***Paris 2024 Summer Olympics: July 26-August 11*** USA dominates medal count; Finish tied w/ China for most golds - See ya in Milan 2026! (1 Viewer)

[bigbottom]

Maybe this is the US Basketball's attempt and letting Diana say goodbye to the world and for her fans to celebrate her accomplishments one final time on the biggest stage? The team is going to win either way and I would have enjoyed seeing Clark but she will have her day. I think we ALL need a moment to appreciate what Tsurasi has meant to women's hoops. She's one of the best to ever play and has done it for a long long time. She's owed a proper goodbye.

I guess? I’d prefer that her swan song be in the WNBA as opposed to playing poorly or riding the bench in her sixth Olympics, but I’m probably not the target audience. I’m just noting how the narrative has changed. I use to hear that the selection of the team was all about winning and putting the most competitive and experienced team out there to win. And now it’s let’s give Taurasi a curtain call even though her teammates are running circles around her.

 

[NewlyRetired]

7 guys within 0.1 second

The VAR officials in soccer would be having a coronary

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GUKhvMtXoAA8IzN?format=jpg&name=large

 

[bigbottom]

Okay, I know I’m beating a dead horse, but I think it’s worth pointing out that Diana Taurasi’s stat line through three games is 2 points and 2 assists. That’s aggregate, not average. And it’s not like she’s been stuck on the bench. She was in the starting lineup for all three games I believe, with over 14 mins of playing time in each of the first two games, but ultimately sitting for most of today’s win against Germany.

I don’t know, maybe her leadership on the court was a major contributor (I only watched bits and pieces), but her +/- in the last two games against Belgium and Germany was -4 and -7 (which is pretty crazy in double digit wins). The argument that the committee simply selected the best 12 players continues to lose credibility.

Taurasi is the GOAT of women’s basketball. There was no way they weren't inviting her.

The question is: would true leadership have been for her to turn down the invite and say it was the time for a young player to get their chance and experience of representing their country?

I would say that keeping rookies off the squad is one way for Taurasi to protect her record for consecutive Olympics women’s basketball teams.

So Taurasi was a legacy pick. I get it. Then just say so. Don’t say it’s all about selecting the best basketball players.

And this was the predictable result:
https://www.outkick.com/sports/team-usa-womens-basketball-olympics-lowest-attendance-caitlin-clark

Of course, there was a packed house for the USA Belgium game. But that’s because it was neighboring Belgium fans packing the house.

My recollection is the committee chair was pretty open about the process and said they looked at international experience, leadership, experience with the national team coaches and similar team-based factors. I don't remember her claiming to have picked the 12 best players in a vacuum. I remember some tweets and such where she said the committee was not asked to consider marketability, tv viewership and the like and she talked about how they tried to stick to the process they were tasked with.

Fair enough. But that process saddled them with a 42 year old legacy pick who appears to have contributed little to nothing on the floor despite being in the starting lineup for the first three games. And as pollars has noted, she probably won’t see the court much from here on out.

The process is definitely "political" as they say and open to criticism. There's a feeling of an old-girls club, which is the only reason that Ogunbowale will likely never play for the US team which is a terrible shame. I think that comes in part with hubris that results from near-unchallenged success over the past 30 years. The US women have won the past 7 gold medals and 9 of the last 10 going back to 1984.

Got it. And I can see how political decisions like this are made in this context. I guess what irked me was the repeated claims that it wasn’t political or about considerations other than putting the best team on the court.

And I agree about Ogunbawale. She was so fun to watch in the All-Star game. I guess she passed because of past Olympic snubs?

 

[bigbottom]

7 guys within 0.1 second

The VAR officials in soccer would be having a coronary

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GUKhvMtXoAA8IzN?format=jpg&name=large

From that view it looks like our guy’s torso will cross first.

Another view: https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/a...mens-100m-gold-narrowest-margin-olympic-final

 

[Capella]

So what's going on with these female boxers, one from Taiwan and another from Algeria? Are they dudes who switched sides or what?

Come on man..

 

[heckmanm]

7 guys within 0.1 second

The VAR officials in soccer would be having a coronary

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GUKhvMtXoAA8IzN?format=jpg&name=large

Jamaican is offside

 

[johnnycakes]

So what's going on with these female boxers, one from Taiwan and another from Algeria? Are they dudes who switched sides or what?

Come on man..

Whatchoo mean, "come on man"?? I have seen enough headlines about this that I'm not the only one wondering what's going on. And, yeah, I've seen the stories that both boxers passed whatever medical tests to certify them as female. What does that mean, exactly?

 

[the moops]

So what's going on with these female boxers, one from Taiwan and another from Algeria? Are they dudes who switched sides or what?

Come on man..

Whatchoo mean, "come on man"?? I have seen enough headlines about this that I'm not the only one wondering what's going on. And, yeah, I've seen the stories that both boxers passed whatever medical tests to certify them as female. What does that mean, exactly?

Read the article, not just the headline

 

[johnnycakes]

So what's going on with these female boxers, one from Taiwan and another from Algeria? Are they dudes who switched sides or what?

Come on man..

Whatchoo mean, "come on man"?? I have seen enough headlines about this that I'm not the only one wondering what's going on. And, yeah, I've seen the stories that both boxers passed whatever medical tests to certify them as female. What does that mean, exactly?

Read the article, not just the headline

I see you don't know any more about it than I do.

 

[CletiusMaximus]

So what's going on with these female boxers, one from Taiwan and another from Algeria? Are they dudes who switched sides or what?

Come on man..

Whatchoo mean, "come on man"?? I have seen enough headlines about this that I'm not the only one wondering what's going on. And, yeah, I've seen the stories that both boxers passed whatever medical tests to certify them as female. What does that mean, exactly?

I don't think either had to pass a test. The IOC goes by gender designation on the athlete's passport and both are designated female.

 

[Yo Mama]

So what's going on with these female boxers, one from Taiwan and another from Algeria? Are they dudes who switched sides or what?

Come on man..

Whatchoo mean, "come on man"?? I have seen enough headlines about this that I'm not the only one wondering what's going on. And, yeah, I've seen the stories that both boxers passed whatever medical tests to certify them as female. What does that mean, exactly?

Those headlines have been discussed and debunked upthread already. [Redacting any culture war commentary that may potentially offend]

 

[bigbottom]

So what's going on with these female boxers, one from Taiwan and another from Algeria? Are they dudes who switched sides or what?

Come on man..

Whatchoo mean, "come on man"?? I have seen enough headlines about this that I'm not the only one wondering what's going on. And, yeah, I've seen the stories that both boxers passed whatever medical tests to certify them as female. What does that mean, exactly?

Read the article, not just the headline

I see you don't know any more about it than I do.

It is an issue that has blown up into a culture wars controversy that borders on political debate that is frowned upon here. If you are interested in learning about the issue, I’d propose that you find articles from sources you trust.

 

[johnnycakes]

So what's going on with these female boxers, one from Taiwan and another from Algeria? Are they dudes who switched sides or what?

Come on man..

Whatchoo mean, "come on man"?? I have seen enough headlines about this that I'm not the only one wondering what's going on. And, yeah, I've seen the stories that both boxers passed whatever medical tests to certify them as female. What does that mean, exactly?

Those headlines have been discussed and debunked upthread already. The stories were pushed by those who wanted to use them for their anti-trans agendas. Any reputable source that unfortunately jumped into that “news” cycle have come out with explicit apologies and retractions. That’s what (I assume) he means.

That's the best explanation I have heard so far. That said, I'm not wading through pages and pages of thread to see how it was already debunked.

 

[the moops]

So what's going on with these female boxers, one from Taiwan and another from Algeria? Are they dudes who switched sides or what?

Come on man..

Whatchoo mean, "come on man"?? I have seen enough headlines about this that I'm not the only one wondering what's going on. And, yeah, I've seen the stories that both boxers passed whatever medical tests to certify them as female. What does that mean, exactly?

Those headlines have been discussed and debunked upthread already. The stories were pushed by those who wanted to use them for their anti-trans agendas. Any reputable source that unfortunately jumped into that “news” cycle have come out with explicit apologies and retractions. That’s what (I assume) he means.

That's the best explanation I have heard so far. That said, I'm not wading through pages and pages of thread to see how it was already debunked.

Then go read about it. The convo is not going to fly here, so like bigbottom said go to your trusted source and read about it

 

[General Malaise]

Maybe this is the US Basketball's attempt and letting Diana say goodbye to the world and for her fans to celebrate her accomplishments one final time on the biggest stage? The team is going to win either way and I would have enjoyed seeing Clark but she will have her day. I think we ALL need a moment to appreciate what Tsurasi has meant to women's hoops. She's one of the best to ever play and has done it for a long long time. She's owed a proper goodbye.

I guess? I’d prefer that her swan song be in the WNBA as opposed to playing poorly or riding the bench in her sixth Olympics, but I’m probably not the target audience. I’m just noting how the narrative has changed. I use to hear that the selection of the team was all about winning and putting the most competitive and experienced team out there to win. And now it’s let’s give Taurasi a curtain call even though her teammates are running circles around her.

I'm just spit balling. Clark would have created more buzz for sure. Also, think maybe this stage is bigger than anything the WNBA could ever muster, even with the Caitlin impact on game ratings. People eat story lines up the Olymics and NBC is good at putting that on spoons. Maybe.....I dunno. Go USA.

 

[johnnycakes]

So what's going on with these female boxers, one from Taiwan and another from Algeria? Are they dudes who switched sides or what?

Come on man..

Whatchoo mean, "come on man"?? I have seen enough headlines about this that I'm not the only one wondering what's going on. And, yeah, I've seen the stories that both boxers passed whatever medical tests to certify them as female. What does that mean, exactly?

Those headlines have been discussed and debunked upthread already. The stories were pushed by those who wanted to use them for their anti-trans agendas. Any reputable source that unfortunately jumped into that “news” cycle have come out with explicit apologies and retractions. That’s what (I assume) he means.

That's the best explanation I have heard so far. That said, I'm not wading through pages and pages of thread to see how it was already debunked.

Then go read about it. The convo is not going to fly here, so like bigbottom said go to your trusted source and read about it

OK, I went to The Athletic, which I regard as a trusted source. What I found:

"Two boxers, Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan, were approved to fight in women’s divisions at the Paris Games under guidance that relied in part on their passports and a medical clearance to determine they could compete."

"However, they were disqualified from the 2023 World Championships because the governing body for the event, the International Boxing Association (IBA), said the women had failed a test given late in the tournament that it said showed the boxers had “competitive advantages over other female competitors.”"

"Khelif, 25, and Lin, 28, were cleared to compete at the Olympics on Monday. In a statement at the time, the IOC said it was following rules established by the Paris Boxing Unit, an ad-hoc unit used to organize the tournament for this Olympics.

The rules include medical regulations and guidelines for how boxers are identified. “As with previous Olympic boxing competitions, the gender and age of the athletes are based on their passport,” the IOC said in its statement on Thursday."

Sorry if this has been previously rehashed, but I have read the articles and I still think there is a legitimate question as to these boxers genders.

I'm not debating this anymore... the decision has been made. But it seems to me like you all swallow whatever the IOC says, hook, line and sinker.

 

[BlackCrowes]

Congrats Faulkner! Gold in women’s road race

 

[bigbottom]

Maybe this is the US Basketball's attempt and letting Diana say goodbye to the world and for her fans to celebrate her accomplishments one final time on the biggest stage? The team is going to win either way and I would have enjoyed seeing Clark but she will have her day. I think we ALL need a moment to appreciate what Tsurasi has meant to women's hoops. She's one of the best to ever play and has done it for a long long time. She's owed a proper goodbye.

I guess? I’d prefer that her swan song be in the WNBA as opposed to playing poorly or riding the bench in her sixth Olympics, but I’m probably not the target audience. I’m just noting how the narrative has changed. I use to hear that the selection of the team was all about winning and putting the most competitive and experienced team out there to win. And now it’s let’s give Taurasi a curtain call even though her teammates are running circles around her.

I'm just spit balling. Clark would have created more buzz for sure. Also, think maybe this stage is bigger than anything the WNBA could ever muster, even with the Caitlin impact on game ratings. People eat story lines up the Olymics and NBC is good at putting that on spoons. Maybe.....I dunno. Go USA.

It seems to me that NBC has sort of been burying the women’s team coverage thus far. And pretty astounding that the USA opening game had the lowest attendance of any of the opening matches. I’d be curious to know what ratings have been like this far. But now we’re getting into the games that will matter - hopefully they get a bunch of positive coverage and increased eyeballs.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

The high jumper from Ukraine is stunning - and a gold medal winner!

Really effortless. Seemed fairly clearly she was going to win early in the day.

 

[bigbottom]

The high jumper from Ukraine is stunning - and a gold medal winner!

Really effortless. Seemed fairly clearly she was going to win early in the day.

Really? I thought the Aussie had every bit as good a shot of winning. Until that last round that is.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

The high jumper from Ukraine is stunning - and a gold medal winner!

Really effortless. Seemed fairly clearly she was going to win early in the day.

Really? I thought the Aussie had every bit as good a shot of winning.

As a trained expert in the high jump who might watch it once every 4 years, just looked to me like the Ukrainian was getting better clearance consistently and had more fluid body control. I agree that the Aussie looked good and wouldn’t have been totally surprised if she had won, just was more impressed by the Ukrainian.

 

[the moops]

But it seems to me like you all swallow whatever the IOC says, hook, line and sinker.

Yes. They made their decision and that is who is competing.

 

[bigbottom]

The high jumper from Ukraine is stunning - and a gold medal winner!

Really effortless. Seemed fairly clearly she was going to win early in the day.

Really? I thought the Aussie had every bit as good a shot of winning.

As a trained expert in the high jump who might watch it once every 4 years, just looked to me like the Ukrainian was getting better clearance consistently and had more fluid body control. I agree that the Aussie looked good and wouldn’t have been totally surprised if she had won, just was more impressed by the Ukrainian.

Ha ha. I defer to your superior expertise good sir!

 

[General Malaise]

I think I'll be happy when the next games are on PT!

 

[GregR]

What's next?

 

[bigbottom]

What's next?

I kinda like Salty Simone. She also threw a little shade toward her former teammate after the women won team gold.

2024 Olympics: Simone Biles Seemingly Throws Shade at MyKayla Skinner's Controversial Comments - E! Online

After Simone Biles' Paris Olympics gold medal win, she seemingly threw shade at former teammate MyKayla Skinner for previously saying that gymnasts "don't work as hard" these days.

www.eonline.com

 

[CletiusMaximus]

snake shot in the table tennis final wins a point - https://twitter.com/i/status/1820124466112078251

 

[WDIK2]

The high jumper from Ukraine is stunning - and a gold medal winner!

Really effortless. Seemed fairly clearly she was going to win early in the day.

Really? I thought the Aussie had every bit as good a shot of winning. Until that last round that is.

I don't think they showed the Aussie's earlier misses. At least not in the coverage I was watching earlier. She had at least one miss at a lower height before she failed 3x on the last. The jumper from Ukraine cleared them all easily. Pretty sure sure took a dive on the attempt after locking up gold since she already had the WR.

 

[bigbottom]

The high jumper from Ukraine is stunning - and a gold medal winner!

Really effortless. Seemed fairly clearly she was going to win early in the day.

Really? I thought the Aussie had every bit as good a shot of winning. Until that last round that is.

I don't think they showed all of the Aussie's misses. At least not in the coverage I was watching earlier. She had at least one miss at a lower height before she failed 3x on the last. The jumper from Ukraine cleared them all easily. Pretty sure sure took a dive on the attempt after locking up gold since she already had the WR.

That would be super classy.

 

[Yo Mama]

The high jumper from Ukraine is stunning - and a gold medal winner!

Really effortless. Seemed fairly clearly she was going to win early in the day.

Really? I thought the Aussie had every bit as good a shot of winning. Until that last round that is.

I don't think they showed the Aussie's earlier misses. At least not in the coverage I was watching earlier. She had at least one miss at a lower height before she failed 3x on the last. The jumper from Ukraine cleared them all easily. Pretty sure sure took a dive on the attempt after locking up gold since she already had the WR.

I think after locking up the gold, she had the bar raised to what would have been the Olympic record for one try. She didn’t need to do any more jumps but wanted to give it one shot. That was her only miss. The announcers didn’t do a good job of explaining it.

 

[Yo Mama]

Listen to me, the expert with one year of high-jumping at a HS JV level.

 

[3C's]

Dear NBC,Steve Kornacki's 15 minutes are up. Enough already.

 

[Coach Beard]

Maybe this is the US Basketball's attempt and letting Diana say goodbye to the world and for her fans to celebrate her accomplishments one final time on the biggest stage? The team is going to win either way and I would have enjoyed seeing Clark but she will have her day. I think we ALL need a moment to appreciate what Tsurasi has meant to women's hoops. She's one of the best to ever play and has done it for a long long time. She's owed a proper goodbye.

I guess? I’d prefer that her swan song be in the WNBA as opposed to playing poorly or riding the bench in her sixth Olympics, but I’m probably not the target audience. I’m just noting how the narrative has changed. I use to hear that the selection of the team was all about winning and putting the most competitive and experienced team out there to win. And now it’s let’s give Taurasi a curtain call even though her teammates are running circles around her.

I'm just spit balling. Clark would have created more buzz for sure. Also, think maybe this stage is bigger than anything the WNBA could ever muster, even with the Caitlin impact on game ratings. People eat story lines up the Olymics and NBC is good at putting that on spoons. Maybe.....I dunno. Go USA.

It seems to me that NBC has sort of been burying the women’s team coverage thus far. And pretty astounding that the USA opening game had the lowest attendance of any of the opening matches. I’d be curious to know what ratings have been like this far. But now we’re getting into the games that will matter - hopefully they get a bunch of positive coverage and increased eyeballs.

The low attendance of the first USA game was because it started so late local time. The basketball group stage games weren’t in Paris - they were in Lille, which is about an hour and a half by express train and can be up to 2.5 hours. The games starting at 8:00pm Lille time finished too late to get a train back to Paris. That affected attendance of all the late games unless France or Belgium was playing - Lille is really close to the Belgium border, it’s closer to Brussels than to Paris.

The USA-Japan game that had that gate of 13K drew a USA TV audience of 3 million, which would be a top 5 all time rating for a WNBA game. For a midweek midday game that NBC didn’t really promote it was a big number, not far off the promoted-for-months WNBA All-Star Game, which had an audience of 3.4 million. Haven’t seen the TV numbers for the other womens basketball games.

If the goal was popping the biggest possible TV rating while maintaining integrity of the sport, USAB would have scratched the three lowest Q rating players (probably Jewell Loyd, Kahleah Copper, and Jackie Young) and taken Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and Paige Bueckers instead. Would have drawn at least twice the TV audience without playing a close game.

Or, take that young trio over no-longer-elite Taurasi and probably-a-DNP-injured-if-not-Olympics Gray and Collier, and USA’s MOV is several points higher while still drawing the giant TV rating.

 

[bigbottom]

Maybe this is the US Basketball's attempt and letting Diana say goodbye to the world and for her fans to celebrate her accomplishments one final time on the biggest stage? The team is going to win either way and I would have enjoyed seeing Clark but she will have her day. I think we ALL need a moment to appreciate what Tsurasi has meant to women's hoops. She's one of the best to ever play and has done it for a long long time. She's owed a proper goodbye.

I guess? I’d prefer that her swan song be in the WNBA as opposed to playing poorly or riding the bench in her sixth Olympics, but I’m probably not the target audience. I’m just noting how the narrative has changed. I use to hear that the selection of the team was all about winning and putting the most competitive and experienced team out there to win. And now it’s let’s give Taurasi a curtain call even though her teammates are running circles around her.

I'm just spit balling. Clark would have created more buzz for sure. Also, think maybe this stage is bigger than anything the WNBA could ever muster, even with the Caitlin impact on game ratings. People eat story lines up the Olymics and NBC is good at putting that on spoons. Maybe.....I dunno. Go USA.

It seems to me that NBC has sort of been burying the women’s team coverage thus far. And pretty astounding that the USA opening game had the lowest attendance of any of the opening matches. I’d be curious to know what ratings have been like this far. But now we’re getting into the games that will matter - hopefully they get a bunch of positive coverage and increased eyeballs.

The low attendance of the first USA game was because it started so late local time. The basketball group stage games weren’t in Paris - they were in Lille, which is about an hour and a half by express train and can be up to 2.5 hours. The games starting at 8:00pm Lille time finished too late to get a train back to Paris. That affected attendance of all the late games unless France or Belgium was playing - Lille is really close to the Belgium border, it’s closer to Brussels than to Paris.

The USA-Japan game that had that gate of 13K drew a USA TV audience of 3 million, which would be a top 5 all time rating for a WNBA game. For a midweek midday game that NBC didn’t really promote it was a big number, not far off the promoted-for-months WNBA All-Star Game, which had an audience of 3.4 million. Haven’t seen the TV numbers for the other womens basketball games.

If the goal was popping the biggest possible TV rating while maintaining integrity of the sport, USAB would have scratched the three lowest Q rating players (probably Jewell Loyd, Kahleah Copper, and Jackie Young) and taken Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and Paige Bueckers instead. Would have drawn at least twice the TV audience without playing a close game.

Or, take that young trio over no-longer-elite Taurasi and probably-a-DNP-injured-if-not-Olympics Gray and Collier, and USA’s MOV is several points higher while still drawing the giant TV rating.

Whoa, that is a level of knowledge and analysis I can only aspire to. Respect!

 

[FreeBaGeL]

So China won the Medley relay with 2 guys that had their medals stripped from the Tokyo games for doping? Why do they let them compete again?

 

[3C's]

Maybe this is the US Basketball's attempt and letting Diana say goodbye to the world and for her fans to celebrate her accomplishments one final time on the biggest stage? The team is going to win either way and I would have enjoyed seeing Clark but she will have her day. I think we ALL need a moment to appreciate what Tsurasi has meant to women's hoops. She's one of the best to ever play and has done it for a long long time. She's owed a proper goodbye.

I guess? I’d prefer that her swan song be in the WNBA as opposed to playing poorly or riding the bench in her sixth Olympics, but I’m probably not the target audience. I’m just noting how the narrative has changed. I use to hear that the selection of the team was all about winning and putting the most competitive and experienced team out there to win. And now it’s let’s give Taurasi a curtain call even though her teammates are running circles around her.

I'm just spit balling. Clark would have created more buzz for sure. Also, think maybe this stage is bigger than anything the WNBA could ever muster, even with the Caitlin impact on game ratings. People eat story lines up the Olymics and NBC is good at putting that on spoons. Maybe.....I dunno. Go USA.

It seems to me that NBC has sort of been burying the women’s team coverage thus far. And pretty astounding that the USA opening game had the lowest attendance of any of the opening matches. I’d be curious to know what ratings have been like this far. But now we’re getting into the games that will matter - hopefully they get a bunch of positive coverage and increased eyeballs.

The low attendance of the first USA game was because it started so late local time. The basketball group stage games weren’t in Paris - they were in Lille, which is about an hour and a half by express train and can be up to 2.5 hours. The games starting at 8:00pm Lille time finished too late to get a train back to Paris. That affected attendance of all the late games unless France or Belgium was playing - Lille is really close to the Belgium border, it’s closer to Brussels than to Paris.

The USA-Japan game that had that gate of 13K drew a USA TV audience of 3 million, which would be a top 5 all time rating for a WNBA game. For a midweek midday game that NBC didn’t really promote it was a big number, not far off the promoted-for-months WNBA All-Star Game, which had an audience of 3.4 million. Haven’t seen the TV numbers for the other womens basketball games.

If the goal was popping the biggest possible TV rating while maintaining integrity of the sport, USAB would have scratched the three lowest Q rating players (probably Jewell Loyd, Kahleah Copper, and Jackie Young) and taken Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and Paige Bueckers instead. Would have drawn at least twice the TV audience without playing a close game.

Or, take that young trio over no-longer-elite Taurasi and probably-a-DNP-injured-if-not-Olympics Gray and Collier, and USA’s MOV is several points higher while still drawing the giant TV rating.

Whoa, that is a level of knowledge and analysis I can only aspire to. Respect!

Coach Beard was always the brains behind the operation.

 

[3C's]

Bike road racing in the countryside outside Paris looks great. All the team cars and other motorized support vehicles looks like chaos.

 

[belljr]

Listen, I know they are really good at their sport but watching the badminton guys warm up, jumping around with the little racquets looks ridiculous and amused me

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Women’s kayak cross is kind of crazy

Was watching the BMX the other day, and thinking while it was ok, the snowboarding from the Winter Olympics that is the similar format is so much more interesting to watch for me.

Kayak is kind of cool too, yeah.

We love snow cross. It's just excellent.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Dear NBC,Steve Kornacki's 15 minutes are up. Enough already.

Oh, god, yes. Make it stop. The language filter makes it impossible to say how I feel.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

So what's going on with these female boxers, one from Taiwan and another from Algeria? Are they dudes who switched sides or what?

Come on man..

Whatchoo mean, "come on man"?? I have seen enough headlines about this that I'm not the only one wondering what's going on. And, yeah, I've seen the stories that both boxers passed whatever medical tests to certify them as female. What does that mean, exactly?

Asked and answered. See my post on this thread #767.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Women’s road race - Kristen Faulkner gold for the US. Broke from 3 others like she was shot out of a cannon

Just amazing. The other three basically gave up on the gold.

That was such a shocking turn. Soon as they came over the Seine she shot up the road. That's the #2 and the #7 ranked riders along with a third, and they were more worried about who was going to pull. Meanwhile Faulkner was long gone. Group 2 syndrome killed their chances (no one wants to pull bc the ones drafting behind don't have to work as hard, will have more power for the final sprint.)

Great story. Grew up in a fishtown in Alaska, went off to Andover for boarding school, rowed crew at Harvard. When she got her first i-banker gig with a vulture capitalist started training with a local bike club. Found out she loved it.

8 years of serious training as a cyclist (starting at age 23 lol), 5 years as a pro - about half the time as a part-timer because she continued to excel in her VC career. After a couple years on the UCII World Tour she stepped down to a Continental team, which is akin to being relegated from EPL to EFL Championship. She is the reigning US road race champ, but going in even peloton nerds overlooked her in the runup to the games.

Loved the Forest Gump finish, no celebration, powers over the finish line, kept going.....and she's gone. I think she either didn't know she had won or (more likely) was stunned and in shock over what she had just done.

 

[heckmanm]

Loved the Forest Gump finish, no celebration, powers over the finish line, kept going.....and she's gone. I think she either didn't know she had won or (more likely) was stunned and in shock over what she had just done.

My wife speculated these riders need to cool down a bit and not just stop and hop off the bike

 

[BobbyLayne]

Loved the Forest Gump finish, no celebration, powers over the finish line, kept going.....and she's gone. I think she either didn't know she had won or (more likely) was stunned and in shock over what she had just done.

My wife speculated these riders need to cool down a bit and not just stop and hop off the bike

Typically they hop on a cool down stationary bike and refuel after they finish. Not sure because the Peacock/CNBC bike coverage has been horrific - we missed at least half the important attacks because the director has switched to the scenic helicopter feed.

 

[Sand]

So China won the Medley relay with 2 guys that had their medals stripped from the Tokyo games for doping? Why do they let them compete again?

Because if seems that China owns WADA. They get incredible deferential treatment.

It's also important to note that, in the case is steroids, the effects are, in part, permanent. I don't think that's what these guys were caught using, but the chances these guys were systematically doped approaches unity.

 

[Sand]

Loved the Forest Gump finish, no celebration, powers over the finish line, kept going.....and she's gone. I think she either didn't know she had won or (more likely) was stunned and in shock over what she had just done.

My wife speculated these riders need to cool down a bit and not just stop and hop off the bike

Typically they hop on a cool down stationary bike and refuel after they finish. Not sure because the Peacock/CNBC bike coverage has been horrific - we missed at least half the important attacks because the director has switched to the scenic helicopter feed.

Thank goodness the velodrome is indoors.

 

[tri-man 47]

Bike road racing in the countryside outside Paris looks great.

One of our (infrequent) FBG’s, whose alias doesn’t show up in the links right now, lived in Paris for a few years, and he was an active biker. Some of us 10K Thread guys are connected to him on Strava, and it was cool seeing his long ride routes as he cruised the French countryside. He’d often loop around Versailles and then head back into Paris. (He’s now back in the States, here in Chicago.)

 

[Senor Schmutzig]

Women’s kayak cross is kind of crazy

It's back on at 9:30a ET this morning.

I haven't had a chance to see it yet, but it's an event I highlighted.

I have my iPad streaming Olympics alongside my laptop as I get through my e-mails and meetings today.

 

[Jaysus]

Wrestling starts today, I am excited about that. Men's freestyle is my favorite, and I am not sure that starts until later this week. I am hoping to see USA grab a few gold medals.

 

[Jaysus]

Wrestling starts today, I am excited about that. Men's freestyle is my favorite, and I am not sure that starts until later this week. I am hoping to see USA grab a few gold medals.

P.S. Amit Elor is wrestling today, she is probably the best in the world right now (maybe ever?) and has to be the favorite to win even though she has a tough draw.