Olympics off to a swell start

[ZiprHead]

Looks like Simone Biles just took the Gold after an almost perfectly flawless floor routine.

 

[bilby]

while a swimmer can get multiple from all the different distances, the different strokes, the relays, etc.

Didn't Gary Coleman miss out on a Gold for that one back in the 1980 boycott of the Moscow games?

 

[Elixir]

I was asking about the open swim because a lifeguard I've known for several years and went off to college on a swimming scholarship last year, showed back up at the pool for the summer. Now, I haven't been to Paris in decades, but when she told me they were holding open water swims in the Seine, I thought she was kidding.

But they're doing it...

 

[bilby]

I was asking about the open swim because a lifeguard I've known for several years and went off to college on a swimming scholarship last year, showed back up at the pool for the summer. Now, I haven't been to Paris in decades, but when she told me they were holding open water swims in the Seine, I thought she was kidding.

But they're doing it...

That's in Seine.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Aussies win Women's 4x200 m. US takes silver giving Ledecky the most medals for any American swimmer who isn't named Michael Phelps. China held on to 3rd for Bronze, after the announcer shit talked their team for only having two swimmers.

 

[blastula]

What a disgrace as an ex man gets to fight a female boxer;

Italian boxer Angela Carini broke down in tears after she abandoned her bout against Algerian Imane Khelif after 46 seconds in a fight that sparked huge controversy at the Olympics. Khelif is one of two boxers permitted to fight at the Olympics despite being disqualified from the women’s world championships last year for failing testosterone and gender eligibility tests. In highly-charged scenes at the North Paris Arena, Carini revealed afterwards that she had pulled out after after being hit harder than she had ever been hit before. A first punch dislodged her chinstrap and a second smashed against her chin and bloodied her shorts.

Teh Gruaniad

It's doesn't say she's trans. Testosterone can vary naturally.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

What a disgrace as an ex man gets to fight a female boxer;

Italian boxer Angela Carini broke down in tears after she abandoned her bout against Algerian Imane Khelif after 46 seconds in a fight that sparked huge controversy at the Olympics. Khelif is one of two boxers permitted to fight at the Olympics despite being disqualified from the women’s world championships last year for failing testosterone and gender eligibility tests. In highly-charged scenes at the North Paris Arena, Carini revealed afterwards that she had pulled out after after being hit harder than she had ever been hit before. A first punch dislodged her chinstrap and a second smashed against her chin and bloodied her shorts.

Teh Gruaniad

There is currently no available information to justify your accusation. I get that rural Algeria is a breeding ground for the trans movement, but that isn't enough to make the baseless accusation.

The situation has arisen because the world championships last year was run under the auspices of the International Boxing Association, whose president, Umar Kremlev, told the Russian news agency, Tass, that DNA tests had “proved they had XY chromosomes and were thus excluded from the sports events”.

The IBA told the Guardian it had made the decision “following a comprehensive review and was intended to uphold the fairness and integrity of the competition”.

Since then, however, the IBA has been banned from running the Olympic boxing tournament in Paris because of long-running questions surrounding governance issues and a series of judging scandals. That means the boxing in Paris is now being run under the auspices of the IOC’s Paris 2024 Boxing Unit, which has more relaxed rules than the IBA.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Do they have an open water swim?

Part of the triathlon, right?

I enjoy watching the swimming but there are so many events. Phelps has so many olympic medals because they give a medal for every single event. A soccer team will get at most one medal, while a swimmer can get multiple from all the different distances, the different strokes, the relays, etc.

Phelps also has so many medals because he was able to beat specialists in those strokes and distances, swimming an insanely grueling schedule against people who might only swim two races total. No one has ever even considered trying what he accomplished.

 

[Thomas II]

I was asking about the open swim because a lifeguard I've known for several years and went off to college on a swimming scholarship last year, showed back up at the pool for the summer. Now, I haven't been to Paris in decades, but when she told me they were holding open water swims in the Seine, I thought she was kidding.

But they're doing it...

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Do they have an open water swim?

Part of the triathlon, right?

I enjoy watching the swimming but there are so many events. Phelps has so many olympic medals because they give a medal for every single event. A soccer team will get at most one medal, while a swimmer can get multiple from all the different distances, the different strokes, the relays, etc.

Phelps also has so many medals because he was able to beat specialists in those strokes and distances, swimming an insanely grueling schedule against people who might only swim two races total. No one has ever even considered trying what he accomplished.

It is the nature of the sport. Any team sport will be grueling, game after game, one medal. Or the Decathlon, of course, they wouldn't win in most of the individual events though.

In swimming there are a ton of events. Most swimmers can't do a ton of events though. Which is why Phelps has the most. He effectively did the track version of 100 m, 4 x 100m, 100 m hurdles, 200 m, 4 x 400m. His 2008 performance is stupid awesome. I imagine he could have won other events too.

Almost half of his medals are relay's though... but take out his relay medals and he still had a remarkable career, like Ledecky.

 

[blastula]

Amazing shot here.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

 

[Thomas II]

It's ok now! We found the doodie...It's no big deal!...

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Imagine swimming in your only Olympic event, winning a bronze medal, and then finding out you’ve been DQ’d because of a massive brain fart. Alex Morgan in the 200IM botched the back-to-breast turn.

 

[Thomas II]

Imagine swimming in your only Olympic event, winning a bronze medal, and then finding out you’ve been DQ’d because of a massive brain fart. Alex Morgan in the 200IM botched the back-to-breast turn.

Alex Morgan (below)

 

[ZiprHead]

What is the deal with the women's volleyball uniforms compared to the men's uniforms. A litttle unnecessarily skimpy.

 

[Harry Bosch]

Imagine swimming in your only Olympic event, winning a bronze medal, and then finding out you’ve been DQ’d because of a massive brain fart. Alex Morgan in the 200IM botched the back-to-breast turn.

Alex Morgan (below)

I never should have given up my SI subscription! BTW: wasn't a brain fart. I swam the IM in college. Swimmers shave time off when they transition faster to breast stroke (or really don't hold the back stroke long enough). She was trying to cut time off and got caught.

 

[thebeave]

Imagine swimming in your only Olympic event, winning a bronze medal, and then finding out you’ve been DQ’d because of a massive brain fart. Alex Morgan in the 200IM botched the back-to-breast turn.

Alex Morgan (below)

I never should have given up my SI subscription! BTW: wasn't a brain fart. I swam the IM in college. Swimmers shave time off when they transition faster to breast stroke (or really don't hold the back stroke long enough). She was trying to cut time off and got caught.

I was never a subscriber, or even much of a sports fan, but didn't S.I. go under? Towards the end, they were having AI write their articles and putting "unconventially attractive" women on the cover. Martha Stewart in a swimsuit and Elon Musk's elderly mom IIRC. Not to mention some not so slender ladies. I think they regret those changes now, but its too late. Also, magazines are so 20th century.

 

[Thomas II]

What is the deal with the women's volleyball uniforms compared to the men's uniforms. A little unnecessarily skimpy.