Olympics

1MOREMOD · 08-04-2021, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ASAP

Yikes... the USA just really sucked in the 4 x 100. We have to up our sprint game for the next olympics... this was embarrasing.

I could do better transfer in 5th grade, wtf we are slipping.

ASAP · 08-04-2021, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by ASAP

Yikes... the USA just really sucked in the 4 x 100. We have to up our sprint game for the next olympics... this was embarrasing.

I could do better transfer in 5th grade, wtf we are slipping.

They just said... China trains with the same people all year so they were flawless...

Seems to me we didn't practice at all... lol

To be fair, our individual 100M wasn't much better...

1MOREMOD · 08-04-2021, 10:52 PM

Its the same with men's basketball we just throw a team together and expect to be the best cuz merica. Sign to me of the weakening of our country. I doesn't hell we populate all the other teams by letting them into our colleges train them then let em leave.

TiMSport · 08-04-2021, 11:03 PM

US Men's sprint related events have been absolute shit, period. What an embarrassment that relay race was. Then there's the 800m Murphy who was pathetic and placed dead last. I was actually angry watching that event. Lol.

Won't this be the first Olympics in a long time where the US men's track and field team don't get a gold medal? Sad.

TiMSport · 08-04-2021, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by ASAP

They just said... China trains with the same people all year so they were flawless...

Seems to me we didn't practice at all... lol

To be fair, our individual 100M wasn't much better...

Doesn't matter, all we have to do is pass a fucking baton and we win it by speed. Somehow the American men can't seem to figure this critical component of relay racing out, we'll never get shit. I mean they were DQ'd in the Rio games, right? THAT should've been enough to light a fire and put together a decent team.

ASAP · 08-04-2021, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by TiMSport

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Originally Posted by ASAP

They just said... China trains with the same people all year so they were flawless...

Seems to me we didn't practice at all... lol

To be fair, our individual 100M wasn't much better...

Doesn't matter, all we have to do is pass a fucking baton and we win it by speed. Somehow the American men can't seem to figure this critical component of relay racing out, we'll never get shit. I mean they were DQ'd in the Rio games, right? THAT should've been enough to light a fire and put together a decent team.

I mean it didn't look like we had the speed here, even the announcer said no one from the 4 made up any ground.

TiMSport · 08-04-2021, 11:33 PM

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I mean it didn't look like we had the speed here, even the announcer said no one from the 4 made up any ground.

That's true, making it even MORE embarrassing. Lol. It's been a very strange Olympics to say the least. At least the women's side have been holding up their end mostly. Bromell not even qualifying for the 100m final was shocking.

TiMSport · 08-05-2021, 12:14 AM

Carl Lewis' thoughts on the failed men's relay team:

U.S. sprinting legend Carl Lewis, who was part of 4x100 teams that won gold in 1984 and 1992, wrote on Twitter that the U.S. team "did everything wrong" in Thursday's race.

"The passing system is wrong, athletes running the wrong legs, and it was clear that there was no leadership," Lewis wrote. "It was a total embarrassment, and completely unacceptable for a USA team to look worse than the AAU kids I saw."

TiMSport · 08-05-2021, 12:51 AM

Are you f'n kidding me with the men's basketball game?!? US looks like a bunch of punk amateurs. This is much worse than the 4x100 men's relay!!!

ASAP · 08-05-2021, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by TiMSport

Are you f'n kidding me with the men's basketball game?!? US looks like a bunch of punk amateurs. This is much worse than the 4x100 men's relay!!!

At least we can still get gold... but the mens 400M we disnt win anything either... spots 4 and 5

TheWatchGuy · 08-05-2021, 01:21 PM

This is what happens when you dont allow doping.

TiMSport · 08-05-2021, 01:24 PM

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At least we can still get gold... but the mens 400M we disnt win anything either... spots 4 and 5

Yeah I know, I posted that when they were getting their asses handed to them in the first half, lol. Anything less than a gold medal for basketball is a fail IMO.

ASAP · 08-05-2021, 02:39 PM

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This is what happens when you dont allow doping.

I saw a comment that said we should just let everyone dope as much as possible and see how fast they go lol... maybe get some cheetah times haha.

Joekerr · 08-05-2021, 03:05 PM

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I saw a comment that said we should just let everyone dope as much as possible and see how fast they go lol... maybe get some cheetah times haha.

Agreed, you should have a team that is doped up and enter them as USOC. Be a competition between them and the ROC. Bet we'd see some pretty weird stuff.

rebekahb · 08-05-2021, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by TiMSport

Carl Lewis' thoughts on the failed men's relay team:

U.S. sprinting legend Carl Lewis, who was part of 4x100 teams that won gold in 1984 and 1992, wrote on Twitter that the U.S. team "did everything wrong" in Thursday's race.

"The passing system is wrong, athletes running the wrong legs, and it was clear that there was no leadership," Lewis wrote. "It was a total embarrassment, and completely unacceptable for a USA team to look worse than the AAU kids I saw."

It was awful. A bobbled mess all the way around. Did anyone see the interview after?

TiMSport · 08-05-2021, 07:56 PM

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It was awful. A bobbled mess all the way around. Did anyone see the interview after?

It was seriously embarrassing. Yeah I saw the so-called interview. Bromell the leadoff runner was pissed, lol. He should be because he absolutely sucked. He didn't even qualify for the 100m sprint which he is supposedly the fastest man in the world in that event. Total disaster all around.

Remember the stud American sprinter Michael Johnson? He trashed them too along with Carl Lewis. Lol.

rebekahb · 08-05-2021, 08:46 PM

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It was seriously embarrassing. Yeah I saw the so-called interview. Bromell the leadoff runner was pissed, lol. He should be because he absolutely sucked. He didn't even qualify for the 100m sprint which he is supposedly the fastest man in the world in that event. Total disaster all around.

Remember the stud American sprinter Michael Johnson? He trashed them too along with Carl Lewis. Lol.

Yeah, I remember him but didn't see what he wrote. I was truly shocked. It was like they said hey you wanna put a relay team together last minute?

TiMSport · 08-05-2021, 08:52 PM

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Yeah, I remember him but didn't see what he wrote. I was truly shocked. It was like they said hey you wanna put a relay team together last minute?

That's exactly what they did which makes it more infuriating because they haven't medaled in the past several Olympic games. US used to dominate and now for some inexplicable reason it's like an afterthought. Makes no sense at all. The women have done well at least.

Michael Johnson's comments:

The botched relay performance prompted American sprinting legend Michael Johnson, a four-time Olympic gold medallist, to take to Twitter to blast the team.

"This isn't rocket science," Johnson wrote.

"Trying to get two people running full speed to exchange a baton within a 20m zone requires practice! Especially when you haven't won this event since Sydney 2000 due to drops and zone violations! Embarrassing and ridiculous."

flybigjet · 08-05-2021, 09:17 PM

Holy Hell.

Just mail the Olympic diving medals to the Chinese.

14 years old, racks multiple 10's, and blows the individual Olympic women's diving record out of the freaking water.

And the kid hasn't even hit puberty yet.

Yikes.

tcphoto · 08-05-2021, 10:36 PM

Ever get the feeling the the USOC is just a money making venture? How much of the budget goes to the athlete’s and how much to the executives and the perks/meetings/trips/etc for the “planning and development” of the Games?

TiMSport · 08-05-2021, 10:52 PM

Ever get the feeling that the IOC is part of the mafia and makes much more $$ than all of the Olympic committees combined?

TiMSport · 08-05-2021, 11:16 PM

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