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1 minute ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Zero clue how this Aussie team beat #1 Canada, but thanks! 

Yep. And no defense at all. Go for a fucking ball every once in a while. I want our girls to win, but this isn't even entertaining.

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Our girls were definitely  getting pretty baked there at the end, esp Alix. They should have kept it on her earlier.

Ending a tournament on a missed serve ... one of the things I hate the most about Rally Scoring.

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Honestly it’s mostly due to a culture change in that country that happened around 10 years or so ago as it relates to running and track stuff. There are several articles where American coaches have been predicting the rise of China and Asian countries in track for years.

They’ve also outsourced a lot of the coaching which has gone a long ways towards development. Many of their national coaches for the more technical track events are from Europe.
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44 minutes ago, Stringer said:

Women's indoor volleyball semis on USA for you night owls.

Would wife Andrea Drews.  I'm 6'5", so I could handle it.

Womens basketball playing serbia too. both off to good starts against the serbs

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2 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

I knew Yvonne Anderson's name on Serbia sounded familiar. She was a 1000+ point all time scorer at UT. She graduated 2 years before Ariel Atkins played for UT, who's on court for team USA

 

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22 hours ago, Pancho said:

Honestly it’s mostly due to a culture change in that country that happened around 10 years or so ago as it relates to running and track stuff. There are several articles where American coaches have been predicting the rise of China and Asian countries in track for years.

Track and Field participation is lower at  the middle school and high school level.   You can thank kids being pushed to “specialize” into going year around in one sport such as baseball.   Used to be many of your high school athletes were two sport athletes and Track was the second sport.   Football players were almost required to participate in Track as part of Spring conditioning 

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50 minutes ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

To me, there is no Olympic moment as inspiring as the hugs the volleyball players give each other after every f’n point. Baseball should do that after every pitch. 

LOL.   Even when they don't score a point.   Or they got a point  and the it was due to the serve going out of bounds and they didn't do a darn thing but watch the ball sail over their heads out of bounds.

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13 hours ago, smuggs said:

This Chinese child diver is absolutely a Nexus Series replicant from the year 2049.

So much of  China's rise in certain sports reminds of the crap the East Germans did back in the day.   But unlike the East German and the Russians (more recently), China is better at keeping the lid on things....  I mean if the last year and half has shown us, then you can bet your bottom dollar something is up with China and their sudden rise in sports like T&F sprints where really no Asian nation stood out.     

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29 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

Italians win the 4 x 100 and we can't even get to the final.

So double gold for the El Paso born Italian

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