I think it’s most likely these young golfers are a bunch of spoiled brats who have no concept about what the World Olympics is about
I'm sure they grew up watching them like the rest of us.. as fans. So they have the same understanding of the Olympics that the rest of us do.
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and couldn’t give a rat’s ass about representing their country.
Spoken like somebody who has never watched the emotion at the end of a hotly contested Ryder Cup or President's Cup event.. when these guys consider it a great honor to represent their country.
"Spoken like somebody who has never watched the emotion at the end of a hotly contested Ryder Cup or President's Cup event.. when these guys consider it a great honor to represent their country."
Sure, but did you have a chance to review the Ryder Cup and President's Cup winner's purse in 2015?
"Spoken like somebody who has never watched the emotion at the end of a hotly contested Ryder Cup or President's Cup event.. when these guys consider it a great honor to represent their country."
Sure, but did you have a chance to review the Ryder Cup and President's Cup winner's purse in 2015?
It's the same as some people make in a lifetime.
There is no prize money given to the players. Everything is donated to charity in the players name.
Nothing - Exactly the same as "...some people make in a lifetime."
Anyway, a meaningful post be either you or DC on this subject:
Why losers like Jason Day and Rory McIlroy are not golfing in Rio.
Go ahead quote Jason Day:
"The reason for my decision is my concerns about the possible transmission of the Zika virus and the potential risks it might present to my wife's future pregnancies and to future members of our family,"
Jason Day is a liar. He knows the Zika transmission risk is zero.
The proof?
The top ten women golfers in the world will all be golfing in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.
And they are all childbearing age and if there was so much as a 1 out of a thousand chance of catching Zika, I wouldn't want them there (let alone their husbands, boyfriends, friends, families...)
Nothing - Exactly the same as "...some people make in a lifetime."
Anyway, a meaningful post be either you or DC on this subject:
Why losers like Jason Day and Rory McIlroy are not golfing in Rio.
Go ahead quote Jason Day:
"The reason for my decision is my concerns about the possible transmission of the Zika virus and the potential risks it might present to my wife's future pregnancies and to future members of our family,"
Jason Day is a liar. He knows the Zika transmission risk is zero.
The proof?
The top ten women golfers in the world will all be golfing in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.
And they are all childbearing age and if there was so much as a 1 out of a thousand chance of catching Zika, I wouldn't want them there (let alone their husbands, boyfriends, friends, families...)
If I'm a multi-millionaire 20-something that plays golf for a living there is no way in hell I go to that cesspool and risk my health, or worse yet life. Blame the IOC for putting the Olympics there, not the athletes.
I was having fun looking-up interesting Olympic facts. But I let myself get caught up in the pointless board bickering. My bad.
Sorry, your posts about golfers not attending and calling them losers because of it is lame. This thread was excellent until you started taking jabs at athletes who chose not to attend the Olympics in what amounts to a 3rd world country. As I said, blame the IOC. Would you take your family to the Olympics this year? No way in hell I'd take mine.
I was having fun looking-up interesting Olympic facts. But I let myself get caught up in the pointless board bickering. My bad.
Mine too.. but this is further proof that they did the Olympics a disservice when they started allowing multi-millionaire professionals to participate... They opened it up to this kind of scrutiny..
She has the credentials of one of the greatest Olympic athletes ever:
At 17, she won the double-trap gold medal at the ‘96 Atlanta games (a shooting event) She medalled at Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London (‘00, ‘04, ‘08, ‘12 respectively) First American to win medals in 5 straight Olympics in a single event. Only woman to win three golds in shooting. First American to qualify for Olympics on 5 continents.
If she medals in Rio, she will join Italian luger Armin Zoeggeler as the only athletes to medal in 6 straight Olympics.
And she’s a babe.
The 8 Olympic shooting events:
Air pistol Air rifle Pistol Rapid fire pistol Rifle prone Rifle three position Skeet Trap
Olympic Triathlon Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janiro 1.5km swim, 40km bike, 10km run
The men will race in Rio on Aug. 18 and the women are scheduled to race Aug. 20, with the main venue set at Copacabana Beach.
Men favored to win: This is pretty much Great Britain's show - the Brownlee brothers, Alistair and Jonathan, are not only the elite of the elite, they are the reigning Gold & Bronze medalists in Olympic Triathlon. Alistair's run time at the 2012 London Games was so fast that he would have had a Top 10 placing in the 10,000 meter track event - and he did it after swimming and biking first. Jonathan had to serve a time penalty on the run in London and still cruised to an easy Bronze. London's Silver Medalist, Javier Gomez (Spain), just withdrew from Rio after having surgery to repair some things that got broken in a training crash. This means that the Brownlee's are the odds-on favorites for Gold & Silver with Bronze being up for grabs.
Women: There is only one name here - Gwensanity.
Gwen Jorgensen of the United States may not be quite human. She just had the longest running streak of ITU (Internation Triathlon Union) victories, ever - destroying fields left & right with a run so dominating that no lead off the bike is really quite safe. Her one and only non-victory since taking 12th in March 2014 was a 2nd place finish this past April in an event where she was just cruising and everyone else was still trying to tie up their Rio qualifying.... she's won both events since.
The U.S. Women's triathlon team has three spot, but only two are filled as of May (I think it is finalized now, but I'm not certain of by whom), with the other spot being Sarah True and she definitely has the potential to also medal, but once you get past Gwen, it's really a dog fight for Silver & Bronze. Whomever has a good day can take it. The third spot will likely go to Katie Zaferes (if it hasn't already).
Don't expect to see the U.S. Men's triathlon team in contention. I would be surprised to see any of them in the Top 10.
Only one American has ever medalled in Triathlon. Susan Williams claimed Bronze at the 2004 Athens Games.
To see just what Gwen can do, and perhaps understand why she is called 'Gwensanity', check out these videos... she's almost super-human:
GWENNESS 1.1 This one defines 'Gewnsanity' better than any other.
She has the credentials of one of the greatest Olympic athletes ever:
At 17, she won the double-trap gold medal at the ‘96 Atlanta games (a shooting event) She medalled at Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London (‘00, ‘04, ‘08, ‘12 respectively) First American to win medals in 5 straight Olympics in a single event. Only woman to win three golds in shooting. First American to qualify for Olympics on 5 continents.
If she medals in Rio, she will join Italian luger Armin Zoeggeler as the only athletes to medal in 6 straight Olympics.
And she’s a babe.
The 8 Olympic shooting events:
Air pistol Air rifle Pistol Rapid fire pistol Rifle prone Rifle three position Skeet Trap
Any chick that poses with a gun and a race car, their score automatically goes up by 2 to 3 points.
The boats used in Olympic sailing are very high tech and way beyond my understanding and desire to spend time learning about.
Except one. The Narca 17.
The “Narca 17” is the boat used in the mixed event. One of the few mixed Olympic events (men and women competing together).
The Nacra 17 is a recently designed catamaran built for racing for two sailors. (I’ll guess it’s the fastest sailboat on earth)
Countries participating in sailing (sailors in parenthesis)
Algeria (3) Angola (3) Argentina (13) Aruba (3) Australia (11) Austria (8) Belarus (2) Belgium (4) Bermuda (2) Brazil (15) Canada (9) Cayman Islands (1) Chile (9) China (8) Colombia (1) Cook Islands (2) Croatia (8) Cyprus (2) Czech Republic (3) Denmark (11) Egypt (1) El Salvador (1) Estonia (5) Finland (8) France (15) Germany (12) Great Britain (15) Greece (7) Guatemala (1) Hong Kong (2) Hungary (5) Ireland (6) Israel (6) Italy (13) Japan (11) Latvia (1) Lithuania (2) Malaysia (2) Mexico (3) Montenegro (1) Netherlands (11) New Zealand (12) Norway (7) Peru (2) Poland (7) Portugal (5) Russia (7) Saint Lucia (1) Seychelles (3) Singapore (10) Slovenia (3) South Africa (3) South Korea (4) Spain (14) Sweden (7) Switzerland (9) Chinese Taipei (1) Thailand (4) Trinidad and Tobago (1) Tunisia (4) Turkey (6) Ukraine (3) United States (15) Uruguay (4) Venezuela (2) Virgin Islands (1)
"Land locked Switzerland won the 2003 America's cup."
You're making me spend more time on sailing than I ever wanted to do.
Sure, Switzerland nominally won the 2003 America's Cup.
But it was really some rich guy (Ernesto Bertarelli) who wanted to win the Cup and he hired (paid-off) some of the best sailors in the world (several opportunistic New Zealanders) to sail his state of the art boat Alinbhi
I'll bet the Alinbhi has never been within Swiss borders (water?)
But it was really some rich guy (Ernesto Bertarelli) who wanted to win the Cup and he hired (paid-off) some of the best sailors in the world (several opportunistic New Zealanders) to sail his state of the art boat Alinbhi
And Bertarelli wasn't even born in Switzerland, he was born in Italy. He just moved to Switzerland because his grandfather moved his pharmaceutical company out of Italy and exported all of the jobs to Switzerland.. what a piece of crap that guy is.
There’s two competition lifts in order: the snatch and the clean and jerk. Each weightlifter receives three attempts in each, and the combined total of the highest two successful lifts determines the overall result within a bodyweight category.
There’s 8 men’s weight categories ranging from Super Heavy Weight (105+ kgs) (~238 lbs) to Bantamweight (-56kg)(~123).
There’s 7 women’s categories (no names for women’s categories) (so I’ll make up my own) Godzilla Bride (75+ kgs)(~165 lbs). Twiggy with Muscles (48 kgs)(~106).
If Russia is banned from weight lifting, they will be sorely missed
The International Olympic Committee has sold its soul.
Not that it was ever really in doubt, but its decision Sunday to allow Russia to participate in the Rio Games despite damning evidence of a widespread doping program traced to the highest reaches of its sports administration confirmed it. And worse than selling its soul, the IOC has sold out all those clean athletes who have been begging for someone to have their backs along with the woman who was brave enough to reveal Russia’s dirty secrets.
At a time when the Olympic movement needed strong, decisive leadership, the IOC waffled, asking the individual sports federations to make the tough calls on who competes and who doesn’t.
“Bottled it — IOC passing the buck to individual federations (sports) on whether to allow Russian athletes to compete in Rio 2016. Bad day,” James Cracknell, a two-time Olympic champion rower, said on Twitter.
Oh, IOC President Thomas Bach talked a good game, blustering about the “highest hurdles” that Russian athletes will have to clear before they’ll be allowed to compete in Rio.
But all anyone will remember years from now is that the IOC caved to a country that spent $51 billion on the Sochi Games. Instead of sending a message that would reverberate around the world and have lasting impact, the IOC’s decision amounts to little more than a slap on the wrist.
Russian athletes will march in the opening ceremony. Russian athletes will compete in several sports. Russian athletes will win medals and hear their national anthem played. And the Russian flag will fly over the Games.
“In response to the most important moment for clean athletes and the integrity of the Olympic Games, the IOC has refused to take decisive leadership,” Travis Tygart, CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, said in a statement. “The decision regarding participation and the confusing mess left in its wake is a significant blow to the rights of clean athletes.”
Not just now, either. In addition to its cop-out on a blanket ban, the IOC also said that Yulia Stepanova, the middle-distance runner who revealed the Russian doping program, can’t compete in Rio. Never mind that she’s served her ban, or that the evidence she provided in hopes of cleaning up Olympic sports has put her very life in danger.
By banning her from Rio, the IOC has told anyone else thinking of telling what they know about doping not to bother. The IOC doesn’t want to hear it.
The IOC likes to preach the importance of fair play and how it prizes clean competition. But those are just words. It is actions that matter, and the IOC’s decisions Sunday showed exactly whose sides it’s on.
There are some tricky logisitics to how handball teams are allowed to compete in the Olympics.(qualify)
A country can’t just “send a team”.
Only twelve teams qualify. (12 men teams and 12 women teams - rules and medals are the same for men and women)
The 12 teams that qualify are:
The Host Nation The 2015 World Champion The Four Contenental Champions (Europe, Africa, Pan America, Asia) The six teams qualifying in the 2016 Olympic Qualifing Tournament (held in April 2016)
Contries that qualified for the men:
Brazil The Host nation France The 2015 World champion The four Continental Champions Germany - Europe Egypt - Africa Argentina - Pan America - (the whole Western Hemisphere) Qatar - Asia And six teams from the Olympic Qualifing Tournament Poland Tunisia Slovenia Sweden Denmark Croatia
For the women:
Brazil The Host nation Norway The 2015 World champion The four Continental Champions Spain - Europe Angola - Africa Argentina - Pan America South Korea - Asia And six teams from the Olympic Qualifing Tournament Netherlands France Romania Montenegro Russia Sweden
The 12 teams play in two groups. The six teams in a group play a round-robin (each other once)
The top 4 finishers in each group advance to the quarterfinals and play single elimination to the championship (like the NCAA brackets)
You may have noticed no USA (men or women).
So who cares?
I may watch a match if it’s on when:
1) I happen to be sitting on my couch 2) The TV happens to be on 3) A handball Match is televised at this time 4) I lost the remote control 5) I’m not asleep or dead
I'm lying. I'm half Croatian so if Croatia advances beyond their group (to the quarterfinals) I'd watch those matches.
France Germany Spain Netherlands Poland Slovenia Croatia Sweden Denmark Montenegro Romania
But, no teams from Central or North America and only two teams from South America (and one of those is the host - Brazil and the other is the Contenental Qualifier - Argentina)
What's going on? I protest. I'm watching this Olympics Handball in protest.
All those events make sense except the show jumping. It is very expensive and time consuming to train up a horse and rider in that sport. You have to dedicate your life to it. An elite horse that can compete in the olympics can easily cost a million dollars or more. I am guessing they are competing at a lower level of fence height and difficulty, but still it will still be a six figure horse.
So it seems weird to me that they include a sport that is so involved and has so many variables beyond your own physical ability.
For some reason reminds me of the contests in Revenge of the Nerds and Mr Mom (I think you have to be a little crazy to excel iin this event)
It’s the longest track event with obstacles - 3,000 meters (just under 2 miles (1.86))
The Olympic records for the event are 8:05.51 minutes for men, set by Julius Kariuki in 1988, and 8:58.81 minutes for women, set by Gulnara Galkina in 2008.
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