Your Favorite Summer Olympic Sport?

I'd like to watch women's gymnastics but every time I go to turn it on I get a strange feeling Chris Hansen is going to kick down my door and ask me if I think it's 'appropriate to watch these girls' and 'do I know how old they are?' right before the local PD pounces on me from behind my couch and in the laundry room.

So, I turn it off.
 
By the way, anyone catch this story?

Dominique Moceanu Reveals Secret Sister. Spoiler, the sister has no legs and competes in gymnastics too. Won State I think...


This is Dominique from the 2008 Olympics:
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Captain said:
By the way, anyone catch this story?

Dominique Moceanu Reveals Secret Sister. Spoiler, the sister has no legs and competes in gymnastics too. Won State I think...


This is Dominique from the 2008 Olympics:
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For someone who doesn't watch women's gymnastics - you sure know a lot about women's gymnastics!

What a cool story, thanks for sharing, though at the end she said the coaches used humiliation and intimidation and she divorced her own parents because they would tell her when to eat and sleep and she just wanted to get away from the coaches and parents. Sad.
 
kimberlyanne546 said:
For someone who doesn't watch women's gymnastics - you sure know a lot about women's gymnastics!

What a cool story, thanks for sharing, though at the end she said the coaches used humiliation and intimidation and she divorced her own parents because they would tell her when to eat and sleep and she just wanted to get away from the coaches and parents. Sad.
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1st paragraph: Who are you? Chris Hansen?

2nd paragraph: It's not sad. Well, it was sad but it has a happy ending. And not THAT kind Mr. Hansen!
 
Captain said:
1st paragraph: Who are you? Chris Hansen?

2nd paragraph: It's not sad. Well, it was sad but it has a happy ending. And not THAT kind Mr. Hansen!
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I had to Google Hansen. I don't watch TV, it is very upsetting (especially the news). And they do it on purpose. I only watch Netflix with science related and nature related shows. I'm weird that way.
 
So all these Chris Hansen jokes have gone right over your head?

Chris Hansen hosts a TV show on Dateline NBC called "To Catch a Predator" where they set up a sting for adults looking to hook up with minors. They use a service called Perverted Justice to track down these perverts online and arrange a real life hook up. They arrange a place and time. So the perv rolls into a house rented by Dateline and full of TV crews. There's a teenage looking actor to greet them at the door and when they go inside they don't get lucky...they get interviewed on national TV.

Afterwards they are free to leave...into the waiting arms of the local law waiting outside. Doctors, rabbi's, teachers, armed service members all get caught up in this. It's riveting TV.
 
Captain said:
So all these Chris Hansen jokes have gone right over your head?

Chris Hansen hosts a TV show on Dateline NBC called "To Catch a Predator" where they set up a sting for adults looking to hook up with minors. They use a service called Perverted Justice to track down these perverts online and arrange a real life hook up. They arrange a place and time. So the perv rolls into a house rented by Dateline and full of TV crews. There's a teenage looking actor to greet them at the door and when they go inside they don't get lucky...they get interviewed on national TV.

Afterwards they are free to leave...into the waiting arms of the local law waiting outside. Doctors, rabbi's, teachers, armed service members all get caught up in this. It's riveting TV.
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Ignorance is bliss. I'm glad I didn't know about rabbi pervs until now. Thanks a lot dude.
 
PS - I live under a rock and got the strangest compliment the other day on the phone. I was talking to a vendor in Texas (or maybe KY or OH, I forgot). He said when we were all done with our business phone call that I sounded way too "normal" to be from San Francisco.
 
I just found out there is some strange sport where you have to swim and run and even shoot a gun. I also am coming to really like track and field, but only the fast races / events. Watching them run for 30 minutes in a circle gets boring.

I also think shot put is kind of neat.
 
kimberlyanne546 said:
I just found out there is some strange sport where you have to swim and run and even shoot a gun. I also am coming to really like track and field, but only the fast races / events. Watching them run for 30 minutes in a circle gets boring.
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Probably not going to like NASCAR much either, then. :)
 
Caught the broadcast of the ladies triple jump last night.

DAAANG can these ladies cover some ground! The first leaps of many looked to easily be 12-15 feet. Made me wonder if they swallowed a gazelle!

World Record for Men is 18.29 meters or 60 feet! :eek:
 
Volleyball (all 4) though the guys got knocked out this year, and the football/soccer USA vs Canada yesterday was insanity
 
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