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NOOOO! We're onto synchronized swimming
Make it stop. Isn't there some equestrian event or something they can show instead? Or miles 10-12 of the marathon? Or something else suitably interresting? SI
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a lot of people find running really boring too
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I find them both really boring, and I don't care much for Bolt or Phelps, but I respect both of their accomplishments and find an argument about which was more impressive or groundbreaking kind of silly. I do, however, realize that we do need something to bicker about so get back to it please. I get bored enough to read it sometimes.
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In 1993 Gail Devers won the 100m and 100h at the World Championships. Not sure if she has competed in both during the same Olympic's but she has been a world champion in both events. Most hurdlers are also extremely fast sprinters. However, I would imagine Bolt having difficulties with the hurdles due to his stride. I can't see him 3 stepping at all. He would most likely end up alternating legs at each hurdle. I can see him succeeding in the 400 or Long Jump. |
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"He was too strict," Leudis Gonzalez said, referring to the decision to disqualify Matos. Well, if the rules say a person gets 1 minute to recover, and is DQed if he can not continue after the minute is up, how is it too strict? It's the rules. There doesn't seem to be any subjectivity there. |
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Matos & the coach ought to get a shot with the WWE. They already turned heel, they could play evil foreigners, and they already familiar with the ref bump spot. His gimmick could be getting DQ'ed in every match then destroying the ref afterwards.
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NBC is ALL over taking stuff down from youtube. But as of this second, you can see the Matos thing here:
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Ok, after watching that, it does seem like the ref was being a dick. I mean, it's not like he was just sitting there, and time ran out. With 5 seconds left, the ref could have told him to get up and get ready. The buzzer went off and he started to get up, he wasn't still recovering. I can see why someone would think (as do I now) that it was too strict. Regardless, he attacked a referee and should be banned for life. I would hope that would be the standard in any sport. |
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Ato Bolden was saying the other night that some people still thought the 400 was Bolt's best event. We'll see - I honestly put the odds of him even being making the next Olympics at 50/50.
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The Chinese joke about Phelps/swimming having more medals, with added intra-asian rivalries!
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wow that was quite the shocker of an ending in men's diving
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American men capture the Olympic Gold giving some closure in their tragedy.
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U.S. up 8 on Spain at the half!
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Usually the U.S. depth wears teams down, but Spain isn't going away. It's a 4 point game with 4:00 left in the 3rd!
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Is this game being replayed tomorrow? I've made it through 3 quarters, but am having trouble staying awake even sitting at the computer.
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It's down to a 3 point lead with 8:00 in the 4th quarter!
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A couple of these alley-oops that Spain has succeeded with on the US have been really, really impressive. The US is not playing the same defense they were in the first half and half their possessions since Spain went zone have involved 5 guys standing around and one of them deciding to put up a shot from wherever they happen to be. Yuck.
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Every time Spain gets it down to 5 or less though the US has found a little burst to push the lead back out. Spain isn't winning this, but they're giving it a hell of an effort.
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This game is starting to remind me of the UNLV/Duke game from 1991.
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USA guts it out for the win. I give a lot of credit to Spain. After getting blown out in the prior game against the US, they hung tough the whole game.
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This is the basketball game i wanted to see from my country after playing lazy and being embarrassed by USA in the group stage game. We are the last world champions and we needed to prove why.
Too bad Calderon, NBA player and our best PG could not play today after an injury. He could have been great help today, but our 18 years old PG Ricky Rubio stepped up and had a good game as starting PG today. Watch out for him in the next draft, he is predicted to be in the top 10. The end of game was great, with Spain 4 points under USA in the last 2 minutes. Then that last minute was just garbage, specially after the two consecutive technical faults called to the Spanish bench and PG for arguing with the referees about the lack of traveling faults called to USA players during the whole game (and in fact during the whole Olympic games). That is the only issue that non American basketball fans will have about the USA team. USA players committed traveling fault (under FIBA rules) on 75% of their possessions, and it was called like 2 times per game only. Unlike in the NBA, under FIBA rules, you need to put the ball on the floor before your first step step, in the NBA you can step twice and then put the ball on the floor, giving a good advantage to the ball carrier to get the initial acceleration maxed. The referees were told to ignore that fault in USA players as they are not used to it but... if we play under FIBA rules, those rules should apply to both teams. Every team facing USA this Olympic games has gone nuts with the referees for not calling traveling. Anyway that is not an excuse, the USA team is the best in the world, no discussion allowed, but i'm glad we Spanish showed today that the gap is closing really fast, in fact we are exporting more and more players to the NBA. Watch out also for Rudy Fernandez in Portland this season, you saw today what he can do.
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Icy-I think Rubio is too young to get drafted in 2009 to the NBA. He will, however, most likely be a top 3 pick in 2010. And if he continues to play this well, I wouldn't be suprised if he was the first pick.
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I knew Icy would come on here with sort of complaining. I was going to post the crybaby image, but decided against it. Do you have a link from FIBA documenting that they would not call traveling against the USA? I will tell you one thing, the Spain players are the biggest bunch of cry babies I have ever seen. They whined about every call that did not go there way. The US players carried themselves with class and respected the referee. I don't think it was a well officiated match but at least we did not whine over every single call.
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To be fair, no one whines too much about the refs when they're winning
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Uhh? did i ever complain about anything in the past to make you KNEW i was going to do it now?? Have i ever been a crybaby about anything in the past in this forum?? I think this is the first time i talk about referees in any sport in my whole "history" in FOFC, so i guess you confused me with somebody else. Why did you come such defensive to this thread? maybe because you KNEW that I could be right as you watched the game too? Quote:
No, i just saw they never called it when they did it in ever counterattack or every time they attacked the basket in every game in the Olympic games, and that is why every team that faced them also talked about it, and that is why the whole arena was "boo-ing" today at the officials. I have no doubt that the USA team can humiliate any world team playing with NBA rules, but it doesn't matter if you like it or not, Olympic games play under FIBA rules, and what the USA players do again and again, is traveling and should be called. Quote:
Why would you whine a referee that is favoring you? You admitted it was a bad officiated match, and you are right, but most of the mistakes went to the same side. Anyway USA was the best team in the Olympics as i said, and they didn't win because the officiating, i never said that, but it was sad to see them receiving that kind of help from the referees when they don't need it to win anyway.
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Great play by Rudy showing that he can play in the NBA he also scored 22 points today. I'm really looking forward to see what he can do in Portland.
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Double dola, a sad end of this is that Pau Gasol has said good bye to the national team after this game (unofficially) , as he wants to focus on winning a ring with LA in the 2 or 3 years remaining in his career.
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He's 28 and he only has two or three years left in his career?
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You stated that the referees were told to ignore the "75%" of the time the US traveled. Yet you have no proof of this. Did I have any issue with the game being played under FIBA rules? Quote:
I thought the bad calls were about even. Every single touch was called on both teams in the first half, and that probably kept Spain in the game because Kobe and Lebron had to sit down. They also could not play aggressive D when they were in the game. How about when Marc Gasol threw his defender to the ground which allowed Pau to make an easy shot? The game changed when Coach K but Derron Williams into guard Rubio in the 4th quarter. Jason Kidd and Chris Paul were getting beat by him constantly. Williams was able to keep with him and deny the easy pass. Rubio will be a future NBA All-Star if he keeps developing at his current pace.
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Spain's team is a bunch of crybabies. I am surprised a fight did not break out from all the dirty plays they were doing especially when Marc Gasol punch Bosh in the mouth for the no call by the refs. That being said Spain played the best game of their lives as shot after shot went in for them. The US once it gained the lead were pretty much in control the rest of the way and I never felt that they would lose. Great game by both teams.
So why couldn't Gasol play like that in the finals where he played soft?
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Generally, I have no gripe with Icy and hear what he's saying. But he made a comment about Spain needing the FIBA rules to compete. IMO, if you need the rules to make you competitive, maybe yoiu're not quite as good as you think. The traveling thing was a travesty, but it is a travesty in the NBA as well. And no one's going to tell me that drive by Rudy shown above isn't travelling, too. I would guess opponents of the USA received the same leeway. And Spanish players certainly don't come over to the NBA playing as if they are respecting the travel rule when others aren't. They look just like any other NBA player to me.
Spain is a heck of a team, though. They deserve a lot of respect for staying with Team USA. USA, though, deserves every bit of its own respect coming, because outside of the travel thing, it seems to me they did play completely by FIBA rules, and they didn't just win, they dominated.
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That is Gasol's rep. He plays hard for Spain but soft in the NBA. Maybe he is retiring from Spain so that he can concentrate and play hard in the NBA without running the risk of getting injured. I hope Marc Gasol plays harder than Pau in Memphis. Marc seems to be tougher, play with a chip on his shoulder type player. The Grizz will sure need the inside presence.
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950th post in an Olympics thread. What happened here? In '04, there were 8 scattered Olympics threads, none had more than 20 posts or so (unless I missed something).
Doesn't it seem like they were a way huger deal than normal this year? I don't think it's just Phelps. I actually think DVR played a big part. I was watching all time, fast forwarding to the stuff I wanted to see, pretty much whenever I had down time. Last edited by molson : 08-24-2008 at 01:09 PM. |
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