I'll Hijack my own thread to ask: Do you guys know anywhere that have the full event videos from sochi? i saw mainly highlights on youtube (even though again for vancouver there are still full event videos), i wanna start rewatching some stuff prior to peyongchang
i wonder when all the full event videos from london were uploaded, i remember around sochi time they were already there, so maybe few more months? i had a lot of fun going back watching event by event from london between sochi and rio. I did manage to save a very large amount of videos in 4k (about 5 tb) but still missed some
I believe no one has explicitly announced retirement. Some possible announcements might come soon from Margarita Mamun (Russia), Fabian Hambuechen (Germany) and Vanessa Ferrari (Italy). I'll keep an eye out for news about Vasiliki Millousi (Greece) and Jessica López (Venezuela), both of whom might retire as well. Aly Raisman and Gabby Doulgas (US) will most likely take some time off. Has Ellie Black said anything about retirement? I hope she continues until 2017. She has a real chance at a world championships medal and I want her to win one!
Mustafina, Paseka, Barbosa and Daniele Hypólito said they will continue. Surprisingly, Chusovitina has said she will compete at the World Championships in Canada, in 2017. I really admire her.
Douglas is out, she was already brought just as a bar specialist and a novelty story, dont see her trying to make it to tokyo. Raisman will probably stay quiet until the 2019 worlds, however i dont think also that she will come back, not with finally getting an individual all around medal.
Kayla Harrison is going to UFC in the footsteps of Ronda Rousey, Maya Di Rado going to school even though her swimming career really just began. And why i have the feeling that Usain Bolt will pull a phelps and will come back for tokyo
365 days countdown for IOC to upload those, just like Sochi
well if someone can help me out , how to download videos from nbcolympics.com while they are up there i can download a bunch, maybe all and share some (also there is the olympic channel starting tomorrow, maybe they will put the replays there? )
Israeli team was going to the bus to take them to the ceremony and turned out they were assigned same bus as Lebanon. The Lebanese athletes demanded the driver would close the door and the head of the Lebanese delegation blocked the driver from letting our athletes on!! They had to call a special bus to take our guys to the maracana
I dont have a link yet. Just social media reports from staff
He was a great athlete, but if you're gonna choose someone to do this honor, I think it's better to pick someone who was an Olympian. Plenty of great people to choose from.
I understand what you mean.....but i dunno, no one ever meant more to the world of football then pele. he was truly one of a kind (about to be flamed by argentinians over maradona and messi i'm sure)
At least they opened up all the streams unlike beijing, though still some of their decisions still suck, and nbc live extra is available for chromecast and roku..... but their primetime bs is so annoying and discriminating against us pacific coasters
Man i am so anxiously waiting for the Opening Ceremony just can't wait to stream it! despite all the hurdles of GeoRestriction. !! Lets hope that USA athletes make it even more better soon as the event proceeds !
Btw to those who are yet not finding a proper solution to stream opening ceremony http://imgur.com/gallery/zUUQF?lr=0
Just found this on Imgur! about free channels!
Just another reason i hate nbc...... will it hurt them to put it on nbcolympics.com??? they put gymnastics there 8 hours before they air it on tv so WTF
Pele said he won't be in the ceremony, i was sure he would be the one to light the cauldron, so if he is not there, which other brazilian athlete could be the one to have that honor?
Any link for the Opening Ceremony? NBC starting it 4 hours after it actually started and thats the only event without a live stream , so like firstrowsports.eu or maybe something better?
Similar is the case in India. Cricket overshadows almost all other sports.
USA is not much better, even though we have so many good athletes, swimmers, gymnasts. On a regular basis outside of the 3 months before the olympics all people care about most is football, basketball, baseball. (Granted i'm a huge Football fan, but don't really care about the rest). NBC are great because they stream everything, but the TV Coverage is horrible plus their playback rules are really really annoying!!
USA having a poll on nbcolympics.com as to who should be the flag bearer, Time also wrote that it should be Ibtihaj Mohammad, well that will make Donald Trump Happy!
Again, i never argued that USA Basketball are bigger, then Phelps or Bolt. But on par with them
So let's open up the question. out of all the athletes in Rio, if you will ask every sports fan in the world, which athletes will be overall most recognizable?
I Think it will be USA Basketball, Phelps, Bolt, Dojokovic, Murray. (Maybe Simone Biles as well)
And Parts of the world dont care about soccer and couldn't care less if they stand next to messi, while the other side only accepts the name football for it and while i would love to shake Peyton Manning's hand, someone else couldn't care less about it. Big parts of the world only accept Athletics, Swimming, Gymanstics every 4th year. Different countries have different interests. Just listen to a podcast with Nastia Liukin few days ago where she said that in Beijing when she was already pretty big household name in USA she was afraid to approach Dirk Nowitzki!!
Look in China during Beijing 2008 where it was a festival every time Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard went sightseeing. I can tell you that in Israel there is a huge love for NBA, and probably in a lot of other countries. Some people might not like it sure, but i believe larger part will.
And also look at Opening Ceremonies of the past since NBA players joined. They are ganged up by the same Americans every time, Just last time i remember selfies from everywhere with Kobe. And i'm guessing this year will not be different even if Lebron, Kobe, Steph or Westbrook stayed home.
Also never said that they are more well known then Phelps or Bolt, but on par with the biggest names in every Olympics.
there are what, 10,000 athletes coming to rio? who are the biggest celebrities overall?
Is there anyone out there tracking countries that have met the Alpine Olympic standard already? There have been enough SAC races for it to be possible I think.
Karate obviously has lots of problems with officiating. and WKF itself is not a great organization either (most of their rule changes are dumb) but the scoring basic is very simple with only 1 or 2 rare situations.
I know in past IOC (under previous IOC presidents not the current dictator) asked WKF to find a solution, using helmets or something like that to avoid situation like the last Olympic final. and I remember WKF used it for few tournaments around 2000 (1998 Asian Games for example) but nobody (specially the athletes) didn't like it, they dropped the idea.
I totally understand Kata looks very very boring, (as boring as Surfing in my opinion) but that's the heart of karate. even if WKF is allowed to pick 1 event for the Olympics, they will pick Kata (team kata is much better though)
Cross-country is a long standing WA ask. Handball was never going to get Beach, Gymnastics would defo want tumbling, but possibly prefer double mini or trampoline synchro to acrobatic. High diving SHOULD get in and Archery would be better looking at field events, but may be satisfied with the five it has.
Worth noting that MMA was once more or less known as 'no holds barred', the most brutal form of combat sport....but almost immediately, certain holds and techniques were barred! Eye gouging, fishhooking and, more important for this discussion "small joint manipulation" - i.e torture submissions based on breaking fingers and toes. Holds that work in te real world...but are unacceptable in the sport. Any martial art that becomes a sport compromises - what do you think boxing gloves are?
My problem with karate is following the scoring and understanding what scores and what doesn't. The action itself looks interesting, but its hard to read a context.
Under no circumstances whatsoever should we see fierce growling and staring at invisible people - Kata - ever return to the games - the only event more shambolic that B-girl Raygun. What next, Haka?
That was never a controversy for anybody who has watched this sport for an hour.
in Judo you can win by strangulation or something but you can't break the neck I assume.
that's the same with kicking (or punching) to the head in Karate, you can kick but you can't kick with maximum force. that's the first thing they teach you in Karate. the very first thing.
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Do they put on the Olympic channel all the handball and volleyball matches? Or just medal contests
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