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Post by Feologild Oakes on Aug 6, 2021 14:48:02 GMT
Norway lost the semifinal against Russian Olympic Committee in women`s handball.
France and Russian Olympic Committee will play the final
and Norway will play the Netherlands for bronze medal
Also Canada are Olympic champions in women`s football beating Sweden 3-2 on penalties.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Aug 6, 2021 15:15:21 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 6, 2021 15:21:36 GMT
I'm sold on sport climbing as an olympic cport. Lots of young people climb, not just in competition but rock climbing. It has a mature international competition system, and is fun to watch. Janja Garnbrett blitzed the womens competition as she was expected to do, but there are lots of other good climbers to keep the competition interesting. I liked the side by side races up the 15m “cliff”, but the bit where they were climbing sideways near to the ground was piss poor. Half of them didn’t get anywhere!
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 6, 2021 15:29:55 GMT
Women's volleyball semifinals: Brazil South Korea Serbia USA It will be Brazil vs USA in the final. Brazil has won the Gold twice, in Beijing and then again in London, both times at the expense of the Americans. Unlike their male counterparts, the American women have never won Olympic gold. They have dominated the new Nations League though, winning all three editions so far, starting in 2018.
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Post by Pangolin on Aug 6, 2021 18:33:06 GMT
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Aug 6, 2021 18:43:33 GMT
Saw that. Think she'll take a detour to the glue factory after the games?
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Post by Rufus-T on Aug 6, 2021 23:07:11 GMT
I don't if this is live, but an American woman is in the leading pack of women's marathon with about 4 miles to go.
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Post by NJtoTX on Aug 7, 2021 0:01:45 GMT
I don't if this is live, but an American woman is in the leading pack of women's marathon with about 4 miles to go. 2 Kenyans passed her. |
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Post by Rufus-T on Aug 7, 2021 0:15:21 GMT
I don't if this is live, but an American woman is in the leading pack of women's marathon with about 4 miles to go. 2 Kenyans passed her. Bronze medla. Molly Seidel. Third American women to win a medal in Marathon. Not bad.
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Post by Pangolin on Aug 7, 2021 1:05:10 GMT
You need gold to surpass China.  |
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Post by NJtoTX on Aug 7, 2021 2:43:18 GMT
US men's basketball starting slow again.
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Aug 7, 2021 6:29:53 GMT
I'm sold on sport climbing as an olympic cport. Lots of young people climb, not just in competition but rock climbing. It has a mature international competition system, and is fun to watch. Janja Garnbrett blitzed the womens competition as she was expected to do, but there are lots of other good climbers to keep the competition interesting. I liked the side by side races up the 15m “cliff”, but the bit where they were climbing sideways near to the ground was piss poor. Half of them didn’t get anywhere! Yes, I wonder if they were making the boulders so hard to give Garnbrett a challenge, but found she was so good she left everybody else for dead. There are a couple of other climbers maybe almost as good as Garnbrett at boulder who didnt make the final. The scoring was weird, multiplying each persons position in each of the 3 events instead of adding them. All I can think of there is that it would give the first place competitors in each event a big advantage. For example Gambrett came 5th out of 8 in the speed and first in the other 2 events, giving 5 × 1 × 1 = 5. If somebody came 2nd in each event they would score 2 × 2 × 2 = 8, not as good. If scores were added instead it would come out the opposite 7 vs 6.
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Post by CookiesNCream on Aug 7, 2021 7:08:15 GMT
Dominican Republic wins Bronze medal match in Baseball against Korea 10-6
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 7, 2021 9:35:26 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 7, 2021 9:36:36 GMT
I liked the side by side races up the 15m “cliff”, but the bit where they were climbing sideways near to the ground was piss poor. Half of them didn’t get anywhere! Yes, I wonder if they were making the boulders so hard to give Garnbrett a challenge, but found she was so good she left everybody else for dead. There are a couple of other climbers maybe almost as good as Garnbrett at boulder who didnt make the final. The scoring was weird, multiplying each persons position in each of the 3 events instead of adding them. All I can think of there is that it would give the first place competitors in each event a big advantage. For example Gambrett came 5th out of 8 in the speed and first in the other 2 events, giving 5 × 1 × 1 = 5. If somebody came 2nd in each event they would score 2 × 2 × 2 = 8, not as good. If scores were added instead it would come out the opposite 7 vs 6. I should have stuck it out until Gambrett's turn on the boulders. |
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Aug 7, 2021 9:48:41 GMT
Yes, I wonder if they were making the boulders so hard to give Garnbrett a challenge, but found she was so good she left everybody else for dead. There are a couple of other climbers maybe almost as good as Garnbrett at boulder who didnt make the final. The scoring was weird, multiplying each persons position in each of the 3 events instead of adding them. All I can think of there is that it would give the first place competitors in each event a big advantage. For example Gambrett came 5th out of 8 in the speed and first in the other 2 events, giving 5 × 1 × 1 = 5. If somebody came 2nd in each event they would score 2 × 2 × 2 = 8, not as good. If scores were added instead it would come out the opposite 7 vs 6. I should have stuck it out until Gambrett's turn on the boulders. Garnbrett was the only one to top the final boulders, and was the winner after the second, so didn't bother dong the third boulder. Did you see the Lead event? That was a bit more exciting. The scoring system made the placings unknown till the last competitor. Like the skateboard, it looked like the competitors are friends and compete with each other regularly, so their country was less relevant than in traditional sports. Good to see.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 7, 2021 9:59:48 GMT
I should have stuck it out until Gambrett's turn on the boulders. Garnbrett was the only one to top the final boulders, and was the winner after the second, so didn't bother dong the third boulder. Did you see the Lead event? That was a bit more exciting. The scoring system made the placings unknown till the last competitor. Like the skateboard, it looked like the competitors are friends and compete with each other regularly, so their country was less relevant than in traditional sports. Good to see. No, I didn't see the final event. |
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Post by TheSowIsMine on Aug 7, 2021 11:27:06 GMT
Gold for Sifan Hassan on the 10k, amazing!
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Aug 7, 2021 13:04:59 GMT
The horse was already acting up and they gave it to another athlete? That seems wrong. It's like giving a cyclist a bike with no chain.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 7, 2021 13:36:27 GMT
Japan are having a great games; 27 golds so far. Including gold in the baseball (beat the US 2-0.)
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