Tokyo Olympics

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Wrestling or weightlifting? It would be a shame to lose an Olympic original.

 

[James]

The 3x3 basketball was pretty good. No games that take forever with endless fouling and stopping. Maybe the NBA should consider it for something. All star game?

I heard extra innings in baseball puts runners on 1st and second. I only watched some softball, which I prefer in the olympics and college. Again, no excessive long pitching, thinking about pitching, maybe I’ll call timeout, call the catcher over. Then the endless glove adjustments for the batter. Softball is quicker, and it’s 7 innings.

 

[crosscountry]

Add to that list, indoor soccer. Ball don't go outside. It just bounces right back and play continues.

 

[James]

Three Vermonters in the Olympics-

Brooke Mooney, from cross country skiing in high school to rowing. In the US women’s 8 boat. They ended up fourth.

Ihlona Maher
Came late to rugby but picked it up fast. Recruited for college, starred at Quinnipiac University. Big part of the US women’s rugby sevens team. They lost in quarter finals. On the way, also became tik tok star in Tokyo

Team USA’s Ilona Maher Is a Star on the Olympic Rugby Field—and TikTok

Maher’s videos are a wry, witty, and engaging peek at the action in Tokyo

time.com

Elle Purrier St Pierre
From dairy farming to running.
Broke a 32 year old trials record for the 1500m last month. In 2020, broke the US women’s record for the indoor mile. Ranked 15th in the world in the 1500m.

She will race in the semi finals, heat 1, 1500m today! 8/4/21, 6am Eastern. First five of the 13 qualify for finals.

Local Nbc news videos-

Tokyo Olympics: Meet the athletes who have connections to Vermont

Three athletes with Vermont ties are expected to compete in the Tokyo Olympics during the coming weeks.

www.mynbc5.com

 

[Jim Kenney]

outstanding performance in the womens 5000.
A Gold after falling and recovering to win her 1500 heat just a few hours earlier.
Should Sifan Ahssen carry on to win both the 1500 and 10,000 as expected she will rank up with the 2 greatest Olympic runners ever Paavo Nuirimi and Emile Zatopek.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to check it out on youtube. I don't get a tv channel with olympics, but love to keep abreast of track and field events. I guess I'll have to watch mens and womens 400m hurdles too. WRs falling like crazy!

 

[Jwrags]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to check it out on youtube. I don't get a tv channel with olympics, but love to keep abreast of track and field events. I guess I'll have to watch mens and womens 400m hurdles too. WRs falling like crazy!

Both 400 meter hurdle finals were awesome. Worth a watch.

 

[James]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to check it out on youtube. I don't get a tv channel with olympics, but love to keep abreast of track and field events. I guess I'll have to watch mens and womens 400m hurdles too. WRs falling like crazy!

If you have cable you can see a lot of things with the nbc sports app on mobile. Pretty clunky, but works. The announcers are often different, which is weird. The IOC Tokyo 2020 app is good for scheduling and results or searching when things were.

Anyone see the speed climbing? Pretty crazy. I didn’t realize the route is standardized.
Honnold learns speed climbing-

 

[John Webb]

Ask Canadians about the Whistler Winter Olympics. It put Whistler on the map! Madness? Right!

Justin Trudeau ,Canada's Prime Minister, was a snowboarder at Whistler not long ago !

 

[Jilly]

Do we have to be reminded....And he was a Drama teacher on top of that.

 

[scott43]

Do we have to be reminded....And he was a Drama teacher on top of that.

Annnddd....he'll still be prime minister next time around... The competition is uhhhh...lacking....unfortunately...

 

[scott43]

Anyone see the speed climbing? Pretty crazy. I didn’t realize the route is standardized.
Honnold learns speed climbing-

I read The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer and was mesmerized by the first ascent of the Eiger Nordwand back in the day. Took 4 days or something and was very harrowing... Then the late great Ueli Steck practically ran up it in like 3hrs.. THAT'S speed climbing... It's also craziness...wansehn....

 

[Jim Kenney]

That tie on Aug 1 in the Men's High Jump between two competitors who were long-time friends led to an extraordinarily crazy/emotional post-competition celebration:

Oops, video blocked, you can google it.

Same day the 1995 WR in Women's triple jump fell! Yulimar Rojas SMASHES world triple jump record to win gold

 

[James]

US woman’s pole breaks during vault.

 

[noncrazycanuck]

Damian Warner, the new "world's greatest athlete"

 

[scott43]

Damian Warner, the new "world's greatest athlete"

I have a soft spot for the decathlon. It's kinda the original event, isn't it? The decathlon winner is the hero of the Olympics I think...

 

[James]

I have a soft spot for the decathlon. It's kinda the original event, isn't it? The decathlon winner is the hero of the Olympics I think...

Used to be!
You know, when Bruce Jenner won it.
Now, seems we don’t care.

 

[Jilly]

I wonder how many race walkers have hip operations in later life?

 

[scott43]

I wonder how many race walkers have hip operations in later life?

We were just talking about that! I do wonder... And knees...

 

[James]

I would think the hips take much less abuse than running. Not nearly as much impact. Same with knees. They’re rotating the pelvis some it seems. Usually not an issue I would think. Spine issue maybe?

Friday, 8am Eastern,Sweden vs Canada, gold medal match women’s soccer.
Friday, 8:50am Eastern, women’s 1500m final. Vermonter Purrier St Pierre qualified. Got to be rough though, when at least 3 people can beat your best time by 5-7 secs.

 

[James]

US playing Serbia in women’s volleyball now, 12am Eastern
US women’s basketball vs Serbia 12:40 am