OT - London Olympics thread

[BOSSMANPC]

Both teams doing a poor job using the area behind the net here.

GOAL! USA up 7-5, that was important.

These guy's can really fire that ball! Holy shit.

 

[puckhead]

It was on yesterday. I saw a preliminary round match between Estonia and Canada. Ended in a 0-0 tie. The stone never made it down into the scoring zone.

Canada's has a secret weapon as its skip.

 

[elocomotive]

It's an incredibly rough sport on its athletes. One has to scrub the grass at a frenetic pace with those rakes just to get that stone to move at all.

They had a great personal story about one of the competitors who grew up a VERY rich neighborhood full of grass. Not ideal conditions for becoming a field curler where largely dirt fields are preferred. But he became so strong he sweeps away grass. That kid could have been an equestrian rider or a golfer, but he loved field curling too much. Beautiful story.

 

[elocomotive]

These guy's can really fire that ball! Holy shit.

I'm pretty sure water polo has the toughest athletes in sports. Swimming for an hour PLUS fighting off guys. They are beasts.

 

[elocomotive]

BINGO!!!

 

[BOSSMANPC]

8-6 That should do it. One min left.

 

[BOSSMANPC]

DAMN!

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

They had a great personal story about one of the competitors who grew up a VERY rich neighborhood full of grass. Not ideal conditions for becoming a field curler where largely dirt fields are preferred. But he became so strong he sweeps away grass. That kid could have been an equestrian rider or a golfer, but he loved field curling too much. Beautiful story.

No question about it, that guy rakes with the best of 'em.

 

[elocomotive]

DAMN!

Yeah, thought it was done. GREAT match.

 

[elocomotive]

U-S-A!! U-S-A!!

 

[BOSSMANPC]

That was a GREAT game !! Nice defense at the end.

 

[BOSSMANPC]

Hey guy's, Did you see the one handed ping pong player? She won her first game that is incredible !!

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Hey guy's, Did you see the one handed ping pong player? She won her first game that is incredible !!

No, she had two hands. She was just moving it so fast that you couldn't see it.

 

[dash]

A tweet from Bryan Mudruk (TSN):

After winning bronze in 52kg judo, ITA Rosalba Forciniti flashed camera, and shirt says "Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go to London.

Damn you Balotelli

 

[puckhead]

in other news, i found my next ex-wife.
don't tell my current wife.

another angle.... don't look for too long though, because I have already called dibs.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Holy shit...this Kazakhstani girl just lifted like 290 lbs.

I think she could break my nuts just by snapping her fingers.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Wow, Puck...which country?

 

[puckhead]

Hey guy's, Did you see the one handed ping pong player? She won her first game that is incredible !!

http://SportsHoopla.com/OcoLBo

 

[puckhead]

Wow, Puck...which country?

Japanese. Rie Tanaka

apparently she has two sisters who are also nationally ranked gymnasts.
don't think that that little tidbit didn't measure into my decision to accept her into my home.