2020 Summer Olympics / Tokyo

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#201
Heat 3 of the Men’s 800, there was a runner from South Sudan who when he was a year old, lost his dad in civil war. After raising cattle until he was 13 had to escape with his brother to Kenya to keep from being enlisted as a child soldier. Growing up he didn’t have any shoes. He had to share shoes with other kids to run. In the first half of the race, he tripped and fell. He got up and ran his hardest and still finished in last place.
 
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golfballs said:
Heat 3 of the Men’s 800, there was a runner from South Sudan who when he was a year old, lost his dad in civil war. After raising cattle until he was 13 had to escape with his brother to Kenya to keep from being enlisted as a child soldier. Growing up he didn’t have any shoes. He had to share shoes with other kids to run. In the first half of the race, he tripped and fell. He got up and ran his hardest and still finished in last place.
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That's what the Olympics should be about.
Not Professionals, no protests, no accusations of doping..........just doing the best you can for yourself and your country.
 
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#207
The "no professionals" bit was the greatest fraud of the Olympics. It was designed to keep it upper class only in the late 1800s. Professional athletes were regarded with contempt and sports didn't pay very well, so only the lower classes really got money for being an athlete. The rich could afford to be a gentleman's athlete without getting paid.

Don't even get me started on the communist bloc "amateurs", either. Good riddance to amateurism.
 
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Did anyone see the ending to the US vs. Canada beach volleyball match? It had a very weird ending. Canada was up 12-11 in the final game (score 15 to win). The US served, and the line judge ruled it out. The US team used a challenge, and the officials looked at the replay and determined the ball was in. So the game is now tied. Then, Canada re-challenged the ruling. And once again, the ruling was overturned. Canada now up 13-11. How can you challenge a play twice in a row and have the officials change their mind like that? Does anyone understand what happened here? I have to be missing something.
 
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#209
Can’t believe what I just witnessed. USA Women’s beach volleyball vs Canada, close to match point with Canada up, USA ball called out. USA challenges the call which goes to replay. Call reversed, ball called in. Then Canada challenges the reversal and they win the challenge, balled called out. Never in my life....
Women obviously spoke to judge and after about 10 seconds she flashes a yellow card. What does she expect then to do?... Unbelievable...
 
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KoachKrab127 said:
Did anyone see the ending to the US vs. Canada beach volleyball match? It had a very weird ending. Canada was up 12-11 in the final game (score 15 to win). The US served, and the line judge ruled it out. The US team used a challenge, and the officials looked at the replay and determined the ball was in. So the game is now tied. Then, Canada re-challenged the ruling. And once again, the ruling was overturned. Canada now up 13-11. How can you challenge a play twice in a row and have the officials change their mind like that? Does anyone understand what happened here? I have to be missing something.
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When you get screwed without consent it’s called...
 
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KoachKrab127 said:
It makes me think there's more to it that we're missing. I've seen hundreds of bad calls in sports games before, but nothing like what just happened here.
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I found someone explain it like this.

Canada didn't challenged the challenge. On the first review, you see the call being "In", than 5sec later it changed to "Out". So the first "official" review call was that the ball was out.
 
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mad4vols said:
I found someone explain it like this.

Canada didn't challenged the challenge. On the first review, you see the call being "In", than 5sec later it changed to "Out". So the first "official" review call was that the ball was out.
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Hmm. That would make more sense. That is not what the commentary crew was saying. They had no idea what was going on either.
 
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#214
They could swim that medley 10 times and probably split them. That’s tough
 
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#220
They chose to swim their B team in the prelims to rest the other guys, and they almost didn't make the finals. They got 7th by only 3 tenths. Could you imagine if they didn't make the finals?
 
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KoachKrab127 said:
They chose to swim their B team in the prelims to rest the other guys, and they almost didn't make the finals. They got 7th by only 3 tenths. Could you imagine if they didn't make the finals?
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Depending on the other events sometimes you can’t swim your top guys in prelims. They were close to missing out
 
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#224
golfballs said:
And the way he won… his last split on the 1500 was nuts.
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Yes, I was by no means a world class swimmer, but I was the best swimmer on my high school team many years ago. Finke's final 50 meters in the 1500 was faster than my best time ever in the 50 free sprint race. I could have watched him swim that entire race, then dove in off the block, fresh, the same time he does his flipturn after swimming 1450 meters, and he still would've beat me.
 
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#225
USA Shooting has done very well. I was offered a scholarship to shoot in college but I chose to attend UT instead……. I don’t regret it! Lol .
 
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