I know; I was responding to the previous comment.
It’s questionable at best whether the dive helped her. Even the usual lunge isn’t certain.
It doesn’t address women hitting women, which is - relatively speaking - lower impact. I guess you change stuff when you have the science to support chance.
The sport will miss your surprised input.
Really? Watching it in slow-motion last night made is seem obvious to me that she would have finished a clear stride ahead if she hadn’t dived and there wouldn’t have been a photo finish. Maybe that’s confirmation bias on my part. But watch the replay again and don’t watch Miller, watch the other racers around her. In slow motion when she goes into the dive it looks like she freezes and everyone else keeps running. He forward momentum just gets sucked away. Now if she was already decelerating due to fatigue that’s one thing, but if you assume she could keep her pace for two or three more strides she would have finished faster on foot to my eye.
But again, I have been listening to people telling me how stupid it is to slide into first base for years, so this could be a biased viewing on my part.
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The “Ten thousand hour” thing is probably true to describe achieving a person’s apex of capability. If I had spent 10,000 hours practicing sprinting when I was a kid I’m pretty confident I could have run a damn fast 100 metres. I was fast anyway, and got down to 12 seconds and change. I could have broken 11. But that doesn’t get you within sniffing distance of a spot in the Olympics.
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How do you get the pit bulls to stay on the track and not just cross the infield to get to the runners?
The thing is you’re not just joking. It’s very clear that the pressure and importance of the moment increases sprinting times. The times in the 100m final are always faster than the 100m semis, which are faster than the 100m early heats. Championship sprinters are the ones whose hearts rise to the occasion.
I’d say that’s mostly because you want to win the final, but you only need to finish top four or whatever, against weaker competition, in the qualifying.
This Olympics is beginning to remind me of 1980. Not quite as extreme because the boycott effected a lot more nations.
Somehow it’s just not as satisfying to win when your biggest rivals and competitors are absent.
I really hope the Russians cleanup their program. So they can participate in 2020.
As long as we’re daydreaming, I’d like an Aston Martin DB-11, a commission from the Chicago Symphony, and a cookie.
I think the Russians badly want to compete. Building a super team is kind of pointless if your not allowed to compete internationally.
They’ll clean up their athletics program enough to satisfy the IOC. It won’t ever be totally clean but I think they’ve learned there are limits to how far they can push it.
And maybe I’ll get that cookie! It’s possible.
Australia gets put out in the quarters by Serbia in women’s basketball, after going undefeated in pool play. This will be the first time since Barcelona that the Opals leave the Olympics without a medal.
I haven’t watched obsessively; actually, I’ve watched very little…so the following is absurd and hyperbole.
But given that:
(a) NBC has decided that beach volleyball is Good TV (probably because it features Americans, and women in bathing suits)
(b) the beach volleyball competition is every day for the full 2 weeks
© a beach volleyball match lasts hours
(d) Kerri Walsh has been in the Olympics since Baron Coubertin was involved
We come to the conclusion that Kerri Walsh has been on TV probably more hours than anyone since Lucille Ball.
You failed to mention that Beach Volleyball is played at COPACABANA BEACH!!!
Not true. The USA/AUS quarterfinal took two sets, and each was only 20 minutes long. If a third set is needed, it’s played to only 15 points (instead of 21), so it would likely be even shorter. You have to win a set by two points, so it’s possible for it to go on indefinitely, but I get the impression that most matches take less than an hour.
(While searching the results to see how long a match takes, I saw that there was no women’s beach volleyball yesterday, so point (b) may be incorrect as well.)
I refer you to my opening sentence. Kerri Walsh is also not 150 years old.
Hey, I laughed.
And I agree it sure seems like each of those matches go on for about 10,000 hours.
In every field hockey match I’ve seen, when the ball is hit hard there’s a small splash of water that comes up from the turf. Do they water the field down before each game, or have the games I’ve seen all been after rainstorms?
The artificial surfaces field hockey uses need to have a water content, at major competition level anyway.
I wanted to see an epic fail in this Olympics and by George, a Russian diver gave it to me! A perfect score of zero and likely a sore belly.