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Post by IceCat on Aug 4, 2016 9:58:14 GMT
This is to be the main thread for the run of the Games with the exception of the golf competition which should be covered in the Tournament folder. You should therefore expect a write up from bangkokbobby on the US women's soccer team's 2-0 win over New Zealand in their first group stage match of these Olympics on Wednesday.
Kevin
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Post by HappyFan on Aug 4, 2016 17:05:24 GMT
He should mention how the Brazilian fans have been razzing Hope Solo every single time she touches the ball. Reason: she has made a twitter fatwa against the zika virus and how worried she is about going to Brazil. A warning to other athletes that the fans there don't forget!
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Post by mr3putt on Aug 4, 2016 17:24:37 GMT
He should mention how the Brazilian fans have been razzing Hope Solo every single time she touches the ball. Reason: she has made a twitter fatwa against the zika virus and how worried she is about going to Brazil. A warning to other athletes that the fans there don't forget! This. On another note.....at least Wambach won't be there.....blah...ugh. Alex Morgan is the only US gal soccer team member worth mentioning....nuff said.
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Post by HappyFan on Aug 5, 2016 17:17:39 GMT
The archery ranking tournament has already started. This will set up the seeds for the round robin that happens tomorrow for the men and Sunday for the women's team competition (individual competition is late next week). Bo Bae Ki, the dual gold medalist and 2015 world champion, is going for a rare repeat gold. She is not the top gun on her own team (Mi Sun Choi is the top ranked archer in the world, Ki is third). But I'm rooting like heck for her to pull it off. She is a rock star over in Korea. Here's an article about Bo Bae Ki(L to R): Mi Sun Choi, Bo Bae Ki and Hye Jin Chang
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2016 5:27:37 GMT
I hope Bolt is well. He is already the best athelete I've ever seen. I saw 30 minutes of the opening ceremonies. Pretty inspiring. The drumbeat exposing the cowards-- Rory McIlroy, Jason Day, Jordan Spieth, Adam Scott, Lee-Anne Pace and many others has just begun.
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Post by HappyFan on Aug 6, 2016 8:49:32 GMT
I always enjoy watching the March of Nations. One thing I've noticed on day one is that, every time they mention golf in the Olympics, they only talk about the men. They don't even call it the men's golf team, just the golf team. They had Feherty on: just the men. They did, however, call out every female tennis star they saw. The flag bearer for Hong Kong, Stephanie Au, is very pretty and extremely popular over there. She swam at Cal Berkeley and holds Hong Kong national records in 4 events. Would be a real kick to see her make any of the finals!
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Post by HappyFan on Aug 6, 2016 8:59:13 GMT
The Korean Women archers got out to a great start! In the ranking round for the individual tournament, they finished 1-2-3:
Mi Sun Choi 669 Hye Jin Chang 666 Bo Bae Ki 663
Taiwanese archer Ya Ting Tan was 4th with 656.
Hwaiting!
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Post by HappyFan on Aug 8, 2016 16:45:38 GMT
Last night I focused on the swimming and diving competitions.
The swimming is a bit on the dull side this year because it seems like every single race has one swimmer who is clearly better than all the others. You had Sjostrom in the fly, Peaty in the breast, and Ledecky in the 400, all blowing out the field with little trouble.
On the other hand, the free relay was amazing. I've never been that much of a Phelps fan; he's always seemed a bit douchey to me to be honest. But last night he was incredibly clutch; he and Adrian were the reasons they won that thing, but mostly Phelps with his incredible turn. When I saw him go deep and avoid the wave, I thought, that's a veteran move right there. Awesome gold for the States (and the one guy who had never before swam in an international meet totally lost it on the medal stand, which was also touching).
The woman diving commentator has got to go. My daughter and I were consistently getting it right and she was getting it wrong. Allow me a digression to say that Wu Mingxia is poetry in motion; I've loved watching her over the years and will miss her. Beautiful, graceful and cool under pressure.
So Wu and her partner do this exquisite dive, and the commentator nitpicks and nitpicks. And I tell my daughter, no way this isn't the best score we've seen tonight. And it was. Then she gushes about the Italians, and I could tell it would not score as high as the Chinese just did, and it doesn't. But the capper came when she claimed the Canadians would get the bronze, when their dives were clearly worse than the Aussies who had just gone. My 7-year-old daughter called it: Australia for the bronze. AND SHE WAS RIGHT! The commentator even admitted she was wrong.
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Post by HappyFan on Aug 8, 2016 17:09:37 GMT
Congratulations to the Korean men and women archery teams, both of which won the gold medal!
I saw the final two matches of the women's archery. They manhandled the bronze medalist Taiwan team in the semis. In the gold medal match they faced Russia. The conditions were windy; for some reason, they always play this competition in outdoor stadiums where wind can come into play.
Right from the get go, the Koreans dominated, making bullseye after bullseye. They have a murderers row of Hye Jin Jang, Mi Sun Choi (the #1 archer in the world) and veteran Bo Bae Ki, double gold medalist in London. It seemed like every time one of them struggled, the other two would step up. They won the first two sets easily.
So they only needed a tie in the third set to clinch the gold. It all came down to BB Ki, who needed an 8 or better. And she made an 8! Not her best shot, but good enough, right? No, there was a protest! It looked like one of the Russian arrows might be on the line, which would give them one more point and the win in the third set. For about 30 tense seconds, the ladies waited, but in the end, the protest was overturned. For the 8th straight Olympics, the Korean women team rules at archery!!!!
Ready for action
Celebrate
Bo Bae Ki wins her third gold medal
Mi Sun Choi
Medals!
I wonder if Bo Bae did a dance like this after the competition:
Here's a cool story about Bo Bae Ki, the face of archery in Korea: 8 Good Reasons to Love Bo Bae Ki
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Post by don on Aug 9, 2016 15:49:32 GMT
Is there no olympic tourney thread yet?
The coverage by golf channel has been pretty good. Everybody is hyping it up saying how great it is. I bet they pack their bags and gtfo right after the men finish.
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Post by HappyFan on Aug 9, 2016 17:22:00 GMT
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Post by don on Aug 9, 2016 18:45:08 GMT
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Post by philknj on Aug 9, 2016 19:44:51 GMT
Team Kuchar w/ caddie at last night's table tennis matches. Matt, for thinking Olympic golf was a team competition, you should be the one to drop and give me twenty...in your Skechers, of course. ********** This must be the pro-am (below)...when does the real tournament start?
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Post by HappyFan on Aug 10, 2016 17:01:26 GMT
Le Clos but no Cigar!
OK, that was really fun. I actually don't dislike Chad Le Clos, he seems nice enough if not exactly humble. But he has been asking for a smackdown all week, what with his trying to psyche Phelps out with goofy dancing in front of him in the warm up room and whatnot.
Then they got into the pool, and Le Clos is still trying to recover from the tire marks all over his back. Epic!
Think about this. Phelp has 21 gold medals. That's UNREAL. That's more gold medals than the entire country of India has ever achieved. Phelps > 1 billion people.
More cool stuff in archery. Bhutan actually has a women's archer (one of their two athletes) named Karma. That's it, just one name. And she was pretty good, too, although she lost to the Russian in the end.
(they show her on the screen as 'Karma Karma', because I guess their chyron is not prepared for one named athletes. Made me wish her last name was Chameleon, but oh well).
They also had a paralympian archer in a wheelchair from Iran, and it was really cool to see her going toe to toe in the regular Olympics. Apparently she had been a taekwondo athlete until she was paralyzed, then switched to archery and got good enough to make the regular Olympics. Fighting!
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Post by fourwaymiss on Aug 10, 2016 17:30:49 GMT
No golf thread yet. Coming soon! The highlight of last night was definitely the race between the Russian and Lilly King in the 100 Breast. How the Russian got into the field with two doping convictions is beyond me, but she got touched out in the end, which seemed like good retribution. Meanwhile, Hong Kong swimmer and flag bearer Stephanie Au continues to attract attention. There's this fairly humorous article about how much of an impact she's made just by being cute. The writer really outdoes himself with the Oriental Venus comment! How Stephanie Au Has Already WonAnd I found her Instagram page: Stephanie Au Instagram Pagehttps://www.instagram.com/p/BFeOpk9whg6 HF, you are so smitten with her. I may be able to translate what she wrote for you. All you have to do is say "Lydia is the greatest"
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