2012 London Summer Olympics

[Plow]

marcelo is just not even fair

[Cantih]

Does it take more than a paragraph to state why Kenyans dominate distance running?

It only takes a single word.

Powerthirst

[Chun Liroy]

It only takes a single word.

Powerthirst

I believe the word you were looking for is blacks.

[octopus]

When did Mexicans become good at diving?

[Plow]

I dunno, it's almost like you'd think they have a term involving water as a nickname or something.

[octopus]

Well, the US got 3rd in diving because the Russians got a 100+ on their last dive with the higher difficulty. A silver would have been nice but oh well.

[Cail]

bradley wiggins, who won the tour de france, just won the individual time trial. think i heard the announce say earlier that he has the most medals by 1 person in great britain's history

edit: yea, he is. 7 medals all time

edit2: as al michaels just said, imagine this for a last 10 days. wins tour de france, rings bell at opening ceremony to open the games, and now a gold in the time trial

[octopus]

The Chinese table tennis player who eliminated the American 16 year old (in a very close match previously) is dominating the finals at the moment.

[Plow]

The Chinese table tennis player who eliminated the American 16 year old (in a very close match previously) is dominating the finals at the moment.

do you know ping pong well btw? I'm wondering why the pace has changed so much from the old beat the living shit out of the ball with every swing stuff. Is it just cuz of how crazy they've gotten with the serves or what?


also... hmm, women's water polo vs boxing... tough choice. women's water polo is way more violent, I'll go with that

[tisiphone]

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...66_nbclogo.jpg

Nice position for the logo.

[octopus]

do you know ping pong well btw? I'm wondering why the pace has changed so much from the old beat the living shit out of the ball with every swing stuff. Is it just cuz of how crazy they've gotten with the serves or what?

I don't follow the sport if that's what you mean (I do play casually from time to time tho). Yeah I remember from years ago the players seem to like to spike the ball 30 feet in the air... crazy lol. Don't know why they don't happen anymore.

[Necronus]

Why are they blaming the teams and not the way the tournament is bracketed for wanting to lose on purpose. Sounds pretty stupid imo.

Like every scandal at the Olympics, the sporting organizations and the IOC will always choose the reaction which allows them to save face and pretend like its not their fault in order to protect their own image in lieu of making decisions based on sportsmanship and fairness.

Edit: That of course requires that they also remain oblivious to the backlash wherein the obvious unfairness of those decisions often does in fact attract more negative attention than having simply admitted the mistake. Very much similar to the "Streisand Effect".

[octopus]

Just wondering, has there been any discussions on doing double elimination tournaments (with winners and losers bracket) in the Olympics?

[Cantih]

That Venezuelan was one seriously happy dude.

[Serra]

There's double elimination in Olympics Hockey, no? Seem to remember the US beat Canada in the first match, then lost the gold medal match.

[Tweek]

Phelps:

What does "high score" mean? New high score, is that bad? What does that mean? Did I break it?

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4...x780o1_400.gif

[Rhyis.]

Hellz yeah, silver medal. First medal higher than bronze so far. Can always count on the rowers. Y'all bitches be jelly.

[octopus]

whoa, North Korea has 4 golds?

[Jefe]

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL~ MX 1 : SW 0

[Ddz]

Has McKayla Maroney's vault been posted yet? Absolutely beautiful, go USA!