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Olympics

I'm amazed by how well the Canadian men are playing against the fifth-ranked American team in volleyball. They were up 2 sets to none last I checked. Fantastic performance to say the least.

Also, Canada's women's rugby sevens squad plays the Aussie lasses in the semi-finals tomorrow after their 15-5 win over France.
 
Men's Volleyball just happy to be there my ASS!!!!

3-0 vs the 5th ranked US.

So happy for these guys. I know many of them personally and all of the coaches. They have spent years of their lives working towords these Olympics. They are in the ppol of death, but if they can keep playing like this, watch out.
 
Been away for the past month. I'm having a hard time caring about any of this. Volleyball? Who gives a **** :lol

Some swimmer winning 10 medals for slight variations of disrance. It's totally bogus. No baseball? WTF?

Too much bullsgit in the Olympics. Even the winter games are total horseshit with short track speed skaters collecting medals.

Might as well count individual medals for hockey. Team Canada with 25 gold medals for winning. Why not it's just as legitimare.
 
JohnnyHolmes said:
Might as well count individual medals for hockey. Team Canada with 25 gold medals for winning. Why not it's just as legitimare.
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Didn't have to in 2010 as "own the podium" was already a success without resorting to that. 2014? Well we all know how those Olympics were (the fix was in....)
 
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Watched a bit of the Volleyball earlier, as much as I don't give a shit about it any other time, it was fun to watch, and always cool to almost care about these sports for a couple weeks.
 
Penny Oleksiak with the silver in the women's 100m butterfly!!! Her second medal in two days and she's just sixteen years old!

What did you do during your summers in high school? Amazing accomplishment.

This is also certainly Canada's first unexpected medal at the games. It would have been a great showing for Oleksiak to have finished top five or six. To get a silver here is completely out of the blue. Awesome to watch.
 
Also, it was a tough outcome for the Canadian women's gymnastics team today. They missed out on qualifying for the final by two tenths of a point after Brittany Rodgers (the team captain) fell on the uneven bars.

Lots of great individual performances though, so they have a few competitors in the individual final events.

The women's rugby sevens squad plays Australia tomorrow at 1:30 pm (I think) for a shot at going to the gold medal game. Canada isn't expected to beat them, but they have in the past.
 
JaysCyYoung said:
Also, it was a tough outcome for the Canadian women's gymnastics team today. They missed out on qualifying for the final by two tenths of a point after Brittany Rodgers (the team captain) fell on the uneven bars.

Lots of great individual performances though, so they have a few competitors in the individual final events.

The women's rugby sevens squad plays Australia tomorrow at 1:30 pm (I think) for a shot at going to the gold medal game. Canada isn't expected to beat them, but they have in the past.
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Their beam performances put a really tough start on the day, which really sunk them. I think 2 of their better bets either fell or had big mistakes, so they were going through the rest of the events being pretty far back.
 
JaysCyYoung said:
Penny Oleksiak with the silver in the women's 100m butterfly!!! Her second medal in two days and she's just sixteen years old!

What did you do during your summers in high school? Amazing accomplishment.

This is also certainly Canada's first unexpected medal at the games. It would have been a great showing for Oleksiak to have finished top five or six. To get a silver here is completely out of the blue. Awesome to watch.
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Yeah amazing medal
 
JaysCyYoung said:
Penny Oleksiak with the silver in the women's 100m butterfly!!! Her second medal in two days and she's just sixteen years old!

What did you do during your summers in high school? Amazing accomplishment.

This is also certainly Canada's first unexpected medal at the games. It would have been a great showing for Oleksiak to have finished top five or six. To get a silver here is completely out of the blue. Awesome to watch.
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In two days she went from the little sister of an nhl player... to that player now having his biggest accomplishment being penny oleksiak's brother.
 
Canada scores a try against Australia in their rugby sevens semi-final game, but it looks like too little too late against the world's second-ranked team.

Final score Australia 17 Canada 5. The Canadians will play the loser of Great Britain-New Zealand later this evening.
 
JaysCyYoung said:
Canada scores a try against Australia in their rugby sevens semi-final game, but it looks like too little too late against the world's second-ranked team.

Final score Australia 17 Canada 5. The Canadians will play the loser of Great Britain-New Zealand later this evening.
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The Rugby sevens are awesome to watch, but geez, those games are over way too quickly.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
Not looking good for medal I guess
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Canada was actually predicted to get a bronze in this event before the Olympics began.

UWHabs said:
The Rugby sevens are awesome to watch, but geez, those games are over way too quickly.
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Yeah, the games are essentially over in 15 or 16 minutes. Two seven-minute halfs and then maybe one or two additional added extra time minutes at the referee's discretion. Crazy fast.
 
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