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Title: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on December 16, 2011, 02:12:39 PM
For all the sports too small to get their own thread. In other words, an excuse to talk about Denmark's women handball team.

Right now La Marseillaise is playing, and soon Der er et yndigt land. It's the semis and we're going to lose!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on December 16, 2011, 02:15:11 PM
Texas' womans volleyball team is full of a bunch of miserable chokers.  :mad:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on December 16, 2011, 02:18:35 PM
Does the women teams have nicknames like the nfl teams, etc? Texas Ponies?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on December 16, 2011, 02:21:47 PM
Quote from: Liep on December 16, 2011, 02:18:35 PM
Does the women teams have nicknames like the nfl teams, etc? Texas Ponies?

Yes but this is college so the women's teams and the men's teams usually have the same name.  So they are also the Longhorns...so basically they are all a bunch of cows.  I guess that is better than our men's teams who are all a bunch of steers.

The only exception is if the men's team is called something like 'The Cowboys' then the women are 'The Cowgirls'.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: HVC on December 16, 2011, 02:23:30 PM
sexists. they should both be called the cowpeople.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: MadImmortalMan on December 16, 2011, 02:27:41 PM
Quote from: HVC on December 16, 2011, 02:23:30 PM
sexists. they should both be called the cowpeople.

Discriminates against the thin.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: HVC on December 16, 2011, 02:32:07 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on December 16, 2011, 02:27:41 PM
Quote from: HVC on December 16, 2011, 02:23:30 PM
sexists. they should both be called the cowpeople.

Discriminates against the thin.
uhmm.. Horse Riding Cow Torturing People is just too long though
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on December 16, 2011, 02:37:14 PM
7 - 7, both have had a good period, but the French are missing Pineau and so far survives on contra and rebounds.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on December 16, 2011, 03:48:00 PM
As predicted we lost.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 16, 2011, 04:11:49 PM
So that people don't get confused with American handball/pelota vasca, I suggest that in future you refer to team handball as handebol.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josephus on December 16, 2011, 04:18:51 PM
Quote from: Liep on December 16, 2011, 02:12:39 PM
For all the sports too small to get their own thread. In other words, an excuse to talk about Denmark's women handball team.

Right now La Marseillaise is playing, and soon Der er et yndigt land. It's the semis and we're going to lose!

Are they hawwwt.?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on December 16, 2011, 04:22:03 PM
I don't know what American handball is, but it seems like a good name for whatever it is.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on December 16, 2011, 04:25:09 PM
Quote from: Josephus on December 16, 2011, 04:18:51 PM

Are they hawwwt.?

This generation is rather pleasing compared to the last.
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Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 16, 2011, 04:34:06 PM
#10 has a head shaped like a krog.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Ed Anger on December 16, 2011, 04:40:01 PM
I wouldn't pollute my precious bodily fluids with Danish contamination.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 16, 2011, 04:41:49 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 16, 2011, 04:40:01 PM
I wouldn't pollute my precious bodily fluids with Danish contamination.

You're a weirdo.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Ed Anger on December 16, 2011, 04:46:52 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 16, 2011, 04:41:49 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 16, 2011, 04:40:01 PM
I wouldn't pollute my precious bodily fluids with Danish contamination.

You're a weirdo.

I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.

But I... I do deny them my essence.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josephus on December 16, 2011, 06:30:28 PM
Hawwt enough
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Brain on December 16, 2011, 06:34:27 PM
It takes Americans to fuck up something as gay as handball.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 23, 2012, 11:39:37 PM
Danes won against the Germans to stay alive in the Euro Cup (handball), but Wozzy is behind against Clijsters. A bad day all in all as this means more articles about how Wozniacki is number one but can't win the big tournaments and I have to suffer through more handball at work.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Jacob on January 24, 2012, 12:09:56 AM
Quote from: Liep on January 23, 2012, 11:39:37 PM
Danes won against the Germans to stay alive in the Euro Cup (handball), but Wozzy is behind against Clijsters. A bad day all in all as this means more articles about how Wozniacki is number one but can't win the big tournaments and I have to suffer through more handball at work.

An elementary school friend claims that handball is a Jute-sport.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 24, 2012, 12:12:54 AM
It is. The midsized jute towns are crazy with it.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 24, 2012, 12:18:54 AM
And she lost. :(
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Viking on January 24, 2012, 12:21:18 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 16, 2011, 04:11:49 PM
So that people don't get confused with American handball/pelota vasca, I suggest that in future you refer to team handball as handebol.

Considering how many scandies we have here we should rather refer to it as "Handball" or "Handbolti"
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Eddie Teach on January 24, 2012, 01:13:49 AM
We could just not refer to it at all.  :huh:


I wonder, are there places out there where people get paid to play racquetball.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 25, 2012, 11:55:58 AM
Poland beats Germany 33-32 in an intense game. If we win over Sweden later we'll be through, there is now no way of avoiding a national meltdown, win or lose.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 25, 2012, 12:00:25 PM
Headline in the tabloids: "Tak, tak, tak, Polen!"

First time in a while the Jutes have been cheering for pollacks I imagine, usually it's "go back from whence you came! (but first finish the job on our roof for this low pay)"
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 27, 2012, 07:40:08 PM
L'Équipe: "Le miracle danois continue".

Sunday is the final against Serbia in Belgrade. It'll be loud and unwinnable.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: szmik on January 28, 2012, 05:16:45 PM
Now you have to win, so we can get to Olympic qualification tourney.  :glare:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 28, 2012, 05:25:54 PM
They'll likely all be blinded by the 2nd half so I can't see how. :P
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: szmik on January 28, 2012, 05:35:50 PM
They hit their own players  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 29, 2012, 11:31:55 AM
Serbia - Denmark is on and no one has been injured by objects thrown from the stands yet. 7 - 8 and there's 3 minutes left of the first half.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 29, 2012, 11:58:11 AM
The live update feed I'm following is using a lot of exclamation marks, so I assume it's exciting. 10 - 12.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 29, 2012, 12:26:24 PM
To quote the newspapers: "JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Jacob on January 29, 2012, 01:00:36 PM
I enjoyed how Politiken used the metaphor of cleaning a toilet to describe the victory.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on April 04, 2012, 05:05:08 PM
Wozniacki released a single... it's probably on the top 10 list of worst songs I've ever heard.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/video/other-10107917/caroline-wozniacki-oxygen-28829588.html
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 13, 2012, 08:09:41 AM
Just heard on the radio that Andy Schleck is out of this year's Tour. What a waste of talent that guy has been so far.

Maybe I should root for Wiggins this year.. go Brits!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on June 13, 2012, 08:17:21 AM
Old news but THW Kiel won the men's handball triple: championship, national cup, champions league. :schleswig-holstein:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Octavian on June 13, 2012, 12:03:26 PM
Quote from: Liep on April 04, 2012, 05:05:08 PM
Wozniacki released a single... it's probably on the top 10 list of worst songs I've ever heard.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/video/other-10107917/caroline-wozniacki-oxygen-28829588.html

That's got to be a joke!

WTF!!!!!! :bleeding:

For the record she's Polish!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 14, 2012, 07:17:23 AM
And then the only guy who didn't dope himself apparently doped himself. Surprise. Surprise.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/armstrong-charged-with-doping-by-usada

Quote from: Cycling NewsSeven-time Tour de France winner banned from competitions

Lance Armstrong has been formally charged with doping by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) according to the Washington Post. The seven-time Tour de France winner has been banned from competition effective immediately, including triathlons which he has been racing since he retired from pro road cycling in 2011.

The Washington Post reported on a copy of a 15-page letter sent to Lance Armstrong by USADA on Tuesday. In it, the agency alleged that some of Armstrong's blood samples from 2009 and 2010 were "fully consistent with blood manipulation including EPO use and/or blood transfusions."

Armstrong has never tested positive in any doping tests.

The news comes after the US federal government ended an investigation into doping allegations abruptly in February. The nearly two-year grand jury investigation was closed with no charges brought.  The Food and Drug Adminstration's Jeff Novitzky had headed the investigation.  Armstrong had welcomed the end of federal investigation earlier this year.

The Washington Post reported that Armstrong's attorney Robert D. Luskin called USADA's latest allegations a product of "malice and spite" on behalf of USADA, which for years has been seeking information on whether Armstrong doped. He pointed to all of Armstrong's passed drug tests and said the letter was a result of a conspiracy against Armstrong since several teams and riders are mentioned, but his client is the only one charged.

USADA has been conducting its own investigation separate from that done by the federal government. USADA has the authority to suspend dopers from competition in Olympic sports and it can take back awards, but it cannot press criminal charges.

The letter accuses not only Armstrong, but also five associates, including three doctors and team manager Johan Bruyneel. It says that they "engaged in a massive doping conspiracy from 1998-2011" and cites the testimony of more than 10 cyclists. Michele Ferrari is one of the named doctors.

In its letter, USADA says Armstrong used EPO, blood transfusions, testosterone, corticosteroids and masking agents as well as distributed them and administered them to others.

Luskin reported that USADA had invited Armstrong to meet last week, but Armstrong chose not to do so.

USADA had previously said it would obtain information from the US Attorney's federal investigation once its case had closed.  "Unlike the U.S. Attorney, USADA's job is to protect clean sport rather than enforce specific criminal laws," Tygart had said in a statement.

Armstrong responds

On his website on Wednesday, Armstrong issued a statement in response to the USADA letter and allegations.

"I have been notified that USADA, an organization largely funded by taxpayer dollars but governed only by self-written rules, intends to again dredge up discredited allegations dating back more than 16 years to prevent me from competing as a triathlete and try and strip me of the seven Tour de France victories I earned. These are the very same charges and the same witnesses that the Justice Department chose not to pursue after a two-year investigation. These charges are baseless, motivated by spite and advanced through testimony bought and paid for by promises of anonymity and immunity. Although USADA alleges a wide-ranging conspiracy extended over more than 16 years, I am the only athlete it has chosen to charge. USADA's malice, its methods, its star-chamber practices, and its decision to punish first and adjudicate later all are at odds with our ideals of fairness and fair play.

"I have never doped, and, unlike many of my accusers, I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one. That USADA ignores this fundamental distinction and charges me instead of the admitted dopers says far more about USADA, its lack of fairness and this vendetta than it does about my guilt or innocence."
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 14, 2012, 07:19:33 AM
Someone should tell Armstrong that all doping agencies operate only by self-written rules. I also like his excuse that those scienceguys that accuse him haven't competed on the top level and so don't know shit.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on June 14, 2012, 07:23:04 AM
Yo, Liep, you had subscribed to NFL Game Pass last year, right? How was it? Was it only for live games? Or could you also watch the games after the fact?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 14, 2012, 07:31:34 AM
Quote from: Syt on June 14, 2012, 07:23:04 AM
Yo, Liep, you had subscribed to NFL Game Pass last year, right? How was it? Was it only for live games? Or could you also watch the games after the fact?

All games, also after they were played. I'm pretty sure all weeks were available, but it could've been just three weeks back or something.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 14, 2012, 07:33:47 AM
Also, if you plan on getting it I had better results using internet explorer. Firefox sometimes went to low quality for no reason.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on June 14, 2012, 07:54:36 AM
Ok, thanks for the heads up.

I've cancelled my TV subscription, and the only thing I felt I might be missing was the NFL coverage (though I may miss College Game Day, too, as it was a nice thing to leave running on Saturday afternoons). That way I have at least the games covered if not the pre-game/half-time shows (was ESPN, anyways).
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 14, 2012, 07:57:27 AM
They have 3 hours worth of pre-game shows on the NFL network. Also halftime shows from the respective channels.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on June 14, 2012, 08:18:20 AM
Yeah, the NFL network is like 15/month, right?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 14, 2012, 08:21:19 AM
No idea, it was included in the gamepass package.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on June 14, 2012, 08:42:19 AM
That's cool, then.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 27, 2012, 10:38:42 AM
Having somehow managed to sneak under the Languish radar Wimbledon has actually already started. Wozzy won first set against some Austrian. GO PIOTR!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 27, 2012, 12:27:33 PM
Wozzy is out and thus continues her decline. Peaked at 20!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 30, 2012, 08:35:00 AM
Tour de France 2012 a commencé! Boasson Hagan has taken the lead by a second and is looking good. Will it be enough to deter Wiggins or Cancellara though?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 06, 2012, 12:39:56 PM
Frederik Løchte Nielsen and some Brit is in the final in the gentlemen's double in Wimbledon. Go #TheRoyalDouble!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on July 06, 2012, 12:41:47 PM
Tsonga got hit in the nuts :bleeding: :weep:

Someone in the crowd shouted 'new balls please' :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 06, 2012, 12:42:35 PM
:lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: sbr on July 06, 2012, 12:48:24 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 07, 2012, 04:03:01 PM
Nielsen and Marray won the men's double, first Dane to ever win and first Brit to win in 70 something years.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 07, 2012, 04:51:01 PM
Too bad there are about as many people who care about doubles as about team handball. :console:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: szmik on July 08, 2012, 02:53:32 PM
Poland beat USA at volleyball World League final  :showoff:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 26, 2012, 08:06:34 AM
Went to the Tour of Denmark, but gave up on reaching avenue with the goal line. Got this shot of Cavendish on Valby Bakke though.

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Cavendish ved Danmark Rundt (http://www.flickr.com/photos/le_moulin_de_la_galette/7863765760/)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on August 27, 2012, 06:06:00 AM
The youngest Ladies PGA winner:

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Lydia Ko, New Zealand (born in South Korea), 15 years 4 months.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Caliga on August 27, 2012, 03:45:01 PM
Can we talk about NASCAR in this thread?  What about WWE? :cool:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 27, 2012, 03:52:25 PM
Comparing the picture above with the picture below I don't see why we're not already talking about NASCAR.

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Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on August 28, 2012, 07:27:06 AM
Quote from: Caliga on August 27, 2012, 03:45:01 PM
Can we talk about NASCAR in this thread?  What about WWE? :cool:

Yes.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 28, 2012, 07:33:15 AM
Quote from: Caliga on August 27, 2012, 03:45:01 PM
Can we talk about NASCAR in this thread?  What about WWE? :cool:

Not really sports, though I suppose you could talk about hunting and fishing too while you're at it. /shrug
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Ed Anger on August 28, 2012, 07:51:54 AM
Danica Patrick sucks.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 29, 2012, 07:52:59 AM
Board member of the Danish Cycling Union has been tested positive for the use of doping, he's 47. Wooo!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 29, 2012, 09:10:08 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 28, 2012, 07:51:54 AM
Danica Patrick sucks.

I wouldn't mind seeing a video of that.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Ed Anger on August 29, 2012, 09:17:23 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 29, 2012, 09:10:08 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 28, 2012, 07:51:54 AM
Danica Patrick sucks.

I wouldn't mind seeing a video of that.

I assume she is sucking Little E to get a ride, since she has no driving talent.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on August 29, 2012, 09:19:38 AM
To turn left? No one needs that.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 31, 2012, 03:25:41 AM
Quote from: Lance ArmstrongWhen you're on the witness stand, we are going to f---ing tear you apart," Armstrong is alleged to have said. "You are going to look like an f---ing idiot.

Said to Tyler Hamilton when he was going to admit to doping. He sounds like a really nice guy.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Ed Anger on August 31, 2012, 07:14:50 AM
Quote from: Liep on August 31, 2012, 03:25:41 AM
Quote from: Lance ArmstrongWhen you're on the witness stand, we are going to f---ing tear you apart," Armstrong is alleged to have said. "You are going to look like an f---ing idiot.

Said to Tyler Hamilton when he was going to admit to doping. He sounds like a really nice guy.

Don't mess with Texans.  :alberta:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on December 10, 2012, 02:11:49 PM
Team Saxo Bank Tinkoff Bank got an UCI Pro Tour license. An important step to accept doping in cycling, now let's get on with racing faster and farther. :yeah:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on December 20, 2012, 03:34:10 PM
Nice story about the success of the UK's womens team at the world championship:

Quote
Kabaddi and its unlikely stars, England
By Sukhi Hayer

Unknown in their own country, the England women's kabaddi team last week played to crowds of 40,000 people at the world cup in India, where they were mobbed by fans, given a police escort... and filmed, all the while, by the BBC's Asian Network.

As blood drips from the lip of Rosie Haigh, she calls out to her team mates.

"I'm alright - c'mon girls, let's do this," says Rosie, captain of the England women's kabaddi team.

They're playing in the 2012 kabaddi world cup in Punjab, India. It's the third world cup and the second time women teams have participated.

Kabaddi in this part of the world is massive - crowds of thousands cram into the stadiums to watch, and the women's event is very popular.

The England team is made up of army personnel, teachers, a police officer, a sports development officer and a pig farmer.

They're all white, playing a sport dominated by South Asians.

Their coach Ashok Das is the main reason they're here. An ex-kabaddi player born in Punjab, Das introduced the sport to the British Army in 2005 as a way of keeping fit.

"Never did I think I would be here in my home leading a team of women playing a sport that I've grown up with," he says. "It's a dream come true."

The girls rarely get time to play or train together. More than half the team are in the army, stationed in countries like Germany and Afghanistan.

For some, like science teacher Sally Tidswall, this is their first taste of kabaddi competition.

"I have to pinch myself sometimes, it's such a surreal experience, We're playing in front of thousands of people who cheer for us and just want to touch us.

The women took time out to enjoy India

"The people here are so genuine. The other day I wasn't feeling very well and I popped into the chemist, and the man behind the counter says 'I've just been watching you on telly' and he gave me a real big hug. They're so welcoming."


What is Kabaddi?
One theory for the name is that it is derived from the words for "holding hands" in Tamil
There are several forms of the game, which is most popular in South Asia
Teams are made up of defenders and raiders
Raiders are sent into the opposing half to tackle opponents and make it back to their own half
India won both the men's and women's world cup last week



rest of article here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20768822 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20768822)

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Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on February 07, 2013, 06:20:00 PM
After a string of bad teamsport results (disgraceful defeat in WC final in handball and a humiliating loss to FYROM in football) we finally got a W. Ice hockey will now serve as a national sport until we lose.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on February 08, 2013, 06:53:48 AM
I don't think anybody after watching just one game of Aussie Rules football would say those guys were clean, but this is perhaps a bit extreme. :P

Quote'Blackest day in Australian sport'

AUSTRALIA'S sport has been rocked by revelations that organised crime is behind the increasing use of banned performance-enhancing drugs by ''multiple athletes'' across top sporting codes and possible attempts to fix matches and manipulate betting markets.

The heads of all the major professional and participation sports expressed shock after being briefed on a 12-month investigation by the Australian Crime Commission that found professional sport in Australia was ''highly vulnerable to organised crime infiltration''.

Police are now pursuing evidence that some coaches, sports scientists and support staff at clubs have orchestrated or condoned the use of banned drugs and that organised crime figures distributed the drugs.

The probe, named Project Aperio, also revealed personal relationships between professional athletes and organised criminal identities and groups that ''may have resulted in match fixing and the fraudulent manipulation of betting markets''.

It found ''clear parallels'' between what it uncovered and the investigation by the American anti-doping agency into disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong.

''The difference is that the Australian threat is current, crosses sporting codes and is evolving,'' the commission's report said.

Commission chief executive officer John Lawler said on Thursday he was hopeful that criminal charges would be laid, but refused to be drawn on which individuals, clubs or codes were under investigation or when inquiries by state and federal police would be completed.

Former Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority boss Richard Ings said Australians had been in denial about sports doping for too long.

''This is not a black day in Australian sport, this is the blackest day in Australian sport,'' he said.

Federal ministers urged those with knowledge of unethical or illegal behaviour to come forward, saying co-operation could lead to less severe sanctions.

''Don't underestimate how much we know, and if you are involved in this come forward before you get a knock at the door,'' said Justice Minister Jason Clare, adding that the revelations would ''disgust Australian sports fans''.

Mr Clare said ''multiple athletes'' from a number of clubs in major Australian sporting codes were suspected of using or having previously used performance-enhancing drugs and that officials from clubs had been identified as ''administering, via injections and intravenous drips, a variety of substances''.

The government has introduced legislation to increase ASADA's powers so that those who refuse to co-operate will be liable to civil penalties. Sports Minister Kate Lundy warned that those who wanted to dope or fix a match would be caught.

Sporting codes have also agreed to establish integrity units to deal with doping; to call on their athletes to co-operate with investigators; to share information; and to show ''zero tolerance'' for support staff involved in ''peddling inappropriate substances''.

AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou vowed to increase resources to combat a new generation of performance-enhancing drugs known as peptides. AFL clubs will also have their staff audited, sports science staff registered and be instructed to provide mandatory reporting of any doping issue.

In other developments:

■ Premier Ted Baillieu told Parliament that Victoria Police would establish a sporting integrity intelligence unit.''This report represents a real threat to the integrity of sport in this state,'' he said.

■ It was announced that gambling advertising during sporting events would be the subject of a federal parliamentary inquiry. The Senate passed a motion by Greens senator Richard Di Natale for a joint select committee inquiry into gambling reform. It will report to Parliament on May 16.

■ Independent senator Nick Xenephon called for an immediate suspension on sports betting. ''These extraordinary findings require an urgent response,'' he said.

■ The NRL will appoint former federal judge Tony Whitlam to set up an integrity compliance unit.

With RICHARD WILLINGHAM, ANDREW WU and ADAM COOPER
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on February 08, 2013, 06:56:08 AM
Quote from: Liep on February 07, 2013, 06:20:00 PMdisgraceful defeat in WC final in handball

:yeah: :yeah: :yeah:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on February 08, 2013, 06:57:20 AM
 :ultra:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on February 08, 2013, 05:42:40 PM
And hockey is out. Maybe curling? How's that looking these days.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Barrister on February 08, 2013, 05:48:53 PM
Quote from: Liep on February 08, 2013, 05:42:40 PM
And hockey is out. Maybe curling? How's that looking these days.

Well, Denmark did finish the 2012 World Curling Championship round robin with a respectable 6-5 record.

However in the 2012 European curling Championship Denmark lost the Bronze medal game.  That however is good enough to earn them a berth in the 2013 worlds, which start March 30 in Victoria BC.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on February 12, 2013, 08:45:47 AM
The IOC wants to strike wrestling (Greco-Roman, Freestyle) from the Olympic menu effective 2020, because it scored badly in a recent review that rated sports in 39 categories, including ticket sales, tv ratings, attractiveness for youths etc.

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.birthpangs.org%2Farticles%2Fimages%2Fbiblical%2Fgreek-wrestling.jpg&hash=e3670c2e58b14eda92cd84e2b944ced3c73f9293)

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcoedmagazine.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F07%2Fwrestling-lead.jpg&hash=6cc286ac5b13d33ac2c5875ad1f8ab888198e6d1)

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmeetthematts.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F07%2Fball-face-wrestling-350x238.jpg&hash=1302d0bc5fbec5796226c2acdac7d74cd008b7a7)

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi181.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx134%2Fsheriblsm%2Fbbf5bd21.jpg&hash=a8c29b9a50810f9f2ea252bf81edb274925caaf2)

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twosexygeeks.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F08%2Ffunny_fail_pictures_of_wrestling_2.jpg&hash=4b0037115803eefc2d04791a5cd1df0312d873a3)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on February 12, 2013, 08:55:04 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/21427455

QuoteWrestling dropped from 2020 Olympic Games

Wrestling has been dropped from the 2020 Games to make way for a new sport.

The International Olympic Committee's executive board made its decision after assessing the performance of all 26 sports at the London Games.

"The news from the IOC is extremely disappointing," said British Wrestling chief executive Colin Nicholson.

There is a slim chance wrestling may win a reprieve when the IOC meets in Buenos Aires in September to ratify its choice.

But it will be vying with seven other sports, among them squash, roller sports and sport climbing, that are hoping for inclusion in the Olympic programme.

Modern pentathlon and taekwondo were thought to be the sports most at risk when the IOC committee met in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday, but wrestling was the surprise choice for the axe.

It will now compete with baseball/softball, squash, karate, sport climbing, wakeboarding, wushu and roller sports for a place in the 2020 Games.

"This is not the end of the process, this is purely a recommendation," said IOC spokesman Mark Adams. "This is not about what's wrong with wrestling but what is good for the Games."

It is extremely unlikely that wrestling will be voted back in so soon after being removed by the executive board, but Adams stressed: "Today's decision is not final."

Wrestling, which combines freestyle and Greco-Roman events, was included in the inaugural modern Olympics in Athens in 1896.

It has been in every Games since then, apart from Paris in 1900. At last year's Olympics, it featured 344 athletes competing in 11 medal events.

Despite Tuesday's news, Nicholson said Great Britain would not lose focus in the next Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

"We will be looking to deliver success in 2016," he said. "We have two athletes who we believe are genuine medal contenders."

Nicholson also pointed out that wrestling remains part of the Commonwealth Games.

"We are fortunate that we are a Commonwealth sport so our athletes will continue aspiring towards 2014 and 2018," he said.

"In the meantime, we will remain hopeful that the IOC may give wrestling another chance to remain part of the Games."

Before making its decision, the IOC's programme commission assessed each sport by looking at such factors as TV ratings, ticket sales, anti-doping and global popularity.

Klaus Schormann, president of modern pentathlon's governing body, said he had lobbied hard to protect his sport's Olympic status.

"We have promised things and we have delivered," he said. "That gives me a great feeling. It also gives me new energy to develop our sport further and never give up."

GB Modern Pentathlon chief executive, Jon Archer, expressed relief at the news that his sport had been spared.

"Olympic inclusion is absolutely essential to our sport," he said. "It is at the centre of everything we do. We can relax now and work to continually modernise the sport and raise awareness."

Golf and rugby sevens will be part of the programme for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro after winning inclusion in 2010.

The IOC will also decide in September whether Istanbul, Madrid or Tokyo will host the 2020 Games.


I'm torn. While I appreciate that the IOC tries to keep the events flexible to keep the public interested in the Olympic Games (there's plenty sports that were Olympic and are not really missed, esp. from the pre-WW1 time), it seems just plain wrong to abolish a discipline with such an old history and tradition.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on February 12, 2013, 09:13:15 AM
I won't miss it.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on February 12, 2013, 09:18:57 AM
Quote from: Liep on February 12, 2013, 09:13:15 AM
I won't miss it.

Your opinion is irrelevant as you enjoy cycling as a sport. :P
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: sbr on February 12, 2013, 09:47:40 AM
Wtf is wushu?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on February 12, 2013, 09:48:08 AM
Quote from: sbr on February 12, 2013, 09:47:40 AM
Wtf is wushu?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wushu_(sport)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on February 12, 2013, 09:55:55 AM
Quote from: Syt on February 12, 2013, 08:55:04 AM
I'm torn. While I appreciate that the IOC tries to keep the events flexible to keep the public interested in the Olympic Games (there's plenty sports that were Olympic and are not really missed, esp. from the pre-WW1 time), it seems just plain wrong to abolish a discipline with such an old history and tradition.

Yeah the sports that are part of both the modern and ancient Olympics should be sancrosanct IMO.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on February 12, 2013, 10:21:46 AM
The Olympics is the celebration of athletes by the people, so if the people can't bother watching a sport, get rid of it. Maybe if they still wrestled naked like on the tube channels... those, I've heard, get many views.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on February 12, 2013, 10:25:21 AM
Quote from: Syt on February 12, 2013, 08:55:04 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/21427455

QuoteWrestling dropped from 2020 Olympic Games

Wrestling has been dropped from the 2020 Games to make way for a new sport.

The International Olympic Committee's executive board made its decision after assessing the performance of all 26 sports at the London Games.

"The news from the IOC is extremely disappointing," said British Wrestling chief executive Colin Nicholson.

There is a slim chance wrestling may win a reprieve when the IOC meets in Buenos Aires in September to ratify its choice.

But it will be vying with seven other sports, among them squash, roller sports and sport climbing, that are hoping for inclusion in the Olympic programme.

Modern pentathlon and taekwondo were thought to be the sports most at risk when the IOC committee met in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday, but wrestling was the surprise choice for the axe.

It will now compete with baseball/softball, squash, karate, sport climbing, wakeboarding, wushu and roller sports for a place in the 2020 Games.

"This is not the end of the process, this is purely a recommendation," said IOC spokesman Mark Adams. "This is not about what's wrong with wrestling but what is good for the Games."

It is extremely unlikely that wrestling will be voted back in so soon after being removed by the executive board, but Adams stressed: "Today's decision is not final."

Wrestling, which combines freestyle and Greco-Roman events, was included in the inaugural modern Olympics in Athens in 1896.

It has been in every Games since then, apart from Paris in 1900. At last year's Olympics, it featured 344 athletes competing in 11 medal events.

Despite Tuesday's news, Nicholson said Great Britain would not lose focus in the next Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

"We will be looking to deliver success in 2016," he said. "We have two athletes who we believe are genuine medal contenders."

Nicholson also pointed out that wrestling remains part of the Commonwealth Games.

"We are fortunate that we are a Commonwealth sport so our athletes will continue aspiring towards 2014 and 2018," he said.

"In the meantime, we will remain hopeful that the IOC may give wrestling another chance to remain part of the Games."

Before making its decision, the IOC's programme commission assessed each sport by looking at such factors as TV ratings, ticket sales, anti-doping and global popularity.

Klaus Schormann, president of modern pentathlon's governing body, said he had lobbied hard to protect his sport's Olympic status.

"We have promised things and we have delivered," he said. "That gives me a great feeling. It also gives me new energy to develop our sport further and never give up."

GB Modern Pentathlon chief executive, Jon Archer, expressed relief at the news that his sport had been spared.

"Olympic inclusion is absolutely essential to our sport," he said. "It is at the centre of everything we do. We can relax now and work to continually modernise the sport and raise awareness."

Golf and rugby sevens will be part of the programme for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro after winning inclusion in 2010.

The IOC will also decide in September whether Istanbul, Madrid or Tokyo will host the 2020 Games.


I'm torn. While I appreciate that the IOC tries to keep the events flexible to keep the public interested in the Olympic Games (there's plenty sports that were Olympic and are not really missed, esp. from the pre-WW1 time), it seems just plain wrong to abolish a discipline with such an old history and tradition.

If they bring Pankration back...
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Eddie Teach on February 12, 2013, 10:37:23 AM
I'd like to see chariot racing brought back.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on March 17, 2013, 07:42:46 AM
The Milano - San Remo route has been shortened by 47 km because of heavy snow. Pussies.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Tonitrus on March 17, 2013, 11:01:06 AM
Quote from: The Larch on February 12, 2013, 10:25:21 AM
If they bring Pankration back...

They will end up with outcomes like this...

QuoteIn an odd turn of events, a pankration fighter named Arrhichion (Ἀρριχίων) of Phigalia won the pankration competition at the Olympic Games despite being dead. His opponent had locked him in a chokehold and Arrhichion, desperate to loosen it, broke his opponent's toe (some records say his ankle). The opponent nearly passed out from pain and submitted. As the referee raised Arrhichion's hand, it was discovered that he had died from the chokehold. His body was crowned with the olive wreath and taken back to Phigaleia as a hero.

Would make for a great Bob Costas profile story.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on March 31, 2013, 09:27:54 AM
Cancellara just completely obliterated his competitors in the Ronde van Vlaanderen.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Barrister on April 06, 2013, 06:55:44 PM
Globalisation is awesome. I'm watching the World Curling Championship in Brazil! :w00t:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Barrister on April 06, 2013, 07:20:06 PM
Quote from: Barrister on April 06, 2013, 06:55:44 PM
Globalisation is awesome. I'm watching the World Curling Championship in Brazil! :w00t:

Watching Canada-Scotland with Portuguese announcers is a bit odd though...
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on April 07, 2013, 09:01:03 AM
A spectator almost pushed Stybar of his bicycle at Paris - Roubaix, this was only moments after another spectator stepped infront of another rider from the leading group and crashed him.

I hope the French lynch those two idiots.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on April 07, 2013, 09:18:55 AM
Cancellara wins, what a sneaky fuck.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Neil on April 07, 2013, 04:41:48 PM
The Danes just about got a world men's curling bronze.  That's far more interesting than cycling, wouldn't you say?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Eddie Teach on April 07, 2013, 05:40:40 PM
Quote from: Neil on April 07, 2013, 04:41:48 PM
The Danes just about got a world men's curling bronze.  That's far more interesting than cycling, wouldn't you say?

Curling needs more stringent drug testing.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on April 07, 2013, 05:53:48 PM
Quote from: Neil on April 07, 2013, 04:41:48 PM
The Danes just about got a world men's curling bronze.  That's far more interesting than cycling, wouldn't you say?

Not really, no.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on April 07, 2013, 08:19:53 PM
Quote from: Liep on April 07, 2013, 09:18:55 AM
Cancellara wins, what a sneaky fuck.

The guys who ride that have bigger balls that I do, I hate ******* cobbles. 

Highlights here, though you may need to 'provide' a UK postcode to watch:
https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/cycling-spring-classic-highlights/series-1/episode-2-paris-roubaix (https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/cycling-spring-classic-highlights/series-1/episode-2-paris-roubaix)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Neil on April 08, 2013, 07:59:21 AM
Quote from: Liep on April 07, 2013, 05:53:48 PM
Quote from: Neil on April 07, 2013, 04:41:48 PM
The Danes just about got a world men's curling bronze.  That's far more interesting than cycling, wouldn't you say?
Not really, no.
Curling is a sport of skill, strategy and endurance.  Cycling is a sport that measures how good your drugs are.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on April 08, 2013, 08:21:00 AM
Quote from: Neil on April 08, 2013, 07:59:21 AM
Curling is a sport of skill, strategy and endurance.  Cycling is a sport that measures how good your drugs are.

Cancellara wasn't necessarily the strongest yesterday, although surely the best drugged. He won simply by keeping his cool and outsmarting his opponent.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Neil on April 13, 2013, 07:40:21 AM
Quote from: Liep on April 08, 2013, 08:21:00 AM
Quote from: Neil on April 08, 2013, 07:59:21 AM
Curling is a sport of skill, strategy and endurance.  Cycling is a sport that measures how good your drugs are.

Cancellara wasn't necessarily the strongest yesterday, although surely the best drugged. He won simply by keeping his cool and outsmarting his opponent.
And taking the best drugs.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Neil on April 13, 2013, 07:41:35 AM
Hey, cricket is on TV.  Gonna watch me some IPL.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on April 13, 2013, 07:49:10 AM
Quote from: Neil on April 13, 2013, 07:41:35 AM
Hey, cricket is on TV.  Gonna watch me some IPL.

Ah, that explains the mild but suddenly wet weather, the cricket season began here on Wednesday.  :bowler:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on April 13, 2013, 08:01:56 AM
Quote from: mongers on April 13, 2013, 07:49:10 AM
Quote from: Neil on April 13, 2013, 07:41:35 AM
Hey, cricket is on TV.  Gonna watch me some IPL.

Ah, that explains the mild but suddenly wet weather, the cricket season began here on Wednesday.  :bowler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znmjnEMqHeg
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Neil on April 13, 2013, 08:05:50 AM
They just brought up a little chart about were the ball bounced on the way to the batter.  There was 'good', and then 'full', but then the area around the batter's feet was 'Yorker'.  How did they name that?

Also, the Bombay Indians and the Poona Warriors have almost identical uniforms.  What's up with that?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on May 25, 2013, 05:19:12 PM
Froch vs. Kessler is about to start. Boxing is one of those sports I'll never learn to appreciate. I am however still a little intrigued.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: 11B4V on May 25, 2013, 05:26:30 PM
Quote from: Liep on May 25, 2013, 05:19:12 PM
Froch vs. Kessler is about to start. Boxing is one of those sports I'll never learn to appreciate. I am however still a little intrigued.

What's not to like.  :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD99VbFzqAg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0SONoA5L1g
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on May 25, 2013, 06:22:52 PM
The Dane lost, but it was actually a pretty good fight.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on May 27, 2013, 07:51:27 AM
Wozzy is playing a Brit at the French Open. She has lost in the first round at her previous 5 tournaments, will it turn around?

GO Wozzy!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on May 27, 2013, 09:07:26 AM
Wooo! :yeah:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 22, 2013, 07:08:19 AM
Le Mans this weekend. Only time I'll watch motorsports, and it's likely only because of Tom Kristensen who usually wins.

As a commentator noted: "Danes are very patriotic, especially when we win."
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 22, 2013, 11:06:23 AM
Holy shit. Danish driver Allan Simonsen has died after a crash 10 minutes into the race. :(
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on June 22, 2013, 03:12:54 PM
Quote from: Liep on June 22, 2013, 11:06:23 AM
Holy shit. Danish driver Allan Simonsen has died after a crash 10 minutes into the race. :(

:(
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 23, 2013, 08:51:16 AM
Tom Kristensen won his 9th Le Mans. :yeah:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 24, 2013, 11:18:58 AM
Of course, some pay-per-view channel secured the rights to Wimbledon this year. I like tennis, but not enough to pay $50 to watch a few games.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on June 24, 2013, 02:58:49 PM
Quote from: Liep on June 24, 2013, 11:18:58 AM
Of course, some pay-per-view channel secured the rights to Wimbledon this year. I like tennis, but not enough to pay $50 to watch a few games.

All of it is live on bbc tv, not sure who much of that will be re-broadcast on iplayer, though certainly the 8-9pm highlights each evening will.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on November 22, 2013, 06:20:15 PM
Magnus Carlsen has won the world championship in chess. Norway swiftly goes mental; NRK cancels a showing of cross-country skiing to celebrate.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25057654

Does of the resident Norwegian have a video link with commentary? One of my favourite Norwegian things is Norwegian commentators when they win.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on November 22, 2013, 06:34:19 PM
Quote from: Liep on November 22, 2013, 06:20:15 PM
Magnus Carlsen has won the world championship in chess. Norway swiftly goes mental; NRK cancels a showing of cross-country skiing to celebrate.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25057654

Does of the resident Norwegian have a video link with commentary? One of my favourite Norwegian things is Norwegian commentators when they win.

Indeed, who could forget:

"Maggie Tatcher, your Boys TooK One HEll Of a BEeting"

:D


I believe the guy is sadly now dead.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on March 11, 2014, 11:49:06 AM
The way the Danish media is hyping Kevin Magnussen he can only end up failing spectacularly, perhaps even going off track in the first lap in Australia.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on March 16, 2014, 09:09:20 AM
Quote from: Liep on March 11, 2014, 11:49:06 AM
The way the Danish media is hyping Kevin Magnussen he can only end up failing spectacularly, perhaps even going off track in the first lap in Australia.

So a podium finish in his first race, and with Ricciardo disqualified he gets the 2nd position. Not bad.

Now the hype can truly commence.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on April 24, 2014, 02:42:29 PM
O'Sullivan is getting trashed by Perry. :huh:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 06, 2014, 05:37:31 AM
Wiggins dumped by Team Sky. :o I hope Froome crashes out in the first stage. :angry:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on June 06, 2014, 07:35:33 AM
Quote from: Liep on June 06, 2014, 05:37:31 AM
Wiggins dumped by Team Sky. :o I hope Froome crashes out in the first stage. :angry:

Damn, the organisers show give him a single wildcard (with Gaelic fair, draw up a special rule on the spot)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 07, 2014, 06:32:15 AM
Riis offered Froome a contract in 2011, but Froome declined because for the contract talks Riis had invited him and his father to a night club. :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Caliga on June 07, 2014, 05:26:23 PM
Good luck California Chrome. :cool:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 07, 2014, 06:18:20 PM
Read that it's been 30 some years since the last Triple Crown winner, but before that there was a Triple Crown in four out of the five preceding years.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on June 07, 2014, 06:31:52 PM
Quote from: Liep on June 07, 2014, 06:32:15 AM
Riis offered Froome a contract in 2011, but Froome declined because for the contract talks Riis had invited him and his father to a night club. :lol:

:D

They should now make the same offer to Bradley Wiggins, Id bet he'd be up for it.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: sbr on June 07, 2014, 07:18:34 PM
Too bad about California Chrome.

Maria Sharapova won the French Open though. :perv:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: alfred russel on June 07, 2014, 07:30:57 PM
Quote from: Caliga on June 07, 2014, 05:26:23 PM
Good luck California Chrome. :cool:

What a stupid sport. I had about the same level of excitement as when I watch the beer brats race between innings in Milwaukee. 2.5 minutes is too long, imo.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Ed Anger on June 07, 2014, 07:35:19 PM
Quote from: sbr on June 07, 2014, 07:18:34 PM


Maria Sharapova won the French Open though. :perv:

I liked her better when she was 16 and grunting.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Caliga on June 07, 2014, 08:44:25 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on June 07, 2014, 07:30:57 PM
What a stupid sport.
:mad:  Maligning horse racing is the same as maligning Kentucky.  You're not to do that again, sirrah.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: alfred russel on June 07, 2014, 09:16:35 PM
Quote from: Caliga on June 07, 2014, 08:44:25 PM
:mad:  Maligning horse racing is the same as maligning Kentucky.  You're not to do that again, sirrah.

Kentucky has had many things to distinguish it in sports. Kentucky basketball, Howard Schnellenberger, Bear Bryant, and Jared Lorenzen. It really doesn't need to leave the human species to find an identity.

I'm not disparaging the Kentucky Derby, btw, which from what I understand is a hell of a party.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Caliga on June 07, 2014, 10:16:49 PM
How can you start ticking off great Kentucky athletes and not mention Muhammad Ali first? :huh:

Actually, if we're not sticking to humans, you should mention Secretariat first or maybe Man o' War.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: alfred russel on June 07, 2014, 10:20:10 PM
Quote from: Caliga on June 07, 2014, 10:16:49 PM
How can you start ticking off great Kentucky athletes and not mention Muhammad Ali first? :huh:


I didn't know he was from Kentucky, I thought he was from Michiana (I was on a flight with him once from Michiana to Chicago--a quick flight on a super small prop plane--I figured he lived there because that is where he was born).
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 07, 2014, 10:52:24 PM
What was the owner of California Chrome bitching about?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: alfred russel on June 07, 2014, 11:51:00 PM
Apparently your horse has to have run, and run well, in several races to get in the Kentucky Derby.

To get your horse into the Belmont, it doesn't have to run all the races to get in, a key part of getting your horse in the race is writing a check.

He is upset because California Chrome ran a bunch of races to get into the Kentucky Derby, then the first two legs of the triple crown, while the winner of the Belmont skipped the other two legs of the triple crown and had only run like one other race or something. So his horse is a bit worn down from a lot of racing, but going up against fresh horses.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 08, 2014, 12:45:45 AM
Ah.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: sbr on June 08, 2014, 09:26:34 AM
That was a pretty good rant by that dude. 
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 27, 2014, 01:03:41 PM
Wozzy was dumped by that funny looking Irish kid and is now good at tennis again. Thanks heaven, it's been some tough years.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 28, 2014, 07:00:51 AM
Tour de France 2014 in GIFs. (Note none of them feature doped riders because no one was caught this year!!!)

Cavendish's crash on the first stage. One of the many favourites who crashed out, Contador and Froome included.
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Slippery roads in week 1
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New front runner has to learn the robes:
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42 year old Jens Voigt's last TdF (18 or so total):
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Sagan still insane on a bike:
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Spectators are still idiots:
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Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 28, 2014, 07:32:28 AM
Overall, a pretty interesting Tour.

Nibali didn't put a foot wrong and was a fitting winner, well done to the Frenchmen in 2nd and 3rd place.  :frog:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on July 28, 2014, 08:24:05 AM
Quote from: Liep on July 28, 2014, 07:00:51 AM

New front runner has to learn the robes:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dr.dk%2Fphp%2Fp3%2Fkomma-nul-wordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F07%2F05_nibali1.gif&hash=00493c47ca4a64c28e7a7cdbac8c87cfc566567a)


Those robes don't look particularly difficult.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on July 28, 2014, 08:24:49 AM
Quote from: Liep on July 28, 2014, 07:00:51 AM

New front runner has to learn the robes:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dr.dk%2Fphp%2Fp3%2Fkomma-nul-wordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F07%2F05_nibali1.gif&hash=00493c47ca4a64c28e7a7cdbac8c87cfc566567a)


Those robes don't look particularly difficult.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 07, 2014, 03:33:38 PM
Caro vs. Serena in the US Open final. Will the Polish born resident of Monaco win her first Grand Slam and bring glory to the nation of DENMARK? No, probably not.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 07, 2014, 04:11:44 PM
Quote from: Liep on September 07, 2014, 03:33:38 PM
Caro vs. Serena in the US Open final. Will the Polish born resident of Monaco win her first Grand Slam and bring glory to the nation of DENMARK? No, probably not.

The live text update's latest entry simply reads shit.., so I'm gonna bump that up to a 'definitely not'.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 07, 2014, 04:23:59 PM
Also, all 6 major Danish newspapers and the 2 national tv channels has a journalist doing live text updates.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 07, 2014, 05:17:07 PM
no :(
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on October 09, 2014, 04:56:39 AM
Andy Schleck is retiring from cycling at the age of 29. :(

Such a bright talent and such a weak mind, he could've been the best if he had had the will.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on October 13, 2014, 04:52:09 PM
New Zealand's basketball team performs Haka to the complete bewilderment of the American players. :lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDucvQYlWj4
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 13, 2014, 07:08:47 PM
BTW Liep, it's learn the ropes.  I'm guessing it comes from sailing.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 16, 2015, 02:31:36 PM
This is what you get when you let Qatar buy world cups for sports they know nothing about. Empty stadiums.

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Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on January 16, 2015, 02:33:36 PM
They actually hired several supporter crews of smaller Spanish teams to go there and cheer for their national team.  :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Eddie Teach on January 16, 2015, 02:34:24 PM
Is that handball?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 16, 2015, 02:40:01 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 16, 2015, 02:34:24 PM
Is that handball?

Yep.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on January 16, 2015, 03:01:00 PM
Quote from: Liep on January 16, 2015, 02:31:36 PM
This is what you get when you let Qatar buy world cups for sports they know nothing about. Empty stadiums.

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:bleeding:

You'd think they'd have the money to pay people to go to the games and just cheer for whatever.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 23, 2015, 10:59:52 AM
Quote from: Syt on January 16, 2015, 03:01:00 PM
:bleeding:

You'd think they'd have the money to pay people to go to the games and just cheer for whatever.

Pretty much what they did, they flew in Pharrell to give a concert in the stadium after the last game.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 24, 2015, 08:49:01 AM
I'm watching snow mobile long jump from the X-Games. So American.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 26, 2015, 01:11:24 PM
We're absolutely thrashing Iceland in the quarter finals.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 28, 2015, 11:21:07 AM
Zarko Markovic
Valero Rivera Lopez
Bertrand Roine
Rafael Capote
Danijel Saric
Eldar Memisevic
Goran Stojanovic
Borja Vidal
Jovo Damjanovic

Some of the Qatar national team players. :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on January 28, 2015, 11:22:55 AM
In Germany, the matches are only shown on pay TV, so while handball is a popular sport, most people won't be able to watch live.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 28, 2015, 12:13:24 PM
Quote from: Syt on January 28, 2015, 11:22:55 AM
In Germany, the matches are only shown on pay TV, so while handball is a popular sport, most people won't be able to watch live.

Qatar won with their mercenary squad, apparently giving each member €100,000 for a win is a good idea.

It's too funny seeing their fans go crazy. :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on January 29, 2015, 11:29:25 AM
It seems dozens of fans missed the quarter finals, even though they had tickets. Qatar had offered free entry to make sure the place was packed, and when legit ticket buyers arrived later, they were turned away.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Ed Anger on January 29, 2015, 03:40:41 PM
Quote from: Liep on January 24, 2015, 08:49:01 AM
I'm watching snow mobile long jump from the X-Games. So American.

'Merica. Fuck yeah.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: 11B4V on January 29, 2015, 08:52:04 PM
50 years of BKK (BRITISH KYOKUSHIN KARATE) in the UK. Steve Arneil FTW.  :cheers:

2015 BKK open

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa2svf_british-kyokushin-karate-est-1965_sport

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QuoteOn 22 May 1965, Arneil became the first person to complete the 100-man kumite after Oyama himself. The 100-man kumite took him around 2 hours and 45 minutes to complete, with each round scheduled to take 1 minute and 30 seconds (but a round ended if he managed to knock down his opponent).
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 12, 2015, 08:27:21 PM
Some 21 year old kid named Jordan Spieth won the Masters today.  He tied Tiger's record of 18 under.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on April 13, 2015, 08:11:01 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 12, 2015, 08:27:21 PM
Some 21 year old kid named Jordan Spieth won the Masters today.  He tied Tiger's record of 18 under.

Spieth as some 21 year old? That is kind of funny to hear. He has been a huge star around here since he won the 2012 national championship for UT. That and he blew a huge lead in last year's Masters :P

But yeah I guess to most people he is just some kid. He is going to be a force for awhile.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on April 13, 2015, 08:18:49 AM
I had never heard of him before, but then again, I don't give a shit about golf.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: jimmy olsen on April 22, 2015, 06:55:38 PM
How French!  :frog:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32405248

QuoteFrance swimmer Amaury Leveaux sparks fury with cocaine claims

By Hugh Schofield
BBC News, Paris


22 April 2015

From the section Europe

A French Olympic swimming champion has caused fury among the sport's authorities after claiming that his colleagues on the national side regularly take cocaine.

Amaury Leveaux, who won gold in the 100m relay at the 2012 London Olympics, makes his allegation in an autobiography published on Wednesday.

Entitled Sex, Drugs and Swimming, it purports to offer an unsavoury behind-the-scenes glimpse at the world of competitive swimming.

In a chapter dealing with drug use, Leveaux says that top French swimming stars regularly snort cocaine, mainly - but not only - for fun.

"Some of us wouldn't spit at a little line of coke from time to time. For others it's not just a little line, it's a complete motorway covered in white powder which they zoom down at top speed," he writes.

"And then let's not be coy - cocaine is a doping agent. It is the kind of happy drug which gives you the feeling of being invincible and never tired - pushing back your limits and transforming you into a warrior ready for anything."

'Disgusted'

He says on one occasion during the Olympics a trainer came to their rooms and warned them that an anti-doping test would take place the next day.

"He specifically mentioned cocaine as one to avoid. I found that strange."

Leveaux also describes an incident at the London Games, where one of the French swimmers - he does not give the name - left a nightclub in the company of the establishment's female press officer.

"Later that night he sent me a text saying I should come round to the girl's flat - and that's where I found him lying on top of her and sniffing a line of coke from between her breasts," he writes.

The French Swimming Federation (FNF) has reacted with outrage to Leveaux's claims, with vice-president Lucien Gastaldello saying the swimmer had "shot himself in the foot" and should now repay his debts to the federation.

"Everyone is disgusted by his attitude," said Gastaldello. "He was going to do television commentaries on some forthcoming events. He can forget that. Who would speak to him now?"

Leveaux - who comes from a modest background in the eastern city of Belfort - reserves some of his strongest criticism for members of the elite Marseille Swimming Club, who have dominated the sport in France in recent years . They are, he writes, "pretty boys with big heads".

He also lays into the sport's governing body, describing the FNF as "dinosaurs" who have brought "Nothing with a capital N" to swimming.

"They squeeze swimmers like lemons and then chuck them into the rubbish bin when they are through."

Anti-doping inspections

Le Monde's sports correspondent Henri Seckel said the book's sensational title was a bit of an oversell and that he wanted more on what really would have "broken the code of silence in swimming" - i.e. the facts on performance-enhancing drug use.

Leveaux makes some allusions to this, but never directly.

He mentions a Russian female swimmer who he says "went back home from time to time to get testosterone injections."

He says this Russian swimmer explained to him how her team escaped anti-doping inspections.

"Every swimmer had a 'double' who had the same name on his or her passport. It was this double, who was based in the same hotel room.... that was tested after the event - without the officials ever noticing," he writes.

Leveaux, who retired in 2013, has four Olympic medals in all, and still holds the world record for 100m freestyle (short course). In the 2008 Olympics he was pipped to gold in the 50m freestyle by Brazil's Cesar Cielo, who in 2011 failed a doping test.

In the book he compares Cielo to Lance Armstrong, and in a pre-launch interview with L'Equipe magazine adds: "For cheats and paedophiles, it's the same: a bullet in the head."

While on the national team, Leveaux enjoyed a mildly 'bad boy' reputation, but he denied the book is motivated by jealousy of his more glamorous team-mates, such as Alain Bernard or Yannick Agnel.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on May 02, 2015, 05:45:28 PM
Anyone going to watch the match tonight. They say here that it's the match of the century, but I have to admit I hadn't heard about any of the two fighters before this week. I guess I haven't been watching boxing since the best Dane was Brian Nielsen and Mike Tyson was still the shit.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 02, 2015, 05:53:20 PM
I would watch it if I weren't working.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Caliga on May 02, 2015, 06:04:02 PM
The Kentucky Derby is over and the favored horse American Pharaoh won.  As usual, I was drinking heavily and forgot to pay attention till it was too late. :showoff:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: jimmy olsen on May 02, 2015, 06:35:05 PM
Rooting against Mayweather,  but I think he'll win.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on May 02, 2015, 06:37:24 PM
I've watched a lot of snooker in the last 48 hours :w00t:

Including probably the most compelling frame I've ever seen.

A family friend once went to the Crucible for the World Championship and got so excited that he shouted out 'come on snooker!'. That's roughly how I feel :w00t:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Drakken on May 02, 2015, 10:27:33 PM
Quote from: Liep on May 02, 2015, 05:45:28 PM
Anyone going to watch the match tonight. They say here that it's the match of the century, but I have to admit I hadn't heard about any of the two fighters before this week. I guess I haven't been watching boxing since the best Dane was Brian Nielsen and Mike Tyson was still the shit.

Never heard about Floyd Mayweather?! :wacko:

Watching the fight too. I hope Pacquiao will win, but I doubt he will.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on May 04, 2015, 03:43:04 PM
Brilliant snooker final here.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Caliga on June 06, 2015, 06:54:55 PM
American Pharaoh won the Triple Crown!!!  :w00t: :worthy:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: sbr on June 06, 2015, 06:56:40 PM
Quote from: Caliga on June 06, 2015, 06:54:55 PM
American Pharaoh won the Triple Crown!!!  :w00t: :worthy:

Oh crap I meant to watch that.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Caliga on June 06, 2015, 07:08:04 PM
It's a huge deal here.  People are setting off fireworks and everything given how important horse racing is to this town.

Kinda neat that the horse's name is American Pharaoh but it's owned by an Egyptian Jew. :)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on June 06, 2015, 07:11:35 PM
Wait there are still Egyptian Jews around?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Caliga on June 06, 2015, 07:24:55 PM
Quote from: Valmy on June 06, 2015, 07:11:35 PM
Wait there are still Egyptian Jews around?
He lives in America of course. :sleep:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 07, 2015, 12:49:32 PM
X-games continues to impress with its insanity. Off road truck racing. :o :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 07, 2015, 01:08:17 PM
Quote from: Caliga on June 06, 2015, 06:54:55 PM
American Pharaoh won the Triple Crown!!!  :w00t: :worthy:

That's awesome.  Last horse was who, Seattle Slew?

Did they change the entry rules for the Preakness that they were bitching about last year?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on June 07, 2015, 01:13:58 PM
Quote from: Caliga on June 06, 2015, 07:08:04 PM
It's a huge deal here.  People are setting off fireworks and everything given how important horse racing is to this town.

Kinda neat that the horse's name is American Pharaoh but it's owned by an Egyptian Jew. :)

The name is actually American Pharoah :bleeding: :lol:

QuoteAmerican Pharoah's name is inspired by that of his sire, Pioneerof the Nile, and his dam's sire, Yankee Gentleman.[20] The horse's name also acknowledges Zayat's own dual Egyptian-American background.[21] The misspelling of "Pharaoh" is permanent, but inadvertent. Zayat originally claimed that the spelling was the result of an error by The Jockey Club, but the organization's president stated, "The name request for the 2012 colt American Pharoah was submitted electronically on January 25, 2014, through The Jockey Club's interactive registration site. Since the name met all of the criteria for naming and was available, it was granted exactly as it was spelled on the digital name application." Zayat later retracted his statement.[22][d]

Zayat's wife, Joanne, offered another explanation for the name's origins to a local news reporter just before the Preakness. Zayat's son, Justin, ran a contest on social media in which fans could submit names for the horse. The winning entry had "Pharaoh" misspelled, she said. "Justin cut and pasted the name from [the winner's] email, and sent it to the Jockey Club."[23][24] Marsha Baumgartner of Barnett, Missouri, who submitted the winning entry, told The New York Times, "I don't want to assign blame," but "I looked up the spelling before I entered." Nonetheless, Baumgartner minimized the controversy, stating, "Horses can't spell, anyway."[20][e]
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Eddie Teach on June 07, 2015, 01:58:16 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 07, 2015, 01:08:17 PM
That's awesome.  Last horse was who, Seattle Slew?

Affirmed, one year later.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on June 12, 2015, 12:15:54 AM
Did you know that the 1st European Games with 6,000 athletes start today? I didn't. Yay, Baku? :unsure:

http://www.baku2015.com/
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: 11B4V on June 12, 2015, 12:47:28 AM
Deontay Wilder
29 years old
33-0 (32 KO's) 
6' 7"
220-230 lbs
84" reach


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on a collision course with an ageing Wladimir Klitscho

39 years old
64-3 (53 KO's)
6' 6"
246 lbs
81" reach



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Look for this fight soon.

Back in the day George Foreman was considered a monster at 6' 4" 220 lbs. He would be considered average in the hwt division nowadays.

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Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on June 12, 2015, 08:24:40 AM
If he can get thru Drummer Boy first.

And also when both join the Al Ayman UFC/FOM style boxing company.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 12, 2015, 10:20:55 AM
Quote from: Syt on June 12, 2015, 12:15:54 AM
Did you know that the 1st European Games with 6,000 athletes start today? I didn't. Yay, Baku? :unsure:

http://www.baku2015.com/

Yeah, I heard a radio spot for the live transmission, even the speaker couldn't find any enthusiasm.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: 11B4V on June 12, 2015, 10:41:52 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 12, 2015, 08:24:40 AM
If he can get thru Drummer Boy first.

And also when both join the Al Ayman UFC/FOM style boxing company.

He will have no problem with Molina. Stiverne was a tougher customer.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on June 12, 2015, 10:54:52 AM
Uh, that means it'll will be over by the first minute.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on June 12, 2015, 10:57:41 AM
39 versus 29 is worrying. Nobody wanted to see Ali versus Larry Holmes.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Barrister on June 12, 2015, 11:17:21 AM
Quote from: Liep on June 12, 2015, 10:20:55 AM
Quote from: Syt on June 12, 2015, 12:15:54 AM
Did you know that the 1st European Games with 6,000 athletes start today? I didn't. Yay, Baku? :unsure:

http://www.baku2015.com/

Yeah, I heard a radio spot for the live transmission, even the speaker couldn't find any enthusiasm.

It's as if you guys went out and recreated all the excitement of the Pan Am Games, but for Europe.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 12, 2015, 12:10:45 PM
Quote from: Barrister on June 12, 2015, 11:17:21 AM
Quote from: Liep on June 12, 2015, 10:20:55 AM
Quote from: Syt on June 12, 2015, 12:15:54 AM
Did you know that the 1st European Games with 6,000 athletes start today? I didn't. Yay, Baku? :unsure:

http://www.baku2015.com/

Yeah, I heard a radio spot for the live transmission, even the speaker couldn't find any enthusiasm.

It's as if you guys went out and recreated all the excitement of the Pan Am Games, but for Europe.

The reference works because I have never heard of the Pan Am Games. :yes:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Barrister on June 12, 2015, 12:38:24 PM
Quote from: Liep on June 12, 2015, 12:10:45 PM
Quote from: Barrister on June 12, 2015, 11:17:21 AM
Quote from: Liep on June 12, 2015, 10:20:55 AM
Quote from: Syt on June 12, 2015, 12:15:54 AM
Did you know that the 1st European Games with 6,000 athletes start today? I didn't. Yay, Baku? :unsure:

http://www.baku2015.com/

Yeah, I heard a radio spot for the live transmission, even the speaker couldn't find any enthusiasm.

It's as if you guys went out and recreated all the excitement of the Pan Am Games, but for Europe.

The reference works because I have never heard of the Pan Am Games. :yes:

That's pretty much what I was going for. :yes:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: 11B4V on June 12, 2015, 01:38:15 PM
Quote from: Valmy on June 12, 2015, 10:57:41 AM
39 versus 29 is worrying. Nobody wanted to see Ali versus Larry Holmes.

Bad comparison. Ali's damage happened over time and had a lot to do with his fighting style. Ali's had 61 total fights with 23 going the distance. Klitscho has 67 total fights with only 9 going the distance. A fighter from Ali's generation, Foreman, 47 total fights only 3 going the distance in his first career.


Ali's long time trainer, Angelo Dundee said something to the effect of, "After the layoff, Ali didn't have the footwork he had prior. The good news was he discovered he had a great chin. The bad new was, he discovered he had a great chin."

When Ali fought Frasier in 1971 after his layoff, he was not the same fighter that fought Cleveand Williams in 1966.

Ali was never know as a one punch knockout artist. He was a boxer not a puncher and wore opponets down. 
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 13, 2015, 04:41:02 AM
Azerbaijan spent 10 billion dollars for the European games. Maybe a bit steep.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on June 13, 2015, 05:01:11 AM
Quote from: Liep on June 13, 2015, 04:41:02 AM
Azerbaijan spent 10 billion dollars for the European games. Maybe a bit steep.

Well, they promised to pay the trip for all athletes. In German and Austrian media you have to dig deep to find info about the Games; if anything it's "In a dictatorship? Again?" Also, it seems it's mostly third stringers and youth athletes competing. I only noticed these games exist because Austrian news reported that some of Austria's synchronized swimmers were severely hurt while walking through town and a bus swerved onto the sidewalk.

More importantly, Putin and Erdogan met at the opening ceremony.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 13, 2015, 05:07:26 AM
I wanted to see the women's volleyball, but discovered it's on the same pay channel as women's world cup. They really know how to choose the big hits. :hmm:

And on top of that they prioritise table tennis and triathlon above one of the world's most beautiful sports. :glare:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Eddie Teach on June 13, 2015, 05:32:30 AM
Quote from: Liep on June 13, 2015, 05:07:26 AM
And on top of that they prioritise table tennis and triathlon above one of the world's most beautiful sports. :glare:

Synchronized swimming? Equestrian? Golf?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 13, 2015, 05:39:19 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 13, 2015, 05:32:30 AM
Quote from: Liep on June 13, 2015, 05:07:26 AM
And on top of that they prioritise table tennis and triathlon above one of the world's most beautiful sports. :glare:

Synchronized swimming? Equestrian? Golf?

Women's volleyball. Of course.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on June 22, 2015, 08:10:58 AM
They're actually using the "Breaking News" tag for an article wherein a cyclist admits to having used doping.

"But it was only in my beginning years [where there's substantial evidence provided by witnesses], the later [more successful] years were done clean". - Nicki Sørensen
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 24, 2015, 09:45:05 AM
Sara Slott won her semi-final in 400m hurdles. The only other Dane (who hasn't been a complete asshole *wink wink* liberalkuglestøder.dk) that has done so well in a WC track and field event is good old Wilson Kipketer and that's about 15-20 years ago.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 25, 2015, 05:59:47 AM
I can't believe the 80's East German women's track and field world records haven't been deleted yet.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on August 25, 2015, 06:27:52 AM
What are you implying?

(https://thedroidyourelookingfor.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/top-secret-1984-avi-025.jpg)

:huh:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 25, 2015, 07:04:10 AM
Is that from a sketch or is it real?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on August 25, 2015, 07:07:13 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-YHw1sqjL8
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 25, 2015, 07:15:35 AM
Quote from: Syt on August 25, 2015, 07:07:13 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-YHw1sqjL8

That comforts me. Also added to my Watchlist on imdb.com.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on August 25, 2015, 08:14:55 AM
Hail, hail East Germany
Land of fruit and grape
Land where you'll regret
If you try to escape

No matter if you tunnel under
or take a running jump at the wall
Forget it, the guards will kill you,
if the electrified fence doesn't first
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on August 25, 2015, 09:11:48 AM
Quote from: Liep on August 25, 2015, 07:15:35 AM
Quote from: Syt on August 25, 2015, 07:07:13 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-YHw1sqjL8

That comforts me. Also added to my Watchlist on imdb.com.

You have not watched Top Secret!?

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJISTV6UEAERwqU.jpg)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Brain on August 25, 2015, 12:40:32 PM
Latrine!!!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 26, 2015, 07:12:51 AM
Not even shameful bronze for Sara Slott. 4th. :weep:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on August 26, 2015, 12:21:50 PM
A spectator at the Vuelta tried to make off on Ben King's crashed bike.  :huh:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Brazen on August 27, 2015, 10:03:54 AM
Gatlin couldn't take Bolt down in the 200m. Take one cameraman on a Segway though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meBu7axYp3o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meBu7axYp3o)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 27, 2015, 10:17:10 AM
Quote from: Brazen on August 27, 2015, 10:03:54 AM
Gatlin couldn't take Bolt down in the 200m. Take one cameraman on a Segway though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meBu7axYp3o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meBu7axYp3o)

:lol: :o

Is he okay?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Pedrito on August 27, 2015, 04:04:34 PM
Quote from: The Larch on August 25, 2015, 09:11:48 AM
Quote from: Liep on August 25, 2015, 07:15:35 AM
Quote from: Syt on August 25, 2015, 07:07:13 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-YHw1sqjL8

That comforts me. Also added to my Watchlist on imdb.com.

You have not watched Top Secret!?

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJISTV6UEAERwqU.jpg)
My exact same reaction to Liep's post  :D

L.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 28, 2015, 07:31:20 AM
I'm in love with the Swedish women's long jump contestants.

Khaddia Sagnia:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fbloggar.expressen.se%2Ffriidrottsbloggen%2Ffiles%2F2015%2F04%2FSka%25CC%2588rmavbild-2015-04-20-kl.-12.25.27.png&hash=a32234e599f389b86314533527d0a0a5c2c7aacc)

Erica Jarder:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fnorran.se%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F08%2F2536h1024-arlima_mw1600.jpg&hash=f70c67def3205e7beafa2ef3a612c54a268b103b)

Usain Bolt agrees with me:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F41.media.tumblr.com%2F28998343608d7780d404f2e1b00537c5%2Ftumblr_myq4ntkeWX1rj21jno1_500.png&hash=1f59d2af654b994a1ee873a11320cbc955d81b1e)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 28, 2015, 07:39:03 AM
Great pooper on contestant #3. :wub:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on August 28, 2015, 09:13:49 AM
If you're a leg/ass guy, long jump and high jump is where it's at for women's athletics. That and voleyball are the key sporting events if you're of that persuasion.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 28, 2015, 10:57:36 AM
Quote from: The Larch on August 28, 2015, 09:13:49 AM
If you're a leg/ass guy, long jump and high jump is where it's at for women's athletics. That and voleyball are the key sporting events if you're of that persuasion.

:yes:
800m isn't bad either.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Brezel on August 29, 2015, 05:52:07 AM
High jumpers are thin and bony. 100 and 400 m hurdles is where it's at.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 29, 2015, 06:53:39 AM
Quote from: Brezel on August 29, 2015, 05:52:07 AM
High jumpers are thin and bony

Agree to disagree

German high jumper Jungfleisch:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nordbayerischer-kurier.de%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Fmedia_gallery_large%2Fpublic%2Fgalleries%2F2013-08%2F17-19%2F366b49a66e56ff0b61eaf865b1b4154e.jpg%3Fitok%3DbhMuETnF&hash=c0ace92575f72fb9bcc4b00330dfdbdd59087c47)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 29, 2015, 07:05:11 AM
Young flesh?  :D

Ok, young meat. Works just the same.  :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 29, 2015, 07:44:50 AM
The 100x4 women's relay entry is amazing.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 29, 2015, 07:48:12 AM
Goddamn Schippers is fast.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Brain on August 29, 2015, 12:41:00 PM
Quote from: Liep on August 29, 2015, 07:44:50 AM
The 100x4 women's relay entry is amazing.

How do you convince a chick to do relay entry? :(
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Brezel on August 29, 2015, 01:15:00 PM
Quote from: The Brain on August 29, 2015, 12:41:00 PM
Quote from: Liep on August 29, 2015, 07:44:50 AM
The 100x4 women's relay entry is amazing.

How do you convince a chick to do relay entry? :(

Just give her the baton.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 29, 2015, 05:44:24 PM
A pun in a foreign language is truly an impressive achievement.  I commend you sir. :)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on August 29, 2015, 05:56:47 PM
Quote from: Liep on August 29, 2015, 07:48:12 AM
Goddamn Schippers is fast.

:yes:
The 200m was incredible.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on September 15, 2015, 04:08:42 PM
La Vuelta was a good and exciting race this year, only 6 second in it at the start of the last competitive stage and it really on decided on the last mountain.   :cool:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 19, 2015, 11:25:12 AM
Japan is fighting well against the Springboks!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on September 19, 2015, 01:09:02 PM
LULZ Japan actually won against the Springboks. This is an upset comparable to Nihon winning against Argentina in football.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on September 23, 2015, 10:42:09 AM
Hey Syt, apparently there's a German kid currently playing at the MLB.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-mlb-max-kepler-minnesota-twins-european-reach/?ex_cid=GrantlandFB (http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-mlb-max-kepler-minnesota-twins-european-reach/?ex_cid=GrantlandFB)

QuoteEurostar: How German Native and Top Twins Prospect Max Kepler Can Help Baseball Continue to Go Global

Take a look at the article, I find funny how delusional they are about the prospect of baseball catching on in Europe.  :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on September 23, 2015, 10:46:28 AM
Europeans are incapable of following more than one sport. It is known.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Brain on September 23, 2015, 10:49:36 AM
Quote from: The Larch on September 23, 2015, 10:42:09 AM
Hey Syt, apparently there's a German kid currently playing at the MLB.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-mlb-max-kepler-minnesota-twins-european-reach/?ex_cid=GrantlandFB (http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-mlb-max-kepler-minnesota-twins-european-reach/?ex_cid=GrantlandFB)

QuoteEurostar: How German Native and Top Twins Prospect Max Kepler Can Help Baseball Continue to Go Global

Take a look at the article, I find funny how delusional they are about the prospect of baseball catching on in Europe.  :lol:

Does baseball involve killing lots of Jews? No? Then GTFO.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on September 23, 2015, 10:51:50 AM
Quote from: Valmy on September 23, 2015, 10:46:28 AM
Europeans are incapable of following more than one sport. It is known.

We already follow tons of sports. Baseball doesn't happen to be one of them.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on October 17, 2015, 06:49:34 AM
Viktor Axelsen is playing some amazing badminton against Chen Long. Have we finally found a worthy successor to Peter Gade?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on November 07, 2015, 04:06:30 AM
So apparently there's coming a report from WADA soon that'll show corruption and blackmail in the IAAF on a scale that makes FIFA look clean. This should be interesting.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on November 07, 2015, 09:47:28 PM
No clue what you're talking about.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on November 08, 2015, 06:19:01 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 07, 2015, 09:47:28 PM
No clue what you're talking about.

An example is IAAF discovers a positive blood sample, but instead of banning the athlete they blackmail him and then covers up the sample. Apparently there are Olympic medalists on the list of people having paid for a positive sample to disappear.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Eddie Teach on November 08, 2015, 07:28:07 AM
Usain? Or is his freakish speed legitimately come by?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on November 08, 2015, 07:31:49 AM
I've only seen this reported on Twitter by sports journalists so I don't expect Usain to be among them (report not out yet though). If he had been it would've drawn at least some headlines.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on November 09, 2015, 09:28:48 AM
World's Anti-Doping Agency recommends in its report that Russia be barred from any future athletic competition because of systemic corruption and doping. :o
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on November 09, 2015, 10:21:05 AM
Russia blackmailed athletes into doping. Russia as in the Russian government.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on November 09, 2015, 10:33:26 AM
Quote from: Liep on November 09, 2015, 09:28:48 AM
World's Anti-Doping Agency recommends in its report that Russia be barred from any future athletic competition because of systemic corruption and doping. :o

I predict vast implications here.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on November 09, 2015, 10:34:50 AM
Clearly this is a campaign by US and their Western lapdogs to discredit the brave Russian athletes.  :mad:



Also: nothing on China?  :wacko:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on November 09, 2015, 10:35:49 AM
Quote from: Syt on November 09, 2015, 10:34:50 AM
Clearly this is a campaign by US and their Western lapdogs to discredit the brave Russian athletes.  :mad:

Oh no doubt this will be blamed on us. Because we totally give a shit about any sports Russians play.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on November 09, 2015, 01:46:21 PM
Athletics, it's the place where the hot chick compete after College. Who cares.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on November 09, 2015, 01:56:23 PM
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/09/wada-iaaf-russia-dick-pound-banned

QuoteRussia accused of 'state-sponsored doping' as Wada calls for athletics ban

• London Olympics were 'sabotaged' by 'widespread inaction'
• Interpol to investigate 'alleged global doping corruption scam'

Russia has been accused of having a huge "state-sponsored doping programme" by an independent commission that could see the country kicked out of athletics and potentially the Rio 2016 Olympics.

The former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Dick Pound, who chaired an independent commission convened to look into allegations of systemic doping made by German media 11 months ago, said the "very damaging" findings were probably the tip of the iceberg. The widespread rule-breaking, he said, was "worse than we thought".

The Wada commission said there was evidence of "interference with doping controls up to the middle of this year" including more than 1,400 samples destroyed in December last year, as well as "cover-ups, destruction of samples, payment of money to conceal doping tests". It found that the head of its Moscow anti-doping lab Grigory Rodchenko admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples. The report says that the lab, the only Wada accredited one in Russia, should lose its accreditation.

The 323-page report found the London 2012 Olympics were "sabotaged" by the "widespread inaction" against Russian athletes with suspicious doping profiles, by the world athletics governing body the IAAF and the Russian federation.

It outlines a culture of cheating in which Pound said Russian coaches were "out of control" and expected the Russian anti-doping agency to protect their athletes rather than catch them.

It recommended that five middle-distance runners and five coaches be given lifetime doping bans. Two of the athletes are the gold and bronze-medal winners in the 800 metres in 2012, the Olympic champion Mariya Savinova and the bronze medalist Ekaterina Poistogova.

The others are Anastasiya Bazdyreva, a 400m and 800m runner, Kristina Ugarova, a 1500m runner, and Tatjana Myazina, an 800m runner.

Pound said it was inconceivable that the Russian sports minister, Vitaly Mutko, was not aware of the scale of the problem. "It was impossible for him not to be aware of it. And if he's aware of it, he's complicit in it," said Pound. Mutko, who leads the 2018 football World Cup organising committee, denied wrongdoing to the Wada inquiry panel, including any knowledge of athletes being blackmailed.

A number of Russian athletes suspected of doping could have been prevented from competing in 2012 had it not been for "the collective and inexplicable laissez-faire policy" adopted by the IAAF and the Russian federation.

The commission said it had identified "systemic failures" within IAAF and the Russian athletics federation that "prevent or diminish the possibility of an effective anti-doping programme". Pound said the commission had found "payments of money to conceal doping tests".

Asked whether the findings were simply "the tip of the iceberg", Pound replied: "I'm afraid you're probably right. We don't think Russia is the only country with a doping problem and athletics is not the only sport with a doping problem."

French police last week arrested Diack, the IAAF legal adviser Habib Cissé and Gabriel Dollé, the former longstanding head of the IAAF's anti-doping unit. Prosecutors said they would have arrested Diack's son and former IAAF marketing consultant, Papa Massata Diack, if he had been in France at the time.

Diack, the IAAF president for 16 years, is accused by French police of accepting more than €1m in exchange for covering up positive drug tests. He has yet to comment. The IOC said that Diack should be provisionally suspended as an honorary member of the International Olympics Committee.

Pound said he was holding back parts of the report pending the French investigation into IAAF officials but hoped to release more details by the end of the year. "This report also identifies corruption and bribery practices at the highest levels of international athletics, evidence of which has been transmitted to Interpol for appropriate investigation," it said. Interpol announced that it was conducting an ongoing investigation into the "alleged global doping corruption scam".

Wada's foundation board will meet next week in Colorado Springs and has been urged by Pound to declare the Russian laboratory and anti-doping agency non-compliant. Pound said the IAAF should stop Russia from competing until it was completely rehabilitated.

"That is your nuclear weapon. Either get this done or you are not going to Rio. The embarrassment will be such that you're going to get it done. The idea is to get people competing under the right conditions," said Pound.

The former Wada president, one of three independent commissioners who investigated the allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups, was also critical of the role of the organisation he once led. "It's a pretty damning indictment of what has not been done and points the way to things that can be done if we're going to get serious about this. At some point the Olympic movement and the governments have to say: 'Are we going to do this properly or shall we all go home?'" he said.

Pound said that while its investigation was limited to Russia and athletics, the problems of systemic doping were wider.

The investigation was prompted when the German television station ARD implicated officials in Russia's athletics federation, anti-doping agency (Rusada) and the Wada-accredited laboratory in Moscow in acts of bribery to hush up positive doping tests, falsify tests and supply banned drugs.

Pound drew Kenya into the orbit of suspicion when he said: "It seems pretty clear from both the ARD programme and subsequent developments that Kenya has a real problem. It has been very slow to acknowledge there is a problem," he said. "There is apparently some investigation going on as we speak. If they don't do a good job then someone else will do a job for them."

Lord Coe, the IAAF president, said on Sunday that he was minded to try and rehabilitate Russia within the system but would "never say never" when it came to suspending a country. On Monday, Coe said the report was "alarming".

"We need time to properly digest and understand the detailed findings included in the report. However, I have urged the council to start the process of considering sanctions against ARAF [Russian Athletics Federation]. This step has not been taken lightly," he said.

"Our athletes, partners and fans have my total assurance that where there are failures in our governance or our anti-doping programmes we will fix them. We will do whatever it takes to protect the clean athletes and rebuild trust in our sport. The IAAF will continue to offer the police authorities our full co-operation into their ongoing investigation."
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on November 10, 2015, 05:25:02 AM
Sports minister Mutko calls the accusations "baseless and fictional." It's all based on unknown sources and hearsay. And of course the government is completely wrongfully accused.

Regardless of Russia (who were probably only the ones stupid enough to be caught), there's indications that high IAAF functionaries had a system in place where you could make sure to not be convicted of doping if you paid enough. French authorities and Interpol are investigating.

It should be interesting what this means for the Summer Olympics - track & field are a cornerstone of the event, and this would be a huge blow if it's proven that it's not a few nations and/or athletes that were dirty, but that the whole organizational structure was involved (beyond the usual corruption inherent in those bodies).
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on November 14, 2015, 05:34:45 AM
http://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/34811896

QuoteAthletics doping: Russia provisionally suspended by IAAF

Russia's athletics federation has been provisionally suspended from international competition - including the Olympic Games - for its alleged involvement in widespread doping.

The IAAF took action after the publication of an independent World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report that alleged "state-sponsored doping".

Its council members voted 22-1 in favour of Russia being banned.

"This is a wake-up call for all of us," said IAAF president Lord Coe.

He told BBC Sport: "Our sport finds itself in a shameful situation.

"I am wholly focused on the changes that need to be made. I have openly conceded that we need to learn some very tough lessons.

"We need to look at ourselves, within our sport, and we will do that."

Russia's Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said the suspension was "temporary" and the "problem is solvable".

The country's IAAF council member was not allowed to participate in Friday's vote.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: jimmy olsen on November 14, 2015, 05:52:29 AM
Quote from: Valmy on November 09, 2015, 10:35:49 AM
Quote from: Syt on November 09, 2015, 10:34:50 AM
Clearly this is a campaign by US and their Western lapdogs to discredit the brave Russian athletes.  :mad:

Oh no doubt this will be blamed on us. Because we totally give a shit about any sports Russians play.

Hockey?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Eddie Teach on November 14, 2015, 08:31:24 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 14, 2015, 05:52:29 AM
Hockey?

No shits given.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on November 14, 2015, 05:44:29 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 14, 2015, 05:52:29 AM
Quote from: Valmy on November 09, 2015, 10:35:49 AM
Quote from: Syt on November 09, 2015, 10:34:50 AM
Clearly this is a campaign by US and their Western lapdogs to discredit the brave Russian athletes.  :mad:

Oh no doubt this will be blamed on us. Because we totally give a shit about any sports Russians play.

Hockey?

First why would we want to disqualify some of the NHL's best players?

Secondly they are pathetic chokers in international play anyway.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on November 30, 2015, 05:21:10 AM
A slim majority has voted against Hamburg entering the race for hosting the 2024 Olympics: 51.6% No vs. 48.4% Yes. Voter turnout was 50.1%.

That leaves L.A., Rome, Paris, and Budapest in the competition.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on November 30, 2015, 05:25:58 AM
Wait. No oil states? Well, we now know that all countries have deeply corrupt Olympic committees so it's going to be hard to predict.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on November 30, 2015, 05:28:35 AM
Quote from: Liep on November 30, 2015, 05:25:58 AM
Wait. No oil states? Well, we now know that all countries have deeply corrupt Olympic committees so it's going to be hard to predict.

I'd bet on L.A. or Paris. Though I'm guessing no matter where it takes place it will be a surveillance/security lockdown nightmare for the people in the cities.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on November 30, 2015, 05:33:16 AM
Yeah, LA gets it since Europe had it in 2004 and 2012 and it's been east 3 times (at that time) since the US last had it.
Title: Women's Handball World Championship 2015
Post by: Liep on December 05, 2015, 02:52:23 PM
Denmark is playing Japan right now we're struggling already. I think if Denmark doesn't win this and give the Jutish proletariat some much needed comfort we're going to see riots in the street.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on December 10, 2015, 09:23:51 AM
New jersey's for Tinkoff's team

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV2z2rCWsAAyayO.jpg)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on December 10, 2015, 02:44:48 PM
Quote from: Liep on December 10, 2015, 09:23:51 AM
New jersey's for Tinkoff's team

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV2z2rCWsAAyayO.jpg)

Just what that team needs more accidents, caused by people not being able to see them, was it inspired by WW1 warship disruptive camouflage schemes?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 16, 2016, 04:25:49 PM
No one started a thread about the European Handball Championship in Poland that began yesterday? :huh: Anyhoo, Denmark thrashed the Russians! :w00t:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: 11B4V on January 16, 2016, 11:45:46 PM
Wilder knocked that mother fucker out. :o
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ytMn8tgNi4o
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 20, 2016, 04:59:08 AM
Quote from: Liep on January 16, 2016, 04:25:49 PM
No one started a thread about the European Handball Championship in Poland that began yesterday? :huh: Anyhoo, Denmark thrashed the Russians! :w00t:

Biggest news from the tournament so far, Sweden's captain wasn't allowed to wear a rainbow coloured armband and Sweden's players have accused the Polish hosts of being backward idiots (more or less) for rejecting it while still having cheerleaders in the half time.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 29, 2016, 03:36:53 PM
A 13 year old girl just won the slope style at X-Games. :o
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on January 30, 2016, 06:27:56 AM
Angelique Kerber is the first German since 1994 to win the Australian Open.  :cool:

Also, German handball team is in European Championship final. :)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on January 30, 2016, 06:42:11 AM
Quote from: Syt on January 30, 2016, 06:27:56 AMAlso, German handball team is in European Championship final. :)

Against us...  :ph34r:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 30, 2016, 06:43:33 AM
Easy to win when you cheat and have an extra player on the field!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on January 30, 2016, 05:11:24 PM
A hidden motor was discovered in the bike of the female U23 European champion.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on January 30, 2016, 06:11:48 PM
Quote from: Maladict on January 30, 2016, 05:11:24 PM
A hidden motor was discovered in the bike of the female U23 European champion.

W.T.F.  :mad:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Eddie Teach on January 30, 2016, 06:17:25 PM
That's kind of awesome, really.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on January 31, 2016, 05:35:47 AM
Quote from: mongers on January 30, 2016, 06:11:48 PM
Quote from: Maladict on January 30, 2016, 05:11:24 PM
A hidden motor was discovered in the bike of the female U23 European champion.

W.T.F.  :mad:

Yeah, it's unbelievable this happened. The sport is still rotten to the core it seems.   :(
I find it hard to believe a 19 year old was the driving force behind this, though.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 31, 2016, 07:52:20 AM
Quote from: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uci-confirms-motorised-doping-uncovered-at-cyclo-cross-world-championships/UCI confirms motorised doping uncovered at cyclo-cross World Championships

UCI President Brian Cookson has confirmed that the governing body found evidence of a motor in a bike at the cyclo-cross World Championships on Saturday. Following the under 23 women's race on Saturday, the UCI issued a press release stating that they were investigating a rider's bike for possible "technological fraud."

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Reports in the Belgian press, including race broadcaster Sporza, revealed the rider as Femke Van den Driessche (Team Kleur op Maat) and that a motor had been found inside the frame of the bike.

"It is no secret that a motor was found," Cookson said during a press conference held ahead of Sunday's racing programme in Zolder. "We believe that it was indeed technological doping."

Motorised doping has been a topic of discussion since 2010. The regulations on technological doping were brought in last January and could see a rider given a minimum suspension of six months and a fine of anything between 20,000 and 200,000 Swiss Francs. The UCI had introduced bike checks for the World Championships, the same as those that have been done in road racing over the past season.

"Throughout the 2015 season, we carried out unannounced bike checks at major road events and we will conduct similar controls throughout the 2016 season," the UCI tweeted Cookson as saying during the press conference. "We have introduced in 2015 a set of Regulations that enables us to take action

"We've been trialling new methods of detection but you'll understand why I don't want to go into details of those methods."

Van den Driessche had been taking part in the inaugural under 23 women's event, which was won by Britain's Evie Richards. The Belgian and European under 23 champion had gone in as a pre-race favourite but did not feature at the front. She was eventually forced off her bike on the final lap when she was struck by mechanical problems and ended up walking with her bike.

Van den Driessche's bike was taken for inspection along with several other bikes after the race. It quickly became apparent that something was wrong with her bike and news of the discovery quickly spread; however it is only this Sunday morning that they revealed their discovery. It gives Van den Driessche the dubious honour of being the first rider to be discovered to be using a motor. Incidentally, Van den Driessche's brother Niels is currently suspended for doping.

Following the press conference, Cookson later tweeted his thoughts. "Technological fraud is unacceptable. We want the minority who may consider cheating to know that, increasingly," he wrote. "There is no place to hide, and sooner or later they will pay for the damage they're causing to our sport."

He also issued a defiant message to anyone considering using a motor in the future. "To all the people who want to cheat, yesterday we sent a clear message: we will catch you and we will punish you because our technology to detect such fraud seems to work," he said according to Sporza.

The bike checks will continue into Sunday's races where the under 23 and elite men will be competing.

Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on January 31, 2016, 08:41:35 AM
Wow.

Not sure how they thought they'd get away with it in the long run?

Presumably the motor might have been the source of her mechanical problem?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 31, 2016, 08:59:34 AM
If someone tried to do this at a cyclo-cross event I'm sure many have done it for a road event. The conspiracist in me thinks they only publicised this because the mechanical problems obviously related to a motor of some kind and that many spectators saw it forcing UCI's hand.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on January 31, 2016, 09:16:25 AM
Quote from: Liep on January 31, 2016, 08:59:34 AM
If someone tried to do this at a cyclo-cross event I'm sure many have done it for a road event. The conspiracist in me thinks they only publicised this because the mechanical problems obviously related to a motor of some kind and that many spectators saw it forcing UCI's hand.

Somewhere, someone with pretty good technical skills must be 'manufacturing' these set ups, so perhaps it should be possible to find it on the web and then know the tale-tale signs?

Or was this instance a quite amature attempt?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on January 31, 2016, 11:43:07 AM
That article is incorrect. She didn't use the bike that had the motor, it was a reserve bike that was tested just after the race started.
She now claims it wasn't her bike at all.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 31, 2016, 03:20:10 PM
Quote from: Syt on January 30, 2016, 06:27:56 AM
Also, German handball team is in European Championship final. :)

Congratulations!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on January 31, 2016, 03:21:12 PM
 :)

(I've not watched a single match, though. Used to watch a fair bit when I was still in Germany. Go Kiel!)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 31, 2016, 03:22:53 PM
I zoned out when Denmark fucked up against Sweden but apparently Spain fucked up even more in the final.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on February 04, 2016, 01:16:33 PM
Latest news on Schumacher is 'not good', says Montezemolo.  :(
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Brain on February 04, 2016, 01:23:27 PM
Quote from: Maladict on January 31, 2016, 05:35:47 AM
Quote from: mongers on January 30, 2016, 06:11:48 PM
Quote from: Maladict on January 30, 2016, 05:11:24 PM
A hidden motor was discovered in the bike of the female U23 European champion.

W.T.F.  :mad:

Yeah, it's unbelievable this happened. The sport is still rotten to the core it seems.   :(
I find it hard to believe a 19 year old was the driving force behind this, though.

:bleeding:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Eddie Teach on February 04, 2016, 03:49:13 PM
I believe that children are the future.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on February 13, 2016, 10:08:49 AM
Nordenkampen is on. A 4 way battle between Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark/Iceland in athletics. There's beautiful blond fit nordic girls in skin tight outfits everywhere. It's good television.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Savonarola on April 08, 2016, 12:19:11 PM
Quinnipiac  (http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Quinnipiac-Hockey-NCAA-Frozen-Four-Finals-374970391.html)wins it all in men's college hockey; so naturally:

Students Get Rowdy at Quinnipiac After Hockey Win, 2 Arrested (http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Students-Get-Rowdy-at-Quinnipiac-After-Hockey-Win-2-Arrested-374990251.html)

Oh you wacky... :unsure: uhm... :unsure: pejorative and/or slang term for people from Connecticut. 
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 10, 2016, 04:56:57 PM
Very entertaining Masters right now.  Speith was cruising to victory then the wheels fell off.  Bogey, bogey then QUAD.  Chunked a big fat broken elbow drop shot into the water just like I would.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 10, 2016, 05:40:31 PM
Theon Greyjoy is in the clubhouse with five under.  Speith needs 2 birdies in the last 3 holes to catch him. 
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 10, 2016, 05:53:38 PM
Nope.  Done.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on May 15, 2016, 08:47:34 AM
Holy shit. Watching F1 for the first time in years, Max wins the Spanish GP  :w00t: :yeah:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 15, 2016, 08:57:43 AM
Quote from: Savonarola on April 08, 2016, 12:19:11 PM
Oh you wacky... :unsure: uhm... :unsure: pejorative and/or slang term for people from Connecticut.

Yankees?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 02, 2016, 11:02:00 AM
Danish rider Annika Langvad won the World Championship in mountain biking! In other less exciting cycling news, Cavendish won the Yellow Jersey on the first stage of the Tour de France.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 02, 2016, 04:56:52 PM
Quote from: Liep on July 02, 2016, 11:02:00 AM
Danish rider Annika Langvad won the World Championship in mountain biking! In other less exciting cycling news, Cavendish won the Yellow Jersey on the first stage of the Tour de France.

:hmm:

All the more reason to have TdF thread.  :frog: :bowler:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on July 03, 2016, 06:59:21 AM
Back in the time, I used to follow TdF obsessively. Now it happens without even me noticing it. All the drug scandals really destroyed my interest for the sport.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 03, 2016, 07:19:17 AM
Quote from: celedhring on July 03, 2016, 06:59:21 AM
Back in the time, I used to follow TdF obsessively. Now it happens without even me noticing it. All the drug scandals really destroyed my interest for the sport.

I still follow it, but not with the same obsession as I once did. Armstrong killed cycling as a professional sport for me. And now Froome is taking the last bit of fun out of the TdF.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on July 03, 2016, 07:20:28 AM
Quote from: celedhring on July 03, 2016, 06:59:21 AM
Back in the time, I used to follow TdF obsessively. Now it happens without even me noticing it. All the drug scandals really destroyed my interest for the sport.

To be fair, if other sports were as well tested for doping as cycling there would be lots of surprises...

PS: I am no fan of cycling. Tour de France always bored me though I know some names since it's a major sport.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on July 03, 2016, 09:31:26 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on July 03, 2016, 07:20:28 AM
Quote from: celedhring on July 03, 2016, 06:59:21 AM
Back in the time, I used to follow TdF obsessively. Now it happens without even me noticing it. All the drug scandals really destroyed my interest for the sport.

To be fair, if other sports were as well tested for doping as cycling there would be lots of surprises...

PS: I am no fan of cycling. Tour de France always bored me though I known some names since it's a major sport.

Possibly. I have always thought that football is probably riddled with it. We almost never hear of footballers being caught using PEDs, and since I'm not going to believe they are all clean, that means the controls are lax.

I loved the epicness of those big TdF or Giro climbs, plus all the tactical dimension the sport has. I keep wanting to get back into it, but I just can't muster the emotional engagement I used to have for it before the doping scandals.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on July 03, 2016, 06:01:11 PM
Theoretical - what if there werent doping rules in sport?

Muscle bound bearded super women screaming at each other at Wimbledon?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on July 04, 2016, 05:30:08 AM
Seems Tyr missed the glorious East German female athletes. Granted, they were not competitive in tennis.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 07, 2016, 10:42:36 AM
Cav keeps winning. Pretty impressive sprinting from the little Brit.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 07, 2016, 03:52:37 PM
Quote from: Liep on July 07, 2016, 10:42:36 AM
Cav keeps winning. Pretty impressive sprinting from the little Brit.

Yes, especially consider he'd almost been written off as being over the hill now.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 08, 2016, 10:11:13 AM
The Brits keep winning, today it was Cummings.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 08, 2016, 01:31:20 PM
Quote from: Liep on July 08, 2016, 10:11:13 AM
The Brits keep winning, today it was Cummings.

That was a quality ride.

And from a man they refused to take to next month's Olympics.  :wacko:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on July 08, 2016, 03:53:19 PM
Wheelchair tennis.
Is there something I'm missing?
As it just looks rather sad. Too hard to get a rally
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on July 11, 2016, 01:59:07 PM
I think it is fair to say we have reached a critical mass of Indians and Pakistanis in Austin, Texas. A tipping point, if you will, has been reached.

http://hcca-austincricket.com/

I have seen them playing at Mayfield Park almost every time I go there.

Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 11, 2016, 02:05:40 PM
Quote from: Valmy on July 11, 2016, 01:59:07 PM
I think it is fair to say we have reached a critical mass of Indians and Pakistanis in Austin, Texas. A tipping point, if you will, has been reached.

http://hcca-austincricket.com/

I have seen them playing at Mayfield Park almost every time I go there.

:cool:

It's a great social game, Valmy you should have a go.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Barrister on July 11, 2016, 02:07:29 PM
Quote from: mongers on July 11, 2016, 02:05:40 PM
Quote from: Valmy on July 11, 2016, 01:59:07 PM
I think it is fair to say we have reached a critical mass of Indians and Pakistanis in Austin, Texas. A tipping point, if you will, has been reached.

http://hcca-austincricket.com/

I have seen them playing at Mayfield Park almost every time I go there.

:cool:

It's a great social game, Valmy you should have a go.

I'm sure it's a fine game.  But in north america it's pretty much exclusively a south asian game.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on July 11, 2016, 02:17:42 PM
Quote from: Barrister on July 11, 2016, 02:07:29 PM

I'm sure it's a fine game.  But in north america it's pretty much exclusively a south asian game.

That's an odd reason to dismiss it. :huh:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 13, 2016, 10:06:29 AM
Some choice words by Cav caught on camera when he had a flat 7 km before the goalline. :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 13, 2016, 10:16:32 AM
Froome is acting very non-Froome like this year. I like it. Crazy downhill driving, adventurous side wind attacks. Today's win by Sagan was spectacular and it was in part Froome's doing.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 13, 2016, 12:14:57 PM
Quote from: Liep on July 13, 2016, 10:16:32 AM
Froome is acting very non-Froome like this year. I like it. Crazy downhill driving, adventurous side wind attacks. Today's win by Sagan was spectacular and it was in part Froome's doing.

Sagan seems to embody the 'spirit' of the Tour de France; he just failed to win the race single-handedly yesterday, so he had another go today.

Notice how immediately after the finish, Froome went onto his static bike for the scientific warm-down regime, Sagan just stood around chating to him and others.  :cool:


Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 13, 2016, 03:02:45 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/13/russian-athlete-competing-under-a-neutral-flag-at-the-olympics-branded-a-traitor

QuoteRussian athlete Darya Klishina has been widely criticised after she agreed to compete under a neutral flag at next month's Olympics, a move which could make her one of Russia's only track-and-field athletes not banned due to a national doping scandal.

Social media denounced the long jumper as a "traitor" after she thanked her sponsors and coaches for their support and expressed gratitude to the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) for allowing her to compete.

Show trial! Show trial!  :contract:

As a neutral spectator I think she'll add positively to the Olympics.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Darya_Klishina.jpg)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 14, 2016, 10:29:51 AM
That was the craziest finish to a stage I've ever seen. From the moment the camera caught Froome running up Mont Ventoux sans bicycle to him crossing the line I just watched in disbelief.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on July 14, 2016, 10:39:21 AM
Yeah, unbelievable. And even more so if this result is allowed to stand.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 14, 2016, 04:26:08 PM
Quote from: Liep on July 14, 2016, 10:29:51 AM
That was the craziest finish to a stage I've ever seen. From the moment the camera caught Froome running up Mont Ventoux sans bicycle to him crossing the line I just watched in disbelief.

Yeah.  :wacko:


Pity for Richie Port, he has a puncture at the worst possible point of race, has a nightmare wheel change with Mavis neutral service and loses a load of time.

Then he and other leaders have a crash with a motorbike, when he's showing himself to be the strongest and is beginning to ride away. Froome then endures a comedy turn with Mavis neutral service, loses lots of time, but eventually natural justice prevails and Froome is re-instated as leader.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 14, 2016, 04:29:07 PM
I wonder what Mavis gets out of this, every time a rider has to settle for their service we get a long take on how slow the change is, or how it doesn't work at all. I'll never forget Voigt yelling and swearing after a bad wheel change from the neutral motorbike.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 14, 2016, 04:37:09 PM
Quote from: Liep on July 14, 2016, 04:29:07 PM
I wonder what Mavis gets out of this, every time a rider has to settle for their service we get a long take on how slow the change is, or how it doesn't work at all. I'll never forget Voigt yelling and swearing after a bad wheel change from the neutral motorbike.

Indeed.

I once had some Mavis tyres, I sold then, hardly used.  :P
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 18, 2016, 10:54:14 AM
WADA recommends that Russia be excluded from all international sport events including Rio 2016. That's huge, would also mean they'd be excluded from the World Cup in Russia 2018, it's not going to happen but it's a pretty damning recommendation.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 21, 2016, 06:22:47 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnWZ91AXYAAHmUU.jpg)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: 11B4V on July 21, 2016, 07:15:46 PM
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fphoto.boxingscene.com%2Fuploads%2Fwilder-arreola-fight%2520%2814%29_1.jpg&hash=149ebed53dea869c1ab90a31fb3fe94a963b9376)


Quote
Deontay Wilder TKO8 Chris Arreola

Retains a heavyweight title
Records: Wilder (37-0, 36 KOs); Arreola (36-5-1, 31 KOs)

Rafael's remarks: Wilder, one of boxing's most destructive punchers, did big damage to Arreola with his power but also to himself. Making his fourth title defense, and doing so in front of a hometown crowd of 11,974 at Legacy Arena, Wilder not only busted Arreola up, knocked him down in the fourth round and nearly stopped him in the final seconds of the round, but he hits so hard that he also broke his right hand for at least the third time.


http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/17099303/deontay-wilder-shows-power-heart-win

Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 28, 2016, 12:14:38 AM
Michelle Wie's bizarro putting stance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl7Fh8gwTTU
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Brain on August 28, 2016, 01:49:51 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 28, 2016, 12:14:38 AM
Michelle Wie's bizarro putting stance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl7Fh8gwTTU

Hypnotic.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 11, 2016, 02:36:02 PM
Cort won two stages in the Vuelta including the final in Madrid. We have a sprinter. :o :yeah: :o
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 11, 2016, 06:21:54 PM
Watched a little bit of bull riding.  Don't know if it was the particular bulls, but guys were getting the living shit kicked out of them.  Might as well lie on the ground while somebody whales on you with a baseball bat.

Also interesting that there were two Brazilians competing (one of whom won).
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on September 11, 2016, 06:41:50 PM
Quote from: Liep on September 11, 2016, 02:36:02 PM
Cort won two stages in the Vuelta including the final in Madrid. We have a sprinter. :o :yeah: :o

All in all, an excellent Vuelta, really enjoyed watching it. Quintana a deserving winner.

That stage 15 where Contador ripped the race apart, was a classic.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on September 11, 2016, 08:55:26 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 11, 2016, 06:21:54 PM
Watched a little bit of bull riding.  Don't know if it was the particular bulls, but guys were getting the living shit kicked out of them.  Might as well lie on the ground while somebody whales on you with a baseball bat.

Also interesting that there were two Brazilians competing (one of whom won).

Interesting note:  the injuries found on stone age hunters, especially Neanderthals, are most consistent with professional bull riders.  Running up and stabbing a mastadon must have been quite a rough experience.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on September 11, 2016, 09:21:39 PM
Quote from: PDH on September 11, 2016, 08:55:26 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 11, 2016, 06:21:54 PM
Watched a little bit of bull riding.  Don't know if it was the particular bulls, but guys were getting the living shit kicked out of them.  Might as well lie on the ground while somebody whales on you with a baseball bat.

Also interesting that there were two Brazilians competing (one of whom won).

Interesting note:  the injuries found on stone age hunters, especially Neanderthals, are most consistent with professional bull riders.  Running up and stabbing a mastadon must have been quite a rough experience.

:cool:

Rough riders?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on October 14, 2016, 07:21:02 AM
Considering we have some cyclining enthusiasts here: what do you guys think of the World Championships being held in Doha at the moment?

http://www.dohacycling2016.com/

Austrian athletes complain about almost no audience and it generally being the most boring WC. There's hardly anyone along the road race tracks, for example - with temperatures of about up to 60°C above the asphalt.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on October 14, 2016, 07:24:49 AM
Quote from: Syt on October 14, 2016, 07:21:02 AM
Considering we have some cyclining enthusiasts here: what do you guys think of the World Championships being held in Doha at the moment?

http://www.dohacycling2016.com/

Austrian athletes complain about almost no audience and it generally being the most boring WC. There's hardly anyone along the road race tracks, for example - with temperatures of about up to 60°C above the asphalt.

Money corrupts in many ways.

I wonder if there's a sporting body that doesn't make money such a priority? :unsure:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on October 15, 2016, 09:34:50 AM
Watching the Kabaddi World Cup from India... it's different but interesting.

The Indian ref just shouted "HET EH TEL" into the face of the Japanese captain. This went on 6 or 7 times with increasing volume before the Japanese noticed the coin in the ref's hand and said head.

Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on October 15, 2016, 09:47:46 AM
Quote from: Liep on October 15, 2016, 09:34:50 AM
Watching the Kabaddi World Cup from India... it's different but interesting.

The Indian ref just shouted "HET EH TEL" into the face of the Japanese captain. This went on 6 or 7 times with increasing volume before the Japanese noticed the coin in the ref's hand and said head.

:D

Quite a cool sport.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on October 15, 2016, 09:56:09 AM
Amalie Dideriksen wins the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP in cycling! :w00t: :w00t: :w00t: :yeah:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on October 15, 2016, 09:57:49 AM
We now have the world champion in both road cycling and mountain bike. :showoff:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on October 15, 2016, 12:23:50 PM
Quote from: Liep on October 15, 2016, 09:56:09 AM
Amalie Dideriksen wins the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP in cycling! :w00t: :w00t: :w00t: :yeah:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/oct/15/amalie-dideriksen-lizzie-deignan-world-road-race
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on October 15, 2016, 02:52:02 PM
Quote from: Liep on October 15, 2016, 09:34:50 AM
Watching the Kabaddi World Cup from India... it's different but interesting.

The Indian ref just shouted "HET EH TEL" into the face of the Japanese captain. This went on 6 or 7 times with increasing volume before the Japanese noticed the coin in the ref's hand and said head.


What an odd sport :hmm:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on October 16, 2016, 05:37:30 AM
And Wozzy wins Hong Kong Open, a tremendous sports weekend for Denmark!

What humiliating loss to Montenegro? I don't remember that...
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 16, 2016, 12:09:30 PM
Quote from: Tyr on October 15, 2016, 02:52:02 PM
Quote from: Liep on October 15, 2016, 09:34:50 AM
Watching the Kabaddi World Cup from India... it's different but interesting.

The Indian ref just shouted "HET EH TEL" into the face of the Japanese captain. This went on 6 or 7 times with increasing volume before the Japanese noticed the coin in the ref's hand and said head.


What an odd sport :hmm:

It's tag while holding your breath.  :huh:

Check out the pictograph half way down on the right.  :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabaddi

What is it with South Asians and retard sports?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on October 16, 2016, 01:54:12 PM
My big consideration about it is quite how it is refereed. Making sure somebody hasn't breathed out seems pretty tough. Strikes me that breathing discretely could be a learnable skill.
I watched a video of it and it is odd, the defending team staying arm in arm and steadily backing off.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: jimmy olsen on December 22, 2016, 04:32:02 AM
USA! USA! USA!

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Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on December 22, 2016, 04:33:52 AM
I wonder how much that gold on his neck weighs. B.A. Baracus would be proud.

The Athens medals look tiny compared to the others.  :hmm:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on December 22, 2016, 04:34:28 AM
These guys aren't impressed.

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.snopes.com%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F05%2Fsoldier-medals.jpg&hash=a14334d8c65a9225ca122b6e3c2098853e4082f6)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on January 16, 2017, 02:47:25 AM
So what's happening with you Liep? No comment about the Handball world championship tournament going right now in France? I mean, Denmark is qualified.  :P
Quite a media barrage here, though games are on a sports pay tv, held by a qatari firm no less.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on January 16, 2017, 03:10:14 AM
I only heard that there was no agreement regarding the TV rights for the tournament in Germany. Handball is popular in some regions (e.g. up North where you have some of the top clubs with Kiel, Flensburg, and Hamburg), but nowhere near football levels.

In the end a bank who sponsors the event decided to stream at least the German matches on the interwebs. Which caused the broadcasting regulatory body to step in and declare that this would make the bank a broadcaster and liable to the same regulations/responsibilities as TV and radio stations. :hmm:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 16, 2017, 03:54:31 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on January 16, 2017, 02:47:25 AM
So what's happening with you Liep? No comment about the Handball world championship tournament going right now in France? I mean, Denmark is qualified.  :P
Quite a media barrage here, though games are on a sports pay tv, held by a qatari firm no less.

I've been on vacation, no TVs on the beach. I'll be sure to update when Denmark wins!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 18, 2017, 01:03:12 PM
Playing Bahrain right now and it's not going according to plan. Mikkel Hansen is out with a red card for pushing two Bahrainis down, another key player is out with a knee injury and we're only up by 2.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on January 18, 2017, 07:23:18 PM
Martina Navratilova is my favorite lebiang.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on January 28, 2017, 09:08:14 AM
Very few comments by Liep about the handball tournament this time.  :P
Tomorrow is the final: France-Norway.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on January 28, 2017, 09:40:43 AM
Am I to take it this is a sport in which Bahrain are good?  :unsure:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on February 05, 2017, 08:46:51 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on January 28, 2017, 09:08:14 AM
Very few comments by Liep about the handball tournament this time.  :P
Tomorrow is the final: France-Norway.

For no reason I'd just like to remind everyone that Denmark holds both the road and mountain bike world championships for women.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on February 05, 2017, 01:43:35 PM
Quote from: Liep on February 05, 2017, 08:46:51 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on January 28, 2017, 09:08:14 AM
Very few comments by Liep about the handball tournament this time.  :P
Tomorrow is the final: France-Norway.

For no reason I'd just like to remind everyone that Denmark holds both the road and mountain bike world championships for women.

Better luck next time Liep!  :hug:  :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on March 18, 2017, 07:43:02 AM
Watching Italy vs Scotland rugby and I notice a lot of the Scots have blue marks on their white shirts. Kind of similar shade to Italy colours
Italian shirts have colour retention issues? :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on May 20, 2017, 10:03:31 AM
Tom Dumoulin just kicked Quintana's ass on the Oropa  :cool:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on May 20, 2017, 04:37:21 PM
Quote from: Maladict on May 20, 2017, 10:03:31 AM
Tom Dumoulin just kicked Quintana's ass on the Oropa  :cool:

:cool:

He added a lot of spice to last years grand tours, so looking forward to his efforts his year.

How did I miss the coverage.  :(
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on May 23, 2017, 09:23:36 AM
Quote from: mongers on May 20, 2017, 04:37:21 PM
Quote from: Maladict on May 20, 2017, 10:03:31 AM
Tom Dumoulin just kicked Quintana's ass on the Oropa  :cool:

:cool:

He added a lot of spice to last years grand tours, so looking forward to his efforts his year.

How did I miss the coverage.  :(

Great, now he's taking a dump on the side of the road with only 30km to go.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on May 23, 2017, 09:45:16 AM
Quote from: Maladict on May 23, 2017, 09:23:36 AM
Quote from: mongers on May 20, 2017, 04:37:21 PM
Quote from: Maladict on May 20, 2017, 10:03:31 AM
Tom Dumoulin just kicked Quintana's ass on the Oropa  :cool:

:cool:

He added a lot of spice to last years grand tours, so looking forward to his efforts his year.

How did I miss the coverage.  :(

Great, now he's taking a dump on the side of the road with only 30km to go.

:lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on May 28, 2017, 01:14:47 PM
Very convincing victory in Milan for Dumoulin  :cool:
I have a feeling this is not his last Grand Tour win.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on May 28, 2017, 01:38:17 PM
Quote from: Maladict on May 28, 2017, 01:14:47 PM
Very convincing victory in Milan for Dumoulin  :cool:
I have a feeling this is not his last Grand Tour win.

:cool:

Looking good; we need someone to seriously challenge thingy and the Skytrain.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 27, 2017, 12:29:05 PM
Viktor Axelsen won the world championship in badminton! :w00t:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on September 09, 2017, 04:14:30 PM
Epic win by Contador on the Alto de Angliru in La Vuelta today; a fitting end to his cycling career.   :cool:



Froome went on to grind out another overall grand tour victor.  <_<
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 29, 2017, 01:08:17 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-EOE124gHw

Caught some UFC on the boozer telly last night.  Particularly gruesome choke out at 3:16.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on December 13, 2017, 09:00:10 AM
Froome is tested positive for having too much astma medicine in his blood and will likely be stripped of his 2017 Vuelta win.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on December 13, 2017, 11:20:30 AM
No Froome in the Tour means opportunities  :shifty:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on December 13, 2017, 11:25:08 AM
All bikers are doped, it's better to just assume that by default.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 27, 2018, 06:27:01 AM
Wozniacki wins Australia Open! :yeah: :yeah: :w00t: :w00t:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 27, 2018, 06:43:58 AM
The victory is quickly being named the biggest Danish sport result since EC '92. I'd say since Riis '96. But this is damn big.  :worthy:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on January 27, 2018, 03:31:03 PM
Quote from: Liep on January 27, 2018, 06:43:58 AM
The victory is quickly being named the biggest Danish sport result since EC '92. I'd say since Riis '96. But this is damn big.  :worthy:

Given Riis was doped up in 1996, I'd give it to Wozniacki.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 27, 2018, 05:05:47 PM
Quote from: Maladict on January 27, 2018, 03:31:03 PM
Quote from: Liep on January 27, 2018, 06:43:58 AM
The victory is quickly being named the biggest Danish sport result since EC '92. I'd say since Riis '96. But this is damn big.  :worthy:

Given Riis was doped up in 1996, I'd give it to Wozniacki.

At any rate it's been rather slow on the big victories if you discount handball and badminton. Handball is out because it sucks and badminton seems to only be popular in Denmark and certain Asian countries.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: katmai on February 11, 2018, 02:20:33 AM
What is this futsal shit and why is it on my ESPN?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on February 11, 2018, 05:04:22 AM
Quote from: katmai on February 11, 2018, 02:20:33 AM
What is this futsal shit and why is it on my ESPN?

It's only shit when we lose  :mad:

Futsal is awesome. Small-court fast-paced version of football. Every Spanish kid grows up playing that.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on February 12, 2018, 02:52:41 AM
Usually I just see that on TV in summer where they have b list ex pro tournaments in dubai et al.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Eddie Teach on February 12, 2018, 02:58:00 AM
If they shrank the field enough you could land a shot from anywhere, that might actually make soccer exciting.   :hmm:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on February 12, 2018, 03:02:42 AM
A thought. How come the winter Olympics largely just features dull snow and ice related sports.
Surely gymnastics, martial arts and other indoor stuff is equally valid in winter as summer? :hmm:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on February 12, 2018, 03:59:23 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on February 12, 2018, 02:58:00 AM
If they shrank the field enough you could land a shot from anywhere, that might actually make soccer exciting.   :hmm:

Essentially it's football played in a basketball court. It was invented because most schools didn't have a football pitch available (too big and expensive) so kids ended up playing football in the basketball court.

My neighborhood growing up didn't have a public football pitch so we usually took over the basketball pitch and played football instead.  :P
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on February 12, 2018, 12:47:51 PM
Quote from: Tyr on February 12, 2018, 03:02:42 AM
A thought. How come the winter Olympics largely just features dull snow and ice related sports.
Surely gymnastics, martial arts and other indoor stuff is equally valid in winter as summer? :hmm:

Because you know nothing of history of the modern Olympics.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on February 12, 2018, 12:52:32 PM
Quote from: katmai on February 11, 2018, 02:20:33 AM
What is this futsal shit and why is it on my ESPN?

So you could see Portugal being European champion, again.  :P
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on February 12, 2018, 12:53:44 PM
Quote from: celedhring on February 12, 2018, 03:59:23 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on February 12, 2018, 02:58:00 AM
If they shrank the field enough you could land a shot from anywhere, that might actually make soccer exciting.   :hmm:

Essentially it's football played in a basketball handball court. It was invented because most schools didn't have a football pitch available (too big and expensive) so kids ended up playing football in the basketball handball court.

My neighborhood growing up didn't have a public football pitch so we usually took over the basketball pitch and played football instead.  :P

Fixed!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 03, 2018, 06:54:11 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-j2SRvN0bA

Masters' impersonations.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 07, 2018, 02:00:42 PM
Last year's Masters champ Sergio Garcia hooks up with MMA superstar Connor McGregor, goes insane, insults everyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvC4YkvnH-M

Then he shoots 13 on one hole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfi14QUbsBY

Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on May 25, 2018, 07:53:31 AM
This Giro suddenly got interesting again  :cool:
What is happening to Yates?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on May 25, 2018, 10:04:10 AM
Fucking Froome  :glare:
Guess we'll have to wait for his doping results.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 10, 2018, 01:09:49 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4pkD78oKSo

Justify is the 13th Triple Crown winner.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 17, 2018, 04:46:04 AM
A shout out to sports photographers, this one from the cobble stone stage of the Tour is an instant favourite.

(https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Fsundaytimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F77cf56fe-883c-11e8-89c3-034f5f14f286.jpg?crop=3198%2C1799%2C0%2C167&resize=685)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 17, 2018, 05:58:27 AM
Quote from: Liep on July 17, 2018, 04:46:04 AM
A shout out to sports photographers, this one from the cobble stone stage of the Tour is an instant favourite.

.....

Nice one and funny too.  :)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 17, 2018, 06:18:36 AM
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig came in fourth in today's La Course (https://twitter.com/LaCoursebyTDF) after having led going up the last mountain. The post race interview is amazing, contrary to the male riders she actually has human emotions, crying, laughing and was in a great mood after her top performance.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 17, 2018, 06:27:40 AM
Quote from: Liep on July 17, 2018, 06:18:36 AM
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig came in fourth in today's La Course (https://twitter.com/LaCoursebyTDF) after having led going up the last mountain. The post race interview is amazing, contrary to the male riders she actually has human emotions, crying, laughing and was in a great mood after her top performance.

:cool:

Though I did think Dan Martin's reaction to last stage's cobbled sections was brilliant, he said he'd really enjoyed it, never had the opportunity of a ride like that before and just enthused about the joy of riding a bike. 
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 17, 2018, 06:33:35 AM
Quote from: mongers on July 17, 2018, 06:27:40 AM
Quote from: Liep on July 17, 2018, 06:18:36 AM
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig came in fourth in today's La Course (https://twitter.com/LaCoursebyTDF) after having led going up the last mountain. The post race interview is amazing, contrary to the male riders she actually has human emotions, crying, laughing and was in a great mood after her top performance.

:cool:

Though I did think Dan Martin's reaction to last stage's cobbled sections was brilliant, he said he'd really enjoyed it, never had the opportunity of a ride like that before and just enthused about the joy of riding a bike. 

Yeah, there are some giving genuine interviews but at least all the Danish riders give what is known here as the Wozniacki style interview, eg. a generic boring interview. "One day at a time", "I did well today I think", etc.

Last one who was a little interesting was Chris Anker Sørensen and he's now an expert commentator so that's quite nice. Still nothing like Jesper Skibby, legend.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 19, 2018, 08:14:30 PM
What a sterling ride by G.Thomas to win on Alpe D'Huez. :cool:

Discounting the mainly boring first few days, it's been a fascinating Tour so far.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 23, 2018, 07:29:57 PM
Cort won in superior fashion yesterday as the first Dane to do so in the Tour in 9 years.

He now has 3 grand tour wins and that puts him up there among the all time greatest Danes:

Riis* - 6 wins
Skibby*, Rasmussen** - 5 wins
Cort, Sørensen*, Ritter*** - 3 wins

* Admitted to doping use
** Caught for and admitted to doping use
*** Rode before doping was an issue in the media

I remember most of them and regardless of asterisks they were goddamn amazing. :cry:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 23, 2018, 07:45:28 PM
Lest we forget another Sørensen who had the latest tour win in 2009****.

****Admitted to doping use in the years prior to the years in which he actually won stuff

That was some seriously great riding, attacked from the breakaway with like 20 km left and caught everybody off guard. :w00t:

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Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 23, 2018, 07:51:54 PM
I'm in full nostalgia mode.

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmembers.tripod.com%2Fcanto_3%2Friisalbi.jpg&hash=e0bf38dc4cb7f736d28dcfc7e87a8a028e6a2a51)

What a summer.

I just recently learned that when he geared on to the large chain ring in '96 and broke away he had asked the mechanics to put on a smaller ring only so he could pull that trick and awe his opponents with accelerating up a mountain on the outer ring. The legend goes that Indurain had a mental breakdown when he saw it, what a champion. :worthy:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 23, 2018, 08:02:03 PM
He was robbed in '95 :weep:

(https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/july-1994-tour-de-france-bjarne-riis-gewiss-ballan-neil-stephens-once-picture-id504177727?s=612x612)

Berzin. :ultra:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 23, 2018, 08:10:43 PM
Last one for now

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"Riis er den store klinges ædle betvinger" :cool:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 23, 2018, 08:19:46 PM
Quote from: Liep on July 23, 2018, 08:02:03 PM
He was robbed in '95 :weep:

(https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/july-1994-tour-de-france-bjarne-riis-gewiss-ballan-neil-stephens-once-picture-id504177727?s=612x612)

Berzin. :ultra:

I didn't know Ted Danson had a second career.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on July 23, 2018, 08:30:39 PM
Riis was so full of blood doping stuff it is a wonder he didn't stroke out on the bike.  I've stories that some of his levels would have an ER send that person to intensive care right away.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on August 05, 2018, 05:30:30 PM
Thomas gets a civic welcome in Cardiff on Thursday, I'm tempted to go.

That was a great TdF, the deserving man won, with two stage wins to boot, unlike the 2017 winner.

Alafillipe was a worthy winner in the king of the mountains, winning two stages, showing a refreshing spirit, a gentleman too.

Sagan justly won the green jersey, after winning two stages and battling through a bad injury that made him struggle to finish in the mountains.

And Dan Martin won a rare stage, despite all of his attacking endeavours in the past and particularly this tour, so it was very appropriate that he won the super-combativity prize and stood on the podium in Paris.

Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on August 10, 2018, 12:19:45 PM
Jan Ullrich apparently didn't think he had sunk low enough, he has now been arrested for trying to strangle a prostitute  :wacko:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on August 10, 2018, 12:49:45 PM
Quote from: Maladict on August 10, 2018, 12:19:45 PM
Jan Ullrich apparently didn't think he had sunk low enough, he has now been arrested for trying to strangle a prostitute  :wacko:

Last week he got into an altercation on Mallorca at Till Schweiger's place and police had to pick him up.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 05, 2018, 09:50:25 PM
Tiger is one of the captain's picks for the Ryder Cup team.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 27, 2018, 12:51:16 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlAM2UUs1pM

Friday's 4 ball pairings announced.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 29, 2018, 04:17:00 PM
Ryder Cup is a massacree. :(
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 29, 2018, 05:25:11 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 29, 2018, 04:17:00 PM
Ryder Cup is a massacree. :(

Does that mean we're winning? :unsure:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 29, 2018, 05:28:04 PM
Quote from: Liep on September 29, 2018, 05:25:11 PM
Does that mean we're winning? :unsure:

You're up 10-6 with 12 points left in the singles matches.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 30, 2018, 11:09:48 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 29, 2018, 05:28:04 PM
Quote from: Liep on September 29, 2018, 05:25:11 PM
Does that mean we're winning? :unsure:

You're up 10-6 with 12 points left in the singles matches.

W! And with a Danish captain!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on September 30, 2018, 02:52:17 PM
Alejandro Valverde wins the men's world road race, a deserved win.

Dramatic race with a near insane last miles climb.  :)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 30, 2018, 06:38:15 PM
Quote from: mongers on September 30, 2018, 02:52:17 PM
Alejandro Valverde wins the men's world road race, a deserved win.

Dramatic race with a near insane last miles climb.  :)

Good to see an old man in the top spot. Can hardly think of a worthier winner.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on September 30, 2018, 07:04:01 PM
Quote from: Liep on September 30, 2018, 06:38:15 PM
Quote from: mongers on September 30, 2018, 02:52:17 PM
Alejandro Valverde wins the men's world road race, a deserved win.

Dramatic race with a near insane last miles climb.  :)

Good to see an old man in the top spot. Can hardly think of a worthier winner.

So there's hope for some of us yet?  :D
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on September 30, 2018, 07:57:41 PM
That was a brutal last climb - 28% at the world championships?  Next year they are going to include a climbing wall so they can outdo that...
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on October 07, 2018, 12:56:10 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Do7AE6dXoAELWet.jpg)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on December 05, 2018, 05:44:10 AM
The Czechs are criticized for filming time out gatherings during the EC in handball in an alternative angle

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimbo2.tv2.dk%2Fusers%2Feditorial%2Fimages%2F531bf780-db1e-40a1-80cd-d75791c594f4.jpg%3FpublicKey%3Ddrupal%26amp%3Bt%255B0%255D%3Dtv2cropping%253Awidth%253D300%252Cheight%253D169%26amp%3BaccessToken%3De91de9ac0be0cea1e55bd8abf37b050c41d1749f55d0b53ab00d62c0704bea9a&hash=87233b00df0125d2e7fa26814d5a34957013c952)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on February 20, 2019, 08:13:55 AM
Tour de France starts in Copenhagen in 2021. :w00t: :yeah:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on February 20, 2019, 08:32:37 AM
Quote from: Liep on February 20, 2019, 08:13:55 AM
Tour de France starts in Copenhagen in 2021. :w00t: :yeah:

:cool:

I hope you get a better view than I did when in London for the 2012(?) start.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on February 20, 2019, 03:55:58 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 20, 2019, 08:32:37 AM
Quote from: Liep on February 20, 2019, 08:13:55 AM
Tour de France starts in Copenhagen in 2021. :w00t: :yeah:

:cool:

I hope you get a better view than I did when in London for the 2012(?) start.

Prologue in Copenhagen and a stage from Roskilde - Odense (20 minutes by train). 3rd stage is in southern Jutland which is too far away even for TdF. :P
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 15, 2019, 12:07:49 AM
Congratulations Tiger on winning your fifth Masters. :cheers:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on April 24, 2019, 09:38:43 AM
QuoteParalympics GB stunned after Yokohama hotels demand payment for accessibility
• Paralympics GB team hit with 'huge headache' for training camp
• Senior figure says hotels have shown a 'total lack of interest'

British Paralympic officials say they were left stunned when hotels near their training camp for the 2020 Games demanded they pay to make rooms accessible for wheelchair athletes – and then pay again to convert them back afterwards.

One senior figure said there had been a "total lack of interest" from hotels they had contacted in Yokohama when it came to helping the British Paralympic team, who will make their final preparations in the city ahead of Tokyo 2020. Another source said the issue had been a "huge headache" for more than 18 months.

What has made the issue harder to solve is that it is beyond the remit of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee, which runs the Games. Rather it is down to individual hotels – many of whom do not see the social or economic benefits of providing more accessible rooms.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on April 28, 2019, 07:41:12 AM
Stay classy Japan
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: KRonn on April 28, 2019, 02:04:46 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 15, 2019, 12:07:49 AM
Congratulations Tiger on winning your fifth Masters. :cheers:

Agreed. Glad to see him making a comeback. 
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on July 14, 2019, 12:35:48 PM
Wimbledon final is pretty epic so far
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on July 14, 2019, 02:38:51 PM
Portugal World Champion in rink (roller) hockey. It's been a while (2003). :)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 24, 2019, 02:46:42 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Zdh9FMCc4

The Little League World Series is one of the coolest sporting events ever.

Curacao beats Japan to make it to the final.  Things get pretty exciting in the 6th (last) inning.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 29, 2019, 11:47:19 AM
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


:w00t: :w00t: :yeah: :yeah:

Wow
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on September 29, 2019, 11:56:23 AM
Quote from: Liep on September 29, 2019, 11:47:19 AM
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


:w00t: :w00t: :yeah: :yeah:

Wow

I wonder who won?  :hmm:

Fulsong?

I've yet to see the highlights, so undecided if I want to know or not.  ;)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 29, 2019, 12:14:39 PM
Unbelievable really. Rolf Sørensen was in tears for a long time afterwards. :cry:  :worthy:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on September 29, 2019, 01:07:13 PM
Who had the idea to have the track World Championships in Qatar? They had the women's marathon at midnight to account for the temperatures, but it was still so hot and humid that of 68 starters 28 didn't finish, with several requiring medical assistance afterwards. It's basically road cycling world championships from a few years ago all over again :rolleyes:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on October 12, 2019, 03:40:49 AM
Kipchoge runs first Marathon under 2 hours in Vienna:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/12/sport/eliud-kipchoge-marathon-vienna-intl/index.html
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on October 12, 2019, 06:55:55 AM
Quote from: Syt on October 12, 2019, 03:40:49 AM
Kipchoge runs first Marathon under 2 hours in Vienna:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/12/sport/eliud-kipchoge-marathon-vienna-intl/index.html

Wild.

By the way, what is this INEOS and why are they sponsoring so much sport at the moment?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on October 12, 2019, 07:08:42 AM
It should be noted that the IAAF will not recognize the record - it was set under non-competition conditions, like having a car in front of Kipchoge, and having other runners specifically participating as pacemakers for him.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on October 12, 2019, 03:32:41 PM
Quote from: Liep on October 12, 2019, 06:55:55 AM
Quote from: Syt on October 12, 2019, 03:40:49 AM
Kipchoge runs first Marathon under 2 hours in Vienna:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/12/sport/eliud-kipchoge-marathon-vienna-intl/index.html

Wild.

By the way, what is this INEOS and why are they sponsoring so much sport at the moment?

It's a private UK based plastics company, owned by a Brexit backing UK multi-billionaire.  <_<

He seems to want to paint it and his company's name big across the world; keep an eye out for the INEOS 'flagged' gas ships carrying North American shale gas across the Atlantic.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on November 25, 2019, 03:22:47 PM
WADA recommends Russia be banned from all sports for 4 years. :banned:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on December 13, 2019, 08:28:44 PM
The US trailing in the Presidents Cup is surely a sign Trump has brought God's wrath down upon us.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 16, 2020, 01:51:38 PM
That was a quick final session at the Snooker World Championship.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on August 16, 2020, 04:33:51 PM
Quote from: Liep on August 16, 2020, 01:51:38 PM
That was a quick final session at the Snooker World Championship.

Did you see Evenepoel's fall yesterday?  :o
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on August 16, 2020, 05:45:19 PM
I wonder how much blowing up there is going to be.  No real classics racing, a little bit of warms ups, no Giro, then BAM the Tour de France.  Maybe we'll see a full field crash at the start of day 2?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on August 16, 2020, 10:15:47 PM
Quote from: PDH on August 16, 2020, 05:45:19 PM
I wonder how much blowing up there is going to be.  No real classics racing, a little bit of warms ups, no Giro, then BAM the Tour de France.  Maybe we'll see a full field crash at the start of day 2?

:hmm:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on August 31, 2020, 07:23:22 PM
Now there is racing, and the form is all over the place.  Maybe this is how it was back in the old days when there was only amphetamines and strychnine to dope with.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on September 01, 2020, 07:03:14 AM
Quote from: PDH on August 31, 2020, 07:23:22 PM
Now there is racing, and the form is all over the place.  Maybe this is how it was back in the old days when there was only amphetamines and strychnine to dope with.

I'm enjoying it.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on September 01, 2020, 10:19:24 AM
Tour de France in September really feels weird. Not to mention there is nobody along the roads to watch it, or even in the cities when cyclists arrive.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on September 01, 2020, 10:50:14 AM
I can see the lack of people, but it is still good to be able to watch it for a few days until they close everything down.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on September 01, 2020, 06:25:41 PM
Quote from: PDH on September 01, 2020, 10:50:14 AM
I can see the lack of people, but it is still good to be able to watch it for a few days until they close everything down.

Not while a Frenchman is in the yellow.   :contract:


:D
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on September 02, 2020, 09:23:09 PM
Alaphilippe docked 15 seconds for getting a water bottle from the roadside at 17 km out...
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 09, 2020, 06:40:40 AM
I just noticed there are now both a female and a male model kissing the winners. Progress!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on September 09, 2020, 10:36:38 AM
Quote from: Liep on September 09, 2020, 06:40:40 AM
I just noticed there are now both a female and a male model kissing the winners. Progress!

Indeed.

The previous set-up seemed positively 20th century or maybe even a relic from the 1970s.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 12, 2020, 10:48:28 AM
Wooo! :yeah:


Søren Kragh Andersen wins the Lyon stage!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on September 12, 2020, 10:53:15 AM
Sunweb has great tactics so far in this Tour.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 12, 2020, 03:54:51 PM
Quote from: PDH on September 12, 2020, 10:53:15 AM
Sunweb has great tactics so far in this Tour.

They were dominating the last part of this stage.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on September 13, 2020, 11:06:44 AM
I really need to get back to watching cycling. I used to be a big fan and always watched Tour/Giro/La Vuelta until all the druggie scandals completely put me off the sport.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on September 13, 2020, 08:07:45 PM
Looks like it'll be the fourth year in a row that a different Team Sky/Inneos Tour champion will unsuccessfully defend this yellow jersey win.   :hmm:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on September 13, 2020, 09:34:27 PM
Ineos has just plain looked bad in the Dauphine and the Tour.  They have tried to set up the train a couple of times, but they don't have it in 2020.

Now with Bernal cracking and the rest of the team unable to really give consistent efforts, I wonder what they try to hang their hats on?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on September 16, 2020, 09:18:09 PM
Quote from: PDH on September 13, 2020, 09:34:27 PM
Ineos has just plain looked bad in the Dauphine and the Tour.  They have tried to set up the train a couple of times, but they don't have it in 2020.

Now with Bernal cracking and the rest of the team unable to really give consistent efforts, I wonder what they try to hang their hats on?

By the looks of it, a stupid retro knock-off of an old land rover. :bleeding:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 18, 2020, 10:20:36 AM
Søren Kragh Andersen again! :w00t:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on September 18, 2020, 07:25:54 PM
Quote from: Liep on September 18, 2020, 10:20:36 AM
Søren Kragh Andersen again! :w00t:

Yeah perfectly timed attack, none of the others in the breakaway could muster an attack.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 19, 2020, 11:09:30 AM
Pogacar :o

Wow.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 19, 2020, 11:14:10 AM
Younger even than Bernal and to win it all on the last time trial. Incredible.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 19, 2020, 04:34:12 PM
Poor guy, he looked utterly beaten and broken when he crossed the finish line.

(https://asset.dr.dk/imagescaler/?protocol=https&server=www.dr.dk&file=%2Fimages%2Fcrop%2F2020%2F09%2F19%2F1600542949_scanpix-20200919-200844-2.jpg&scaleAfter=crop&quality=40&w=1700&h=956)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 21, 2020, 02:37:47 AM
This is a nice story. Pogacar rode without the use of a watt meter thereby becoming the promised anti-Froome.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/pogacar-rode-without-power-meter-or-computer-for-la-planche-des-belles-filles/

Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 26, 2020, 10:04:28 AM
A Dutch won the women's UCI world championship surprising no one. Van der Breecken also won the time trial yesterday.

Uttrup sadly had mechanical problems and lost the chaser group but still managed a top 10 position.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 27, 2020, 09:37:14 AM
Alaphillipe wins! Apparently the French haven't won since Brochard in the 90's so good for them.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on October 04, 2020, 10:06:06 AM
Alaphillipe thinks he's winning Liege Bastogne Liege and raises his arms 10 meters before the line only to see Roglic overtake him and win by a millimetre. That finish line photo will haunt him
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on October 04, 2020, 11:40:33 AM
Alaphilippe would have lost it anyway, he was also relegated to the back of the group for cutting off Hirschi in the sprint (who looks like he could have won).
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on October 19, 2020, 11:56:52 AM
In the battle of miserable chokers, the Braves somehow found a way to out-choke the Dodgers in the most demoralizing and humiliating way possible and blew a 3-1 series lead. The Dodgers, after years of pathetic underachieving, have finally found their way to the World Series. I expect for them to lay down for the Rays.

My condolences Georgia.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on October 19, 2020, 12:29:06 PM
Quote from: Valmy on October 19, 2020, 11:56:52 AM
In the battle of miserable chokers, the Braves somehow found a way to out-choke the Dodgers in the most demoralizing and humiliating way possible and blew a 3-1 series lead. The Dodgers, after years of pathetic underachieving, have finally found their way to the World Series. I expect for them to lay down for the Rays.

:hmm: By going to the WS for the 3rd time in 4 years?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on October 19, 2020, 12:46:00 PM
The Vuelta a Espana Covid is starting tomorrow.  It is nice of Italy and Spain to have super-spreader events across a wide swath of territory to help the disease along.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on October 19, 2020, 12:50:59 PM
Small time overlap between Giro (last week) and Vuelta though.  :P
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on October 19, 2020, 01:03:37 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on October 19, 2020, 12:29:06 PM
Quote from: Valmy on October 19, 2020, 11:56:52 AM
In the battle of miserable chokers, the Braves somehow found a way to out-choke the Dodgers in the most demoralizing and humiliating way possible and blew a 3-1 series lead. The Dodgers, after years of pathetic underachieving, have finally found their way to the World Series. I expect for them to lay down for the Rays.

:hmm: By going to the WS for the 3rd time in 4 years?

And losing!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on October 19, 2020, 05:37:24 PM
Quote from: PDH on October 19, 2020, 12:46:00 PM
The Vuelta a Espana Covid is starting tomorrow.  It is nice of Italy and Spain to have super-spreader events across a wide swath of territory to help the disease along.

I shall be watching it's spread ups and downs with interest.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on October 19, 2020, 05:43:52 PM
They removed 3 stages, and boiled down the rest.  Apparently, it will just be climbing l'Angliru 54 times in 18 days, though I may be wrong...
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on October 20, 2020, 04:37:05 PM
Fun to watch Sepp Kuss from Colorado climb.  He can't really time-trial, he doesn't get the strategy of the big peloton yet (only a few years in road bikes), but he can climb.  He is a perfect domestique, willing to sacrifice for his team leader in the mountains.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on October 20, 2020, 09:24:26 PM
Quote from: PDH on October 20, 2020, 04:37:05 PM
Fun to watch Sepp Kuss from Colorado climb.  He can't really time-trial, he doesn't get the strategy of the big peloton yet (only a few years in road bikes), but he can climb.  He is a perfect domestique, willing to sacrifice for his team leader in the mountains.

Yes, an impressive new talent.  :)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: HisMajestyBOB on October 23, 2020, 11:05:20 PM
I haven't followed the NFL much this season because of a newborn and a toddler sucking up all my time, but I just checked the standings and god damn does the NFC East (still) suck. Good lord.

I really should switch my allegiance from the Washington formerly-racist losers to the Ravens. I wish the Washington Post covered the Ravens better so I could follow them more easily.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on October 24, 2020, 01:24:43 AM
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on October 23, 2020, 11:05:20 PM
I really should switch my allegiance from the Washington formerly-racist losers to the Ravens.

Speaking of which, is the new name some hipster "I'm too cool for nicknames" thing or a tantrum because they were forced to change?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on October 24, 2020, 01:40:25 AM
I had a look and the Steelers are 5-0? :o But it seems they've been mostly shit teams while having home field advantage, so .... yay?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on October 24, 2020, 01:54:03 AM
Don't make me look at how the Giants are doing Syt.

Fuck, I just did  :(

Why o why of all the cities in the US, did I have to adopt New York City for sports  :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: HisMajestyBOB on October 24, 2020, 08:42:18 AM
Quote from: celedhring on October 24, 2020, 01:24:43 AM
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on October 23, 2020, 11:05:20 PM
I really should switch my allegiance from the Washington formerly-racist losers to the Ravens.

Speaking of which, is the new name some hipster "I'm too cool for nicknames" thing or a tantrum because they were forced to change?

They had a few names, but apparently some guy has the rights to them. So they were forced to go generic. To be honest, I kinda like it.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: DontSayBanana on October 24, 2020, 09:24:21 AM
Quote from: celedhring on October 24, 2020, 01:54:03 AM
Don't make me look at how the Giants are doing Syt.

Fuck, I just did  :(

Why o why of all the cities in the US, did I have to adopt New York City for sports  :lol:

Could be worse, you could have adopted Philly. :contract:

I mean, NFC East is just terrible overall. Cowboys leading the pack with a whopping 2 wins?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on October 24, 2020, 07:39:32 PM
Quote from: celedhring on October 24, 2020, 01:24:43 AM
Quote from: HisMajestyBOB on October 23, 2020, 11:05:20 PM
I really should switch my allegiance from the Washington formerly-racist losers to the Ravens.

Speaking of which, is the new name some hipster "I'm too cool for nicknames" thing or a tantrum because they were forced to change?

Neither, though a bit of the second part is there since they stubbornly held on for 25 years too long. Incompetence, mismanagement, and stupidity are the real answers.

They announced the options they were considering for the new nickname and somebody went out and bought the rights to them all. How do you let that happen? When you are as idiotic as the Washington Football Team.

Even then they fucked it up. If they became the Washington Football Club they might have had a Washington FC going for them. But nope had to fuck that up and become the Washington Football Team.

Unfortunately this kind of poor attention to detail, laziness, and incompetence has extended to every part of the organization over the past 20 years. The only exceptions are when it morphs into malice like in the abuse of power with the sex abuse shit.

This organization is a dumpster fire. The fact that Dan Snyder could have been successful with such systematically toxically incompetent management skills discredits the Great Man Theory of Capitalism.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on October 24, 2020, 07:41:31 PM
Quote from: celedhring on October 24, 2020, 01:54:03 AM
Don't make me look at how the Giants are doing Syt.

Fuck, I just did  :(

Why o why of all the cities in the US, did I have to adopt New York City for sports  :lol:

Well they have the Yankees.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on October 24, 2020, 11:52:39 PM
Speaking of baseball, last night's walk off in Game 5 of the World Series popped up in my Twitter feed and ... it's quite special.   :lol: :lol: :lol:

https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1320219342211080193?s=19
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on October 25, 2020, 03:20:10 PM
It was game 4.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on October 25, 2020, 03:35:18 PM
Quote from: Valmy on October 24, 2020, 07:41:31 PM
Quote from: celedhring on October 24, 2020, 01:54:03 AM
Don't make me look at how the Giants are doing Syt.

Fuck, I just did  :(

Why o why of all the cities in the US, did I have to adopt New York City for sports  :lol:

Well they have the Yankees.

And baseball is the one sport I couldn't give a toss about  :lol:


Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on October 25, 2020, 10:18:42 PM
Quote from: celedhring on October 25, 2020, 03:35:18 PM
Quote from: Valmy on October 24, 2020, 07:41:31 PM
Quote from: celedhring on October 24, 2020, 01:54:03 AM
Don't make me look at how the Giants are doing Syt.

Fuck, I just did  :(

Why o why of all the cities in the US, did I have to adopt New York City for sports  :lol:

Well they have the Yankees.

And baseball is the one sport I couldn't give a toss about  :lol:

Then you definitely picked the wrong city to adopt for US Sports.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on October 26, 2020, 03:41:34 AM
Quote from: Valmy on October 25, 2020, 10:18:42 PM
Quote from: celedhring on October 25, 2020, 03:35:18 PM
Quote from: Valmy on October 24, 2020, 07:41:31 PM
Quote from: celedhring on October 24, 2020, 01:54:03 AM
Don't make me look at how the Giants are doing Syt.

Fuck, I just did  :(

Why o why of all the cities in the US, did I have to adopt New York City for sports  :lol:

Well they have the Yankees.

And baseball is the one sport I couldn't give a toss about  :lol:

Then you definitely picked the wrong city to adopt for US Sports.

When I moved there the Giants won a Superbowl and Jagr was playing for the Rangers. I was misled!

The Knicks were the Knicks though, never made de playoffs while I lived in NYC  :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on October 26, 2020, 05:29:20 AM
Quote from: celedhring on October 26, 2020, 03:41:34 AM
Quote from: Valmy on October 25, 2020, 10:18:42 PM
Quote from: celedhring on October 25, 2020, 03:35:18 PM
Quote from: Valmy on October 24, 2020, 07:41:31 PM
Quote from: celedhring on October 24, 2020, 01:54:03 AM
Don't make me look at how the Giants are doing Syt.

Fuck, I just did  :(

Why o why of all the cities in the US, did I have to adopt New York City for sports  :lol:

Well they have the Yankees.

And baseball is the one sport I couldn't give a toss about  :lol:

Then you definitely picked the wrong city to adopt for US Sports.

When I moved there the Giants won a Superbowl and Jagr was playing for the Rangers. I was misled!

The Knicks were the Knicks though, never made de playoffs while I lived in NYC  :lol:

Last season they qualified was 2012-13.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on October 26, 2020, 06:03:29 AM
I left one year before Linsanity and Carmelo Anthony, which was the only fun to be had by the Knicks in the XXIst century.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on October 26, 2020, 06:13:44 AM
Quote from: celedhring on October 26, 2020, 06:03:29 AM
I left one year before Linsanity and Carmelo Anthony, which was the only fun to be had by the Knicks in the XXIst century.

Those were in two different seasons, Carmelo arrived in NY during the 2010-11 season, and Linsanity was in early 2012.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on October 26, 2020, 06:18:03 AM
Quote from: The Larch on October 26, 2020, 06:13:44 AM
Quote from: celedhring on October 26, 2020, 06:03:29 AM
I left one year before Linsanity and Carmelo Anthony, which was the only fun to be had by the Knicks in the XXIst century.

Those were in two different seasons, Carmelo arrived in NY during the 2010-11 season, and Linsanity was in early 2012.

True, since they traded for Melo midseason (so 2011-12 was the first full Melo season) I kinda fused both events in my brain. I had already left the city, anyway, never got to watch either at the MSG.

Never got to watch the Giants live either, on account of how stupidly expensive NFL tickets are. But I was at the championship parade and still have my commemorative hoodie  :P

EDIT: And a Jaromir Jagr Rangers jersey. Those are my sporting mementos from my life as a new yorker  :P
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on October 26, 2020, 06:57:31 AM
Quote from: celedhring on October 26, 2020, 06:18:03 AM

EDIT: And a Jaromir Jagr Rangers jersey. Those are my sporting mementos from my life as a new yorker  :P

Did you sport an assorted mullet while wearing it, as well?  :P
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on October 26, 2020, 09:35:55 AM
Surprising win for a Brit, Hart* in the Giro :bowler:


* I won't attempt to smell** his name, potential minefield.

** Intentional typo, I wonder if any Languishites will pck on this?

Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on October 27, 2020, 10:52:33 PM
Congrats to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Good month to be from LA...well except for all the fires.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 27, 2020, 10:55:22 PM
Quote from: celedhring on October 26, 2020, 06:18:03 AM
True, since they traded for Melo midseason (so 2011-12 was the first full Melo season) I kinda fused both events in my brain. I had already left the city, anyway, never got to watch either at the MSG.

Hopefully you got to see *something* at The Garden.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Barrister on October 28, 2020, 12:33:38 PM
Edmonton sports legend Joey Moss died the other day.

Who was Joey Moss?  He was a locker room attendant for both the Oilers and the CFL Football team (formerly the Eskimos).  He had been for 30+ years.  He apparently was a huge fixture with both teams, getting to know players over the decades.  Connor McDavid posted a picture of McDavid, Gretzky and Joey Moss to Twitter on the news of his passing said 'here's a picture of the great one - and number 99'.

He also had Down Syndrome, and passed away at age 57.

Anyways here's a link if you want a heartwarming story to read today.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/joey-moss-bled-edmonton-sports-taught-generation-vulnerability/
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on October 28, 2020, 01:42:25 PM
Impressive age for someone with Down. RIP.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on October 28, 2020, 06:14:06 PM
Sounds like a Canadian  version of Neil Baldwin.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Barrister on October 29, 2020, 11:49:58 AM
Another tribute to Joey Moss, this one written by Sam Gagner, former Oilers player.  The thing is he just doesn't talk about how great Joey was around the locker room, he talks about just hanging out with Joey at his place, or going to WWE events with Joey, and all the good times they had.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/sam-gagner-joey-moss-edmonton-oilers-hockey
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Barrister on October 29, 2020, 12:03:17 PM
Played hockey last night - man I had a great game.   :cool:

First of all my team had been getting blown out (we were outscored 29-2 in our first 4 games) so we just got moved down a decision.  That really helps because players aren't on you quite so fast, giving you a second or two to actually think about what to do.

Now I'm a defensive-minded defenceman, and I've never scored a goal.  I have picked up a few assists in the past but they have all been of the nature where I shovel a puck towards the general vicinity of the goal, and one of our players gets the puck and scores.

But last night I had two beauty assists where I had the puck, saw our player was open, passed right to our player, who went on to score.  The second assist was even a gorgeous (if I do say so myself) blueline-to-blueline stretch pass that gave our player a 1 on 0 shot.

I even took a penalty (second ever) where I hooked a player from behind on a breakaway.  I was hoping to just slow him down not trip him (I suspect he went down deliberately looking for the penalty) but whatever - it was totally a "good" penalty to take.

It had been a really close game, with us up 2-0 going into the third period, but the other team lost their cool a bit and it wound up being 8-1.  The other team's best player (who had been arguing with the refs all night) even took a penalty with under 3 minutes left, argued that, got another 2 minutes for unsportsmanlike conduct.  Then the other team took a real obvious Too Many Men penalty, giving us a 5 on 3 for the final minute (we scored that eight goal with 1 second left on the clock).
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on October 29, 2020, 12:11:09 PM
Yay! GG BB.

I miss hockey.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on January 31, 2021, 02:05:27 PM
We're world champions in handball which means half the country is ecstatic and the other half is doing their best to show how little they care.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Threviel on February 01, 2021, 01:28:40 AM
Sweden had a good runt this World Cup, losing to Denmark in the final. It's the first time in 20 years that the Swedish handball team made it to the final.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on February 01, 2021, 03:43:36 AM
I've always found handball to be one of those sports that it's rather boring to watch but extremely fun to play. Always had a blast in school.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on February 01, 2021, 03:49:13 AM
Handball is great fun to watch. Went to plenty THW Kiel matches during my college days, plus matches of my local grassroots team where a few friends played. :)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Threviel on February 01, 2021, 03:50:36 AM
I find it's fun to watch and one of the few team sports where it's equally entertaining with women games.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on February 01, 2021, 03:50:58 AM
I find the plays rather repetitive, is all. But the concept of throwing the ball at people is just too much fun when you're 12  :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Threviel on February 01, 2021, 03:53:36 AM
I don't know if it's true or not, but I talked to a goalie once. He claimed that they regularly sprained their fingers in all manners of different angles in almost every game. Ouch. :wacko:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on February 01, 2021, 04:01:31 AM
Quote from: celedhring on February 01, 2021, 03:50:58 AM
I find the plays rather repetitive, is all.

Based on limited viewing it looks like there is only one offensive play.

Breakaway, fail, weave, repeat.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on February 01, 2021, 04:17:51 AM
Quote from: Threviel on February 01, 2021, 03:53:36 AM
I don't know if it's true or not, but I talked to a goalie once. He claimed that they regularly sprained their fingers in all manners of different angles in almost every game. Ouch. :wacko:

Not surprised, considering most handball goalies are a bit no the crazy side. I guess you have to be when you regularly block high velocity shots with your face. :D
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on February 01, 2021, 04:29:06 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 01, 2021, 04:01:31 AM
Quote from: celedhring on February 01, 2021, 03:50:58 AM
I find the plays rather repetitive, is all.

Based on limited viewing it looks like there is only one offensive play.

Breakaway, fail, weave, repeat.

:yes:

People claim there's a lot of technique and tactics involved. I just see large guys running into each other then stopping the play because of fouls awarded arbitrarily to defense or offense.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on February 01, 2021, 04:31:35 AM
You're describing basketball. :P
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on March 07, 2021, 11:30:44 AM
We have a new Wozniacki! It's Clara Tauson and apparently she's very good.

https://twitter.com/WTA/status/1368576530905853963
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on April 04, 2021, 10:11:44 AM
Asgreen wins Tour of Flanders :o :w00t: :yeah:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on May 22, 2021, 04:12:52 PM
Denmark's greatest sports star just won her first world tour stage.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2BV7WSXEAUuAHi?format=jpg&name=medium)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on May 22, 2021, 06:19:40 PM
Quote from: Liep on May 22, 2021, 04:12:52 PM
Denmark's greatest sports star just won her first world tour stage.


Is she getting tips from Bjarne Riis on how to dope?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on May 23, 2021, 04:19:38 AM
Quote from: PDH on May 22, 2021, 06:19:40 PM
Is she getting tips from Bjarne Riis on how to dope?

If there's one cyclist in the history of the sport I'd believe wouldn't take doping it's her. :wub:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on May 23, 2021, 12:42:31 PM
Quote from: Liep on May 23, 2021, 04:19:38 AM
Quote from: PDH on May 22, 2021, 06:19:40 PM
Is she getting tips from Bjarne Riis on how to dope?

If there's one cyclist in the history of the sport I'd believe wouldn't take doping it's her. :wub:

I just watched her final uphill sprint at Burgos - that was some great punching.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on May 26, 2021, 03:18:56 AM
So the Olympics are turning into a beautiful cluster fuck.
Tokyo wants to cancel.
Japan wants to cancel.
The IOC want to cancel.
Neither wants to be the one to cancel or else they'll be liable for the bill.
So it's on....
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on June 01, 2021, 08:04:22 AM
Does somebody know what has happened exactly to Naomi Osaka at the French Open?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on June 01, 2021, 08:12:14 AM
Quote from: The Larch on June 01, 2021, 08:04:22 AM
Does somebody know what has happened exactly to Naomi Osaka at the French Open?

She's sick with depression. She thought she could continue to work while avoiding the more unpleasant side of working.

The Organisation disagreed. Now, she's on actual leave.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on June 27, 2021, 10:53:21 AM
Mathieu van der Poel wins today's Tour de Fance stage, dedicating it to his grandfather, the great Raymond Poulidor. Goosebumps.

He is also the first son of a yellow jersey cyclist to wear one himself.

(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fe6dd61607d97aac9304be8c39e4392065fa803f/0_268_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=1920&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e8d09725402a8c00b045d62af660d715)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Threviel on June 27, 2021, 12:19:01 PM
I thought van der Poel was the bestest ice skater around.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on June 27, 2021, 03:18:51 PM
Van der Poel can be a bit polarizing (especially to the Phlegms...er Flemish people), but he has a huge talent and undeniable will to win.  He and van Aert may need to focus on more than just "all forms of cycling" in the future, but it is special to see this win and how much he wanted it.

Raymond Poulidor would be very happy for his grandson.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on June 28, 2021, 04:02:42 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi7rJfSrW58

Cycling has got to do something about this shit.  No other sport gives fans this much opportunity to seriously injure participants.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: clandestino on June 29, 2021, 05:04:36 AM
Saw the extended highlights of yesterday's stage and I start to wonder if the organization is going the F1 route, with spectators eager to see all the crashes and mayhem.  :hmm:

Sad for Roglic though, kind of rooting for the guy since last year heartbreaking defeat.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on June 29, 2021, 09:58:38 AM
Roglic seemed to indicate he was body checked off his bike - from the front video it did seem like Cobrelli swerved into Roglic.  Without the overhead view we can't really know.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 03, 2021, 06:48:18 PM
Fascinating two days of racing; yesterday was a real all out fight from the get go, today's was similarly gruelling for most involved. 
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on July 04, 2021, 01:53:30 PM
I am loathe to say it, but I am getting a late 90's early 00's vibe from Pogacar.  Especially in his recovery - more "normal" riders like Carapaz don't have the ability to do this day after day...

If he has a day where he cracks, even if not fully but just shows he is not back to near 100% overnight after a big effort, then perhaps he really is just a phenom.  Having a team DS who has been implicated in many doping cases over the years doesn't help my view, I think.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 04, 2021, 02:57:48 PM
Quote from: PDH on July 04, 2021, 01:53:30 PM
I am loathe to say it, but I am getting a late 90's early 00's vibe from Pogacar.  Especially in his recovery - more "normal" riders like Carapaz don't have the ability to do this day after day...

If he has a day where he cracks, even if not fully but just shows he is not back to near 100% overnight after a big effort, then perhaps he really is just a phenom.  Having a team DS who has been implicated in many doping cases over the years doesn't help my view, I think.

He's been so much better than the competition in the alps so it would be kind of naive not to be suspicious.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on July 04, 2021, 06:44:10 PM
I am still wondering how a Mauro Giannetti can be in the sport running a team.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: clandestino on July 05, 2021, 06:17:17 AM
PDH, I'm sure you're more knowledgeable about the sport than I do, since I just try to see a few days of the major races (and the Portuguese one) while fighting tiredness that prevents me from keeping awake all the time (a family tradition).

I also would like to mention that I sympathize with Pogacar, seems a decent lad from a country that I like and where I've passed a few good moments.

I'm aware of the sport past, as most, and wonder what good can be achieved if we are always questioning each year winners/ best performers. Shouldn't UCI had established a strong doping prevention scheme by now that would let us see the competition without being suspicious all the time? I'm not naive and am aware that doping schemes are always an arms race between new drugs and avoidance techniques and the testing labs, but shouldn't we try to believe that a racer is innocent until proven guilty? We might be witnessing the greatest athlete in the sport of all time or another cheating scum, but in other fields most don't treat greats like Bolt or Phelps with the same level of suspicion.

I'll keep living the fantasy of being witnessing history and wonder why he keeps asserting dominance without need like yesterday where he just needed to follow the Ineos guys and not leave them behind like it was nothing. Sure if he was trying to avoid suspicion he would keep the lowest profile possible?

Dunno, maybe I'm being naive.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 05, 2021, 06:41:11 AM
Quote from: clandestino on July 05, 2021, 06:17:17 AM
PDH, I'm sure you're more knowledgeable about the sport than I do, since I just try to see a few days of the major races (and the Portuguese one) while fighting tiredness that prevents me from keeping awake all the time (a family tradition).

I also would like to mention that I sympathize with Pogacar, seems a decent lad from a country that I like and where I've passed a few good moments.

I'm aware of the sport past, as most, and wonder what good can be achieved if we are always questioning each year winners/ best performers. Shouldn't UCI had established a strong doping prevention scheme by now that would let us see the competition without being suspicious all the time? I'm not naive and am aware that doping schemes are always an arms race between new drugs and avoidance techniques and the testing labs, but shouldn't we try to believe that a racer is innocent until proven guilty? We might be witnessing the greatest athlete in the sport of all time or another cheating scum, but in other fields most don't treat greats like Bolt or Phelps with the same level of suspicion.

I'll keep living the fantasy of being witnessing history and wonder why he keeps asserting dominance without need like yesterday where he just needed to follow the Ineos guys and not leave them behind like it was nothing. Sure if he was trying to avoid suspicion he would keep the lowest profile possible?

Dunno, maybe I'm being naive.

I understand that it's harsh on Pogacar because he hasn't been proven to be dirty.

But he didn't excel like this before he chose to work with a dirty manager who earlier has had titles revoked from his riders due to doping. I still enjoy watching Pogacar ride because it looks amazing, just as I enjoyed Ricardo Ricco's amazing attacks in the mountains. Sadly, the Cobra didn't last long and I fear Pogacar might not either.

They can't fool me more than twic... 8 or 9 times.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on July 05, 2021, 01:43:13 PM
Quote from: clandestino on July 05, 2021, 06:17:17 AM
Dunno, maybe I'm being naive.

Naw, you are right and that I am a bit jaded.  I got into the sport way back with LeMond, and I saw how people he had been beating suddenly were dropping him - time trialists who became mountain climbers while still improving their time trial speeds, puncheurs who suddenly could last on a 20km climb, Riis (sorry Liep) riding the Hautacam on the big ring...superhuman.  Then came Armstrong, who not only juiced like it was Hawaiian Punch, but he also used intimidation, lawsuits, and numerous tricks to not get caught.  In my mind, all the results from the early 90s through 2012 should have that asterix...

A young talent is a young talent, and Pogacar has been that for a long time.  However, it has been known for a long time that the younger body is also given to more ups and downs - there is a reason for so long it was the 25+ riders who won the Grand Tours, their musculature was more mature and could recover better.  Throw in blood doping, off season regimes of EPO like substances, etc and suddenly a 21 year old CAN recover.  Mauro Giannetti has been just the sort to "help" riders with such efforts in the past, he is unrepentant, and he is the manager of Pogacar...

As I said, if Pogacar cracks in the Pyrenees or the heat, if he pays for these efforts early in the race, that is an indication that he may well not be juicing - he just hit a peak in the first week.  However, his recovery from Stage 8 to Stage 9 is not really normal, he should have been a bit blown after an effort that saw him make up 3 minutes (and almost take the lead) on Stage 8.  That was the stage, him climbing a Cat 1 on the big ring, that really set off the alarms for me.  The other riders are publically saying things like "he rode off like we weren't there" and to have that as great form when it happens on two straight days is...alarming.

I do really want to believe the sport is cleaner - however an entire team was tossed out of the Giro for doping this year, former dopers are running teams, and there are enough pharmaceutical companies in places like China that very well could be a generation ahead of the controls for me to assume it is true.  I think it is no real coincidence that the two teams with ownership in the Arabian Gulf (UAE and Bahrain Victorious) are the two raising the most eyebrows for their performances this season...
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: clandestino on July 07, 2021, 10:46:35 AM
So... what about today? :frog:

Another great stage and it seems that Pogacar is human after all. Unfortunately that downhill part allowed him (them) to connect with Vingagaard again, if not it would be around a 40'' advantage.

Wout van Aert was great! The commentators kept referring that he was second yesterday in a sprinting finish... maybe someone to look for in the near future?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on July 07, 2021, 11:12:21 AM
Quote from: clandestino on July 07, 2021, 10:46:35 AM
So... what about today? :frog:

Another great stage and it seems that Pogacar is human after all. Unfortunately that downhill part allowed him (them) to connect with Vingagaard again, if not it would be around a 40'' advantage.

Wout van Aert was great! The commentators kept referring that he was second yesterday in a sprinting finish... maybe someone to look for in the near future?

He got topped by 30 seconds, but by no means did Pogacar crack.  If he is human, then this will continue in the Pyrenees.  His biggest weakness is not losing 30 seconds - which in the end he made up and looked sprightly at the line (he has a far bigger gap than people have had in the Tour after the 1st week than we've seen in a long time), but rather his team is weak.  You can see the effects of the fighting on Carapaz who doesn't have that spring on the climbs, and he has the strongest team remaining.  Pogacar on Ineos would be unstoppable I think.

Van Aert is a big name - if it weren't for Van der Poole coming up a couple of years behind, he would be talked about like MVDP.  He can sprint, he can time trial, and he can climb steady climbs.  If anything, last year was a better year for Van Aert, but he is a huge talent.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 09, 2021, 08:16:29 PM
Quote from: PDH on July 07, 2021, 11:12:21 AM

He got topped by 30 seconds, but by no means did Pogacar crack.  If he is human, then this will continue in the Pyrenees.  His biggest weakness is not losing 30 seconds - which in the end he made up and looked sprightly at the line (he has a far bigger gap than people have had in the Tour after the 1st week than we've seen in a long time), but rather his team is weak.  You can see the effects of the fighting on Carapaz who doesn't have that spring on the climbs, and he has the strongest team remaining.  Pogacar on Ineos would be unstoppable I think.

Van Aert is a big name - if it weren't for Van der Poole coming up a couple of years behind, he would be talked about like MVDP.  He can sprint, he can time trial, and he can climb steady climbs.  If anything, last year was a better year for Van Aert, but he is a huge talent.

Yes he's awesome.  :cool:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on July 11, 2021, 12:07:31 PM
Djokovic ties Federer and Nadal at 20 grand slam titles.
If he takes the golden slam that would make him GOAT, no?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on July 15, 2021, 04:08:27 AM
So, Barcelona intends to bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics. I still think it's a bad idea given there's very little tradition of winter sports over here, and not many people will care, but we'll see. The city already tried to run for the 2022 and 2026 Olympics but lack of internal support nixed those bids.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on July 15, 2021, 04:21:51 AM
Quote from: celedhring on July 15, 2021, 04:08:27 AM
So, Barcelona intends to bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics. I still think it's a bad idea given there's very little tradition of winter sports over here, and not many people will care, but we'll see. The city already tried to run for the 2022 and 2026 Olympics but lack of internal support nixed those bids.

Did you see that Madrid wants to bid again for the Summer Olympics. They just won't give up...  :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 17, 2021, 11:03:26 AM
Danes finish as 2nd and 3rd on the final time trial and Vingegaard is 2nd in the GC. Amazing. First time since Riis that a Dane finishes in the top 5 in the tour.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on July 17, 2021, 01:31:17 PM
This showed up on German reddit. Andre Greipel (admittedly never heard of him) finishes his career at Tour de France, and has a beer for retirement:

https://streamable.com/hesmcm
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 17, 2021, 02:42:03 PM
Quote from: Syt on July 17, 2021, 01:31:17 PM
This showed up on German reddit. Andre Greipel (admittedly never heard of him) finishes his career at Tour de France, and has a beer for retirement:

https://streamable.com/hesmcm

:thumbsup:

If he wins in Paris tomorrow I guess beer will become a staple diet for cyclists. :P
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 18, 2021, 05:15:35 AM
There's been some controversies surrounding the Euro Beach Handball tournament because Norway was denied a request to wear hotpants. They were told rules are rules and they say that the bottoms should cover no more than 10 cm.

I mean, it feels a little outdated. But I trust in IHF when they say the rules are there to optimise the players ability to move freely.

(https://bt.bmcdn.dk/media/cache/resolve/image_1240/image/165/1651331/23730291-poland-bech-handball.jpg)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on July 18, 2021, 05:18:23 AM
Sponsors paid for bikinis
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on July 18, 2021, 05:43:05 AM
Do they guys in beach handball get to play in speedos, too?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 18, 2021, 06:20:39 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 18, 2021, 05:43:05 AM
Do they guys in beach handball get to play in speedos, too?

Tight tank tops and shorts that must be no shorter than 10 cm from the knee. Would it improve viewership if they played in speedos?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on July 18, 2021, 06:35:55 AM
Quote from: Liep on July 18, 2021, 06:20:39 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 18, 2021, 05:43:05 AM
Do they guys in beach handball get to play in speedos, too?

Tight tank tops and shorts that must be no shorter than 10 cm from the knee. Would it improve viewership if they played in speedos?

Does anyone watch it now?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 18, 2021, 09:56:58 AM
Quote from: Maladict on July 18, 2021, 06:35:55 AM

Does anyone watch it now?

The tournament is in Varna near Sunny Beach so the final had a very lively audience with German and Danish tourists.

It's streaming on Viaplay so I tried watching it but just as beachvolley it was more boring than in its regular form. It was still watchable for obvious reasons and I did like that you apparently get 2 points if you do a spinny thing before scoring. If it had better production I could have watched the whole game.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 18, 2021, 12:24:23 PM
Van Aert is insane. 3 wins: a mountain stage, a time trial and a bunch sprint.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 18, 2021, 04:35:18 PM
Quote from: Liep on July 18, 2021, 05:15:35 AM
There's been some controversies surrounding the Euro Beach Handball tournament because Norway was denied a request to wear hotpants. They were told rules are rules and they say that the bottoms should cover no more than 10 cm.

I mean, it feels a little outdated. But I trust in IHF when they say the rules are there to optimise the players ability to move freely.

The ruling is ridiculous.  They're just selling sex.

And I love hot pants. :perv:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 19, 2021, 12:09:18 AM
If I heard correctly, Colin Morikawa is the first golfer to win the first two Major tournaments he entered.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on July 20, 2021, 04:23:19 PM
Oh I feel so sorry for these guys:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/57898489

Six Polish swimmers have been sent home from the Olympics because there'd been an admin error and they'd sent too many swimmers on the team :bleeding: :(
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on July 20, 2021, 04:54:51 PM
Shit they can't even stay and support their teammates too
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 20, 2021, 05:10:54 PM
Quote from: Liep on July 17, 2021, 11:03:26 AM
Danes finish as 2nd and 3rd on the final time trial and Vingegaard is 2nd in the GC. Amazing. First time since Riis that a Dane finishes in the top 5 in the tour.

:cool:

Denmark set to replace Slovenia as the major force in world cycling.  :hmm:

Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on July 21, 2021, 04:35:35 AM
Brazil beat China 3-nil in the Olympic tournament.

For some reason it pisses me off that the Olympics actually start before the opening ceremony.  :glare:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on July 22, 2021, 02:03:24 PM
So nobody cares about the rugby league world Cup?
Due to start soon but.... New Zealand and Australia have announced due to covid fears they won't be attending.
They're two of the key teams. Football world Cup it ain't so leaves the tournament  in a stick spot.
Oddly they are planning to go to the world Cup still I think.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on July 22, 2021, 02:21:23 PM
Does anyone outside Northern England or Southern France really care about Rugby League in Europe?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on July 22, 2021, 02:28:11 PM
Quote from: The Larch on July 22, 2021, 02:21:23 PM
Does anyone outside Northern England or Southern France really care about Rugby League in Europe?
Isn't the South of France rugby union territory?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on July 22, 2021, 02:43:21 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 22, 2021, 02:28:11 PM
Quote from: The Larch on July 22, 2021, 02:21:23 PM
Does anyone outside Northern England or Southern France really care about Rugby League in Europe?
Isn't France rugby union territory?

Fixed!  :P

Well, technically, Rugby League (XIII) has a stronghold in French Catalonia cf. Dragons Catalans. SW France at best, with Toulouse as well.
Dragons Catalans even play in the English Superleague.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on July 22, 2021, 02:54:55 PM
Just took a look at the top French RL competition and every single team is from Occitany. On top of that, there's a French team from Perpignan in the top English RL competition as well. In that English RL competition half the English teams are from Yorkshire, with 3 from Greater Manchester, one from Merseyside and another one from Cheshire.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on July 22, 2021, 05:31:49 PM
Even in "the north" RL is very regional. Its a non entity in the north east (Union barely penetrates here
) and is pretty solidly a Yorkshire and especially Lancashire thing.
Nonetheless it is the superior form of rugby. Much more interesting to watch.


In other niche British things... Apparently a new short form cricket league has started up called the hundred. First I've heard of it. The name of the league and the team names....so very wannabe edgy and cool and American. My eyes bleed.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on July 22, 2021, 05:53:14 PM
Sorry, the UK didn't want to be in Europe.  It will be all things American from now on.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on July 22, 2021, 06:48:50 PM
Although with cricket - is it very American or inspired by the Indian Premier League (which I think is quite American :lol:)?

You know the Rajasthan Royals, Kolkata Knight Riders, Delhi Capitals etc.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Gups on July 23, 2021, 06:16:40 AM
Quote from: Tyr on July 22, 2021, 05:31:49 PM
Even in "the north" RL is very regional. Its a non entity in the north east (Union barely penetrates here
) and is pretty solidly a Yorkshire and especially Lancashire thing.
Nonetheless it is the superior form of rugby. Much more interesting to watch.


In other niche British things... Apparently a new short form cricket league has started up called the hundred. First I've heard of it. The name of the league and the team names....so very wannabe edgy and cool and American. My eyes bleed.

RL used to be teh superior game but professionalisation of Union has seen a flight in quality from RL. Used to watch it a lot in the 80s but it feels a bit one dimensional now.

The hundred is an abberration. Graphics look like they were created on a ZX Spectrum.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on July 23, 2021, 06:40:30 AM
Watching the Olympics opening ceremony. They are playing JPRG soundtacks while the athletes parade  :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on July 23, 2021, 07:13:14 AM
:lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Tamas on July 23, 2021, 07:16:08 AM
Not having spectators was the right call but it just looks bizarre that the athletes are waving to an empty stadium.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on July 23, 2021, 07:24:42 AM
Quote from: Tamas on July 23, 2021, 07:16:08 AM
Not having spectators was the right call but it just looks bizarre that the athletes are waving to an empty stadium.
I haven't watched this (because work) - but I watched the Copa America final and the closing cermony to an almost empty Maracana was one of the weirdest and most pointless things I've ever seen.

Opening/Closing cermonies in football tournaments are always pointless (unless they include an Italian tenor singing Nessum Dorma) but it was so strange - at least with the Olympics you have the torch lighting and the passing the torch to the next host stuff.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on July 23, 2021, 07:29:48 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 23, 2021, 07:13:14 AM
:lol:

They played the Final Fantasy victory theme, they should totally do that in medal ceremonies  :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on July 23, 2021, 07:31:50 AM
Google doodle today is a surprisingly big pixel RPG-ish thing with mini games in 7 disciplines and anime cutscenes: https://t.co/UlhSwEUplT?amp=1 :D
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on July 23, 2021, 07:39:08 AM
Italy: We are going to commission Giorgio Armani to design suits for the football team and their coaching staff for these Euros, referencing back to the icon look of the 1982 team.

Also Italy: This'll do:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6-p06UXoAUDB9h?format=jpg&name=small)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on July 23, 2021, 07:55:36 AM
Quote from: celedhring on July 23, 2021, 07:29:48 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 23, 2021, 07:13:14 AM
:lol:

They played the Final Fantasy victory theme, they should totally do that in medal ceremonies  :lol:

Apparently this was the full playlist:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6-tI7WWEAAVf15?format=png&name=900x900)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on July 23, 2021, 08:02:54 AM
Quote from: celedhring on July 23, 2021, 07:29:48 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 23, 2021, 07:13:14 AM
:lol:
They played the Final Fantasy victory theme, they should totally do that in medal ceremonies  :lol:

Play the Zelda item pick up fanfare when athletes get the medals :P
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: FunkMonk on July 23, 2021, 08:45:42 AM
Wait, so they basically had no original music so someone decided to blast their Spotify Video Game soundtrack playlist?  :lmfao:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on July 23, 2021, 11:35:58 AM
All in all the ceremony was rather subdued. Which I guess it's understandable given the circumstances.

Now time to take residence in my couch to watch sports I only care about every 4 years (5 this time).
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on July 23, 2021, 11:43:26 AM
Quote from: FunkMonk on July 23, 2021, 08:45:42 AM
Wait, so they basically had no original music so someone decided to blast their Spotify Video Game soundtrack playlist?  :lmfao:

I'm ok with that. The amount of "Wait a sec, WTF?" posts on gaming Twitter were quite amusing. :D
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on July 23, 2021, 11:46:40 AM
I read this morning that there's more mixed gender team events this year (e.g. sailing, relay sprint). In the shooting competitions they merged men and women into joint contests in most disciplines (e.g. in Germany and Austria women and men compete against each other regularly already).
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on July 23, 2021, 11:48:32 AM
Quote from: celedhring on July 23, 2021, 11:35:58 AM
All in all the ceremony was rather subdued. Which I guess it's understandable given the circumstances.

Now time to take residence in my couch to watch sports I only care about every 4 years (5 this time).
Yep. That time every four years when, in the course of a single day, I go from knowing nothing to having very strong feelings about ransom sports like different gymnastics disciplines and keiren :lol.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: crazy canuck on July 23, 2021, 11:51:47 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 23, 2021, 11:48:32 AM
Quote from: celedhring on July 23, 2021, 11:35:58 AM
All in all the ceremony was rather subdued. Which I guess it's understandable given the circumstances.

Now time to take residence in my couch to watch sports I only care about every 4 years (5 this time).
Yep. That time every four years when, in the course of a single day, I go from knowing nothing to having very strong feelings about ransom sports like different gymnastics disciplines and keiren :lol.

Not all sporting events involving paying ransoms to the judges.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on July 23, 2021, 11:59:50 AM
I hate you all. Watch the god damn Winter Olympics.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on July 23, 2021, 12:06:59 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on July 23, 2021, 11:51:47 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 23, 2021, 11:48:32 AM
Quote from: celedhring on July 23, 2021, 11:35:58 AM
All in all the ceremony was rather subdued. Which I guess it's understandable given the circumstances.

Now time to take residence in my couch to watch sports I only care about every 4 years (5 this time).
Yep. That time every four years when, in the course of a single day, I go from knowing nothing to having very strong feelings about ransom sports like different gymnastics disciplines and keiren :lol.

Not all sporting events involving paying ransoms to the judges.
:blush: :lol:

And yet - probably not inaccurate for keirin :ph34r:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 23, 2021, 12:09:04 PM
Who's keirin? :unsure:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on July 23, 2021, 12:20:29 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 23, 2021, 12:09:04 PM
Who's keirin? :unsure:
It's the Japanese cycling race event - basically a 2000 m race. First set of laps with a pacemaker on a moped and everyone at similar-ish speeds reaching up to 70kph by the later rounds, then the pacemaker leaves and there's carnage for the final few laps.

But I only ever see it at the Olympics but love it when it comes on. It's great.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Jacob on July 23, 2021, 12:24:26 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on July 23, 2021, 12:20:29 PM
It's the Japanese cycling race event - basically a 2000 m race. First set of laps with a pacemaker on a moped and everyone at similar-ish speeds reaching up to 70kph by the later rounds, then the pacemaker leaves and there's carnage for the final few laps.

But I only ever see it at the Olympics but love it when it comes on. It's great.

Is it similar to the velodrome?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on July 23, 2021, 12:30:18 PM
Yeah it's similar - it's just 1400m with a pacemaker and no real competition then a 600m sprint:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU0QGFAAsHw
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on July 23, 2021, 12:44:23 PM
Personally, I'm disappointed Takeshi's Castle events aren't included in the program as Olympic sports.

(For reasons, Takeshi's Castle was hugely popular in Spain when I was young).
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on July 23, 2021, 12:50:25 PM
Takeshi's castle was weird when you consider the kind of movies Takeshi Kitano normally makes. :D

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001429/
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: HVC on July 23, 2021, 12:53:00 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 23, 2021, 12:09:04 PM
Who's keirin? :unsure:

i looked it up and was getting irish for black and was a boys name (black boy? :unsure:) and just wrote it off as a britishism :D
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on July 24, 2021, 03:24:06 AM
Right now Taekwondo is the most important sport in the world, we already got the first medal there. Thank god there's like 325423 weight classes there and thus shitloads of medals to give, the sport is pretty popular in Spain and we always pick up a few in every Olympics.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on July 24, 2021, 03:30:32 AM
I'm hoping Yorkshire puts in a strong showing again.

Glancing at the opening ceremony it's interesting/sad that a lot of countries haven't sent many people. Ethiopia seemed to be only a handful of guys. Normally they're strong at long distance.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 24, 2021, 04:51:51 AM
Watching Hockey now and it feels like there's too many players on the field. Also did they build an entire stadium just for hockey or does something else use those dimensions as well?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on July 24, 2021, 05:05:26 AM
5 a side football I guess?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on July 24, 2021, 07:47:41 AM
Quote from: celedhring on July 23, 2021, 06:40:30 AM
Watching the Olympics opening ceremony. They are playing JPRG soundtacks while the athletes parade  :lol:

If I had known that, I would have watched it.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on July 24, 2021, 08:23:50 AM
Quote from: Tyr on July 24, 2021, 03:30:32 AM
I'm hoping Yorkshire puts in a strong showing again.

Glancing at the opening ceremony it's interesting/sad that a lot of countries haven't sent many people. Ethiopia seemed to be only a handful of guys. Normally they're strong at long distance.

Athletes are only allowed to show up 5 days before their events. I assume Ethiopian athletes mostly compete in the 2nd week Track competitions.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 24, 2021, 05:09:24 PM
Does anyone know what the function of the player with the different colored uniform is in volleyball?

Pretty sure they're not the goalie.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on July 24, 2021, 05:14:27 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 24, 2021, 05:09:24 PM
Does anyone know what the function of the player with the different colored uniform is in volleyball?

Pretty sure they're not the goalie.

They can't spike the ball to the other court, they can only set it up for their team mates.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on July 24, 2021, 05:34:49 PM
They are the defensive specialist - the Libero.  They always play in the back row and are the designated person who digs out the shots.  They don't spike or front row set the ball.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on July 24, 2021, 06:08:45 PM
Bloody hell, South Korea :lol: :blink:
QuoteChernobyl for Ukraine, pizza for Italy: South Korean TV apologises for Olympic images
    MBC sorry for 'inappropriate images and captions'
    Syria and Haiti summed up by war and unrest
Tom Lutz
@tom_lutz
Sat 24 Jul 2021 12.59 BST

A South Korean broadcaster has apologised after using offensive images to depict several countries during the opening ceremony of the Olympics on Friday.

MBC displayed photos and facts about each country as athletes walked out during the parade of nations. Most of them varied from inane to odd: Great Britain's athletes were accompanied by a photo of the Queen, and El Salvador, where the cryptocurrency is legal tender, was summed up by a bitcoin symbol.

Others offered basic stereotypes. MBC used a photo of Dracula for Romania, pizza for Italy and salmon for Norway.

However, there were others that drew criticism. When Ukraine's athletes walked out MBC flashed up an image of the Chernobyl disaster, which is considered the worst nuclear accident in history and devastated large parts of the surrounding area. The Marshall Islands were described as "once a nuclear test site for the United States".


Haiti's athletes, meanwhile, were accompanied by photos of men protesting in front of an explosion and the words "the political situation is fogged by the assassination of the president". Jovenel Moïse, the president of Haiti, was killed at his home earlier this month.

Rather than concentrating on Syria's rich culture and historic sites, MBC said it was known for "underground resources; a civil war that has been going on for 10 years".


After backlash on social media, the broadcaster issued an apology. "Inappropriate images and captions were used to introduce some stories," said MBC in a statement. "We apologized to those countries including Ukraine and our viewers."

The opening ceremony was a more subdued event than usual with spectators absent from the stadium due to Covid-19 restrictions. The Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka lit the Olympic cauldron to start the Games.

QuoteRaphael Rashid
@koryodynasty
South Korean broadcaster MBC used images to "represent" each country during the #Tokyo2020 Opening Ceremony.

Italy: pizza
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6_ht4EVEAEL6DJ?format=jpg&name=small)
Norway: salmon
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6_huEDUYAIh_jt?format=jpg&name=small)
Haiti: upheaval
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6_huPeVgAA3Xn4?format=jpg&name=small)
Ukraine: Chernobyl
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6_hufSVkAcUfiu?format=jpg&name=small)

Also:
QuoteRaphael Rashid
@koryodynasty
Sweden: said it was the "developed country of welfare" but made a typo in "developed country" (선진국) and wrote "선지국" which is cow blood soup, a Korean delicacy.

One more thing: MBC also indicated the GDP and vaccination rate for each country, leaving netizens baffled.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on July 25, 2021, 03:22:40 AM
Jon Rahm down with Covid, that's a medal gone. Dude was vaccinated *AND* already had Covid.

For some reason I find golf at the Olympics to be weird.  :hmm:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on July 25, 2021, 04:49:09 AM
Shooting at the Olympics is the weirdest.
How is this counted as sport?

Odd to observe skateboarding with no helmets. You'd think at this top level it'd be mandatory.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josephus on July 25, 2021, 08:30:50 AM
I'm surprised the Americans don't win at shooting every time. It's like in their DNA; like hockey to Canadians, football to latinos, gymnastics to Romanians.. etc.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on July 25, 2021, 01:32:40 PM
It doesn't take place in schools.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on July 25, 2021, 06:32:47 PM
Quote from: Josephus on July 25, 2021, 08:30:50 AM
I'm surprised the Americans don't win at shooting every time. It's like in their DNA; like hockey to Canadians, football to latinos, gymnastics to Romanians.. etc.

The American sports dominance is conducted thru Collegiate sports. If it's not there, they are only good once in a while.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on July 26, 2021, 01:18:07 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 25, 2021, 06:32:47 PM
Quote from: Josephus on July 25, 2021, 08:30:50 AM
I'm surprised the Americans don't win at shooting every time. It's like in their DNA; like hockey to Canadians, football to latinos, gymnastics to Romanians.. etc.

The American sports dominance is conducted thru Collegiate sports. If it's not there, they are only good once in a while.

Plenty of shooting at the college level.

(sorry)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: jimmy olsen on July 26, 2021, 03:18:04 AM
This isn't exactly the dream team, but it's still a team that would earn a top 4 seed in the NBA playoffs. They shouldn't be losing to France.

https://www.nba.com/news/usa-basketball-announces-2021-olympic-team-roster
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on July 26, 2021, 09:47:38 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 26, 2021, 03:18:04 AM
This isn't exactly the dream team, but it's still a team that would earn a top 4 seed in the NBA playoffs. They shouldn't be losing to France.

https://www.nba.com/news/usa-basketball-announces-2021-olympic-team-roster

The US roster is very flawed despite the sheer amount of talent they have. France is one of the best international teams.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on July 26, 2021, 09:57:37 AM
I guess the US basketball team isn't a normal 'thing' where the players get together and train whilst other international teams actually are that?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on July 26, 2021, 10:00:10 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 26, 2021, 03:18:04 AM
This isn't exactly the dream team, but it's still a team that would earn a top 4 seed in the NBA playoffs. They shouldn't be losing to France.

https://www.nba.com/news/usa-basketball-announces-2021-olympic-team-roster

No, they should. Pop can't coach the team to adapt to the International rules. Also, the age of difference to the USA team is over. The other teams are not awed by the presence of DG or Durant.

@Tyr Neither are most teams. Lots of International NBA stars nowadays.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on July 26, 2021, 10:08:30 AM
Quote from: Tyr on July 26, 2021, 09:57:37 AM
I guess the US basketball team isn't a normal 'thing' where the players get together and train whilst other international teams actually are that?

They train about the same. However, the other international teams have more player continuity, so they are more used to play with each other. The US roster changes wildly every tournament.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on July 26, 2021, 11:11:31 AM
The gap between the US team and the ROTW has gone down by a lot in recent years, all top international teams feature a bunch of NBA players who are not awed to play Durant & co. anymore, and this particular US team is not quite a Dream Team anyway, it already struggled in the preparation games, so it's no wonder it might loose some games. Mind you, I'd still qualify them as favourites, but they can't pretend to coast for the rest of the tournament without breaking a sweat.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 26, 2021, 11:30:18 AM
Insane triathlon finish. The winner crossed, celebrated, vomited, was dragged away by medical staff and then put in a wheel chair because he couldn't move.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: jimmy olsen on July 26, 2021, 09:22:25 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 26, 2021, 10:00:10 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 26, 2021, 03:18:04 AM
This isn't exactly the dream team, but it's still a team that would earn a top 4 seed in the NBA playoffs. They shouldn't be losing to France.

https://www.nba.com/news/usa-basketball-announces-2021-olympic-team-roster

No, they should. Pop can't coach the team to adapt to the International rules. Also, the age of difference to the USA team is over. The other teams are not awed by the presence of DG or Durant.

@Tyr Neither are most teams. Lots of International NBA stars nowadays.

Yeah, but other teams have a one star and a few NBA role players. Everyone on the American team is at least an above average NBA player and there are several stars.

Durant, Lillard, Booker, Taytum... that's a great foursome to anchor a team.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on July 27, 2021, 04:03:45 AM
That's my suspicion.
I know nothing about pro basketball. But you do see this in football, its traditionally often been a problem with the England team. Too many superstars who don't know how to play as a team.
In comparison to Iceland, Wales, etc... who maybe have one top player and the rest as 2nd and 3rd division nobodies.... but they train heavily together to work as a team.
Its been commented about England doing so well this year that it was due to the club atmosphere that has been built up around the team and a step away from this cluster of stars setup.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on July 27, 2021, 08:24:08 AM
That's just piss poor excuses for players and coaches that can't adapt away from the star treatment they get in their regular leagues.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on July 27, 2021, 08:47:31 AM
Well, to stay with football, your club, where you train multiple times a week and play oodles of matches during a season might have a certain form of tactics that they play and that gets drilled into your head. So when you come to the national team there might be a completely different tactic in place, most of your team mates with whom you have may have blind understanding will not be there, and you might be put in a different position with at least slightly different tactical roles and instructions than you play 90-95% of the time. (Of course a national coach will try to take that into account when creating their line up, but there's only so much you can do.)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on July 27, 2021, 08:52:20 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 27, 2021, 08:47:31 AM
Well, to stay with football, your club, where you train multiple times a week and play oodles of matches during a season might have a certain form of tactics that they play and that gets drilled into your head. So when you come to the national team there might be a completely different tactic in place, most of your team mates with whom you have may have blind understanding will not be there, and you might be put in a different position with at least slightly different tactical roles and instructions than you play 90-95% of the time. (Of course a national coach will try to take that into account when creating their line up, but there's only so much you can do.)
It's also why national teams play "simpler" football. You can't do the detailed coaching that clubs can because they just have less time and as you say you don't know the players any more.

It's been mentioned on podcasts but it's why I've always wondered why a national coach hasn't basically tried to build a maybe less famous/talented team - but who all play the same style in the normal season. I don't know if it'd work but it'd be interesting :hmm:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on July 27, 2021, 09:19:43 AM
That's why in football innovative tactics are deployed by club sides rather than national sides. National teams tend to be somehow conservative in the tactical department due to the factors already mentioned (team cohesion is a priority, and there's not much time to train together to implement innovative stuff). National team coaches tend to be more into man management than tactics, very roughly speaking.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: crazy canuck on July 27, 2021, 11:59:42 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 27, 2021, 08:47:31 AM
Well, to stay with football, your club, where you train multiple times a week and play oodles of matches during a season might have a certain form of tactics that they play and that gets drilled into your head. So when you come to the national team there might be a completely different tactic in place, most of your team mates with whom you have may have blind understanding will not be there, and you might be put in a different position with at least slightly different tactical roles and instructions than you play 90-95% of the time. (Of course a national coach will try to take that into account when creating their line up, but there's only so much you can do.)

I am not sure that analogy works well with basketball though.  Most of what the coach will want to implement is easily picked up as long as the player has strong fundamentals and the athletic ability.  And these NBA players certainly have all that.

I think where the Americans really suffer in comparison to international players is that the American club and collegiate systems have turned from team based basketball to hero ball programs where the stars are promoted and fed the ball.  There are exceptions to that of course but they are becoming more rare.  So what happens when you have a whole team of players who are used to the team revolving around them their whole playing carrier and have never really had the share the ball? 

Usually the Americans have so much overwhelming individual talent that the lack of the team game does not matter so much.  But when they run into a team that is close to matching individual talent the team game can make up the difference.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 28, 2021, 01:52:42 AM
The Nacra boat races are amazing television.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: DGuller on July 28, 2021, 06:35:06 AM
WTF is up with Simone Biles? :unsure: Did the Russians zap her with their microwave gun or something?  Say all you want about how quitting is the new winning, but you don't just prepare for the Olympics for four years to quit in the middle of the games.  Whatever mental health issue she has must be crippling.  :(
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on July 28, 2021, 06:39:32 AM
I do wonder. Interesting coming not long after Osaka had similar. Wonder if there's a racist angle at work.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: garbon on July 28, 2021, 06:39:43 AM
Quote from: DGuller on July 28, 2021, 06:35:06 AM
WTF is up with Simone Biles? :unsure: Did the Russians zap her with their microwave gun or something?  Say all you want about how quitting is the new winning, but you don't just prepare for the Olympics for four years to quit in the middle of the games.  Whatever mental health issue she has must be crippling.  :(

Why because the pressure doesn't amp up once you reach the games?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: garbon on July 28, 2021, 06:41:12 AM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/57982665

QuoteBiles, 24, scored 13.766 - her lowest Olympic vault score - before withdrawing from the event.

"After the performance I did, I just didn't want to go on," she said.

"I have to focus on my mental health. I just think mental health is more prevalent in sports right now.

"We have to protect our minds and our bodies and not just go out and do what the world wants us to do.

"I don't trust myself as much anymore. Maybe it's getting older. There were a couple of days when everybody tweets you and you feel the weight of the world.

"We're not just athletes. We're people at the end of the day and sometimes you just have to step back.

"I didn't want to go out and do something stupid and get hurt. ​I feel like a lot of athletes speaking up has really helped.

"It's so big, it's the Olympic Games. At the end of the day we don't want to be carried out of there on a stretcher."
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on July 28, 2021, 07:03:17 AM
It has to be taken into accountt hat her particular case is rather sad/dissappointing, given the short careers that gymnasts have, and how the delay of the Olympics to this year might have affected her. I mean, she's 24 and in that interview she speaks as if she was a grizzled, over the hill veteran. It is already super high pressure to be at that level, it must be even more so knowing that you only have a couple of shots in your entire career at the Olympics. By contrast, Michael Phelps, who also started extremely young (he was already at the Olympics at 15, a similar age as gymnasts like Biles) competed in 5 Olympics before retiring for the first time (at 27), returning for an additional sixth Olympic (at 31) and then retiring for good.

I see on wiki that her career at the senior level started out when she was only 16 in 2013, and that an 8 year career for a gymnast seems to be extremely long by their standards, most don't seem to go beyond 5-6 years. I truly sympathize, we really have no idea what kind of pressure she must have been under these last few years.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: DGuller on July 28, 2021, 07:08:38 AM
The Russian Internet had a speculation that Japan's tight restriction on some medications could've prevented Simone from taking prescriptions that she has exemptions for.  She infamously takes ADD medication, and I think she may also be taking anxiety medication.  If there is indeed something to it, then I can see how suddenly going off meds can completely demolish your confidence in yourself and your body.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on July 28, 2021, 07:47:12 AM
Quote from: DGuller on July 28, 2021, 07:08:38 AM
The Russian Internet had a speculation that Japan's tight restriction on some medications could've prevented Simone from taking prescriptions that she has exemptions for.  She infamously takes ADD medication, and I think she may also be taking anxiety medication.  If there is indeed something to it, then I can see how suddenly going off meds can completely demolish your confidence in yourself and your body.

Might be, but I doubt that athletes with the proper paperwork can't take the medications they need to Japan, even if local regulations are super strict, given all the dispensations that are made for the Olympics.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on July 28, 2021, 09:14:43 AM
Just catching up on some of the gymnastics which I always enjoy and only watch during the Olympics. I think it's the sport where the gap between me judging any of them and me being able to do literally anything they're doing is widest :ph34r:

Edit: Although on the floor gymnastics they sometimes do forward rolls and there was a point when I could do that - haven't tried in a long time and would probably just break my neck now...
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on July 28, 2021, 09:49:53 AM
Apparently tennis players are dropping down like flies because of heat shocks.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: DGuller on July 28, 2021, 12:12:17 PM
I have never been less interested in the Olympics than I am this year.  It feels like an obligation everyone has to get over with.  Does anyone feel the same way?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: PDH on July 28, 2021, 12:58:14 PM
I watch the cycling  :)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: crazy canuck on July 28, 2021, 01:19:22 PM
Rowing and swimming are what I like watching.

For some reason our broadcaster doesn't have a crew at the rowing events and so, for some reason, we are getting the UK feed.  And frankly those guys are terrible.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on July 28, 2021, 01:42:45 PM
I watch EVERYTHING.

I love the Olympics.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on July 28, 2021, 01:57:28 PM
Quote from: celedhring on July 28, 2021, 01:42:45 PM
I watch EVERYTHING.

I love the Olympics.

No. You love the summer Olympics.

:mad:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 28, 2021, 04:49:47 PM
Quote from: celedhring on July 28, 2021, 01:42:45 PM
I watch EVERYTHING.

I love the Olympics.

:yes:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: DGuller on July 28, 2021, 05:08:27 PM
Fine, enjoy.  :mad:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on July 29, 2021, 10:09:27 AM
Quote from: The Larch on July 28, 2021, 07:47:12 AM
Quote from: DGuller on July 28, 2021, 07:08:38 AM
The Russian Internet had a speculation that Japan's tight restriction on some medications could've prevented Simone from taking prescriptions that she has exemptions for.  She infamously takes ADD medication, and I think she may also be taking anxiety medication.  If there is indeed something to it, then I can see how suddenly going off meds can completely demolish your confidence in yourself and your body.

Might be, but I doubt that athletes with the proper paperwork can't take the medications they need to Japan, even if local regulations are super strict, given all the dispensations that are made for the Olympics.

This does make sense. When I lived in Japan I remember hearing loads of stuff about common American medication being very illegal in Japan and impossible to import. No idea to what extent this is anything she is on though.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Savonarola on July 29, 2021, 04:05:12 PM
NPR answers YOUR questions about the Olympics (https://www.npr.org/2021/07/28/1021824129/tokyo-summer-olympics-questions-fun-facts-trivia)

(https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/07/29/gettyimages-1234199584-f2c265bb59c4f57097807b9146c8d72667988942-s800-c85.webp)

QuoteWhy is Team USA wearing masks that make them look like Bane from Batman?

We looked into this. The masks, made by Nike, aren't extra-protective or anything. They're mostly a fashion statement. The pleats are meant to evoke the folds of Japanese origami.

And now you know.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on July 29, 2021, 08:27:03 PM
Canada has won 11 medals so far. All by women. Apparently we're the only country were women are out winning the men.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on July 30, 2021, 01:45:09 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 29, 2021, 08:27:03 PM
Canada has won 11 medals so far. All by women. Apparently we're the only country were women are out winning the men.

Well Filippines famously also has only women winning medals.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on July 30, 2021, 05:35:47 AM
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/archery-skorean-archers-short-hair-draws-anti-feminist-sentiment-home-2021-07-29/

QuoteSouth Korean archer's short hair draws anti-feminist sentiment at home

TOKYO, July 29 (Reuters) - The short haircut of South Korean archer An San, who has won two gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics, has attracted anti-feminist sentiment at home.

Online abuse, calling her hairstyle "feminist", comes against a backdrop of rising anti-feminist sentiment among South Korean young men.

The 20-year-old archer won South Korea's first gold on Saturday, then claimed another gold in the women's team event.

After she won a matchplay in the 1/16 elimination round of the women's individual event on Thursday, her coach blocked reporters from asking "unnecessary" questions, apparently aware of the controversy.

An herself said she would answer only questions related to the Games, even before a reporter finished a question about the online hostility.

Growing animosity toward feminism and public policy to promote women's rights has become a hot topic in South Korea.

Some South Korean politicians and celebrities posted messages and their own short-hair photos to support An.

"With that firm look, please shoot through every prejudice in the world. We stand by your short-cut hair and support you," Sim Sang-jung, a lawmaker from a minority Justice Party, said in a tweet.

Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: jimmy olsen on July 30, 2021, 07:16:17 AM
That kind of sentiment is running rampant among young men here.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 30, 2021, 07:27:48 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 30, 2021, 07:16:17 AM
That kind of sentiment is running rampant among young men here.

:blink:

Tim, are those likely to be those 'celibate can't get any' types?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on July 31, 2021, 07:40:36 AM
Watched the mixed 4x400 relay, this was fun. We need more mixed sports wherever applicable.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Tamas on July 31, 2021, 08:22:02 AM
Quote from: celedhring on July 31, 2021, 07:40:36 AM
Watched the mixed 4x400 relay, this was fun. We need more mixed sports wherever applicable.

Indeed. First Polish gold!

Yesterday I think it was Nigeria who seemed to try and mix up the man-woman order of their relay, going man-man in the middle before finishing with a woman. Didn't work out for them, but if it's allowed to try and strategise as such it might be interesting. It was a bit of a spectacle seeing the "out of synch" Nigerian guy just leaving all the ladies behind though, and then his teammate lady putting up a good fight but ultimately being overtaken by everyone else.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on July 31, 2021, 09:58:25 AM
Strange they'd do that. I thought it'd be pretty accepted to out a guy last given the way things usually work in long distance races et al-most of the top people sit back a little and let someone else do the hard work of setting the pace before going all out themselves.
I wonder if there's an accepted way of doing it in standard relays?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: DGuller on July 31, 2021, 10:47:23 AM
So now Simone Biles situation clears up, and it turns out that she lost her air awareness.  I'm not sure then why this was made out to be some brave stance for mental health.  If your lose your sense of balance while in the air, then obviously you just can't do gymnastics no matter what stance you take on mental health.  I'm sure even a North Korean federation would understand why a gymnast would have to withdraw if faced with such an issue.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Eddie Teach on July 31, 2021, 04:35:06 PM
Quote from: Josephus on July 25, 2021, 08:30:50 AM
I'm surprised the Americans don't win at shooting every time. It's like in their DNA; like hockey to Canadians, football to latinos, gymnastics to Romanians.. etc.

Our reliance on automatics hurts our accuracy.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on July 31, 2021, 06:11:50 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 29, 2021, 08:27:03 PM
Canada has won 11 medals so far. All by women. Apparently we're the only country were women are out winning the men.

I mean there are an equal number of male and female events so that has to be true with lots of countries.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on July 31, 2021, 06:13:19 PM
Quote from: DGuller on July 31, 2021, 10:47:23 AM
So now Simone Biles situation clears up, and it turns out that she lost her air awareness.  I'm not sure then why this was made out to be some brave stance for mental health.  If your lose your sense of balance while in the air, then obviously you just can't do gymnastics no matter what stance you take on mental health.  I'm sure even a North Korean federation would understand why a gymnast would have to withdraw if faced with such an issue.

I figured it was something serious, people like Simone have dedicated absurd amounts of their time to be champions. No way people like her withdraw unless it is really serious.

In any case the team came through with a Silver and Lee won the overall. So next woman up, as the saying goes.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 31, 2021, 07:08:43 PM
Only found out today about the male and female mixed teams in some events; what a great innovation and one I think will last.  :cool:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 31, 2021, 07:18:27 PM
Maybe some day they will even apply it to tennis!  :P
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: viper37 on July 31, 2021, 08:15:16 PM
Quote from: DGuller on July 28, 2021, 12:12:17 PM
I have never been less interested in the Olympics than I am this year.  It feels like an obligation everyone has to get over with.  Does anyone feel the same way?
I never watch the summer stuff.  Only the Winter Olympics are fun to watch for me.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on August 01, 2021, 08:05:42 AM
I had no idea one false start meant elimination. Seems harsh.
Turned it onto the Italian channel as their guy won the 100m. Funny to listen to.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on August 01, 2021, 08:21:54 AM
Today has been the first day I actually watched some Olympics, and was lucky enough to see our local athletics star Ana Peleteiro win the Bronze medal in female triple jump.  :)

Also a great day for Italy, with two gold medals, in 100 m. and high jump.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Agelastus on August 01, 2021, 01:41:08 PM
Quote from: Tyr on August 01, 2021, 08:05:42 AM
I had no idea one false start meant elimination. Seems harsh.
Turned it onto the Italian channel as their guy won the 100m. Funny to listen to.

False start rules have become a lot harsher this century.

https://www.liveabout.com/false-start-rule-history-controversies-3259158

Although I hadn't realised, despite it happening ten years ago according to that article, that they'd got rid of the rule that allowed an athlete to get away with the first false start in the race with the second and subsequent false starts being automatic disqualifications regardless of the athlete involved.

Personally, I'd rather they reverted to the pre-2000 rules for false starts; the current system is ridiculously harsh in my opinion.

Although, admittedly, the British athlete's false start in the 100m final was a spectacular example of jumping the gun..
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on August 01, 2021, 02:22:52 PM
Yeah, similar, I thought they got two strikes at the least.
More than the brit being disqualified I felt this also contributed to the Canadian guy coming third-watching him he was very slow or start but gained fast. Had he been a bit quicker with his start, perhaps playing with fire like the brit, I feel he could have came second or even challenged for first.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 01, 2021, 04:52:12 PM
7 way playoff for bronze in Olympic golf.  AFAICT it was sort of sudden death format.  You bogie a hole everyone else pars, you're out.  Par a whole someone birdies, you're out.

The announcer said Ireland's medal hopes were dashed when Rory McIlroy missed a putt.  Surely since he's Northern Irish he plays for GB?  Or is there some weird thing with NI Olympians?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on August 01, 2021, 04:57:11 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 01, 2021, 04:52:12 PM
7 way playoff for bronze in Olympic golf.  AFAICT it was sort of sudden death format.  You bogie a hole everyone else pars, you're out.  Par a whole someone birdies, you're out.

The announcer said Ireland's medal hopes were dashed when Rory McIlroy missed a putt.  Surely since he's Northern Irish he plays for GB?  Or is there some weird thing with NI Olympians?
Northern Irish people can choose to represent Ireland or "team GB" (the clue's in the name) - this was a post-GFA development. McIlroy chose to represent Ireland. He is Roman Catholic so that's probably to be expected.

But, in some ways he is very modern Northern Irish in a complex layers of identity - for example he's accepted an OBE from the Queen as well. So he's very Northern Irish in identity - British and Irish.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Agelastus on August 01, 2021, 04:59:12 PM
Northern Ireland athletes have the choice of representing Ireland or Great Britain.

Apparently, this year six are part of the Great Britain Team and Twenty-Five are representing Ireland.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Agelastus on August 01, 2021, 05:15:16 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 01, 2021, 04:57:11 PM
Northern Irish people can choose to represent Ireland or "team GB" (the clue's in the name) - this was a post-GFA development. McIlroy chose to represent Ireland. He is Roman Catholic so that's probably to be expected.

No, it's always been the case that they were eligible for selection for either - Northern Irish Athletes were selected for the Irish Olympic Team in 1928, for example. Northern Irish citizens are eligible for both British and Irish passports and have been since Partition, so have the capacity to fulfil the selection criteria for either nation.

Many of the governing bodies of Sport in Ireland never split with Partition, or did so only years after Partition occurred.

There have been issues - but if you look at the Wikipedia article you can see that even in 1948 at least one Belfast native represented the Republic.

Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on August 01, 2021, 05:16:26 PM
Oh interesting :)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: jimmy olsen on August 01, 2021, 09:03:07 PM
Dutch runner falls with 350 meters left in the 1500 meters and gets up and wins the heat

https://twitter.com/ChrisChavez/status/1422002446423969795
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: DGuller on August 01, 2021, 09:19:41 PM
I read that as "Dutch runner falls 350 meters and gets up", and was quite impressed with how sturdy those Dutch are.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on August 02, 2021, 01:31:52 AM
The high jump was interesting. Italian guy and a Qatari who looks like a Mr Men character share the gold.
I didn't know this was possible.
If you can agree to stop competing and just call it then why jump at all. Gold for all!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on August 02, 2021, 01:34:34 AM
Just learnt that bronze medals are actually made of brass. My entire belief system is in shambles.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on August 02, 2021, 02:40:19 AM
[not from the Olympics]

"Table tennis is boring!" :D

https://twitter.com/NYinLA2121/status/1422027318365622273?s=20

(It's from the 2017 World Championships)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: jimmy olsen on August 02, 2021, 05:12:02 AM
Quote from: Tyr on August 02, 2021, 01:31:52 AM
The high jump was interesting. Italian guy and a Qatari who looks like a Mr Men character share the gold.
I didn't know this was possible.
If you can agree to stop competing and just call it then why jump at all. Gold for all!

Well, the bar goes up distinct intervals, with each level. If they can't go higher, they can't go higher.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on August 02, 2021, 05:49:16 AM
Quote from: Tyr on August 02, 2021, 01:31:52 AM
The high jump was interesting. Italian guy and a Qatari who looks like a Mr Men character share the gold.
I didn't know this was possible.
If you can agree to stop competing and just call it then why jump at all. Gold for all!

It's more they agreed to not have a run off.

They don't re-swim a 100 meters when top 2 come at the same time.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 02, 2021, 09:13:25 PM
Fucking frostbacks.

We got robbed in women's footie.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: jimmy olsen on August 03, 2021, 12:22:18 AM
Quote from: mongers on July 30, 2021, 07:27:48 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 30, 2021, 07:16:17 AM
That kind of sentiment is running rampant among young men here.

:blink:

Tim, are those likely to be those 'celibate can't get any' types?

More like hundreds of thousands of young men thinking "I spent every moment of my life from age 12-24 studying for exams and a woman beat me out for the job I wanted, obviously it was fraud/cheating/affirmative action, etc."
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on August 03, 2021, 01:54:32 AM
I don't get sailing. Boat finishes 6th, but wins the gold because there have been like a bunch of other previous races and a super-complex scoring system. It feels deflating.  :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on August 03, 2021, 02:02:05 AM
Also that they let false starts go halfway around the course before telling them...
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 03, 2021, 03:04:25 AM
Denmark's 4 man 4000 pursuit is so much in front of Britain in the semifinals that they crash into their 3rd guy. Now no one knows the rules, usually it's a win if you catch the 3rd guy but what happens when you crash into him?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 03, 2021, 03:35:09 AM
They're through to the final! :w00t:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on August 03, 2021, 04:37:49 AM
No disqualification for lead Dane?

No idea what happened with Britain on that. The 3rd guy fell miles behind.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on August 03, 2021, 05:04:11 AM
After the defeat of the Spanish basketball team today, the Gasol brothers have announced that they're retiring from the national team. It is truly the end of an era.  :cry:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: alfred russel on August 03, 2021, 06:18:40 AM
Quote from: Agelastus on August 01, 2021, 01:41:08 PM
Quote from: Tyr on August 01, 2021, 08:05:42 AM
I had no idea one false start meant elimination. Seems harsh.
Turned it onto the Italian channel as their guy won the 100m. Funny to listen to.

False start rules have become a lot harsher this century.

https://www.liveabout.com/false-start-rule-history-controversies-3259158

Although I hadn't realised, despite it happening ten years ago according to that article, that they'd got rid of the rule that allowed an athlete to get away with the first false start in the race with the second and subsequent false starts being automatic disqualifications regardless of the athlete involved.

Personally, I'd rather they reverted to the pre-2000 rules for false starts; the current system is ridiculously harsh in my opinion.

Although, admittedly, the British athlete's false start in the 100m final was a spectacular example of jumping the gun..

The winning 100 meter final time was 9.80 seconds. Silver was 9.84 seconds and bronze was 9.89 seconds. Everyone in the finals was under 10 seconds. Reaction times are obviously critical when you have such small differences in winning and losing.

The old system of giving runner a free false start had half the field false starting because everyone was trying to get that small edge. What was worse was that forced all the runners to tire themselves out in a bunch of false starts. The previous system of giving the entire field one false start was actually dumb, because you usually had some joker burning it intentionally in big races to amp up the pressure on other runners. In practice it wasn't much different than the "false start = immediate disqualification" system of today.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on August 03, 2021, 07:36:19 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 02, 2021, 09:13:25 PM
Fucking frostbacks.

We got robbed in women's footie.

It half makes it up for the 2012 London screw job.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on August 03, 2021, 11:55:25 AM
Spain has made it to the footie final  :yeah:

The Euros team was so young they were able to bring back a lot of them for the Olympics. The players doing a repeat *do* look rather tired, though.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on August 03, 2021, 12:19:09 PM
So I saw an amazing Men's 400m Hurdles race last night. The top three runners were all on WR pace and the winner shattered his own record by almost a full second. Insane.

America's son Rai Benjamin shattered the previous world record and will take home a silver.

Best Olympic race I have seen so far.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on August 03, 2021, 12:34:09 PM
Those Kevlar shoes finally delivered.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: FunkMonk on August 03, 2021, 02:49:39 PM
Dude, been watching some Olympics and I think the sick ass flips and dope ass tricks in skateboarding has been my favorite so far.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: HVC on August 06, 2021, 10:14:22 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 02, 2021, 09:13:25 PM
Fucking frostbacks.

We got robbed in women's footie.

Gold baby!

Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: jimmy olsen on August 06, 2021, 10:15:54 PM
Durant and Taytum doing well in this basketball final. Lillard's been a disaster so far.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 07, 2021, 04:14:57 AM
US sweeps golf golds.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 07, 2021, 06:24:10 AM
Mørkøv and Norman wins the Madison. :w00t:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 07, 2021, 06:47:53 AM
Norway wins their second running gold. What are they doing up there?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on August 07, 2021, 07:19:12 AM
Quote from: Liep on August 07, 2021, 06:24:10 AM
Mørkøv and Norman wins the Madison. :w00t:
:cool:

Michael TdF rider?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on August 07, 2021, 07:21:16 AM
Quote from: mongers on August 07, 2021, 07:19:12 AM
Quote from: Liep on August 07, 2021, 06:24:10 AM
Mørkøv and Norman wins the Madison. :w00t:
:cool:

Michael TdF rider?

Yes, was lead out for Cavendish, best at what he does.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on August 07, 2021, 11:45:50 AM
Quote from: Liep on August 07, 2021, 07:21:16 AM
Quote from: mongers on August 07, 2021, 07:19:12 AM
Quote from: Liep on August 07, 2021, 06:24:10 AM
Mørkøv and Norman wins the Madison. :w00t:
:cool:

Michael TdF rider?

Yes, was lead out for Cavendish, best at what he does.

Yes, a damn fine rider and tactician.

Glad he got the gold, he deserves wider recognition.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on August 08, 2021, 01:41:54 PM
Bloody hell :ph34r: :o
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/58126983
QuoteLauren Price: The girl who reached for the moon and came down with Olympic boxing gold
By Tom Brown BBC Sport Wales at the Tokyo Olympics

In the early 2000s, an eight-year-old was asked to write down three goals as part of a school project.

She wrote that she wanted to become a kickboxing world champion, play international football for Wales and go to the Olympic Games.

Her teacher raised an eyebrow, but the girl's grandmother told her to let the girl dream.

She had always told her granddaughter to reach for the moon and that if she fell short, she would land on the stars.

By the time she was 27, the girl had achieved all three of her goals.

And then she went even further. Not only did she go to the Olympics, but the middleweight won a gold medal.

This is the story of Lauren Price: Olympic boxing champion.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on August 08, 2021, 02:30:44 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on August 08, 2021, 01:41:54 PM
Bloody hell :ph34r: :o
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/58126983
QuoteLauren Price: The girl who reached for the moon and came down with Olympic boxing gold
By Tom Brown BBC Sport Wales at the Tokyo Olympics

In the early 2000s, an eight-year-old was asked to write down three goals as part of a school project.

She wrote that she wanted to become a kickboxing world champion, play international football for Wales and go to the Olympic Games.

Her teacher raised an eyebrow, but the girl's grandmother told her to let the girl dream.

She had always told her granddaughter to reach for the moon and that if she fell short, she would land on the stars.

By the time she was 27, the girl had achieved all three of her goals.

And then she went even further. Not only did she go to the Olympics, but the middleweight won a gold medal.

This is the story of Lauren Price: Olympic boxing champion.

So what's next?
Rock album and stadium tour?
Curing all disease?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: KRonn on August 08, 2021, 08:02:41 PM
I've always enjoy the Olympics, look forward to them. I especially like the track and field and gymnastics, sports that we don't see all the time. Some amazing performances. US did well.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on August 29, 2021, 11:51:06 AM
The Belgian GP has turned into a farce. Bad weather conditions first forced a three hour postponement, but FIA apparently insisted on having a race. So the mandatory minimum two laps are driven behind a safety car ( no overtaking allowed), and then the race is declared over.  :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: DGuller on August 29, 2021, 12:24:25 PM
The worst thing is that they extended the spectacle for almost four hours, wasting everyone's time, when it seemed obvious that having a sham two-lap "race" was all they were willing to do today.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on August 29, 2021, 12:38:09 PM
Quote from: Maladict on August 29, 2021, 11:51:06 AM
The Belgian GP has turned into a farce. Bad weather conditions first forced a three hour postponement, but FIA apparently insisted on having a race. So the mandatory minimum two laps are driven behind a safety car ( no overtaking allowed), and then the race is declared over.  :lol:

Back in the day, this would have meant a new wave of Belgian jokes, but they are un-PC now.
Spa-Francorchamps deserved better than this farce. Still Max Verstappen won!  :lmfao:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: DGuller on August 29, 2021, 12:49:27 PM
The funniest thing is that they intended to run the minimum number of laps to make it an official race, except they forgot that you lose one lap on countback when you red-flag the race.  So actually it appears that they're one lap short of the minimum length in order to be awarded points.  Let's see how they get themselves out of this bind.  :lmfao:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on September 11, 2021, 05:14:37 PM
Raducanu's run from Wimbledon wildcard to 4th round (pulled out after an anxiety attack on court) and qualifier to US Open champion is astonishing :o

I doubt she's going to be a wildcard or qualifier again :lol:

Edit: Just saw this from Guardian sports journalist on Raducanu:
QuoteTumaini Carayol
@tumcarayol
Emma Raducanu has won the US Open. Things she hasn't done as a professional:

- Won a WTA tour match
- Played a tour level three set match(!!)
- Played on clay
- Directly entered a slam main draw
- Played five tour level events

One of the craziest breakout runs ever.
:blink:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Liep on September 18, 2021, 03:27:17 PM
RIP Chris Anker Sørensen, great cyclist and commentator. Died after a collision with a car while riding the WC route. :(
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on September 18, 2021, 07:34:24 PM
Quote from: Liep on September 18, 2021, 03:27:17 PM
RIP Chris Anker Sørensen, great cyclist and commentator. Died after a collision with a car while riding the WC route. :(

:(

Damn that's terrible, only 37 years old.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on September 19, 2021, 03:08:23 AM
 :(
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 21, 2021, 06:59:23 PM
European Ryder Cup team has arrived in the US.  :w00t:

My favorite gold tournament.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Sheilbh on September 23, 2021, 01:52:10 PM
Kind of love that the Russian player at the World Chess Championship has to play under a neutral flag due to the anti-doping sanctions :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on September 23, 2021, 02:52:16 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on September 23, 2021, 01:52:10 PM
Kind of love that the Russian player at the World Chess Championship has to play under a neutral flag due to the anti-doping sanctions :lol:
We've all seen the Queens Gambit by now. That's no lolling matter.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 24, 2021, 06:45:14 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 21, 2021, 06:59:23 PM
European Ryder Cup team has arrived in the US.  :w00t:

My favorite gold tournament.

US up 6-2 after first day of foursomes (i.e. alternate ball).  :punk:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 26, 2021, 03:37:48 PM
Blow out.  :)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on September 26, 2021, 07:09:14 PM
And AFAICT limited dickheadedness by American fans, which has been a problem in the past.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on December 12, 2021, 09:49:29 AM
My God, what a race  :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: DGuller on December 12, 2021, 11:24:57 AM
What an awful end to a great season.  Verstappen was basically handed the championship he convincingly lost by an officiating decision.  Whether Lewis pitted or not, the race control could make a decision to take the title away from him.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Grey Fox on December 12, 2021, 11:30:29 AM
Masi needs to go. He took too long to make a decision and it's created all sort of controversy. Verstappen better buy Latifi anything he wants.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: FunkMonk on January 30, 2022, 09:19:19 AM
Nadal takes his place as the greatest in history now.

RAFA
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on January 30, 2022, 09:28:10 AM
It's ridiculous how Nadal/Djokovic/Federer have been so dominant for nearly 2 decades now.

(https://i.imgur.com/BQSLf3y.png)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on January 30, 2022, 09:35:00 AM
When I was fresh off uni I briefly worked as a video journalist, and I did a lot of work covering videogame events in Spain. I was once tasked with interviewing 3 promising young Spanish sportsmen that Sony was sponsoring.

These 3 guys were Pau Gasol, Rafael Nadal, and Andrés Iniesta.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on January 30, 2022, 09:43:57 AM
Quote from: celedhring on January 30, 2022, 09:28:10 AM
It's ridiculous how Nadal/Djokovic/Federer have been so dominant for nearly 2 decades now.

(https://i.imgur.com/BQSLf3y.png)

A while ago, the New Yorker or WaPo crossword had a clue, "Former tennis champ (Tommy)". I got they meant Tommy Haas since he was reasonably well known in Germany for a while, but I didn't recall him winning any major titles, so I looked it up. He briefly was #2 in the world, but never made it past the semi finals in the big four, and won a couple lesser tournaments. So I thought that was a rather obscure one. :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Haas
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on January 30, 2022, 04:19:50 PM
Quote from: celedhring on January 30, 2022, 09:35:00 AM
When I was fresh off uni I briefly worked as a video journalist, and I did a lot of work covering videogame events in Spain. I was once tasked with interviewing 3 promising young Spanish sportsmen that Sony was sponsoring.

These 3 guys were Pau Gasol, Rafael Nadal, and Andrés Iniesta.

Whoever picked the sportsmen had a really good eye for talent.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on January 30, 2022, 05:55:06 PM
Quote from: The Larch on January 30, 2022, 04:19:50 PM
Quote from: celedhring on January 30, 2022, 09:35:00 AM
When I was fresh off uni I briefly worked as a video journalist, and I did a lot of work covering videogame events in Spain. I was once tasked with interviewing 3 promising young Spanish sportsmen that Sony was sponsoring.

These 3 guys were Pau Gasol, Rafael Nadal, and Andrés Iniesta.

Whoever picked the sportsmen had a really good eye for talent.

Gasol was already in the NBA by then, so he gets no marks for him. But yeah, Iniesta wasn't even in the Barça senior team, and Nadal was a complete nobody.

Always hated not thinking of taking a pic of me with them.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on January 30, 2022, 06:38:55 PM
So. Was Nadal a dick?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Jacob on January 30, 2022, 11:26:22 PM
Sweden take gold, Spain silver, Denmark bronze.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on January 31, 2022, 04:10:29 AM
Quote from: Tyr on January 30, 2022, 06:38:55 PM
So. Was Nadal a dick?

Neither him or Iniesta said much. Gasol was super-nice though.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: crazy canuck on January 31, 2022, 12:13:42 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 30, 2022, 11:26:22 PM
Sweden take gold, Spain silver, Denmark bronze.

In what?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on January 31, 2022, 12:16:04 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on January 31, 2022, 12:13:42 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 30, 2022, 11:26:22 PM
Sweden take gold, Spain silver, Denmark bronze.

In what?

In the global awesomeness rankings.

Or Handball.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Jacob on January 31, 2022, 01:06:46 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on January 31, 2022, 12:13:42 PM
Quote from: Jacob on January 30, 2022, 11:26:22 PM
Sweden take gold, Spain silver, Denmark bronze.

In what?

European Championship in handball. One of those sports that never made it in North America, but which is awesome to play.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Syt on February 04, 2022, 08:48:49 AM
Olympic games are starting. German IOC president Thomas Bach held a press conference yesterday. Asked e.g. about the treament of the Uigurs, he said the IOC would not comment on political issues to avoid getting caught up between tensions and political forces. That would risk the existence of the Olympic Games.

Re: Russia, he said that the IOC can only ask everyone to observe the Olympic peace (Russia attacked Georgia on opening day of the 2008 Beijing games IIRC, and moved on Crimea during the Sochi games in 2014).

Regarding political statements from athletes he said that if an actor plays Hamlet then nobody's requesting him to voice his political opinions on stage, and the same would go for athletes.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on May 13, 2022, 08:51:30 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DcIxZrxH0

Pretty amazing Kentucky Derby.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on August 26, 2022, 06:18:20 AM
Epic day at La Veulta yesterday.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Valmy on August 26, 2022, 09:26:57 AM
Quote from: celedhring on January 30, 2022, 09:28:10 AMIt's ridiculous how Nadal/Djokovic/Federer have been so dominant for nearly 2 decades now.

I remember when American Men used to dominate the US Open, or at least consistently over-perform other tournaments, but no American has won the Men's Singles Title since...holy shit, Andy Roddick 19 years ago? Ok this is starting to get embarrassing.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on August 26, 2022, 10:36:53 AM
Quote from: Valmy on August 26, 2022, 09:26:57 AM
Quote from: celedhring on January 30, 2022, 09:28:10 AMIt's ridiculous how Nadal/Djokovic/Federer have been so dominant for nearly 2 decades now.

I remember when American Men used to dominate the US Open, or at least consistently over-perform other tournaments, but no American has won the Men's Singles Title since...holy shit, Andy Roddick 19 years ago? Ok this is starting to get embarrassing.

Welcome to South-West London.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on September 19, 2022, 04:22:35 AM
Last night Spain won the Eurobasket final against France. That was a really outstanding and unexpected result, I wouldn't have counted ourselves amongst the favourites when the tournament started, at all.

In a tournament in which several teams had in their squads some of the biggest names in world basketball at the moment (Antetokounmpo in Greece, Jokic in Serbia, Doncic in Slovenia...), we presented ourselves with what was, on paper, a fairly weak squad, in transition from the triumfant ones of the last decades. For starters, it was the first squad in like 20 years without either of the Gasol brothers, who are by far the best players in Spanish history. Our "stars" this time were another pair of brothers, the Hernangómez, who are both NBA players, but of far lower status than the Gasols were back in the day. Some of the veteran squad players of the last few years were also out, either due to injury or retirement from the national team, and a journeyman American point guard with no ties to Spain whatsoever had to be naturalized via express procedure so the team could have a competent player at that position.

it is truly a massive success for the whole team, and specially for two people, Willy Hernangómez, the older and less talented of the Hernangómez brothers, who was named tournament MVP, and for Sergio Scariolo, the national team's longtime coach, who turned this misfit squad into European champions.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: celedhring on September 19, 2022, 04:46:33 AM
This win means that we're also record holders if we only count countries that still exist  :P

I still laugh at the fact that Egypt (!!) has won the Eurobasket more times than Serbia.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on September 19, 2022, 05:08:27 AM
Quote from: celedhring on September 19, 2022, 04:46:33 AMI still laugh at the fact that Egypt (!!) has won the Eurobasket more times than Serbia.

I had to double-check that.  :lol: I don't think that particular tournament was very representative, though.  :P
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on September 19, 2022, 09:41:04 AM
Quote from: celedhring on September 19, 2022, 04:46:33 AMThis win means that we're also record holders if we only count countries that still exist  :P


Yugoslavia should get some credit for still winning tournaments 9 years after ceasing to exist.  :lol:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on September 19, 2022, 10:56:52 AM
Quote from: Maladict on September 19, 2022, 09:41:04 AM
Quote from: celedhring on September 19, 2022, 04:46:33 AMThis win means that we're also record holders if we only count countries that still exist  :P


Yugoslavia should get some credit for still winning tournaments 9 years after ceasing to exist.  :lol:

What do you mean?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Maladict on September 19, 2022, 04:54:21 PM
Quote from: The Larch on September 19, 2022, 10:56:52 AM
Quote from: Maladict on September 19, 2022, 09:41:04 AM
Quote from: celedhring on September 19, 2022, 04:46:33 AMThis win means that we're also record holders if we only count countries that still exist  :P


Yugoslavia should get some credit for still winning tournaments 9 years after ceasing to exist.  :lol:

What do you mean?

They seem to have won in 2001.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: The Larch on September 19, 2022, 05:52:23 PM
Quote from: Maladict on September 19, 2022, 04:54:21 PM
Quote from: The Larch on September 19, 2022, 10:56:52 AM
Quote from: Maladict on September 19, 2022, 09:41:04 AM
Quote from: celedhring on September 19, 2022, 04:46:33 AMThis win means that we're also record holders if we only count countries that still exist  :P


Yugoslavia should get some credit for still winning tournaments 9 years after ceasing to exist.  :lol:

What do you mean?

They seem to have won in 2001.

Ah, that was the rump Yugoslavia after the wars, when it was just Serbia and Montenegro and before they changed the country's name.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on November 19, 2022, 11:31:46 AM
So Os Lobos, another Selecção (Portugal national squad for you philistines) in rugby union, qualified for the World Cup in France next year, following a dramatic play-off/repêchage game with a last-second tie through a penalty kick, in Dubai vs the US national team.
 
Rugby league would seem a better fit for the latter closer to gridiron, but I digress.
First World Cup missed for the US since 1995.

This is France, so in theory Portugal should play at home, but rugby being a very bourgeois sport (hello Sporting CP? Benfica?  :P ) in Portugal I don't think it will draw the crowds the Selecção das Quinas in Association Football would.

Second time only for Os Lobos, since rugby, even union (league barely exists) is still very marginal in Portugal, behind rink hockey, basket-ball, hand-ball, volley-ball etc.

PS: many Portuguese players in French rugby clubs
Cristiano Ronaldo, who else, congratulated them on their qualification.
https://actu.fr/sports/rugby/pro/rugby-mike-tadjer-et-le-portugal-iront-a-la-coupe-du-monde-2023-c-est-un-reve-de-gosse_55317956.html (https://actu.fr/sports/rugby/pro/rugby-mike-tadjer-et-le-portugal-iront-a-la-coupe-du-monde-2023-c-est-un-reve-de-gosse_55317956.html)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on April 01, 2023, 12:04:42 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfh_CFs4jUk

Congratulations to the Lady Hawkeyes led by their superstar guard Caitlan Clark for beating South Carolina and making it to the final. :cheers:
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Jacob on July 18, 2023, 11:06:14 AM
The Tour de France has been pretty close so far this year.

Normally I don't follow it closely (if at all), but it's been all over some of my regular media this year....
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on July 18, 2023, 02:22:50 PM
I've watched two fan interference wipe out clips.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on July 18, 2023, 10:04:34 PM
Quote from: Jacob on July 18, 2023, 11:06:14 AMThe Tour de France has been pretty close so far this year.

Normally I don't follow it closely (if at all), but it's been all over some of my regular media this year....

Yeah it's been a thrilling contest, but today your countryman crushed Pogacer, maybe he'll pull some time back tomorrow in the super tough mountain stage.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on July 19, 2023, 06:47:03 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 18, 2023, 02:22:50 PMI've watched two fan interference wipe out clips.

Regular occurence, unfortunately. Bit higher than average for this Tour?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on August 06, 2023, 01:35:15 PM
BBC News - Dozens fall ill after Sunderland triathlon, health chiefs confirm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66421422

An event in the triathlon  world series was held locally.
Not too far down the coast has recently been a big scandal with mass crustacean die off then there's the whole national scandal of pollution protections no longer meaning anything post brexit.

Surprise surprise... The water that tested highly positive for e coli has led to a bunch of competitors falling very ill.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 29, 2023, 05:10:46 AM
Most exciting Little League World Series final EVAH!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dp5grrHTRk
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on September 09, 2023, 04:46:32 AM
Rugby (XV/Union) World Cup started yesterday, for those interested, Brits mostly I guess, so a new thread may not be necessary.  :P

Over here, the self-styled rugby fans forgot to tell us, so we had the beginning of a birthday party in a bar, with a loud sound system pushed too far, so people could not be able to speak to each other.  :lol:

As for the opening ceremony, the ceremony was deemed awful yet saved by the massive booing Zupiter received, just before the game.  :lol:

Regarding the game France-New Zealand game in the SdF (Stade de France), the XV de France impressed by winning 27-13 vs the All Blacks. Even though the Kiwis scored the first try, a penalty kick just after kept suspence with XV de France leading 9-8 by half-time. New Zealand did not improve in the second half, the opposite actually.

The XV de France did miss a conversion so it was not a perfect performance, yet it's obviously an important victory, quite a psychological blow with the first defeat in pool stages for the All Blacks.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2023/09/08/france-v-new-zealand-live-rugby-world-cup-2023-latest-score/ (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2023/09/08/france-v-new-zealand-live-rugby-world-cup-2023-latest-score/)

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby-world-cup-2023-all-blacks-v-france-new-zealand-handed-first-pool-play-defeat-in-paris/J5IG6545INDX7G3JUL44K5WSIQ/ (https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby-world-cup-2023-all-blacks-v-france-new-zealand-handed-first-pool-play-defeat-in-paris/J5IG6545INDX7G3JUL44K5WSIQ/) (paywalled)
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on September 09, 2023, 08:01:32 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on September 09, 2023, 04:46:32 AMRugby (XV/Union) World Cup started yesterday, for those interested, Brits mostly I guess, so a new thread may not be necessary.  :P

Over here, the self-styled rugby fans forgot to tell us, so we had the beginning of a birthday party in a bar, with a loud sound system pushed too far, so people could not be able to speak to each other.  :lol:

As for the opening ceremony, the ceremony was deemed awful yet saved by the massive booing Zupiter received, just before the game.  :lol:

Regarding the game France-New Zealand game in the SdF (Stade de France), the XV de France impressed by winning 27-13 vs the All Blacks. Even though the Kiwis scored the first try, a penalty kick just after kept suspence with XV de France leading 9-8 by half-time. New Zealand did not improve in the second half, the opposite actually.

The XV de France did miss a conversion so it was not a perfect performance, yet it's obviously an important victory, quite a psychological blow with the first defeat in pool stages for the All Blacks.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2023/09/08/france-v-new-zealand-live-rugby-world-cup-2023-latest-score/ (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2023/09/08/france-v-new-zealand-live-rugby-world-cup-2023-latest-score/)

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby-world-cup-2023-all-blacks-v-france-new-zealand-handed-first-pool-play-defeat-in-paris/J5IG6545INDX7G3JUL44K5WSIQ/ (https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby-world-cup-2023-all-blacks-v-france-new-zealand-handed-first-pool-play-defeat-in-paris/J5IG6545INDX7G3JUL44K5WSIQ/) (paywalled)

:D
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on September 09, 2023, 02:25:00 PM
Rugby World Cup

England-Argentina playing now, just saying, just in case.  :P

3-3 for now, with 16 minutes played.

I guess all Brits are watching it.  :D
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on September 09, 2023, 04:13:54 PM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on September 09, 2023, 02:25:00 PMRugby World Cup

England-Argentina playing now, just saying, just in case.  :P

3-3 for now, with 16 minutes played.

I guess all Brits are watching it.  :D

Probably not, also English/Scottish rugby union is full of posh public people, so not so compelling as football.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on September 09, 2023, 04:19:23 PM
Quote from: mongers on September 09, 2023, 04:13:54 PM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on September 09, 2023, 02:25:00 PMRugby World Cup

England-Argentina playing now, just saying, just in case.  :P

3-3 for now, with 16 minutes played.

I guess all Brits are watching it.  :D

Probably not, also English/Scottish rugby union is full of posh public people, so not so compelling as football.

Bourgeois sport as in France, except in the SW? Why I am not surprised?  :P Sport of ruffians played by gentlemen.  :contract:

The XV de la Rose won by the way, 27-10.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on September 11, 2023, 02:27:13 AM
Seems France has learned nothing and a very bad thing nearly happened.

https://www.planetrugby.com/news/world-rugby-apologise-for-absolutely-horrendous-scenes-before-england-win


Going to a big sporting event in France really is gambling with your life.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on September 11, 2023, 05:05:10 AM
That's more than embarrassing for the Macron régime.
Even under Flanby, things were not as bad cf. Euro 2016, despite some real troubles with real hooligans.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Gups on September 11, 2023, 06:12:50 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on September 09, 2023, 04:19:23 PM
Quote from: mongers on September 09, 2023, 04:13:54 PM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on September 09, 2023, 02:25:00 PMRugby World Cup

England-Argentina playing now, just saying, just in case.  :P

3-3 for now, with 16 minutes played.

I guess all Brits are watching it.  :D

Probably not, also English/Scottish rugby union is full of posh public people, so not so compelling as football.

Bourgeois sport as in France, except in the SW? Why I am not surprised?  :P Sport of ruffians played by gentlemen.  :contract:

The XV de la Rose won by the way, 27-10.

The XIV in fact. Pleasantly surprised as England have been terrible for ages now and Argentina have improved a lot.

Very good start to the tournament, which is super open this year with effectively three joint favourites in Ireland, France and S Africa
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on September 11, 2023, 06:18:57 AM
Quote from: Gups on September 11, 2023, 06:12:50 AMThe XIV in fact. Pleasantly surprised as England have been terrible for ages now and Argentina have improved a lot.

Very good start to the tournament, which is super open this year with effectively three joint favourites in Ireland, France and S Africa

They were XV at the beginning.  :P The red card does give some extra relevance to the performance, of course.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Gups on September 11, 2023, 07:56:06 AM
What are your hopes for Portugal Duque?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on September 11, 2023, 10:46:13 AM
I don't follow rugby to be fair but I know that scoring a try versus Australia would be a symbolic performance, even if probably means getting 50-100 points in the mean time.  :P

I suppose a victory vs Georgia is doable or at least a hard-fought contest. Wales or Fidji are too far ahead.
A significant part of Portuguese players are playing in the French rugby divisions (some Luso-descendants) so they are easier to support than the typical Lisboete bourgeois player.  :P 
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: crazy canuck on September 11, 2023, 09:47:28 PM
Sucks to be the Jets


News at 11

Edit: never mind turns out they didn't need Rodgers
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: crazy canuck on September 11, 2023, 10:13:47 PM
And in the basketball World Cup, Germany won! Germany!! And Canada beat the Yanks in the bronze medal game!
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on September 16, 2023, 04:42:52 AM
I'm not sure if the rugby world Cup is even on TV after the first few games? Not seen it for a bit.
But 73-3 for NZ-Namibia. Wow.
You'd think NZ would pace themselves a bit.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on September 16, 2023, 04:49:43 AM
Quote from: Josquius on September 16, 2023, 04:42:52 AMI'm not sure if the rugby world Cup is even on TV after the first few games? Not seen it a bit.
:lol:
Pretty damning.

QuoteBut 73-3 for NZ-Namibia. Wow.
You'd think NZ would pace themselves a bit.

They had to compensate for their first defeat in a group phase I guess.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Gups on September 16, 2023, 01:13:46 PM
Quote from: Josquius on September 16, 2023, 04:42:52 AMI'm not sure if the rugby world Cup is even on TV after the first few games? Not seen it for a bit.
But 73-3 for NZ-Namibia. Wow.
You'd think NZ would pace themselves a bit.

Games are only Thurs - Sunday. Every game is on itv
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 01, 2023, 02:24:46 AM
Yurope is smooshing the US 10.5 to 5.5 in the Ryder Cup
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on October 01, 2023, 02:39:16 AM
I noticed the rugby is often hidden away on ITV4 unless a home nation is playing - maybe even when Ireland is playing it's hidden? Might explain not seeing it so often.

Caught some of Scotland yesterday. It's interesting that you have these make weight teams in the final tournament and they make their inclusion interesting and worthwhile with some kind of bonus points for scoring more system that I don't understand.
It would be interesting to see this tried in football

Also interesting in seeing Romania vainly trying to get just one try and not score 0. They got close enough at points I wonder why they didn't just grab a drop goal or two.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Gups on October 10, 2023, 11:28:37 AM
Portugal were fantastic in the tournament and won lots of friends with a great win against Fiji and a draw against Georgia. Shame the Tier one sides care only about money and not about bringing forwad the tier two nations.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on October 11, 2023, 06:29:18 AM
Yes, and it even got good coverage in the country itself, the victory against Fidji being shown before the results of the Primeira Liga. Also clearly noticeable with the social network algorithms.
The tie vs Georgia was more or less around the expected level (shame about that failed penalty kick at the last minute) but vs Fidji it's another level indeed.

Despite the other games ending as losses the Lobos always played to win and even led at times.

It remains to be seen if this is a breakthrough or just a high point.
The current French coach will be replaced by another French coach. The Federation said it was the best choice with half of the team playing in France, mostly in Pro D2 (second tier behind Top 14).

Quarter finals start soon so more interest by the Brits here?  :P
Rugby Union as a posh as hell sport is indeed the case in Portugal, possibly less so now, but is it really that bad in the UK? Cricket is not more popular than rugby union, is it?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: mongers on October 11, 2023, 07:59:56 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on October 11, 2023, 06:29:18 AMYes, and it even got good coverage in the country itself, the victory against Fidji being shown before the results of the Primeira Liga. Also clearly noticeable with the social network algorithms.
The tie vs Georgia was more or less around the expected level (shame about that failed penalty kick at the last minute) but vs Fidji it's another level indeed.

Despite the other games ending as losses the Lobos always played to win and even led at times.

It remains to be seen if this is a breakthrough or just a high point.
The current French coach will be replaced by another French coach. The Federation said it was the best choice with half of the team playing in France, mostly in Pro D2 (second tier behind Top 14).

Quarter finals start soon so more interest by the Brits here?  :P
Rugby Union as a posh as hell sport is indeed the case in Portugal, possibly less so now, but is it really that bad in the UK? Cricket is not more popular than rugby union, is it?

I think Cricket has always been more popular than RU in England, for instance historically cricket in the Northern powerhouse counties had a big fanbase amongst the working man, though not anywhere a big as football.

I think RU isn't perceived so much as posh now, but if you scratch the surface, still lots of the participants have a public (fee paying private) school background.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Gups on October 11, 2023, 10:20:13 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on October 11, 2023, 06:29:18 AMYes, and it even got good coverage in the country itself, the victory against Fidji being shown before the results of the Primeira Liga. Also clearly noticeable with the social network algorithms.
The tie vs Georgia was more or less around the expected level (shame about that failed penalty kick at the last minute) but vs Fidji it's another level indeed.

Despite the other games ending as losses the Lobos always played to win and even led at times.

It remains to be seen if this is a breakthrough or just a high point.
The current French coach will be replaced by another French coach. The Federation said it was the best choice with half of the team playing in France, mostly in Pro D2 (second tier behind Top 14).

Quarter finals start soon so more interest by the Brits here?  :P
Rugby Union as a posh as hell sport is indeed the case in Portugal, possibly less so now, but is it really that bad in the UK? Cricket is not more popular than rugby union, is it?

I like pretty much any sport with a ball involved so guess I'm not typical but interest is fairly muted in England, partly because this team isn't very good and hasn't been for some time. I note that theer are still tickets available for the England quarter final but the others are sold out (I was offered a ticket but decided against because I dislike Marseilles)

I wouldn't say it's a completely posh sport. It's the main sport in the west country and in parts of the East Midlands and the south. It's not that big in the north though so certainly skews more middle class than football does.

Cricket is definately more popular than rugby - particularly the (inferior)shorter formats.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on October 11, 2023, 10:51:04 AM
Rugby, league and union, is weird in that it doesn't seem to really dominate vast areas of the country but in the small islands where its popular its like an alternative world where it is the number one. I used to have a friend from Wigan which is a key one.
Less so these days with peak football of course.

I remember I used to have a PE teacher, not particularly posh and was from somewhere down in rugby-land and he always insisted on calling association football soccer, and would sometimes be heard calling rugby rugby football,
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Duque de Bragança on October 11, 2023, 11:29:23 AM
The Rugby Union island, as in more popular than association football in France would be the South-West, with Toulouse as its capital.

Rugby League would only exist as number 2 or 3 sport in French Catalonia.

I guess rugger for rugby (union) is not that common anymore? I remember hearing in the late '90s.

PS: in the West Midlands.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on October 15, 2023, 02:39:05 AM
Caught the last 20 mins or Ireland - NZ.
Poor Ireland. Really looked like they'd do it at a point

And Argentina knocked out Wales? Are Wales especially terrible at the moment or so?
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Gups on October 15, 2023, 02:31:30 PM
The Ireland v New Zealand game was sensational but the first 30 minutes of the France v SA match may be the best half hour of sport I have ever seen. Absolutely insane quality from both sides.
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: Josquius on February 09, 2024, 07:03:32 PM
So I'm sure we've all thought of that theoretical before.
What if there was a version or the Olympics without all the rules on doping.
A games where our future GM supermen can smash the shit out of each other.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Games

https://apnews.com/article/magnussen-doping-swimming-record-ea32d2297b707b1b37df6f12668b7460

Now this all sounds fucking stupid. I am morbidly curious to see if it happens though.
And if it happens how well will it's lower tier general athletes, not the specially paid stars like this swimmer, do as compared to the clean top people in real athletics
Title: Re: The Miscellaneous Sports Thread
Post by: DGuller on February 09, 2024, 07:47:37 PM
People have been killing themselves with PEDs back when they couldn't be so obvious about it.  I have a hard time imagining it going safer this way, at least when the stakes get high enough.