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Topic: London 2012 Summer Olympics (Read 65933 times)
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38 Cal athletes, 37 for Stanford.  |
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Let's wait and see which group brings in the most medals  |
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It's nice to see that people care about swimming and diving once every 4 years. |
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It's nice to see that people care about swimming and diving once every 4 years. Fixed. I think ever since the Chinese decided to conquer the diving world, people care less about it than ever before! Swimming has certainly had a greater exposure to the average American outside of the Olympics in the last 4 years. Largely because of Michael Phelps, obviously, but it seems to get much more press, to the extent that there are other recognizable names and stories out there.. Probably won't stay that way once he retires. For me, I freaking LOVE the track and field events, particularly the running. Seriously, the events like the 100, the 200 and all the other relatively short distance events are some of the best and most intense drama in all of sports. Even the females. |
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Diving is roughly 3000x more interesting to watch than swimming. I'm not sure there's a worse spectator sport than swimming in the Olympics.
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Diving is roughly 3000x more interesting to watch than swimming. I'm not sure there's a worse spectator sport than swimming in the Olympics.
I don't disagree with you, but I would place a pretty heavy wager that the swimming will get much higher ratings in general. I have always thought competitive swimming was somewhat ridiculous, in that there are different methods being used that are clearly inferior to the others (e.g. breaststroke vs. crawl). It would be the track and field equivalent of having the 100m sprint...only this time you have to run backwards. Or just use the one leg. Or with your hands tied behind your back! And now we can repeat those same inferior methods over greater distances...how about the 10000m hopping on one leg backwards event! And that's before you begin talking about how much their fucking clothing aids them. |
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Diving is roughly 3000x more interesting to watch than swimming. I'm not sure there's a worse spectator sport than swimming in the Olympics.
It would be the track and field equivalent of having the 100m sprint...only this time you have to run backwards. Or just use the one leg. Or with your hands tied behind your back! And now we can repeat those same inferior methods over greater distances...how about the 10000m hopping on one leg backwards event! You mean the hopping event in Track and Field -- aka the Triple Jump? How does that compare to the Long Jump? Or how about the Shot Put and Discus vs Javelin? Or what's up with those stupid hurdles and steeplechase barriers and water pits on the track? Why would you handicap yourself by putting that stuff out there? Why would you ever do a high jump when you can pole vault? |
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People care about diving, just ask any supporter of (insert your least favorite football/soccer team here) Hungary's not going to do well this year... at all. I'm not sure how much of this is due to the massive clusterfuck our country's been for the last 3 years or so... |
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Cyrrex
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Diving is roughly 3000x more interesting to watch than swimming. I'm not sure there's a worse spectator sport than swimming in the Olympics.
It would be the track and field equivalent of having the 100m sprint...only this time you have to run backwards. Or just use the one leg. Or with your hands tied behind your back! And now we can repeat those same inferior methods over greater distances...how about the 10000m hopping on one leg backwards event! You mean the hopping event in Track and Field -- aka the Triple Jump? How does that compare to the Long Jump? Or how about the Shot Put and Discus vs Javelin? Or what's up with those stupid hurdles and steeplechase barriers and water pits on the track? Why would you handicap yourself by putting that stuff out there? Why would you ever do a high jump when you can pole vault? False equivalency, in my opinion, though I would see why one would be attempted to compare. Jumping hurdles in track is not equivalent to doing the butterfly in swimming. Swimming underwater through hoops might be equivalent, but they don't do that (they totally should!). The difference in the track events is that the equipment is different. The difference in the swimming event is the allowed body mechanics are different. Speed walking! That is a proper comparison of a track event. And not suprisingly, it is ridiculous both to ponder and to watch. All that said, I generally enjoy the swimming events. But on a basic level, I still find them to be nonsensical. It should all be freestyle, over different distances. Unless they throw in some hoops. |
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Triple Jump and Long Jump the "equipment" is the same.
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Go Italy!!!   As always, we have big hopes for fencing and swimming (Federica ); I also think our female team in gymnastic (artistic) will provide a good show :). Oh, and Tania Cagnotto for diving just behind the chinese robots :P Personally, beside the usual suspects like track 'n field, my favourite sports at the Olympics are: - Archery (yep :P) - 50km Race Walk (because it reminds me of Stephen King's "The Long Walk"...Someday, maybe they'll implement the same rules of the novel, muahhaha ) - 10km Swimming Marathon (fascinating to see them swim outside of the usual, boring lanes) - Tennis (because I love tennis in general) - Triathlon (it's pretty funny if TV covers the event properly) - Boxing (when it's not rigged...so that's difficult :P) Enjoy the Olympics!  |
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Yay! time for the other Olympics.
We don't do quite as well at summer sports...
Time for us to dominate such high profile sports such as Kayaking!
Should still be fun though. Oddly, I'm looking forward to seeing Mary Poppins fight Voldemort in the opening ceremonies.
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Diving is roughly 3000x more interesting to watch than swimming. I'm not sure there's a worse spectator sport than swimming in the Olympics.
Like most sports, you have to know what's going on to enjoy it. Swimmers love watching swimming. I catch it any time it's on. There's much more to each stroke than just doing it differently and distance makes a huge impact on strategy and physical exertion. Cyrrex sounds like a guy who's never actually been in a pool at all and it's amusing. It's nice to see that people care about swimming and diving once every 4 years. Still better than nobody ever caring about fencing, judo, ping-pong, badminton and so many of the other sports that compete but are never recognized. |
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I love how ESPN, since they don't have the TV rights, is basically ignoring the games. Oh and when they aren't, the headline story today is "Fear & Loathing in London" Stay classy ESPN. |
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I've never been much for the track and field events, but I could watch the indoor volleyball and table tennis/badminton events all day. Handball, field hockey and Water polo too. If curling could be in both the summer and winter olympics I'd be in heaven. I'll be glued to the tv/monitor anyway.
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Still better than nobody ever caring about fencing, judo, ping-pong, badminton and so many of the other sports that compete but are never recognized.
Hey, I love fencing! And archery. I love watching archery. |
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Trippy
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I predict Archery is going to be very popular this Olympics thanks to The Hunger Games.
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I like the Olympics. Mostly I like the obscure stuff like badminten and boating. I'll watch pretty much everything but the "women's" gymnastics which are just too  and massively over covered on US TV. My partner and I are both boxing fans and really looking forward to the debut of women's boxing. And yeah, archery is going to be huge. |
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I remain skeptical on the archery front. Even if it is popular, it hasn't been in the past and you - maybe- got an hour or so televised of the final round, but never during Primetime. National Lampoon had the best satire of Women's Gymnastics years and years ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGwIyzrlOMQ {NSFW} |
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For what it's worth the BBC are streaming literally everything this time.
Opening ceremony wasn't screwed up in any way this evening, another sigh of relief goes up across the UK.
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Okay. The announcer just said that England hasn't scored a goal in the olympics in football since 1960. That's pathetic.  |
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They haven't even qualified for the main tournament since then.
In other news, Japan beat Spain? Madness.
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That was certainly an opening ceremony.
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The cauldron itself was very cool - but I really don't understand why it was lit by some random people apparently dragged in off the street.
Rest of it felt satisfyingly British and not in fact embarrassing.
Considerably more fun to watch than trainspotting or the beach.
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Khaldun
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Ceremony good.
Matt Lauer and Meredith Viera bad.
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Very, very bad, yes. Though it's mainly Meredeth. She, or whoever is writing for her, should stop trying to be funny.
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Best part of the ceremony was Rowan Atkinson. Otherwise it was ok.
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I wasn't a huge fan of the theme of the opening ceremony, although it was well put together. It seemed to say, "we had this beautiful country and then we turned into a huge pile of slag". Reminded me of Lord of the Rings, in a way, with the industrialization, glowing rings and hobbit holes.
The Queen looked a bit like my grandmother when she had late stage Alzheimers, i.e. like she had no fucking clue what was going on. Does she smile?
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Someone tell me when they are done introducing all the countries. *snooze*
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McCartney did not sound good at all.
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The queen and Bond jumping out of a chopper And yea, if you're not a swimmer or diver, you won't get the nuance. |
Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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