Still not the same thing. Amy did her best in the floor exercise she chose to do. She didnt tank it. You're still comparing apples to oranges.Didn't I say exactly that? Glad we agree on something...
And the Badmintoners played to lose because it gave them a better chance to medal.
Both played to maximize their chances at gold. One is celebrated, the other sent home in disgrace.
Sill dodged the question.How am I wrong about the Steelers? I said they'd have been better off resting their guys. They did win, but lost Mendenhall, didn't get Big Ben's bum legs any rest and got upset by Denver the following week when their entire D-Line was felled by injury mid-game & Big Ben had no mobility. There were some calls to rest Big Ben for week 17 prior to the game (think it was Simmons, might have been Dameshek suggesting it) and to take that game as their bye instead of hoping for BAL to lose. PIT didn't do it and got beat early and one of the main reasons was injuries. But hey, PIT always has that week 17 win over the Browns, who needs to win in the playoffs?
As a Steeler fan would you really have rather won a meaningless week 17 game rather than R1 of the playoffs? Obviously you'd like to win both, and frankly I wouldn't have been shocked if the Steelers backups could have won that week 17 game anyway & if Big Ben had a little more mobility perhaps the Steelers don't lose in Denver.
Before the team comp Raisman couldn't complete her harder routine in warm-ups. So, she went with the simpler routine to try and win. Before the individual event days later, she was performing the harder routine in warm-ups and decided to do it in the completion.
I've recorded the rhythmic gymnastics to watch next week. I love it. Such grace and control. If you disrespect it you do so from a position of ignorance. Same with snchro swimming. At first you think how stupid it is with the inane grins on the swimmers, but then you realise just how hard the moves are, let alone coordinating them amongst seven team members.
I'm not disrespecting the difficulty of it, just how ridiculous it looks. Should be called a dance competition or something.
I personally am not a fan of soccer at all...and never watch it. EXCEPT...during the World Cup and the Olympics...and then ONLY the women.
I personally am not a fan of soccer at all...and never watch it. EXCEPT...during the World Cup and the Olympics...and then ONLY the women.
Why?
1. Because they are (in most cases) obviously easier to look at...
2. More importantly to this uneducated soccer-watcher...they just seem to play harder and there appears to be more action throughout the game.
Is Number 2 true? Or does Number 1 bias my viewpoint?
Do they still have baseball with only two countries (US, Japan) being serious contenders? I remember that was a laughing stock item in 2008.
The US is one of the few countries where it is not ... then you prefer to play football in body armour. :bite:
And the Us should decide what sports are in the Olympics?
24.4 Million registered players says different!
22.4 million of 313 million citizens == %7. I would hardly call that popular. We have the worlds most successful Women's National team and can't keep a league running. Now, the landscape is changing and it may yet build critical mass. It doesn't help when FIFA sends the world cup to Qatar despite superior presentations by the US and UK. Hard to think of it as a sport with all the players diving and the corruption in the senior administration. -- jim
But it is slowly making headway, much to my chagrine. I'm taking my boys to Seattle next weekend to visit my brother and to see the King Tut exhibit. Every year when we're in Seattle we also catch a Mariners game. This year my brother suggested soccer, because the M's are stinking up the joint. I said, "Soccer?". He said, "Yes, the Sounders are a great team and they are fun to watch. But we need to buy tickets soon as the stadium only holds 36,000, so they will sell out."
GB (population 60 million) won 29 Golds whilst USA population 250 million won 45. Therefore GB did more than TWICE AS WELL AS USA ;-)
