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Topic: London 2012 Summer Olympics (Read 80284 times)
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Sjofn
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Seriously, I was sick to death of Phelps going into this Olympics. It took one Goddamn Human Interest Piece about Lochte to put me back on Team Phelps.
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ghost
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You know what I'm sick of? Seeing and hearing about John Orozco's parents. He seems like a great kid, but his parents make me want to put a bullet in my TV.
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Sjofn
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I would agree, except I only had to hear about them once, and his mother made me crack the fuck up with how she can't even watch. <3
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Yeah, but imagine seeing it 10 times. Hell, it was bad even at 2. It was pretty amazing how Leyva was able to win the Bronze after royally fucking up the pommel horse.
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lamaros
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Boxing. An absurd sport and still massively dubious, even at the Olympics.
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I still find it preferable to MMA even if it does blow chunks.
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Teleku
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Wow, US women are kicking ass in gymnastics this year!
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Ghambit
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Lotta pissed off corn-country gymrat rednecks right now.
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ghost
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Lotta pissed off corn-country gymrat rednecks right now.
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Malakili
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Lotta pissed off corn-country gymrat rednecks right now.
Wat? He is suggesting racists are upset the black girl won. |
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Paelos
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No rednecks down here watch the Olympics, let alone women's gymnastics.
They are still pissed women got the vote.
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ghost
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Lotta pissed off corn-country gymrat rednecks right now.
Wat? He is suggesting racists are upset the black girl won. I'm so naive about that shit. It never even entered my mind. |
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Lakov_Sanite
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It is funny watching people skirt around the color issue when they are explaining why she'll be such a popular athlete for sponsorships"she has a wonderful smile!" yes she has great qualities but her color is actually a bonus for her in the advertising world
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K9
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Oscar Pistorious is pretty awesome.
Really enjoying the heptathlon at the moment. It's pretty mental that Jessica Ennis' 100m hurdles time would have been fast enough to win her gold in the standalone event in most of the other recent Olympics, and she does six other events (and the individual hurdles) on top of it all.
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raresnake
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i dont agree with the bullshit that america is racist,where are the black prime ministers in europe?
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Teleku
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You never fail to disappoint with your posts.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
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Strazos
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i dont agree with the bullshit that america is racist,where are the black prime ministers in europe?
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ghost
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Whatever happened to the Olympics being non-professional? I'm sitting here watching Roger Federer play the same dude he mowed down at Wimbledon and it just doesn't seem right.
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MrHat
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Whatever happened to the Olympics being non-professional? I'm sitting here watching Roger Federer play the same dude he mowed down at Wimbledon and it just doesn't seem right.
Not sure what happened there. Combination of Murray finally running at the ball and Federer going "meh". |
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Whatever happened to the Olympics being non-professional? I'm sitting here watching Roger Federer play the same dude he mowed down at Wimbledon and it just doesn't seem right.
I know you didn't miss the Dream Team in 1992. |
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I know. I'm just trying to figure out when, exactly, it happened and what the reasoning for it was. I don't think the Dream Team were the first professionals. If I remember right they started playing the pros in response to other countries using their own professional athletes so we were getting our asses handed to us.
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Rasix
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If you take away tennis pros, you're not left with much. College students and juniors. Tennis has probably allowed pros since the start of the open era.
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Strazos
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Aren't the Olympics supposed to present the world's best? So what if some of them happen to be good enough in sports which are widespread/popular enough to have professional leagues - they're still the country's best in the chosen sport, right?
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Aren't the Olympics supposed to present the world's best? So what if some of them happen to be good enough in sports which are widespread/popular enough to have professional leagues - they're still the country's best in the chosen sport, right?
Not in all sports. Football (ie the round type) in the Olympics is under 23s if I recall. |
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Arthur_Parker
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Really enjoying the heptathlon at the moment. It's pretty mental that Jessica Ennis' 100m hurdles time would have been fast enough to win her gold in the standalone event in most of the other recent Olympics, and she does six other events (and the individual hurdles) on top of it all.
Saturday night was incredible watching it live, within an hour Jessica Ennis, heptathlon, Greg Rutherford, long jump & Mo Farah in the 10,000m. |
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Teleku
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Aren't the Olympics supposed to present the world's best? So what if some of them happen to be good enough in sports which are widespread/popular enough to have professional leagues - they're still the country's best in the chosen sport, right?
Not in all sports. Football (ie the round type) in the Olympics is under 23s if I recall. That was forced on the Olympics by FIFA, who is afraid it will challenge all the money they make from "the supremacy" of the World Cup. Which is pretty fucking retarded. They're should be no restrictions on any athletes. Let the Olympics be the best athletes in the world competing against each other, period. |
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Paelos
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I think that team ball sports shouldn't be in the Olympics, period. I think it's more important to showcase our best athletes, not our best teams.
Dump Basketball, Soccer, Handball, Hockey, and Volleyball. Keep the singles versions of badmiton and tennis and rowing. Keep sailing because it's impossible to do it alone, but it's not a ball sport.
Pick up the individual sports. Golf, Billiards, Bowling, and Racketball/Squash.
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Strazos
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I think that team ball sports shouldn't be in the Olympics, period. I think it's more important to showcase our best athletes, not our best teams.
Dump Basketball, Soccer, Handball, Hockey, and Volleyball. Keep the singles versions of badmiton and tennis and rowing. Keep sailing because it's impossible to do it alone, but it's not a ball sport.
Pick up the individual sports. Golf, Billiards, Bowling, and Racketball/Squash.
Nothing to say that we cannot, you know...do both. I agree with some of your additions, and your subtraction of basketball (only because I think it's a terrible sport, personally). |
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K9
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Get rid of dressage and archery and replace them with Horse Archery.
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Teleku
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Basketball is becoming the worlds biggest sport after soccer. It is played everywhere now, and the olympics have become basketballs equivalent of the world cup. The tournament is highly anticipated and heavily watched all around the world. Dropping it would be silly.
Personally I think they should make the world championships for all ball games be based around the Olympics instead of there own tournaments, but I know that's not realistically possible for a number of reasons.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
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K9
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If you tried to combine the World Cup with the Olympics you'd have some real challenges finding nations with enough resources to cover both at the same time. Really enjoying the heptathlon at the moment. It's pretty mental that Jessica Ennis' 100m hurdles time would have been fast enough to win her gold in the standalone event in most of the other recent Olympics, and she does six other events (and the individual hurdles) on top of it all.
Saturday night was incredible watching it live, within an hour Jessica Ennis, heptathlon, Greg Rutherford, long jump & Mo Farah in the 10,000m. Definitely, I'm really enjoying the spill-over euphoria the games are generating here. It's crazy to thin the riots were just a year ago, and now this. It's nice to have everyone feeling good about things for a change. Saturday night really capped that off. |
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Whoever said jousting was fucking spot on.
I don't really have a problem with the team sports, but I get pretty bored watching the NBA finals again, or the Wimbledon finals again. I say let the pros have their own deal and have it be an under x age amateur tournament (with no exceptions like soccer has).
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Paelos
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Basketball is becoming the worlds biggest sport after soccer. It is played everywhere now, and the olympics have become basketballs equivalent of the world cup. The tournament is highly anticipated and heavily watched all around the world. Dropping it would be silly.
Personally I think they should make the world championships for all ball games be based around the Olympics instead of there own tournaments, but I know that's not realistically possible for a number of reasons.
I would dump basketball because it's ridiculously 1-sided, the the talk is that the NBA isn't going to send the best anymore after this year. Outside of Argentina winning in 2004, when the USA again didn't send it's best players, we are unlikely not to win the gold medal. |
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Basketball is becoming the worlds biggest sport after soccer. It is played everywhere now, and the olympics have become basketballs equivalent of the world cup. The tournament is highly anticipated and heavily watched all around the world. Dropping it would be silly.
Personally I think they should make the world championships for all ball games be based around the Olympics instead of there own tournaments, but I know that's not realistically possible for a number of reasons.
I would dump basketball because it's ridiculously 1-sided, the the talk is that the NBA isn't going to send the best anymore after this year. Outside of Argentina winning in 2004, when the USA again didn't send it's best players, we are unlikely not to win the gold medal. Basketball was pretty interesting when the US wasn't sending the dream team. It should go back to amateurs or under 19 or somesuch. |
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Sjofn
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Golf is being added, I believe, although I don't really get why that's OK but, say, water polo or crew isn't. Nothing about "team" suddenly makes a sport less a showcase of athletes doing their athletic thing.
I'm totally on board with bowling being added. The more sports that have a wide range of ages capable of competing, the happier I am. Shit like "women's" gymnastics gets me down when you're basically too old for the sport before you even hit the legal drinking age in the US, you know?
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