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London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT2|
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Olympic boxing is still amateur, but promoters are there to pick the best talent to turn pro eventually.
Dance Inferno
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Man, the quads on these weightlifters must be absolutely ridiculous. To have to squat that weight before lifting it up is just mind-blowing.
I really don't. Only watched the football so far. Just find the American attitude funny.
Napoleonthechimp
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Which is what happened with the British boxer Amir Khan after his silver medal win at the 2004 Olympics.
It almost worked too till people found out he had no chin :[ a few clean hits and hes down for the count
zephervack
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hahah spilled my water, cant wait to see that event, when is it held?
weekend_warrior
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Calm down bro. It's not that big of a big deal.
Dark Schala
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What's going on in the boxing? I just heard a buncha boos coming from the TV and the commentators saying stuff.
Basically your question is like asking why, in an American football game, the defensive line always tries to sack the quarterback on pass plays even though they rarely get any actual sacks. It is all about putting pressure on the QB and not letting him just do whatever he wants to do because, as a full on professional quarterback, if you let him take his time he will annihilate you.
Same basic thing here: especially at this level of competition if you let the other side place the ball at essentially any speed, angle, and location on the court they want to you will basically lose the point by default.
Wafflecakes
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What your post about Americans focusing on one sport (they don't) and the Phelps jab tells me is you are one of those fans that really does care but just plays it off when the people they are rooting for lose or don't do well.
You can't post something that venomous and not care. Impossible.
I think there are rumours to allow professionals into the Olympics in 2016 at Rio. Not sure how much truth there is to it though.
Why should professional tennis players/footballers/basketball players etc be allowed to complete but not pro boxers?
I think they should unify the entry requirements across all sports and keep the same rules as they do in football, and allow u23 pros to compete.
theignoramus
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Iranian boxer gets DQed for fuck all.
this:
needs a calm down? haha
I don't think the Olympics are that big a deal, why I thought finding it funny that the large majority of medals are in one category would lead to a lot of crying I don't know.
Willkiller
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Oh this is going to be the fencing alllllllllll over again isn't it?
wtf is going on with the boxing? Iran vs Cuba...
Israeli ref?
DQ'd. wtf?
Holding apparently...but the problem was the Cuban would go low and swoop up and the Iranian didn't know how to deal with it...
Pretty damn harsh tbh from the ref...
HoodWinked
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won 25m pistol as well.
weekend_warrior
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Wow that was scary. The woman weightlifter had 300lbs over her head and got shaky and it almost dropped on her.
Like I say, I said one innocuous comment about finding it funny, it got jumped upon so I posted in reply. I can genuinely tell you now I haven't watched one sport apart from football and didn't really want the Olympics here in the first place. I really don't give a shit how GB are doing and how USA are doing, but the triumphant attitude from a lot of Americans is funny.
Gareth Bale
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Disgraceful decision.
Most the medals the USA will win are in the later sports. We don't win as much of the other early dumb stuff.
Wafflecakes
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Because it was unnecessary? petty? and written in a way that specifically was designed to get a rise out of people? All while you pretend that the Olympics don't matter and you don't really care?
And you wonder? My guess.....you know you are only here posting to bait people.
Watching Brazil V Korea in volleyball now.
Going to flick between this and beach volleyball.
Dark Schala
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Dance Inferno
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What's happening in this Iran-Cuba boxing match? Not on TV right now.
Jeff Albertson
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He's not like that at all, he often posts how gutted he is in the footy thread
Due mainly to him supporting a shit team he is used to failure this year
HoodWinked
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lol they were focused on that korean crowd for so long 
fizzelopeguss
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We had this 4 years ago in beijing, there was alot of defensive posturing then as well.
Was a little bit of holding (By both fighters) Ref warned them both, deducted points from both ( i think) then DQ'ed Iran.
Way overreacted
weekend_warrior
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It's perfectly understanding that someone would downplay the importance of the Olympics when their country is doing terrible, and also find an outlet to downplay the Americans success.
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