Olympics 2021

[Galway Eagle]

May as well have a thread for it right?

[shoothoops]

Looking forward to many Olympic events and competitors.

Hawaii’s Carissa Moore in surfing. (4 time World Champion). Nice touch as she introduced herself to the people of Makinohara, and gave a short speech, all in Japanese.

[forgetful]

My take so far:

1. Handball more interesting than I thought.

2. 3x3 basketball significantly less interesting than I thought.

[pbiflyer]

Local kid here is on the Olympic skateboard team.

[CreightonWarrior]

The dudes recreating all the sport emojis at the opening ceremonies was pretty awesome.

[BM1090]

USA/France volleyball was a nice surprise. It's probably my loss, but I just can't get into the individual events outside of track and field.

[warriorchick]

Tried watching the men's qualifying in gymnastics.

NBC is definitely borrowing the Australian feed for this.  The commentators have Aussie accents and they aren't covering the Americans any more than the other competing countries (Australia was in another round).  They are only showing 1-2 Team USA routines per rotation, and completely skipped over the 1st rotation.

Also, they are breaking into the coverage every time an Australian swimmer is in a qualifying heat

I wouldn't care so much if the description of this particular clip hadn't promised "full coverage" of the American team.

[shoothoops]

Gold and Silver for USA in 400 IM Men’s Swimming.

Chase Kalisz Gold
Jay Litherland Silver

[JWags85]

My take so far:

1. Handball more interesting than I thought.

Water Polo I feel like always gets the "underrated" buzz during the Summer Olympics, but Handball is super fun to watch.  Tons of action, fast paced, and interesting.  Also kind of funny that the US doesn't play handball by and large, but I would wager you could very easily put together a team of failed NBA/MLB/NFL guys and create a pretty dominant handball squad.  Unlike a lot of sports the US isn't good at or familiar with, handball seems to be the most similar to sports that most American kids played and would be an easy transition.

[shoothoops]

Tried watching the men's qualifying in gymnastics.

NBC is definitely borrowing the Australian feed for this.  The commentators have Aussie accents and they aren't covering the Americans any more than the other competing countries (Australia was in another round).  They are only showing 1-2 Team USA routines per rotation, and completely skipped over the 1st rotation.

Also, they are breaking into the coverage every time an Australian swimmer is in a qualifying heat

I wouldn't care so much if the description of this particular clip hadn't promised "full coverage" of the American team.

The prime time Men’s Gymnastics coverage are the usual American broadcasters, NBC feed, not International Feed. (Gannon, Daggett, Liukin)

The endless commercials missing different key live events has been worse than getting the International Feed at times.

First Women’s 100 Fly Semifinals Live was missed because they were running commercials. That was bad.

[shoothoops]

Gold and Silver for USA in 400 IM Men’s Swimming.

Chase Kalisz Gold
Jay Litherland Silver

Kieran Smith, USA Bronze 400 Men’s Free

Wow. Ahmed Hafnaoui Gold for Tunisia.

[MuggsyB]

I guess you have to get "Peacock" to watch men's basketball?  Oh. well.

[warriorchick]

Interesting choice to play Beach Volleyball in an indoor arena. Seems like a poor use of facilities when they could have played outdoors with temporary stands.

Edit: NM, looks like it is actually outdoors, but they are playing at night. They have much more seating than I am used to seeing for this sport.

[CreightonWarrior]

I guess you have to get "Peacock" to watch men's basketball?  Oh. well.

It was in nbc sports app. USA choke job.

[HutchwasClutch]

Men’s basketball about to go down in their opener.  Pop continues as an absolute disaster as our national coach.

[MuggsyB]

Yikes.  What happened??? 

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

Yikes.  What happened??? 

France scored more points.

[CreightonWarrior]

Yikes.  What happened???

Terrible shooting and Holiday, who showed up at like 1:30 Tokyo time was the only one playing defense.

[MuggsyB]

Terrible shooting and Holiday, who showed up at like 1:30 Tokyo time was the only one playing defense.

Coaching change time? 

[forgetful]

Water Polo I feel like always gets the "underrated" buzz during the Summer Olympics, but Handball is super fun to watch.  Tons of action, fast paced, and interesting.  Also kind of funny that the US doesn't play handball by and large, but I would wager you could very easily put together a team of failed NBA/MLB/NFL guys and create a pretty dominant handball squad.  Unlike a lot of sports the US isn't good at or familiar with, handball seems to be the most similar to sports that most American kids played and would be an easy transition.

Agree completely on the US and handball. Overlapping skillsets with other major sport, and it looks like a sport most of us would have really liked as a kid. And it is simple, just need people and a ball.

[The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole]

Agree completely on the US and handball. Overlapping skillsets with other major sport, and it looks like a sport most of us would have really liked as a kid. And it is simple, just need people and a ball.

Used to play it in high school gym class.  It was awesome.

[pbiflyer]

My kids were impressed that I played water polo in college, until they found out inner tubes were involved. 

[warriorchick]

My kids were impressed that I played water polo in college, until they found out inner tubes were involved. 

Ha, me too!  We had the best team name:  The Incredible Mr. Limpets.

[StillAWarrior]

Agree completely on the US and handball. Overlapping skillsets with other major sport, and it looks like a sport most of us would have really liked as a kid. And it is simple, just need people and a ball.

We used to play in PE all the time in high school. I loved it.

[forgetful]

We used to play in PE all the time in high school. I loved it.

Used to play it in high school gym class.  It was awesome.

Man, now I feel like my school failed us. We played Handball, but it was the raquetball-like derivative where you hit a ball against a wall using your hand.