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Was the US men's team one of the favorites to medal in Gymnastics?

Edit: NM, Bob Costas just said they were suppose to medal.
 
Olympians are all super fit and that makes anyone more attractive. Also, the cameras tend to focus on the better looking Olympians and the winners, everyone else gets ignored.

Granted I haven't been watching religiously, but I feel like I should have seen someone who's face looks like it was clobbered with a pillowcase full of doorknobs by now.
 
wait, are people saying they think Ye was genetically enhanced?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/30/ye-shiwen-world-record-olympics-2012
The American John Leonard, executive director of the World Swimming Coaches Association...Blood samples taken at these Games will be kept for eight years. "I am sure that Fina and the doping authorities have taken every sample they can take," Leonard said. "The sample will be tested and available for testing for the next eight years. And over eight years, if there is something unusual going on in terms of genetic manipulation or something else, I would suspect over eight years' science will move fast enough to catch it. I have every faith that eventually if there is something there to be caught it will be caught. Right now all we can say is Olympic champion, world record holder, and watch out for history."
 
man, i really hope the women's team can rectify this.. but with Jordyn Weiber demoralized who knows what can happen.

When girl after girl was fucking up in the trials, Gabby righted the ship and stopped the pattern of failure....and gave everyone else a boost of confidence. From what little I've seen her, she has shown some great composure.

No pressure! =p
 
man, i really hope the women's team can rectify this.. but with Jordyn Weiber demoralized who knows what can happen.
I'm pretty confident they'll gold.


When girl after girl was fucking up in the trials, Gabby righted the ship and stopped the pattern of failure. From what little I've seen her, she has shown some great composure.

No pressure! =p
Gabby was fantastic but so was everyone else, their wasn't a pattern of failure.
 
When girl after girl was fucking up in the trials, Gabby righted the ship and stopped the pattern of failure. From what little I've seen her, she has shown some great composure.

No pressure! =p

Ya I like Gabby.. I got a sense that Weiber overshadowed her despite Gabby scoring better in trials.. hopefully she gets a big moment
 
Granted I haven't been watching religiously, but I feel like I should have seen someone who's face looks like it was clobbered with a pillowcase full of doorknobs by now.

What he said is pretty much true. Olympians are young and super fit so if they had any potential to look good they have pretty much filled it. The unattractive ones are pretty much ignored by the camera unless it's necessary.
 
Everyone thinks their countries athletes are squeaky clean and everyone else are dirty cheats.

I just think the accusation of genetic engineering for swimming is ridiculous. If China invented genetic engineering of humans, you'd think they would be using it for something more important than making a girl swim a bit faster.

I think China just found a good mutant in their gigantic population.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/londo...shiwen-under-fire-after-smashing-world-record
As a child, Ye was apparently tapped for swimming by a teacher who noticed her unusually large hands. China has become famed for plucking very young children on the basis of physical traits and pushing them into sports that can make use of them, rather than leave it to the crapshoot of a kid’s own interests.
 
The Olympics always seems to bring out the worst in the media, who are always scavenging for the next BREAKING SCANDAL.
 
You kidding? I've seen plenty of ugly Olympians.

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Another quick dumb question: are the medals made of G/S/B? or just plated?
- The London 2012 Olympic medals weigh 375-400g, are 85mm in diameter and 7mm thick.
- The gold medal is made up of 92.5% silver and 1.34% gold, with the remainder copper (a minimum of 6g of gold).
- The silver medal is made up of 92.5% silver, with the remainder copper.
- The bronze medal is made up of 97.0% copper, 2.5% zinc and 0.5% tin.
http://www.london2012.com/medals/about/
 
I'm pretty confident they'll gold.


Gabby was fantastic but so was everyone else, their wasn't a pattern of failure.

Not the U.S. team, specifically. Can't remember which countries they were but when one girl made a huge mistake, a couple more got nervous and started messing up as well. Then I remember Gabby came, did really well and that kinda boosted the morale for everyone else.
 
Has the chinese swimmer been tested for doping?
Yes, all competitors are tested around every competition, but people think she is taking a substance that isn't tested for yet. They keep the samples for 8 years and retest when new drugs are found.
 
I thought I herd they are still doing the dumb tape delay crap on TV but online was bumped up to the 21st century.

This is what I mean:

Everything is streamed live, provided you have a cable provider. But if you want to watch at any other time you have to watch NBC to inflate their ratings or bust (or watch BBC).

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Want to watch beach volleyball? Sure you can watch 2 of the groups. Not the one that has the American team
 
Which countries has been found guilty of doping besides USA?



I don't know what channel. The nbc stream requires me to login with my provider which i don't have.

Huh, here in Canada you can watch whatever you want when ever you want:

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Edit: Better Example


I was under the impression that with Dick Ebersol stepping down, you guys would get better coverage.

Also I take it you believe "Its only cheating if you get caught"?
 
The Olympics always seems to bring out the worst in the media, who are always scavenging for the next BREAKING SCANDAL.

I would extend that to people in general. Especially with social media now, everyone can participate in being assholes. The stuff with Daly, and the Swiss soccer player who got sent home for responding to haters with racism.
 
Huh, here in Canada you can watch whatever you want when ever you want:

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I was under the impression that with Dick Ebersol stepping down, you guys would get better coverage.

Also I take it you believe "Its only cheating if you get caught"?
How did you get to that screen?
 
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