2008 Beijing Olympics

[BB73]

I wonder if Japan pitched that samerubber armed "lady" the pitched the previous two games for them one of which went extra innings. I guess our Babe Ruth did not come through for us.

The Europeans and Middle Eastern countries and probably ever other country except for Japan and the United States will probably vote against any type of baseball.

Yeah, like Scooter said, Ueno pirtched again. She was over 400 pitches in the two days - I think she she had 319 yesterday alone.

 

[Bucklion]

:tic: I think you were endorsing it! :p

 

[OCBucksFan]

You ready to call Ballet a sport? I ask because it fits the definition you provided

I guess by definition it is, however, I think most sports are contests based on athletic merit and dance is based off of artistic merit so you could differentiate the two in that aspect.

 

[Gatorubet]

Can anyone explain this to me?

When I watched the women's hurdle sprint last night, LoLo hit a hurdle and it was over for her. Nobody else touched them. But now I was just watching the men, and it seems like they all hit several hurdles, some seemed to hit the hurdles every time. It just seemed so different? Does hitting them not affect the men like it affects the women?

As the slowest, shortest white guy former high hurdler on BP, I have to say that it is all in where you hit it. I've had races nicking about five hurdles with my trailing ankle, with it bleeding by the end of the race, and still won. But if you plant your leading foot into the middle of the hurdle, not just the top of it, you are screwed. Your lead leg is coming down in stride anyway, so hitting the top of one with your heal and it coming down is not a big thing. Hitting the middle of one (like I used to do in 330 IM races) will screw up your balance, and you either fall or are so off your stride that you are done.

 

[shetuck]

NYT: A Medal Count That Adds Up To Little

A Medal Count That Adds Up To Little

By HARVEY ARATON
August 18, 2008

There is no better place in sports than the Olympics to make a sweeping generalization. Trapped inside the rings, bound by great walls of insulation, it becomes easy to convince ourselves that the psyche and well-being of a nation actually hinges upon the competitive fate of its swimmers and hurdlers.

Hence, it will probably at some point be argued that the United States, despite the perfect, Pac-Man-like performance of Michael Phelps, is being embarrassed in Beijing, blown out in the grab for summer supremacy and perhaps shamed into rethinking its approach to the training of its athletes.

And by late Monday morning, it was tempting to say that China was in mourning and would gladly trade its imposing and growing gold-medal harvest for the one that never got out of the starting blocks.

Liu Xiang won the men?s 110-meter hurdles four years ago in Athens, and his successful defense of the country?s first male gold medal in track and field was said to override all other home-field Olympic ambitions. Instead, Liu withdrew during his first heat, an apparent concession to a nagging injury, evoking much sorrow inside the Bird?s Nest and no doubt around this vast nation.

But the notion that China had sustained a devastating blow to its national identity and that its Olympics were even partly damaged seems as silly as the idea that the United States should move closer to a state-supported system if it intends to recapture the lead it held for the previous three Summer Games. That is assuming the Americans have actually lost it.

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[jwinslow]

perhaps shamed into rethinking its approach to the training of its athletes.

Yes, not snatching 3 yr olds away from their families is a shameful oversight

 

[shetuck]

As the slowest, shortest white guy former high hurdler on BP, I have to say that it is all in where you hit it...

[Mrs Ubet] [/Mrs Ubet]

 

[shetuck]

:tic: I think you were endorsing it! :p

No... he was vouching for it!

 

[Thump]

Sport (Noun)

An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively

Logic disagrees with your opinion, so does the dictionary and most rational thinking people. While I do agree with some aspects of what I think you are trying to say, saying judged athletics are not sports is flat out stupid. Yes, there's way too much emphasis on the human mind, and plenty of room for bias, that still doesn't take away from the activity. As I have said, I have seen fat ass baseball players who can throw a ball or hit real hard, and I have seen a skateboarder who has broken his bones many times yet still trains and gets back on the board, or a gymnast who's essentially sacrificed their life for the sport they compete in, all of the above are different types of activities involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.

You're not going to change my mind.

We've had this disucssion on here before.

 

[Bucklion]

No... he was vouching for it!

 

[LitlBuck]

As the slowest, shortest white guy former high hurdler from the south on BP, I have to say that it is all in where you hit it. I've had races nicking about five hurdles with my trailing ankle, with it bleeding by the end of the race, and still won. But if you plant your leading foot into the middle of the hurdle, not just the top of it, you are screwed. Your lead leg is coming down in stride anyway, so hitting the top of one with your heal and it coming down is not a big thing. Hitting the middle of one (like I used to do in 330 IM races) will screw up your balance, and you either fall or are so off your stride that you are done.

FIFY I will take that honor for the complete BP. I ran on tracks when they were cinders and it is not good to take a tumble over a hurdle on a cinder track. Very bad on the knees, hands, and elbows:!

 

[LitlBuck]

Then the baseball/softball playing countries should all vote down some of the stupid [censored] that those countries do... like RACE WALKING. Did anybody else see that stupid crap. They look like they're all trying to jog while holding in a big poop.
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The problem with that is simple. The countries they win all of those events have more votes in the IOC than the baseball countries or the countries that play well used to be classified as sports in the 1960s. They can take beach volleyball also even though we do well.

 

[bkochmc]

As the slowest, shortest white guy former high hurdler on BP, I have to say that it is all in where you hit it. I've had races nicking about five hurdles with my trailing ankle, with it bleeding by the end of the race, and still won. But if you plant your leading foot into the middle of the hurdle, not just the top of it, you are screwed. Your lead leg is coming down in stride anyway, so hitting the top of one with your heal and it coming down is not a big thing. Hitting the middle of one (like I used to do in 330 IM races) will screw up your balance, and you either fall or are so off your stride that you are done.

Your constitution towards proper trail leg technique is weak.

As the second slowest, second shortest white guy former hurdler on BP my problems always came when my trail leg technique fell apart. I've hit many a hurdle with my lead leg with (hardly) any ill affects to my momentum but I can recall many that I hit with my trail leg that slowed me enough to either throw off my stride pattern or in a few cases send me face first to the track. Each hurdler is different in this regard though.

 

[buckeyes_rock]

Well, that's just stupid.

Yeah, what he said! :frown2:

 

[BUCKYLE]

Running is for people who are scared. :tongue2: