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I REALLY wanted both Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada to win, so I'm a little teary. The two of them were truly incredible (as was the whole cast, and Tadanobu Asano should also have won). The whole show is extraordinary, but the episodes Sawai and Sanada submitted ("Crimson Sky" for Sawai and "The Abyss of Life" for Sanada) really gave each tremendous showcases.
I thought Season 2 of The Bear was incredible television, but..so was Season 3 of Hacks. Awesome win there.
I will never not love a Rose family reunion!
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Notre Dame losing is always an event of great joy across the land, but to lose to lowly little Northern Illinois?
Delicious!
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2 hours ago, Carey said:
Oh thank god
For a second, I thought of copying the GIF NUguy514 posted up thread (to celebrate), but that's a waste of data over a glorified loser that could have won everything. Whew!
I actually thought copying and reposting that gif! Go us!
But also:
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1 hour ago, AimingforYoko said:
Wow, USC with a defense. They might actually have something to say in the Big Ten.
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2 hours ago, CeeBeeGee said:
Sigh. Russians be doping again.
It must be a day ending in -day.
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5 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:
And if course, Novaxx is screaming like Sinner was mainlining. I expect nothing less from him.
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A lot of steroids, though, improve stamina, not muscle mass. That's what can be appealing to tennis players as the game itself has become progressively longer.
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On 8/20/2024 at 9:54 AM, crimsongrl said:
Jannik Sinner tested positive for steroids twice earlier this season (Once in March and again 9 days later). It was ruled unintentional due to a massage from his physiotherapist. 🤔
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6 hours ago, CeeBeeGee said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2024/08/13/jordan-chiles-medal-cas/
Great opinion piece about the slimy, cronyistic nature of this case. If someone tells me how, I can gift it to you.
Here's a free link to the article.
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1. Simone and Suni showing us what resilience, determination, and love of performance look like and proving that strong women who know and celebrate themselves and each other will compete at their best and have fun doing it.
2. The camaraderie between almost all of the athletes, men and women, in almost all the disciplines.
3. The USA track and field team dominating (mostly) and watching so many of them refuse not to win (Noah Lyles, Sha'Carri Richardson in the 4x100 relay, Rai Benjamin in the 4x400 relay, Cole Hocker, Quincy Hall, Masai Russell) or just making it look easy (Gabby Thomas, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, the 4x400 women's relay team).
4. Letsile Tebogo, Julien Alfred, and Thea LaFond bringing their respective nations their first Olympic gold medals, and the first two in such marquee events.
5. Steph Curry deciding to win the gold medal he came to Paris for and reminding us that no one can shoot a basketball the way he can or play the game of basketball with such pure ebullience.
6. Katie Ledecky going four in a row and Bobby Finke setting a world record.
7. Any and all medals for Ukrainian athletes.
8. The American women collectively showing us, yet again, how it's done.
9. All of my Olympics husbands.
10. Paris, the most beautiful city in the world and the perfect place for a post-quarantine, joy-filled Olympics to occur.
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5 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:On 8/11/2024 at 7:55 PM, StatisticalOutlier said:
Also, actually about diving...I'm noticing that when they're tucked into a little ball, their legs are splayed out like a frog's. Is this new, or am I just not remembering it from the past? If it's new, I'm guessing it's something they figured out that would make them spin faster. It looks fine from the side, but from the front, it looks strange.
No, that position has been standard in the somersault dive forever. It's not really noticable from the side.
Exactly, it's normal, and it's not a deduction. If divers have their feet flexed in their tucks, though, that is a deduction.
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Now that the Paris Olympics are over, I realize how serendipitous it was that Paris was awarded the 2024 Games. No one could've foreseen the COVID pandemic or known that the Paris Games would've been the first post-quarantine Olympics. As it turned out, we all of us needed Paris, specifically, to host these specific Games because the integration of the venues into the city really made the Games feel a part of the city in a way the athletes, in particular, seemed to soak up – and the sheer beauty of the city itself made everyone want to be there. There was such joy in the performances of all the athletes because they were able to perform in front of such joyous, engaged audiences in such an incandescent city, and I don't think this could've happened to this extent anywhere else. Thank you, Paris and France, for a truly spectacular two weeks! I loved every minute!
I hate Thomas Bach more than so many people in the world, but I started crying when he called upon the youth of the world to assemble four years hence in Los Angeles – the city I've called home for almost twenty-four years. You guys, LA is going to be wild, it's going to be a party like no other, and it's going to be a spectacle in a way that only LA can produce. You're all invited!
See you in four years – I cannot wait!!!🎉🇺🇸
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1 hour ago, Crashcourse said:
I'm pretty sure that announcers from Botswana or other countries would mispronounce some words spoken in America, so I don't see it as an issue. Hell, even within countries, words might be pronounced differently in different parts of the country.
Mispronunciations are one thing, and I agree with you (hell, even my South African tour guides pronounced Gaborone, Botswana's capital, with a hard "g" sound, rather than the guttural "h" sound, and looked at me funny when I used the latter pronunciation). However, "Botswanan" is not a mispronunciation of "Batswana"; it's the wrong word entirely.
This has happened before: I can't remember if it was during London's or Rio's Opening Ceremonies, but Bob Costas referred to the delegation from Gabon as the "Gabonian" delegation. The correct demonym is "Gabonese."
You may not think it's a big deal, but I don't think cultural ignorance is an excuse for not using correct descriptors for other countries (which I know is not what you were saying, by the way), especially because the countries this happens to are always countries with majority black or brown people (African or South Pacific nations, in particular). That gets into some murky, race-related territory that I do think is a big deal.
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34 minutes ago, kittykat said:
And we tie China in golds because of it. 😉
This was the most important reason they needed to win! (I'm only partially joking...I could stand us losing the gold medal count to any country other than China – or Russia if not banned. I'm not convinced a few of China's swimming medals, including at least one gold, won't be stripped eventually, though.)
That...was intense.
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25 minutes ago, Makai said:
That’s because they had the exact same score even after the tiebreakers. The Gold medal in high bar was also a tie but a tie breaker decided who got gold and silver. Ties are sometimes unavoidable but they try to avoid them.
That's right, Zhang and Tang both had the same difficulty and execution scores, so they tied for bronze (I don't think there were any other tiebreakers applied, but I'm not 100% sure about that); whereas, Oka and Barajas had the same total score, but Oka won gold since his execution score was higher.
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1 hour ago, surfgirl said:
Kealeboga thata, rra! Did you live there too? This bugs me no end, there is no suck word as Botswanians. Jesus H Christ, how hard is it for commentators to do their jobs?
O amogelesegile, mma! (I did have to look that up.😆)
No, I haven't been lucky enough to live there, but I did visit in 2018. My best friend and I traveled around southern Africa for almost a month; we went on a group tour starting at Victoria Falls and wending all through Botswana (including a peerless night in the Okavango Delta) and Namibia and ending in Cape Town, and we did an additional three nights in Cape Town and three nights in the Timbuvati Game Reserve abutting Kruger. I will never take a better trip in my life. Ever.
The real reason I know that Batswana is the correct demonym is that I'm a walking atlas. Seriously, I am a savant when it comes to geography; I've always loved it, and I love traveling because the world is a beautiful, phenomenal place! My insane party trick is that I can name all the capitals and countries of the world in under five minutes.😬
In particular, I've always been fascinated by and loved Botswana. It's truly a success story. It's been a stable democracy since its independence in a part of the world where that is unheard of. Through smart, forward-thinking policies that exploit the country's resources (diamonds, especially) carefully, it's gone from being one of the world's poorest countries to having the second highest per capita GDP of all non-island countries in sub-Saharan Africa (and the distribution of wealth in Gabon, which has a slightly higher per capita GDP, is, let's say, not as equitable as Botswana's). I also remember watching Mpule Kwelagobe of Botswana win the Miss Universe pageant in 1999 (I'm a gay boy; I used to love my pageants) when I was in college and being completely captivated by her, and I have devoured both The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books and TV series.
So, yeah, I love Botswana.🇧🇼🥰
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33 minutes ago, Daisy said:
So. Jordan/Coaches submitted her start value, her routine.[ where i am unclear is if the spin she included (that is worth 0.10) -was in her routine - or if she added it. let's say for argument's say it there]. Jordan performs. her score does not have the 0.10. - her coach files an inquiry. the Inquiry wins, Jordan moves from 5th to 3rd. rah rah, cute photo, competition is done.
The move in question is called a Gogean, and it's a 1.5 split leap. Jordan did have it in her routine. She usually just does a 1.0 split leap, but she did, let's say, a 1.375 split leap in her floor routine. It has to be greater than a 1.25 split leap to count and get the 0.1 bump in start value, and hers pretty clearly was (to my eyes anyway). She usually does the 1.0 split leap because she isn't usually able to get to that 1.25 threshold, so I wonder if the judges just didn't really pay attention.
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1 hour ago, roamyn said:
I'm sorry, but I'm on Romania's side here. I thought it was utter BS they did that to Ana in the first place.
If inquiries are allowed, them why can't Romania put an inquiry into an inquiry. 4 seconds is 4 seconds. That's more than the difference between Gold and off te podium in a bunch of Track & Field events.
I do think the IOC can bend the rules and allow both to keep their medals, but it still strips Ana of that moment to shine.
It's utter BS that they did this to Jordan in two different ways, though. The judges should've assigned her the correct start value from the jump, in which case she's ahead of Ana anyway and no one's talking about this. Barring that, they should not have accepted the inquiry because it was four seconds late, in which case Ana gets her moment, but they did because no one was watching the clock, and here we are.
1 hour ago, Daisy said:But from the rules -you have X minutes. At the end of the day that elapsed. and yes it was 4 seconds past. but it was 4 seconds. and considering that medals are are being decided by 1.100th of a point, and 1.100th of a second - to say that 4 seconds in an inquiry to determine a medal is petty doesn't make sense to me. [MY question is - how did people know it was elapsed. like there is a lot being not said here, and it leads to more questions.]
I'm sorry, but I don't agree with that comparison at all. Submitting an inquiry is not an Olympic sport, and comparing it to one is inapt. Clearly, no one in charge started a stopwatch as soon as Jordan's score was posted to make sure the inquiry was submitted in 60 seconds instead of 64 seconds (or 60.001 seconds, for that matter), and we don't really know where those four seconds came from. Maybe Cécile got there in 57 seconds, but the judge in charge of accepting the inquiry talked at her for seven seconds before accepting the inquiry. Maybe she got there in 59 seconds, and the computer or whatever acted up for five seconds before the inquiry was registered. Maybe she got there in 64 seconds, but then it shouldn't have been accepted. Nothing about this feels precise in the way swimming times or sprinting times are precise.
What a horror show this has become.
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I don't remember the specifics leading up to the decision to share the gold medal in Tokyo (although that was one of my favorite memories from those Olympics), but I was confused by the jump-off in the high jump since it would seem like there should've been a tiebreaker in place for this scenario. Leading up to the three misses each at 2.38m, Kerr's two misses were at 2.31m and McEwan's two misses were at 2.34m. I would think having those misses occur at different heights would matter in terms of placements, but I guess that doesn't matter.
I don't know how Masai Russell managed to come back and lean her way to gold, but wow, that was brilliant! And what an amazing race by Samba-Mayela!! I was so focused on Russell vs. Camacho-Quinn that I didn't see how she was doing.
Because of the angle of the camera, I thought lovely Letsile would catch radiant Rai at the end of the men's 4x400, and I think he would've had there been seven more meters. Still, that was an amazingly competitive relay!! So thrilled for our guys for gutting out that gold (especially after barely qualifying for the final), and Botswana was phenomenal! I honestly didn't know who'd win and didn't really care because both teams were so terrific.
By contrast, the women's 4x400m relay was basically the American quartet going all Secretariat on everyone, and I think they'd have broken the world record if Alexis Holmes hadn't slightly relaxed those last few meters. A dominant, incredible performance.
I said after the women's relay that Gabby Thomas repeated Allyson Felix's 200m, 4x100m, 4x400 trifecta in London, and the American guy on the world feed said a minute later that Gabby had repeated Allyson's feat from Beijing.
All of them were referring to the Botswana team as "Botswanans," which...
I guess I shouldn't expect, you know, accuracy or anything in the announcing, but the demonym for the people of Botswana is "Batswana."
The camaraderie displayed between all of the track and field athletes, though?
An amazing week of athletics!!!! Congratulations to all the athletes!!
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@Magog, when Steph decided he was going to win the gold for the USA almost single-handedly those last few minutes, I thought of you and hoped you were OK. You know Steph only went superhuman because he keeps trying to get into your good graces! I keep telling him that it's a Sisyphean task, but he just wants to you love him! He told me to tell you he just wanted to keep that gold here in the USA where it belongs!
Seriously, though, Steph in those last few minutes...that's when I just love basketball in all its pure joy.
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12 minutes ago, Salacious Kitty said:
Just announced today that Bach is stepping down next year.
Very interesting...the only possible conclusion to be drawn is that he's stepping down because he's afraid of my wrath. Well, I've got bad news for you, Thomas: Switzerland is stunning in the summer, and I could use a vacation.
*looks into hotels in Lausanne
You will never escape my wrath.
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3 minutes ago, WhitneyWhit said:
From what I read, Romania did not want Jordan to lose her medal and both federations agreed to share the bronze, but the FIG and IOC rejected this and have asked Jordan to return the medal.
If I were Jordan, my response would be🖕🏻.
The reason Cécile had to file that appeal for Jordan within a minute is because Jordan was the final gymnast in the rotation, and it's completely unrealistic and unfair that she only had one minute to do so. It's completely skewed that the first gymnast to perform has so much time to submit an appeal and the final gymnast has zero time. Now, I am SURE she had the paperwork filled out and ready to go because she knew the time limit, but one minute from the score posting is still a ridiculous ask if, for example, the walk to submit the paperwork is more than a minute with coaches, gymnasts, a million camera people, etc. in the way.
Moreover, the judges fucked up, like, a thousand times, but where Jordan is concerned, they just assumed her start value would be the same as it had always been and didn't correctly evaluate the jump turn (I think) she did that gave her that extra tenth in start value.
Also, the judges should never have accepted Jordan's appeal to begin with if it was truly outside the time limit; however, I don't know how anyone, including and especially Romania and those crooks at the CAS, could possibly judge Cécile to have been four fucking seconds too late.
I'd be fine with Ana and Jordan sharing the bronze, but fuck Romania and fuck Nadia, especially.
12 minutes ago, Dr.OO7 said:Now, I'm getting even angrier. If even Romanian is willing to share the medal as long as their athlete is recognized, there's no reason for FIG/IOC to demand that Jordan return hers.
The IOC very much hates ties now and has made it virtually impossible for there to be ties. Witness a few of the track events: Noah Lyles was judged the winner in the men's 100m by .005 seconds when he and Kishane Thompson tied to the hundredth of a second, which had always been the smallest increment of time used...until it wasn't. Swimming still seems to allow dead heats, but I wonder if that's just the technology used. For whatever reason, the IOC has decided to make ties impossible unless every single possible tiebreaker is used. I blame that corrupt sack of shit Thomas Bach, and if he's still the President of the IOC when the Olympics are here in LA in four years, I'm going to track him down and go all Mola Ram on him.
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Rai Benjamin is delightful. And so hot.
But that's neither here nor there.
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That feels fairly analogous to me.