AtomicCEO Posted August 17, 2008 Author Share Posted August 17, 2008 Yeah I watched the Indonesia-China gold medal game yesterday and was pretty impressed. Pretty blah stuff on so far today... If the other channel doesn't stop running boxing all day long, I'm going to kill someone. Who likes Olympic boxing? It sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ts Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 When did the Olympics start? I didn't realize that 4 years had gone by already since the last ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darin3 Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 (edited) If the other channel doesn't stop running boxing all day long, I'm going to kill someone. Who likes Olympic boxing? It sucks. Got womens' indoor volleyball (Poland w/ some hotties vs. USA) on NBC and mixed badminton on MSNBC. Thinking of taking a nap. Edited August 17, 2008 by darin3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazinib1 Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 I'm watching the team equestrian. Is there track and field today? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darin3 Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 Man, mens' indoor volleyball team is unstoppable. Undefeated in pool play and handing a decent Japan team it's collective asssssses. Exciting mens' beach volleyball game last night. Our blocker guy Delhausser or whatever is badass. There are some better twosomes out there, but we'll have a chance at gold I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Neutron Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Just watched a women's 200m prelim - beautiful, fast women. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebellab Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 All I know is they should be showing more javelin in the Olympics :divingboard: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmarc117 Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 All I know is they should be showing more javelin in the Olympics :divingboard: i have a javelin for her Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted August 20, 2008 Author Share Posted August 20, 2008 All I know is they should be showing more javelin in the Olympics :divingboard: She looks like the American Gladiator, Crush. And she could crush me anytime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 All I know is they should be showing more javelin in the Olympics :divingboard: I would like to have sex with her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmarc117 Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 for the fans of javelin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefjay Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 for the fans of javelin All I can say is.... :javelin: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Neutron Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 What's up with the speed walking? I didn't even know it existed - saw it, and thought it was a special olympics race. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheikYerbuti Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 What's up with the speed walking? I didn't even know it existed - saw it, and thought it was a special olympics race. I feel the same way about handball. My dad tells me that when he was a kid in Brooklyn they played handball after school. You get a raquetball and swat it against a wall and the other guy has to swat it back into the wall before 2 bounces. Then I turn on Olympic handball and said "what the hell is this??". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Sacrebleu Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 watched three seconds of women's volleyball. Do they really need to cheer and have a group hug after each point? I mean the other team serves the ball in the net, and the whole opposing team raises their fist in the air, whoops, hollers and then gets together for a group hug as if they just won gold. That's around 120 group hugs a game in a tight 4 setter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McBoog Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 I really wanted to like this as well, but just couldn't get into it with the weird full-body touch outfits the contestants wear today. Fencing, even in person is NOT a great spectator sport, even if you know what is going on. The blades are moving so fast and some of the moves are so compact and fast, that you never see the touch until the equipment or judge is signaling a touch. As well as playing football and Lacrosse in college, my third sport was fencing. I specialized in the Épée (a heavy thrusting weapon; the valid target area covers the entire body; double touches are allowed.) I liked it the most because it sympolized to me the most realistic form of the three fencing styles. It is based on the old dueling concept of drawing "first blood" rather than actually killing your opponent outright. Any "sword fighting" that excludes areas of the body as a valid "touch", to me was pointless. Worse, foil has "right-of-way" rules that force you to perry (block) an attack before countering, the most famous and gheyest option of the three. Épée can also be a little more risky since the thicker, heavier blade has been known to snap during an attack and then penetrate through even the wire face mask. A few people have been killed this way, but it is rare. Sabre is cool because you can use the edge of the blade to "touch" your opponent (but still limits target area to above the waist excluding back of the head and the hands), whereas Épée and foil only count the "point" of the blade (nature of the sword design factored into the rules). The guys and girls that specialized in sabre were the most obvious off the mat out of gear. They always had these long, skinny, purple welts on various parts of their bodies since they were always whacking the sh!t out of each other. I stayed away from that since the other sports left me battered and I needed to heal. Another tip off to the fencers was to look at their legs. The nature of the fencing stance would make one thigh and the opposite calf noticably larger than the other. I got very good at the Épée and hoped for an Olympic moment. Our coach was a Medal winner from Japan. Got a taste of nationals, but went down in a blaze of glory. As a side note, one of the training methods used by Foil and Épée is to hang a golf ball from the cieling by a string and use it as a "speed bag" (like in boxing). It helps with "point control" and accuracy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 I feel the same way about handball. My dad tells me that when he was a kid in Brooklyn they played handball after school. You get a raquetball and swat it against a wall and the other guy has to swat it back into the wall before 2 bounces. Then I turn on Olympic handball and said "what the hell is this??". I always had called that sport "racketball." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggieFries Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 I always had called that sport "racketball." It's "racketball" without the racket. I played it as well in middle school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 Like every 4 years - none. thank you, grits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venus Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 The swimmimg was big in our house last week. I was on vaction and me & the boy were all about Michael Phelps. We also go a kick out of ping pong, especially doubles. That event is crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montster Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 i just watched BMX Supercross. i had no idea that was an olympic sport. it was perfect: easy to understand ("go ride your bike and beat those other guys"), it had wipeouts and mayhem and it was over in about a minute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darin3 Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 i just watched BMX Supercross. i had no idea that was an olympic sport. it was perfect: easy to understand ("go ride your bike and beat those other guys"), it had wipeouts and mayhem and it was over in about a minute. First year they've done it. Kind of surprised it's taken this long to get it in... but it 's more of an "X Game" type of thing. Did some cat from LATVIA win the gold there? Weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montster Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 First year they've done it. Kind of surprised it's taken this long to get it in... but it 's more of an "X Game" type of thing. Did some cat from LATVIA win the gold there? Weird. well, if snowboarding is a winter olympics sport ... yeah, a latvian won the men's race, with americans placing second and third. in the women's, two french chicks got gold and silver, with an american in third. (the british woman, who was heavily favored, plowed into the back tire of the french winner and flew off her bike on the last turn. ouch.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darin3 Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 Rogers/Dalhausser took gold for the in beach volleyball... those guys rocked it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggieFries Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 i just watched BMX Supercross. i had no idea that was an olympic sport. it was perfect: easy to understand ("go ride your bike and beat those other guys"), it had wipeouts and mayhem and it was over in about a minute. Nice, sounds like an "all nighter" with the wife. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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