2024 Paris Olympics

[brewcity77]

I'd kill for a chance at a gold medal.

But would you be killed for the same chance?

[Scoop Snoop]

But would you be killed for the same chance?

I'll get back to you on that question, OK? I'm up next.

Edit: Snoop asked me to post in case he didn't make it. He was awarded the silver medal postmortem, so there's that. He said that if he didn't make it, some little delusional sh!t on scoop would be ecstatic that he went down.

[CreightonWarrior]

Lots of participation trophies for the americans today

[warriorchick]

I've only followed it for a few olympics cycles since I started fencing myself, and almost exclusively follow foil, so I don't know that I have a wide enough perspective to comment. I will say that the qualification process requires all of these fencers to more or less fence at world cup events against each other pretty often, and the world rankings are fairly predictive or at least generally so. But that might be more of a thing kind of like baseball's long season is good at sorting teams but a short series can let weird things happen.

Well, it's one 15-touch bout and all of these guys are freakishly good, so you could trip up even though you're a world top 5.

I am a little surprised that they have not found a wireless solution for the electronic scoring devices, and that they still depend on the cables.

[warriorchick]

Men's gymnastics took the bronze in the team event, their first medal in 16 years.

[Not all scoop users are created equal apparently]

Number 24 on Japan putting up threes over Griner was a hilarious visual

[jficke13]

I am a little surprised that they have not found a wireless solution for the electronic scoring devices, and that they still depend on the cables.

wireless scoring devices do exist. I'm... erm... not *quite* on the level of international competition, but I suspect that for scoring in major events wired is preferred to prevent any wireless connectivity issues. Kind of the same reason why whenever possible it's best to set up for an event with a wired microphone or at least to have one in reserve.

The wireless setups are really great for fencing clubs in shared gyms. You put this like, little altoids-tin-sized thing in your back pocket and it communicates with a shoebox sized thing that sits in the middle of the strip and lights green/red for on-target and white for off-target touches. Almost no set up/tear down if you only have like a YMCA basketball court for an hour.

[MuggsyB]

By all accounts, the Olympic pool is as slow as molasses.  Unless of course you're an elite animal kingdom swimmer like a sailfish for example.    67 mph btw. 

[Pakuni]

By all accounts, the Olympic pool is as slow as molasses.  Unless of course you're an elite animal kingdom swimmer like a sailfish for example.    67 mph btw. 

But much slower when they're on the other end of my fishing rod.

[Warriors4ever]

I was thinking that wired touchpads were used because of possible connectivity issues - imagine things going down right as swimmers finished...,

[MuggsyB]

But much slower when they're on the other end of my fishing rod.

Pakiuni,

A Sailfish can swin the 200 m in 10 secs.  I repeat, 10 secs.

[The Sultan]

By all accounts, the Olympic pool is as slow as molasses.  Unless of course you're an elite animal kingdom swimmer like a sailfish for example.    67 mph btw. 

Can we stop with the animal nonsense please?

[Uncle Rico]

Countries that have more gold medals than us:

South Korea
Japan
China
France
Australia

[MuggsyB]

Can we stop with the animal nonsense please?

Not if this annoys you!  I will make a point of sharing more animal athletic dominance throughout the thread. 

[warriorchick]

By all accounts, the Olympic pool is as slow as molasses.  Unless of course you're an elite animal kingdom swimmer like a sailfish for example.    67 mph btw. 

Yep.  Too shallow. Definitely not a world class pool.  Unless it happened since I last checked, there hasn't been a single world record broken yet.

[MuggsyB]

Yep.  Too shallow. Definitely not a world class pool.  Unless it happened since I last checked, there hasn't been a single world record broken yet.

How could they mess this up so badly wc?

[rocket surgeon]

Not if this annoys you!  I will make a point of sharing more animal athletic dominance throughout the thread.

never heard the analogy swim like a manatee...yet

[MuggsyB]

never heard the analogy swim like a manatee...yet

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Manatees can swim 19 mph when motivated!  I'm not sure if Fluffy's hissy-fit will bother them, but to put this into perspective Phelps could only manage 4.7 mph in his prime. 

[The Sultan]

Oh I am not having a hissy fit. It would just be nice to keep the Paris Olympics topic (that you started) about the actual games and not about your weird animal fantasies. 

But if you want to continue down this road, feel free.

[Uncle Rico]

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Manatees can swim 19 mph when motivated!  I'm not sure if Fluffy's hissy-fit will bother them, but to put this into perspective Phelps could only manage 4.7 mph in his prime. 

Manatees are morons.  Not a single one of them has ever won a gold medal but I'd have them look at my teeth before roqqqet

[CreightonWarrior]

It's so interesting seeing Chase Budinger playing volleyball.

[MuggsyB]

Manatees are morons.  Not a single one of them has ever won a gold medal but I'd have them look at my teeth before roqqqet

Manatees are misunderstood.  They're also more intelligent than given credit.   I understand that brother dgies has had a few personal issues with this species, but the immutable truth is that they're tremendous members of the marine mammal community.  They're essentially sea puppies with kind hearts and a warm disposition.  They are incredibly graceful despite their rotund frames and significant weight.  There is not a single recorded incident of a manatee using their power to submerge and end the life of a human.   Keep that in mind before disparaging them and recognize their unique and special gifts. 

[PGsHeroes32]

Manatees are misunderstood.  They're also more intelligent than given credit.   I understand that brother dgies has had a few personal issues with this species, but the immutable truth is that they're tremendous members of the marine mammal community.  They're essentially sea puppies with kind hearts and a warm disposition.  They are incredibly graceful despite their rotund frames and significant weight.  There is not a single recorded incident of a manatee using their power to submerge and end the life of a human.   Keep that in mind before disparaging them and recognize their unique and special gifts.

they are fat blundering idiots with absolutely zero gifts

[TSmith34, Inc.]

That's epee and sabre. The head isn't a valid target in foil. Plus you have to depress the tip of the blade in both epee and foil, so I suppose in sabre there could be bashing.

So right now it's more like poking someone from groin to neck with the tip of a fence.

I can't wait for the greatsword finals

[TSmith34, Inc.]

never heard the analogy swim like a manatee...yet

Ready to admit that you were an idiot about the open ceremony yet?