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2020 (now 2021) Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Closing ceremonies 8/8 | USA finishes with most gold, silver, bronze AND overall medals (3 Viewers)

culdeus said:
I wonder what the flipside of this is. What individual sport can you waste the most time doing?
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Has to be one of these races that bring in 24 racers, then whittle it down to 16 and then 8. If you’re one of those first 8 gone it’s over in less than a minute. 

 
Capella said:
Has to be one of these races that bring in 24 racers, then whittle it down to 16 and then 8. If you’re one of those first 8 gone it’s over in less than a minute. 
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Yeah didn't think this thru. I suppose there are two categories. Number of days spent competing by schedule.  And then actual time in the event.  Actual time in the event as a solo athlete might be golf?

 
Capella said:
Just watching this prelim heat for the 400M hurdles and it’s so wild to me that there is somebody who worked his whole life to qualify, then went to the Olympics, did all that prep work and then came in 8th place in the heat and it’s over in 50 seconds in front of zero people. Then go right back home. 
 

I don’t have a point here, was just watching some guy in the hurdles finish last like 6 seconds behind the winner and was like damn that’s rough. 
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Do they have to go right back home? I always assumed those dudes were there for the orgies.  This year is a little different I guess. 
 

 
CletiusMaximus said:
Do they have to go right back home? I always assumed those dudes were there for the orgies.  This year is a little different I guess. 
 
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I believe they do go right back home. There was a photo circulating of a woman who won silver recently from a small country. The photo was like 2 or 3 days later of her and her family eating dinner while sitting on the floor of their tiny house. So she went from Tokyo and the glitz and glammed of the Olympics right back to her very humble life. The photo is a bit jarring due to the contrast. World stage to tiny humble life in essential annonymity.

 
GroveDiesel said:
I believe they do go right back home. There was a photo circulating of a woman who won silver recently from a small country. The photo was like 2 or 3 days later of her and her family eating dinner while sitting on the floor of their tiny house. So she went from Tokyo and the glitz and glammed of the Olympics right back to her very humble life. The photo is a bit jarring due to the contrast. World stage to tiny humble life in essential annonymity.
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Just FYI, there's some dispute on the validity of the pic.  

 
Doug B said:
I wonder how that works out strategically?

Did it look like teams tended to have women doing the same swims? IOW, were the backstroke and breaststroke generally all women, then the butterfly and freestyle all men? I assume the anchors were all the fastest freestyle men available to each team.
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The breaststroke seems to be always men, and the freestyle seems to be always women.  The other two vary more.  The strategy is what I find interesting.  Well, that and the fact that at any time in the race, it's hard as a casual viewer to know who might win.

 
CletiusMaximus said:
Do they have to go right back home? I always assumed those dudes were there for the orgies.  This year is a little different I guess. 
 
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I heard them say athletes must leave within 48 hours of their last event. 
Haven’t heard anything about the orgies and the stock piles of thousands of condoms given away this time. 

 
krista4 said:
The breaststroke seems to be always men, and the freestyle seems to be always women.  The other two vary more.  The strategy is what I find interesting.  Well, that and the fact that at any time in the race, it's hard as a casual viewer to know who might win.
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Are they allowed to alter their order?  That would be interesting if they could do that - although I guess backstroke would still have to go first.

 
Track and field underway - my favorite "big" sport!  :popcorn:

In 1984, I went to the Olympics with my dad, stepmother and brother (and we redid this trip in Atlanta in 1996), and during some of the track events we were seated right in front of the mom and dad of Carl Lewis.  Such sweet people and solidified this being my favorite part of the competition.  

 
krista4 said:
Track and field underway - my favorite "big" sport!  :popcorn:

In 1984, I went to the Olympics with my dad, stepmother and brother (and we redid this trip in Atlanta in 1996), and during some of the track events we were seated right in front of the mom and dad of Carl Lewis.  Such sweet people and solidified this being my favorite part of the competition.  
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Interesting that his parents were sweet people, because Carl was definitely not.

 
El Floppo said:
Running, biking and then swimming?

I don't know what this is, and I used to do triathlons.
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Swim/bike/run, but this was a relay with 2 men & 2 women each doing a short version of each.  Not sure on the distances vs the "full" triathlon from earlier in the week.

 
This is the year of the "mixed relay" apparently. Swimming, triathlon, and also a 4x100 in track & field I think.

 
heckmanm said:
Swim/bike/run, but this was a relay with 2 men & 2 women each doing a short version of each.  Not sure on the distances vs the "full" triathlon from earlier in the week.
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Are they each doing the full 3 events and then passing the baton to the next racer, or doing individual events?

 
Here comes judgey Nick. The Olympic ha e revealed that the American sofa game is at an all time low. Every time they cut to one of the families they are sitting on these god awful sectional monstrosities.  With all the makeover tv shows that are all the rage you think there would be a little more style. Sad. 

 
The12 year old had a good Q

Why do they have judges standing on every lane watching the swimmers finish? Every lane has a touch pad.

 
krista4 said:
Doug B said:
I wonder how that works out strategically?

Did it look like teams tended to have women doing the same swims? IOW, were the backstroke and breaststroke generally all women, then the butterfly and freestyle all men? I assume the anchors were all the fastest freestyle men available to each team.
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The breaststroke seems to be always men, and the freestyle seems to be always women.  The other two vary more.  The strategy is what I find interesting.  Well, that and the fact that at any time in the race, it's hard as a casual viewer to know who might win.
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Now seeing that the US is the only one to do this differently, with the freestyle being by Dressel.

 
krista4 said:
krista4 said:
23 hours ago, Doug B said:
I wonder how that works out strategically?

Did it look like teams tended to have women doing the same swims? IOW, were the backstroke and breaststroke generally all women, then the butterfly and freestyle all men? I assume the anchors were all the fastest freestyle men available to each team.
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The breaststroke seems to be always men, and the freestyle seems to be always women.  The other two vary more.  The strategy is what I find interesting.  Well, that and the fact that at any time in the race, it's hard as a casual viewer to know who might win.
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Now seeing that the US is the only one to do this differently, with the freestyle being by Dressel.
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Yeah, that didn't work out so well for the US.

 
Steve Tasker said:
US women collapsing in team sabre, down 29-21 with Zagunis already having fenced twice.   Disaster.
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France slaughters the US, and the women's sabre team goes out with a whimper.  Mariel Zagunis, the US Olympic legend, the anchor, goes down fighting in what is likely her last moment on the international stage.  The entire French team comes onto the piste to salute her, in a moment of pure class.  What the Olympics are all about.

 
Archery right now is crazy.  The Korean guy got nine straight 10s in the three sets, while his heart rate is 70something BPM.  

For comparison, his opponent is at 120 BPM, which is actually not too bad in this event.

ETA:  The two US guys had BPM ranging from 120 to 150!

 
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BobbyLayne said:
The12 year old had a good Q

Why do they have judges standing on every lane watching the swimmers finish? Every lane has a touch pad.
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Something I can answer!  My son swam in HS and I got to be one of those folks timing the lanes.  Pretty much any swim event at the HS and above level will have touchpads but as someone said, they can sometimes fail.  The timers job is to make sure the swimmer touches and then you press the “plunger”.  Typically the timers are not also judges for infractions but rather there’s other judges for that - at least at the meets I’ve worked at.

And for any of you parents thinking of letting your kids do swim - sign up to be a timer!  It’s fun to be down there and interact with the kids but it’s also a much better than sitting in the stands for hours waiting on your kid to swim.  Pro tip - wear shoes you don’t mind getting wet.

 
krista4 said:
Now seeing that the US is the only one to do this differently, with the freestyle being by Dressel.
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Yeah, it's tempting to think that if the mixed medley had been held in the recent past, Michael Phelps would be a no-brainer for the anchor leg.

But then you think some more -- perhaps his time advantage in another stroke is greater? Kind of like in baseball ... sometimes you ask a good slugger to bat lead-off if they also draw a lot of walks.

 
AAABatteries said:
Something I can answer!  My son swam in HS and I got to be one of those folks timing the lanes.  Pretty much any swim event at the HS and above level will have touchpads but as someone said, they can sometimes fail.  The timers job is to make sure the swimmer touches and then you press the “plunger”.  Typically the timers are not also judges for infractions but rather there’s other judges for that - at least at the meets I’ve worked at.

And for any of you parents thinking of letting your kids do swim - sign up to be a timer!  It’s fun to be down there and interact with the kids but it’s also a much better than sitting in the stands for hours waiting on your kid to swim.  Pro tip - wear shoes you don’t mind getting wet.
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My kid loves swimming. We do it every day. Only 3 and can swim the whole length of the pool, doesn’t wear any flotation device. And we live in a state that produces like half the swim team lol. I could definitely see meets in my future. 

 
Capella said:
My kid loves swimming. We do it every day. Only 3 and can swim the whole length of the pool, doesn’t wear any flotation device. And we live in a state that produces like half the swim team lol. I could definitely see meets in my future. 
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I’ll be honest - they are brutal spectator events unless you really like swimming.  My oldest daughter also swam some so we’ve attended a decent amount of them.  2-4 hours and your kid may swim for 5 minutes.  Make sure you bring plenty of stuff to keep your entertained- if I wasn’t timing I would bring my laptop and work or a book to read.  

 
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