OT: 2024 Olympics (non basketball)

[BigErnMcCracken]

A lot of the track women at this Olympics are really good looking.

I said "Oh my god" out loud when I saw Gabby Thomas. Fortunately my wife agreed with me.

I don't watch a ton (or any, really) track and field outside of the Olympics. I didn't know that Lyles and Erriyon Knighton skipped college to turn pro. Is that common in track and field? Also wild to me that Grant Holloway turned down Georgia football to run track.

 

[aceboon]

Alexis Holmes competes in the women's 400m final today, she's from Hamden

 

[aceboon]

breakdancing is hilarious, you got Lithuanian girls wearing durags, I wonder if she has any idea what those are worn for

 

[Matrim55]

The overall winner of the Olympics is this girl. Wearing red leather, throwing in moves from the video... my god what a performance!

 

[HooperScooper]

I said "Oh my god" out loud when I saw Gabby Thomas. Fortunately my wife agreed with me.

And she'd even be able to have an intelligent conversation with you.

 

[HCCForever]

And she'd even be able to have an intelligent conversation with you.

More intelligent conversation than most of us since she graduated from Harvard.

 

[gsmooth]

I shoulda tuned in at some point to the breaking, seems a fun watch.

It's a fun watch. I just took at 10 minute break from work to watch it. I just kept asking myself, "who in 1984 that watched the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles would've thought that break dancing would've been a part of the Olympics in the future?"

 

[aceboon]

The overall winner of the Olympics is this girl. Wearing red leather, throwing in moves from the video... my god what a performance!

I didn't even know this was an Olympic sport until I seen the clip you posted and this one also going viral the last couple of days, girls are talented

 

[Scottzer]

She could probably double if the events weren't so closely scheduled. She looks like she could be sub 47.

By my math, if she’s in 21.7-21.8 200m shape, she’s capable of breaking the world record (approx 47.6 by an East German hulk in the 1980s). I think that she’s right there, right now.

She ran 22.07/8 earlier in the season for the 200. So right now - distinctly possible. But, to run sub 47 she’d need to be in 21.4 200 shape - something I think has only been done cleanly by Sherlcka Jackson.

 

[Kolumbo]

I like break dancing as much as the next guy who can't break, but it's dancing. What are we doing here. Another event which comes down to judges and controversy. Are they going to start including ballroom dancing, belly dancing, disco...?

Samples

 

[Kolumbo]

I said "Oh my god" out loud when I saw Gabby Thomas. Fortunately my wife agreed with me.

I don't watch a ton (or any, really) track and field outside of the Olympics. I didn't know that Lyles and Erriyon Knighton skipped college to turn pro. Is that common in track and field? Also wild to me that Grant Holloway turned down Georgia football to run track.

Skipping college if you have that opportunity seems strange to me especially if you get a scholarship. I mean, how many hours a day can you train if you are a sprinter? I could see training for the decathlon being full time for a while. To be a runner full time seems to be really limiting yourself, especially if you have a bad injury.

There certainly is a lot of talent on the women's side.

 

[superjohn]

I said "Oh my god" out loud when I saw Gabby Thomas. Fortunately my wife agreed with me.

I don't watch a ton (or any, really) track and field outside of the Olympics. I didn't know that Lyles and Erriyon Knighton skipped college to turn pro. Is that common in track and field? Also wild to me that Grant Holloway turned down Georgia football to run track.

She's gorgeous.

I don't follow it like I used to so don't know. When I used to follow it pretty much everyone went to college or juco.

 

[dvegas]

More intelligent conversation than most of us since she graduated from Harvard.

Funny story, my UConn buddy's kid played hockey at Harvard . . . had a bunch of teammates from Quebec who could hardly speak English. All of them majored in French There's always work-arounds in the Ivy League, most of the starters on the 1979 Penn Final Four squad were Philly residents admitted to the school under a program for "local inner-city youths who might not otherwise have the opportunity of higher education."

 

[ec33]

Skipping college if you have that opportunity seems strange to me especially if you get a scholarship. I mean, how many hours a day can you train if you are a sprinter? I could see training for the decathlon being full time for a while. To be a runner full time seems to be really limiting yourself, especially if you have a bad injury.

There certainly is a lot of talent on the women's side.

When you are Lyles or Knighton, I suspect a shoe company hands you a nice check the moment you turn pro (and when you are Noah Lyles, they also hand your brother a nice contract).

 

[ec33]

Also wild to me that Grant Holloway turned down Georgia football to run track.

Georgia football is reversing this with incoming freshman running back Dwight Philips, Jr (whose father won a gold medal in the long jump as well as a number of world championships). Kid has dad's speed. He is a summer enrollee so it remains to be seen if he will getting any playing time this season, but there was talk about creating a package for him.

 

[aceboon]

US Men continue to be a disaster in the 4x100 relay, 20+ years of this

 

[superjohn]

The biggest chokers in sports, the US men's 4×100 relay team. It will be 24 years now without a medal for them and 28 years without gold. These guys can't ever hand off the baton, it's really pathetic.

 

[Scottzer]

I said "Oh my god" out loud when I saw Gabby Thomas. Fortunately my wife agreed with me.

I don't watch a ton (or any, really) track and field outside of the Olympics. I didn't know that Lyles and Erriyon Knighton skipped college to turn pro. Is that common in track and field? Also wild to me that Grant Holloway turned down Georgia football to run track.

Not common, also add Hobbs Kessler (1500m) to that list (came in somewhere around 5th). But, a lot of the most talented will be a one or two and done (Shecarri, Sydney). If Tyreek Hill didn’t play football, he might have been in that category. (He ran 20.16 200m in high school, but that’s way behind Knighton at that age (19.49).

 

[Waquoit]

I like break dancing as much as the next guy who can't break, but it's dancing. What are we doing here. Another event which comes down to judges and controversy. Are they going to start including ballroom dancing, belly dancing, disco...?

Or worse, lacrosse.

 

[Kolumbo]

I don't watch this but it came up on my feed. I gotta say, this is really impressive. The stamina and strength is something. Just trying to breath must be so difficult. Then you got O Fortuna mixed with Eminem. Visually impressive indeed.

 

[gsmooth]

US Men continue to be a disaster in the 4x100 relay, 20+ years of this

Oof I saw that live on TV and I am not going to lie, I cringed with a facial expression similar to one of those characters from those Garbage Pail Kid sticker cards.

That attempt at a handoff between the first guy and Bednarik was a train wreck disaster.

 

[uconnfan68]

By my math, if she’s in 21.7-21.8 200m shape, she’s capable of breaking the world record (approx 47.6 by an East German hulk in the 1980s). I think that she’s right there, right now.

She ran 22.07/8 earlier in the season for the 200. So right now - distinctly possible. But, to run sub 47 she’d need to be in 21.4 200 shape - something I think has only been done cleanly by Sherlcka Jackson.

She clearly looks like she has to pull back to keep stride for the hurdles. She’s really close to WR it seems to me.

 

[ctbro1999]

Oof I saw that live on TV and I am not going to lie, I cringed with a facial expression similar to one of those characters from those Garbage Pail Kid sticker cards.

That attempt at a handoff between the first guy and Bednarik was a train wreck disaster.

And they got DQ'd for an extra level of fail.

The women took care of business though!

 

[HCCForever]

The biggest chokers in sports, the US men's 4×100 relay team. It will be 24 years now without a medal for them and 28 years without gold. These guys can't ever hand off the baton, it's really pathetic.

Carl Lewis had a good point. Why did they reorder the runners when they could have just replaced the anchor Lyles?

 

[storrsroars]

I never paid attention to this before, but is it normal to have the women's 10000m the day before their marathon?