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How about a thread to discuss the actual events? Leave the political crap in the other 47 threads.
US gets the first gold medal in the women's 10m air rifle. Nice.
It's cool watching events you normally don't get a chance to watch. I watched the women's handball match between Brazil and Norway. Fascinating.
The table tennis is always fun to watch as well.
Do you really think you should discuss the event staged in a country that has not checked it's athletes for doping? Staged by a quasi maffios organisation that has excluded the troublemaker? That is in a country where an epidemic is unfolding of whom the UN warned? .....????
I don't think so.
How about a thread to discuss the actual events? Leave the political crap in the other 47 threads.
US gets the first gold medal in the women's 10m air rifle. Nice.
It's cool watching events you normally don't get a chance to watch. I watched the women's handball match between Brazil and Norway. Fascinating.
The table tennis is always fun to watch as well.
I love watching table tennis. Though the USA doesn't do well I know most of the big name players and have seen some of the older ones in live action. The problem with it is that unless you play the sport at a pretty good level, its hard to understand why world class players appear to miss "easy balls" The spin variation is unbelievable. Most basement players couldn't get any of those olympic TT athletes's serves back on the table unless they were using a long pips or anti-topspin bat.
Team Handball is great to watch. The USA needs to get some of our college basketball athletes into that game. we have much better athletes than the countries who dominate that event.
Another great sport you never see on USA TV is badminton. Like Table tennis, its not the picnic game Americans think of. Though Tennis players are stronger, Squash players fitter and table tennis players have more complex technique, the badminton athletes need tremendous quickness, fitness and the ability to think quickly under pressure.
The other thing I really like is the track cycling events. Cat and mouse games with furious bursts of speed.
I also like archery but I know all three of our American Silver medalists and the first alternate on that team is a close friend of my family
Feel free not to watch, and like I asked in the OP please try to keep the political BS in the other threads.
Doping is not "political BS" and we know that Russia systematically used doping to prepare its athletes and that the host stopped checking for doping. The same is certainly true for China and others only we have no proof. So we do not know, which medals are being attained by fraud.
But, if that is the kind of sports you like and the kind of moral example you want your children following, that is fine by me, as weird as your attitude seems to me.
Do you really think you should discuss the event staged in a country that has not checked it's athletes for doping? Staged by a quasi maffios organisation that has excluded the troublemaker? That is in a country where an epidemic is unfolding of whom the UN warned? .....????
I don't think so.
Doping is not "political BS" and we know that Russia systematically used doping to prepare its athletes and that the host stopped checking for doping. The same is certainly true for China and others only we have no proof. So we do not know, which medals are being attained by fraud.
But, if that is the kind of sports you like and the kind of moral example you want your children following, that is fine by me, as weird as your attitude seems to me.
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I love watching table tennis. Though the USA doesn't do well I know most of the big name players and have seen some of the older ones in live action. The problem with it is that unless you play the sport at a pretty good level, its hard to understand why world class players appear to miss "easy balls" The spin variation is unbelievable. Most basement players couldn't get any of those olympic TT athletes's serves back on the table unless they were using a long pips or anti-topspin bat.
Team Handball is great to watch. The USA needs to get some of our college basketball athletes into that game. we have much better athletes than the countries who dominate that event.
Another great sport you never see on USA TV is badminton. Like Table tennis, its not the picnic game Americans think of. Though Tennis players are stronger, Squash players fitter and table tennis players have more complex technique, the badminton athletes need tremendous quickness, fitness and the ability to think quickly under pressure.
The other thing I really like is the track cycling events. Cat and mouse games with furious bursts of speed.
I also like archery but I know all three of our American Silver medalists and the first alternate on that team is a close friend of my family
Yea the WVU rifle team is bad ass they have won like the past 4 NCAA rifle championships.
One of our friends was on that team in the 80s-won the pan ams in 83 and was 5th in the 84 games. That part of the country-Ky, Tenn, WVa is the rifle capital of the world. Xavier in Cincinnati was really good until a leftwing female AD cut the rifle team even though it turned out more all-americans than the rest of the athletic program combined. BTW Alaska was another powerhouse.
The psychology of cycling is remarkable. When the 3 European cyclists zoomed past the American who was leading for much of the last part of the road race, there is no better proof that people working together can do better than an individual.
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