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Table tennis, Handball, and Badminton are not sports. They're something you do at a family reunion.[DOUBLEPOST=1344827697][/DOUBLEPOST]Once more, however, the United States failed to take home a medal in three sports where it has never medaled.
What, you think I'm going to tell you which three? Go look it up.
Hey hey hey! You take back your statement about Curling this instant!
Curling rocks.
John Thompson was a good coach, but with a team whose only future headliners were David Robinson, Mitch Richmond & uh... Dan Majerle. What was unfortunate was that the US lost to Russia that year, but even had they won that game, the Yugoslavian team most likely would have crushed them as well.
As for the other events, we never really cared about them until we started losing them.
They play team handball in phys ed?
They did when I was in junior high and high school. More so in junior high.
With Rio being one hour ahead of NY, there will be less time for the news to give away medal results before the viewers can watch them on the Prime Time delay.
Same here. Unless I'm confused. Handball is sort of like Squash without the rackets right? Or is it the version that's like Lacrosse without the sticks?
However, please don't post any results until the events have been aired in prime time in Europe, 7hours later. TYVM.
Anyway, badminton shuttles go almost twice the speed of tennis balls during a smash (badminton shuttle can easily go over 300 kph and even over 350. Women's tennis rarely sees balls over 180 kph, men go somewhat faster). It may look silly (certainly so), but at a high level, it really is pretty hard.
Handball is like soccer with your hands. So, Lacross without sticks, really.
Table tennis is awesome as a sport, we used to get medals there
They were pretty neat, though. Except Jacques Rogge, our IOF President and Belgian, who kept looking as though he was attending the funeral of someone close but unliked.
Fucking Jessie J (whoever the hell she is) singing in place of Freddie Mercury... What the hell?!?!?
It is frightening when a female "singer" can not hit the high notes that a male tenor could hit, and still went out in front of a billion people to sing.
It is frightening when a female "singer" can not hit the high notes that a male tenor could hit, and still went out in front of a billion people to sing.
True enough. I thought she had a good voice, but she was no Mercury. I'm glad she didn't just try to copy his performance but tried to do her own thing with his song, though.
They only wanted British artists, which is also why they didn't use Adam Lambert (despite the fact that he's been singing for Queen lately).
Team Handball =/= Handball as most Americans think of it.
Team Handball is a hybrid of soccer and basketball - which is partially the reason why no one in America plays it. And, it was essentially a Nordic-Baltic sport, which meant that the only ones who played it were teams in Germany, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.
Team Handball is a hybrid of soccer and basketball - which is partially the reason why no one in America plays it. And, it was essentially a Nordic-Baltic sport, which meant that the only ones who played it were teams in Germany, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.
So to follow up in the NCAA-makes-no-sense category:
Missy Franklin has been facing a tough decision since winning 4 golds & a bronze at the olympics. She wants to go to college, and while there, she would like to swim for their swim team. However, in order to remain eligible, she is not allowed to accept any money for endorsements. This means bypassing an estimated 7-figures worth of endorsements & sponsorships should she choose to remain an "amateur" by NCAA standards.
However, NCAA guidelines allow her to accept the typical stipends paid by the USOC & USA swimming to medal winning athletes - $25K from the USOC, $75K from USA Swimming - so $200K for the individual golds + a share of the money for the relay medals. But the real kicker - the NCAA will NOT allow her to accept a $50K bonus from USA swimming for setting a new world record in the 200m backstroke.
Honestly, easy decision for me. No better time to capitalize on fame & success than now. How much money honestly is there to be made in professional swimming? It's just frustrating that the NCAA seems to be winging it as they go with no real rhyme or reason.
Missy Franklin has been facing a tough decision since winning 4 golds & a bronze at the olympics. She wants to go to college, and while there, she would like to swim for their swim team. However, in order to remain eligible, she is not allowed to accept any money for endorsements. This means bypassing an estimated 7-figures worth of endorsements & sponsorships should she choose to remain an "amateur" by NCAA standards.
However, NCAA guidelines allow her to accept the typical stipends paid by the USOC & USA swimming to medal winning athletes - $25K from the USOC, $75K from USA Swimming - so $200K for the individual golds + a share of the money for the relay medals. But the real kicker - the NCAA will NOT allow her to accept a $50K bonus from USA swimming for setting a new world record in the 200m backstroke.
Honestly, easy decision for me. No better time to capitalize on fame & success than now. How much money honestly is there to be made in professional swimming? It's just frustrating that the NCAA seems to be winging it as they go with no real rhyme or reason.
Heck, take the money, pay for college, work out with swim team, and compete internationally... She'd likely come out ahead that way.
The whole amateur / professional thing is pointless now anyway. These athletes are making a living doing what they do. They a dedicating the majority of their time right now to the sport.
It's ridiculous to make them jump through hoops to maintain this farce of a distinction which has no real purpose or meaning any longer.
It's ridiculous to make them jump through hoops to maintain this farce of a distinction which has no real purpose or meaning any longer.
My Mentor Teacher when I went through Student Teaching, had a son who played for Notre Dame. The kids knew that her son's education was really important to her. They would try to goad her by asking what she would feel if her son dropped out of college to join the NFL draft, or what would happen if he got hurt playing in the pros. Her answer always was... "A NFL signing bonus can pay for many years of college tuition."
He actually did turn down the opportunity to enter the NFL early. I think being a 4 year starter for Lou Holtz mattered more to him than the chance at that signing bonus that year. And he still played for about 13 years total. He had a couple of games in Canada, a retirement, then came back for 5 years and Pro Bowl start.
It serves the purpose of making the schools money while not having to provide the student athletes with any kind of fair compensation.
The NCAA is the United States' largest and worst-hidden organized crime syndicate
I would say the vast majority of college athletes are incredibly overpaid. Yeah Matt Barkley is worth more than the $40000 or so scholarship, but is the third string right guard worth that much? What about the swim team, or really any athlete that isn't on the football or mens basketball team? Going to a true free market system would help a few players a ton, but would be terrible for 99.9% of possible athletes.
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