The Official XXIX Summer Olympics Thread

#551
#551
I'm gonna need to see the three parallel bars medal winners naked to determine ages and order of finish. That said, I don't really need the two Chinese girls to figure it out (plus the child porn laws probably preclude it).
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#552
#552
volfanbill said:
that doesn't add up because they don't get any additional judges because they're in China, but it does seem the IOC is barring any serious investigations into China's possible cheating, possibly because they are the host country.
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I wonder if:
* being the home country
* hearing the louder cheers of the home fans
* general anti-American bias
don't all play a role in this.
 
#553
#553
Russian pole vaulter is hot. She's not Stokke, but she is very well put together.
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#554
#554
BigPapaVol said:
I'm gonna need to see the three parallel bars medal winners naked to determine ages and order of finish. That said, I don't really need the two Chinese girls to figure it out (plus the child porn laws probably preclude it).
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#555
#555
I don't think there has to be any real anti-American bias involved; the home country always gets a big bump in the medal count. It happened in Athens; it happened in Sydney; it happened here. And the Chinese don't exactly need a home field advantage to begin with.

What seems crazy is that they have three tiebreakers for an event in which scores are carried out to three decimal places. Just call it a tie and give both girls gold medals, for chrissakes. It happens sometimes in track.
 
#556
#556
Vercingetorix said:
I don't think there has to be any real anti-American bias involved; the home country always gets a big bump in the medal count. It happened in Athens; it happened in Sydney; it happened here. And the Chinese don't exactly need a home field advantage to begin with.

What seems crazy is that they have three tiebreakers for an event in which scores are carried out to three decimal places. Just call it a tie and give both girls gold medals, for chrissakes. It happens sometimes in track.
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but my problem is that especially in these individual events the past two nights, it was blatantly obvious the mistakes made by others were more critical than Nastia Liukin's.
 
#557
#557
USA vs Nigeria in ping-pong right now on CNBC. Awesome. Great stuff after all this endless swimming and gymnastics.
 
#558
#558
volfanbill said:
but my problem is that especially in these individual events the past two nights, it was blatantly obvious the mistakes made by others were more critical than Nastia Liukin's.
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I haven't seen all of it, but I'll cheerfully admit that I don't know anything at all about gymnastics. As long as they stick the landing and don't fall down, it looks good to me. I have no way to evaluate the (relative) difficulty of what's being done, other than to just accept whatever the American announcers say at face value. I'm like my wife assuming that Brent Musburger speaks knowledgeably about football.
 
#559
#559
i've been looking forward to the table tennis..just happened to be looking through the guide and saw it.
 
#560
#560
Vercingetorix said:
I haven't seen all of it, but I'll cheerfully admit that I don't know anything at all about gymnastics. As long as they stick the landing and don't fall down, it looks good to me. I have no way to evaluate the (relative) difficulty of what's being done, other than to just accept whatever the American announcers say at face value. I'm like my wife assuming that Brent Musburger speaks knowledgeably about football.
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i'm no expert either, but I've always watched and I took gymnastics as a kid (and I'd recommend any wannabe athlete do it). You picked up on a key point. There have been two key instances where the Chinese came nowhere near sticking their landing, yet got high praise. as for difficulty, I'll leave that for the judges. Both Liukin's and the Chinese girl had the same level of difficulty (7.7 i believe) and Nastia's routine was obviously cleaner.
 
#563
#563
TrueOrange said:
I was trying to find when that was, how'd we do?
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Our guy lost by three or four points in the seventh and deciding game. Apparently he's kind of old and washed up (40 something years old), so it was the kind of deal where the announcers were talking a lot about how it was great to see him there competing at a high level, etc. etc.

Somehow I would have expected Olympic-level table tennis to be a little more gentlemanly than it was. There was about as much preening, howling, and emphatic fist-pumping as you'd expect to see at a table in the basement of your average frat house.
 
#573
#573
Shawn Johnson's smile is contagious though. If she's back in '12, she will be getting the remarks Liukin is getting now.
 
#575
#575
I won't lie though, even though I knew the results, I was happy to see Nastia again... :whistling:
 
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