Are they the only team to have their colors on their helmets? Looks tacky as hell.
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London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT2|
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Dance Inferno
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You know what I wanna see in the Olympics? Ballroom dancing. I would watch the shit out of some Olympic ballroom dancing.
John Dunbar
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if the medal count is determined by global popularity then we need loads more medals in football.
and archery!
Football (soccer) is the biggest sport in the world. Yet I don't see over a hundred medals to be earned in football.
Diprosalic
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we need 20 more tennis events.
Kinky John
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I just saw the kung-fu kick in the Senegal v Mexico match. How the hell did that guy get away with just a yellow card!?
Have you seen what De Jong got away with in the WC final?
Egg and spoon and sack race too please
Dance Inferno
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OH MY GOD THAT WAS A BEAUTIFUL SPIKE BY TETYUKHIN
Dreams-Visions
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lol @ Serina crip walking!
weekend_warrior
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In Soviet Russia, ball goes into net!
Running backwards would be great.
Diprosalic
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and 200m relay, 1500m relay, hurdles relay, team long jumping, team high jumping....
Joel Was Right
If you smell burning, it's probably the generators acting up. Report it anyway.
How many medals are handed out for the winners of football?
Kinky John
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Yeah, that was crazy too.
Diprosalic
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will be sooner than later. missed rio though.
Good Job Bob
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It's funny how the wave of salty people always hits it stride around the same time everyday.
It only counts for 1 in the medals.
6 total in Beijing. Compared to over 100 in swimming.
John Dunbar
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Just noticed that Chinese 20km walkers have improved massively in the last 4 years. In Beijing their walkers finished 4th, 10th and 30th. Now it was 1st, 3rd and 4th.
Or maybe everyone else did worse. Don't know about the times.
Or maybe everyone else did worse. Don't know about the times.
Dude was out that was scary to see. Hope he is ok. To be so close to a medal and then your body just ends up broken is heart breaking.
LizardKing
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It's also the nature of the sport and football has it's own bigger international event.
The_Hitcher89
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Beach football is fucking dreadful. There's the odd moment of exceptional skill, but the beach part of it takes all of the entertainment out of it for me
Around the time the action moves to the aquatics centre or the velodrome, in fact!
You could create a ton of football events
- Top goalscorer (in olympic tournament)
- Ball skills (scored like gymnastics)
- 5-a-side
- Beach
- Dribbling race (who can dribble through a course the quickest)
- Target (aim to hit a target or set of targets)
- Free kicks (score as many free kicks from various positions around difficult sets of obstacles)
etc
Just for fun
BravesCountry
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It doesn't take a genius to see how each sport suits itself differently to medals. The knockout tournament team sports all have low medal counts, who gives a shit?
You could create a ton of football events
- Top goalscorer (in olympic tournament)
- Ball skills (scored like gymnastics)
- 5-a-side
- Beach
- Dribbling race (who can dribble through a course the quickest)
- Target (aim to hit a target or set of targets)
- Free kicks (score as many free kicks from various positions around difficult sets of obstacles)
etc
Just for fun
This kind of Olympic skills tournament would actually be quite fun, I wouldn't mind this at all.
Yeah he had an oxygen mask on his face and looked totally out, not moving or anything.
The problem is that in all other sports, there is just 1 material goal to be fulfilled.
Get to 100 m. as fast as possible.
Jump with a pole over a bar. (Pole Vault)
Jump with your body over a bar. (High jump)
Throw a ball as far as possible. (Shot put)
Even though, through times, all these sports (the latter 3) have been going through several technical improvements. We do not scissor jump over the bar, we do the fosbury flip. Yet, we do not see any gold medal being hand out in Scissor Jump.
Same thing with Shot put etc.
Meanwhile, in Swimming, we have had new techniques developed, but yet kept the old techniques as different events.
Get to 100 m. as fast as possible.
Jump with a pole over a bar. (Pole Vault)
Jump with your body over a bar. (High jump)
Throw a ball as far as possible. (Shot put)
Even though, through times, all these sports (the latter 3) have been going through several technical improvements. We do not scissor jump over the bar, we do the fosbury flip. Yet, we do not see any gold medal being hand out in Scissor Jump.
Same thing with Shot put etc.
Meanwhile, in Swimming, we have had new techniques developed, but yet kept the old techniques as different events.
The winner set an Olympic record (not world record though).
No, a few others had their flags or colours on their masks (Romania's was yellow, GBR had the Union Flag on theirs).
As a fencer myself I don't like them and also think they're pretty tacky, but a part of me actually thinks they're appropriate for the olympics. For people watching on TV/in the arena who aren't familiar with the sport it's a good way to differentiate the fencers.
LizardKing
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You could create a ton of football events
- Top goalscorer (in olympic tournament)
- Ball skills (scored like gymnastics)
- 5-a-side
- Beach
- Dribbling race (who can dribble through a course the quickest)
- Target (aim to hit a target or set of targets)
- Free kicks (score as many free kicks from various positions around difficult sets of obstacles)
etc
Just for fun
But that's ridiculous. Football is a team sport. Those aren't actual competitions. And I'm not saying swimming should be better represented to affect medal count, I'm saying it should be represented according to the major competitive races that these athletes strive their whole life to compete in. It's not about the sport as a whole, as much as the events within the sport.
Napoleonthechimp
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Do they keep on going around until there is only one left?
It seems at the super distance events, the people never set WR at the Olympics at least it seems that way with me.
yep. the last 2 sprint to the finish according to #cavfacts
Are we introducing any new events here? Would have been perfect to launch golf as an Olympic sport at St Andrews or Wentworth
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