orangeman

5-3 with time still left? Oghenekaro with 4 goals? Is this football or (ice) hockey?

You're right, LA would welcome it. Thanks for your input.

Right. But like I said, I thought there had to be specific conditions rather than just an ocean. I admit, I don't know much about surfing but I have been to Busan quite a bit. People surf there, but it's nothing like Hawaii or other places that hold regular competitions.

I have a question though: How can every host city include surfing? Doesn't that depend on geography? For example, if Paris hosts in 2024 how will they accommodate surfing? Same with Tokyo, I guess (at least it's on the coast). I don't think it's like sailing which can be done in any ocean. Doesn't surfing require specific conditions, and that's why their competitions are in locales like Hawaii and California?

Sorry, anyone who says baseball/softball is not popular around the world really means it's not popular in Europe. It's extremely popular in the Americas and East Asia (Japan, Korea and China). I think that probably makes it more popular than several team sports already included, who only have European medal threats, along with the USA. Softball just had their world championships in Canada and 31 countries participated, including ones from Kenya and Uganda. I prefer the idea of rotating sports depending on the host city. Baseball/softball makes sense in Japan, but it probably wouldn't have in London. Baseball fields are expensive so I wouldn't expect every host city to build them. It's easier to build venues, or just re-use them, for the smaller events.

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but not only was Canada's goal today the quickest in Olympic history, but the red card in the 19th minute was also the quickest red card in Olympic history. We may not break the records in the pool or on the track, but Canada gets its name into the record books somehow!

I'm glad baseball/softball is back as a fan. I don't mind the other sports, although sports climbing is...odd. Maybe I just don't know enough. And there's probably enough combat sports already. I just think they need to pare down some existing events. As much as I like to watch swimming, is there really a need for 94 (or whatever) races? Any event where the same people win medals over and over again can be reduced, imo. It just pads the American (and Aussie) medal totals. IFor as many medals it hands out it's not really a global sport. But I know it's popular with audiences so it'll stay as is. And don't get me started on table tennis, which like swimming is just there to pad China's medal count. Squash is much more global and should be in the Olympics before TT. Anyway, hopefully the other new sports will allow smaller and/or new countries to participate more.

And I was thinking a tie was the best case scenario. Not to get ahead of ourselves, but as long as they don't take Zimbabwe too lightly, they should get to the playoff round, possibly in a pretty good position.

WooHoo!

SINCLAIR!!!!!!!! CAPTAIN FANTASTIC!!!!

Sooooooooooooo close!

At least Canada is pushing back a bit now.

Damn it...

Penalty kick!

DE-FENCE!!!

Just referring to the 'interesting' calls in the Canada-USA semifinal in London (it's sort of a meme here in Canada). I don't dispute the call, really. Just joking around.

Is the ref Norwegian?

I didn't know the diving competition started today.

Goal!

On my way home from buying lunch before the Canada v Australia game, I literally bumped into an Aussie here in Canada. Coincidence???!!!!! Probably. GO CANADA!!!

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I was in Rio last year and stood (and swam) right in this spot. It's a spectacular building from the outside, I wish I would have gone in and had a look. I'm sure Copacabana is bouncing right now!

I would be very surprised if Canada is shut out of the rowing medals as they predict. It would be the first time since 1988. Our Women's eight should at least be on the podium.

Wow, this is almost exactly what I said about the Sports Illustrated predictions (and all American predictions from Sochi and London). If there's an American in the event, they wil win a medal. If they are good, the will win gold. I went through the AP predictions earlier. I think they had Canada at something like 12 medals, which is a joke. This is one of our strongest teams ever. But they will compete with Americans in many events, which means they had to be ignored to make room for the Americans. It doesn't matter though, it's just predictions.

Just finished binge watching Stranger Things, a Netflix series that just came out. Lynch, Spielberg, Carpenter, King. All on the TV. We are truly living in the Golden Age of Television. -80s -dark synth music -sci-fi -dungeons and dragons -mystery -Wynona Ryder -The Cold War -geeks -freaks -Christmas lights (it'll make sense later) Give it a try. One season so far. Something to keep you occupied until the Olympics start.