Cancer Posted July 24, 2021 Report Share Posted July 24, 2021 After having their season-opening lossless streak broken by the MInnesota Loons, Seattle goes to the home stadium of the new franchise in Austin. With their squad all but gutted by injuries, international duties, and a suspension, Brian Schmetzer puts FIVE teenagers on the field... and wins on a shot by the 31-year-old Ruidiaz that, if the announcer had been Mexican rather than English, he would still be howling out an extended GOOOOLLLLLAAAAAZZOOOOOOOO.... highlights etc here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 24, 2021 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2021 After all the crap she took at the French Open, it's really gratifying to see Naomi Osaka light the Olympic torch in Tokyo. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 24, 2021 Report Share Posted July 24, 2021 The Men's Road Race has taken place at the Olympics with Richard Carapaz taking the Gold. He beat Pogacar who won the Tour where Richard came third. This is good for Ecuador as it gives them a highly visible medal and Ineos as they now have the Olympic Champion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 24, 2021 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2021 Holy crap, Richard Carapaz won that race by well over half a kilometer. Unreal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 24, 2021 Report Share Posted July 24, 2021 That doubles Ecuador's Gold medal tally. He will definitely be in the running in Paris and maybe in 2032. maybe Pogacar made a mistake as when Carapaz made a break the other guy was a UAE rider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 25, 2021 Report Share Posted July 25, 2021 Well Britain has its first medals which is a relief. One silver and one bronze. The Women's cycling threw up a real upset. Anna Kiesenhofer of Austria won gold by getting away in a breakaway and not being caught. She had about a 1 Km lead when she finished. Austria last won a cycling medal 125 years ago. The Dutch should have managed a pursuit but failed to realise that there were three ahead and not two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 25, 2021 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2021 So the USA men's basketball team opened their Olympic experience by losing to France, 83-76. It's become obvious in the last decade or so that the talent gap between the United States and the rest of the world has become very narrow. The only way Team USA is going to win the gold here is by playing very good basketball. And sadly, I don't think a lot of American players really know how to play fundamentally sound basketball. What they play in the NBA isn't very much like the actual game of basketball, as it turns out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 25, 2021 Report Share Posted July 25, 2021 There are reasons why I haven't watched the NBA since the Bird-Johnson-Erving era. Jordan was great, unimaginably great, but what his ability did for the quality of the game and how the NBA chose to evolve in pursuit of more press and more profits turned their product into something I find unwatchable. The public display of contempt by the league office when the Sonics were moved out to Oklahoma iced the deal. BIH, David Stern. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 26, 2021 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2021 Okay, I'm impressed. 46-year-old gymnast competes in 8th Olympics, proves age is just a number Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 26, 2021 Report Share Posted July 26, 2021 A couple of women in Team USA have made history in fencing and taekwondo Lee Kiefer wins gold at individual foil Anastija Zolotic wins gold in taekwondo Not to be outdone, Japan dominates in Judo, where siblings win gold in their respective matches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted July 26, 2021 Report Share Posted July 26, 2021 12 hours ago, Pariah said: So the USA men's basketball team opened their Olympic experience by losing to France, 83-76. It's become obvious in the last decade or so that the talent gap between the United States and the rest of the world has become very narrow. The only way Team USA is going to win the gold here is by playing very good basketball. And sadly, I don't think a lot of American players really know how to play fundamentally sound basketball. What they play in the NBA isn't very much like the actual game of basketball, as it turns out. There was a lot of NBA talent on each team. Personally if I wanted to watch the NBA players play, I'd watch the NBA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 26, 2021 Report Share Posted July 26, 2021 Well Britain now has gold medals. One of our racing certainties won (Adam Peaty) and I saw Tom Pidcock win the cyclocross gold. But the one gold that Britain got was for Tom Daley who is from Plymouth. He has competed in four Olympics but this is the first time he has got the gold. This was in pairs synchronised diving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 27, 2021 Report Share Posted July 27, 2021 Osaka is out of the tennis. Andy Murray has dropped out of the singles but will still play doubles. Bermuda have won a gold in the triathlon. Saw a news item about the Australian surfer winning bronze. But this is the guy who suffered a brain injury and has had to recover. What is making the news from the Olympics for the Australians ? Seriously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted July 27, 2021 Report Share Posted July 27, 2021 Japanese judokas become first brother and sister to win gold at same Olympics I hope they don't have any other siblings at home. No pressure. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted July 27, 2021 Report Share Posted July 27, 2021 One of the issues for USA Basketball is that the NBA's become largely a freedom of movement league, with an overwhelming focus on 3s. That game can be squeezed...the Bucks showed this quite emphatically. International rules allow much more physical defense...like, gee, what the Bucks did to the Suns. It also shows the problem with the thought that if one superstar is good, 7 is better. NOT necessarily...particularly this year with little time to acclimate to each other. They don't know how to play *together*, don't know who should be doing what. They're thinking too much, not reacting. Basically, they're this year's Nets. And on the flip side, going with too much offensive focus leads to defensive weaknesses...so you can't squeeze the other team. I also think that scheduling played a big factor. The 2019 Finals ended a month earlier, which means every other round completed faster. There was no time to assemble this team. Whoa...this in, Simone Biles withdraws from the Olympics before the team finals.... Mental health cited. This is going to raise eyebrows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 27, 2021 Report Share Posted July 27, 2021 Watch how she lands after a vault. Something is up. There have been cases where the invincible suddenly become vulnerable. One of Twae Kwan Do athletes got caught the same way and lost in Tokyo. archer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 27, 2021 Report Share Posted July 27, 2021 Here are a couple more firsts in Olympic history: Estonia wins first gold medal in Fencing Philippines wins its first Olympic gold medal in Weightlifting No surprises here: Germany wins gold in Team Dressage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted July 27, 2021 Report Share Posted July 27, 2021 1 hour ago, unclevlad said: Whoa...this in, Simone Biles withdraws from the Olympics before the team finals.... Mental health cited. This is going to raise eyebrows. Do you know if the US will be able to sub in someone or are they just out of contention? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted July 27, 2021 Report Share Posted July 27, 2021 IIRC they take 6 and field 4, so, yes, they subbed. Took silver. EDIT: DOH!!! In the team competition, which this was, the whole team is in play. They pick 4 per apparatus, but it need not be the same 4 each time. There is little reason to require a team to specify which 4 before their rotation on a given apparatus comes up, and AFAIK no such requirement exists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 28, 2021 Report Share Posted July 28, 2021 Brazil took gold in the men's surfing while America took gold in the women's. This is the only medal for America other than the gymnastics I knew anything about. Primoz Roglic won the cycling time trial with Tom Dumoulin taking silver. This is good for both as Roglic missed out on the Tour de France last year and crashed out this year while Dumoulin took a break from cycling at the start of the year. To get a silver as he did at Rio is good. elsewhere the steering went wrong for one of our rowing events. And Biles is out of the all round final. If someone of her calibre decides to pull out and the team officials are supporting her that says an awful lot. That she is also making it public is good as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 29, 2021 Report Share Posted July 29, 2021 Women's Team Foil: The USA soundly defeats Japan in the quarterfinals but narrowly loses to the ROC in the semifinals. I may have jinxed the team by making harakiri jokes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 29, 2021 Report Share Posted July 29, 2021 Fiji won the Rugby Sevens retaining the gold they won in Rio. It maybe the only medal they win at all but this is good for them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 30, 2021 Report Share Posted July 30, 2021 43-man Squamish Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 30, 2021 Report Share Posted July 30, 2021 Suni Lee wins all-around competition It's kind of annoying that the news outlets printed the story before NBC aired the competition. Spoilers, anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 30, 2021 Report Share Posted July 30, 2021 Britain got Gold and Silver in the BMX so now have golds in all the cycling disciplines over the Olympic history. Bronze in women's trampoline behind two Chinese athletes. Silver and bronze in the swimming as well. And finally break the coming fourth in the rowing with two bronze. Ethiopia win the 10,000 m gold, the first track final in Tokyo Djokovic out of the tennis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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