Summer Olympics

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TarHeelGrad said:
I played water polo for 6 years. It is absolutely brutal. What happens underneath the surface would get you arrested for assault.
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Hey, a fellow water polo player!

I also played for 6 years, and by my senior year was making all area teams in the california central valley. I thought I'd try it out at UC San Diego, so I went to the pool deck my freshman year and a bunch of dudes were standing around, 6' - 6'3 and all around 200...(I'm 5'9 and back then was pretty scrawny)...I thought, "Nah, think I'll just go drink beer instead"

I did play some club polo at UNC...in 2006 we had an unbelievable team...won nationals in Chicago. Our hole was a grad student from Stanford, and our best player was a grad student/freak athlete from Michigan State.

Anyway, yea, water polo can get pretty brutal. Better know how to egg beater.
 
Puerto Rico/South Sudan is a good game (watching a replay on Spanish language Claro Network - commentary is simple play by play - great). SS wins 90-79.

Jose Alvarado of GaTech leads PR. The SS squad has a bunch of former US college players on it. Carlik Jones (U of L) even naturalized to play on their Olympic team. Their center, Khaman Maluach is 7-2 and will be at dook next year. Luol Deng is the connection. Weird trivia fact is that Jerry Steele once coached their national team.

SS plays very rough ball on offense and defense.

Maluach is a rim-protector.
 
Link: The Olympic Flame Isn’t a Flame at All The Olympic Flame Isn’t a Flame at All

Very cool story on the "flame" beneath that big balloon that rises every evening at the Paris Olympics. Short version for those as dumb as me, it's 40 LED spotlight and 200 misting nozzles. Cool ancillary fact for those who wonder about the "real" Olympic fire, "in one corner of the garden, I saw something curious: a little glass box set atop a white stand, like a museum display. 'Lit in Olympia, from the sun’s rays,' a sign affixed to it read. Inside was a flame — a tiny, real flame."
 
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Snoop Dogg Singing GIF by The Voice
 
TarSpiel said:
Hey, a fellow water polo player!

I also played for 6 years, and by my senior year was making all area teams in the california central valley. I thought I'd try it out at UC San Diego, so I went to the pool deck my freshman year and a bunch of dudes were standing around, 6' - 6'3 and all around 200...(I'm 5'9 and back then was pretty scrawny)...I thought, "Nah, think I'll just go drink beer instead"

I did play some club polo at UNC...in 2006 we had an unbelievable team...won nationals in Chicago. Our hole was a grad student from Stanford, and our best player was a grad student/freak athlete from Michigan State.

Anyway, yea, water polo can get pretty brutal. Better know how to egg beater.
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California is LOADED with the top players.

I played 4 years in college and then 2 years of club at UNC ('88-'90). The year I came in, our hole man was from Brown and we also had a member of the women's national team. It was always fun watching an opponent back off of her to cover the hole pass and then have their jaw drop as she rifled a shot into an upper corner.

Definitely brutal. Had one college game where a dude on the other team grabbed one of our guys nuts and twisted. He almost had to be carried out of the pool. A few minutes later, one of our star players (played on the national team) had a breakaway, and from only a few meters away, drilled the goalie right in the face and broke his nose. They cancelled the game at that point because it had become too violent.
 


Using lunch break to watch men’s gymnastics. Team USA in second half-way through all-around medal round (China is first, Ukraine 3rd, Japan, which was considered China’s biggest rival in these games, is having a rough first half with some mistakes).
 
Cuban boxer Julio Cesar La Cruz, 2 time defending heavyweight gold medalist (who has also won the world championships 5 times in 6 tournaments, and 4 straight Pan Am games titles) loses a split decision in the first round today.

He lost to a boxer representing Azerbaijan who is himself Cuban but became an Azerbaijani national in order to qualify for the Olympics.
 
Japan has surged into second. USA has been very good but had some imperfections on the floor return. They go to the pommel horse to try to hold on for a bronze medal — would be the first all-around medal for USA men for 16 years.
 
nycfan said:
Japan has surged into second. USA has been very good but had some imperfections on the floor return. They go to the pommel horse to try to hold on for a bronze medal — would be the first all-around medal for USA men for 16 years.
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C'mon Steve . . . Go get it for the USA @
 
nycfan said:
Japan has surged into second. USA has been very good but had some imperfections on the floor return. They go to the pommel horse to try to hold on for a bronze medal — would be the first all-around medal for USA men for 16 years.
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this is stressful, i’m fist pumping pommel horse routines like i know what’s going on
 
China with two falls on the high bar down the stretch. Japan may catch them.

Our pommel horse specialist is up. His first and only event of the day at the very end to secure a medal. No pressure.
 
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