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Tokyo Olympics 2021...what are you watching?


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Of course watched the men's and women's basketball finals. At least I thought that was the men's hoops finals between the USA and France. Problem is that when I turned it on I could've sworn I was watching a Euro soccer match what with all the flopping the French were doing. Worst of all, the refs rewarded it on several occasions.

 

Maybe we could just make flopping a new Olympic sport.

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Of course watched the men's and women's basketball finals. At least I thought that was the men's hoops finals between the USA and France. Problem is that when I turned it on I could've sworn I was watching a Euro soccer match what with all the flopping the French were doing. Worst of all, the refs rewarded it on several occasions.

 

Maybe we could just make flopping a new Olympic sport.

 

Soccer players would probably sweep the medals.

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Shame I can`t feel anything about the Olympics whilst it was on or now that it`s ended. I don`t think I`ve watched one intently ever since Zola Budd tripped up Mary Decker :codger:
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Shame I can`t feel anything about the Olympics whilst it was on or now that it`s ended. I don`t think I`ve watched one intently ever since Zola Budd tripped up Mary Decker :codger:

Yeah, England vs India today was much more exciting. ;)
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For winning twenty-four medals, congratulations, to Canada, and their athletes. Thank you, to all of the hard working athletes, who participated, and organizers for a successful 2020 Summer Tokyo, Japan Olympics. Edited by Derek19
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Well I'd lost track of where the Olympics was because I just put the TV on EuroSport and see what it's showing. The family doesn't let me focus on it for too long - too many other things to do!

So I was catching some synchronized swimming and artistic gymnastics.

Easy to dismiss this stuff as just 'dance'-oriented stuff but the fitness and coordination needed for all the moves they do is impressive if you stop for a moment and think about it.

I certainly can't do the splits several times whilst catching something I've just thrown to the ceiling a few minutes ago!

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More general thoughts:

Basketball as played in the Olympics isn't the hack attack no blood no foul style of play that's taught to prepare players for the NBA. Fordgalaxy"s comment about soccer players sweeping the medals rings true. You drop to the floor 3 seconds after the breeze of the slipstream of a passing player hits you, slipstream is getting called, likely for the equivalent of a flagrant foul.

 

The US men's track team got schooled by the world, imho. Sorry gents, the competition has caught up; bad tactics and crappy baton passing in the relays doomed you. Has Carl Lewis calmed down yet?

 

Who has a solution for the Chinese diving teams? Yeah, don't hold your breath.

 

Again, congratulations Japan on the golds in baseball and softball.

 

And again, PLEASE, no more Kate McKinnon commercials!

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Shame I can`t feel anything about the Olympics whilst it was on or now that it`s ended. I don`t think I`ve watched one intently ever since Zola Budd tripped up Mary Decker :codger:

Yeah, England vs India today was much more exciting. ;)

I`m not a complete fool, you know. I only spent four hours sitting and waiting before I watched the EFL games :popcorn:
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More general thoughts:

Basketball as played in the Olympics isn't the hack attack no blood no foul style of play that's taught to prepare players for the NBA. Fordgalaxy"s comment about soccer players sweeping the medals rings true. You drop to the floor 3 seconds after the breeze of the slipstream of a passing player hits you, slipstream is getting called, likely for the equivalent of a flagrant foul.

 

The US men's track team got schooled by the world, imho. Sorry gents, the competition has caught up; bad tactics and crappy baton passing in the relays doomed you. Has Carl Lewis calmed down yet?

 

Who has a solution for the Chinese diving teams? Yeah, don't hold your breath.

 

Again, congratulations Japan on the golds in baseball and softball.

 

And again, PLEASE, no more Kate McKinnon commercials!

 

On the US track team, there are some factors that may have skewed things a bit. First off expectations were way over the top, the team was inexperienced and the press listened to their bragging and accepted it as a fait acompli. Yes, the US produced the fastest times twice in the 400 meters at the Worlds in 2019 but fell short in Tokyo. The 200-meter dash and 110 hurdles were lost by thin margins, seven hundrenth of a second for between gold and silver in the 200 and .06 shy in the 110. We just expect them to win and forget the world has been learning how to beat us and it isn't a shame to win a silver or bronze medal. We are greedy. The guys did win 4X400 on the last night so it wasn't a total flop.

 

The US women were amazing, Alison Felix got her 11th gold medal in the 4X400 relay win and it was their 7th gold in a row. That was an amazing race.

 

Tried to post the videos but they were blocked. I just watched them both again today and it was amazing.

 

Have to say I haven't watched as much as I usually do on the tv (thanks Comcast for blocking me because I don't have HD :tongue:) but YouTube has been great. It was full of spectacular victories and some sad disappointments but it was still fantastic. Looking forward to the paralympics, they are well worth watching too.

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...... Looking forward to the paralympics, they are well worth watching too.

 

I caught a link on fb showing Rammstein's Ich Will to promote the paralympics. Well, I don't know if it's official or not (i.e from them, the Olympics or just fans of the band and/or the paralympics) but I thought it was a nice touch.

If it's official then it will be easy enough to find and all will be telling me so.

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