***Official*** 2016 Summer Olympics (1 Viewer)

[Phil Elliott]

heey whose side are you on comrade get with it and support the colors or theres the door take that to the bank brohan 

 

[Phil Elliott]

Cute, the men relay teams do the poses too. 

 

[ffldrew]

you could hear the whooooooossssshhhhh  here

 

[Phil Elliott]

Bolt - amazing. He could have anchored any one of the teams and would have won.

 

[ffldrew]

Started near even and by the end was 10 meters+ in front of everyone

 

[mr. furley]

woweewoweewow... ludicrous speed!

 

[culdeus]

How the #### do you lose to Japan. 

Shut it down. 

 

[Capella]

How the #### do you lose to Japan. 

Shut it down. 

The announcer said pre-race that they were the best at the handoffs. US struggled on the final one and lost by two-tenths. 

Life is often lived in the margins. 

 

[Doctor Detroit]

Oops, Men disqualified.  

 

[mr. furley]

ooooooof

also, wtf media. let these guys have a second to let it soak in. talk to them tomorrow

 

[ffldrew]

That was a tight call

 

[snore]

Oops, Men disqualified.  

Why?  No tv feed.  

 

[SHIZNITTTT]

Passed outside the zone

 

[Phil Elliott]

Those exchanges are a small but huge part of the relay.

 

[snore]

Thanks  

Sucks to lose a medal based on a mechanical (for lack of better term) error.  Good thing the US has plenty of medals to spare I suppose.  

 

[falguy]

We need the bronze more than you do. 

 

[Bob Magaw]

Those exchanges are a small but huge part of the relay.

Didn't the men and/or women, in the 100 and/or 400 relay, have a problem over several Olympics in the '96-'00-'04 time frame, getting DQ'd more than once before?  

It is small if they handle it like I'm sure they do routinely in practice, if they don't in a pressure situation, it is massive and everything (assuming otherwise, based purely on speed, the US historically has fielded very competitive teams).

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

Bolt with 3x gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m

Carl Lewis with 4x gold in the Long Jump, 2x gold in the 100m, 2x gold in the 4x100m, 1 gold and 1 silver in the 200m

Ignore what they did at the Worlds or other meets... who gets your vote?

 

[Capella]

ooooooof

also, wtf media. let these guys have a second to let it soak in. talk to them tomorrow

It's not the media, it's nbc and they paid like 3 billion to show this. They're getting every story. 

 

[Moe.]

Bolt with 3x gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m

Carl Lewis with 4x gold in the Long Jump, 2x gold in the 100m, 2x gold in the 4x100m, 1 gold and 1 silver in the 200m

Ignore what they did at the Worlds or other meets... who gets your vote?

Bolt, no doubt. Only reason he doesn't have any long jump medals is because he never tried. 

 

[Capella]

Bolt without a doubt. Might be one of the 2-3 greatest athletes ever. 

 

[Phil Elliott]

Bolt totally dominates his races and it isn't even close.

 

[Bob Magaw]

One of the track commentators (Boldin?) noted that the margin of victory when he shattered the 100 m. record, when they are usually improved on by small incremental decreases, represented a gap that would typically take 20-30 years to bridge.

Freak. Mutant. Punctuated equilibrium, track style.

 

[CurlyNight]

Those poor athletes that had to compete against Bolt. Bet they're thrilled this is it for him..

 

[Gachi]

US men's sprinters have been somewhat lackluster the last decade or so. 

The biggest reason I keep hearing is track keeps losing athletes to basketball and football. Do you guys agree? 

Gay & Gatlin are all but done, Bromell is young and showing promise but I'm not impressed yet. Putting him on anchor was dumb. 

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

US men's sprinters have been somewhat lackluster the last decade or so. 

The biggest reason I keep hearing is track keeps losing athletes to basketball and football. Do you guys agree? 

Gay & Gatlin are all but done, Bromell is young and showing promise but I'm not impressed yet. Putting him on anchor was dumb. 

Taking over Jamica doesn't seem like it would be that hard...

 

[Penguin]

There's a major changing of the guard coming in the sprints. Bolt, Powell & Blake gone from Jamaica and Gatlin/Gay from the US. Exciting times coming up in the 2020 games (or maybe not) , anyone's guess to who the stars will be. 

 

[Uruk-Hai]

How many Mount Rushmore athletes in their sports did we see in this Olympics? Phelps, Ladecky, and Bolt are no-brainers. Hell, you could make a case that any or all of these three belong on a general all-time Mount Rushmore of Olympic athletes. I realize I'm projecting a little with Katie because she can probably compete in 3 more Olympics if she wants, but she's already accomplished so much across 2 Games and was just so dominant. She's not a lightning-in-a-bottle athlete like Bob Beamon.

The media talks like Biles is one, though I don't know enough about gymnastics and its history to say whether or not that's true. Seems like there's been a bunch of great gymnasts.

Katie Walsh, I guess, since beach v-ball is newer and she's won a ton of metal.

There may be others in disciplines I know nothing about like shooting or diving or weight-lifting. 

 

[Jayrok]

There's a major changing of the guard coming in the sprints. Bolt, Powell & Blake gone from Jamaica and Gatlin/Gay from the US. Exciting times coming up in the 2020 games (or maybe not) , anyone's guess to who the stars will be. 

Canada's Andre De Grasse (age: 21) will be favored to win the 100 and 200m in 2020, imo.   

 

[mr. furley]

It's not the media, it's nbc and they paid like 3 billion to show this. They're getting every story. 

it's true. but it sucks. ####. i'd hate to have been Lewis there. shoving a mic in someone's face in that situation is Jim Gray's job.

 

[Ned]

it's true. but it sucks. ####. i'd hate to have been Lewis there. shoving a mic in someone's face in that situation is Jim Gray's job.

Tyson Gay was ready to punch someone in the face. 

 

[Capella]

it's true. but it sucks. ####. i'd hate to have been Lewis there. shoving a mic in someone's face in that situation is Jim Gray's job.

It sucks for those guys but it's also compelling tv. 

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

Are you guys under the impression that the athletes don't like the media attention they get at the Olympics? It's not like they get much the rest of the time.

 

[otb_lifer]

Tyson Gay was ready to punch someone in the face. 

maybe he needs to punch himself and his teammates in the face for blowing a third straight Olympics due to baton infractions ('08, '16) and doping ('12)

 

[Steve Tasker]

Pretty cool to see the American woman triathlete cross the finish line for a gold and immediately break down crying.  Raw emotion.

 

[Gachi]

maybe he needs to punch himself and his teammates in the face for blowing a third straight Olympics due to baton infractions ('08, '16) and doping ('12)

The same thing happened at the 2015 world championships too. OOF.

 

[TenTimes]

Pretty cool to see the American woman triathlete cross the finish line for a gold and immediately break down crying.  Raw emotion.

Did you see the men's 400M final the other day? Puerto Rican runner who was one of the favorites false starts (DQ'd) and almost immedietly breaks down. Can't imagine. 4 years leading up to this moment and then you don't even get to run. 

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

Yeah, I understand why they went zero tolerance on false starts, but it still seems pretty awful to end someone's Olympics like that.

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[Steve Tasker]

Women's vb match for the bronze is awesome right now.

 

[otb_lifer]

Can't imagine. 4 years leading up to this moment and then you don't even get to run. 

... and this is why Frenchie plugged his disgraced dirt duct so he could finish his walking race

 

[culdeus]

Yeah, I understand why they went zero tolerance on false starts, but it still seems pretty awful to end someone's Olympics like that.

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Need to give you a second shot in the final imo. Or make it a yellow red card thing. Get two false starts for the whole event. 

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Pretty cool to see the American woman triathlete cross the finish line for a gold and immediately break down crying.  Raw emotion.

 Her name is Gwen Jorgensen.  (Such a quintessential Minnesotan name.)  She was on track for a medal in London but got a flat tire on her bike and finished way back in the pack.  

 

[Capella]

I wonder if the women's basketball team will lose again in our lifetimes. 

 

[mr. furley]

there was mountain biking on earlier! that #### looked intense. 

 

[Uruk-Hai]

I wonder if the women's basketball team will lose again in our lifetimes. 

The US women are probably about where the men would have been in 1980 or 1984 in comparison to the rest of the world if the pros were allowed to play. 

 

[otb_lifer]

I wonder if the women's basketball team will lose again in our lifetimes. 

The US women are probably about where the men would have been in 1980 or 1984 in comparison to the rest of the world if the pros were allowed to play. 

the men will lose a game before the women will

i'd bet serious coin on that 

 

[Moe.]

So would everyone else.

 

[otb_lifer]

So would everyone else.

i'm not talking a $5 pinkie bet with some dweeb in the office, guy

 

[Moe.]

Are you one of those guys who takes huge favorites on the money line? 

Men's water polo should be fun. Always a good time when the Serbs and Croats get together. 

 

[Uruk-Hai]

the men will lose a game before the women will

i'd bet serious coin on that 

Well, yeah. 

I was trying to put the ladies team today vs the world in contrast to where the world may have been against the men.

The Dream Team was great, but the world was already starting - slowly - to catch up by '92.

In, say, 1976 - had NBA players been eligible - they'd have won every game by 80 points.