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Post by lexpretend on Aug 6, 2012 14:15:47 GMT -5
Technically in tennis a player can fail 47 times and still win.
The GBR pole vaulter should have apparently breezed the first height, according to our commentators - you could see tightness and nerves all over her face every time she vaulted though, not surprised she's been failing.
The female shot putters definitely outdo the German Martina, but I kind of love those terrifying bulldyke women anyway.
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Aug 6, 2012 14:22:53 GMT -5
Yeah, shot putters are cool. And so are female weightlifters. I mean, if that's the ticket you got in Mother Nature's lottery, why not take some advantage of it.
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Post by janie on Aug 6, 2012 14:24:32 GMT -5
Yeah, every time Holly fails her face turns bright red. I love her though, because she's so typically English-looking, and her name Beasley or whatever it is, also so perfectly English. But she could really use a few muscles, like all the other competitors have.
Haven't seen the female or male shot putters, but this German Martina seems more built for that sport than for this one. Yet she sailed right over the bar, so I guess she knows better than I do.
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Post by lexpretend on Aug 6, 2012 14:51:26 GMT -5
Apparently Holly Bleasdale only took up pole vaulting three years ago, so it's not that bad, even if it was a massive, painful choke.
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Post by lexpretend on Aug 6, 2012 14:52:36 GMT -5
Meanwhile, Rosolova was DQed from her 400m hurdles SF. Commentators didn't bother telling us why, just called it "good news" because it allows a Brit to sneak through to the final (albeit one with the fabulous name of Perri Shakes-Drayton).
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Post by janie on Aug 6, 2012 15:41:40 GMT -5
I wish I had an announcer! I have no idea how this pole vault scoring goes. What happens now that they all failed at that height?
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Post by janie on Aug 6, 2012 16:06:12 GMT -5
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Aug 6, 2012 16:06:18 GMT -5
You can only have two missed attempts in a row. When you can't clear the height for the third straight time, you're out. Those attempts don't have to be at the same height - you can skip it and aim for higher (like Isinbayeva did) if you fail, but as I said, if you can't pass it at the third attempt, it's over.
If the athletes are tied at the same height, there's a tie-breaker. The first considered is the number of attempts at the final height. Say, if they are tied at 480 cm, but one of them cleared it on first attempt and the other one on third, the one who made it first gets the title. If that's tied too, the total number of missed attempts throughout the competition goes into play. So, since Suhr had only one miss in the competition and Silva two, she won.
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Post by janie on Aug 6, 2012 16:08:59 GMT -5
You can only have two missed attempts in a row. When you can't clear the height for the third straight time, you're out. Those attempts don't have to be at the same height - you can skip it and aim for higher (like Isinbayeva did) if you fail, but as I said, you can't fail more than three times in a row. If the athletes are tied at the same height, there's a tie-breaker. The first considered is the number of attempts at the final height. Say, if they are tied at 480 cm, but one of them cleared it on first attempt and the other one on third, the one who made it first gets the title. If that's tied too, the total number of missed attempts throughout the competition goes into play. So, since Suhr had only one miss in the competition and Silva two, she won. Ah! Thank you so much! Can you fail any number of jumps, as long as you don't fail 3 in a row? So if you failed twice but then cleared the bar on your 3rd attempt at each height, would that allow you to continue to the end?
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Post by lexpretend on Aug 6, 2012 16:10:38 GMT -5
Isinbayeva But I guess she's old now. Really happy Kirani James won the 400m. He comes across like a real class act.
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Post by janie on Aug 6, 2012 16:17:54 GMT -5
I saw that! I also saw Felix Sanchez weeping and weeping with joy, which was also cool. Did he run around the track with that photo of his deceased grandma inside his jersey?
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Post by janie on Aug 6, 2012 16:20:50 GMT -5
Most of all I am envious of the cold weather over there. The pole vaulters were wearing coats, hats, pants, and huddling under quilts! Down in Philly I'd be ready to kill for an even slightly cool breeze by this point in the summer. Even at night it just doesn't cool down.
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Aug 6, 2012 16:24:44 GMT -5
You can only have two missed attempts in a row. When you can't clear the height for the third straight time, you're out. Those attempts don't have to be at the same height - you can skip it and aim for higher (like Isinbayeva did) if you fail, but as I said, you can't fail more than three times in a row. If the athletes are tied at the same height, there's a tie-breaker. The first considered is the number of attempts at the final height. Say, if they are tied at 480 cm, but one of them cleared it on first attempt and the other one on third, the one who made it first gets the title. If that's tied too, the total number of missed attempts throughout the competition goes into play. So, since Suhr had only one miss in the competition and Silva two, she won. Ah! Thank you so much! Can you fail any number of jumps, as long as you don't fail 3 in a row? So if you failed twice but then cleared the bar on your 3rd attempt at each height, would that allow you to continue to the end? Yes. It's only important not to fail 3 in a row. The same goes for high jump as well.
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Post by DBBN on Aug 6, 2012 16:37:26 GMT -5
Most of all I am envious of the cold weather over there. The pole vaulters were wearing coats, hats, pants, and huddling under quilts! Down in Philly I'd be ready to kill for an even slightly cool breeze by this point in the summer. Even at night it just doesn't cool down. August
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Post by janie on Aug 6, 2012 16:48:22 GMT -5
Ah! Thank you so much! Can you fail any number of jumps, as long as you don't fail 3 in a row? So if you failed twice but then cleared the bar on your 3rd attempt at each height, would that allow you to continue to the end? Yes. It's only important not to fail 3 in a row. The same goes for high jump as well. Thank you! I wish I had known all this while I was watching. I enjoy watching tennis without commentators but they sure would be useful during sports I know nothing about. I think pole vaulting looks like so much fun, as opposed to, say, running or swimming until you're dying of pain. Even if it's really hot out, you're only in motion for such a short time. And you get to fly!
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Post by janie on Aug 6, 2012 16:51:31 GMT -5
I forgot to say why I posted this. I didn't even watch the race, but it's a medal for a Tunisian WOMAN. Take that, Saudi Arabia!
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Post by jon on Aug 6, 2012 16:51:42 GMT -5
In the women's soccer semi-final, USA bt. Canada 4-3, scoring the winning goal with like two seconds remaining before penalties. Canada lead three times but the courageous american girls came back each time. So much fighting spirit! Shades of fighterpova!
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Aug 6, 2012 17:00:58 GMT -5
North Africa has always had good female runners, but they've mostly come from Morocco and Algeria, I believe this is the first Olympic medal for a Tunisian woman. Interesting story: when Moroccan runner Nawal El Moutawakel won gold at the 400 m hurdles at the '84 Olympics, she was the first Moroccan woman (as well as the first woman from an Arabic country) to win the Olympic gold, and the Moroccan king ordered that all girls born in Morocco on that day were to be named "Nawal".
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Post by Wagasi on Aug 6, 2012 17:12:56 GMT -5
In the women's soccer semi-final, USA bt. Canada 4-3, scoring the winning goal with like two seconds remaining before penalties. Canada lead three times but the courageous american girls came back each time. So much fighting spirit! Shades of fighterpova! [/bitter] STUPID FUCKING REFEREE [/sharing the bitterness]
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Post by GoDom on Aug 6, 2012 17:18:51 GMT -5
This German Martina pole vaulter is more manly than most of the ATP. This reminds me of former pole vaulter Yvonne Buschbaum, now Balian Buschbaum:
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Post by Wagasi on Aug 6, 2012 17:57:53 GMT -5
Adam van Koeverden is through to the K1-1000 final.
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Post by DBBN on Aug 6, 2012 18:08:07 GMT -5
That's the picture when you look up Faces NOC in the dictionary.
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Post by janie on Aug 6, 2012 18:10:16 GMT -5
This German Martina pole vaulter is more manly than most of the ATP. This reminds me of former pole vaulter Yvonne Buschbaum, now Balian Buschbaum:
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Post by janie on Aug 6, 2012 18:11:12 GMT -5
That's the picture when you look up Faces NOC in the dictionary. Except in the dictionary the face is blurred.
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Post by Wagasi on Aug 6, 2012 18:16:45 GMT -5
That's the picture when you look up Faces NOC in the dictionary. Shut your face. There's nothing wrong with his face. Or anything else, obviously.
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Post by DBBN on Aug 6, 2012 18:24:03 GMT -5
That's the picture when you look up Faces NOC in the dictionary. Shut your face. There's nothing wrong with his face. Or anything else, obviously. Yeah I Googled him. You picked the worst picture of his face ever, but that's because LOOK at the rest of that picture. QED. Now I'm going to Google him more while I "Google" myself.
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Post by DBBN on Aug 6, 2012 18:25:38 GMT -5
I Googled that transgender guy too, and he became a really hot guy. But then he named himself after an Orlando Bloom character and I stopped liking him.
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Post by janie on Aug 6, 2012 18:34:22 GMT -5
North Africa has always had good female runners, but they've mostly come from Morocco and Algeria, I believe this is the first Olympic medal for a Tunisian woman. I love Tunisia. I hope this woman starts a major sports boom for women there, and Jaziri starts a tennis boom for every gender. Interesting story: when Moroccan runner Nawal El Moutawakel won gold at the 400 m hurdles at the '84 Olympics, she was the first Moroccan woman (as well as the first woman from an Arabic country) to win the Olympic gold, and the Moroccan king ordered that all girls born in Morocco on that day were to be named "Nawal". Wow! That is hard to comprehend. Though I can almost picture it happening in the US during the Mary Lou Retton insanity. Just think, a nation of Mary Lou's.
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Post by DBBN on Aug 6, 2012 18:53:05 GMT -5
I bet Reagan would have gladly imposed that, had he been able to.
I'm watching the Tunisian men's volleyball team play USA now. I would love to get gang-banged by them, but that goes for any national men's volleyball team, I've recalled.
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Post by Wagasi on Aug 6, 2012 19:32:50 GMT -5
I just can't look at these athletes any more. It's too much. Too much.
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