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The original "I don't know it all" of aviation.
What sports are you watching and enjoying?

My DVR caught USA vs AUS field hockey. First time I've seen competition at this level. But reminds me as kids doing a similar thing with straw brooms and a dodgeball.

Men's judo was interesting when the #94 in the world some gold in his weight class over the #2 in the world with a single throw.

And since I used to fence in the SCA, I've got my DVR set to record some of the matches.


Golf... Olympic sport? Seriously?
 
AggieMike88 said:
What sports are you watching and enjoying?

My DVR caught USA vs AUS field hockey. First time I've seen competition at this level. But reminds me as kids doing a similar thing with straw brooms and a dodgeball.

Men's judo was interesting when the #94 in the world some gold in his weight class over the #2 in the world with a single throw.

And since I used to fence in the SCA, I've got my DVR set to record some of the matches.


Golf... Olympic sport? Seriously?
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Beach volleyball.
 
I like the older "traditional" events: track & field, wrestling, and weightlifting, as well as many of the gymnastics events.
Faster, higher, stronger.
 
First of all, NBC has been removed from Dish Network for the time being, which ****es me off royally. So I have to watch it on the web using a friend's login.

I like the traditional stuff. Track and field, Swimming, and gymnastics are my favorite events. I enjoy diving as well.

I did watch some table tennis a couple nights ago, since I'm on night shift, and there wasn't much else on. Pretty fun actually.

One thing I've always wanted to see more of is field events. I'm an old shot put and discus guy, so I wish I could see more of those, plus javelin, high jump, pole vaulting, etc. Those aren't the ones the crowd likes so there's usually not much coverage, and understandably so.
 
Swimming and beach volley ball. Diving isn't bad either.
 
I'm gonna say it... I feel the beach volley ball attire takes a bit of the credibility away from it being a real sport. The swimmers are wearing more clothing. I'm all for pretty girls in skimpy clothes but this while fun to watch is a lot of close up ass shots. Just seems like more skin than needed in an Olympic sport.
 
I liked the old school Olympics. Shot put. Discus, javelin, track and field. The uneven bars are amazing though. Most of the gym stuff is fun to watch.
 
I'm watching everything I can find the time to see, including multiple monitors streaming during the workday. All the usuals (swimming, gymnastics, diving, archery, etc) but I've also watched quite a bit of rugby 7s, water polo and fencing (don't think I've ever watched any of those before).

I get addicted to this stuff. It's how I got into curling almost a decade ago after watching it in the Winter Olympics (only later did I learn that the curling was just a cover for the most drinking I've ever witnessed in a "sport" environment).
 
The sports that could be fun to watch have all been wrecked by cheating and over-judging in my opinion. Some sports have been ruined when they allowed professionals to compete(basketball,soccer,hockey etc) and some are just ruined by the equipment, like the shooting sports where they should have a trash can full of rifles they drag out of a shed and the athletes pull one out and use it instead of the ridiculous guns they use. Just my opinion of course but they need to bring back the spirit of the games instead of the money used to compete.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
I'm gonna say it... I feel the beach volley ball attire takes a bit of the credibility away from it being a real sport. The swimmers are wearing more clothing. I'm all for pretty girls in skimpy clothes but this while fun to watch is a lot of close up ass shots. Just seems like more skin than needed in an Olympic sport.
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Meh. If you watch it long enough, you don't even notice they're playing volleyball.
 
Matthew said:
Yowza. Did he stick the landing?
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Couple of days ago. Yep. Snapped his leg above the ankle.

Karen with all her time as a nurse and all that nastiness she can handle, can't handle seeing bones go the wrong way. It's hilarious. I can give her thr heebie jeebies by reminding her of that weightlifter who snapped both femurs during a massive lift. Hahaha.

She won't watch the highlights of the gymnast guy. I watched and said OUCH. Kinda looked like when I snapped my right arm, and I watched that happen long long ago, too. Greenstick fracture of both bones.

I did enjoy flopping it on the counter of a 7-11 and watching the poor guy turn green when I said, "Could I make a phone call?" Haha. Shock... I barely felt a thing at that point. I felt it even in morphine when they brought Bubba in to set it and said they had one shot or it was off to surgery for me. Two nurses pulling on it, Doc pushing my shoulder down, and Bubba pushing down on it onto a flat board.

The morphine made it better but the crunching sounds were the worst part. Haha. A leg would be way worse. Ick.
 
The blood doping finals were cool. Also the human growth hormone vs steroids quarterfinals. But my heart remains with the winter games - seeing the best in the world rigging events. . .
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
I'm gonna say it... I feel the beach volley ball attire takes a bit of the credibility away from it being a real sport. The swimmers are wearing more clothing. I'm all for pretty girls in skimpy clothes but this while fun to watch is a lot of close up ass shots. Just seems like more skin than needed in an Olympic sport.
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You can post what you really think when your wife isn't watching over your shoulder. Don't worry, we won't tell her.
 
Dennis McKim said:
Is that just an issue with your local Dish entity? We have Dish for our TV, and are still getting NBC okay.
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I guess it is just local. Now I'm really ****ed off. Sounds like the NBC affiliate is holding out for more money. Dish refuses. This has been going on for about a month, and I'm sure they figured Dish would bend over and take it with the Olympics coming up. CBS did it a couple years ago.


P.S. I'm with 6PC on the beach volleyball outfits. I'm a dude, and I likey the ladies, but this the Olympics, not Baywatch. Heck, even the Baywatch girls showed less skin. In the future, I'd like my young sons to learn to enjoy the pure competition of the Olympics without sportin' a chub. Does that make me gay?
 
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denverpilot said:
Couple of days ago. Yep. Snapped his leg above the ankle.

Karen with all her time as a nurse and all that nastiness she can handle, can't handle seeing bones go the wrong way. It's hilarious. I can give her thr heebie jeebies by reminding her of that weightlifter who snapped both femurs during a massive lift. Hahaha.

She won't watch the highlights of the gymnast guy. I watched and said OUCH. Kinda looked like when I snapped my right arm, and I watched that happen long long ago, too. Greenstick fracture of both bones.

I did enjoy flopping it on the counter of a 7-11 and watching the poor guy turn green when I said, "Could I make a phone call?" Haha. Shock... I barely felt a thing at that point. I felt it even in morphine when they brought Bubba in to set it and said they had one shot or it was off to surgery for me. Two nurses pulling on it, Doc pushing my shoulder down, and Bubba pushing down on it onto a flat board.

The morphine made it better but the crunching sounds were the worst part. Haha. A leg would be way worse. Ick.
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ugh. I'm the same way your wife is about seeing bones broken. I can't figure it out, I've seen a lot that doesn't bother me but when Joe Theismann's leg snapped...ewww.
 
OkieFlyer said:
I guess it is just local. Now I'm really ****ed off. Sounds like the NBC affiliate is holding out for more money. Dish refuses. This has been going on for about a month, and I'm sure they figured Dish would bend over and take it with the Olympics coming up. CBS did it a couple years ago.


P.S. I'm with 6PC on the beach volleyball outfits. I'm a dude, and I likey the ladies, but this the Olympics, not Baywatch. Heck, even the Baywatch girls showed less skin. In the future, I'd like my young sons to learn to enjoy the pure competition of the Olympics without sportin' a chub. Does that make me gay?
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Yes :yesnod:
 
Matthew said:
ugh. I'm the same way your wife is about seeing bones broken. I can't figure it out, I've seen a lot that doesn't bother me but when Joe Theismann's leg snapped...ewww.
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I used to be unaffected by seeing injuries on film/video/tv. Now-a-days I avoid such sights. Maybe I've hauled to and been hauled to the emergency room too many times...
 
Me too. I saw the Joe Theisman break live when it happened and watched the hundreds of replays afterwards. That was before I blew my right knee out playing rugby and my left knee in a dirt bike wreck.
 
As far as attire goes for the ladies volleyball, the frequent close ups of the budgie smugglers worn by the water polo teams.... thank goodness that water's cold...

And I like Acroduster's idea of "you can't use your extremely expensive bit of kit" but just what's here in on the table or bucket. If you're as good as you're supposed to be, you should score well no matter who purchased it or brung it.

But I still don't see how or why Golf is part of this.
 
I like some of the swimming, last night when our girl Katie Ledecky beat the Russian doper was a great moment!! I watched the synchronized diving as well, it was pretty good, the Chinese guys were amazing. So far the best Olympic name goes to Steele Johnson one of the US divers! His parents must have assumed he was going to be a porn star!! :)
And the ladies beach volleyball is good, but I do agree that they outfits look more at home at Hooters than a competitive sport. As a matter of fact they had a wrist injury last night during the volleyball game, but the doctor said I'd be OK by Monday. :)
 
I watched the Women's Rugby 7s yesterday. I must say, it is a pretty brutal sport. Football without pads and no stopping between plays. Those women were tough.
 
AggieMike88 said:
But I still don't see how or why Golf is part of this.
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I say the same thing about ping pong, fencing, rhythmic ribbon dancing, sailing(!), archery, shooting, canoeing/kayaking, and equestrian! Who is competing the horse or the rider?
 
EdFred said:
I say the same thing about ping pong, fencing, rhythmic ribbon dancing, sailing(!), archery, shooting, canoeing/kayaking, and equestrian! Who is competing the horse or the rider?
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Or the modern pentathlon. Take 5 unrelated "sports" and see if anyone is good at all of them. Horse jumping, fencing, swimming, air pistol while running. Strange.
 
A hippo can out run a man on land, a hippo can swim faster than a man, the only chance of beating a hippo in the triathlon is on the bike!!
 
N747JB said:
A hippo can out run a man on land, a hippo can swim faster than a man, the only chance of beating a hippo in the triathlon is on the bike!!
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But they don't corner very well on land! :D
 
I always thought they should cut out all the stupid twirls and needles crap with the gymnastic floor routine, just do the running jumping thingy one after another and see who is best then on to the next event, same with the ice skating, do your stupid triple twirly thing and get off the ice.
I also think their should be weight classes for gymnastics, swimming, diving, cycling as well as age classes. We already know that young people are flexible and rubbery, that is why they don't break things all the time, but older people are not and neither are heavy set folks so would make for some interesting sports.

I also think you should be allowed one medal per Olympics. Swimmers and divers etc. can rack up five six medals while team sports and other events like tennis, soccer, volleyball etc have to play for weeks to earn one medal. Doesn't seem like a great setup to me.
 
Monday night they had a 41 year old woman from Romania on the gymnastics vault, she was the only member of the Romanian team! They have come down a long way since Nadia Cominech (sp) was the talk of the world!
 
I was watching some of the USA gymnastic men do their rings routine. "Impressive core strength" doesn't seem to be
enough to describe when they pause and do this:

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Those chick gymnasts are amazing. First, some of them look SO young. They must have like JUST turned 16, they look even younger than that. These are very strong people.

To do the amazing things they do on the beam is incredible. I couldn't do it on a trampoline.

Also all of it, the bars and the horse or whatever the heck it is. That stuff takes nads of steel, if you'll pardon the phrase. On the floor doing like triple flips or whatever the heck they're doing up there is very cool.
 
StevieTimes said:
Those chick gymnasts are amazing. First, some of them look SO young. They must have like JUST turned 16, they look even younger than that. These are very strong people.

To do the amazing things they do on the beam is incredible. I couldn't do it on a trampoline.

Also all of it, the bars and the horse or whatever the heck it is. That stuff takes nads of steel, if you'll pardon the phrase. On the floor doing like triple flips or whatever the heck they're doing up there is very cool.
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There was an article recently talking about why you rarely see gymnasts reach out to shake hands with folks at media events.

Many people are taken aback by the horrible condition their hands are in. Massive calluses and they regularly rip gaping chasms or chunks out of the skin of their palms and fingers, so when they're not calloused up, they're a mess.

Guys and gals both. Even with those hard hand guards they wear for spinning around the parallel and other bars, rings, horses, etc.

The girls interviewed said they can't use moisturizers to soften up the callouses or they'll just rip their hands wide open. The guys didn't mention it specifically but still said they wonder what people think when they do bother to shake hands.
 
N747JB said:
...And the ladies beach volleyball is good, but I do agree that they outfits look more at home at Hooters than a competitive sport. As a matter of fact they had a wrist injury last night during the volleyball game, but the doctor said I'd be OK by Monday. :)
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Hope it is better by Monday.....:lol:
 
Stolen from a Facebook post:

A friend asked me what I would bring if I was stranded on an island, and could have only three things!

Simple, I told him... I would bring Michael Phelps, a saddle, and a gold medal attached to the end of a stick!
 
AggieMike88 said:
Stolen from a Facebook post:

A friend asked me what I would bring if I was stranded on an island, and could have only three things!

Simple, I told him... I would bring Michael Phelps, a saddle, and a gold medal attached to the end of a stick!
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Wouldn't work unless you also brought his bong... LOL!

(What? Did I say that out loud?) :)
 
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