Olympic sports thread

Discussion in 'The Mainboard' started by Gunners, Jun 13, 2021.

  1. Fran Tarkenton

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  2. racer

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    I was looking for the black retail version for sale/resale and stumbled on a comment that led me to an athlete and I bought directly from them. Super cheap, definitely wasn’t a milking the free merch kind of situation.
     
  3. Fran Tarkenton

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    going to be a good piece of memorabilia
     
  4. Gunners

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    Was watching para rugby earlier, these guys are in incredible shape to go that hard but not a fan of how little defense there is. Only way you can stop attacks for the most part is setting up a blockade of wheelchairs
     
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  5. Sub-Zero

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    Hour long race and it comes down to .01
     
  6. racer

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  7. Gunners

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    The commercial is kinda corny after seeing it 900x but Jessica Long is such a badass, absolutely perfect technique and crazy upper body strength
     
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  8. Tarpon Nole

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    This is cool
     
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  9. Sub-Zero

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    Goalball looks fun as shit
     
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  10. Sub-Zero

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    Also take my word for it but my 4 year old wanted to draw goalball.

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  11. RalfBully

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    watching on mute. is this for the blind, or what am i watching here?
     
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  12. Poetic

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    Damn, Kerley beat deGrasse in Zurich, man running so well right now. Kenny beat both in the 200m.
     
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  13. Henry Blake

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  15. racer

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    Yeah, I can get behind taking animals out of the Olympics.
     
  16. The Banks

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    My friend made team USA for the Winter Olympics for curling. Pretty neat.
     
  17. CF3234

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    Is shuster the skip again?
     
  18. The Hebrew Husker

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    They're doing the team trials here next week. Are some of the members already picked?

    No idea how it works but was thinking I’d go check it out maybe.
     
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  19. The Banks

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    That happens next week. This was mixed doubles (they beat out Shuster and his partner at that).
     
  20. The Banks

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    Yeah mixed doubles was last weekend. Normal teams are next week.
     
  21. The Banks

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    (Curling)

    In double round robin (10 matches) Shuster’s team is 4-0. Our local guy’s team is 2-2, our local girl’s team is tied for first at 2-1

    To follow:

    https://www.usacurling.org/2022-team-trials-standings

    Round Robin concludes Thursday then Friday comes elimination rounds.
     
  22. The Banks

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    (Curling)

    Finals start tomorrow. Best of 3. Shuster made it, no surprise. Our local girl also made the women’s final. Will air on NBC Sports tomorrow at 6 PM eastern for the guys, 9 PM eastern for the gals.
     
  23. The Banks

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    Shuster in trouble early. Down 5-1 after 3 ends.
     
  24. racer

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    Figures. Time for fresh blood.
     
  25. Henry Blake

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    “We were on the wrong side of the inch a few times there and it’s really tough to play from behind against that team,” said John Shuster. “That’s all you can do. Go out and try to make shots to create opportunities.”

    Team Dropkin is one win way away from an Olympic berth, but Team Shuster is no stranger to must-win situations. In the 2018 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, Team Shuster won two straight games after losing the first of the series to become Olympians.

    Game two of the men’s final will be played at 5:00PM (CST) on Saturday, November 20th. https://www.usacurling.org/press-releases/team-dropkin-wins-trials-final-game-one
     
  26. The Banks

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    Dropkin controlled that game from the jump. Didn’t matter whether they had the hammer or not, they were in control when it came down to the skips each end.
     
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  27. racer

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    I guess I need to run over to Omaha this
    Afternoon
     
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  28. Cornelius Suttree

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  29. Cornelius Suttree

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  30. clemsontyger04

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    Sir this is a Curling thread
     
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  31. Cornelius Suttree

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    Where do I post about women's cross country then? Or are we still making fun of people for following women's sports here?

    NC St women are just incredibly impressive
     
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  32. Cornelius Suttree

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    5 out of the last 6 team titles for the NAU men. Distance running heaven
     
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  33. SC

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    Big one tomorrow.
     
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  34. The Banks

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    We are going to the Olympics

     
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  37. IanBoyd

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  38. DeToxRox

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  39. bwi2

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    That’s clearly bullshit, I wonder what the real reason is
     
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  40. seanofthedead86

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    It's cheaper. They haven't wanted to send in person announcers for years.
     
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  41. bwi2

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    they just sent a whole bunch of people to Tokyo (and are still sending production crews, I think, although maybe they’re just going to really say fuck it and go with the IOC feed?)
     
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  42. seanofthedead86

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    Yeah but they got criticized during the last winter games for doing remote play by play.

    It's the correct decision to not send anyone but I think it's also a convenient way of turning it into the norm. I believe the same is going to happen in college football as well with non power 5 games using remote play by play crews
     
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  43. racer

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    Peacock is supposed to be updated

     
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  44. PAHokie

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    It’s already pretty normal for college basketball and it sucks. Like 75% of the VT home basketball games haven’t had announcers at the game.
     
  45. Gunners

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  46. racer

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    WE CURLING IN THE WATER CUBE!?!

     
  47. racer

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    It is now the ice cube lfg! I’m much too excited about this.

     
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  48. Sportfan

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    230 Eastern on NBC tomorrow for those jones’ing for some T&F.

     
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  49. The Banks

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    Rise and shine! Olympics start this morning. Mixed Doubles Curling on NBC sports featuring our hometown girl. 7:05 AM EST vs Austria.
     
  50. goheels10

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