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See, I have three daughters. I actually used this as a teaching lesson yesterday. I told them that there were going to be these idiots who have no point of reference for the things that they’re going

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My wife designed the Team USA opening ceremony jacket. So there’s that

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I don't blame her one bit.  Such a terribly run Olympics.  How can she perform her best when the vault is that crowded?

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7 hours ago, wood said:

Yeah Karch has these ladies peaking at the right time. Just dismantling Brazil.

I did not see this one coming at all. They looked completely dead in the water and shell-shocked after losing 0-3 to the ROC, losing their best hitter and setter in Thompson and Poulter, and being down 1-2 to Italy. 

Then they reeled off 11 consecutive sets to win gold.

Well done, ladies.

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Look, we're letting Guam keep their medals.  Y'all be fucking cool, okay?  

Fine, absorb other competitive teams' medals into your count by force.  Would be the 19th most awkward thing you forced them to give up under threat of violence or imprisonment.  

We did it again, 15th time by my count all time where we've won the most Gold and the most total medals.  Obviously, it's because we're the largest nation on Earth and have the most athletes to pull from while we've been paying them all along to be servants of the state.  Oh wait...

God Bless the United States!  We even managed as a nation to only bitch about a couple things for a couple days.  All in all, we came to together to watch people who get to fulfill their dreams.  In the end, that's why we watch them.  Because they have the heart to do what we long ago abandoned.  I mean, don't get me wrong, I get to underwrite and de-risk real asset deals.  But if I had the chance, I'd be playing baseball in Tokyo.  Imagine if we gave this little of a fuck about what divides us the other 206 weeks every four years.  What we'd be capable of as a species.  In the end, we gotta go back to being shitheads holding one another back.  But let's bask in all this damn metal!

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4 hours ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

China is aggy  image.thumb.jpeg.aafc47af3475143539753936b8c189af.jpeg

I think we should add every country's medals that we liberated in WW2. Actually, you know what, just China's, since we'd have more than enough. We could even hand some of their's out to less fortunate countries.

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Molly Seidel winning bronze in the women's marathon might have been one of the most unexpected medals on the U.S. side.  only her third marathon ever.  she's a bad ass.  her post-race interview was awesome.  she asked her family to drink a beer for her.  she is from Wisconsin, so that's a legit request.

 

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3 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

Molly Seidel winning bronze in the women's marathon might have been one of the most unexpected medals on the U.S. side.  only her third marathon ever.  she's a bad ass.  her post-race interview was awesome.  she asked her family to drink a beer from her.  she is from Wisconsin, so that's a legit request.

 

Man. How cute is she? 

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8 minutes ago, XYZ said:

Closing ceremony seems like it sucks.

Not watching but another reason to pick 4 or so rotating sites.  You can get rid of all the country, city, region production shit....we know who you are.

Opening ceremony: Olympic flag raised, Athlete parade of nations, Games declared open, light the torch, the end

Closing ceremony:  Athletes walk in, recognize top individual and country performances at games, take down the flag, snuff the flame, roll the One Shining Moment recap video.

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They screw up the 4x1 with one simple answer - arrogance.  They expect to roll out 4 guys who don't practice together and breeze through to a medal.  Wonder who they were going to use in the final because the heat round didn't impress.  All the while, the jamaicans have been eating your lunch for years now.

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1 hour ago, jeevsie said:

They screw up the 4x1 with one simple answer - arrogance.  They expect to roll out 4 guys who don't practice together and breeze through to a medal.  Wonder who they were going to use in the final because the heat round didn't impress.  All the while, the jamaicans have been eating your lunch for years now.

this is like the basketball team before dream team showed up.  we thought we could throw our B/C team out there with no real practice and get to the final with ease to run our A team.  the world has caught up and its not 1976-84 anymore. the 100 meter champ was born in El Paso.

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Texas Athletes combined for 9 medals, including 5 gold.  2 of those medals were not won with Team USA (gold for Julia Grosso for Canada; Stacey Ann Williams for Jamaica).  10 straight summer Olympics with a gold medalist.

Texas as a program would have finished 17th among all countries in gold and 29th in total medals for incoming, current and former student athletes. 

  • Kevin Durant - Gold in MBB
  • Ryan Crouser - Gold in shot put
  • Chiaka Ogbogu - Gold in WVB
  • Ariel Atkins - Gold in WBB
  • Julia Grosso - Gold in WSOC
  • Cat Osterman - Silver in SB
  • Teahna Daniels - Silver in 4x100-meter relay
  • Erica Sullivan - Silver in Women's 1,500m freestyle
  • Stacey Ann Williams - Bronze in 4x400-meter relay

If you include 2022 committed recruit Lydia Jacoby's gold in 100m breakstroke and silver in 4x100-medley relay, that's actually 11 medals (t-23) with 6 gold (t-15th). 

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5 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Texas Athletes combined for 9 medals, including 5 gold.  2 of those medals were not won with Team USA (gold for Julia Grosso for Canada; Stacey Ann Williams for Jamaica).  10 straight summer Olympics with a gold medalist.

Texas as a program would have finished 17th among all countries in gold and 29th in total medals for incoming, current and former student athletes. 

  • Kevin Durant - Gold in MBB
  • Ryan Crouser - Gold in shot put
  • Chiaka Ogbogu - Gold in WVB
  • Ariel Atkins - Gold in WBB
  • Julia Grosso - Gold in WSOC
  • Cat Osterman - Silver in SB
  • Teahna Daniels - Silver in 4x100-meter relay
  • Erica Sullivan - Silver in Women's 1,500m freestyle
  • Stacey Ann Williams - Bronze in 4x400-meter relay

If you include 2022 committed recruit Lydia Jacoby's gold in 100m breakstroke and silver in 4x100-medley relay, that's actually 11 medals (t-23) with 6 gold (t-15th). 

When was the last time no Longhorn won a medal in men's swimming?

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3 hours ago, dcar00 said:

this is like the basketball team before dream team showed up.  we thought we could throw our B/C team out there with no real practice and get to the final with ease to run our A team.  the world has caught up and its not 1976-84 anymore. the 100 meter champ was born in El Paso.

They were college players…

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22 hours ago, dcar00 said:

this is like the basketball team before dream team showed up.  we thought we could throw our B/C team out there with no real practice and get to the final with ease to run our A team.  the world has caught up and its not 1976-84 anymore. the 100 meter champ was born in El Paso.


. . . and like many people born in El Paso, his English isn't great and he doesn't living in the USA. 

But welcome to last week! Glad to have you!

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