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fishinguy
Russian Federation798 Posts
On August 03 2012 05:02 fbs wrote: think sailing has one less gold but cycling the same number, you'd think Britain could have put some pressure to keep the sailing medals high, oh well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_at_the_2011_World_Aquatics_Championships Yep China too OP | ||
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AgentChaos
United Kingdom4569 Posts
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whiteLotus
1833 Posts
Im still watching mens gymnastic finals and those performances on rings are fkin amazing. I got one question tho, do you guys think women like Jordyn Wieber, Gabby Douglas would be able to perform on rings? | ||
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AgentChaos
United Kingdom4569 Posts
On August 03 2012 05:05 whiteLotus wrote: Since no one answered i'll try to re-ask :D Im still watching mens gymnastic finals and those performances on rings are fkin amazing. I got one question tho, do you guys think women like Jordyn Wieber, Gabby Douglas would be able to perform on rings? i think they would be able to perform but it probably will drain their stamina too much although i dont actually know they are a lot lighter so it could be not that bad | ||
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fLyiNgDroNe
Belgium4041 Posts
On August 03 2012 05:07 AgentChaos wrote: i think they would be able to perform but it probably will drain their stamina too much although i dont actually know they are a lot lighter so it could be not that bad well if you look on the typical male gymnast body and female gymnast body you'll notice how differently they are developed. Man's upperbody is ridiculously muscled compared to their kind of light feet. This is to stay as light as possible while doing all those crazy things in the air, so being strong in your arms/shoulders/spine Now with ladies its the other story - they need to work on their feet to be able to jump like that and they actually don't need an upperbody strength while they need that amazing streching (which is the opposite of having big muscles). So ... it is possible (of course!) for female gymnasts to do rings, but boy would they suck in their own exercises. | ||
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fishinguy
Russian Federation798 Posts
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ShoKakuUtena
United States304 Posts
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AgentChaos
United Kingdom4569 Posts
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ShoKakuUtena
United States304 Posts
On August 03 2012 05:14 AgentChaos wrote: what i would really like to see is male gymnasts doing uneven bars If they raise the height of the lower bar, it'd be a sight to see. High bar by itself is one of the more exciting gymnastic evens. | ||
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radiatoren
Denmark1907 Posts
On August 03 2012 05:02 fbs wrote: think sailing has one less gold but cycling the same number, you'd think Britain could have put some pressure to keep the sailing medals high, oh well BMX is not the same as velodrome races though. Yes it happened from Athens to Beijing, but it did cut 2 events from the velodrome. At the same time the velodrome this year has included the farces called sprints and a pseudo-sprint called keiring which are some of the worse races since they favour almost exclusively the same riders as individual sprint. There is something missing in the velodrome. Particularly the individual timetrial and maybe pointrace/madison. Only focusing on 3 almost pure sprints(sprint, team sprint and keiring), 1 team pursuit and 1 multi-parter of which none of the parts are represented as individual discipines - which probably makes it almost impossible to cover in courtries with no velodrome tradition (having to explain 6 different and sometimes complex disciplines for 2 medal races is a tough sell even though omniums parts are interesting). Sailing has something different almost every year at the moment. Some are improvements others are uninteresting. Most of all it needs a bit more consistency. | ||
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YODA_
593 Posts
On August 03 2012 04:33 CeriseCherries wrote: swimming is such a bullshit aid to the US's medal count lol D: It is true that there are a lot of "duplicate" events, like 100/200/400m freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke, etc, but that's just simply a product of there being so many swimming strokes. Sure, things like the medleys could probably go, but there really isn't a great reason to take them out other than just trying to actively cut down on medal numbers. And barring people like Phelps, there is still a lot of variance between winners of a lot of these events. | ||
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Ghost-z
United States1291 Posts
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1768214448001/ The video starts with previously removed and obscure olympic events and then moves to talk about the future olympic events including: Golf, Rugby, Tetris, SC, LoL What do you guys think? TL;DR >> SC2 and LoL possibly in future Olympics | ||
Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
They have also Removed WindSurfing for 2016 and added Kite Surfing | ||
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Durak
Canada3685 Posts
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AgentChaos
United Kingdom4569 Posts
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Leporello
United States2845 Posts
On August 03 2012 06:11 Ghost-z wrote: Not relevant to the current Olympics but this report lists Tetris, Starcraft and League of Legends as possible future "floating" Olympic Events as soon as 2020! http://video.foxnews.com/v/1768214448001/ The video starts with previously removed and obscure olympic events and then moves to talk about the future olympic events including: Golf, Rugby, Tetris, SC, LoL What do you guys think? TL;DR >> SC2 and LoL possibly in future Olympics That would be awful. It won't happen. This is why E-sports is a bad phrase. These are games, not sports. I'd have the same reaction to seeing Chess and Checkers in the Olympics. Tetris would be especially egregious, as would any game where you have a computer rolling the dice towards the outcome. | ||
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LaNague
Germany9118 Posts
On August 03 2012 06:11 Ghost-z wrote: Not relevant to the current Olympics but this report lists Tetris, Starcraft and League of Legends as possible future "floating" Olympic Events as soon as 2020! http://video.foxnews.com/v/1768214448001/ The video starts with previously removed and obscure olympic events and then moves to talk about the future olympic events including: Golf, Rugby, Tetris, SC, LoL What do you guys think? TL;DR >> SC2 and LoL possibly in future Olympics this will never happen  yes CCstealth, handball is a very clever sport despite it being so physical. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
Just awesome. | ||
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Sazchu
Iceland489 Posts
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Trok67
France384 Posts
On August 03 2012 06:36 Sazchu wrote: Handball is wonderful, and it's great to see Iceland doing so well against Sweden, last time we won them in a major tournament was in 1964! looking good for a win tonight. France - Iceland next Saturday will be so enormous ! | ||
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