Pretty sure you only need 1 person to win a gold medal.
2016 Rio Summer Olympics
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Pretty sure you only need 1 person to win a gold medal.
Big shot to the midsection in women's handball. It's a kind of wild game. Romania is somewhat brutal but still losing.
I didn't realize handball was a contact sport!
Me either. It's kind of fun to watch though.
Having them all do the same routine would be like making basketball teams all run the same plays. Also, comparing scoring in one sport to scoring in another is stupid. They are different sports, why can't they be scored differently?
I could be wrong but didn't they used to have compulsory moves in gymnastics? At least I think they did in men's gymnastics. You could do your routine any way you wanted but had to include certain moves.
oh yeah, they still have minimum requirements. Like they have to do one release from the upper to lower parallel bar (and back). You have to do a full turn on one foot on the balance beam. A dismount that is a certain level of difficulty. Stuff like that.
Stevie Johnson and Jack Sock at least redeem American men's tennis a little bit.
And is anyone but me watching any Olympics that isn't girls gymnastics that isn't even on right now?
And is anyone but me watching any Olympics that isn't girls gymnastics that isn't even on right now?
I didn't get this reference so I had to look it up, can't believe i don't remember something from HIMYM
Stevie Johnson and Jack Sock at least redeem American men's tennis a little bit.
And is anyone but me watching any Olympics that isn't girls gymnastics that isn't even on right now?
Work has the website to watch them blocked.
Work has the website to watch them blocked.
Well that just sucks. Doing laundry with tennis in the laundry room and handball in the living room.
Anyone else envisioning carvers as a crowd shot at a tennis match:
Left, right, left, right, left, wince...
Left, right, left, right, cheer...
And so on...
Several of my boys have competed at state tennis. At those, a lot of times my eyes are closed and I think I'm gonna puke.
One of them went through three racquets in a year. Broken frames. And they aren't cheap. The last one he broke was trying to return serve against some guy at districts who went on to play division I football. I was just hoping he didn't take an overhead in the face from that guy.
I felt the same way at a couple of wrestling meets. One time, my son (JV wrestler at 170) decided to wrestle the other team's heavyweight (since our heavyweight didn't exist). I saw the other kid come out to the mat, and he was at damn near the max allowable weight. All I could think of was "oh please, don't fall on my son".
I felt the same way at a couple of wrestling meets. One time, my son (JV wrestler at 170) decided to wrestle the other team's heavyweight (since our heavyweight didn't exist). I saw the other kid come out to the mat, and he was at damn near the max allowable weight. All I could think of was "oh please, don't fall on my son".
I wrestled 189, back when that was the weight class right below heavyweight.
We had a SMALL team and a few times we could take a forfeit at 189 and I could wrestle the heavyweight to try and get us more points. Some of those guys were huge.
I practiced regularly against our usual heavyweight (who got hurt Sr year.) so I was kinda used to it.
I felt the same way at a couple of wrestling meets. One time, my son (JV wrestler at 170) decided to wrestle the other team's heavyweight (since our heavyweight didn't exist). I saw the other kid come out to the mat, and he was at damn near the max allowable weight. All I could think of was "oh please, don't fall on my son".
Our worst tennis injury so far has been about 20 stitches on the forehead incurred during doubles when kid on other team followed through over the net and into his head. He was pretty pissed when I pointed out that it should have been our team's point because of that because they forgot to raise the issue, what with all the blood and all.
