Meh, Bela says Johnson should have got even higher. I guess he knows his stuff.

why did Bella stop coaching our olympic team?

she did a significantly tougher vault, a fall is .8, which was less than the difficulty gap

high difficulty trumps execution

My mom is in Yosemite staying at one of the lodges. I get a call last night. "oh hey I saw some diving on and thought of you... etc etc" and I was like "gotta go mom it's live swimming here. call you back in 20."
I'm still not sure she understands what happened.

btw- let's stick Bela in a room with all the judges. Eventually they are going to get it right if you just tell them Bela isn't shutting up until they do.

Judges hate America

Any of you think Phelps could potentially not win the 100m butterfly? Is Crocker hiding his full strength so far? He swam way better than he did in the series. If Crocker somehow defeats Phelps, doesn't Crocker also get the butterfly spot on the relay, which means Phelps only scores six gold? Correct me if I'm wrong plz.

Didn't know about the SP thing. The full TV schedule is here...

http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv_and_on...ngs/index.html

There usually is at least one cable channel going and if you get Universal HD, it's apparently showing stuff 24/7.

ah yeah, we've been "discussing" that alot.

Edit: Shawn Johnson looked good, woot.

QFT

WHAT THE ****???

Wow, Shawn got screwed. START HIGHER!!!

8.9 wtf?

fall bitch fall

roffle

"15.5 is the highest she's scored."

"Should be higher than that!"

(final score 15.275)

doomswitch ftl

Crocker is the current world record holder at 50.4
While it's possible he isn't showing his entire hand yet neither has Phelps.

They just had a segment on covering the scenario where Crocker would win the fly. He's swimming the prelims of the relay as the second US entrant in the individual event.
If he would beat Phelps there would be almost no way I can imagine he wouldn't give up the final to Phelps. Prelim and Finals swimmers both get medals for the medal winning relays.
Phelps isn't leaving China without at least 7 golds barring a relay DQ.

But it may be all moot. Phelps was able to go 50.9 a half hour after his IM. And his 100 free was an American record leading off the 4x 100 relay. He has more speed than he's ever had- which was his weakness in 100s for a long time.

In short- I think it takes a world record to beat him tomorrow night. Not sure anyone is up to that.

seriously, did the american gymnasts do somethin to piss off the judges? wtf is goin on, we routinely get lower execution scores no matter how we stick landings or anything

FWIW all these gymnasts look way better in their leotards than out of them. They all have massive effing shoulders and upper bodies.

when they're in the uneven bars, what does that guy that's down there do? He comes out to the middle while she's on top of the bar, so it seems like she's gonna kick him when she's coming down. Is he like directing the girl or something?

trying to catch her if she whiffs during a jump so she doesn't break her neck

He's the coach and he's there in case the gymnast falls.

Spotter to make sure she doesn't get hurt on a fall imo. Notice they'll move in for specific elements and then back out of the way.

Most likely after this week I won't see them again for 4 years(if ever again) so I'm ok with this

I assume, and pretty confident about this, that he is a spotter so she doesn't die.

Wiki says that they made his wife the national team coordinator over Bela.

not the Chinese...wonder why that is?

"Gotta stick the landing, Al"

hahahahahhaha, yeah right.