching my taped Rugby. Just watched GB vs SA and enjoyed the hell out of it. I almost never get Rugby of anykind on my cable package; only shows on some premium channels. I did have an issue with NBC's cameras though; often it tried to get a better shot and I suddenly didn't know which way people were running, sideways or forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 3 hours ago, Tywin et al. said: I have found the dumbest Olympic sport: Race Walk No. That would be Horses Walking Like Idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davrum Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 Update from The Only OLYMPIC MEDALS TABLE That Actually Counts --- http://www.medalspercapita.com/ 1. Slovenia 2. New Zealand 3. Fiji 4. Estonia 5. Australia 6. Hungary 7. Denmark 8. Lithuania 9. Georgia 10. Kosovo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Pepper Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 Why do sprinters slow down before they reach the finish line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davrum Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 38 minutes ago, Dr. Pepper said: Why do sprinters slow down before they reach the finish line? You can blow a hamstring at any second when you're really booking. Also, it's only heats at the moment. Good to save some in the gas tank for the final if you're comfortably in the qualifying spots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkynJay Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 Aus vs Bra in Women's soccer has been a great game but after two extra periods no one has any energy left. It is obvious neither team wants to go to PK but no one has the energy to prevent it. One would expect a slop goal but the damn goal keepers are the only ones still on their A game. Also Ledecky damn near breaks the 800 record by two seconds and almost lapped the eighth place swimmer in the finals. Amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impmk2 Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 9 hours ago, Tywin et al. said: I have found the dumbest Olympic sport: Race Walk Until you realise they're essentially doing a half marathon in less than 1.5hrs. I'd kill to be able to run that fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baitac Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 So this Rican Mama is exploded over the fact that Monica Puig will play for the gold medal in Women's Singles in Tennis. This is a first for us. PicaPower!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 ^^^I love it. You made me curious to read her bio, she's 22 y.o. Loving the pictures i'm seeing of her looking so proud and humble to rep Puerto Rico! i'm on her bandwagon now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andriy Czarchenko Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 8 hours ago, SkynJay said: I did have an issue with NBC's cameras though; often it tried to get a better shot and I suddenly didn't know which way people were running, sideways or forward. I really doubt NBC had any cameras at the rugby stadium. Most of what you see from the olympics is OBS feed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 For NBC Speed fans the Womans 100m finals tommorow night and Mens 100m finals Sunday night. Heres the Womans finals from 2012, Fraser Pryce is competing again in 2016. https://youtu.be/AFi5ueI522E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davrum Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 Update from The Only OLYMPIC MEDALS TABLE That Actually Counts --- http://www.medalspercapita.com/ Medals per Capita 1. New Zealand 2. Slovenia 3. Fiji 4. Hungary 5. Estonia 6. Australia 7. Denmark 8. Lithuania 9. Georgia 10. Kosovo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maltaran Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 16 hours ago, BigFatCoward said: are you for real? you think that was legit? There were 18 PBs in that race, I can't believe all of them were doping. The speculation that the track is actually a bit shorter than it should be is more likely to explain the sheer number of fast times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 Yeah, when one person vastly improves in performance in a short space of time doping is going to be a suspicion (and there are going to be rumours about Ayana, given this is only the second time she's run 10,000m), but when every single person improves by that much you have to suspect environmental factors. I mean, even if all of them are doping it's unlikely that all of them started doing it in exactly the way and at exactly the time to provide such a significant improvement in the short stretch of time to peak, by this much, right now. I mean, Ayana ran the second half of that race 10 seconds faster than the world record in the actual 5,000m. Surely if it was just down to doping she'd have set a better mark than that when running that event which till now has been her specialty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baxus Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 Men's rowing single final A has been THE closest rowing race I've ever seen. At first, dead heat between Mahe Drysdale from New Zealand and Damir Martin from Croatia was announced, only for Drysdale to get the gold after photo finish. It was a matter of fractions of an inch. I'm glad that Drysdale won it, being such a legend of the sport, but feel sorry for Martin for missing it by that close a margin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 that was awesome, until the point when they had to pick a winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 good hour for team GB, Gold and Silver in the 8's. womens team pursuit breaks the world record in the semi's, about 5 mins after the US team had broken theirs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baxus Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 It's nice to see Britain's men's eight win the Olympic gold after they risked silver medal to win gold and ended with bronze in London four years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Pepper Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 I'm surprised there isn't much speculation in the news about Katie Ledecky. The woman regularly wins by tens of seconds, she shaves seconds off world records. It's great watching her, but sure do hope her pee is rigorously tested and tested again and kept on stock to test and test again in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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