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I actually like contemporary bars and beam (I love the combinations people are doing these days, rather than just seeing who can fit as many layouts in a row on the beam). Vault has come a long way but with the difficulty comes the mistakes. I'd almost rather watch people do easier vaults that look effortless (like all the layout Yurchenkos we saw in the 1992 Olympics) than throwing vaults and getting hurdled sideways our on their face. Floor....I don't know, I never did floor myself (I've never taken dance, other than some required PE college credits I did after I quit gymnastics) and since I hurt my back early on I was a beam and bars specialist before it was cool to be a specialist. So I can't really say I miss the artistry because I'm not real dance-y myself and really, some of the older routines look rather silly with all the arm flailing and jazz hand stuff...but I definitely miss compulsories (and the old team format with seven members, and the 40/60 where the prelim scores *did* carry over....).
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Wow, the 100-meter free. Doesn't get much closer than that. Nathan Adrian. What up.
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Dannell Leyva's stepdad was cracking me up - dude was PSYCHED!
![]() I can't watch while the events are airing live, so I have to wait for the highlight shows in the evenings. It's frustrating how choppily they've been edited. I understand they have limited time in which to do this, but the amount of events that are cut off at really weird points (mid-sentence, even) to go to a commercial break or something is annoying. At least the Canadian channels are good about showing the entire events, even when there aren't Canadians competing.
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Hahaha, I saw a video of her on NBC on a regular day and she didn't sound like that, she just sounds like that after races. I notice in her post-swim interviews she seems more out of breath than anyone else. But hey, it works.
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I know, right? And the fact that he's adorable and smart makes things all that much better. I'm picking Lochte to pull off the double gold tomorrow. Phelps looks exhausted. It's too bad. But then again, the way these Olympics are going, some unknown could upset. What a great meet on the whole -- live seeing some of the shiny-suit records being taken down. And from the drunken blind nationalist perspective, Team USA is having a great meet. |
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Stop it guys. You're going to break California! LA workers asked to stop watching Olympics online | Fox News
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Oh my god, Channel Nine is showing gymnastics highlights! I can barely believe my luck. Every time I'd switched on their highlights packages before, it was all swimming, replays of swimming, interviews with swimmers crying over the oh-so-terrible disgrace of winning a medal not coloured gold, and perhaps occasionally some token footage of an Aussie sports team or rower.
What the hell is Mark Nicholas doing, though? He sounds so bored and confused by the gymnastics. Does he even know sports other than cricket exist?
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I see one of the eight badminton players kicked out of the Olympics for throwing their matches has quit the sport entirely. Honestly, I disagree with them being thrown out of the Games to begin with. Was what they did sporting, or in the "Olympic spirit"? No. Was it a good look for badminton? Not at all. Did the spectators get value for money? Obviously not, though they've got a mighty good story. But it's hard to blame the athletes for only doing what was best by them. I'd probably throw a match to get an easier opponent in the finals too.
The tonne of bricks should've come down on the idiot schedulers, not on the players. It's sheer incompetence if they didn't see this coming.
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Here and there.
I've got nothing to really say, since, I just got home and managed to turn my 4 hours worth of DVR'd primetime programming into a 15 minute program. I feel like I deprived myself, but, I'm super double fucking exhausted. Looking forward to all that swummin' tomorrow night. Sorry I'm helping to break CA. ![]() |
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Olympic gold in the men's double sculls for NZ!! Great race
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Hey, Irvine! Can you speak from experience?
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Cohen and Sullivan, what champions! What force at the end!
Mahé Drysdale and the duo of Bond and Murray rowing for gold tomorrow - can't wait.
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