The Fiji national team came into my gym a couple years ago or so when they were in town for some kind of rugby nationals. I swear I recognize like 3/4 of them. It was fun watching them all workout and mess around with each other.
Pretty good showing by Japan; I think they came closer to beating Fiji than NZ did.
I guess I won my water polo bet.
Dog paddle.
I’m watching men’s beach volleyball and it seems like people setting are now basically catching the ball and then pushing it up? I remember 4000 years ago in middle school/junior high/high school that it was really emphasized you couldn’t “catch” the ball but rather had to make the set a legit two-handed hit. Am I reading too much into this one match? Or have the rules been relaxed? Or is my whole premise made up based on poor memory?
edit: hah, I make that post and within 5 minutes a team gets called for a double-touch on a set.
Not watching so not sure of the context but IIRC there’s a very fine line that they have to walk because overhead sets also can’t spin. They have to kinda catch the ball so they can send it up in a deadspin but it can’t come to a stop in their hands.
When I play we either ignore that rule (because setting without spin is fucking hard) or we just bump-set.
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Yeah dog paddle would be way better than any of the other slow strokes because it’s funny and visually distinctive. Like swimming is all just dudes or ladies chugging through the water, is anyone all oh man it’s the butterfly, this is my favorite? How can you even tell.
There’s always some level of catching going on, but you won’t see what you’re talking about in the indoor game. The calls on setting are much more relaxed in the beach game though.
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Ah, gotcha. Thanks.
All Times Eastern
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/streaming-schedule
Full Track and Field Schedule(All Times Eastern)
Thursday July 29
8:00 PM - Women’s 100m Preliminary Round
8:15 PM - High Jump Men’s Qualification
8:30 PM - 3000m SC Men’s Round 1
8:45 PM - Discus Men’s Qualification
9:25 PM - 800m Women’s Round 1
10:25 PM - 400mh Men’s Round 1
Friday, July 30
6:05 AM - Triple Jump Women’s Qualification
6:25 AM - Shot Put Women’s Qualification
7:00 AM - 4X400m Mixed Round 1
6:00 AM - 5000m Women’s Round 1
7:30 AM - Men’s 10,000m Final
9:45 AM - 100mh Women’s Round
8:00 PM - 400mh Women’s Round 1
8:30 PM - Discus Women’s Qualification
8:40 PM - Pole Vault Men’s Qualification
8:50 PM - 800m Men’s Round 1
11:15 PM - 100m Women’s Round 1
10:35 PM - 100m Men’s Preliminary Round
Saturday, July 31
6:10 AM - Long Jump Men’s Qualification
6:15 AM - 100m Women’s Semifinal
6:45 AM - 100m Men’s Round 1
7:15 AM - Men’s Discus Throw Final
7:50 AM - 800m Women’s Semifinal
8:35 AM - 4x400 Relay Mixed Final
8:50 AM - Women’s 100m Final
8:10 PM - Hammer Women’s Qualification
8:50 PM - Long Jump Women’s Qualification
8:40 PM - 3000mSC Women’s Round 1
9:35 PM - Women’s Shot Put Final
Sunday, August 1
6:10 AM - Men’s High Jump Final
6:15 AM - 100m Men’s Semifinal
6:45 AM - 100mh Women’s Semifinal
7:15 AM - Women’s Triple Jump Final
7:25 AM - 800m Men’s Semifinal
8:05 AM - 400mh Men’s Semifinal
8:50 AM - Men’s 100m Final
8:00 PM - Hammer Men’s Qualification
8:35 PM - 1500m Women’s Round 1
9:20 PM - Men’s Long Jump Final
9:30 PM - 200m Women’s Round 1
10:50 PM - Women’s 100m Hurdles Final
Monday, August 2
6:20 AM - Pole Vault Women’s Qualification
6:25 AM - 200m Women’s Semifinal
7:00 AM - Women’s Discus Throw Final
7:05 AM - 400m Men’s Semifinal
7:35 AM - 400mh Women’s Semifinal
8:15 AM - Men’s 3000m Steeplechase Final
8:40 AM - Women’s 5000m Final
8:00 PM - Triple Jump Men’s Qualification
8:05 PM - 1500m Men’s Round 1
8:20 PM - Javelin Women’s Qualification
8:45 PM - 400m Women’s Round 1
9:50 PM - Women’s Long Jump Final
10:05 PM - 200m Men’s Round 1
11:20 PM - Men’s 400m Hurdles Final
Tuesday, August 3
6:10 AM - 110mh Men’s Round 1
6:15 AM - Shot Put Men’s Qualification
6:20 AM - Men’s Pole Vault Final
7:00 AM - 5000m Men’s Round 1
7:35 AM - Women’s Hammer Throw Final
7:50 AM - 200m Men’s Semifinal
8:25 AM - Women’s 800m Final
8:50 AM - Women’s 200m Final
8:05 PM - Javelin Men’s Qualification
10:00 PM - 110mh Men’s Semifinal
10:30 PM - Women’s 400m Hurdles Final
Wednesday, August 4
6:00 AM - 1500m Women’s Semifinal
6:30 AM - 400m Women’s Semifinal
7:00 AM - Women’s 3000m Steeplechase Final
7:15 AM - Men’s Hammer Throw Final
8:05 AM - Men’s 800m Final
8:55 AM - Men’s 200m Final
7:00 PM - 4X100m Women’s Round 1
8:10 PM - High Jump Women’s Qualification
10:00 PM - Men’s Triple Jump Final
10:05 PM - Men’s Shot Put Final
10:30 PM - 4X100m Men’s Round 1
10:55 PM - Men’s 110m Hurdles Final
Thursday, August 5
3:30 AM - Men’s 20km Race Walk Final
6:20 AM - Women’s Pole Vault Final
6:25 AM - 4X400m Women’s Round 1
7:00 AM - 1500m Men’s Semifinal
8:00 AM - Men’s 400m Final
4:30 PM - Men’s 50km Race Walk Final
Friday, August 6
3:30 a.m. - Women’s 20km Race Walk Final
7:25 a.m. - 4X400m Men’s Round 1
7:50 a.m. - Women’s Javelin Throw Final
8:00 a.m. - Men’s 5000m Final
8:35 a.m. - Women’s 400m Final
8:50 a.m. - Women’s 1500m Final
9:30 a.m. - Women’s 4x100m Relay Final
9:50 a.m. - Men’s 4x100m Relay Final
6:00 p.m. - Women’s Marathon Final
Saturday, August 7
6:35 a.m. - Women’s High Jump Final
6:45 a.m. - Women’s 10,000m Final
7:00 a.m. - Men’s Javelin Throw Final
7:40 a.m. - Men’s 1500m Final
8:30 a.m. - Women’s 4x400 Relay Final
8:50 a.m. - Men’s 4x400 Relay Final
7:00 p.m. - Men’s Marathon Final
Here’s a complete track schedule that includes decathlon and heptathlon :
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Czechs set to dominate women’s tennis. Got Czechs in both final matches. So at least two silvers (hopefully two golds) coming in.
Other than that it’s been rough. Got two medals in men’s trap (gold and silver), a silver in canoeing and bronze in fencing.
Adam Ondra’s gonna be climbing. Since he’s GOAT climber I’m sure he’ll pull in a medal.
Devastating loss for the “Israeli” baseball team. First they lost their starting pitcher, former reds Jon Moscot to an injury 4 pitches. They tied the game at 5-5 in the 9th with former reds Ryan Lavranway second home run of the game.
Only to lose the game in extra innings on a back-to-back hit by pitch :(
Breaststroke and butterfly are the hardest strokes to master. Much more dependent on timing of strokes and kicks
May be slower, but honestly much more difficult to do well.
Source: swam competitively (summer and winter) from age 6 through high school. Never mastered butterfly. I think my arms are too short.
Yeah I get that there’s tremendous skill involved in the different strokes, but what’s the point in having the different strokes? Why isn’t the backstroke and butterfly regarded the same as backwards running or the actual sport of race walking? Like if backwards running was a thing in the olympics people would devote their lives to and and they’d be incredibly skilled at backwards running. People would say, you know, backwards running is actually much harder than regular running…and they’d be right. But it would still be kind of dumb, right?
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Backstroke > crawl because breathing is easy.
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Kind of put another way, do the freestyle guys poke fun at the butterfly and breast stroke guys? Because you KNOW Usain Bolt would be laughing at the backwards 100m dash guys behind their backs.
Yes, that is exactly what is happening. Nailed it.
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Except Wakaichiro was born and raised in the States, and I think he now works at a restaurant in New York.
In case it gets lost in the list
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Where’s the decathlon/heptathlon?