Olympic GDT - 7 August

[GirlySports]

Despatie going for a medal at noon!

Custio Clayton fights for a medal at 2:45!

[FlamingLonghorn]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

of course they respect each other. They help each other up. They kick the ball out of play when a player gets hurt and the ball is returned. (you think the amateurs invented that?) You saw the Americans yesterday try to play when both Americans or Canadians were down. The ref had no control.

Professional women's player is a very loose term.

We both watch EPL and international soccer. It's the greatest spectacle in the world because the players are awesome.

Yes there's diving and conning of the ref but most of the time, the refs are onto it and the player (Suarez) just looks like an idiot and he is the only person in the ENTIRE Olympics in any sport that gets booed.

I think there a lot more cheap shots and lack of respect in professional sports than you care to admit. Soccer certainly isn't immune to it (Rooney and Ronaldo at the World Cup comes to mind).

[SilverGS]

Does she get paid for playing? Do people pay to go watch (ok not a lot but apparently enough). She gets paid to play a sport she is a professional. She is at the very top league and level for her sport. It may not be nearly the same as men's football but she is a professional.

The Flames matter only to us lol just like Canada matters to us so we are discussing how we feel they got hosed. Dismissing it just because it's Women's football for the only every 4 years Olympics and you feel it's amateurish is really a moot point since in the end you can say the same thing about all sports. I think more people around the world would remember this event more than our non-goal from 04.

Amateur ref or not doesn't really matter. There have been thousands of top level women's football games and that call is basically never called and I have no doubt the slow down tactic is used in almost everyone of those games where someone is leading. But ok she was influenced and made the call since it's "technically" a rule. Then to follow with that handball call was unforgivable. You already made a super controversial call then to make an even worse one right after? Fail. If you compare that handball compared to the non handball call on an American earlier in the game in the penalty area I think everyone would have called the American over the Canadian American every time.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

And the award for stupidest article at this Olympics goes to....

This American!!!

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympi...1822--oly.html


Apparently the US leads the "real" medal count. Stupid China and their "fake" medals.

[seattleflamer]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

I doubt there's any press about it in the UK. Nobody cares about women's football over there.
We barely care about it here. We care about Canada, not necessarily soccer.

I think the 6 second rule is never called because professional goalies know it and release the ball quickly once it's in their hands. You often see men keepers throw the ball onto the ground or outside of their box and then kick it. It's not even an issue.

What's McLeod bouncing the ball for?

The handball call was bogus. There were no outstretched arms.

The calls leading to the PK were suspect for sure. The problem I have with all the whining is it wasn't a golden goal.

There were still 40 plus minutes for Canada to win. And it is really sour grapes from Sinclair to say there was biased officiating against Canada from the start of the match.

It was a iffy call just like there have always been and will continue to be in sport. Move on, and win the bronze.

[Senator Clay Davis]

The US Women's soccer has been for years one of the most arrogant, wholly unlikable teams in all of sports. Insanely arrogant, classless and a whole bunch of talk from a team ranked #1 who hasn't won the world title in well over a decade. Hope Solo is clearly the queen of the classless but their whole team exudes it. Even if they win this tournament it won't make up for their choke job to Japan in the World Cup last year. If Alex Morgan wasn't on the team there would be literally nothing good to come from that team.

[GirlySports]

I'm set for lunch hour... dual screens.

Diving on one, high jump on the other

[GirlySports]

Two Canadians in the high jump, a medal would be a surprise though.

[M*A*S*H 4077]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

that article states that FIFA is only looking into events that occurred after the match had concluded, which likely means all the comments made by the Canadian players against the ref. just like the NHL, FIFA will not hold their officials accountable and find ways to penalize the players instead

Wrong. Soccer refs are held more accountable than just about any other refs in the world. If they mess up big, they are dropped a division or never again selected for any of the big matches/tournaments.

[GirlySports]

I like how in the high jump they give everyone a nice easy height to start off with..

2.20m everyone made it....only the french guy failed and needed a 2nd try.

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

I'm set for lunch hour... dual screens.

Diving on one, high jump on the other

High jump? really?

[GirlySports]

The high jump is a really fun event to watch. Everyone gets 3 tries at each height.

and it's starting to rain hard at the stadium

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/videos/cha...ield-6313.html

[GirlySports]

Two Canadians (Druoin, Mason) made 2.25m

The french and cypriot guy are out.

12 men left., bar goes upto 2.29m.

[Mango]

I've often wondered how/when someone gets involved in athletics.

I can understand running, but how does someone end up being a shot putter? or doing the pole vault?How young would you have to be to know or start training for such events?

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by troutman

During the second half, with the U.S. frantically trying to speed up the game while attempting multiple comebacks, Wambach began running near referee Christiana Pedersen and counting off the seconds that McLeod held the ball. She said she often got to 10 and into even the teens.

McLeod was playing with fire.

Sure, but there isn't a goaltender on earth that would expect that call in that situation. A warning from the ref, sure. A yellow card if the ref is in a bad mood, okay. But that? You can't accuse McLeod of "playing with fire" over a call that nobody on earth calls.

That was a ref who was out of her element and who was intimidated by Wambach. Legitimate strategy on her part, but as gutless as diving, really.

[SilverGS]

Zelinka and George into the 100M hurdle finals. Outside shot at a medal.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

Sure, but there isn't a goaltender on earth that would expect that call in that situation. A warning from the ref, sure. A yellow card if the ref is in a bad mood, okay. But that? You can't accuse McLeod of "playing with fire" over a call that nobody on earth calls.

That was a ref who was out of her element and who was intimidated by Wambach. Legitimate strategy on her part, but as gutless as diving, really.

I agree. Give McLeod a yellow card in the first half and she's releasing that ball like ants in her pants.

[SilverGS]

Originally Posted by Mango

I've often wondered how/when someone gets involved in athletics.

I can understand running, but how does someone end up being a shot putter? or doing the pole vault?How young would you have to be to know or start training for such events?

Mostly through school I think. You have some decent success early on or a teacher who sees something in you and encourages you to try.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Mango

I've often wondered how/when someone gets involved in athletics.

I can understand running, but how does someone end up being a shot putter? or doing the pole vault?How young would you have to be to know or start training for such events?

fatass = shot put, no-ass = high jump?

I say this only because I just saw a Qatari guy with absolutely no ass graze the bar with his no ass and the bar didn't fall

[Puppet Guy]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

And the award for stupidest article at this Olympics goes to....

This American!!!

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympi...1822--oly.html


Apparently the US leads the "real" medal count. Stupid China and their "fake" medals.

well, naturally - it's only "legit" when America's leading. Just like when Michael Johnson was "really the fastest man in the world" in '96.