07-31-2012, 09:52 AM | #51 | |
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In fairness though, the rule by which she'd have gone through on the 5-5 results is something hilariously arbitrary ("last person to have scored a point", if I'm remembering it right, which only really indicates that she was losing up until the latter stages of normal time), and the point that won Heidemann the match would've been not only legit but really quite impressive were everyone not so focussed on the timing controversy (debatably within a second where the typical point probably takes around thirty seconds or more, epee being pretty cagey, and a very nice attack).
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Watched the woman's gymnastics today. The USA really were a cut above the rest, and I never thought I'd enjoy gymnastics as much as it turns out I do. Huh.
It does help that one of the British Team is a made-of-awesome nerdfighter. But the medals really haven't been coming in for Team GB thus far. I'm still optimistic as a lot of sports we're good at still haven't been played, but yeah, not fun. Oh and congrats to Phelps and all. That's a record that's going to be hard to beat. Last edited by Handymankg2; 07-31-2012 at 04:34 PM. |
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Kept an eye on women's football and men's volleyball because Team GB. Our women's football team is looking solid, I have to say. Didn't watch it all the way through, but I was quite impressed with what I saw. Not that anyone cares about women's football. Men's volleyball was a disappointment, but I think we knew we weren't too likely to get past the groups anyway, and it wasn't an absolutely massive defeat. I had to switch over from BBC Three soon after, though, as they started covering USA vs. Tunisia in basketball, and every time Durant was mentioned I giggled. Liking Murray's performance so far in the men's singles; with Nadal out it almost feels like another shot at Wimbledon (although he's got Djokovic in his half this time, IIRC). Tennis players have never really been judged on Olympic medals, but it'd be a nice boost and he really has a shot in 3 sets. His win over Nieminen was fairly straightforward, which is nice. Although Federer totally will get gold... |
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I only caught some of the preliminaries for men's volleyball. It was the USA vs. Germany. Apparently the USA is #1 in the world and Germany is #2? I watched it during lunch for about 15-20 minutes. Really solid performances by both teams, I'd have walked away with a bloody nose and broken fingers from about half of those plays they were so powerful. I haven't seen Great Britain's men's team compete in the sport but watching the USA vs. Germany match it seemed like only one or the other of those two teams was going to inevitably take home the gold. (Just looked it up right now. Apparently we were in Preliminary Group B and we won. We were awarded 3 points for our win, Germany sitting at 0. Tough break. On August 2 it looks like we play Brazil while ze Chermans plays the Serbs. You guys play the Italians. Good luck!)
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Absolutely. Russia had a few bad moves here and there, like the one girl on the balance beam and the other on the floor exercise. Though Team USA came to play. High scores by everyone in everything. They really earned it, and even though I already knew what was going to happen, I was still on the edge of my seat.
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Anyone know where I can watch these after the fact? I figured they'd have an official channel lined up with this stuff on YouTube but I guess the television networks begged/legally bound Google not to? 'Cause when I tried going to what looked like the official London 2012 YouTube page (here) it was just a bunch of shitty little videos with random young adults who didn't appear to be athletes and the occasional odd interview with an athlete here or there, all of it looking like it was filmed before the games began. I guess I had just assumed that in this digital age it'd be quite obvious that they'd stream the events with or without commercials for everyone to enjoy watching online. But apparently not. I guess it's a bandwidth problem. No amount of ads would offset the bandwidth hit of 1.2 billion people trying to access your server all the time for gigs' worth of streaming video data.
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Don't know where you can find stuff that's been and gone, but anything that's happening that day can be found on the BBC website and you can pause and rewind and so on, so that'll let you catch up on anything that happened earlier that day.
In other news, woooo first gold for GB! A clear win too.
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Saw the rowing event you "spoiled" us on this morning about half an hour ago. I had heard NBC was delaying things for the American television broadcasting but I figured it'd only be by five hours at the worst. Eight hours is a bit ridiculous. ^_^; Could be worse though: could be like when the Olympics were in Australia or China and everything was television-delayed and internet-spoiled. At least here we have some live events, like (apparently) the US women's indoor volleyball team squaring off against China right now.
EDIT: Said volleyball match just finished. Thoughts. Spoiler: show
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I just saw what was probably the most disgusting act of shoddy officiating in a while.
I turned on some Olympic boxing on a whim, and caught the end of a fight between a guy from Azerbaijan and a Japanese guy. In the final round, the guy from Japan knocked down his opponent with a punch. This would normally call for the usual count to ten. However, the referee didn't initiate a count, instead telling the Azerbaijan guy to stand up. He did, and the match continued. This happened about ten times during the final round, sometimes the Azerbaijan guy falling over after hardly being touched. My thought was that he was injured. At any rate, it was clear that the ref was screwing over the Japanese boxer by not issuing the count when he knocked down the guy from Azerbaijan. The announcers wholeheartedly agreed with me, haha. Anyway, what made this even more shocking for me was that the Azerbaijan boxer won the fight. This was clearly some dodgy officiating by the ref, and I feel that he should be disqualified immediately. Can't find a video of it yet, but I'm sure that there will be one soon. EDIT: Apparently there was a major issue in one other match today. One just finished, but I missed it because I was eating dinner. EDIT2: Didn't see it, and couldn't find a video of it, so I'll just quote a short little piece I found on the second match. Quote:
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Sounds like the Roy Jones, Jr. incident I mentioned yesterday. If 1988's any indication, the IOC won't award the Japanese guy the medal even if they agree the ref cheated and they fire him. So yeah, the Japanese guy's most likely screwed.
One has to imagine how much money that referee was offered and whether he'll ever actually see 1% of it or not.
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08-01-2012, 06:46 PM | #62 |
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Boxing in general has always been dodgy, but the corruption is really plain to see right now all around. In pro boxing a month or so ago Manny Pacquiao was defeated by Timothy Bradley in what was called a fixed match, where Pacquiao dominated for most of the fight until the later rounds but was defeated by a close margin. Allegedly, it shouldn't have been close at all.
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Man, channel nine coverage of the olympics just hit a new low. The favorite for the 100 meter freestyle, James Magnussen, lost his race by a hundredth of a second and immediately after he hoists himself out of the pool they have a microphone in his face and just start asking him the most brutal questions. The sort of questions that are rough even when you've had some time for the shock to subside, but they just went after him. Now I feel bad for rooting against him so they wouldn't just be showing replays of his race all day, so harsh.
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08-01-2012, 08:27 PM | #64 |
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Yeah channel 9 is getting worse and worse, I have FOXTEL though so I can watch other stuff rather than microphones being stuffed into faces. :P
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If you can watch things other than swimming you are the envy of all Australians.
Thank goodness I have internet TV.
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08-02-2012, 09:37 AM | #69 |
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...that is fantastic. Better than the debacle when S. Korea's flag was shown instead of N. Korea's.
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Just went down the shop and saw the front page of some of the papers - the bigger tabloids (Sun, Mirror, Daily Mail, etc) all have suitably "WE ARE THE BEST EVER WE GOT TWO GOLDS YESTERDAY FUCK YEAH BRITAIN IS THE BEST" jingoist headlines after we managed to drag ourselves up to the heady heights of ... eleventh place.
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Awesome, I think those two bump us up to fifth place. Just ahead of naughty Korea.
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Q: How can you tell which one's Nice Korea and which one's Naughty Korea?
A: Nice Korea has a seoul.
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har har har
Also just watched the end of Women's Individual. I was rooting for Mexico, but tbh, after being so close, I was kinda happy that Korea won. The Gold seemed to matter more to Korea and Mexico was just happy to be there. Wonderful outcome. |
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