2020, uh, 21, uh, who knows Tokyo Olympics thread

Gotta be the shoes!

'Having a trampoline is b------t': Super shoes controversy reignited by world-record shattering star Karsten Warholm

 

Well, that's the version of Oscar most people saw on teevee and in highlight films over the last 50 years.

NBA teevee coverage was very limited before 1970. Most people would only have seen Oscar play a couple times a year.

Of course I know in the early and mid 60s with the Royals, Oscar was the early version of LeBron, a power forward playing the point. But he never shot much from the perimeter and he didn't open up the floor. He and Durant aren't really similar at all.

 

Secret East German running shoe project uncovered:

 

Will NBC make Richard Torrez Jr a star? His walk up music is Moonlight Sonata. He was chess club president at his HS.

 

USA Network, which has done all of NBC's boxing coverage I've seen, has shown all his fights. He's an aggressive move-in fighter.

 

I haven't seen as much Olympic boxing as I have in previous years but there seem to be more pro-ready guys than I remember when the video game scoring was used and guys just looked to move and pile up points. A lot more aggressive punchers like Torrez and plenty of guys working the body which was never a tactic under the old scoring system.

 

BTW, not sure if anyone's posted the story with Lewis' relay criticism, so:

Carl Lewis on US relay's failure to reach Olympic final: A clown show

 

Which is also pretty stupid. Seriously, have you ever been asked how far it is to a particular destination and responded, "Oh, about 65 kilometers." The units of measurement in the US are inches, feet, yards and miles. We use pints, quarts and gallons, not liters. Yes, we're totally out of step with the rest of the world, but it is what it is and pretending otherwise is a waste of time and energy.

 

Tough to argue with him. He makes some very valid points.

 

The baseball team's buzz is non-existent, which is a bit surprising. Making the Gold Medal round is a bit surprising as well...but perhaps most surprising is Scioscia didn't find a way to put Jeff Mathis on the squad.

 

Men’s Field Hockey Gold Medal Game came down to a shootout, a save to win the game reversed on replay and a save on the following shot to win the game.

Tune in tonight as MikeTirico interviews the chef that prepared the in-flight meals for the US Women’s Gymnastics Olympic Team.