The London 2012 Olympics Thread

rushfan4 wrote: I saw an article on-line that said that the Queen's granddaughter had won a silver medal, and I immediately figured that it had to be for something Equestrian.  I read the article and lo and behold I was right.  It really grinds me that that is an Olympic sport and baseball and softball are not any more.  Edit:  Although I suppose that horseriding was probably around during the original Olympics, whereas, baseball was not.

 

it was a well deserved silver medal

akamaisondufromage wrote: rushfan4 wrote: I saw an article on-line that said that the Queen's granddaughter had won a silver medal, and I immediately figured that it had to be for something Equestrian.  I read the article and lo and behold I was right.  It really grinds me that that is an Olympic sport and baseball and softball are not any more.  Edit:  Although I suppose that horseriding was probably around during the original Olympics, whereas, baseball was not.   I'm not a horsey person but historically eventing has a much better argument to be an Olympic sport than Baseball.  And there really does need to be a few more countries playing it than at the moment.  Cricket was in the first modern Olympics and moore countries play than Baseball, but its not included.

Baseball is quite popular in the Americas; North, Latin, and South American countries all play baseball; and I know it is also popular in Korea and Japan.  I know that there have been a couple of players from Australia in the Major Leagues too, but not sure how popular it is there.  It just doesn't seem to be popular with the rest of the world.  Cricket is pretty much nonexistent here, although I do recall seeing some guys playing it in the parking lot at my college.  I believe that they were all of Indian or Pakistani descent though.

he fought well but the second part of the game sucked hard, but the last round was really good but it was TOO late ohhh

What do you all think of the badminton 'scandel'?

^ Haha. I'm surprised they threw it so obviously. And that they thought they could get away with it.

Bit of a slow day...though some very nice swimming from the US team. and sadly soccer and tennis seem like they are going to dominate coverage during the day so I'm not expecting much from tomorrow. At least track and field will start to heat up soon.

Food for thought: What Olympic event would you look the worst in? 

Also, swimming finished with another gold for Phelps. 22 medals total. Damn.

Drew wrote: Food for thought: What Olympic event would you look the worst in?

Probably anything other than swimming and water polo. I'm one of the most uncoordinated people I've ever seen play sports. I swam competitively for about 10 years, so if I trained hard enough and got somewhat lucky, I could have a chance there. And water polo I would definitely have the endurance for. But everything else would be a laugh fest.