Canada is pretty abysmal in basketball against France, but regardless of that performance I’ve concluded that the rules of basketball ruin what is otherwise an interesting sport. Good touch! Bad touch! Bad touch but we allow the points anyway and the whole game is free throws!
It’s just irritating to watch because there’s no flow.
Pretty cool for France to step up with the games at home though. Good for them.
The Australia/Serbia basketball game was an intense affair. Australia had a 24 point lead in the first half, but Serbia came back and seemingly had the game in hand, until Patty Mills hit an impossible shot to tie the game and sent it into OT. Then when it looked like Australia had the edge, Jokic took over the game and lifted Serbia to the win. Great game.
Now I’m watching USA/Germany women’s soccer. USA scored in extra time and are trying to hold on for a 1-0 victory.
Yep, looks like the guys are coming out now. I have it on.
USA wins the surprise gold in men’s 1500M!!!
Hoker takes it!
The commentator, Jon Champion, is a Treasure. Doesn’t just talk constantly to hear his own voice. Only speaks when there is something to say.
I really wish all sports announcers were like this guy. Especially Formula One. They got about 15 people with microphones, and there is not a second of un-babbled airtime.
This is me as well. Professional players that are already televised every week? Yawn.
Flavor Flav sponsoring water polo because they’re working 2 or 3 jobs to represent their country in a sport they love that is almost completely unknown here? Yes, please, x100.
Holy @#$*()&
Gonna have to catch that replay when I get home
It was unbelievable. I know the 100M was a big race for the men’s, but this race was shocking and one of the best of the Olympics this year.
I just saw this result and I’m having trouble processing this.
Yared Nuguse (USA) would have taken silver if the race was half a meter longer. As it was, he finished 0.01 seconds behind Kerr.
Spanish Women’s team scores an Own-Goal.
Ouch!
The 100m is of course the premier race, but the mile (metric) still has a lot of cachet
So does the Olympics do 1500m and 1600m?
No, just 1500.
It’s a distance that’s been in use in competition for over a century, so it’s the closest approximation. Too much to ask the rest of the world change for us.
Men’s USA Basketball played really well and won by 35. Could have won by 50, but they took it easy. Into the Semifinals.
Yeah, they had a big early lead, but Brazil, to their credit, cut it to nine late in the first half. But the Americans went on a 15-0 run to end the half and never looked back.
Women’s surfing has been crazy and the final was something else. Between that and Nazare it’s pretty much surfing anymore, not men’s and women’s.
I think their exhibition games were just played very laid back. Their pattern now is to play full-quality in the opening quarter or two and then just maintain their lead.
I remember the 1992 Dream Team. Despite their huge victories, they probably could have won by, and I’m not exaggerating, 70 points or more a few times.
So we watched a movie, and after, turned on Prime Time. Saw 1 semi in the womens’ 400m hurdles. After, Mike Tirico said, [paraphrase] “We’ll show you some competition later, but first, the SNL takeover of the Olympics continues…”
Click!
Holy Shit!
I just watched the replay of the 1500m race. What an absolutely great race run by Cole Hocker. Waited for the opening and then sprinted to the finish.