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

I miss seeing Usain Bolt not even shifting out of second or third gear, yet easily winning races. Amazing.

 

As I said to my wife during the trials, you get to be an olympic athlete, the Harvard grad or the model on the L'Oréal box. You don’t get to be all three! She’s depressing the rest of us!

 

US goalie with a knee injury 20 minutes in...going to be interesting

 

I don’t want this to turn into watching RGIII getting his career ruined in the playoffs while playing on one leg.

 

No mention of Jade Carey?

Also, Biles has been practicing every day. If she’s competing, it means she solved the twisties, at least on beam.

 

I bounce around. I seek out live for some, such a rugby which NBA completely ignored. A lot of it's drivel. I'm over beach volleyball, I don't want to see wrestling or weight lifting or fencing or diving. In all, I don't mind the prime show BUT. They could package it so much better than running the delayed events like it's live. For example, the women's 200 last night. Spread out a bunch of heats over time. No. Wrap that baby into a 10/15 minute package with the racing and one or two mini vignettes and it's so much more watchable. Same with the guy who was both long jumping and high jumping (I don't think they ever showed his final long jump standing). And the fact that they didn't give more coverage to the runner (800 I think) who wrecked and then WON HER HEAT was absurd. That is amazing and should have been a huge story, but she wasn't American. They could make it so much more watchable. They really could.

 

I'm getting nauseous thinking about how NBC is going to milk this drama. Think I'll watch baseball instead.

 

Pretty sure the women’s 200 WAS live. It was running at the same time on the channel that does the live feed of the morning (Tokyo time) track sessions.

 

Looks like the long jump final was live, too.

As for the 1,500 (which apparently was also live), Hassan, the woman who fell but came back to win the heat, is the reigning world champion and going for a historic Olympic distance triple. Of course she was the big story. But it's not like they ignored the American in the race (Ellie Purrier-St. Pierre, who's a legit medal threat).

 

That dude is not built like a typical sprinter.

 

Not comparing them at all, but neither is Bolt.