Jesus Christ. Women's beach volleyball gives me anxiety. That was only the second time that Walsh-Jennings ever lost a set in her Olympic career. And they nearly lost the 3rd set a after. And barely pulled out a win.
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/candy/the-c...-different-sports-in-three-olympics-1.3668562 Georgia Simmerling has competed at two Olympics in Super G and ski cross. Now she is doing track cycling.
Its been awhile, and I'm not sure if they qualified, but the US used to have a few speed skaters who were also top cyclists. It was their summer, off ice training, and due to leg power and excellent endurance, they took to track cycling very well.
Riding in the velo is intense and its hard but the field isn't nearly as competitive as other sports. Its kind of the the mixed doubles midget badminton of cycling.
Figured I'd tune in tonight for the first time for the women gymnastics and swimming, turns out the shit is all on a delay and the results are already posted, the fuck?
I'll just leave this here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics...d-for-worst-ever-olympic-coverage-in-america/
Yeah I'll just find out the swimming results online, I'm not gonna watch this commercial fest with Olympic breaks if it isn't live.
I'm dialed into a Canadian VPN and cbc.ca has great Olympic streams. Better than NBC and the buggy BBC site.
Yep... they really are fantastic. Every Olympics they have a ton of streams, concurrently, live, for even the most esoteric sports. And they have fantastic anchors, and do a great job of educating the viewers of the OTHER countries that are competing... not like NBC that basically does super-long back stories on just the US Olympians. Gotta love me some CBC Olympic coverage. Especially the Winter Olympics. Go figure. I remember when I was working at EA and the winter Olympics were in Vancouver, EVERY employee in the Burnaby campus had 2-3 different streams going at all times. That's 3,000 or so people. Turned out that our Internet bill came in a waaaaaaay over the budget, so the CFO tried to bill individual teams the additional $50k or so each for the over-run. The only time I ever saw John Riccitiello do a good thing at EA was when he quashed that and said, "fuck that noise, we're covering the expense".
Those commentators forgot this. Unquestionably the greatest performance the world will ever see. Perfect scores for EVERYTHING - the scoreboard couldn't display it as it had never been achieved.
So this little piece of shit, Nico Hines of the glorified blog Daily Beast used Grindr to lure and publicly out closeted gay athletes at the Olympics, some of who come from countries where it's a death sentence. Where is that killer Russian diplomat from last week when you need him?
Not that I'm an expert on this (and by that I mean I have no idea what I'm talking about, but the flips they do are pretty damn cool). But one of the commentators who I believe said it is nastia liukin. Also comaneci's coach has echoed similar sentiments. Doubt they've forgotten.
Definitely not forgotten, but its a completely different level and different sport. Its like saying a basketball player in the days of set shots with no dunking is a better player than MJ or Lebron, just cause they dominated their competition to an extreme level at the time. To win by such an extreme margin, when the competition is that much fiercer and the sport that much more demanding, makes it no comparison really.
This is the first time I've ever seen Nadia's performance and I can say without question, after watching every women's gymnastics competition since the 84 Olympics, that that was the greatest gymnastic performance I've ever seen. I cannot recall any other gymnast spinning under the bar to start their routine or cross their hands to catch the bar during their routine, or practically float into a landing. Spectacular.