The 2012 London Olympics Sports Thread

[katmai]

When have i ever been serious?

Your last meal? 

Motherfucker.

[Scipio]

OOOSA!  OOOSA!   OOOSA!

[DGuller]

Michael Phelps has now won more Olympic medals than anyone in history.

Fucking bullshit!  Phelps should've gotten gold.  Didn't they learn after Beijing, after that Serb touched the wall too lightly, that you need much more sensitive sensors there?

[crazy canuck]

Michael Phelps has now won more Olympic medals than anyone in history.

Fucking bullshit!  Phelps should've gotten gold.  Didn't they learn after Beijing, after that Serb touched the wall too lightly, that you need much more sensitive sensors there?

Had nothing to do with the sensors.  He glided in and got beat to the wall.


@Yi,

Glad to see Phelps beat the record by winning the gold in the relay.  In the interview he did with the Canadian broadcaster he was a very gracious winner.  Nice to see.

[Neil]

Well they were predicting a lot of swimming records would be broken - swimsuit technology has changed a lot since 2008.

Beeb, its the other way around.  People were expecting the WR set during the era of high tech suits to stand for a long time.  Those suits have since been banned.  Nobody actually predicted those records would fall during these olympics.  That fact that they are is indeed surprising since the suits gave such a large advantage.

Yeah, I saw a stat that there were something like 40 world records broken between 2008 and 2010, when they were using the suits, and only one since they were banned on January 1st, 2011.

Then again, they didn't take into account the massive amounts of drugs being pumped into the Chinese team.

[Eddie Teach]

And a 16 year old Chinese swims her last 50m faster than Ryan Lochte or Michael Phelps with 30 pounds less of muscle, beats the record by more than 1 and a half second, yet she doesn't dope.

Lochte* and Phelps ran out of steam, while the Chinese girl was hanging around the pack until the last leg. Kind of disingenuous to only compare parts of races.

*Yeah, he won, but he'd been ahead of WR pace until the last leg where he fell well behind it.

[DGuller]

Hearing Ruslana's Wild Dances music during Jordyn Wieber's floor routine was a big WTF for me.  Who knew Americans knew Ukrainian hits?  Then again, maybe they just picked it up from GTA IV.

[Syt]

One of my favorite Euovision winners.

[crazy canuck]

And a 16 year old Chinese swims her last 50m faster than Ryan Lochte or Michael Phelps with 30 pounds less of muscle, beats the record by more than 1 and a half second, yet she doesn't dope.

Lochte* and Phelps ran out of steam, while the Chinese girl was hanging around the pack until the last leg. Kind of disingenuous to only compare parts of races.

*Yeah, he won, but he'd been ahead of WR pace until the last leg where he fell well behind it.

I dont know.  By the end of that race everyone is pretty much spent.  It is one of the most demanding sporting events.  Too short of a race to really hold back in any stroke but longer than a sprint.  Those middle distance races are killers.  The thing that impressed was she had so much left after such a difficult race that she passed the leader like she was dead in the water.  Truly impressive.  Especially since she cut down her time by 5 seconds in a sport where cutting a time by tenths of a second impressive. 

It may not be drug assisted.  She just might be hitting her peak of performance at the very right time.  it does happen.  Rarely.  Problem is history has shown that more often than not such performances have been drug assisted.

[alfred russel]

The thing about being 16 is you are still developing and growing. It is possible that, combined with holding back until the Olympics, everything just came together at the right time. Not saying it is legit, but being 16 is a fact in her favor.

[Admiral Yi]

Spain has some very good basketball players.  Just watched Spain put away Australia.

Iorm, Larch, is hoops a very popular recreational sport in Spain?

[Valdemar]

When UK got the OL they got a free ride into the tournament, but didn't have a national team, so they went to DK to train and learn. When they got a team they tried on a few danish teams and even lost to school teams but that was a few years ago

Not exactly.  FIBA was originally going to deny them the automatic berth because of the state of British basketball, but the Brits managed to convince FIBA that they could actually put together a competitive team.

Except we aren't talking basket ball but handball here IHF IIRC made no obstacle to the UK in this game

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[Gups]

Spain has some very good basketball players.  Just watched Spain put away Australia.

Iorm, Larch, is hoops a very popular recreational sport in Spain?

I think its the most popular team sport after football (although a long way behind). Some of the big footie clubs like Barca and Real Madrid have hoops teams.

[Valdemar]

Spain has some very good basketball players.  Just watched Spain put away Australia.

Iorm, Larch, is hoops a very popular recreational sport in Spain?

I think its the most popular team sport after football (although a long way behind). Some of the big footie clubs like Barca and Real Madrid have hoops teams.

They also have very strong handball teams Barca wins alot of handball thropies

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[Josephus]

Romanian girl did floor routine to Floyd's Shine On.

Very progtatstic olympics indeed.