Olympics Thread
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<p><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Where the fuck did she pull that throw from? </span></p>
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<p>I asked the same thing in 2012. :whistle:</p> -
<p>Well, that sucks.</p>
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<p>Val put in a big second shot - no-one else got close for half an hour and it looked in the bag. </p>
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<p>THEN - second to last throw of the night - Carter pulls a huge one out - more than half a metre further than her previous best.</p>
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<p>Leaving Val, who'd be sitting there smiling for about the last half hour, with the last throw of the nightto pull it back. She threw the third 20+ metre, but not good enough and it's another silver.</p> -
How awesome is it to have all these people in an array of sports in the top 2 in the Olympics, and only being beaten by massive efforts. <br><br>
Well done team -
Cypress Hill screeching out seconds after Singapore touch for their first ever gold. It's just fucking awful, what's wrong with letting the crowd be?
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<p>Carter's throw was 39 cm better than her previous best.</p>
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<p>her best throw of today, or PB ever?</p> -
<p>wow, wouldnt blame Val if she is a little sus about it, given last time.</p>
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<p>Assume they have all been or will be tested?</p> -
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wow, wouldnt blame Val if she is a little sus about it, given last time.<br><br>
Assume they have all been or will be tested?</p></blockquote>They're always tested after -
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<p>Aussie soccer chicks take Brazil to penalties after scoreless game</p>
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<p>Well, that was tense. Brazil wins penalty shootout 8-7 after their keeper made two saves and ours only made 1. We had the chance to win it with our fifth shot but the Brazil keeper read it better. They go on to meet Sweden.</p>
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<p>Don't want to sound like a NZ Rugby 7s aficionado, but some fairly unfriendly refereeing. This could have made all the difference:</p>
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<p>Fucking hell - Aussie soccer chick gets body slammed in the penalty area, and NOTHING from the ref. FFS...</p>
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<p>Ref just didn't have the balls (pun) to make the decision.</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="NTA" data-cid="605494" data-time="1471060169"><p>Well, that was tense. Brazil wins penalty shootout 8-7 after their keeper made two saves and ours only made 1. We had the chance to win it with our fifth shot but the Brazil keeper read it better. They go on to meet Sweden.<br><br>
Don't want to sound like a NZ Rugby 7s aficionado, but some fairly unfriendly refereeing. This could have made all the difference:<br><br><br><br>
Ref just didn't have the balls (pun) to make the decision.</p></blockquote>
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<p>How awesome is it to have all these people in an array of sports in the top 2 in the Olympics, and only being beaten by massive efforts.<br><br>
Well done team</p>
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<p>Yeah!!!</p>
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<p>Christ, I can't believe how negative some fuckers are. Saw a total asshole on the stuff website going "I'm calling it now - it's a disaster".</p>
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<p>What a moronic fluffybunny with no sense of history. :)</p>
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<p>2000 Olympics we won one gold and three bronze and that was fucking it - and it's still not disastrous.</p>
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<p>We've rocketed to the top of the medals per capita table. Slightly frustrating that there's been three or four golden opportunities that have slipped through our fingers, but disastrous?</p>
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<p>Imagine if you're Sachin Tendulkar. You can afford rooms full of fuck-off big HD TVs. You're a huge sports fan, you've got no job - settling in to watch your Indian compatriots, the most populous nation on earth, and so far it's nada...and most of your best shots are gone. Now, that's a disaster! </p> -
One thing that consoles me about Val. She got beaten by a feat that is fucking legendary. Seriously. In 50 years when they do the retrospective documentary on the Olympics in amongst Jesse Owens, Michael Phelps, the 72 Russian basketballers, Emiel Zatopek ... there will be Michelle Carter's last chance epic throw.
