The 2012 London Olympics Sports Thread

[The Minsky Moment]

I was watching the women's gymnastics stuff last night, and quite frankly, as good as Aly Raisman is, I thought that Romanian hottie Catalina Ponor bested her in the floor event;  she was so much more fluid and elegant.  I dunno, I can't figure out the scoring for that stuff.

WTF - next you going to try to take away one of Koufax's no hitters?

[CountDeMoney]

Koufax was a known Jewser.

Get it? Jewser? That's a joke, son. A flag waver. You're built too low. The fast ones go over your head. Ya got a hole in your glove. I keep pitchin' 'em and you keep missin' 'em. Ya gotta keep your eye on the ball. Eye. Ball. I almost had a gag, son. Joke, that is.

[Ed Anger]

 

[HVC]

[katmai]

Manteo Mitchell felt the pop in his leg and knew it wasn't good. "It felt like somebody literally just snapped my leg in half," he said.

The American sprinter had half a lap to go in the first leg of the 4x400-meter relay preliminaries Thursday and a choice to make: keep running or stop and lose the race. To him, it was never much of a choice.

He finished the lap and limped to the side to watch the Americans finish the race and qualify easily for the final. A few hours later, doctors confirmed what he suspected: He had run the last 200 meters with a broken left fibula.

"I heard it and I felt it," Mitchell told The Associated Press. "But I figured it's what almost any person would've done in that situation."

Mitchell finished his heat in a more-than-respectable 46.1 seconds, and the United States tied the Bahamas in the second heat in 2 minutes, 58.87 seconds - the fastest time ever run in the first round of the relay at the Olympics.

[CountDeMoney]

Pretty ballsy.

Then again, Bernie Joseph Kosar Jr played three quarters against the Dolphins on Monday Night Football with a broken ankle;  so there's balls, and then there's Bernie Balls.

[Ed Anger]

Oh god, that popping sound.   

[Siege]

Olympic games are a pagan celebration.
I refuse to post in this thread.

[katmai]

Uh....

[crazy canuck]

So the U.S women soccer team is wearing shirts reading  "Greatness has been found" (and they wonder why no one likes them?)

How long did it take them to find that ref? 

[CountDeMoney]

Oh god, that popping sound.   

I'm sure yours sounded like a series of claymores going off.

[alfred russel]

So the U.S women soccer team is wearing shirts reading  "Greatness has been found" (and they wonder why no one likes them?)

How long did it take them to find that ref? 

As long as it took to count to 10. 

[Josephus]

Olympic games are a pagan celebration.
I refuse to post in this thread.

Israelis and Jews suck, eh? That's why you have your very own Olympics. Next year I think.

[Josephus]

So the U.S women soccer team is wearing shirts reading  "Greatness has been found" (and they wonder why no one likes them?)

How long did it take them to find that ref? 

Incidently they had another incident of handling the ball in their own penalty box and not being called by the ref today.

[alfred russel]

I sure hope the US hasn't used up its officiating lucky break karma in Olympic Women's Soccer.