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wtf the Olympics has ARCHERY?
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07-28-2012, 12:46 PM | #27 |
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Yep. The US made it to the gold medal match, though I didn't see how they did yet. Been watching the women's soccer team smack Colombia around.
EDIT: Just saw that the US lost to Italy, taking the silver. Apparently it came down to the final arrow though.
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07-28-2012, 12:56 PM | #28 |
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Well, I'm behind in everything. Anyway, currently watching the opening ceremony. The pandemonium sequence was fantastic IMO although Bond and the Queen was a pretty big WTF moment.
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07-28-2012, 01:10 PM | #29 | |
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I'm always surprised that the US womans football team is actually pretty damn good.
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07-28-2012, 01:55 PM | #30 |
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I'm always a little surprised by how many people don't know about Olympic sports.
And then I realize that not everyone is as obsessed with it as I am. Also I just realized that Handball is an Olympic Sport. Table Tennis is still the best Olympic Sport. |
07-28-2012, 02:18 PM | #31 |
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Table Tennis isn't my favorite, but it's definitely up there. So awesome to see how
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07-28-2012, 02:24 PM | #32 |
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Table tennis is awesome. I'd take it over regular tennis any day.
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07-28-2012, 03:05 PM | #34 |
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Just finished watching the opening ceremony, although I skipped through most of the parade. I must say, the torches and the cauldron lighting was awesome. Whoever came up with that, well done!
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07-28-2012, 03:35 PM | #35 |
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Currently watching the women's volleyball match between the US and South Korea... my Lord some of them are tall. The one girl on team USA, Destinee Hooker (snicker) is 6'7" (over 2 meters). Freakin' crazy.
EDIT: "Hooker goes downtown. What an explosion!" -Announcer
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07-28-2012, 04:30 PM | #37 |
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That guy sounds pretty incredible if he was able to become friends with the little shit that used judo on him to steal his Charizard card.
But FUCK YEAH CHARIZARD IN THE OLYMPICS!
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07-28-2012, 10:55 PM | #38 |
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Also, medal count after the first day: China in the lead with 6 medals, 4 gold. Italy's in second with 5 medals, 2 gold. The US is in third, also having 5 medals, but only 1 gold. Team GB got shut out on the first day. Disappointing that Phelps didn't get a medal in the 400 IM, but he still has six more chances to get three medals, which would make him the most decorated athlete in Olympic history. Also, eeeeek someone I know got a medal!
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07-29-2012, 02:42 AM | #39 |
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My problem with athletics (or, anything performance-based) in general - if I watch it long enough, I want to be part of the action. Just watching people do stuff stoked my competitive spirit.
Therefore, I have no desire to watch the Olympics, just read the results. Can't win many Gold Medals from house.
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07-29-2012, 05:38 AM | #40 | |
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Italy starting stong is mainly down to the womens foil fencing being on the first day - they took all three medals there, which isn't surprising in the least (although it is a little disappointing that Valentina Vezzali only took bronze, she won the last three).
Absolutely gutted that Cavendish didn't get a medal in the road race.
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07-29-2012, 09:45 AM | #41 |
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Just watched the Women's road race over sunday dinner. Great play by Armitstead, she did really well. Shame she couldn't quite get gold but when you're up against one of the best in the world that's hard to get. She definitely earned that silver.
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07-30-2012, 01:24 PM | #42 |
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Holy crud the gymnastics was mad. Really disappointing that we didn't get silver in the end, but considering we weren't expecting to be medal contenders a bronze medal is still pretty fantastic.
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07-30-2012, 01:34 PM | #43 |
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Disappointed that the 4x100 free relay team lost out to France last night. IMO, Ryan Lochte shouldn't have even been on the team anyway. We have faster freestylers than him, and he gave up a huge lead on the final leg.
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07-30-2012, 08:51 PM | #45 |
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You know her personally? That's pretty awesome. That's a shame they spoiled you though.
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07-30-2012, 08:59 PM | #46 |
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Yeah, I know Missy. Mainly through friend of a friend kind of thing. My friends Ali and Nate went to Olympic Trials and I talked with her through them, one of my swimming coaches won a medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and sort of knows her, and some of my water polo buds know her too. Haven't talked with her much, but I'm definitely really excited for her. It's just so awesome that... I really can't put it into words, haha.
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07-31-2012, 03:51 AM | #47 |
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An Olympics related story I came across this morning and thought I'd share.
I know this is the day and age of the internet where people mercilessly troll all kinds of people on a daily basis, but it just seems so strange to threaten and tweet abuse to an olympic swimmer because he lost a match? The mind boggles. And the diving is really the only event I've watched so far, and I really enjoyed it~ But in a more humorous and light-hearted Olympic related story, Olympic torch bearer gets tattoo to commemorate her moment but misspells Olympic... |
07-31-2012, 04:27 AM | #48 | |
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Did any of you catch the womens epee semi-finals? Insane. Basically the clock ran down to zero at 5-5 (Shin Lam would've gone through). For no apparent reason that I can find out thus far, the clock was then wound back a second (remember here that the end of a round is almost always called when there are technically two or three seconds to go). They start, Heidemann gets a point (which is very much debatable as whether it was within a second or not), and the South Korean coach gets furious when the point is actually awarded while the fencer herself breaks down in tears.
She managed to pull herself together enough to put up a good fight in the playoff (losing 15-11), but I've gone through several articles on it and no-one seems to have a clue why the clock was wound back when it read that the fight was over. EDIT the first: Also, ignore the BBC and any other articles claiming she "staged a sit in" afterwards - she remained on the piste for an hour while it was sorted out because she had to remain on the piste while the officials argue this kind of thing (her side lodged an appeal). Had she not she'd have made their decision for them.
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07-31-2012, 07:15 AM | #49 |
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Ah, I didn't hear about that. But that sort of sounds similar to what happened in the men's gymnastics last night. At the end, it appeared that GB won the silver medal and Japan won bronze. However, Japan appealed their guy's pommel horse score, and ended up getting the silver medal over GB. I had never seen something like that happen before, but apparently there was medal controversy elsewhere too.
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