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2012 Olympics Event Discussion Thread - Page 104
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J1.au
Australia3596 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21245 Posts
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Otolia
France5805 Posts
On July 30 2012 19:21 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: Chinese swimming absolutely ridiculous this year @_@ China had the ambition, following Beijing they had the infrastructures and now they have trainers. On top of that, every major athlete is pro in the sense that he is paid by the government to compete. | ||
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Grettin
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J1.au
Australia3596 Posts
On July 30 2012 19:26 Otolia wrote: China had the ambition, following Beijing they had the infrastructures and now they have trainers. On top of that, every major athlete is pro in the sense that he is paid by the government to compete. Among other things. | ||
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dartoo
India2889 Posts
 they arent showing the netherlands India match on youtube.Meanwhile Australia are pwning South africa(as expected :D). | ||
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Titusmaster6
United States5937 Posts
On July 30 2012 20:06 Grettin wrote: Womens individual archery going on right now. Japanese archer M. Kanie is cute as a button  | ||
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BlueBird.
United States3890 Posts
On July 30 2012 14:55 BlackJack wrote: The problem is the line has to be drawn somewhere. It's supposed to be an international competition. We can't have the marathon event with 30 guys from Kenya or whatever, lol. I think 3 is a better line to draw than 2, though. WCG Starcraft used to allow 3 Koreans, that seemed like a good amount to preserve diversity but still allow a dominant country to send more deserving athletes. I understand a line has to be drawn, but man does this line in particular suck. She is already there, and she proved she is capable of taking on these other girls(she was just world champion....), she was well ahead of other girls in the 24 spots, she just lost to a teammate last second. She did make mistakes on floor, and she was third best of her country today, but man it sucks she doesn't have a shot at that all around gold that these girls all strive after Honestly just make it so that all team members can participate next time,drawing lines after they have already made it to the olympics is silly, make the teams draw the lines at home(or better yet let all the girls on the teams try for all around with no country restrictions), if you can send 2 for all around, send 2 for all around, but decide that at home and not heartbreak on television like that. If a country has 3 capable of making the podium and they are already there so be it. 1 Each for Judo sounds silly, most sports allow more than one other than teams*basketball and soccer come to mind), seems like a strange rule. The Womans skeet competition was a blowout, 99/100, the lady who won said she shoots 1000 rounds a day in practice, that's an insane amount of dedication. 75 rounds was a lot for me and my papaw lol. | ||
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ChaoSbringer
Australia1382 Posts
AUS 6 DEF RSA 0 Pretty one sided game, got a bit scrappy in the end. | ||
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Grettin
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LaNague
Germany9118 Posts
On July 30 2012 20:17 BlueBird. wrote: I understand a line has to be drawn, but man does this line in particular suck. She is already there, and she proved she is capable of taking on these other girls(she was just world champion....), she was well ahead of other girls in the 24 spots, she just lost to a teammate last second. She did make mistakes on floor, and she was third best of her country today, but man it sucks she doesn't have a shot at that all around gold that these girls all strive after Honestly just make it so that all team members can participate next time,drawing lines after they have already made it to the olympics is silly, make the teams draw the lines at home(or better yet let all the girls on the teams try for all around with no country restrictions), if you can send 2 for all around, send 2 for all around, but decide that at home and not heartbreak on television like that. If a country has 3 capable of making the podium and they are already there so be it. 1 Each for Judo sounds silly, most sports allow more than one other than teams*basketball and soccer come to mind), seems like a strange rule. The Womans skeet competition was a blowout, 99/100, the lady who won said she shoots 1000 rounds a day in practice, that's an insane amount of dedication. 75 rounds was a lot for me and my papaw lol. thats the thing though, technically she didnt make it to the olympics, she was 3rd for 2 places in the qualifiers. its confusing though because the qualifiers are held during the oplympics. | ||
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Grettin
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Benjef
United Kingdom6921 Posts
On July 30 2012 20:38 Grettin wrote: Easy win for Im Dong Huyn. :-) That seemed quite close to me :D How does he do it being so blind? | ||
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Grettin
42411 Posts
On July 30 2012 20:39 Benjef wrote: That seemed quite close to me :D How does he do it being so blind? Yeah, guess i was exaggerating a little here.  I have no idea. It impresses me that he can be so good in a sport like Archery. You'd think eye-sight is something that should be extremely good in a shooting sport of any kind. | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21245 Posts
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radiatoren
Denmark1907 Posts
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Benjef
United Kingdom6921 Posts
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Asha
United Kingdom38257 Posts
On July 30 2012 20:39 Benjef wrote: That seemed quite close to me :D How does he do it being so blind? He's only legally blind in one eye, though has low vision in the other too. I heard someone trying to rationalise it with the idea that his visual impairment actually helps (or at least compensates) by removing peripheral distractions and allowing him to concentrate more on where he's aiming, even if his vision of the actual target is not as clear as others. | ||
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Ysellian
Netherlands9029 Posts
On July 30 2012 20:49 Benjef wrote: Shooting over now? I always just miss it =/ You can re-watch everything on BBC sport live. Really cool feature | ||
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BlueBird.
United States3890 Posts
On July 30 2012 20:29 LaNague wrote: thats the thing though, technically she didnt make it to the olympics, she was 3rd for 2 places in the qualifiers. its confusing though because the qualifiers are held during the oplympics. I'm pretty sure being on the olympic team and going and missing in preliminaries still makes you a part of the olympics so not sure what your saying, she just isn't in the gold metal contention for the all around gold, cause she got third on the u.s. side. The countries hold the qualifiers to decide who goes, this is the real deal. For a different perspective, some sports dont have preliminaries and eliminations rounds, it's just 1 shot and done, like the marathon, do you consider those that finish out of top 20 in marathon as not making it to the olympics? | ||
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