The Official 2012 Olympics Topic!

[Venture]

Watching Men's team gymnastics implode. This is painful, all I can say.

On the bright side, the coverage is fantastic this year!

 

[1reddawg]

Re: Olympics - Watching USA Men's Gymnastics Implode

I know what you mean.It was Painful to watch,But they should hold their heads high,They got to "The London Summer Olympics "

 

[Venture]

Re: Olympics - Watching USA Men's Gymnastics Implode

I know what you mean.It was Painful to watch,But they should hold their heads high,They got to "The London Summer Olympics "

Right. I'm sure nobody feels the pain of the loss more than those 5 guys.

The women seem to be doing well tonight, set to take the gold if they can hold on.

Phelps had an amazing race with a mirror finish of this 2008 victory, except he came up on the other side of the mirror this time.

 

[Dingo]

Re: Olympics - Watching USA Men's Gymnastics Implode

Yes - Women Gymnastics took the Gold earlier today.

Phelps cleared 19 career medals - greatest of all time ... amazing stuff

 

[slipangle]

Re: Olympics - Watching USA Men's Gymnastics Implode

This is painful, all I can say.

On the bright side, the coverage is fantastic this year!

I certainly agree about the coverage - it's definitely much better than usual. Panem et circenses!

 

[Koinz]

Re: Olympics - Watching USA Men's Gymnastics Implode

This is painful, all I can say.

On the bright side, the coverage is fantastic this year!

Go to NBC.com and download the app. There's a ton more coverage from there for alot of the other sports that are not so popular to watch.

 

[Karson]

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I almost think the Internet has ruined the Olympic experience - open up your browser that goes to your msn or yahoo homepage and the medal counts and results are all over! Especially when the timezone is that far ahead of us 'Muricans and we merely get re-reruns on TV that night...

Do you consider overall medal count to be more of a success that total number of golds?

 

[Venture]

Re: Olympics - Watching USA Men's Gymnastics Implode

I almost think the Internet has ruined the Olympic experience - open up your browser that goes to your msn or yahoo homepage and the medal counts and results are all over! Especially when the timezone is that far ahead of us 'Muricans and we merely get re-reruns on TV that night...

Do you consider overall medal count to be more of a success that total number of golds?

I was having a discussion with a colleague about the coverage and how the results are everywhere. He felt as you do, I told him to unplug and turn off his phone.

Overall success is an interesting discussion I haven't had. I personally have never measured "success" of the Olympics. I couldn't tell you who had the most medals from the last Olympics, I've never really cared about it.

One thing though that I read about this week that did change my overall perception of the USA's success is the amount of emphasis China puts on the games. I can only state what I read in a Yahoo article, but they apparently will take Olympic hopefuls as young as the age of 6 to training facilities, where their sole existence becomes training for an Olympic event. When you measure that kind of "forced" athletic cultivation with how the USA does it it becomes very amazing how competitive the USA really is. I believe in general the USA athletes pay their own way, and their training is an "extracurricular" activity rather than their sole focus for existence.

 

[Venture]

I noticed that during the swimming competitions the men weren't wearing the full body suits anymore. I did a quick search and came up with a little article explaining why:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/25/why-ban-full-body-olympics-swimsuits-a-scientist-explains-polyurethane.html

I think it's great they banned them. Technology often has too much of a presence in sports.