Guard Dog Posted August 11, 2016 Author Posted August 11, 2016 Biles might be the best gymnast the US has ever produced. She makes the impossible look easy. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
HoonDing Posted August 11, 2016 Posted August 11, 2016 Hong Un-jong is the younger sister or possibly twin sister of Hong Su-jong. Hong Su-jong had three different birth dates listed for her (1985, 1986, or 1989) at various competitions. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she competed under the 1985 birth date, but the 1989 birth date would have meant that she was too young to compete. In November 2010 Hong Su-jong was banned from all competition out of North Korea for inconsistent age information for two years. North Korea was also banned from all international competition until October 2012 due to this incident, and North Korea could not send any gymnasts to the 2012 Summer Olympics. This chick is in the vault final again. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
Bartimaeus Posted August 12, 2016 Posted August 12, 2016 and that's 22 for phelps maybe he should come back for the 2020 olympics Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Bartimaeus Posted August 12, 2016 Posted August 12, 2016 https://streamable.com/0s9a actually, phelps loses to lochte, apparently Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Gromnir Posted August 12, 2016 Posted August 12, 2016 (edited) https://streamable.com/0s9a actually, phelps loses to lochte, apparently cbs was confused... gonna be fun replaying the miscall. https://twitter.com/netw3rk/status/763922087916339205/photo/1 HA! Good Fun! ps complete unpredictable. https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/simone-manuel-penny-oleksiak-tie-for-gold-in-historic-100-free-final/ congrats to simone manuel. Edited August 12, 2016 by Gromnir "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Meshugger Posted August 12, 2016 Posted August 12, 2016 3 "Some men see things as they are and say why?""I dream things that never were and say why not?"- George Bernard Shaw"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Some guy
Malcador Posted August 12, 2016 Posted August 12, 2016 Damn Oleksiak won a medal. ****ing media here won't shut up about it Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
HoonDing Posted August 12, 2016 Posted August 12, 2016 (edited) Amerika goes to Olympics with 500 athletes and goes away with maybe 100 medals.Then some African poor nations with 5 athletes will swipe 5 athletics medals. Edited August 12, 2016 by HoonDing The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
HoonDing Posted August 12, 2016 Posted August 12, 2016 Trampoline scoring sure is complicated. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
Malcador Posted August 12, 2016 Posted August 12, 2016 Great ****ing Canadians beat France. Damn French let me down again Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Leferd Posted August 13, 2016 Posted August 13, 2016 Absolutely brilliant 10K world record shattering performance by Almaz Ayana of Ethiopia... 29:17.45 --breaking the old record by 14 seconds! The Ethiopians and Kenyans essentially went balls out right from the gun --completely running roughshod over all sensibilities of tactics and energy conservation...and weeding out those not strong enough to keep pace. Gutsy -high risk/high reward strategy. But it worked out for Ayana and I certainly want to see her go all out again and get the double and another WR in the 5K. 1 "Things are funny...are comedic, because they mix the real with the absurd." - Buzz Aldrin."P-O-T-A-T-O-E" - Dan Quayle
Sarex Posted August 13, 2016 Posted August 13, 2016 Good showing in basketball against the US by our guys, gives me hope for the rest of the tournament. 1 "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP
Leferd Posted August 13, 2016 Posted August 13, 2016 Good showing in basketball against the US by our guys, gives me hope for the rest of the tournament. Yeah, me too. I just want to see good basketball. USA's aesthetics are abysmal. "Things are funny...are comedic, because they mix the real with the absurd." - Buzz Aldrin."P-O-T-A-T-O-E" - Dan Quayle
HoonDing Posted August 13, 2016 Posted August 13, 2016 Mike Powell's record will never be broken. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
Meshugger Posted August 13, 2016 Posted August 13, 2016 While i haven't cared at all about basketball since the US "Dream Team" in Barcelona in '92, i have to admit that the Brazil - Argentina game was highly entertaining. "Some men see things as they are and say why?""I dream things that never were and say why not?"- George Bernard Shaw"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Some guy
Sarex Posted August 13, 2016 Posted August 13, 2016 While i haven't cared at all about basketball since the US "Dream Team" in Barcelona in '92, i have to admit that the Brazil - Argentina game was highly entertaining. Had Yugoslavia not fallen apart it would have been truly an interesting game to watch. "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP
HoonDing Posted August 13, 2016 Posted August 13, 2016 They would've lost too. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
Sarex Posted August 13, 2016 Posted August 13, 2016 They would've lost too. Probably, but then again maybe not. Considering that Croatia put up a decent struggle, I think that the full line up would have had a decent chance of taking it. "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP
Gromnir Posted August 13, 2016 Posted August 13, 2016 Amerika goes to Olympics with 500 athletes and goes away with maybe 100 medals. Then some African poor nations with 5 athletes will swipe 5 athletics medals. what a shocking misinterpretation. nigeria and ethiopia gots relative large populations, so one would expect them to actual represent better than they has done. and as for poor... HA! "Less than $15K annually is what about 50% of T&F (Track and Field) athletes who rank in the top 10 in the U.S. This is from all sources: sponsorships, grants, prize money, etc.). Anyone below top 10 ranking in the USA likely has little to no income or funding from their sporting activity." am actual always surprised by how well the US represents at the olympics given just how little the US supports its athletes. it is the sacrifice o' parents, spouses and children that makes it possible for most olympians to forgo a real job and train for olympics. sure, phelps and a handful o' others got lucrative (VERY lucrative) advert and sponsorship contracts, but that just ain't the case for 90% o' our athletes. US motto should be: tinstaafl. US ain't a socialist nation that grooms and supports its athletes. families and communities is responsible for recognizing and supporting our athletes. local church bake sales has done more to send American athletes to the Olympics than has our government. weep for those poor nigerians and ethiopians if you wish, but the typical american olympian won't be able to squeeze out many tears. HA! Good Fun! 2 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
HoonDing Posted August 13, 2016 Posted August 13, 2016 "Probably, but then again maybe not. Considering that Croatia put up a decent struggle, I think that the full line up would have had a decent chance of taking it." Are we talking about playing against '92 Dream Team?Anyone would lose with at least 30 points difference. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI.
Sarex Posted August 13, 2016 Posted August 13, 2016 (edited) Are we talking about playing against '92 Dream Team? Anyone would lose with at least 30 points difference. Yes that one and as I said Yug would have probably lost, but still had a chance at winning. I think that they would have held the score under 10 point difference. It would have come down to strength vs skill, first half of the game we could have even taken the lead but after that the US would have probably had browned it out. In either case, it would have been a final to remember, instead of it just being the period in time when the best NBA player played together and steamrolled everyone. Edited August 13, 2016 by Sarex "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP
Bartimaeus Posted August 13, 2016 Posted August 13, 2016 (edited) snip The United States is actually one of three countries that compete at the Olympics that provides zero - zero - funding for training its Olympians. It does give a small monetary reward for winning golds at $15k, I think it was, but it's a relative pittance, particularly compared to some other countries that give upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars (and smaller reward for winning silvers and bronzes). The U.S. Olympians certainly have other advantages that some poorer countries don't have...but they could easily obtain those same advantages simply by sending their athletes to the U.S. or other Western countries to train (...and some of them do do this). So yeah... Edited August 13, 2016 by Bartimaeus Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Sarex Posted August 13, 2016 Posted August 13, 2016 But the US athletes are only subject to their own Anti-Doping agency and can not be independently tested, or so I heard. So I would image that helps more then any funding or reward. "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP
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