Summer Olympic Games - London 2012

[chamber-music]

Cool to see all the hardwork the Great Britian Mens Gymnastic squad have been doing paid off. Our first team gymnastic medal in 100 years and it was almost a silver too.

[charl_huntress]

YES!!!! WTG GB! Seriously, a bronze is a win in my book, especially considering how far the squad has come. I wish the women would step up. They can't keep relying on Tweddle.

[The Englishman]

Yeah I'm really proud of the GB men's gymnastic team...

[Dr. Evil]

Originally Posted by RavenX

yay for Franklin and Grevers!! USA needs more Gold.......lol

Don't worry about it, Track and Field doesn't start until Friday. There's also Basketball and Volleyball. We'll get more golds.

[Marx]

I really hate the time difference causing everything to be shown on a taped delay in the United States. I'm tired of going on different news websites and seeing the outcomes.

[Webfoot Hero]

Originally Posted by Marx

I really hate the time difference causing everything to be shown on a taped delay in the United States. I'm tired of going on different news websites and seeing the outcomes.

Happens when there's such a big time difference from the US. The 2016 Olympics should be better since Rio is only, IIRC, 2 hours ahead of the Eastern time zone of the US.

[Kelly]

Originally Posted by Webfoot Hero

Happens when there's such a big time difference from the US. The 2016 Olympics should be better since Rio is only, IIRC, 2 hours ahead of the Eastern time zone of the US.

I thought they were 2 hours from Central and 1 hour from Eastern....

[Immortalfire]

Missy Franklin is incredible!

[Kelly]

YES SHE IS....and the people of Aurora, Colorado are very proud right now.... : )

[craigdbfan]

Originally Posted by Marx

I really hate the time difference causing everything to be shown on a taped delay in the United States. I'm tired of going on different news websites and seeing the outcomes.

You can watch all the events live on the NBC Olympics site.

[Kelly]

Originally Posted by craigdbfan

You can watch all the events live on the NBC Olympics site.

Yep, that is where I watch them, as well as NBCSports in the middle of the night...lol

[Hound55]

Originally Posted by ComicChick

no Penny Taylor, Lauren Jackson combo this year? i wasn't aware. i pegged AUS for the Silver

Originally Posted by Dr. Evil

Are they both injured?

Penny Taylor is, LJ is "healthy" at least by her standards these days.

But then she has more miles on the clock for pretty much any basketballer in these Olympics when you consider how many years she's played two seasons (WNBA and Australia's WNBL... and sometimes in other foreign leagues, and then International scheduled games as well) and how early her serious career started, driving the AIS to success all those years ago.

We'd be at very long odds for gold and I certainly wouldn't bet on us this year. As I said, its the clearest field the US has had in both mens and womens in years. Little surprise that this is the last year Stern wants the mens team competing, to end it with domination after previous year's embarassments. They also have the benefit of recent rule and regulation changes making international basketball closer to NBA rules than in previous years as well.

[Sakuraba]

Michael Phelps has become a lot more like able

[craigdbfan]

Originally Posted by Kelly

Yep, that is where I watch them, as well as NBCSports in the middle of the night...lol

Yeah I watch some of the stuff that I might have missed during the nightly reruns on NBC too.

It's really hard trying to watch all of them. I was glued watching Judo for more than 5+ hours on the NBCOlympics site. Unfortunately it started to lag out on me during the mens gymnastics final.

[Sakuraba]

Originally Posted by Webfoot Hero

The US got 2 more golds with Matt Grevers and Missy Franklin winning their respective 100-m backstrokes. Matt Thoman won silver in the men's 100-m backstroke. Ryan Lochte disappoints again by not even getting a medal in the 200-m freestyle, finishing 4th. So much for him being the heir apparent to Phelps.

I think Missy the Missile was getting the ink for being the heir to Phelps because of her packed schedule, prodigy status, and the fact that she wins her races. I must have a read a dozen articles that called her the female Phelps.

[Dr. Evil]

Not surprising that Missy's idol is Natalie Coughlin.

[Scooter]

Lochte's a damn choke artist and it seems like Phelps doesn't even want to be there. Disappointing outing from the mens' side so far.

[Hound55]

It seems like Phelps has fallen off in a similar way to how Ian Thorpe did. Doesn't seem like swimmers have a long shelf life these days.

Makes Grant Hackett spanning over the Kieren Perkins to Thorpe eras seem even more amazing.

[Dr. Evil]

An appearance by US Snowboarder Shaun White.

[charl_huntress]

Ahhhhh....just got to men's gymnastics here on the West coast.

Feel so sorry for J. Orozco....

I think I have seen him do this routine well at least 10 times, but he just faltered tonight...

Once the form breaks start....no bueno

[Webfoot Hero]

Originally Posted by Kelly

I thought they were 2 hours from Central and 1 hour from Eastern....

With where Rio is in Brazil (SE corner), they are 2 hours ahead of Eastern, same time zone as Greenland.

[charl_huntress]

Originally Posted by Webfoot Hero

With where Rio is in Brazil, they are 2 hours ahead of Eastern.

84' repeat......all they way

[Webfoot Hero]

Originally Posted by Sakuraba

I think Missy the Missile was getting the ink for being the heir to Phelps because of her packed schedule, prodigy status, and the fact that she wins her races. I must have a read a dozen articles that called her the female Phelps.

I probably should have said Lochte was being looked at as the big men's swimming star this Olympics. Missy is definitely the heir apparent for being the next top overall American swimmer, regardless of sex.

[charl_huntress]

OMG.....they didn't show what happened to Kohei Uchimura on the LIVE FEED.

NBC YOU SUCK!!!!!

Again, great win for GB, but Uchimura....DUDE.....DUDE

edit:

HOME court advantage for GB all the way!!! Not mad at you Kohei Uchimura....just feeling the sting of that performance.

[Paroxysm]

Fencing controversy forces Korean to sit on piste for ages, eventually costs her medal

The Olympic fencing tournament was thrown into an incredibly emotional, dramatic and elongated controversy when a semifinal bout of the women's individual epee competition was won on a final touch with 1 second remaining and the losing fencer launched an appeal of the decision which eventually cost her a place on the podium.

Yet it was the appeal of the decision itself which led to incredibly acrimony and one of the lengthiest delays in recent Olympic memory. Here's how everything unfolded: With time running out in one of the two semifinal matches for the women's individual epee competition, South Korea's Shin A Lam led Germany's Britta Heidermann by a single point. Officially, Heidermann had just one second to launch an attack and score a touch, which would advance her on to the gold medal match to face the Ukraine's Yana Shemyakina, a lack of time which all but ensured that Shin would advance.
Instead, the timing mechanism on the piste became stuck, giving Heidermann extra time to complete her attack and win the bout, which earned her the spot in the gold medal bout. Officials, unsure what to do without a true, official protocol to follow, eventually decided to award the victory to Heidermann.

South Korean fencer Shin A Lam during her country's protest — AP
As one might expect, Shin and her coaches were enraged with the decision, and launched an immediate appeal. Yet the appeal itself proved to be incredibly lengthy and also contained a unique bylaw that required Shin to remain on the piste throughout its duration. Unable to leave the playing surface, Shin bawled uncontrollably for the first 10-15 minutes, often shading her head in a towel while occasionally looking out to the crowd before rubbing her eyes again.

At long last, after more than 30 minutes of a delay that included the Korean federation having to expedite a payment for the use in the official appeal, Shin's attempt to overturn the result failed. That brought a crushing end to a ridiculously long period marked by piquant discussion between Olympic and Korean officials and occasional announcements trying to explain what was going on to the spectators in the crowd.

Clearly, Shin should have had a chance for the gold medal; if the timing mechanism didn't get stuck, the clock would have run out and she would have advanced. Yet denying Heidermann a shot without some kind of a playoff-style bout might have been equally cruel.

Either way, the fencing tournament somehow ended up with an unfortunate and completely unforeseen loser which will lead to plenty of gripes and arguments going forward from multiple national federations, to be sure.
Just to rub salt in the wound, Shin was forced to come back out and fence for the bronze medal almost immediately. In that bout, after jumping out to an early lead, the Korean fell to China's Sun Yujie, who claimed the bronze by a score of 15-11.

There was little consolation for that result for Shin, particularly after she quite rightfully should have been fencing for a gold medal, a position which would have guaranteed her at least a silver. Still, throughout her bout — just as during the delay — the Korean was applauded and cheered by fans, and she earned a rapturous applause as she went and was consoled by her coach after the bronze medal defeat.
Somehow, that might not go far enough to making the Korean federation feel better about being royally worked over en route to missing out on a medal.

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/oly...8265--oly.html