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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: MillCreek on May 25, 2021, 10:17:24 AM
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https://apnews.com/article/japan-coronavirus-pandemic-business-olympic-games-2020-tokyo-olympics-72cc0b10127e8bab06406a6ec6bcedd6
The latest COVID surge in Japan is happening at a bad time. I wonder if the Olympics will be cancelled.
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We can only hope.
They are a horribly crooked waste of tax dollars that give monstrous nations opportunities to showboat with drugged slaves.
But that's just my opinion.
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Put me down for $50 on "I do not give even the smallest of shits."
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been a long, long time since I cared about the Olympics
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I would say if it is not cancelled, then brace yourself for a nationwide mask mandate from the Executive Branch. Mostly due to participants, media, and spectators bringing whatever Covid strain is raging in Japan back home with them.
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Put me down for $50 on "I do not give even the smallest of shits."
I want in on that action. I can't even remember the last time I watched or cared about the Olympics. I'm pretty sure my teen years. For all I know there's a gold medal for stand up paddleboarding now.
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I gave up on the Olympics when they opened them up to professional athletes. It's not a level playing field when you have amateurs trying to play basketball against the best of the NBA, for example.
Now, if Kareen Adbul Jabar wanted to compete in Olympic table tennis or bobsledding, I wouldn't object to that. But to compete in the sport that he gets paid to play, and has the most elite coaching and training available? No way.
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Surprised they haven't started giving every participant a gold metal yet
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Surprised they haven't started giving every participant a gold metal yet
Then it would be a fool's gold medal.
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I think it will be cancelled...probably will be cancelled next year and Japan will have flushed all the money down the drain with nothing to show for it.
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Nothing should be canceled for covid ever again, anywhere the in the world. That stupid, Chinese plague has caused enough damage.
OK, I guess I could make an exception, if we're cancelling the CCP.
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I want in on that action. I can't even remember the last time I watched or cared about the Olympics. I'm pretty sure my teen years. For all I know there's a gold medal for stand up paddleboarding now.
I do like watching the winter Olympics, but summer? Bleh.
I love the ski jumping and downhill skiing, bob sled, luge, hockey, and yes, I've even been known to watch the figure skating and ice dancing.
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I cared more about the Olympics during the height of the Cold War when it was a proxy for the West vs. the Warsaw Pact. Yay America, Boo Soviet Union, etc.
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I do like watching the winter Olympics, but summer? Bleh.
I love the ski jumping and downhill skiing, bob sled, luge, hockey, and yes, I've even been known to watch the figure skating and ice dancing.
That was big in my house when I was a kid. My parents were into the Winter Olympics and it was a family thing to watch them. I remember my mom always rooting for the US and my dad rooting for the krauts. :laugh:
It seems to me the Olympics have turned into something closer to that "Circus of the Stars" thing that used to be on the teevee.
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I cared more about the Olympics during the height of the Cold War when it was a proxy for the West vs. the Warsaw Pact. Yay America, Boo Soviet Union, etc.
Bingo. Who doesn't remember where they were when word came out that Team USA beat the commies at Lake Placid in 1980?
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I gave up on the Olympics when they opened them up to professional athletes. It's not a level playing field when you have amateurs trying to play basketball against the best of the NBA, for example.
Now, if Kareen Adbul Jabar wanted to compete in Olympic table tennis or bobsledding, I wouldn't object to that. But to compete in the sport that he gets paid to play, and has the most elite coaching and training available? No way.
I don't really understand this argument. You can be good at a sport, but just not too good? I thought it was about watching the world's best athletes. Coaching and practice and all.
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I don't really understand this argument. You can be good at a sport, but just not too good? I thought it was about watching the world's best athletes. Coaching and practice and all.
I suspect you are from a younger generation. Throughout my youth, the Olympics were touted as being a competition among the world's best amateur athletes. That was pretty much hard-wired into my mental circuitry so that's my default but, even when I reflect onit as objectively as I can, I still think it should be that way.
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I suspect you are from a younger generation. Throughout my youth, the Olympics were touted as being a competition among the world's best amateur athletes. That was pretty much hard-wired into my mental circuitry so that's my default but, even when I reflect onit as objectively as I can, I still think it should be that way.
How young? Even before my day, there were controversies over the Russian teams who were obviously boosted, funded and selected by the government. If it was ever amateur, it must have been generations ago.
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It seems to me the Olympics have turned into something closer to that "Circus of the Stars" thing that used to be on the teevee.
I don't know who did it first, but they seem to be introducing the athletes like reality TV characters. (Or vice-versa). They like to find some personal tragedy in the athlete's past, to make you root for them. It's syrupy drama all the way down.
Yuck.
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Did you know about the virtual Olympic events that are happening right now?
“The Olympic Virtual Series is a new, unique Olympic digital experience that aims to grow direct engagement with new audiences in the field of virtual sports. Its conception is in line with Olympic Agenda 2020+5 and the IOC’s digital strategy. It encourages sports participation and promotes the Olympic values with a special focus on youth," says IOC President Thomas Bach.
Virtual. As in video games.
These are the events: Baseball, rowing, sailing, cycling, and motorsport. All video games.
https://olympics.com/en/video/olympic-virtual-series
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I was only ever interested in the Biathlon and sometimes skating. The Biathlon because it combined shooting and skiing, which
was is sort of like an actual hunter-gatherer activity.
But I wonder how good a cheek weld you can get with a mask on. Is it like shooting with a beard? Does it fog up your shooting glasses?
Skating...? Just wished I could do it like they did. To me it was mostly when the creek froze over and the ice was pretty rough. I got skates for Wife1 and the oldest boy but they weren't as interested in it as I was.
I also remember the Olympics mainly as an Eastern bloc versus a Western bloc kind of chest-bumping, and later on, the testing of some of the women to check their genders.
To me, most of the contests involved rather artificial made-up tests of skills, like the hurdles... and sort of just as dumb as the Sottish caber toss.
Oops! I'll bet I triggered all the caber toss and hurdle apologists.
Holy crap, look out, prey animal or deadly enemy, I'm about to throw a huge hunka wood at your sorry ass !
https://youtu.be/xb0FU8rSisU
:)
Terry, 230RN
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Shooting is still an Olympic sport. Air gun, skeet, trap, and rimfire are still events.
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Shooting is still an Olympic sport. Air gun, skeet, trap, and rimfire are still events.
Yes but it's a cold day in hell if they ever get any air time on US TV/news.
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Yes but it's a cold day in hell if they ever get any air time on US TV/news.
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Exactly. Pussies rule.
Fly320s, I changed the tense of the remark about the Biathlon. I hoped to imply that my interest was past tense, not that the event was in the past.
Every writer needs an editor to spot stuff like that.
Muchas Danke.
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Did you know about the virtual Olympic events that are happening right now?
Virtual. As in video games.
These are the events: Baseball, rowing, sailing, cycling, and motorsport. All video games.
https://olympics.com/en/video/olympic-virtual-series
I think a better concept for "virtual" Olympics would be distributed site events. If you want to enter to 100-meter dash, for example, you find some local college with standardized timing equipment, get three (or five) recognized coaches or officials to stand around and watch, and you go out and run a 100-meter dash. The officials solemnize your time, it gets submitted to the IOC, and on the appointed date all the results submitted from around the world get ranked and the top three get their medals by FedEx Express.
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Yes but it's a cold day in hell if they ever get any air time on US TV/news.
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Not sure on this one but the shooting sports have always been on cable in the middle of the night. Insomnia has its perks.
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Shooting is still an Olympic sport. Air gun, skeet, trap, and rimfire are still events.
I thought they had finally replaced rimfire with air guns.
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I thought they had finally replaced rimfire with air guns.
Not sure. The official site shows events titled "air gun" and also events titled "pistol" and "rifle." https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/schedule/shooting-schedule
Edit: Yes, .22LRs are used in the other events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSF_25_meter_rapid_fire_pistol
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Muchas Danke.
Bitter Grenada.
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The Olympics are a political gathering with many events that don't even qualify as "sports" IMHO because the winner is not picked objectively and the judging has often been obviously rigged.
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The Olympics are a political gathering with many events that don't even qualify as "sports" IMHO because the winner is not picked objectively and the judging has often been obviously rigged.
Well, objectivity is sometimes hard to get in an esthetic setting. In a sense, the only "objectivity" is in the volume of audience reaction.
And here's an obviously athletic event where the only objectivity is in the applause. (This is only a public practice event, where you can make mistakes and figure out how to correct them.)
https://youtu.be/ZLF23KLHUE8 (4:18)
Well, four out of five ain't bad.
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Bingo. Who doesn't remember where they were when word came out that Team USA beat the commies at Lake Placid in 1980?
I lived 50 miles from there in 1980 and didn't care about the Olympics back then, and still don't. I wouldn't even know they still have them if you folks hadn't brought it up.
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@ Fly320s: =D
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I lived 50 miles from there in 1980 and didn't care about the Olympics back then, and still don't. I wouldn't even know they still have them if you folks hadn't brought it up.
The whole Team USA vs Team Russia was about so much more than the Olympics.
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The whole Team USA vs Team Russia was about so much more than the Olympics.
What was so important other than the usual USA vs the world garbage that went on back then?
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Really?
You don't remember the tenor of the American political and social climate through the 1970s and into 1980?
Watergate, inflation, screamingly high interest rates, the Iran Hostage Crisis, Russian invasion of Afghanistan, oil embargos, the list of why the 1970s sucked amazing amounts of ass goes on and on. And don't forget Jimmy Carter, lines for free government cheese, generic products in those black and white boxes, the collapse of any number of American industries...
I was a kid in the 1970s and I recognized just how badly things sucked morale wise in this country, just how badly battered the American psyche was.
And through it all was an increasingly strident undercurrent of "The USA is finished as an economic and international influencer/power! The Soviets are ascending, the US is in decline, and that will never change!" There was a feature article in Time Magazine around this time explaining that in excruciating detail, IIRC by one of Time's resident communists.
As a geo-political statement the USA vs Russia hockey match was a non factor, but it gave people something feel good to latch on to coming out of decade in which the best news was typically "nothing too terrible happened today."
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You left out that a new ice age was starting.
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I also left out the Vietnam experience.
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Really?
You don't remember the tenor of the American political and social climate through the 1970s and into 1980?
Watergate, inflation, screamingly high interest rates, the Iran Hostage Crisis, Russian invasion of Afghanistan, oil embargos, the list of why the 1970s sucked amazing amounts of ass goes on and on. And don't forget Jimmy Carter, lines for free government cheese, generic products in those black and white boxes, the collapse of any number of American industries...
I was a kid in the 1970s and I recognized just how badly things sucked morale wise in this country, just how badly battered the American psyche was.
And through it all was an increasingly strident undercurrent of "The USA is finished as an economic and international influencer/power! The Soviets are ascending, the US is in decline, and that will never change!" There was a feature article in Time Magazine around this time explaining that in excruciating detail, IIRC by one of Time's resident communists.
As a geo-political statement the USA vs Russia hockey match was a non factor, but it gave people something feel good to latch on to coming out of decade in which the best news was typically "nothing too terrible happened today."
Basically, Bread and Circuses.
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No. Not even close.
If anything, the 1970s were ANTI bread and circuses because, if anything, the gub was making things worse under Carter.
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I also left out the Vietnam experience.
I lived the Viet Nam experience. I was discharged from the hospital on April 10, 1970 and got my medical discharge on May 25, 1970 in the mail. I was still learning to walk again, going to college in a small town in upstate NY and generally just trying to live again. Not much of the stuff you listed meant much to me, and still doesn't. I live a quiet, out of the limelight life, and try to just get by. I learned early on that the US was not a democracy so I don't expect much good to come out of what the .gov does and sure as hell don't trust what they do. I haven't seen much difference between 1970 and 2021 when it comes to how the .gov treats us as citizens, other than the extra layers of crap it dishes out. Using other countries and what they do as an excuse, is just the smokescreen for what .gov is up to here. 911 and the Patriot Act is one good example of how they use a singular event to further encroach on our Constitutional rights and civil liberties, and as a justification for disrupting life in other countries, just like they did in Viet Nam. No I don't care if the Olympics are cancelled, or ever held again. The real meaning of the Olympics was lost many generations ago and won't ever regain the dignity it once had.
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What was so important other than the usual USA vs the world garbage that went on back then?
It wasn't the USA vs. the world, it was the USA vs. the USSR. Beyond that, that was in a time when the Olympics were still supposed to be an amateur competition. Team USA was made up of college kids -- team USSR was made up of a buch of guys who did nothing but play hockey. They were, for all intents and purposes (or, since this is the Internet, "for all intensive purposes"), professionals. So the American win was viewed as a triumph of "pure" amateur athletics over professionalism.
It wasn't very long after that the Olympics dropped the pretense that the competitors were all amateurs, since that had not been true for quite some time.
The real meaning of the Olympics was lost many generations ago and won't ever regain the dignity it once had.
Agreed.
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I lived the Viet Nam experience. I was discharged from the hospital on April 10, 1970 and got my medical discharge on May 25, 1970 in the mail. I was still learning to walk again, going to college in a small town in upstate NY and generally just trying to live again. Not much of the stuff you listed meant much to me, and still doesn't. I live a quiet, out of the limelight life, and try to just get by. I learned early on that the US was not a democracy so I don't expect much good to come out of what the .gov does and sure as hell don't trust what they do. I haven't seen much difference between 1970 and 2021 when it comes to how the .gov treats us as citizens, other than the extra layers of crap it dishes out. Using other countries and what they do as an excuse, is just the smokescreen for what .gov is up to here. 911 and the Patriot Act is one good example of how they use a singular event to further encroach on our Constitutional rights and civil liberties, and as a justification for disrupting life in other countries, just like they did in Viet Nam. No I don't care if the Olympics are cancelled, or ever held again. The real meaning of the Olympics was lost many generations ago and won't ever regain the dignity it once had.
You wanted an answer, I gave you one. Whether it applies to your personal experience or not, I can't say.
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Well, I went to college with Lones Wigger's kid - and I didn't really know who he was until the 1990s... Got to meet him once at a rimfire match. And call it what you will, but position shooting is NOT an easy game.
The olympics is a chance for diplomacy. And a chance to show off. With the strength/skill events, it is the peak of athletics. Stuff like gymnastics and figure skating? Meh - has to be something for the ladies...
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The olympics is a chance for diplomacy. And a chance to show off. With the strength/skill events, it is the peak of athletics. Stuff like gymnastics and figure skating? Meh - has to be something for the ladies...
It won't be for the ladies for long if the IOC goes full woke on allowing transvestite men to compete as "women."
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I met Lones multiple times over the years when I was with American Rifleman.
He was an OK guy once you got to know him a bit.
His daughter, Deena? Complete and total beoch...
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I knew Danny... Eastern Kentucky University. Scott Rupp was there at the same time.
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My favorite Olympic sport is biathlon in the Winter Olympics. I cross-country ski, and I shoot, so I have a good sense of how difficult it must be to ski at high speed and then try to hit a target with your heart rate in the stratosphere.
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I knew Danny... Eastern Kentucky University. Scott Rupp was there at the same time.
I replaced Rupp as associate editor of American Rifleman when he moved on to the Pennsylvania Game News.
I never met either of Wigger's sons, but as I said, his daughter was a bitch.
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My favorite Olympic sport is biathlon in the Winter Olympics. I cross-country ski, and I shoot, so I have a good sense of how difficult it must be to ski at high speed and then try to hit a target with your heart rate in the stratosphere.
Ditto. Hunter-gatherer kind of stuff.
As opposed to the caber toss (not Olympic, but my favorite example of pointless contesting. I can pee further than you, nyah-nyahhh.)
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The caber toss actually has its origins in Scottish military history. They used to toss cabers across streams as ersatz bridges.
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I'll believe you, but I question your source. That sounds like a contrived, artificial, speculative, off-the-top-of-someone's-head explanation.
My first thought was that almost any stream narrow enough to be bridged by a pole like those could probably be waded across.
A quick DDG search did not reveal any origin at all (except for an initial date) and kind of sniffed around the Spanish or Portugese for "pole," which didn't help etymologically speaking.
So for now I'm going to continue with the idea that tossing the caber is/was pointless, like a pissing contest.
Someone feel free to enlighten me.
Terry
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Well, with everything like that, the story could well be apocryphal. But I've heard it for years.
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/scotland/articles/tossing-the-caber-what-exactly-is-it/
And, many of the streams in Scotland in the highlands are at the bottom of steep, deep, cuts.
"So for now I'm going to continue with the idea that tossing the caber is/was pointless, like a pissing contest."
So, you sneer at the caber toss, but you're all for the keyboard toss as practiced here at APS. Noted :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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"So, you sneer at the caber toss, but you're all for the keyboard toss as practiced here at APS. Noted :rofl: :rofl: :rofl::"
Is that supposed to make some kind of sense? And I object to the "sneer." Explicate, so I can laugh too.
And I thought of steeply-sided streams, but I doubt a pole across them would be either helpful or very possible. Still sounds like a "plucked from the air" explanation, but you go ahead with it. It's OK with me.
Yep, one man takes a 150-300 lb pole, balances it in the air, throws it so it will bounce off the upper end and falls across the stream to form an ersatz bridge. Or even a supporting member thereof. Ayup. Noted.
Well, on the other hand, who would have expected an army to take elephants across the Alps, so I'll give you that one.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: yourself.
And you stated it as a plain fact, not something possibly apocryphal. Tsk-tsk.
Terry, 230RN
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It's a joke, Grandpa Simpson.
Go yell at a cloud...
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Nonsense. Excuse it as a joke. How cheap.
And are you using my age as an insult?
Terry, 230RN
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https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/facts/washington-stories/remarkably-robust-and-athletic-george-washington-the-sportsman/
I have seen this before about G. Washington throwing an iron rod. Not sure what the comparison is with size and weight.
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So for now I'm going to continue with the idea that tossing the caber is/was pointless, like a pissing contest.
As opposed to, say, the shot put or hammer throw, or weightlifting in general, all of which have obvious, practical, real world origins.
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As opposed to, say, the shot put or hammer throw, or weightlifting in general, all of which have obvious, practical, real world origins.
Let's not forget javelin, discus, hurdles, curling, speed skating... :rofl:
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They started. Did anyone even notice?
Tokyo Olympics begin with muted ceremony in empty stadium
https://www.wlky.com/article/olympic-games-begin/37109322
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I was only ever interested in the Biathlon and sometimes skating. The Biathlon because it combined shooting and skiing, which was is sort of like an actual hunter-gatherer activity.
But I wonder how good a cheek weld you can get with a mask on. Is it like shooting with a beard? Does it fog up your shooting glasses?
Skating...? Just wished I could do it like they did. To me it was mostly when the creek froze over and the ice was pretty rough. I got skates for Wife1 and the oldest boy but they weren't as interested in it as I was.
I also remember the Olympics mainly as an Eastern bloc versus a Western bloc kind of chest-bumping, and later on, the testing of some of the women to check their genders.
To me, most of the contests involved rather artificial made-up tests of skills, like the hurdles... and sort of just as dumb as the Sottish caber toss.
Oops! I'll bet I triggered all the caber toss and hurdle apologists.
Holy crap, look out, prey animal or deadly enemy, I'm about to throw a huge hunka wood at your sorry ass !
https://youtu.be/xb0FU8rSisU
:)
Terry, 230RN
You will note I only used the caber toss as an example of purposeless tests. And then, "Oops! I'll bet I triggered all the caber toss and hurdle apologists."
Sho' 'nuf.
:rofl: ...You guys... =D
Terry, 230RN
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I have lost all interest in circuses
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The olympics might come back... if... they concentrate more on sportsing stuff, and less on dancing stuff...
Swim fast? Cool. How many perfect flips and motions you can do after you jump off a ledge? Nope.
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The olympics might come back... if... they concentrate more on sportsing stuff, and less on dancing stuff...
Swim fast? Cool. How many perfect flips and motions you can do after you jump off a ledge? Nope.
Diving is more athletic than the dancing stuff. I'll watch diving. I won't watch the dancing stuff.
It is all moot to me anyway. I don't have cable or broadcast TV and the streaming option is limited to NBC and whenever they feel like showing the events.
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I just saw that the US basketball team, made up of NBA stars, was trounced by... France. Also early on, the US women's soccer team was murdered by Sweden right at the get go.
As I mentioned earlier, I haven't followed the Olympics in forever. And now I appear to be having schadenfreude whenever the US athletes lose. I guess that is unfair to the athletes that work hard, compete, and keep their mouths shut, but man do I like to read about the woke jackwagons that hate me for breathing their air getting beat on.
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Basketball stars and purple hairs getting trounced has amused me to no end. Ironic that the loudest critics of our country are getting wrecked while representing it.
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Basketball stars and purple hairs getting trounced has amused me to no end. Ironic that the loudest critics of our country are getting wrecked while representing it.
I have to admit the thought crossed my mind that some of these woke idiots might be throwing their games. All because 'Murica is so very bad and deserves to be punished.
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(https://i.redd.it/tsrwl1n716d71.png)
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I have to admit the thought crossed my mind that some of these woke idiots might be throwing their games. All because 'Murica is so very bad and deserves to be punished.
An interesting and not too far fetched possibility, given the mental state of some many of the awakened.
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I have to admit the thought crossed my mind that some of these woke idiots might be throwing their games. All because 'Murica is so very bad and deserves to be punished.
Hadn't even considered that, but I can see the possibility.
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I think the woke are too narcissistic to purposely throw an Olympic medal. Not to mention whatever other issues they have, getting to the Olympics is no small amount of work and sacrifice.
I suspect they just aren't quite as good at their chosen sport as they may have thought. From what I heard, wasn't this the same team the spanked the US Women's Soccer team last time? No reason to think they needed the US to take a fall to repeat what they've already done once.
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One guy's take: Crypto-Mithraism Gets Less Cryptic at Tokyo Olympics (https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2021/07/crypto-mithraism-gets-less-cryptic-at.html)
Yeah, he's weird. It's still interesting.
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I think the woke are too narcissistic to purposely throw an Olympic medal. Not to mention whatever other issues they have, getting to the Olympics is no small amount of work and sacrifice.
I suspect they just aren't quite as good at their chosen sport as they may have thought. From what I heard, wasn't this the same team the spanked the US Women's Soccer team last time? No reason to think they needed the US to take a fall to repeat what they've already done once.
Yeah, I can't see them taking a fall either. If anything, getting a medal gives them a bigger PR pipeline for their commie stuff, and I think they know that.
I wonder what the training regimes have been for US athletes during the covid vs that of other countries? I heard an interesting hypothesis this morning regarding training areas for US athletes being closed/restricted, etc. and athletes' fear of getting covid making it difficult for them to train as much, thus they are not as prepared as foreign athletes.
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The Olympics? Doesn't even register on my GAS meter.
Woody
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How many of them were selected to go primarily because of their "diversity"?
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Interesting article on how the Japanese feel about the games...
https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/tokyos-olympics-have-become-the-anger-games?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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Mental issues at the Olympics
While Team USA did not immediately explain why Biles was pulled, NBC's John Roethlisberger relayed: "We've just been told that, with regards to Simone withdrawing, it is not injury-related. It is a mental issue that Simone is having."https://t.co/be9LZmWgn7
— The Athletic (@TheAthletic)
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/07/27/breaking-simone-biles-will-not-compete-in-the-u-s-gymnastics-womens-team-final/
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Second Judo Competitor Sent Home From Tokyo After Refusing To Spar With Israeli Athlete
https://www.dailywire.com/news/second-judo-competitor-sent-home-from-tokyo-after-refusing-to-spar-with-israeli-athlete?utm_campaign=dw_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=housefile&utm_content=non_member
I saw this today. Not really a whole lot new I guess.
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Wonder if this got any play in the MSM?
Need more like her
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1422696548429926402
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Team USA Shooting earns 6 medals:
https://www.tactical-life.com/lifestyle/culture/team-usa-shooting-tokyo-olympics/
Another story ignored by the MSM.
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Wonder if this got any play in the MSM?
Need more like her
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1422696548429926402
She's the best thing to come out of the Games. Her pride and emotion, but humility and thankfulness shine in the interview.
Its been on CBS and Fox, doubt you'll see it on CNN or MSNBC
https://youtu.be/c_s2IbQ1Arg
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So, she's the daughter of a Nigerian immigrant? Explains a LOT.
My West-African immigrant neighbors do NOT like my "African-American" neighbors.
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Athing Mu, who won the women's 800 meter, is the daughter of Sudanese immigrants. She ran a spectacular race.
https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a37198303/2021-tokyo-olympics-womens-800-meters-results/
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My prediction for the 2024 olympics? Either they go full "Dancing with the Masked Star Idols" or they trim it back to athletics and skill contests.
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White supremacy at the Olympics:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8BNK_eWUAAdUlD?format=jpg&name=small)