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  1. Captain Ron
    YIKES. Injury to a Brazilian Gymnast in warmups.
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    Argentina strikes first. Heck of a goal from just outside the box.
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    Morocco leaving no doubts out there. They are up 3-0 right now with just over 5 minutes left in the first half. Ukraine/Argentina still knotted up at 0-0.
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    The Women start in just over any hour. I wonder if the rotation works well for us: 1. Vault 2. Uneven Bars 3. Balance Beam 4. Floor Finally - the scoring is a little faster online - https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/results/artistic-gymnastics/women-s-team/fnl-000001-- - than if you're watching on TV
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    So did the US for trials (in an NFL stadium). Our pool was only 2.5 meters deep.
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    On the old coach ...
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    They are carry over rules when the eastern bloc dominated gymnastics. I get why they exist; I think it sucks that we’re now the targets, but so it goes. We likely didn’t hate them too much in the 70s and 80s.
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    Tell me you only follow gymnastics at the Olympics without telling me … It’s not a screw job, those are the rules.
  11. Captain Ron
    Damn, that Canadian woman blew everyone away in that race (400 IM).
  12. Captain Ron
    LOL at China blowing the gold on that final rotation. Though I have to feel for Su's family and the labor camp they are going to be assigned to for their son's failure.
  13. Captain Ron
    Looks like we lock down a bronze. That final routine looks good enough to lock up silver, but not take gold.
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    14.866
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    Our last guy on pommel horse looks like a cross between Clark Kent and Harry Potter.
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    just flipped it on now. They are talking about the bronze being in reach. Is no other medal truly reachable?
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    I will say this - since I created my Twitter burner (via a 10 minutes email address) - I can say that the Twitter bot situation is out of control. I barely have posted on Twitter, every day I get 5-10 new followers every day. All women, none of whom I have ever engaged with. Hell, I had a follower count of like 40 before I ever posted anything. And daily my count moves up and down as clearly they cull out the known bots.
  18. Captain Ron
    Chiaka Ogbogu is it.
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    Dude, we are getting drilled this morning by China. What is going on?
  20. Captain Ron
    Yeah, this tournament field is just dumb, both in the tiny size of the field and the distribution of teams. There are legit maybe 5 teams that can win this of the 12. Expand it to 16, throw in a few more Euro teams and you probably have a far better tournament.
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    Watching the highlights of this game, the goals and the calls - I gotta say this is one of those games that gets you talking about "the fix." The OG that started the comeback, the free kick through the hands, the phantom penalty. Lots of Hmmmmm calls.
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    I was looking at the standings - the women's side is still very much open, with no one yet eliminated. The big one is Canada who sit at 0 points after being docked 6 for their coach spying on other teams. They have one of the easier roads to the KO stage: They need 2 things: Win against New Zealand And 1 of the following teams must lose: Colombia (v France) France (v Colombia) Germany (v Zambia) Australia (v United States) Japan (v Nigeria) Brazil (v Spain) A Colombia or France loss would send Canada through as the #2 team in their group, while the other 4 teams would send them through as a 3rd place team. The big thing for Canada is that unlike other teams at 0 or 3 points, their GD is great and ideally should beat anyone in a H2H matchup for seeding.
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    I left a team out - Colombia, they also can lose to advance Canada. And they play France! Seriously - if I were those two I would get together and say "draw and we're good." Some serious Gijon action.
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    Australia. Actually their path is wide open if you get down to it: The first thing they need to do is win And then one of the follow: France loses - they are 2nd in their group Germany loses Australia loses Japan loses Brazil loses Any of the last 4 will give them a 3rd place birth.
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    I will say I didn’t watch a lot of the game, but the parts I did watch, Zambia was very dedicated on their defensive efforts. I saw 2 or 3 clearances on the line by back line defenders and a defense that was setup to give the US fits. I know we expected more than 3-0, but I thought they worked their tails off to make sure 3-0 was all we got. And now to be beating Australia, impressive.

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