OT: 2024 Olympics (non basketball)

[ec33]

Peacock is failing me. They have replay of the women's 1500m.

That race was more about the DQ not DQ but yellow card.

The Italian woman went from 4th to the Bronze and in tears, then back to 4th (and I can only assume more tears).

 

[ec33]

This is class:

At least this time he didn't make an excuse. Perhaps his media people helped him compose a nice response this time around.

 

[ec33]

It is nice to see the Americans perform closer to their world championship level.

Norman showing up in his heat form for the 400 final would mean a couple more shots at gold tomorrow.

 

[aceboon]

great vid

 

[superjohn]

the Norwegian Ingebrigtsen was too busy trying to box out Kerr and didn't have anything left for the stretch run and boxed himself out of a medal altogether

Unbelievable race by Cole Hocker. He had to make two different passes and blew them all away. One of the best races I've ever seen.

 

[superjohn]

This is class:

He'll be back, it takes guts to race the way he races taking the lead from the start and setting an unbelievable pace. He just got burned by it this time. The story should be about Hocker, what he did is extraordinary.

 

[superjohn]

I managed to watch these tonight without seeing the results earlier in the day. Gabby Thomas is awesome, she's really nice to look at too.

 

[HCCForever]

I managed to watch these tonight without seeing the results earlier in the day. Gabby Thomas is awesome, she's really nice to look at too.

It is a challenge to not see or hear the results. I turned off all notifications from Fox, ESPN and The Athletic but then logged into FB to wish my cousin a happy birthday and saw Gabby's result by accident. It won't happen again.

 

[storrsroars]

I love the reply to this. Good dog.

 

[superjohn]

After Track and Field and Swimming team volleyball is my favorite Summer Olympics sport to watch and it's the best in person.

 

[HCCForever]

After Track and Field and Swimming team volleyball is my favorite Summer Olympics sport to watch and it's the best in person.

I have been enjoying volleyball the past few days as well.

It reminds me of a vacation that I had in the mid-80s in Southern California. I went to Will Roger's State Beach in Santa Monica to watch professional beach volleyball. I set up my beach chair a few rows from the action with a few beers and beautiful ladies all around.

Among the players were Karch Kiraly and the Kings of the Beach, Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos. Sinjin and Randy were like Greek Gods. At the time, Sinjin's other career was modeling. It was a great time and I believe this was before beach volleyball was part of the Olympics. Great memory.

 

[storrsroars]

The first heat of men's 5000m was fun. Announcers had it right - it was like a NASCAR race. Everyone bunched up till final two laps resulting in a couple of crashes, one that took out four runners.

After the race, bunch of guys laying on the track panting. Others bent over with hands on knees. Then there's the Norwegian guy who finished in top eight walking around, breathing normally and trying to engage other runners in conversation.

 

[aceboon]

incredible comeback

 

[superjohn]

Kenneth Rooks, holy crap. I never thought I would see this stuff from American distance runners. Another incredibly ballsy race. Broke his pr by over 9 seconds.

 

[aceboon]

Ethopian runner in the steeplechase took a nasty fall, guy wasn't moving but I don't know if it was due to serious injury or due to the pain of his olympic dream being dead

 

[superjohn]

I have been enjoying volleyball the past few days as well.

It reminds me of a vacation that I had in the mid-80s in Southern California. I went to Will Roger's State Beach in Santa Monica to watch professional beach volleyball. I set up my beach chair a few rows from the action with a few beers and beautiful ladies all around.

Among the players were Karch Kiraly and the Kings of the Beach, Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos. Sinjin and Randy were like Greek Gods. At the time, Sinjin's other career was modeling. It was a great time and I believe this was before beach volleyball was part of the Olympics. Great memory.

I used to love watching those guys on TV as a kid. Randy Stoklos was my favorite.

You can't beat watching those guys play on the beach from your beach chair with beautiful women all around but the team Olympic volleyball is pretty insane in person. The speed with witch they hit the ball is insane.

 

[CCSUblue]

Ethopian runner in the steeplechase took a nasty fall, guy wasn't moving but I don't know if it was due to serious injury or due to the pain of his olympic dream being dead

He went down so hard. The play by play guy said he was taken out on a stretcher. Article I found said he had a neck brace put on. Looked like he hit his head on the track.

 

[aceboon]

He went down so hard. The play by play guy said he was taken out on a stretcher. Article I found said he had a neck brace put on. Looked like he hit his head on the track.

yea just seen this, brutal

 

[HCCForever]

Although it's not my cup of tea, I give credit to the artistic swimming teams. It is unbelievable how they move in the water without touching the pool bottom and do all kinds of acrobatics.

 

[Matrim55]

I managed to watch these tonight without seeing the results earlier in the day. Gabby Thomas is awesome, she's really nice to look at too.

Every girl in that 200m field was stunning. Like at least an 8.5/10.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Private school in Jax, FL. Sweet campus on the Johns River.

 

[superjohn]

Why isn't the Handball we all know the handball in the Olympics? Olympic Handball sucks.

 

[Yardigan]

Haven't watched any Olympics really, but stumbled across some trampoline action...that looks about as dangerous as anything they have going, no?

 

[superjohn]

Haven't watched any Olympics really, but stumbled across some trampoline action...that looks about as dangerous as anything they have going, no?

Boxing

 

[The Yakk]

My wife lives and dies every day with the gold medal table. It kills her when China wins one to pull ahead. But when the U.S. wins one she gets a double dose of joy--both for the athlete and the U.S.'s medal standings.

Same for a bunch of our friends.

Since I can't tell my wife this is a sad and stupid obsession, I will come here to vent:

A country's gold medal haul is straight-up purchased. The U.S. spent a ton of money to send a massive contingent of athletes to Paris; so did China, and so did the other medal leaders. She is basically rooting for money.

Here are the stats I would like to see:

• Medal counts as a rate based on population
• Medal counts as a rate based on the size of the Olympic contingent
• Medal counts as a rate based on money spent

I would like to root for the countries that perform far in excess of their resources. Go St. Lucia!

There was only one time in the history of the Olympics that medal counts actually mattered: that was 1984.

Older members will remember this. MacDonalds ran a promotion where you would get a scratch-off card with an Olympic event. If the U.S. won gold then the card got you a Big Mac; silver got small fries; and bronze got a coke. And you could win multiple items on the same card if the U.S. won more than one medal. MacDonalds probably has a good idea what the promotion would cost them.

Then the USSR and its satellite countries pulled out of the Olympics.

The U.S. ended up winning everything. I was in college then, and my roommates and I basically ate free MacDonalds for an entire summer. It was glorious. And it must have cost MacDonalds tens of $millions.

Good times!