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Post by LFS on Aug 12, 2016 14:56:17 GMT
Tewksbury has been a total highlight this games for me. I adore his enthusiasm. It's a complete delight and totally infectious.
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Post by Skelly on Aug 12, 2016 14:59:49 GMT
Tewksbury on the CBC has been a total highlight this games for me. I adore his enthusiasm. It's a complete delight and totally infectious. It is! I've seen him speak in person and have a tremendous respect for him.
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Post by The Hype Himself on Aug 12, 2016 17:03:55 GMT
I'm not really down for a pissing contest over whose achievement was more meaningful. They both did an amazing job. As for the Aussies, I frankly don't know. I haven't been following the team for a long time, but it's disappoint to say the least. This used to be their playground but this games they've barely showed up to play. Might be time for another inquest. I'm not trying to turn it into a pissing contest; just saying that history has been made here for a historically under-represented group, especially in a sort we've never won before. There's nothing to piss on either, sharing the gold is still a gold for us. Even if we do have to share with Canada (yuck!) The Aussies in general don't seem to have taken as much for granted, oddly enough. I watched some of their training documentaries. They trained every bit as hard as everyone else, it's just that everyone seemed to just have more skill, which isn't entirely true given that the 2 Aussie sisters were both record and medal setters. Maybe it's an inverse series, but can we expect the Aussies to get a fluke of luck over the next 2 years at Beijing? Like the speed skater who simply lucked into the medal when the the rest of the field crashed?
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Post by jli84 on Aug 12, 2016 21:21:38 GMT
Another day, another win. Goalie with a 60% save rate. Ready for the quarter finals with one game to go. The horrible opening game against Brazil all but forgotten.
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Post by Skelly on Aug 12, 2016 21:25:19 GMT
Today, I learned that competitive speed-walking (aka "racewalking") is an Olympic sport. The more you know!
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Post by jli84 on Aug 12, 2016 22:00:30 GMT
Today, I learned that competitive speed-walking (aka "racewalking") is an Olympic sport. The more you know! Best sport there is!
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Post by The Hype Himself on Aug 12, 2016 23:03:31 GMT
Obviously, the loss of the American Women's Soccer Team was utterly disappointing, and I find myself in some agreement with Hope Solo on her sentiments towards the Swedes, but what can we do? We've only got more gold to win in other events, and I think we're better than a lot of the haters that want to see the US put down for being victors. We still have basketball, a few more swimming events, and others that we can show off in.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2016 0:10:42 GMT
Us brits watching the Olympics like:
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Post by yourfunnyuncle on Aug 13, 2016 0:30:37 GMT
When you've won eight medals across five Olympics, including five golds, as well as the minor feat of winning a Tour de France, I suppose you get to have some fun on the podium...
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Post by The Hype Himself on Aug 13, 2016 1:13:48 GMT
BAM! ATTA GIRL MAYA! ANOTHER GOLD FOR TEAM USA SWIMMING! MAYA DIRADO WINS WOMEN'S 200 METER GOLD BACKSTROKE IN UPSET FOR US! TOTAL UPSET!
Makes up for our disappointing Basketball game against Serbia. If that's how we're going to play, we may win the Gold, but we probably won't. Paul George said it best "we can't play like it's a mid-court game", and they have to actually have to play for it.
We may have deserved a chance at Women's Soccer, but if this is how we're going to play Men's Basketball, forget it. The Serbs played to win today. We're going to actually have to try to win, not just assume it's a given because you're all NBA stars. Durant, Anthony, and George know this. They all do. If they're worth they're shit, they'll do.
Here's to MP winning Gold in his last event. Will he make it?!
Edit* Silver for MP, as his last individual event. Congrats to Singapore on their first Gold in this event. Joseph Schooling, a protege of MP, and definitely a moment for him to pass on the torch.
MP has one more event.
And the Women's 800 Free, next, with Katie Ledecky, the potential distaff counterpart to MP as the favorite for TEAM USA.
Let's shut down some of the booing Team! The rest just want to bring us down! They hate us cuz they ain't us!
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Post by The Hype Himself on Aug 13, 2016 1:36:48 GMT
And Ledecky does it, quite spectacularly and quite mundanely as well! Set's another World record (she broke her own again), and wins the Olympic Gold in the 800 Meter Distance swim! She makes it look way too easy, and that huge, toothy smile, the definite pride of America right now!
Time for some Olympic Medals, including two very well deserved Golds for the Americans! 18 Gold and counting, 47 medals in total, and looking to keep killing it for your #1 USA!
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Post by The Hype Himself on Aug 13, 2016 1:52:23 GMT
FUCK YEAH! USA WINS #1 AND #3 AT THE MEN'S 50 FREE! ANOTHER GOLD AND BRONZE FOR THE UNITED STATES! ANTHONY ERVIN WINS GOLD 16 YEARS AFTER HE DID IT LAST!
And, a correction: The US doesn't have 47 Medals here - It has 49.
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Post by SpiritVanguard on Aug 13, 2016 3:04:48 GMT
There's nothing like spending hours of watching so many talented athletes compete their asses off without moving from the couch. No regrets.
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Post by The Hype Himself on Aug 13, 2016 3:04:56 GMT
And now, Michelle Carter has a GOLD, beating out New Zealand in shot-put!
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Post by The Hype Himself on Aug 13, 2016 3:05:57 GMT
There's nothing like spending hours of watching so many talented athletes compete their asses off without moving from the couch. No regrets. Especially when you're like me, who just had an organ removed, one that is usually associated with obesity!
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Post by The Hype Himself on Aug 13, 2016 3:50:43 GMT
Oh, man, the tears of agony of my beloved Aussies women in soccer...
Man, that is just so terrifyingly sad. Man, oh man. I don't know what to say. Two heartbreaks for women's soccer, with the US out too.
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Post by jli84 on Aug 13, 2016 14:20:28 GMT
FUCK YEAH! USA WINS #1 AND #3 AT THE MEN'S 50 FREE! ANOTHER GOLD AND BRONZE FOR THE UNITED STATES! ANTHONY ERVIN WINS GOLD 16 YEARS AFTER HE DID IT LAST! And, a correction: The US doesn't have 47 Medals here - It has 49. The envy... Only two bronze for Norway so far. Counting on our girls winning the female handball competition. Oh well, just two more years before the next winter olympics. Just gotta hang in there.
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Post by The Hype Himself on Aug 13, 2016 14:36:15 GMT
FUCK YEAH! USA WINS #1 AND #3 AT THE MEN'S 50 FREE! ANOTHER GOLD AND BRONZE FOR THE UNITED STATES! ANTHONY ERVIN WINS GOLD 16 YEARS AFTER HE DID IT LAST! And, a correction: The US doesn't have 47 Medals here - It has 49. The envy... Only two bronze for Norway so far. Counting on our girls winning the female handball competition. Oh well, just two more years before the next winter olympics. Just gotta hang in there. You guys will do great lol. Much better than the Swedes to be honest! It's your sport after all! I'm kinda with Hope Solo on the Soccer for the women. Not so much for the US Men's Basketball team - we better be damned afraid of the way we played last night against the Serbians. As I said, if that's how we're playing, fuck the gold, just give us the bronze now and let somebody compete for a real game. We sure aren't.
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Post by The Hype Himself on Aug 13, 2016 16:19:35 GMT
And Team USA just set another World Record in Women's Team Pursuit, absolutely destroying Australia! And this is just the First Round of course!
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Post by yourfunnyuncle on Aug 13, 2016 19:24:35 GMT
And Team USA just set another World Record in Women's Team Pursuit, absolutely destroying Australia! And this is just the First Round of course! Didn't last long! The final should be an amazing race.
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Post by The Hype Himself on Aug 13, 2016 20:05:12 GMT
And Team USA just set another World Record in Women's Team Pursuit, absolutely destroying Australia! And this is just the First Round of course! Didn't last long! The final should be an amazing race. Indeed! I'm not a follower of Pursuit Cycling, and in the US, it was only on prime coverage since the other events were delayed, so I'll have to actually have to look up the results later. I think it'll be a match for the ages. I'll hold out for the States of course, but looking at the history of the two teams (two world records shattered by both of them shows how dedicated and strong they both are!)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2016 20:17:31 GMT
Uk v Usa women's team pursuit coming up... Edit:
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Post by yourfunnyuncle on Aug 13, 2016 20:27:12 GMT
Gold and another world record for Team GB. In the Olympics in general the US will top the medal table but Britannia rules the velodrome!
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Post by The Hype Himself on Aug 13, 2016 20:36:45 GMT
Still, a long shot from ruling the waves right? I saw it by a fluke, against the Aussies, and was simply wondering what the hell I was watching...
Then I realized that the Brits took waiting in line (or queuing as you call it) and turned it into a sport.
Brits man...
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