OT: 2024 Olympics (non basketball)

[HooperScooper]

How can you tell if someone cheats?

They have officials all over the place to make sure all walkers have one foot on the ground at all times.

 

[mike012]

They mentioned uconn a couple times during the women’s USA vs gbr field hockey game. One of the players played at uconn in 2020.

FYI Lol I work from home and have peacock. Watching random events

 

[shizzle787]

To me, the Olympics is a really huge basketball tournament and some other stuff...

But there are always a whole bunch of other great moments.

For example, the USA women grabbing the bronze in Rugby 7's with an incredible last-moment play that reminded me of that time when Bo Jackson ended that Seattle LB and went through the end zone and into the tunnel. That LB was never the same after that. That was the first USA medal in any form of that sport EVER, men or women.

Katie Ladecki going full-on Secretariat in the 1500 free...

Simone Biles continuing to make history...

I'm sure there are more I don't remember offhand, and also, these Games ain't over yet.

Actually, I think rugby sevens is a pretty cool sport. It's quick and easy to follow.

 

[shizzle787]

I am also looking forward to the next Olympics in LA. They are adding baseball/softball, cricket, squash, lacrosse, and flag football.

 

[ColchVEGAS]

Boxing, basketball, beach volleyball, swimming, gymnastics, and track and field are my favorites to follow.

 

[Devland]

The event I've been waiting for.....RACEWALKING!

Looks like they're all in a hurry to get to an outhouse.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

I think there are professional leagues in Europe for this sport.

Wild to me. Maybe I’m totally missing something, but it just feels so low-skill for an Olympic sport.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

They have officials all over the place to make sure all walkers have one foot on the ground at all times.

It’s like the first movie ever created!

 

[awy]

the walking event should be abolished. probably would have been if not for political influence by the few states doing sports washing with the olympics etc.

 

[superjohn]

China does the bare minimum with drug testing to keep WADA off their back. The Chinese swim team is full of prior offenders.

Color me skeptical.

I assume most athletes at the Olympic level are on stuff but he doesn't exactly have the juiced look that many of them do. Doesn't mean he isn't/wasn't on something but this isn't exactly like Lance Armstrong being a top 50 guy in the Tour de France and then all of a sudden dominating everyone.


He swam a 47.65 over 2 years ago as a 17 year old and broke 47 seconds as an 18 year old.

 

[cwh20]

That would have been a one in million shot by a professional photographer years ago.
Today it was probably shot by a teenager with an iphone..

The tv commentators said that the photographer only got four shots and was incredibly lucky that this was one of them. That’s a great picture!

China has excelled at diving for years but the synchronized female divers who waltzed to gold yesterday were unbelievable.

 

[uconnfan68]

What sports are you watching or looking forward to watching?

I've always been track and field, but damn there are so many new sports its practically impossible to keep up.

I did find the water polo fascinating, not knowing that the athletes must stay above water (feet not touching the floor) at all times. They have to be among the best conditioned athletes in the games.

I wonder if there are any storylines to watch, similar to Biles return.

I “thought” the pool was 12’ deep for water polo. Just to make sure no one could touch.

 

[uconnfan68]

Honestly I was pretty flabbergasted because that guy DOESN'T look crazy jacked. And he doesn't as much have the weird Phelps swimmer body that literally all of them have (like Marchand), yet he just crushed them all.

Great drugs.

 

[uconnfan68]

I assume most athletes at the Olympic level are on stuff but he doesn't exactly have the juiced look that many of them do. Doesn't mean he isn't/wasn't on something but this isn't exactly like Lance Armstrong being a top 50 guy in the Tour de France and then all of a sudden dominating everyone.


He swam a 47.65 over 2 years ago as a 17 year old and broke 47 seconds as an 18 year old.

Yeah, been doping for years.

 

[dvegas]

No man wins the 100 meter free at the Olympics by a second, it's like winning the 100 meter dash by a quarter second.

Also, LOL the ACC trying to take credit for Katy Ledecky's medals (she swam for Stanford from 2016-2018)

The ACC hilariously tried to claim Stanford alum Katie Ledecky

 

[gsmooth]

The tv commentators said that the photographer only got four shots and was incredibly lucky that this was one of them. That’s a great picture!

China has excelled at diving for years but the synchronized female divers who waltzed to gold yesterday were unbelievable.

oh wow, you guys are serious. That is a real actual photo of someone when they were surfing. I thought that was photoshopped.

 

[ec33]

I assume most athletes at the Olympic level are on stuff but he doesn't exactly have the juiced look that many of them do. Doesn't mean he isn't/wasn't on something but this isn't exactly like Lance Armstrong being a top 50 guy in the Tour de France and then all of a sudden dominating everyone.


He swam a 47.65 over 2 years ago as a 17 year old and broke 47 seconds as an 18 year old.

He shattered the world record in a poorly constructed pool that has provided no other world records (although some Olympic records). It could be for real, but until China starts real drug enforcement any accomplishment by a China swimmer should be taken with more than a single grain of salt.

It is the cost of shady business.

I am a big Tadej Pogacar fan. He seems like a great guy and he makes the sport fun to watch. But when a cyclist does "unbelievable" things, there is a track record of those accomplishment being unnatural. Then again, maybe he is great talent in an era when nutritionists finally made the shocking discovery that if you are going to burn 3000 calories climbing a mountain, you should eat 3000 calories before you climb the mountain -- and now you get all-time great results.

 

[ec33]

No man wins the 100 meter free at the Olympics by a second, it's like winning the 100 meter dash by a quarter second.

Also, LOL the ACC trying to take credit for Katy Ledecky's medals (she swam for Stanford from 2016-2018)

The ACC hilariously tried to claim Stanford alum Katie Ledecky

So silly of the ACC. They have Virginia who dominates women's collegiate swimming at the moment and NC State is a top producer of talent. They don't need to falsely claim PAC glory.

But hey , they have women's swimming truly covered now with the Pacific coast Atlantic Coast Conference additions.

And for the record, Ledecky currently trains at Florida. SEC, SEC. It just means more.

 

[awy]

the whole anti doping system is designed in a way that assumes states are operating on the level and effective at supervision of athletes, who may potentially cheat. this is a western model.

with state doping programs this entire system is less than useless, since the states enforcement entities provide cover for the programmatic cheating.

u.s. does have a lot of dopers and also hand on scale enforcement or lack thereof, but not the level of theatre found in state directed doping programs.

only solution is an intelligence one and that's how rus got busted. china is far less penetrable. but they do share the research and so on. trimetazidine notably taken by russian skater who got banned in 2022.

 

[Dogdeacon]

We all know how high a BB hoop is. Watching Biles floor routine last night'-and as tall as she is(4'8")--She was measured at getting 11'8'' verticality on one of her tumbling/flipping sequences as part of her last routine. Square above the rim on backboards is 18" high. Do the math.

Crazy athleticism.. Male or female. Calf muscle was taped-not 100%

You do know that the floor has springs in it right? Not sure what that adds... 2 ft given that best running verticals ever are 50"-ish?
It would be interesting to measure gymnasts vertical jumps vs basketball players (maybe volleyball too).

If they could really jump 11'8" they'd all walk over to the track after the gymnastics and cruise to high jump medals

 

[husky429]

The event I've been waiting for.....RACEWALKING! WOOOOO

This event annoys tf out of me. EVERY athlete is breaking the rules. They all have two feet in the air on every stride if you look in slow-mo. Literally every single one. The judges are idiots. Just cancel the sport. It's stupid.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

How apropos that I just started a prescription of steroids earlier today after a bee sting swole up my left ankle.

My in-laws were in town when the opening ceremony started, so I've been watching the Olympics every day since then. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like this is the best produced summer olympics on a TV standpoint ever and Paris has done an excellent job too.

Swimming, gymnastics, track and field are my favorites. Over the last few summers, I've occasionally volunteered to keep score for my nephews' and niece's water polo games, so now I understand the game a bit, I was more interested in it this year.

 

[dvegas]

So silly of the ACC. They have Virginia who dominates women's collegiate swimming at the moment and NC State is a top producer of talent. They don't need to falsely claim PAC glory.

Probably took their cue from Rutgers when they touted the combined NBA salaries of their "players" under their coaches (Pikell at UConn). So we should just claim Kate Douglass & the Walsh sisters as our own, since they trained at Chelsea Piers in Stamford

 

[Jimdish255]

UConn Field Hockey Alum Karlie (Heistand) Kisha. No quit.

Berks County’s Karlie Kisha is ‘grateful’ to be living her Olympic vision after cancer treatment

Kisha underwent treatment for thyroid cancer this year, and was pronounced by her doctor good to play field hockey in Paris.

www.inquirer.com

 

[Scottzer]

Favorite Olympic sport is track and field - love watching Sydney McLaughlin ale done run, and always be classy. Not like the 100 sprinters. Just pure class.