July 30, 20213 yr Author comment_2836972 This is cool. A triathlete yelled 'you're a f---ing fighter' and hugged a crying rival who finished last in Olympic final
July 30, 20213 yr comment_2836978 Finishing a triathlon at all, let alone in the Olympics, is a cause for celebration!
July 30, 20213 yr comment_2836983 Aussie medalist finds condom offers added protection – for her kayak
July 31, 20213 yr comment_2837023 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.
August 1, 20213 yr comment_2837105 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
August 1, 20213 yr comment_2837127 Belinda Bencic wins gold for Switzerland in women's singles tennis.
August 1, 20213 yr comment_2837128 The U.S. Men's Fencing Team Wore Pink Face Masks To Protest Their Own Teammate
August 1, 20213 yr comment_2837135 Esteban Ocon wins the Hungarian Formula 1 Grand Prix https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/58049146
August 1, 20213 yr comment_2837148 Italy won the men's 100m final. They also shared the gold for the men's high jump with Qatar
August 2, 20213 yr comment_2837202 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.
August 2, 20213 yr comment_2837203 F1 champ Sebastian Vettel reprimanded over Pride t-shirt at Hungarian Grand Prix
August 2, 20213 yr comment_2837233 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."
August 2, 20213 yr comment_2837236 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.
August 2, 20213 yr comment_2837265 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.
August 3, 20213 yr comment_2837301 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.
August 3, 20213 yr Author comment_2837308 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.
August 3, 20213 yr comment_2837312 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.
August 3, 20213 yr comment_2837321 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.
August 3, 20213 yr comment_2837337 Have the karate tournaments begun in the Olympics? Either NBC isn't broadcasting them, or I missed them altogether.
August 3, 20213 yr comment_2837347 The Radio Times over here did a day by day guide to the Games. Karate is Thursday through Saturday
August 4, 20213 yr comment_2837382 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.
August 4, 20213 yr comment_2837400 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.
August 4, 20213 yr comment_2837416 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.
August 4, 20213 yr comment_2837429 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.
August 5, 20213 yr Author comment_2837548 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.
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