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Jul 27, 2021 03:43
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Seems like it's legitimately going mediocre for Team USA at this point. - Silver at team gymnastics, Biles injured - Ledecky not dominant; men and women's swim team in general kind of underwhelming - Silver at softball - Women's soccer and men's basketball teams struggling Women's basketball won and women's water polo still look good. Biles could come back and win a few of the individual gymnastics events. The shooting teams have been alright. It could be worse, I guess.
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Jul 27, 2021 14:13
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I feel terrible for Biles and the gymnastics team but apart from that lol at America choking at everything
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Jul 27, 2021 14:16
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surf rock posted:- Ledecky not dominant; men and women's swim team in general kind of underwhelming To be fair, her best events are the 800 and 1600. But yes, the swimmers have been underwhelming. I think they screwed up the taper timing at the prep camp.
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Jul 27, 2021 15:15
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first American gold in taekwondo first American gold in foil? one of the fencing disciplines at least some great American weightlifters coming up double American golds in skeet, one of them being a guy's third gold in the event We've won the most total medals & only behind one gold, lol @ saying US is mediocre because the glamour events haven't been US sweeps at this point
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Jul 27, 2021 15:22
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USA owns imo
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Jul 27, 2021 15:44
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barnold posted:USA owns imo numbah one bay-bee
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Jul 27, 2021 16:03
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Bip Roberts posted:numbah one bay-bee Actually America is number two 
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Jul 27, 2021 16:09
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Omnikin posted:first American gold in taekwondo yeah and will probably still rack up a bunch in track and upcoming swimming events. Ladecky has only been underwhelming by her own insane standard and like someone else said her best events haven't happened yet, she's primarily a distance swimmer. And even in stuff where we're struggling relative to expectations we should probably still be favorites in three of the four basketball events and win a bunch of individual gymnastics stuff.
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Jul 27, 2021 16:15
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Rarity posted:Actually America is number two your GB thread doesn't even have a medal count in the op. sad!
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Jul 27, 2021 16:42
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It's got more posts though 
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Jul 27, 2021 17:05
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I'm finding myself rooting for America for the first time in years. I've been so jaded due to our country taking a big poo poo the past 5 years and it made me feel less... American. Almost guilty due to how much I "hated" us. But now I feel better because I want the US to win and I'm behind them. It's inspiring to see these athletes represent us. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
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Jul 27, 2021 17:07
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Rarity posted:It's got more posts though you win medals at the Olympics though, not posts 
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Jul 27, 2021 17:22
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well, you would if GB were capable of winning many i guess
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Jul 27, 2021 17:24
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barnold posted:USA owns imo Hell yeah, even when we don't win gold. It's just awesome seeing these people do their thing.
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Jul 27, 2021 17:25
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How are u posted:It's just awesome seeing these people do their thing. this is what the Olympics are all about 
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Jul 27, 2021 17:28
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barnold posted:you win medals at the Olympics though, not posts And GB wins gold in posting, the only sport that matters 
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Jul 27, 2021 17:29
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cope e: USA up to 25 medals
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Jul 27, 2021 17:40
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Posting itt to remind myself to post a very good USA Olympics gif when I get home 
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Jul 27, 2021 17:51
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I am watching some American horse prance about very nicely on TV right now. I don't know about horse prancing, but it seems to be kicking rear end at it.
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Jul 27, 2021 18:23
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Now there is a brown horse, and it is prancing perhaps even better than the first one.
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Jul 27, 2021 18:28
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Is mitt Romney’s horse still going to the Olympics?
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Jul 27, 2021 18:34
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How are u posted:Now there is a brown horse, and it is prancing perhaps even better than the first one. I checked out a stream of the dressage just to see what it's like and the the announcer immediately said "and this horse... he's just absolutely loving it. he's so strong and beautiful and true.... I just hope he never realizes that there's very little people watching him"
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Jul 27, 2021 18:38
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I think the horses do it purely for the love of the game, so he'll be alright 
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Jul 27, 2021 18:39
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How is horsey dance an olympic sport but not Dog Run?
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Jul 27, 2021 19:18
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HootTheOwl posted:How is horsey dance an olympic sport but not Dog Run? Horsey dance used to be a series of military exercises. I think up until the 1940s the teams were made up entirely of cavalry officers even as the cavalry ceased being used in active warfare. The moves themselves are from like Napoleonic era warfare (horses in formation have to adjust their speed and collection/extension of their gaits) so they were irrelevant even back then, but it's a good test of how well trained the horse is and (more importantly) how well trained the human is; there's a lot of teeny tiny adjustments in balance, grip, shifting weight, movement of the rider's lower leg and foot to get the horses to do the thing. Eventing at the Olympics used to be fuckin' bonkers too, the cross-country course was basically "take the worst terrain you would ever find on a battlefield and gallop really really fast over it". Now it's just "take the craziest jumps the course designer has come up with and gallop really really fast over it" which is slightly less dangerous.
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Jul 27, 2021 20:04
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HootTheOwl posted:How is horsey dance an olympic sport but not Dog Run? If they wanted to dance the dogs I bet it would be allowed.
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Jul 27, 2021 20:34
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I hope the US soccer team turns it around because when they won their last tournament they partied super loving hard and I hope this time they win and invite Alexander ovechkin to party with them, causing a party singularity that destroys earth.
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Jul 27, 2021 20:35
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here is the good gif
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Jul 27, 2021 23:59
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Badger of Basra posted:here is the good gif 
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Jul 28, 2021 00:20
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we should have a gif thread I think I got that gif from a previous olympics gif thread
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Jul 28, 2021 00:32
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Badger of Basra posted:we should have a gif thread I think I got that gif from a previous olympics gif thread But it can be all tiktoks now
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Jul 28, 2021 00:34
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medals updooted. we're number one, and we're number fun
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Jul 29, 2021 03:05
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Omnikin posted:first American gold in taekwondo sure, the US has won gold everywhere except the events that matter
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Jul 29, 2021 05:27
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all events matter except dressage
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Jul 29, 2021 05:31
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Mantis42 posted:all events matter except dressage That event matters the most, as it is how the mole-men decide who will have custody of our human nations for the next four years.
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Jul 29, 2021 18:32
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Mantis42 posted:all events matter except dressage m o d e r n p e n t a t h l o n
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Jul 30, 2021 00:42
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TheMadMilkman posted:To be fair, her best events are the 800 and 1600. Someone in I think the swim thread made the point that Michael Phelps really wrecked the loving curve when discussing US Olympic swimming because when he was competing the press could hype him up as the dude who was going to win every single gold, and then he did. Ledecky by contrast got hyped up and only has a paltry 3 medals, only one of them gold and she had the nerve to not medal in one of her events! (when she was swimming two in one day and got gold in the other one) Like realistically, the US has the most of every single medal in swimming and almost double the total medal count of the next closest country and is looking to increase all counts even further over the next few days. They're really only underwhelming in the sense that they no longer have a person who can win gold in a bunch of different disciplines because they are the best swimmer of all time (they instead of someone who can gold in her specialist areas but still medal in other areas because they're only one of the best swimmers of all time)
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Jul 30, 2021 02:43
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Guy A. Person posted:Someone in I think the swim thread made the point that Michael Phelps really wrecked the loving curve when discussing US Olympic swimming because when he was competing the press could hype him up as the dude who was going to win every single gold, and then he did. Ledecky by contrast got hyped up and only has a paltry 3 medals, only one of them gold and she had the nerve to not medal in one of her events! (when she was swimming two in one day and got gold in the other one) I think the difficulty here is following up an Olympics where you do blow everyone away. That's what Ledecky did in 2016, she was practically at a Simone Biles "everyone else might as well not even bother" level of performance. They hyped her that way and she delivered. Now, five years later, she's not quite on the same form and it's unsurprisingly disappointing some folks.
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Speaking of blowing people away https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1421269137368571908?s=19
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