Imagine how much more awesome the Olympics would be if NBC did even a marginally decent job covering them. Even with a bunch of channels to spread out the content it they are still super aids.
Every event will be available live online. Most events will also be available live on the extended family of networks. The only part that sucks is the tape delayed, full of American "human interest stories" stuff on the main network.
Was just checking out the venues for the Olympics. They built a new Olympic Stadium in London. Why wouldn't they just use Wembley? It's only 15 miles away.
Track and Field, opening ceremonies. I realize Wembley doesn't have a track, but couldn't they build a temporary track there. I don't know about UK politics, but in the US, building a brand new stadium when there are several good stadiums in London would have been protested against.
West Ham look like they will move into that stadium after it's all said and done. Im guessing they will use it for athletics maybe once a year if they are lucky assuming they are keeping the track, West Ham fans pretty pissed about having to watch their team play in a stadium like that.
what percentage of olololympic athletes end up with mental problems and total dysfunction from wasting their entire youth obsessing over playing a really dumb sport one time, maybe two? like 70 percent?
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i can sort of see what hes saying about some of the competitions, i mean who cares if u can throw a disc really far
I'd imagine for stuff like discus, and for many of the events, Olympians can quite easily get cushy jobs as coaches and trainers in their sport after they are too old to be an Olympian.
I mean, discus is stupid, I agree.
But train your whole childhood to get good at it, get a full ride to a big school to do it, go to the Olympics, than get paid lots of money to coach other kids how to throw the discus and maybe be a college track coach or something.
The 100/200 might actually be interesting. I don't think Bolt won't be as good as he was in 08/09, and there's a lot of guys I can see running in the 9.7s.
I'd imagine for stuff like discus, and for many of the events, Olympians can quite easily get cushy jobs as coaches and trainers in their sport after they are too old to be an Olympian.
I mean, discus is stupid, I agree.
But train your whole childhood to get good at it, get a full ride to a big school to do it, go to the Olympics, than get paid lots of money to coach other kids how to throw the discus and maybe be a college track coach or something.
That sounds like a pretty good/fun life to me.
But you act like the Olympics is the only game out there. It's not. In Track and Field in the US, it's certainly the most visible. But there are many meets throughout the world.
IIRC its always been two in every track event iv watched but its been years
The rule changed years ago. It used to be, each athlete was allowed two false starts. In 2003, it changed to one false start for the field, anyone else who false starts is DQd.
In 2009, it changed to the current rule: one false start and you're gone. Some
had hoped the rule would change after this:
How is the discuss anymore stupid than all the other field events? I mean you need a certain type of build but that is the case for a few other field events.
Pretty sure they were just using the discus as an example, not to imply to it's any more or less stupid than hammer throw, triple jump, pole vault, etc.
anyways, its typical for host countries to build a new stadium for T&F especially since they can't use the same stadium for both T&F and football given the time constraints.
(P.S. going to the gold medal match for Football, as well as a few other events)
Yeah, they're using Wembley for the football finals, plus a few other stadiums throughout the country. But they could have easily used Emirates (or Stamford Bridge or White Hart Lane, etc.) for football instead.
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