Anybody see the gymnastics tonight? The one where the Chinese girl pretty much fell over and did everything wrong on the landing, but the judges neglected to deduct the correct amount of points thus giving her the bronze. The analyst (not sure of his name. guy with the accent) talking to Bob Costas was absolutely furious. He called it the biggest mistake he may have ever seen by judging and by far the biggest of this olympics. He was actually fighting back tears....that's how mad he was. I believe the American Girl finished 4th behind the Chinese girl. EDIT: now that I'm reading more about it, I see that the they took the average of the three and that the Chinese girl's vaults were harder therefore her score starts higher.
I know, Lol. I think my girlfriend was jealous of how I was staring at the television. I mean, she's not sexy, sexy.. she's take you home cute, like a puppy.
That would be Bela Karolyi, a world-renowned gymnastics coach whose wife is currently head coordinator for USA gymnastics. Considering his long expertise and career, he certainly brings clout to his arguments. I could tell he wishes he were back as coordinator though I guess he was too strict at times.
Btw, after that Kobe/Bron interview, I will be shutting the TV off right after the gold is won. Not watching those two pieces of trash celebrate. "me" this "me" that "I" this "I" that. Garbage, man. Just garbage.
the one that ipressed me the most was the swimmer dara torres, this is her 5th olympics , missing 1996 and 2004. at 41 she still won 3 silver in 2008. she's not hard on the eyes either.
I noticed you've been quite attached lately. I'm going to ask you to allow me to breathe. Act like the entire world doesn't know how selfish Kobe and LeBron are.
Relax bro I was just messin with you. I also dont know where you got that I was attached. You made a statement about Kobe and Lebron and I responded to it in a joking manner, as I usually do with posters on this site. And if you mean Kobe and Bron are selfish because they are fierce competitors and will accept nothing less than Gold then yes, they are selfish.
I was joking back. I'm sure you heard the "get off my blah" before, but that's how we joke back. Sometimes I forget that I'm not talking to my friends, lol. "Attached" is more TOS appropriate with these old folks modding and not catching the drift. I'll comment on Kobe/LeBron thing later. There was an interview that rubbed me the wrong way.
Not many sprinters I can remember wanting to give a hug to I was smiling ear to ear watching her celebrate.
Haha gotcha bro. Im interested to know what you didnt like about the interview, assuming we watched the same one with Jim Lampley. It sounded pretty straight forward to me.
http://sports.aol.com/olympics/story/_a/bbdp/us-athlete-cheats-death-to-win-silver/136742 Inspiring story.
And this is what pisses me off about the Asian game. They don't consider baseball a "contact" sport. They know the fundamentals well and are fluid in all aspects of the game except this one. Sliding hard to break up a double play and taking the catcher out at home are part of the game. For the Chinese coach to say Sheurholtz should be thrown out for a hard slide at the plate is laughable at best. Not too mention the coach for the Chinese team is Jim Lefebvre, an American! He should know better.
Here is the exchange(s) between the Chinese and US Baseball teams. Note how the pitcher for Team USA reacts when recording the last out. Can't say I wouldn't have done the same thing... http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/player.html?assetid=0818_sd_bbm_rc_ce281&channelcode=sportbb
this might change things a bit. the chinese have 43 gold medals but they only have 21 when they are actually competing against other participants. those are in shooting, archery, badminton, wrestling, pingpong, swimming and rowing. the rest came from judges where you get style points. they have no medals in track and field. kinda makes you wonder, huh? last night on the uneven bars the australian judge took a full point away from nastia and only .7 away from the chinese performer. the chinese girl had way more errors. in the vault for women, one of the chinese girls actually landed on her knees and beat alicia sacramone for the bronze.
Big day for Canada. 4 more medals Yes we got a silver in trampoline again but we also scored a silver in Triatolon Diving and a Bronze in womens hurdles. Our first track medal in 12 years (Donovan Bailey) Up to 13
Key words there are "Australian judge". You also have to factor in the level of difficulty for each routine.
ANOTHER big day for Britain with 4 more golds. We OWN the velodrome winning 10 out of 12 golds. Great to see Christine Ohorugu beat Sanya Richards to win the 400m especially the way Richards has been jawing.
Well, they probably paid him good money to coach that team. So in a sense he is only taking advanatage of a free market. Capitalism...pffftt!
I read an article earlier. In it they asked him if the shot to the head was intentional and he said no, but he added that the us player that ran over the catcher started it .
Nice, they didnt show that much on Sportscenter. I cant believe the benches didnt clear when Laporta was hit in the head.
The US players said had it not been the Olympics they would have cleared the benches and retaliated. Nice to see them keep it under control and not embarass their country or USA Baseball.
I was pissed. I watched him play in UF. He made it to the World Series CHampionship one year and lost to Texas...now he has to worry about getting his bell rung again in the Indians system because of a bean ball by the Chineese in the olympics
I wouldn't have been embarassed...I would've been happy if they cleared the benches. Show some spine! I wish they would've cleared the benches in the game against Cuba too! A Cuban pitcher throw a bean ball too and caused a US player to bleed from his face. TWO COMMUNIST COUNTRIES
The Baseball player in me agress with you 100%. But the American in me thinks it would be best to use it as motivation to go on a run for Gold.
http://www.sportsline.com/olympics/story/10937294 Lets not get complacent, even though I had no idea the Aussies played Basketball.
See now. If I was Dwyane Wade and that Aussie was coming down the fastbreak trail after talking trash in my face, I'd of flagrant fouled him (rightfully so) right to the deck to send a message. Coach K should use Boozer or Prince to send that message. Show those Aussies who is boss.