Other Olympic stuff besides golf

johnnydoom · 2024-08-04T20:04:14+00:00

What a finish by Noah Lyles in the 100m dash! I wasn’t even focused on him as it looked like the winner was coming from lanes 3 or 2.

Rickochet

raggmann54

Man, you can almost smell the sea. 😜

shokosugi

Rickochet Man, you can almost smell the sea.

Your comment put an immediate smile on my face - I do concur!

ode

garyt1957 a team that plays good D, gets hot from 3, and gets USA in some foul trouble could lead to some trouble. It's the knockout stage, not a series so it could happen.....but not likely.

johnnydoom

That was strange. I took a brief break from work and sat to watch a Taekwondo gold medal match. I don't know anything about the discipline or the rules of the competition. In the first round the Korean and Azerbaijan dude struck each others legs in a kick and the Azerbaijani hit the mat, got treatments on the leg and then got up and either could barely walk or acted like he could barely walk. I would have thought that would have been the end of the fight with the Azerbaijani pretty much unable to defend himself. But the fight went on with several stoppages for the guy to get treatment on his leg while the Korean guy just kept racking up points during the brief periods of action. They finally stopped it much of the way through the 2nd round and I don't know if it was because the official decided to, or if the fighter finally forfeited. Either way it seemed silly to continue after the initial injury.

johnnydoom

After watching a little bit of women’s weight lifting earlier now I’m watching two very feminine looking women from India and Germany in the table tennis quarterfinals. Quite a contrast.

They’re probably big, fierce, and athletic enough to whip me in a fair fight, but they look really nice on TV.

The German woman won. Now there’s another quarterfinal match that also features Germany vs India.

Par4QC

johnnydoom I was just reading about the women wrestlers, and how the 1 from India has been barred from competition, after she won her way into the gold medal match. Overweight (2nd violation) by 100g..

There was pic included of her and the one that will replace her in the gold medal match.

JMO, but she would not have medaled in the men's pole vault either. 😉

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/paris-olympics-indian-wrestler-disqualified-from-gold-medal-match-in-womens-50kg-after-missing-weight-084916292.html

PA-PLAYA

Par4QC

After reading what her trainers did to her trying to get her down to weight (including blood removal), and even then all of that for naught, she ended up in the hospital.

Crazy.

ode

Team table tennis heating up😉

garyt1957

PA-PLAYA After reading what her trainers did to her trying to get her down to weight (including blood removal), and even then all of that for naught, she ended up in the hospital.

Crazy.

From what I've heard that's STOP even at the college level. Guys sitting in saunas with no water trying to make weight, dangerous stuff. They cut her hair, why not shave it off?

Walterjn

Not sure where to post this, as it's not something i bought, it was a gift, so...

A friend went to the Paris Olympics for the dressage. She said the heat was brutal. She also decided that she needed to bring me something from there...

It came with the removable pin.

This one doesn't come off as far as I know.

I now have a light hat for golf. I'll probably be wearing this at the larger courses I end up playing.
Not a daily wear.

PA-PLAYA

Walterjn

Nice! Too nice for golf. Especially if you sweat like I do.

garyt1957

Walterjn Looks good to me

Eguller

Walterjn

Great looking hat and looks even better with that cool T. 👍

Bravopilot

Walterjn Like the hat, nice Walter. I wear one similar. Saves the ears from Basel cell

Walterjn

PA-PLAYA agreed. probably not going to be used for the hot summer days. More likely bright spring/ cooler fall days.

garyt1957

Walterjn More likely bright spring/ cooler fall days.

C'mon man, you can't wear white after Labor Day, lol.

Walterjn

Eguller will have to try it with one of my polos and see how it looks.

darpar

Watching 'Wedgie Polo' right now,US women are leading Aus 5-2.👍

darpar

Sydney,BEST EVER ....new WR 400 hurdles!

darpar

The NBA Allstars barely squeaked by Serbia! 😯

scotts33

darpar The NBA Allstars barely squeaked by Serbia!

Steph Curry show, Steph held them in it by a whisker.

ode

darpar it was entertaining. Serbia played good D, good team O with a lot of pick and rolls to get big on little/vice versa and were hot from 3.....but they made NO 3's in the 4th. Curry, Lebron, KD, and Embid showed up huge....Embid 7 pt run was huge, and a big block in there! And Lebron's d on Joker was pretty stout.

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