Is it wrong to be slightly aroused watching USA vs Brazil women’s beach volleyball??

If it is because of the fat chick from Brazil, then yes. Otherwise, perfectly normal.

The broads on Team Canada's Beach Volleyball squad are smokeshows

The USA "B" team of women's beach volleyball gets way too much time on TV. I don't get it. They're not remotely hot, or even very good.

They got absolutely fist****ed by the refs.

They challenged a serve. Challenge successful. Canada takes forever cleaning their glasses or whatever. Refs say challenge unsuccessful.

What.
The.
****?

That was ****ed up. I still don't know what happened

They showed another zoomed in replay. It was out.

Jesus, these Jamaican ladies have some serious speed....

Caleb Dressel is a man amongst boys. He ****ing crushed the field in the 50. Nutty.

Holy crap! That Finke dude is a stud. 800m and 1500m gold.

Dude is nutty. Just hangs around and wins on the closing 50. That’s insanity.

Has to have a heart the size of an Elephant. 1450 m behind a body length then boom. Finishes a body length ahead what a reserve tank.

4x100 medley is the main event of the swimming events.

What a race. Goddamn...

Jacoby is a freak of nature. She came from 4th to first on the relay and had the same time as yesterday when she lost her goggles

Incredible. I can't figure out if he's a brilliant racer or a bad one. You'd think he could run it out over the race and dominate bitches.

But he might just be that dude. The dude that all distance guys hate....

Well they just switched to Olympic golf. On to Moonshiners.

I think he is just that dude likes to toy with and give them hope.

What an introduction to the 100 meter final.

Yeah. That light show was cool as shit. And that was a race.

Still trying to figure out this team handball. Lots of action and athletic ability; I have no idea what the hell is going on. It's like soccer/basketball with a small ball. Fascinating. And of course there are huge European pro leagues.

Same with trampoline. Every chick looked the same to me but apparently judges and announcers can see all sorts of differences. So IDK

I watched that the other night and had no idea how to differentiate either of them (other than this one that fell).

Yeah same here. You tell me dressage is on TV on a non Olympic summer day, and you could't pay me to watch. You put those Olympic rings on it and I record everything all day and stay up until like 2am every night watching. I'm getting too old for this shit. Oh well, one more week and then a few months to recharge before the Winter Olympics!

I watched the men on the trampoline and those guys got scary high. Crazy competition

The women runners are something else with regards to fitness. Perfect amount of muscle and curves.

Gabby Thomas is prettttyyyy.

https://nypost.com/wp-content/upload...y=80&strip=all

https://i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk/inco...S211367850.jpg

Simone returns! NBC loves!!

No thanks. We chose live track on USA Network.

Maybe the world would have been a better place if the German’s had won. Those pics make me doubt all that I believe.

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Yes. So tired of NBC. National BILES Company

Lmao wtf

Their ratings across the board are horrible. I heard advertisers are getting a reduction in costs one way or another.

Sydney McGlaughlin is so sexy

Seems like a lot of money since they go to commercial every 2 minutes.

Probably because you guys aren't doing very well. If the US were doing well then the viewing figures would be better. Doesn't help with the timezone.

In the UK there was negativity before the games but now the viewing figures are doing well.

This Japan Belgium game wow……. Japan has played fantastic. They really got the splash sisters over there

So what, in your mind, constitutes "doing well"?

Last I checked, US is first in medals. Sure, we're second in gold medals to China and that does suck. But US has a ton more silver and bronze than China and leads overall, 79-70.

There are hot broads in competitive climbing

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kmb...vault/37208946

KC kid takes silver in pole vault.

So I get on social media this morning and there’s a post from one of my old college roommates. I last time we hung out he was just outside of Chicago working for Moore Business forms and his wife was newly pregnant. Turns out he moved to Nixa and his daughter (that baby) won the silver in the steeplechase. Crazy.

Awesome.

To save everyone the trouble.
https://i.imgur.com/KRQhRS5.jpg

She beat Springsteen’s daughter?:p

That’s really cool. A girl from Nixa chased a dream and won an Olympic medal.

Watching a women's wrestling match with someone from Marshall, MO. She's down 6-0 currently.

EDIT: And she lost 6-1.

This has got to be killing them. Most mornings I open the internet and the first thing I see without even seeking it out is who won the big events. Makes me kind of indifferent about actually watching it in prime time 10 hours later.

Also, lack of stars people have heard of. Biles was the big one, and...
Not even a compelling foreign star like Usain Bolt.

Man speak for yourself. That 400 hurdles race was one of the most incredible things I’ve seen since Michael Johnson outran the camera at Atlanta.

Bolt was always electrifying, and what he did in the 100 was pure insanity. But that 400 hurdles was a ****ing race. . My guy lost, but mother****er that was incredible.

400 hurdles was absurd. Have never seen anything like that before.

The men's and women's 400m hurdles were incredible.

The Swedish pole vaulter is incredible and so was the Venezuelan triple jumper and the Jamaican sprinter Thompson-Herare.

Hassan is increible for distance running. Trying to win the 1500m, 5000m and 10000m.

The US is missing a big star though. Dressel did great but he is no Phelps.

Feels like there has been a lot of world records on the track.

I mean Dressel only tied Phelps with most swimming medals in one olympics

Dressel won 5 golds.

Phelps won 8 golds in 2008, 6 golds and 2 Bronze in 2004, 4 golds and 2 silvers in 2012 and he won 5 golds and a silver in Rio.

He hasn't matched Phelp's worst Olympics let alone his best. Dressel is great though.

My comment was regarding a reason why ratings are down.
If people see the results in the morning, don't you think they are less likely to watch that evening?
Doesn't mean there aren't good races...just that people are less likely to tune into them.

Yea, the huge time difference is a major factor. NBCs coverage has been choppy between live and tape delayed. I do prefer watching on their sister channels and apps over their main channel. Less commercials and more live stuff.

The US aren't first in the medal table. China is.

The table is in order of gold medals won.

That is correct. We've spent most of our viewing time on USA or the app.

my wife and I are typically huge Olympic fans; but man, we just could not get into this year. We recorded a to of coverage, but was just too frustrating to watch. Didn't deal with the apps or any other method other than what came on the TV.

I think we ended up deleting a ton of recordings.

I don't know what you're talking about. According to this, the US has 91 total medals (gold, silver, and bronze combined) compared to China's 2nd place of 74. Also, US has closed the gap on gold at 34-29.

https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olym...-standings.htm

I think it’s obvious that any ratings issues are tied directly to time zone differences. It takes a lot of effort to go 12 hours of your actual awake time to not see or find out the results of a race or event and wait until watching them later. It might be different if the discrepancy occurred such that you slept through the waiting.

Why is walking an Olympic sport? Or even a competitive sport?
That might be the dumbest Olympic sport, although I'm not really sure why synchronized diving needs to exist.

walking is still there?LMAO

Hey……we agree on something!

Yes, and everyone cheats.

The main rule is that part of one foot must be on the ground at all times. Even I could see some who are essentially jogging. There are a handful of judges watching, but they can't see everything, and unless it is extremely egregious, it seemed that you could get up to 4 warnings before getting DQ'd. In the 20 minutes I watched, several were DQ'd and many seemed comfortable seeing what they could get away with until they got a couple of warnings.

You lasted 20 minutes?

I lasted like 10 seconds before I noped out of that.

Congrats April/Alix - Gold in beach volley!!

:rockon:

They're not as purely technically dominant as Walsh/May, but **** they're good.

Weirdest 'brush with greatness' in my life. My professor/advisor in undergrad was married to an Olympic Medalist in walking. Met him and got to see/touch the medal at an intern dinner she hosted. Had no idea it even existed as a sport until that point.

Dr. Candace Young at Truman State.

Can anyone confirm when the gold medal USA vs France game is in USA Central time? And if it is televised at a different time than actually played, when is it? They've done a terrible job of marketing the marquee events. Ive read 3 different places the time of the game...all different. And not on my YouTube TV TV guide.

Tomorrow, 9:30 pm Central on NBC is what I saw.

Gable Stevenson!!!!! HOLY ****!!!! THE GREATEST WRESTLING MATCH I HAVE EVER SEEN!!

I am talking about the fact that when you open that table China are shown as number one.

It is great winning more medals but the medal table at the Olympics is always in order of number of golds won.

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No, it’s not.

Umm yes it is. Click on the Olympic page in the link above and it shows exactly that.

This has the makings of a great column that could be published in Walking magazine.

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Awesome. Then dude hits a back flip.

Walking is pretty pointless, but the dumbest Olympic sport will always be horse dancing. How the **** do you win a gold medal with a dancing horse?

It doesn’t get anymore exciting than team synchronized water dancing!