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Official XXX Summer Olympiad: London 2012- Take II

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It'll be interesting to see how much of Track & Field gets rained out. London is expecting heavy storms over the next few days.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
It'll be interesting to see how much of Track & Field gets rained out. London is expecting heavy storms over the next few days.
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They're world class athletes, but they can't run in the rain? That's a little pathetic.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
It'll be interesting to see how much of Track & Field gets rained out. London is expecting heavy storms over the next few days.
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Apparently, they did run a steeplechase qualifier. Would have been kind of ironic if they had canceled it, given that they run through water.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
They're world class athletes, but they can't run in the rain? That's a little pathetic.
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Seems dangerous to me to be running all out on a wet, slippery synthetic track. I don't think its about can they run, its about is it safe.

Looks clear so far today, so not an issue as of yet.
 
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Took a short break from work to catch a few minutes of women's soccer, nice combination between Morgan and Wambaugh.

Then flipped to NBC and there was a heat of the women's 100m, that included a woman from Libya and a woman from Afghanistan (in head scarf, long pants, long sleeves). The winner of that heat was from Papua-New Guinea, and she actually looked like she might contend for a medal. Wouldn't that be cool. I generally like it when someone from some relatively small country (a little more than half the population of New York City) wins a medal in a sport like this.

Also saw that the Saudi woman in judo lasted 84 seconds before being eliminated by the #2 ranked woman in the world in that weight class. That's actually a pretty good performance! They finally let her compete using a head covering, albeit not the traditional "scarf" thing (too dangerous, apparently, grab it the wrong way doing a throw and you snap her neck...oops! the "compromise" head covering had no loose folds.)
 
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Perhaps i missed it or just did not understand. i had thought that athletes had to meet a certain standard (A or B) in order to compete in the Olympic games. I know a number of US athletes who performed well at our trials did not meet the set A standard and could not go to compete. How is that some of these foreign nations get to send athletes who have personal best times that are not even close to the standard?
 
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DrDemento said:
Perhaps i missed it or just did not understand. i had thought that athletes had to meet a certain standard (A or B) in order to compete in the Olympic games. I know a number of US athletes who performed well at our trials did not meet the set A standard and could not go to compete. How is that some of these foreign nations get to send athletes who have personal best times that are not even close to the standard?
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Wikipedia knows all

USOC Track & Field Trials and how it relates to the Olympic Standards said:
All countries are allowed to enter a maximum of three athletes into any of the Track and Field events in the Olympics, provided all three athletes have achieved a verifiable "A" standard performance. A country may enter one athlete in an event having achieved a "B" standard. Or, insignificant to the U.S. team, a country is allowed one single entry if it has no athletes who have achieved a "B" standard.
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Re: Official XXX Summer Olympiad: London 2012- Take II

I was all excited about a Hong Kong rower who had (I thought) made the semi-finals; and then after he won that race, I assumed he was in the finals. Turns out I don't know how these competitions are run. For single scull rowing anyway, everybody races the first day, and the best of those automatically advance. Everybody else races a 2nd race, and the best of those automatically advance. Those two groups make up the finalists. Everybody ELSE still races again, but those races are only to have a final, official order. But they still call those mop-up races "semi-finals" and "finals."

So I was all: Woo-hoo, he won his semi-final! But he only won the right to race for "from 25th to 30th place" in the "finals." :o

Oh well. He won the "final" as well, so that's nice to go out with 2 wins. And 25th in the world is nothing to sneeze at.

Back to the big sports.
 
Re: Official XXX Summer Olympiad: London 2012- Take II

How is it that Switzerland (!) has "beach" volleyball players?




(I'm being facetious, people....)
 
Re: Official XXX Summer Olympiad: London 2012- Take II

I think you have to give the nod to soccer players because they are the masters of this and the reason it has expanded to hockey and basketball...
 
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