Paris Olympics

[MissThundercat]

Transphobes love to claim they can always tell.

Their record thus far: 0 for infinity.

The number of people they cause death or injury to: I really don't want to think about that.

 

[state of hockey]

I think RSAs Tatjana Smith beats Douglass in the 200M breaststroke if there’s no turns. She seemed to gain half a body length on each one, with Smith slowly coming back over each of the 50M.

 

[MichVandal]

I think RSAs Tatjana Smith beats Douglass in the 200M breaststroke if there’s no turns. She seemed to gain half a body length on each one, with Smith slowly coming back over each of the 50M.

Good thing the pool is only 50m long. But Douglass swam the straights better than they were “predicting”.

 

[Scarlet]

Wait…Russia didn’t send a team to the Olympics?

 

[MichVandal]

Wait…Russia didn’t send a team to the Olympics?

They and Belarus were banned. They have some independent athletes competing without a nation or flag. Not the refugee team.

 

[Russell Jaslow]

I think RSAs Tatjana Smith beats Douglass in the 200M breaststroke if there’s no turns. She seemed to gain half a body length on each one, with Smith slowly coming back over each of the 50M.

No doubt Douglass' turns were epic.

 

[Scarlet]

Wait…Russia didn’t send a team to the Olympics?

 

[ericredaxe]

Wait…Russia didn’t send a team to the Olympics?

Russian athletes are competing as unaffiliated I beleive.

 

[Russell Jaslow]

Would someone (Jim?) please explain to me where the penalty was for that PK? (Or, was it a hand ball which I missed?)

 

[SonofSouthie]

Finally, track and field.

 

[MichVandal]

Would someone (Jim?) please explain to me where the penalty was for that PK? (Or, was it a hand ball which I missed?)

Doesn’t seem to matter much. The men’s team is bad enough to not inspire anyone to play the game.

 

[unofan]

Doesn’t seem to matter much. The men’s team is bad enough to not inspire anyone to play the game.

The Olympics is a glorified youth tournament for the men. It's not a premiere national team event like it is for the women.

 

[MichVandal]

The Olympics is a glorified youth tournament for the men. It's not a premiere national team event like it is for the women.

Last I checked, they were worse, relative to the world. How many coaches has the main team burned through just to manage to occasionally quality for the WC?

But it is really amusing to listen to the tone of the commentators between the men’s and women’s team. For the men’s, it’s mostly about inspiring fans and new players to develop the game in the US. For the women’s , it’s about bringing back the dominance the women had.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Transphobes love to claim they can always tell.

Their record thus far: 0 for infinity.

The number of people they cause death or injury to: I really don't want to think about that.

If it weren't for a certain billionaire transphobe making it her solitary megaphone issue, I suspect we'd hear considerably less from the haters. I really wish we could normalize treating the ill-informed opinions of the uber-wealthy the same way we treat our drunk relatives' opinions at family barbecues.

 

[SonofSouthie]

Doesn’t seem to matter much. The men’s team is bad enough to not inspire anyone to play the game.

I don't get too high or low regarding US men's soccer. I don't expect much from them.

 

[Jimjamesak]

Doesn’t seem to matter much. The men’s team is bad enough to not inspire anyone to play the game.

They made the quarterfinals.

 

[Jimjamesak]

Would someone (Jim?) please explain to me where the penalty was for that PK? (Or, was it a hand ball which I missed?)

Which one? The second one which was a handball or the first one where the US player kicked the other player?

 

[unofan]

Last I checked, they were worse, relative to the world. How many coaches has the main team burned through just to manage to occasionally quality for the WC?

They've missed one World Cup since 1990. That's more than occasionally qualifying. They make it out of the Group Stage roughly 50% of the time. Relative to the rest of the world, that still puts them in the top 20 or so. That's nothing to sneeze at.

That also has nothing to do with the Olympics, seeing as it's not really the men's team but a bunch of college-aged kids with 3 token overage players who were allowed to go by their clubs.

 

[Russell Jaslow]

Which one? The second one which was a handball or the first one where the US player kicked the other player?

Well, if you looked at my timestamp... LOL

Okay, I'll stop being a jerk. The first one. When I saw the replay again at halftime, I was more okay with it. But I still think the "kick" was mild, did not get in the way of any scoring chance (his own player knocked him over), and still think it's a "weak" call, but I can now see why it was called.

I had no problem with the hand ball. True, he didn't move his arm, but it was still out away from his body (even if the ball hit it, as opposed to the other way). I would have called it a PK as well.

 

[Slap Shot]

Last I checked, they were worse, relative to the world. How many coaches has the main team burned through just to manage to occasionally quality for the WC?

They've missed 1 WC since 1990 - that's 7 for 8.

I don't think the problem is their presence in the WC but rather who is running US soccer at varying levels.

Because despite making the WC regularly, the share of kids 6 to 12 that participated in soccer fell from a peak of 10.9% in 2009 to a low of 6.2% in 2020, although it rebounded to 7.4% the next year.