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The Library => Haley Center Basement => Topic started by: AU_Tiger_2000 on July 27, 2012, 12:37:04 PM
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I love the Olympics. Winter or summer, it doesn't really matter to me. I think part of that is that other than college football I get bored with the big three sports in the US. I'll even watch some of the World Cup when it rolls around. But I think what I really love are some of the stories that always come about (and I'm not talking about the schmaltzy crap that the networks show about how some gymnast is competing for her dead great grandmother). I mean the real feuding country stuff. Israel vs Iran in wrestling, USA vs USSR in basketball, East Germany vs USSR in who can mule the most drugs. Also the underdog stories of kids who went out with nothing but a pair of homemade running shoes and ended up with Olympic gold.
An example of what I'm talking about is in this great story from 1936 about the rowing competition.
http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/fivering_circus/2012/07/_1936_olympics_rowing_the_greatest_underdog_nazi_defeating_american_olympic_victory_you_ve_never_heard_of_.html
I'll just post some excerpts, cause it is pretty long.
Sportswriter Grantland Rice called it the "high spot" of the 1936 Olympics. Bill Henry, who called the race for CBS, said it was "the outstanding victory of the Olympic Games." The event they’re describing wasn’t staged in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, and it had nothing to do with Jesse Owens. It took place in the suburb of Grunau, when a group of college kids from the United States took on Germany and Italy in front of Hitler and 75,000 fans screaming for the Third Reich.
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On the morning of Aug. 14, many people in Seattle woke up excited to catch the regatta’s final event live on CBS. Those listeners had a vested interest in the race. The United States team, a crew from the University of Washington, came very close to missing the trip to Berlin. Immediately following the Huskies’ victory in the Olympic trials, the team was informed by the U.S. Olympic Committee that it needed to come up with $5,000 to pay its way to Berlin. Seeing an opening, Henry Penn Burke—chairman of the Olympic Rowing Committee and a University of Pennsylvania alum—offered to send his beloved Quakers in place of the Huskies. The sports editors of Seattle's top two newspapers, outraged on behalf of the local heroes, enlisted newsboys to solicit donations while hawking papers. With American Legion posts and Chambers of Commerce throughout the state chipping in, enough money was collected in three days to send the team to Berlin. As a consequence of the funding drive, remembered Gordon Adam, who rowed in the three-seat, "people in the city felt that they were stockholders in the operation."
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Unlike its competition from the Ivy League, the Washington crew was composed of kids from working- and middle-class families. Rowing, then as now, was considered an elite sport. The 1924 Yale crew that won the gold medal in Paris, for instance, featured both a Rockefeller and Benjamin Spock (yes, Dr. Spock). But the Husky rowers could barely afford lunch, much less a trip to Berlin. Several paid their college tuition and living expenses from money earned through the National Youth Administration, a New Deal organization. "We used to sweep out the pavilion that was used for basketball and other events, we did the football field, we sold tickets, we ushered," McMillin remembered. His teammate Gordon Adam worked as a janitor’s assistant, washing windows and scrubbing floors for $15 a month.
Despite third-class accommodations, the crew enjoyed themselves on the passage to Europe. But Don Hume and John White caught colds on the boat, and others felt seasick. When the Manhattan arrived in Hamburg, the team was relieved to be back on land. But gray fog encased Berlin throughout the Olympics, with rain and an unseasonable cold spell chilling and dampening the massive Köpenick police barracks where the team was bunking. A particularly brutal qualifying race, in which the Huskies set the Olympic record while narrowly edging out a strong British eight, only exacerbated Hume's illness. He passed out at the finish line, only to revive when Moch splashed cold water on him. The victory, however, allowed the Huskies to rest while other boats fought through additional qualifying races.
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As the German crew powered toward the finish line, the crowd chanted “Deutsch-land! Deutsch-land!†in time with each stroke. The noise swelled, and the rowers sensed the finish line closing in. The Americans had to make their move. Moch, the coxswain, stared at Hume's face. With about 800 meters remaining his eyes opened and he began rowing with authority. Responding to Hume's emerging strength, the boat's stroke rating rose.
High above the grandstand at the finish line, CBS' Bill Henry watched the final sprint unfold:
It looks as though the United States [is] beginning to pour it on now! The Washington crew is driving hard on the outside of the course, they are coming very close now to getting into the lead! They have about 500 meters to go, perhaps a little less than 500 meters, and there is no question in the world that Washington has made up a tremendous amount of distance. … They have moved up definitely into third place. Italy is still leading, Germany is second, and Washington—the United States—has come up very rapidly on the outside. They are crowding up to the finish now with less than a quarter of a mile to go!
Click on the player below to listen to Henry’s call:
The resolve built from countless hours of practice kicked in. Within 300 meters, the Huskies pulled even with the tiring Germans and Italians. A supposed transcript of the German radio call, as published in a post-Olympic program, captures the excitement: “Still Italy! Then Germany! Now England! Ah, the Americans—their powerful spurts are irresistible! Their oars rip massively through the water!â€
The crowd's roar became deafening as the three boats matched each other stroke for stroke. As they crossed the line together, the rowers couldn’t tell who had won. The men in all three boats recoiled or collapsed in exhaustion as the crowd quieted down to await the results. “Nobody said a word," Moch remembered.
After an interminable wait, the announcement came over the loudspeaker: USA 6:25.4, Italy 6:26.0, Germany 6:26.4. After almost six-and-a-half minutes of racing, just one second separated the three boats.
Anybody else gonna be watching?
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Ready to see Lebron and Team USA tear up some ass.
Ready to see Lochte and Phelps embarass the rest of the world while battling for first.
Usain Bolt - no further explanation needed. He is fun to watch.
Galen Rupp - do we finally have a kid that can beat the Kenyans in long distance running? We'll see.
Damn right Im ready for the summer games!
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I'll be watching. Something special about Olympic games and the coverage. How cool would it be to be an athlete on the U.S. Olympic team in any sport?
And 2000, I'm the same way with World Cup. I don't follow soccer and couldn't name 3 current players in the world today. But it's hard not to get caught up in something like that with fans that passionate about it. Going to a World Cup match is on my bucket list of sporting events.
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I'll be watching. Something special about Olympic games and the coverage. How cool would it be to be an athlete on the U.S. Olympic team in any sport?
And 2000, I'm the same way with World Cup. I don't follow soccer and couldn't name 3 current players in the world today. But it's hard not to get caught up in something like that with fans that passionate about it. Going to a World Cup match is on my bucket list of sporting events.
I understand the int'l appeal of the World Cup and won't argue that it's a big deal but there is nothing in the same league as the Olympics. What's it like, 2 weeks of coverage all day every day? Geez. I'm ready. Opening ceremonies tonight!
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I understand the int'l appeal of the World Cup and won't argue that it's a big deal but there is nothing in the same league as the Olympics. What's it like, 2 weeks of coverage all day every day? Geez. I'm ready. Opening ceremonies tonight!
Agreed. I don't watch a ton of it by any means. Sometimes, if I'm flipping channels, I may watch a few minutes of soccer because what those guys do is pretty amazing if you've ever tried to play a little of the sport. But World Cup, I'll actually watch a match or two and keep up with the standings.
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I'll be watching. Something special about Olympic games and the coverage. How cool would it be to be an athlete on the U.S. Olympic team in any sport?
And 2000, I'm the same way with World Cup. I don't follow soccer and couldn't name 3 current players in the world today. But it's hard not to get caught up in something like that with fans that passionate about it. Going to a World Cup match is on my bucket list of sporting events.
Figure you to use this. :haha:
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Figure you to use this. :haha:
Everyone's a winner.
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Everyone's a winner.
Old school: Good job :thumsup:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GkwIRbLw8
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Are there more than the normal hot womenz in this years Olympics or is it just me?
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Agreed. I don't watch a ton of it by any means. Sometimes, if I'm flipping channels, I may watch a few minutes of soccer because what those guys do is pretty amazing if you've ever tried to play a little of the sport. But World Cup, I'll actually watch a match or two and keep up with the standings.
I got hooked on World Cup in '02. The games would be coming on (Live from Japan) while I'm getting dressed in the morning with ESPN on as background noise. Next thing I know I'm sitting on the couch half dressed an hour late for work because I'm waiting for the injury time to run out.
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So thoughts on the opening ceremony?
Parts of it were good. Some parts I couldn't stop laughing at the absurdity.
I mean, since when does Mary Poppins have the power to defeat the darkest wizard of our era?
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So thoughts on the opening ceremony?
Parts of it were good. Some parts I couldn't stop laughing at the absurdity.
I mean, since when does Mary Poppins have the power to defeat the darkest wizard of our era?
It actually scared my kids, no shit.
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So thoughts on the opening ceremony?
Parts of it were good. Some parts I couldn't stop laughing at the absurdity.
I mean, since when does Mary Poppins have the power to defeat the darkest wizard of our era?
I enjoyed the parts out national health care.
I did like the bond part thought that was funny.
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It actually scared my kids, no shit.
The gigantic baby was extremely creepy.
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I wonder who will win this event:
What Goes On Behind Closed Doors After the Events Are Over
by Henry Krempels Jul 20, 2012 4:45 AM EDT
10,000 athletes, 150,000 condoms … Henry Krempels does the math so you don’t have to.
On Monday, London’s Olympic Village opened its 2,818 apartments to the best athletes on the planet. For the next four weeks, the village will house an array of personalities, ages, and cultures—all in peak condition and many focusing on a very precise and demanding form of physical activity: sex.
“It’s the most testosterone-fuelled place on earth,†said Russell Mark, a gold-medal–winning Australian target shooter, speaking from his shared room in the village. “People are releasing their frustrations at the end of their event, and so generally that’s when a lot of this takes place. Once your event’s over, you let your hair down.â€
Mark, a six-time Olympian and no stranger to village life, admitted that inter-athlete relationships—however fleeting—are an ever-increasing occurrence. Olympic officials seem to agree, in actions if not in words. At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, the Australian organizing committee distributed 45,000 free condoms in the village. Eight years later in Beijing, 70,000 condoms—labeled with the phrase ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’—were exhausted and 20,000 more were ordered. This year in London, the Olympic organizing committee is providing 150,000, using special dispensers which contain a message promoting sexual health. Averaged among 10,490 athletes, that’s enough condoms for every athlete to have sex 15 times over the Olympics’ three weeks—double that if, as some claim, they’re all having sex with each other.
“Sex is obviously getting more popular there, or more people are practicing safe sex. One or the other,†Mark said.
Conditions would seem to be ideal for sex in London: The village is smaller than Beijing’s, which itself was smaller than that in Athens in 2004. There are 16,000 single beds, and each apartment accommodates four, six, or eight athletes. There is a gym, an arcade, beer halls and a 24-hour McDonald’s. In short, opportunities to connect will be rife.
But not everyone is having an easy time of it. Mark himself would like to have sex with one of his teammates—skeet shooter Lauren Mark, who is also his wife. But the two have not been allowed to share a bed on the grounds that it would be “putting other athletes out,†as Mark said he was told by Australian Olympic officials.
“I wanted to do something that is not considered normal and my argument is, why isn’t it considered normal? People have sex every day of their lives. Why am I now forced to wait until my wife’s teammates leave the room?â€
The Marks aren’t the only ones whose sex lives are a bit complicated: In May, U.S. hurdler Lolo Jones admitted that maintaining her virginity was even harder than training for the Olympics. By July, her U.S. teammate Hope Solo, the soccer team’s goalie, had taken to the press about her life as a professional athlete, recalling rambunctious all-night partying with the actor Vince Vaughn and sneaking back to her room with another celebrity she declined to name. Solo estimated “70 percent to 75 percent of Olympians are having sex during the Games.
Not everyone is playing along, however. Geena Gall, an American 800-meter runner making her Olympic debut this year, is being sequestered by her coach at her training base in Teddington, in southwest London. “I’m going to the Opening Ceremony but I’m not going to stay in the village until three days before my event begins, just to get away from all that. It’s a distraction, and from what I’ve heard from other athletes who’ve been there before it’s a lot to handle.â€
‘Sex is obviously getting more popular there, or more people are practicing safe sex. One or the other.’
While the British Olympic Association has “made it clear that this is a shared accommodation space and athletes need to be mindful and respectful,†they will not be enforcing a curfew. BOA spokesperson Darryl Seibel acknowledged to The Daily Beast that sex in the village “happens,†but he said “it is a highly personal matter and none of our business.â€
The International Olympic Committee took the same line, releasing a statement saying that they “leave it up to the discretion of each athlete, as it is a private matter."
Of course, it’s not just sex that the athletes indulge in during their three-week “summer camp,†as the Village was described by Nick Symmonds, the top U.S. 800-meter athlete. Many of the sportsmen and sportswomen can be found in the dining hall after their events—a time which has come to be known as “Days of Glory,†Symmonds said.
“Athletes keep a very rigorous diet going into something like this, and there are the ones who, as soon as their event’s over, you see with their tray piled high with McDonald’s and chocolate cake. The big one for me is alcohol.â€
Indeed, in The Secret Olympics, published in May, an anonymous British athlete describes how liquor is hidden using water bottles and other athletes relax with some smuggled marijuana. (All post-event, of course.)
It’s logical then, that the swimmers—whose events are finished by the end of the first week—have the biggest reputation for indulging in the vices.
“In Beijing we had a beautiful 50-meter pool where everybody was always lounging around, hanging out. It feels like the first day at college when you walk in and you’re looking around. The body types at this level are so well defined,†Symmonds said. “You certainly hear about things happening, but there was really no time for me to explore those sides of the Olympics. It’s nice that the men’s 800 is a little bit earlier this year so I’ll get to see what that’s all about. I guess fingers crossed, right?â€
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/20/what-goes-on-behind-closed-doors-after-the-events-are-over.html
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@MichaelPhelps Congrats to @ryanlochte ... Way to keep that title in the country where it belongs!!
America.
We need a patriotic emoticon.
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Care nothing about the Olympics. Colossal waste of time. Annoyed by the constant hype. Won't watch a minute of it.
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Fox News is so racist (http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2012/07/29/niger-rower-crawls-home-to-roaring-olympic-crowd/)
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Woman sets US record by medaling in an individual event for 5 consecutive Olympics. You won't hear much about it because it was a shooting sport, but still.
When Kim Rhode, then 17, stood on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta with her first gold medal hanging from her neck, she never dreamed 16 years later she would make history in London at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, but that's exactly what happened this morning.
Rhode, 33, set a new Olympic record in qualifying for Women's Skeet with 74 hits out of 75. She went on to match her own world record with a perfect 25 in the final for a total of 99 out of 100, winning the gold.
She is the first U.S. athlete in history to medal in an individual sport at five consecutive Olympic Games.
Before today, Rhode had collected two gold medals in the Double Trap event in 1996 and 2004, a bronze in 2000 and a silver in the Skeet at the Beijing 2008 games, cementing herself as one of the best competitive shotgun shooters in the world. And she's not done yet.
"I do not see myself quitting any time soon," Rhode says on the official Olympics website. "I'm looking forward to 2016 and a few more after that. The oldest Olympic medalist was a shooter and he was 72, so I still have a few more in me."
That means continuing her intense training schedule. Rhode shoots as many as 500 to 1,000 shells a day and has continued a dedicated practice routine for 23 years. She estimates she has fired as many as 2 million shotshells in her life.
China's Ning Wir took the silver in Women's Skeet and Slovakia's Danka Bartekova won bronze after a shoot-off with Russia's Martina Belikova.
Some of ya'll might have shot some clay targets in the backyard before, or even some real skeet or trap if you're lucky enough to live close to a range, but International Skeet is a whole other ball game. Unlike American Skeet you must start with the gun at your hip rather than mounted on your shoulder, the targets are 10mph faster, and there is a delay between calling "pull" and the target releasing. 99 out of 100 is an amazing score.
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Jordyn Wieber got 2004 Auburn'ed.
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Woman sets US record by medaling in an individual event for 5 consecutive Olympics. You won't hear much about it because it was a shooting sport, but still.
Some of ya'll might have shot some clay targets in the backyard before, or even some real skeet or trap if you're lucky enough to live close to a range, but International Skeet is a whole other ball game. Unlike American Skeet you must start with the gun at your hip rather than mounted on your shoulder, the targets are 10mph faster, and there is a delay between calling "pull" and the target releasing. 99 out of 100 is an amazing score.
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Skeet skeet skeet motherfucker skeet skeet skeet got dam!
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Caught a little bit of a womens' volleyball match tonight.
May-Walsh got married, bred, and covered the fuck up.
Hardly worth watching.
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Care nothing about the Olympics. Colossal waste of time. Annoyed by the constant hype. Won't watch a minute of it.
But Adult Men's Softball....that's where it's at.
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Caught a little bit of a womens' volleyball match tonight.
May-Walsh got married, bred, and covered the fuck up.
Hardly worth watching.
Not that they were much before they had kids.
The Czech Republic girls were attractive enough though.
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Not that they were much before they had kids.
The Czech Republic girls were attractive enough though.
(http://www.brazilforum.com/attachments/brazil-photos-videos/3d1207424453-brazil-beach-volleyball-team-pics-brazil-girls-volleyball.jpg)
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(http://www.brazilforum.com/attachments/brazil-photos-videos/3d1207424453-brazil-beach-volleyball-team-pics-brazil-girls-volleyball.jpg)
Mmmm....Brazillian volleyball ass
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(http://www.brazilforum.com/attachments/brazil-photos-videos/3d1207424453-brazil-beach-volleyball-team-pics-brazil-girls-volleyball.jpg)
Mmmm....Brazillian volleyball ass
I was thinking reverse Camel toe?
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(http://www.brazilforum.com/attachments/brazil-photos-videos/3d1207424453-brazil-beach-volleyball-team-pics-brazil-girls-volleyball.jpg)
Good God. They need some assistance holding those things up.
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(http://www.brazilforum.com/attachments/brazil-photos-videos/3d1207424453-brazil-beach-volleyball-team-pics-brazil-girls-volleyball.jpg)
mmmm...he must workout...
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(http://i.imgur.com/tATDI.jpg)
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:bugs:
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Okay, that was just creepy.
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Okay, that was just creepy.
The creepiest part is the fact they are all crapping their pants on the toliet.
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NBC sucks.
At everything.
http://www.businessinsider.com/video-nbc-spoiled-missy-franklins-tape-delayed-gold-medal-2012-7#ooid=dnaHVpNTpgaMCJbjpaAk1eZvOGJrKKGo
NBC has received plenty of heat and criticism for their decisions to tape-delay a number of the more popular Olympic events. But they aren't helping their own case when they spoil their own coverage with a promo for another show.
That's what happened tonight when NBC was getting set to show the women's 100 meter backstroke, an event Franklin won (will win?). The network went to commercial with a view of Franklin in the pool and the teaser "coming up, how good can Missy Franklin be tonight? The finals of the 100-back coming up."
And from the "can't make it up department," NBC then showed a promo for "The Today Show" centered around Franklin celebrating her gold medal with her parents. The promo even included a shot of Franklin on the medal stand with her medal.
Gee, I wonder if she is going to win?!? Here's the video...
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/video-nbc-spoiled-missy-franklins-tape-delayed-gold-medal-2012-7#ixzz22JnE67vJ
Link has the video.
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NBC sucks.
At everything.
http://www.businessinsider.com/video-nbc-spoiled-missy-franklins-tape-delayed-gold-medal-2012-7#ooid=dnaHVpNTpgaMCJbjpaAk1eZvOGJrKKGo
Link has the video.
yes....they do.
Bob Costas. I want to throw him off London Bridge.
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Also - has anyone noticed how awful Andrea Kramer has been?
Every one of her questions has a negative spin to it. Every single one.
Seriously - I don't know why this bothers me so much, but it does.
Like the girl who won gold and in her subsequent interview brings up how much adversity she's experienced the past year, and Kramer says, "Yes, your mother did pass away."
Or when Missy Franklin won gold and Kramer says, "Well, I guess it's been a good thing you were cut from your soccer team."
Or when the men won gold in the 4X200M relay, and one guy mentions coming back and doing it again in Rio, and Kramer makes sure to interject, "Yes, you all will get that chance except for Phelps."
Fuck that mommy part. Didn't she do the story on the Auburn HBO special?
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Also - has anyone noticed how awful Andrea Kramer has been?
Every one of her questions has a negative spin to it. Every single one.
Seriously - I don't know why this bothers me so much, but it does.
Like the girl who won gold and in her subsequent interview brings up how much adversity she's experienced the past year, and Kramer says, "Yes, your mother did pass away."
Or when Missy Franklin won gold and Kramer says, "Well, I guess it's been a good thing you were cut from your soccer team."
Or when the men won gold in the 4X200M relay, and one guy mentions coming back and doing it again in Rio, and Kramer makes sure to interject, "Yes, you all will get that chance except for Phelps."
Fuck that mommy part. Didn't she do the story on the Auburn HBO special?
yes.
correct on every point.
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NBC sucks.
At everything.
http://www.businessinsider.com/video-nbc-spoiled-missy-franklins-tape-delayed-gold-medal-2012-7#ooid=dnaHVpNTpgaMCJbjpaAk1eZvOGJrKKGo
Link has the video.
Tape delay doesn't bother me. Even if I know she's gonna win, I still want to see how she did it.
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Tape delay doesn't bother me. Even if I know she's gonna win, I still want to see how she did it.
Kind of like porn.
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Also - has anyone noticed how awful Andrea Kramer has been?
Every one of her questions has a negative spin to it. Every single one.
Seriously - I don't know why this bothers me so much, but it does.
Like the girl who won gold and in her subsequent interview brings up how much adversity she's experienced the past year, and Kramer says, "Yes, your mother did pass away."
Or when Missy Franklin won gold and Kramer says, "Well, I guess it's been a good thing you were cut from your soccer team."
Or when the men won gold in the 4X200M relay, and one guy mentions coming back and doing it again in Rio, and Kramer makes sure to interject, "Yes, you all will get that chance except for Phelps."
Fuck that mommy part. Didn't she do the story on the Auburn HBO special?
I saw the Phelps thing and thought "WOW. What a mommy part."
Didn't even realize that was Kremer.
The actual context sounded worse than you made it sound. She bluntly said "Yeah, I don't know about Phelps, but maybe the rest of you." Phelps looked at her like "What the fuck did this bitch just say?"
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Pic is probably 4 years old, but I thought it was humorous.
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(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s480x480/391356_3577828926190_504685946_n.jpg)
Pic is probably 4 years old, but I thought it was humorous.
When did you first notice the problem?
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In the backyard, with my uncle.
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In the backyard... with your uncle?
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Yes, when he comes over we like to go out in the backyard and throw it around for a while.
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But Adult Men's Softball....that's where it's at.
Not sure what the point of this is.
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China is kicking our ass with all of their badminton and table tennis (gnip gnop) gold medals!!!!
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China is kicking our ass with all of their badminton and table tennis (gnip gnop) gold medals!!!!
And diving.
Those fuckers are insane at diving.
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And diving.
Those fuckers are insane at diving.
In our defense, most public pools removed their diving boards due to litigation. I don't think China has that problem.
And they have a larger pool (pun intended) of candidates to choose from.
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And diving.
Those fuckers are insane at diving.
Being 4'10 and 67lbs with a 17 inch waist helps.
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Being 4'10 and 67lbs with a 17 inch waist helps.
Sexy Asians
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I unfortunately was forced to watch about 20 minutes of this trash just now.
Beach volleyball? Are you fucking kidding me?
The running around for a victory lap, the leaping into the stands, the spastic dancing, the entire scene was completely and utterly unseemly. it was absolutely ridiculous.
Beach volleyball is something people do when they're completely bored on vacation. It's not a sport.
My utter loathing for all things Olympic is reinforced.
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In our defense, most public pools removed their diving boards due to litigation. I don't think China has that problem.
And they have a larger pool (pun intended) of candidates to choose from.
olympic divers don't come from public pools. brown divers do.
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olympic divers don't come from public pools. brown divers do.
That's because all of the diving boards have been removed.
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Saw this quote i an article today and had ask, WTH is this?
China is the favorite to win a pair of golds in diving, thanks to superstars Chen Ruolin and Bo Qiu, while it could potentially occupy all of the podium places in one of its strongest events, the women's 20km walk
So walking 20K is an Olympic sport? Scooters are really cheap nowadays, why walk?
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It's power walking, son.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbB9v8ooQno
And the Chinese have learned to be excellent walkers. Have you seen their traffic jams?
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That's how you go brown diving!
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That's how you go brown diving!
Correction....That's how you get pink eye.
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Correction....That's how you get pink eye.
No, that ref is just really, really high.
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Those Olympic referees really get into their work.
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Those Olympic referees really get into their work.
They'll do whatever it takes to get to the bottom of things
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They'll do whatever it takes to get to the bottom of things
This guy definitely passes the sniff test.
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This guy definitely passes the sniff test.
He can sure get around in crowded places.
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He can sure get around in crowded places.
Making plays in space.
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Making plays in space.
And doesn't mind getting his hands dirty doing it.
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Making plays in space.
But if need be, he has the strength to go inside
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But if need be, he has the strength to go inside
One could say he goes hard in the paint, even.
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One could say he goes hard in the paint, even.
It's "da muthafuckin' paint."