OLYMPICS

[TheCountofMonteCristo]

Yeah, 187 goals total. Ronaldo and Ali Daei are the top men at 109 goals. I think the women seem to play more games - Sinclair and the other top women have more than 300 international games, whereas the top men are only in the 180-range.

women play more tournaments and there is no age requirement for olympics unlike in men's so they get world cups, tournaments, exhibitions and olympics

 

[anne25]

He's generally a fun follow on Twitter. But he's being a little bitch about this.

What did he say?

 

[Deckie007]

What did he say?

essentially that Sweden "blew it" and Canada didn't win it. Just comes off as a bitter petty American.

 

[anne25]

Thanks.

 

[worm]

i thought sweden kicked the shit out of the USA 3-0 or some shit

never forget america cheering like fucking morons when they were winning by a dozen in a previous tournie

 

[mbow30]

Idiotic take from whyshheysbeny

Canadian women have medaled in three straight Olympics. Objectively, this is one of the best women’s programs in the world right now, if not the best.

 

[CTheBigPicture]

Anywhere to watch the women's gold medal ceremony?

 

[lecoqsportif]

Beautiful goal by Spain in the soccer GMG.

 

[Habsy]

Hat tip, first woman to ever medal in all three in the same games.

 

[Habsy]

She's an athlete. Mad respect.

 

[manny]

That’s incredible considering the different training demands of those three races. 1500 is basically a sprint to a 10K runner.

 

[UWHabs]

That’s incredible considering the different training demands of those three races. 1500 is basically a sprint to a 10K runner.

Yeah, it's like running the equivalent of the 100, 200, and 400. I saw the qualifying race where she fell in - basically with a couple laps to go, someone fell and took out a few people. She got up and just sprinted the rest of the way and won it easily. It was only the qualifying round, so it's not like it was in the final or something, but still crazy. And then in the final, she was ahead of the pack for most of the race, but then just got overtaken in the last half lap or so.

 

[CTheBigPicture]

Anywhere to watch the women's gold medal ceremony?

 

[blkngldbabe]

This was so great. I love how they put the medals on each other and hugged. I got all up in my feels.

 

[CTheBigPicture]

Came across this neat story. Polish Olympian auctioning her medal to raise money for a little girl's heart surgery. Auction was won by a supermarket chain who let her keep her medal. That's covered part of the funds needed. Also a little boy's family, who unfortunately didn't make it, had raised some money who donated all of it to this fund.


https://www.insider.com/olympian-auctions-silver-medal-raise-190k-boys-heart-surgery-2021-8?amp

Direct link to donation page (you can use PayPal or credit cards) if you are interested: https://www.siepomaga.pl/en/serce-milka

They are short about 30K CAD