2016 Rio Summer Olympics
- Thread starter Go2Guy
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I hope they don't ruin the illusion. This goes nicely with my breakfast.
Watching Brazil vs. Lithuania basketball. It's very "green." It's like watching Oregon play itself.
I saw her mid air. I want to see the replay of the it happened.
It did look bad. She wasn't moving, even as the other riders passed her.
It did look bad. She wasn't moving, even as the other riders passed her.
That was nasty. I wonder if she broke her neck. Looked like she landed right on her head at about 35-40 mph.
I know that it was a crushing loss for Mara Abbott to go from a gold medal to 4th place in the last 250 m, but I would think more TV comments should be about the horrific injury and hope that she isn't injured too terribly.
They mentioned it was difficult to get information from the course, but after the race when they showed the accident again they said they had unconfirmed reports from the Italian team that she was "okay". Hard to fathom HOW she could be okay from the way she landed, but I hope it's accurate.
And Dayum...Sucked for Mara...
Men's indoor volleyball is maybe the most athletic sport on the planet.
That was a crazy ending the womens road race. To be so close and get fourth sucks. Also there is a reason she went so damn slow down hill. If you watched the mens races you know that down hill was pretty intense.
Im glad she is ok it looked pretty intense.
Im glad she is ok it looked pretty intense.
It looks hard. Especially how hard some guys can hit it but I wouldn't say it the most athletic sport
Word is, that Dutch cyclist did break her back. Officially a concussion and 3 spinal fractures. Just a gruesome crash.
As long as she didn't damage her spinal cord or seriously damage her brain, that's actually a relief. At this point I'm guessing it's a matter of to what extent she fractured those vertebrae. I'm guessing it's probably more severe than when my sister as a kid, due to an undiagnosed at-the-time underlying medical condition that caused her to pass out and fall off a ledge at Maquoketa Caves and fracture a vertebra, but as a baseline, she pretty much had to lay in bed the rest of that summer and pretty much do nothing.
Why are men's gymnasts absolutely ripped (and good looking according to my wife) but female gymnasts don't look nearly as attractive comparably?
