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London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT|
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Team GB fella shooting right now against a guy from Bangladesh.
Gotta love when that happens.
That went in. DAMN YOU AUSTRALIA !
Gotta love when that happens.
Psychotext
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Kalina is serious fucking business in the weightlifting.
Psychotext
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Sport?
the_log_ride
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Yay Ai won!
Judo. He won the Gold medal match and then sat on top of the Japanese fella while congratulating himself for a couple of seconds.
Soyongdori
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He's a cocky guy and it paid him off.
What can you say. Every Olympics has at least one of them.
Judo.
He stood over him whilst the Japanese guy was on the floor and started gloating I guess you could say.
MasterShotgun
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This dude from Bangladesh isn't doing so hot in archery.
Meanwhile on NBC - slow motion Jordyn Wieber tears.
Aruarian Reflection
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It would be great if we could have a running list of awesome matches for the less popular sports. Like so:
Day 1:
Italy vs. USA in men's archery team finals
Turkey - Brazil women volleyball
Women's 4x100 individual medley finals
Day 2:
Li (China) vs. Hsing (USA) for women's table tennis
China vs. S. Korea in women's archery team finals
Men's 4x100 Freestyle relay finals
I'm skimming through this thread to find interesting things to watch on BBC archives, but there's so many pages to go through O_O
VVV Don't have to limit this to the unpopular sports, but I figure everybody knows about the swimming finals anyway
Day 1:
Italy vs. USA in men's archery team finals
Turkey - Brazil women volleyball
Women's 4x100 individual medley finals
Day 2:
Li (China) vs. Hsing (USA) for women's table tennis
China vs. S. Korea in women's archery team finals
Men's 4x100 Freestyle relay finals
I'm skimming through this thread to find interesting things to watch on BBC archives, but there's so many pages to go through O_O
VVV Don't have to limit this to the unpopular sports, but I figure everybody knows about the swimming finals anyway
There really are too many events going on--don't know what to watch.
The swim races are pretty good, but don't know if that qualifies as a less popular sport.
Women's team archery final was good.
The swim races are pretty good, but don't know if that qualifies as a less popular sport.
Vulcano's assistant
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Women weightlifting got super dramatic just a moment ago for Colombia.
indigo-cyclops
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Join us with gymnastics.
I hate to say this sometimes but I find Men's Gymnastics ultimately more entertaining. I think I like the events more.
How about that GER/BRA Beach Volleyball match? That was a good one...
Anyone planning to watch Judo/Taekwondo?
Psychotext
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theignoramus
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I love that suspenseful music that plays in weightlifting.
Join us with gymnastics.
I'm envious with anyone with a gymnast partner lol
Psychotext
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Novikava and Yuliya don't even look like they should be in the same weight category. I'll have to pay attention to the scoreboard to see what the difference actually is.
Edit - I guess it could come down to height.
Edit - I guess it could come down to height.
Day 1 Turkey - Brazil women volleyball was a great match.
indigo-cyclops
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Yea, amazing athletes really...Pommel and rings have to be my favorite Olympic events.
Damn 15.475 for that Russian tumbler...
I give the edge to the women's events, mostly because of the greater emphasis on artistry; and the beam is the event, IMO.
But my eyes prefer watching the men's. *.*
She had the third or fourth highest qualifying score for the all-around among all athletes (behind two teammates from USA), but since every country can only send two athletes she was disqualified.
Psychotext
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Wait... she actually got all the way here without anyone realising they could only have two?
She'll compete in the team competition. I'm sure all three knew very well that one of them was not getting into the individual comp.
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I'm sure they knew, it's just that she was pegged as the favorite for the all-around competition if I recall correctly.
Just shows how dominant the female gymnasts from America are going to be that of the top 4 in the world, they had 3 of the spots.
Psychotext
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Ahh, I see.
She'll probably still be in the team competition, no?
No, there's a qualification round in the Olympics.
Should clarify that I meant "sent" to the individual all-around. She'll be in the team event.
Napoleonthechimp
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Yeah, he really didn't do well at all.
She's the World Champion and there's team. It's the same as Tennis Table, Chinese are Top 4 men and women, but they can only send 2 players each. It's a rule to make dominant countries less dominant.
I arrived in London at around noon and it has been crazy travelling to Stratford. My hotel is just a 10 minute walk from Olympic Park and I got my tickets for Boxing today and tomorrow, Table Tennis tomorrow and Weightlifting on Wednesday. Since they are all at the ExCel Arena that means I can't get into Olympic Park unless I can get a ticket to an event held there. So it's a shame I won't be able to visit the main centre of the games but I am excited nonetheless.
Psychotext
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Last lifter out (Sirikaew) was a perfect example of what I was saying earlier about the gender scale.
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