Pariah Posted July 30, 2021 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2021 This is cool. A triathlete yelled 'you're a f---ing fighter' and hugged a crying rival who finished last in Olympic final Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted July 30, 2021 Report Share Posted July 30, 2021 Finishing a triathlon at all, let alone in the Olympics, is a cause for celebration! Pariah and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted July 30, 2021 Report Share Posted July 30, 2021 Aussie medalist finds condom offers added protection – for her kayak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 31, 2021 Report Share Posted July 31, 2021 So we have mixed triathlon and mixed swimming relays. Britain got Gold in both. It was the last Olympics for one of the Brownlee brothers and he finally got a gold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 1, 2021 Report Share Posted August 1, 2021 Britain gets a gold in Women's Freestyle BMX as Charlotte Worthington does a trick not performed before in competition. Britain gets a pommel horse gold in gymnastics. Israel gets a gymnastics gold. Biles is not competing at all which is sad. The USA wins the gold in golf with Slovakia getting silver. But there was a seven way play off for bronze which Chinese Taipei won. Germany wins the men's singles tennis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 1, 2021 Report Share Posted August 1, 2021 Belinda Bencic wins gold for Switzerland in women's singles tennis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 1, 2021 Report Share Posted August 1, 2021 The U.S. Men's Fencing Team Wore Pink Face Masks To Protest Their Own Teammate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 1, 2021 Report Share Posted August 1, 2021 Esteban Ocon wins the Hungarian Formula 1 Grand Prix https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/58049146 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 1, 2021 Report Share Posted August 1, 2021 Italy won the men's 100m final. They also shared the gold for the men's high jump with Qatar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 2, 2021 Report Share Posted August 2, 2021 Morocco wins the gold in the men's 3000m steeplechase. First gold medal since 2004 Britain wins the team eventing for the first time since 1972. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted August 2, 2021 Report Share Posted August 2, 2021 F1 champ Sebastian Vettel reprimanded over Pride t-shirt at Hungarian Grand Prix unclevlad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 2, 2021 Report Share Posted August 2, 2021 Belarus athlete will fly to Poland after refusing to be forcibly repatriated Lily King calls BS on not celebrating silver and gold medals I agree with her statement. I've seen a lot of comments with the "silver medalist is the first loser" (their words exactly) attitude. Yet the US media counts silver and bronze to rank the countries in Olympic achievement. You can't have it both ways. and let's see the armchair quarterbacks do any better. And to quote the US Women's Gymnastics Team, they "don't owe you a gold medal." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 2, 2021 Report Share Posted August 2, 2021 Piers Morgan did the same thing over here about British silver and bronze medalists https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/piers-morgan-lashes-out-olympic-24623834 However he lost his job after criticising the Duchess of Sussex earlier this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted August 2, 2021 Report Share Posted August 2, 2021 It is, unfortunately, deeply entrenched in modern culture. Fine, it might be a movie line, but "second place is first loser" resonated because it only said what so many already believe. I've certainly heard horror stories about similar situations...gymnastics was a big one. But not the only one. They're predominant in Eastern Europe and China...but that's merely the more blatant. Consider the best NFL runs...Pats of course, Steelers, Cowboys. Where do you put the Bills? 4 straight Super Bowls is insanely good. 4 straight losses and you're buried. Second place is first loser. Plenty of other examples. Athletes making political statements at victory ceremonies isn't something I particularly like...but it's also the only place anyone tends to pay attention to many of them, that aren't in the limelight at any other time. But silence is how oppression thrives. EDIT: scrolled down to some of the comments after the Morgan story. You want even more ugly...the Biles bashing was even nastier. "Chicken out" and "tantrum" were tossed out. That's a little different; I think that's closer to toxic masculinity. But the two notions are connected to a degree, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 3, 2021 Report Share Posted August 3, 2021 Biles came back to do one apparatus final and got bronze in the beam. Britain got two gold medals in the sailing and a whole bunch of silvers in the cycling, boxing and on the track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2021 16 hours ago, unclevlad said: Consider the best NFL runs...Pats of course, Steelers, Cowboys. Where do you put the Bills? 4 straight Super Bowls is insanely good. 4 straight losses and you're buried. Second place is first loser. Plenty of other examples. Four straight Super Bowls isn't just insanely good, it's unprecedented. It's literally never been done before or since. No other team can say that they've been to four consecutive Super Bowls. Not the Steelers, not the Cowboys, not the Patriots. The Broncos get some of this flak too because they lost five Super Bowls, all in embarrassing fashion. But to lose five Super Bowls, you have to go to five Super Bowls. How many teams can say that?* And hey, the Broncos have also managed to win three Super Bowls along the way. That's not nothing. (It's also worth noting that the Patriots have also lost five Super Bowls, but nobody talks about that much. Funny how that works, yeah?) So to all the haters and the analysts and the armchair quarterbacks who are promulgating The Myth Of The First Loser, pick a direction and walk till your hat floats. Better yet, let's have an in-depth conversation about the last time you finished first--in anything. -- * The answer to that question is 10: Patriots, Cowboys, Steelers, Broncos, 49ers, WFT, Packers, Dolphins, Giants, and Raiders. About a third of the league, in other words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted August 3, 2021 Report Share Posted August 3, 2021 I haven't watched any sailing in ages...ESPN showed the America's Cup a few times. The event itself is kinda dull as a spectator sport, but the open water was gorgeous. What I do like to watch from time to time, are the whitewater sports. What's going on is interesting and easy to follow. And clearly challenging. Kind of appropriate here to note that the Winter Olympics are 6 months away...almost to the day, as I write this. Feb. 4th. But there'll be the same time-shifting issues, because they're being held in China. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 3, 2021 Report Share Posted August 3, 2021 Sailing is like most Nordic skiing events: yeah, boring to watch. Even biathlon, where they give the skiers rifles, but don't allow them to shoot at each other. That suggests the addition of a couple of shore batteries or floating mines would liven things up considerably. Or maybe even boarding actions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted August 3, 2021 Report Share Posted August 3, 2021 Have the karate tournaments begun in the Olympics? Either NBC isn't broadcasting them, or I missed them altogether. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 3, 2021 Report Share Posted August 3, 2021 The Radio Times over here did a day by day guide to the Games. Karate is Thursday through Saturday Pariah, tkdguy and Cancer 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 In the NHL, Evander Kane of the San Jose Sharrks is being investigated for betting on hockey -- including his own games -- on the basis of accusations from the wife who is divorcing him (partly on the grounds of domestic abuse). The accusations were spread on Social Media and are denied by the player. The problem is that the NHL, like the other major pro leagues in the US, has started to embrace the inevitable rise of online and casino betting on games. This puts the league in a very awkward position -- if players betting threatens the game, then why is the NHL cozying up with all these sportsbooks and casinos? Yhe problem is that even if they prove to be baseless, the cloud over Evander Kane will linger through the rest of his life, long after his feats on the ice fade into obscurity with time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 Can you say Pete Rose ? Meanwhile Britain gets a gold in the sailing, a silver and bronze in boxing and our youngest ever competitor gets a bronze in skateboarding. Brazil wins in the 10Km swimming. And the USA won the women's 400m hurdles. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 Britain have reached their target which was 45 medals in total. Not 45 gold or 45 silver or 45 bronze but 45 in total. We got a showjumping gold. And our heptathlete is out injured. Canada wins the Mens 200m Poland wins Men's hammer Kenya won Men's 800m Uganda wins Women's 3000m steeplechase And it is nice to see Australia doing well Italy won the cycling team pursuit with Filippo Ganna the World Time Trial champion part of the squad. That's two current Olympian gold medallists that Ineos have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 4, 2021 Report Share Posted August 4, 2021 China won half the golds in the weightlifting but the last batch had Georgia, Syria and Iran winning Gold, Silver and Bronze. The guy from Georgia set new world records in snatch lift and clean and jerk lift. It looked like he could do more but you only get three lifts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 5, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2021 The USA men's basketball team went from 15 down in the 2nd quarter to 19 up at the end of the third and ended up beating Australia to clinch a spot in the gold medal game. They'll play the winner of France vs. Slovenia, which game starts in about 20 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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