Even if he grows tits and wears dresses afterwards?
Hey say what you want about ol Bruce and his strange journey into elderly womanhood...but back in the day when he peed standing up he was a hell of an athlete.
Even if he grows tits and wears dresses afterwards?
TV coverage in America is horribly sucky. You'd think swimming and gymnastics are the only Olympic sports if network TV is all you went by.
Its a pity you guys can't register for BBC iPlayer. They have a list of every sport and you can just choose which one to watch. Its great.
There are ways to watch whatever we want. It's just the common free over-the-air tv coverage is absolute garbage.
TV coverage in America is horribly sucky. You'd think swimming and gymnastics are the only Olympic sports if network TV is all you went by.
I'm sure they did a focus group study to find out which events appealed to the largest cross-section of the population,
Absolutely. You don't even need a study. What are the events the US will dominate? Easy. We knew that before it even started - Swimming and Gymnastics. Duh. So obviously we're gonna be inundated with Michael Phelps and Simone Biles coverage. What does America love more than mindless rah-rah flag waving? Nothing.
Funny how the US ping pong team got no coverage.
I'm just watching the gymnastics now
I was watching the men's 10000m yesterday and towards the end the leaders were lapping the laggards with one or two laps to run (25 x 400m), and one of the laggards was an Australian, and I must admit, in a moment of great uncharity, I thought "Why are you here?"
I was watching the men's 10000m yesterday and towards the end the leaders were lapping the laggards with one or two laps to run (25 x 400m), and one of the laggards was an Australian, and I must admit, in a moment of great uncharity, I thought "Why are you here?"
In what world, if you're being lapped in the one event you're in, are you ever going to be a contender? Now if he'd come from some third world country where this is a huge achievement and the road out of poverty for himself and his family and entire village, no problems whatsoever, but from Australia I'm just thinking, can't we spend whatever portion of the taxpayer's dollar makes its way to you on someone with a bit more of a chance? Some other event perhaps if we don't have any good long distance runners right now?
I googled him. He came 28th, he's 35 years old. Pal, the dream is over. Get a job.
Haha, Armistice you grumpy bastard!
In the last 20 years (basically since the fucking shambles of the Atlanta Games) we just invested a shit load in grass roots sport. The idea being to get as many people as possible doing sport for sports sake as opposed to for the reason of being exceptional at it. This has naturally produced a pretty large pool of talent. As opposed to chucking money at individual athletes who seem to show talent.The Brits looked at our success a couple of decades ago in not just Olympic sports but others, and thought "Why aren't we doing as well as those pesky convicts?" and then went about and relentlessly fixed the various issues over time, and are now kicking our arses all over the joint in most sporting endeavours.
We still haven't worked out why yet, it seems. Completely obvious to me. Bit more humility is required, as a start point.
Women's soccer. Our ladies' soccer team is supposed to be pretty bad ass full of bad ass chicks.
haha! You never hear that anymore.commies.
haha! You never hear that anymore.