GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2024 3:03 pmYou Go Girls!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTwVhI8XUAA ... ame=medium
Thanks, I did not see that. NZ > Canada with a similar, even more improbable, play at the end. I can't find it, thoughGoCubsGo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2024 10:18 pm
I still don't know shit about rugby but this looked fun.
https://x.com/NBCOlympics/status/1818360220009341283
Here it is, 4:45.Vrede too wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2024 10:57 pmThanks, I did not see that. NZ > Canada with a similar, even more improbable, play at the end. I can't find it, thoughGoCubsGo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2024 10:18 pm
I still don't know shit about rugby but this looked fun.
https://x.com/NBCOlympics/status/1818360220009341283
Double victory for Olympic fencer competing while seven months pregnant
... Hafez, 26, revealed she was seven months pregnant one day after advancing to the round of 16 in the individual women’s saber competition at the Paris Olympics.
"What appears to you as two players on the podium, they were actually three! It was me, my competitor, and my yet-to-come to our world, little baby!” Hafez wrote Tuesday on Instagram.
Hafez defeated former NCAA champion Elizabeth Tartakovsky of Team USA in the first round Monday before falling to South Korea’s Hayoung Jeon....
Although haka is the Māori word for dance, it is not a dance in the sense you might imagine. Usually performed in a group, it involves chanting and actions, such as stamping, hand movements, and facial gestures.
Haka varies by tribal region, with many haka telling the story of significant events in an iwi’s (tribe’s) history.
Today, haka is used as a sign of respect and is performed on important occasions, such as sporting events, weddings, funerals, and powhiri (a traditional welcome).
I don't really care, but all else equal I would go with the international and Olympic standard.American media criticised for US bias after using ‘wrong’ Olympic medal table to top China’s golds
... Most of the world ranks the medal table by count of gold medals, then by silver to separate countries with the same number of golds, and by bronze when the silver tallies match too. This is how the medal table is presented on the Olympic Games website, a method which values the most prized medal, gold, over silver and bronze.
But US outlets including the Washington Post, ESPN and Olympic broadcaster NBC default their rankings by the total number of medals, while the New York Times shows both total medals and a gold-first tally alongside each other, and it has raised a few eyebrows abroad.
Unsurprisingly, the “American method” almost always presents USA – which has the biggest team with nearly 600 athletes at the Games – as the top ranked nation, and that is the case in Paris, as the first country to accumulate more than 30 medals. The official Olympics website meanwhile has China in first place with 11 golds, and the US languishing down the table below Australia, Japan and hosts France.
... “The New York Times is better than this, but they always do it,” tweeted Nick Bryant, author and former Washington correspondent for the BBC. “American exceptionalism at its most needy and mad……”
... Australian journalist Bradley Jurd tweeted: “Every country in the world ranks by gold medals. It’s never by total. But this is a country that insists on Fahrenheit and pounds, when almost no one else does.”
Busted.... NBC has sometimes turned comments off on X when tweeting out the medal count, but that hasn’t stopped the scrutiny. “Meanwhile, in the actual medal table, the US are 6th,” quote-tweeted one user. “Love that they’ve turned comments off as they know they’re wrong.”...
‘Against all odds’: Sports world in awe of Canada advancing to Olympic quarterfinalsVrede too wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2024 7:36 amHow could they not get caught?
It's not like the coach can say, "This is what they're planning."
Any team that wins all 3 games should advance. GoCanadaGo.... Now, with wins against New Zealand and France to neutralize their group stage total to zero points, the Canadians, whose federation is planning to appeal the six-point deduction, can advance with a win over Colombia on Wednesday....
I didn't even know the men's team made the Olympics.
They might be the Maytag Repairman's apprentice.
GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2024 2:31 pmDamn girl!
https://x.com/YahooSports/status/1819754895332765897
Semis vs Germany! It's like WWII all over again 
Game was over in less than half an hour, shortened for the Olympics?