The-Hogs.net - Washington Football Discussion, Redskins to Commanders Era

Olympics are awesome.

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

Womens "beach" volleyball is awesome

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

Next Olympics they will have Yoga and golf added.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Saved them for Massachusetts, no less.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

Alex Morgan

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

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

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.

ACW wrote:Alex Morgan

With an assist from Christiana Pedersen?

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!!