London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT3|
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Diablohead
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BMX bowling
Well said and very true.
Need more crashes.
Spare !
Four races, three crashes.
Impeccable
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I don't personally, I love our athletes and not our medal count. Probably a shared feeling with a lot of fellow Canadians.
I for one do, but I'm not a fan of a lot of the summer sports and tend to enjoy the winter Olympics much more. I enjoy watching most of the winter sports where as there are only a few summer sports that I can watch at length.
Not really. It actually lets the media focus on all of our medalists; each individual story. We're just happy to compete :lol
I am upset about our Men's Basketball team though. But things will soon change when Andrew Wiggins arrives.
To certain degree yes. If there was a 4th or 5th place medal we would be doing much better.
But it has more to do with lack of funding etc than anything imo. Like others said I think it makes us appreciate our athletes more however.Same, I prefer most of the winter olympic sports. Summer not so much.
BrokenSymmetry
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BBC presenter at the BMX pronouncing "absolute carnage" with a little too much glee.
LanceVance
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Holy shit BMX is brutal
Plenty of crashes in the solo time trials yesterday, too. I don't know much about BMX and to my unassuming eye it doesn't look like a monster course, although the rhythm sections looks technically difficult. Obviously I was wrong. This is insane.
And LMAO at Helen Skelton. She looks terrified.
Awwwww.
The Elite
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I do. There's a lot thrown around about Canada not being a summer sports country. I wouldn't consider GB a summer sports country either and they are doing pretty damn good.
A lot of the summer sports at the Olympics can be practiced indoors as well. It's more about funding than anything else IMO.
She seems to love it!
Yes and No.
Our population is a lot smaller than say the USA or China, so we can't send as many athletes. Also, we're raised as a Winter-favoring country and prefer winter sports which we do just as well at (though we honestly only care if we win at Hockey in the Winter Olympics). We also, as far as I know, don't have a good invested amount of money put into our athletic program so we aren't able to breed as many summer Olympic-level athletes. I never expect Canada to win in an event like the 100M or anything like that though.
That being said, I'm generally happy we do as well as we do given the amount of people sent over.
Here's the lane assignments for the men's 200m final. Does anyone know the rules for deciding lanes?
Central lanes for people directly qualified, randomly attributed lanes for runners qualified on time.
Keyser Soze
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BBC going from BMX to Dressage... that is like going from WWE to Snooker
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Tea and Toast
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Well we're certainly not a winter sports country!
I only care about dressage 'cause of the Dutch medal chances
But I prefer watching the Dutch BMX guys on my stream.
flipping_heck
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it's not like anything is happening in the BMX at the moment. Just some side show they're not even showing on the stream
We need to stop with the "We prefer Winter Sports" That is bullshit. Outside of hockey, the rest are all niche sports and it is sad if we consider ourselves a winter nation given our historical performance at winter games. For a "winter sports nation" we are very inconsistent in the skiing sports, figure skating, etc. Historically, we aren't even dominant in hockey. The fact is most people are playing "summer sports" if you take away hockey. We should be doing better.
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