EVIL~! alkeiper 0 Report post Posted August 23, 2004 The USA Basketball team currently leads Angola 25-14. In other sports, we have the Gold Medal softball game this morning, and the USA Womens' semifinal soccer match. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EVIL~! alkeiper 0 Report post Posted August 23, 2004 For those interested, Kyoko Hamaguchi, daughter of Japanese wrestler Animal Hamaguchi, lost her semifinal match yesterday to Xu Wang of China via decision. She will participate in the bronze medal match, scheduled for 8:20 Athens time, and 1:20 ET. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Agent_Bond34 0 Report post Posted August 23, 2004 USA/Angola is getting really, really..... UGLY US currently leads Angola 71-34 late in the 3rd... Just plain ugly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kurt Angle Mark 0 Report post Posted August 23, 2004 OMG!!! The USA womens softball team finally gives up a run. They lead Australia 5-1 in gold medal game Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kurt Angle Mark 0 Report post Posted August 23, 2004 Germany tied the USA womens soccer team in the 89 minute. The game is in overtime Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EVIL~! alkeiper 0 Report post Posted August 23, 2004 Kyoto Hamaguchi won the bronze medal in her division. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted August 23, 2004 Swedish soccer chicks are alright. I can't watch this though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mole 0 Report post Posted August 23, 2004 So, did the US Men win? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EVIL~! alkeiper 0 Report post Posted August 23, 2004 In which sport? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ramsdell Report post Posted August 23, 2004 nope they blew their 40 point lead in the fourth. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kurt Angle Mark 0 Report post Posted August 23, 2004 Greece beat Puerto Rico 78-58 thus USA finished fourth in their group Here are the Quarterfinal games Spain vs United States Greece vs. Argentina Lithuania vs. China Italy vs. Puerto Rico Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EVIL~! alkeiper 0 Report post Posted August 23, 2004 Damn. BAD matchup for the US team. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mole 0 Report post Posted August 23, 2004 Ohh, there goes any chances for US and a Bronze, let alone Gold. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brett Favre 0 Report post Posted August 23, 2004 If the US wins the gold, it'll be a miracle. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bored 0 Report post Posted August 23, 2004 Serbia not even getting to the medal round might be almost as big as a surprise on the U.S. losing two games. Guess not having Peja is what killed them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chaosrage 0 Report post Posted August 24, 2004 What was going on with those judges last night? Those were some fucked up scores. Gymnastic fans were about to riot. Did everybody here quit watching? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brett Favre 0 Report post Posted August 24, 2004 I was hoping they'd chant "Bullshit", but they did good enough. That Paul Hamm guy pisses me off too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chaosrage 0 Report post Posted August 25, 2004 I was hoping they'd chant "Bullshit", but they did good enough. That Paul Hamm guy pisses me off too. Why? He sounded cocky in his last interview, but it's easy to see why he'd be in a bad mood when so many people are saying he didn't deserve his gold medal after that great comeback because the judges got the starting scores wrong. And then the crowd is booing and whistling through his whole routine last night because the judges fucked up again. (I loved the crowd, but when the Russian guy told them to quiet down, they should have shut up) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Nanks Report post Posted August 25, 2004 It's all well and good to have made a great comeback, but the simple fact is that the scoring was messed up and he didn't deserve to win. You'd be fit to kill if it you had been robbed of Olympic Gold because of idiot judges fucking it up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chaosrage 0 Report post Posted August 25, 2004 He did deserve to win though. Like they said last night, if the judges went back and fixed their mistakes, they'd have to dock the Korean an additional .2 points for doing an extra hold or something that he wasn't supposed to do. Then he wouldn't even get a bronze. It's a good thing for him that they can't go back and change results after the event is over and the medals are awarded for a judging mistake. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brett Favre 0 Report post Posted August 25, 2004 He just sounded a bit arrogant, if he should give it back he should. I mean, the guy did fall in one of the events of the all-around, it's not like he did a superb job. He's overrated, and got over scored yesterday as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chaosrage 0 Report post Posted August 25, 2004 He just sounded a bit arrogant, if he should give it back he should. I mean, the guy did fall in one of the events of the all-around, it's not like he did a superb job. He's overrated, and got over scored yesterday as well. He fell but in all the other events, he was much better than the Koreans, and his last two were almost perfect. All his scores besides the vault was 9.7+. The Koreans were good, not great, and the bronze medalist even got scored higher than he should have. Of course the only reason all 3 made it was because everyone else messed up in that one event. But it was a pretty superb job to make a comeback like that. As for the scoring last night, well his high bar last night was about the same as the night he got a 9.83, he just had the hop. Other than that, it was flawless, he just shoudn't have been scored higher than the Russian. Paul was probably a little pissed that they booed during his routine and after he managed a good performance they booed again because the Russian was knocked off. It's not his fault the stupid judges scored the Russian way too low. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EVIL~! alkeiper 0 Report post Posted August 25, 2004 Olympic baseball on now. What the heck is a communist nation like Cuba doing with Adidas logos on their uniforms? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slayer 0 Report post Posted August 25, 2004 Even Communists need sponsorship money, apparently As for the gymnastics controversy, here is an article that echoes my feelings about why I dislike judged sports Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chaosrage 0 Report post Posted August 27, 2004 I can't believe the FIG sent a letter a letter to Hamm telling him he should give up his gold. Seriously, what the fuck? For one thing, they were the ones that fucked up, not him. For another, the IOC already decided that they wouldn't share the gold and Hamm was the deserving winner. It's over with. And lastly, they ignored that the Korean should have been docked an addtional .2 points. I'm glad the US refused to pass the letter on to him. Here's a good on article on why Hamm deserves the gold. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/olym....gym/index.html About subjective sports, well there's an amount of subjectivity in every sport. I actually think the biggest bullshit wasn't in any of the gymnastic screw-ups but was in the hurdles. Where a woman got knocked down by another woman in one of the other lanes because she tripped over her hurdle and fell into her. Her appeal to race again got denied. Now that was wrong. Even if they didn't want to start the race over, they should have let run on her own and timed her. How can the winner of that race say that her win was unquestionably achieved? Or what about the Japanese swimmer that won the gold medal by doing an illegal dolphin kick that no judge called? Things like that happen all the time. GG USA men's basketball team. Maybe we can win bronze... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
