Rutgers alum gold medal winner! That’s a reason to celebrate. Congrats to Copper and the rest of the women’s team.
Scarlet Jerry
Scarlet Jerry
Olympic Sports OT: Official 2024 Summer Olympics Thread (with LIVE UPDATES)
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USA Women’s Basketball needs to clean house like the women’s soccer team. Go with the young ones going forward. The coach was a joke as well.
Now I know why I don’t watch women basketball. I can’t believe how they missed so many shots.
Were you at RAC last year for the men? Felt like I was watching a rerun of how not to finish around the rim.
How about the men’s team being Down by double digits to Serbia and almost losing to SSudan in warmup game.
Serbia is legit and plays a system to overacheive for what they lack. They almost pulled it off. Curry was the MVP for the US.
China's summer Olympic success is largely derived from six sports: table tennis, shooting, diving, badminton, gymnastics and weightlifting. According to a 2021 New York Times article, more than two-thirds of China's gold medals have come courtesy of female winners.
So many layups were missed! US obviously had the talent advantage but France didn’t shoot well either. I was really surprised by France D it was really good!
Someone remind me what the US Women's win streak is at. Playing France in a GM final against France is going to be hard. Just win, baby! All is fine. The folks calling for a house cleaning think the world is flat.
They were 1 foot from a tie game at the buzzer. Who knows what happens in OT. The team was so sloppy. A win is a win but they should have rolled France. Every player on the team will tell you that.
Kudos to the USA Women's Basketball Team
They brought home the Gold and that's what matters most
As we sweated the small stuff, they did what was needed to win
They brought home the Gold and that's what matters most
As we sweated the small stuff, they did what was needed to win
Well, we didn't lose it, but we would've won if not for the jump off, although it turns out Kerr was the one who insisted on the jump-off and McEwen had no choice.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...-kerr-shelby-mcewen-high-jump-paris-olympics/
I enjoy women's hoops and still go to a game or two when we're good (and used to go to more when we were really good). If you used to go to games that means you must have liked it some - to call it awful and unwatchable is just over the top.
Latest news that I found in the issue
The USA claims the ruling that their appeal was made late was wrong and have a time stamped video
to prove the appeal was made before the deadline.
But it was a big clunker against a team that could challenge them most. Our coach seemed to have no answers and was paralyzed today. But sometimes when no one is on, you have no buttons to push. She probably gets another shot at a world competition if she wants it.
The Olympic committee should make a rare exemption and give both women a bronze. Unfair to both of them.
Closing was interesting.
The Tom Cruise MI thing was not what I expected. The Brits did James Bond already so it didn’t feel original….would have rather had Vin Diesel show up in one of the FF Challengers to take the flag.
The Tom Cruise MI thing was not what I expected. The Brits did James Bond already so it didn’t feel original….would have rather had Vin Diesel show up in one of the FF Challengers to take the flag.
Rolled France?? Let me give you an update. Basketball is now truly a World sport. Stop your unnecessary and uneducated whining. France did actually earn their spot to the final. Jeez stupid fans for sure.
The world has caught up in men’s basketball but not so much on the women’s side. Obviously you didn’t watch because the US had so many TO’s and missed layups.
All said and done this was a great Olympics. I really enjoyed all the coverage the past 2+ weeks. Gonna miss turning it on every AM. Always seem to enjoy it most when the games are in Europe US/North American games. Europe best due to time difference.
Watching it the Romanian seemed better. Sounds like justice was served at the end of the day.
They need to lower the rim for women like they do the net in volleyball.
Women’s basketball is unwatchable.
Obviously you're wrong because the French actually reached the finals and made a game of it. So how much did you lose on your bet because that's the only reason to be crying about a US win.
I was stunned that the final venue wasn't packed for Red Hot Chili Peppers and Snoop which was apparently live. (And whoever played in between) There wasn't 200 people there.
Yes a Euro site was half way to a home game and had a good vibe.
People didn't have to wake-up at 3AM to see live action half a world away.
In stadium crowds knew English and French
Lots of youngs watch stuff on their phones (even when a 65" tv is in the house) so streaming worked.
The NBC hosts were good and the athletes were mostly respectable.
In a day of mediocre $50m QBs, unwatchable events and goofball athletes, the Olympics were a throwback.
One non US diver ranked 3rd in world spoke of living on 35k a year .
Most athletes seemed genuinely friendly with each other.
A photo of two US athletes celebrating a foreign winner over them would have been a scandal not long ago
Thought it was pretty cool, along with the opera singer and the minions "excavating and raising" the Olympic rings. It's art, like a Broadway play. Very entertaining, IMO. I'm also a huge fan of Phoenix, so was happy to see them as the marquee band and loved that Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend joined for their joint song, and thought the others were at least interesting.
Huh? I watched it all. You're the idiot that doesn't think the world has caught up. This isn't 2000 anymore.