Beautiful gold, so-so silver and shameful bronze: The running Olympics thread

Set on a T for ya.

 

Mrs. T. complains that beach volleyball is a T&A show. Christ, if she saw the stadium dancers (or, for that matter, the pole vault last night) ...
Is Misty overconfident? She sprinkled a vial of her mom on the court after the semis.

 

Yep.

 

Umm ... pics or GTFO?

 

What was the gist of it?

 

He pretty much broke down everything that went wrong and finished up with, "But, hey, you got silver," and shrugged as if to say, "Eh, it's alright, I guess."

His body language was pretty bad, too -- arms crossed in front of him, barely looked at her, that kind of stuff.

 

It can be found somewhere online.

On her best day, she didn't have a prayer against that Russian pole vaulter - he proceeded to tell her she "didn't have fresh legs" - no shit - she had to qualify at lower heights while the Russian literally took a nap.

The low point of many was how he "told 10 people around him" that she would not do well.... his way of pointing out how smart he is, while keeping her down.

This is not a healthy coach-player relationship.

 

dick + head = Rick Suhr

 

Here's what he said:

"It's the same old same old. You're losing take-off at the big heights. What are you gonna do. You gotta learn to keep take-off. You got - you got caught at that meat grinder. I did not -- and I told 10 people -- I did not want to be caught in a meat grinder between 65 and 80. You had to, though. You weren't on, you know, your warm-up didn't go well, you were 55, you got caught up in that meat grinder. What are you gonna do. What are you gonna do. You didn't have the legs. Her legs are fresh. Hey, it's a silver medal. Not bad for someone who's been pole vaulting for 4 years."

Jeez.

 

Then he proceeded to look straight down to the ground, like a dad disappointed over a "c" in third grade math.

 

What a fuckhead! The Russian is so far ahead of every other woman in the world it's not funny. Getting the silver was the best Jenn could do.

 

The bars are further apart, enough that Retton's signature move on them is no longer possible (Hey, I read her wiki the other night). They've been slowly moving them apart for years.