JCC Arena 2020 Summer Olympics - Tokyo Japan

Awesome!

 

Women's Volleyball vs. Turkey is intense right now...

 

Spoiler

Costa Rican gymnast integrates BLM protest tribute into her floor routine.

 

German cyclist coach sent packing from Olympics after using racial slur.

 

JFC he trotted out the “Heated Gaming Moment” excuse. Heated Coaching Cycling Moment?

 

Love the Olympics. Simone Biles courage is amazing. Women's gymnastics is a very dangerous sport and you have to be fully physically and mentality ready for it. Arguing with someone at work who said what would happen if an NBA player pulled out, I said if an NBA player plays when his head is not in the right state will miss a basket, a gymnast who competes whose head is not in the right state can break her neck. Big difference.

 

Lily King and Annie Lazor get Silver and Bronze in 200m.

So happy for Lazor. And Lily King did amazing as well.

 

Track day 1. Blah

Never been a fan of most of this stuff.

 

Gold and silver for team GB in the BMX in the women's and men's events respectively. It's mildly hilarious that GB's dominance in the cycling has transferred over to kids' bikes now.

 

US pole vaulter out of the Olympics because of COVID : https://www.nbcnews.com/news/olympi...-out-games-after-positive-covid-test-n1275358

Apparently when his vaccination status has been asked about, it's been evaded

 

I love that Katie Ledecky inspires me to do crazy stunts like see how long it takes me to swim 1500. The answer is 28 minutes 7.5 seconds. But I had to do twice as many flip turns in the 25m pool I have access to.

 

We have a water park here in Columbus, OH called Zoombeezi Bay (used to be called Wyandot Lake). There's something there called a wave pool. It's huge and every ten minutes they'll turn on the jets and get the waves going. One day a friend wanted to race across said wave pool when the waves were not on. I said, "Sure." I almost drowned. Ledecky doing 1500 meters with ease made my arms hurt and gave me flashbacks to that wave pool. She's amazing!

 

I found Caeleb Dressler's tearful reaction to his win the other day quite sweet and touching.

I'm such a sucker for sensitive guys

 

I enjoyed watching Zverev spoil Djokovic’s golden slam bid.

 

@heels1785 Considering this is first Olympics without the greatest swimmer of all time (Phelps) and this is most likely the last Olympics for the other GOAT (Ledecky), I think the US Swim Team as been really good. Was expecting a much bigger drop off. And the women's gymnastics team should be called the franchise. You lose the greatest gymnast of all time (people knocking her should shut up and get the shot since we all know who they are) and nearly win the team competition and then win the individual all around. That is just some next level insanity. The owner of the gymnastics center my daughter attends (and who we are friends with) said for other counties that is absolutely demorizing. He isn't knocking Kim at all just saying that she was able to win the gold and she isn't even the team's best gymnast obviously. Talk about depth especially if they do well in the individual events like they are supposed to.

@Rylo Ken Totally agree but if he wins the US, it will be totally forgotten.

 

heels, I just wanna say that post was the greatest of all time

 

"The greatest of all time to not win a draft..."

 

Spoiler

USA's Maggie Steffens breaks water-polo record, just days after breaking nose.

 

GB win the gold in the inaugural mixed triathlon after silvers in the men's and women's individual races.

 

Nice! Might we see you in Paris in three years?

The swimming events are inspiring to me in a different way. I'm currently learning to swim for the first time (I never learned as a kid), so I'm still working on doing a single lap, but I see the grace of the Olympic swimmers as far back as the US trials and it inspires me to try to match that grace. I'm seeing marked improvement from one lesson to the next over the last few weeks.

 

I grew up in and around swimming. I don't remember learning how. My first meet I was 5 years old. I was a half decent swimmer and I worked very hard at it, until I turned 16 and my parents swerved me towards getting a job. After that I unfortunately never did any serious sports until I graduated from college and got a real job. After that I started entering road races, before that I ran just to maintain my weight. No one ever encouraged me with sports or told me to pursue them in college. It was all about, get a job. Swimming 500 meters in 10 minutes is about equivalent to a running a 10 minute mile. Except that we all seem to know how to run, you can fall, but you likely won't die. You can drown if you don't know how to swim. What I like about running and swimming is I can do them. I can't do a handstand on a balance beam, I don't have the time or energy to organize a softball or soccer league, but swimming and running are for me, easily accessible. The gym down the street from me has a 25 meter pool, that's where I swim laps and it's only $35 a month to be a member. Which is in my book pretty reasonable. Running you can literally do almost anywhere, but the treadmills at the gym are a nice option when the weather doesn't cooperate.

 

Come on Katie!

5 lengths to go for history

BOOM

I think she just said she was going on to 2024! Oh and even 2028. I didn’t hear that 1st time.