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Official 2008 Olympics Thread - 1936, the Remix
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Battersea Power Station
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By the way, as a sabre fencer, I have to apologize for the women's sabre fencing that was shown.
Women's sabre is a very young sport (which is part of the reason that the US women are so dominant -- they spearheaded the sport, being coached by former European fencers).
To me, it's not comparable to a men's sabre bout, which is much clearer*, more active, and generally fun to watch. You can see a pretty good one here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns7Qrf3xsXI
* "clearer" is a relative term because as I've said in another thread, fencing is a very arbitrary sport -- the rules are not really related to swordfighting. You're still going to see yelling, fist pumping, and fencers trying to influence the referee. But overall it's a much more developed sport than the women's variety.
Again, I apologize -- the women's sabre event was just horrible to watch (and hear), for fencers and non-fencers alike.
Women's sabre is a very young sport (which is part of the reason that the US women are so dominant -- they spearheaded the sport, being coached by former European fencers).
To me, it's not comparable to a men's sabre bout, which is much clearer*, more active, and generally fun to watch. You can see a pretty good one here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns7Qrf3xsXI
* "clearer" is a relative term because as I've said in another thread, fencing is a very arbitrary sport -- the rules are not really related to swordfighting. You're still going to see yelling, fist pumping, and fencers trying to influence the referee. But overall it's a much more developed sport than the women's variety.
Again, I apologize -- the women's sabre event was just horrible to watch (and hear), for fencers and non-fencers alike.
The_Inquisitor
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Damn, volleyball is still on?
Battersea Power Station
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There are three categories of fencing: foil, epee, sabre. "Inferior" really is most applicable to sabre, because the types of movements required from an athlete are better suited to a male physique (center of gravity and all that).Karakand said:
Yeah, epee is a lot simpler to watch than sabre: there are no "right of way" rules, which I can explain to you if you'd like, so it's all about who hits whom first.Lonestar said:
You can only score with the tip and the whole body is target. Of course, I fence sabre so I'm obliged to tell you epee is less interesting. Nah, your enjoyment level totally depends on what you seek from the sport.
SolidSnakex
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The_Inquisitor said:
Yep, the US seems to be imploding.
Spiritreaver
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Serena, tennis, here we go!
There was some moments of nice footwork displayed in the final.Battersea Power Station said:
The thing that bothered me was the way the gold medal winner just threw her saber to the ground when she was finished. It may be silly, but I'd never treat my sword that way.
chickensoup
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The Beeb just showed the replay of Phelps' World Record. That was an awesome swim. You have to wonder how much quicker he could have gone if he wasn't holding back to aim for the other golds. With form like that, you have to assume that he might manage it this time.
Battersea Power Station
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All the physical weapons are the same length. Epee actually has the heaviest/thickest blade (foil is the lightest). And, yeah, epee is a thrusting weapon so you have to hit with the point in order to score. Foil is also.Lonestar said:
The differently colored areas are the last 2 meters of the strip. They're just "bolded" to warn the fencers and the referee that the end of the strip is approaching. The area after the "bolded" section is actually already "off the strip," or out of bounds. If you retreat behind the line (completely behind with both feet), you lose the point.
I guess they must be between rounds because they're just waiting.
awww...I don't know the joke behind PEW PEW PEW...or can't remember it.
USA up by 2 in volleyball. TIME TO KICK ITZ IN GEARZ
There is a live Men's Epee going on. The streaming, while cool, is kind of hard to follow what is "live"
Now, USA up by 3.
USA up by 2 in volleyball. TIME TO KICK ITZ IN GEARZ
There is a live Men's Epee going on. The streaming, while cool, is kind of hard to follow what is "live"
Now, USA up by 3.
The Chosen One
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So... basically all of us on the West coast will never see any live coverage of the Olympics? Thanks NBC.
It was great seeing Bob Costas in Tinamens Square proclaiming the coverage was live with the "Live" logo on the upper corner of the screen even though the footage was 3 hours old. It seems like only Eastern people are getting any kind of live footage. This sucks.
It also means I'll have to ignore this thread because you guys are commenting on events that are 3 hours into the future for me. Fantastic.
How are other west coasters are dealing with this?
It was great seeing Bob Costas in Tinamens Square proclaiming the coverage was live with the "Live" logo on the upper corner of the screen even though the footage was 3 hours old. It seems like only Eastern people are getting any kind of live footage. This sucks.
It also means I'll have to ignore this thread because you guys are commenting on events that are 3 hours into the future for me. Fantastic.
How are other west coasters are dealing with this?
gray_fox224
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So, when is North America going to see USA vs China in basketball?
bean breath
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Yes this sucks. NBC is delayed but I'm getting live feeds on the new hd basketball and soccer channels whenever a game is on. and USA is showing basketball right now, live.The Chosen One said:
not showing up as live hereaznpxdd said:
but basically everything on tv that ISNT on NBC will be live. So USA/CNBC/MSNBC/ect have live shit.
So stupid for NBC to do this though, they do have time to make it right, LIVE for everyone! screw the time difference, football games are live for everyone...
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