Olympics Thread

langleyparkjoe · Post by **langleyparkjoe** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 11:56 am

Olympics are awesome.

Countertrey · Post by **Countertrey** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 1:28 pm

langleyparkjoe wrote:Olympics are awesome.

I agree for the most part... but what's with gymnastics limiting each team to only 2 competitors in the individual all around? Seems you'd actually want the best athletes to be competing... if 3 or 4 happen to be from one country... whatever... it just makes the sport seem kind of candy assed.

I've never much cared for any sport where I am told by some anonymous judge who has won...

emoses14 · Post by **emoses14** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 3:18 pm

Countertrey wrote:
langleyparkjoe wrote:Olympics are awesome.
I agree for the most part... but what's with gymnastics limiting each team to only 2 competitors in the individual all around? Seems you'd actually want the best athletes to be competing... if 3 or 4 happen to be from one country... whatever... it just makes the sport seem kind of candy assed.

I've never much cared for any sport where I am told by some anonymous judge who has won...

I agree that the highlighted portion makes the sport candy assed. Infuriating and often impossible to follow what they judges are looking at.

The taking top 2 from each country's team for the all around competition isn't candy assed. First off, if you've got a problem with the rule cause you finished 3rd in your country's quals, tough. You shoulda finished in the top 2, it isn't like this rule was spruing on them at the last minute. Win and you're in. Secondly, if I wanted to watch 5 americans and 5 russians compete, I'd watch the damn team competition. I want to see Surinam's top 2 go for the gold just like I wanna see Gabby Douglas. I mean the olympics is about, in part, watching the world compete, right? Third, and this ain't a justification, just pointing this out, don't most sports do this? Baseball, hockey, soccer/futbol, football and basketball all take winners of their respective divisions, regardless of record. Same idea. Except here, you can't have a wild card sport or 2.

UK Skins Fan · Post by **UK Skins Fan** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 5:20 pm

cowboykillerzRED wrote:Did he take gold? Saw him doing well earlier

Indeed he did, and it was never really in doubt. A great sportsman.

langleyparkjoe · Post by **langleyparkjoe** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:54 am

.. correction.. women's volleyball is awesome !!!!

ATX_Skins · Post by **ATX_Skins** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:37 am

langleyparkjoe wrote:.. correction.. women's volleyball is awesome !!!!

Womens "beach" volleyball is awesome

langleyparkjoe · Post by **langleyparkjoe** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:42 am

ATX_Skins wrote:
langleyparkjoe wrote:.. correction.. women's volleyball is awesome !!!!

Womens "beach" volleyball is awesome

i never knew there was anything else but the beach :shock:

ATX_Skins · Post by **ATX_Skins** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:20 am

Next Olympics they will have Yoga and golf added.

DarthMonk · Post by **DarthMonk** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 11:21 am

Anybody remember Howard Cosell saying "Look at that little monkey run!" in a 1972? It was in reference to Mike Adamle, a running back for the Kansas City Chiefs in the preseason AFC-NFC "Hall of Fame" game between the Chiefs vs. New York Giants at Fawcett Stadium. He basically did it again 10 years later to a Redskin - Alvin Garrett.

This was even worse:

http://www.sbnation.com/london-olympics ... l-olympics

Read the 2 paragraphs and check out the vid. Very bad.

UK Skins Fan · Post by **UK Skins Fan** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 6:26 am

More gold coming GB's way today. Just need to pass those crazy South Koreans in the medal table now....they seem to be good at shooting stuff. If we could combine their shooting with our sailing and rowing, we could make a decent navy.

Third place in the medals table was the ambition before the games started - no point worrying about trying to beat the US and China, with their larger populations and greater facilities.

If we finish with Germany, France and Australia below us, that will leave us Brits mighty happy :-)

DarthMonk · Post by **DarthMonk** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:25 am

UK Skins Fan wrote:More gold coming GB's way today. Just need to pass those crazy South Koreans in the medal table now....they seem to be good at shooting stuff. If we could combine their shooting with our sailing and rowing, we could make a decent navy.

Third place in the medals table was the ambition before the games started - no point worrying about trying to beat the US and China, with their larger populations and greater facilities.

If we finish with Germany, France and Australia below us, that will leave us Brits mighty happy

Just found out why Brits don't make computers. They know how to make them overheat and have electrical problems but they haven't figured out how to make them leak oil yet.

:whistle:

DarthMonk · Post by **DarthMonk** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:28 am

... and I just found out some guy named Mitt saved the Olympics. Whew!

:roll:

UK Skins Fan · Post by **UK Skins Fan** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 11:19 am

DarthMonk wrote:
UK Skins Fan wrote:More gold coming GB's way today. Just need to pass those crazy South Koreans in the medal table now....they seem to be good at shooting stuff. If we could combine their shooting with our sailing and rowing, we could make a decent navy.

Third place in the medals table was the ambition before the games started - no point worrying about trying to beat the US and China, with their larger populations and greater facilities.

If we finish with Germany, France and Australia below us, that will leave us Brits mighty happy

Just found out why Brits don't make computers. They know how to make them overheat and have electrical problems but they haven't figured out how to make them leak oil yet.

I know that's a joke, but I don't get it! Lol.

Deadskins · Post by **Deadskins** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 11:20 am

DarthMonk wrote:... and I just found out some guy named Mitt saved the Olympics. Whew!

Saved them for Massachusetts, no less. :shock:

UK Skins Fan · Post by **UK Skins Fan** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 6:29 am

Mo Farah, Olympic Champion. Now, that's a story.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympi ... final.html

DarthMonk · Post by **DarthMonk** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 8:59 pm

UK Skins Fan wrote:Mo Farah, Olympic Champion. Now, that's a story.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympi ... final.html

Did you guys win the men's broad jump?? WTF?

DarthMonk · Post by **DarthMonk** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:51 am

emoses14 · Post by **emoses14** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 10:10 am

DarthMonk wrote:

I do not like him (solely because he's not an american and beats them as if they were standing still), but damn is he fast. And damnit, I like watching him run; unreal.

He beat the silver medalist by the same marging separating silver from from 5th.

Cappster · Post by **Cappster** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 1:09 pm

DarthMonk wrote:
UK Skins Fan wrote:Mo Farah, Olympic Champion. Now, that's a story.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympi ... final.html

Did you guys win the men's broad jump?? WTF?

White men can, indeed, jump.

UK Skins Fan · Post by **UK Skins Fan** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:27 pm

Cappster wrote:
DarthMonk wrote:
UK Skins Fan wrote:Mo Farah, Olympic Champion. Now, that's a story.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympi ... final.html

Did you guys win the men's broad jump?? WTF?

White men can, indeed, jump.

A white, ginger man ;-)

Remarkable.

ACW · Post by **ACW** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:22 pm

Alex Morgan :rock:

tribeofjudah · Post by **tribeofjudah** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:53 am

WAIT.... a MICK JAGGER sighting at the Olympics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-UnXao7D9Y

ATX_Skins · Post by **ATX_Skins** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:17 am

tribeofjudah wrote:WAIT.... a MICK JAGGER sighting at the Olympics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-UnXao7D9Y

Thanks, that video woke up my dog and now she has to go to the bathroom, which means I also must go to the "bathroom" outside.

UK Skins Fan · Post by **UK Skins Fan** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:32 am

ACW wrote:Alex Morgan

With an assist from Christiana Pedersen?

DarthMonk · Post by **DarthMonk** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:39 am

Cappster wrote:
DarthMonk wrote:
UK Skins Fan wrote:Mo Farah, Olympic Champion. Now, that's a story.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympi ... final.html

Did you guys win the men's broad jump?? WTF?

White men can, indeed, jump.

And apparently there are a few black men who can swim!! :shock: