2012 Olympics: Who are you following?

Griff · 02-20-2012, 08:43 AM

I'm watching for Troy Nickerson who wrestled for my SiL's brother in high school. He was an awesome high school wrestler, but injuries cost him at Cornell. He has a great shot of making team USA in April.

I will also be following USA fencing pretty close. Mariel Zagunis will be getting a lot of face time as a returning champion in sabre. This will be interesting because she's always been successful being the underdog. Now we'll see how she handles top billing. Seth Kelsey fences my weapon, epee. I really don't like his style very much. It is ugly and effective.

Lamplighter · 07-02-2012, 10:26 PM

Is anyone any better than this on the still rings ?

John Orozco in the 2012 Olympic trials yesterday

and here he is on the floor exercise

Griff · 07-03-2012, 07:10 AM

Wow! He is rock solid.

ZenGum · 07-03-2012, 07:59 AM

I've forgotten his name already, but some young whippersnapper just beat Usain Bolt in the 100 metre sprint in Jamaica. IIRC Bolt ran 9.83 and the challenger 9.75.

The gauntlet has been thrown down!

Griff · 07-03-2012, 08:02 AM

Yohan Blake ... and he beat him in the 200 yesterday. Bolt may be done.

ZenGum · 07-03-2012, 08:20 AM

You sayin' he's shot his bolt?

Or just biding his time, to peak at the right moment?

Griff · 07-03-2012, 08:35 AM

Maybe but Bolt was always a little slow out of the blocks relying on running down the smaller guys. Blake doesn't look like someone who gives up a lead. It will be damn interesting to watch. The US sprinters will have a nice view of the action in front of them.

monster · 07-03-2012, 08:57 AM

The swimmers. It's kind of weird knowing some of the people at the trials.

Rhianne · 07-04-2012, 02:48 PM

Cav

xoxoxoBruce · 07-04-2012, 11:11 PM

Holley Mangold, 323-Pound Female Weightlifter.

Cyber Wolf · 07-05-2012, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Of course, that will happen when you're a 323-pound woman in perfect physical shape...

Maybe the definition of 'perfect physical shape' are slightly different for Olympic weightlifting contenders, but unless that's a collar of incredibly well-built trapezius muscles around behind her head or maybe a trick of the camera/unfortunate pose, all that can be said about that girl's shape is that it's definitely physical... hardly perfect.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-06-2012, 06:32 PM

That would depend of your personal standard of perfect.

Cyber Wolf · 07-09-2012, 12:47 PM

Exactly. Whose 'perfect' are they using here? Olympic weightlifting contender perfect, which she apparently is? She's not my perfect. Heck, I'm not even my perfect

ZenGum · 07-10-2012, 06:35 AM

The best thing about the Olympics so far is this - a life size Stonehenge bouncy castle.

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Britain, I salute you.

Lamplighter · 07-13-2012, 09:18 AM

Just in case you are following Romney's wife's horse

02-20-2012, 08:43 AM	#1
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	2012 Olympics: Who are you following? I'm watching for Troy Nickerson who wrestled for my SiL's brother in high school. He was an awesome high school wrestler, but injuries cost him at Cornell. He has a great shot of making team USA in April. I will also be following USA fencing pretty close. Mariel Zagunis will be getting a lot of face time as a returning champion in sabre. This will be interesting because she's always been successful being the underdog. Now we'll see how she handles top billing. Seth Kelsey fences my weapon, epee. I really don't like his style very much. It is ugly and effective. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-02-2012, 10:26 PM	#2
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Is anyone any better than this on the still rings ? John Orozco in the 2012 Olympic trials yesterday and here he is on the floor exercise Last edited by Lamplighter; 07-02-2012 at 10:32 PM.

07-03-2012, 07:10 AM	#3
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Wow! He is rock solid. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-03-2012, 07:59 AM	#4
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	I've forgotten his name already, but some young whippersnapper just beat Usain Bolt in the 100 metre sprint in Jamaica. IIRC Bolt ran 9.83 and the challenger 9.75. The gauntlet has been thrown down! __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

07-03-2012, 08:02 AM	#5
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Yohan Blake ... and he beat him in the 200 yesterday. Bolt may be done. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-03-2012, 08:20 AM	#6
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	You sayin' he's shot his bolt? Or just biding his time, to peak at the right moment? __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

07-03-2012, 08:35 AM	#7
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Maybe but Bolt was always a little slow out of the blocks relying on running down the smaller guys. Blake doesn't look like someone who gives up a lead. It will be damn interesting to watch. The US sprinters will have a nice view of the action in front of them. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-03-2012, 08:57 AM	#8
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	The swimmers. It's kind of weird knowing some of the people at the trials. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

07-04-2012, 02:48 PM	#9
Rhianne Nearly done. Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Teetering on the edge. Posts: 1,134	Cav

07-04-2012, 11:11 PM	#10
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	The Big Girl Holley Mangold, 323-Pound Female Weightlifter. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-06-2012, 06:32 PM	#12
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	That would depend of your personal standard of perfect. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

07-09-2012, 12:47 PM	#13
Cyber Wolf As stable as a ring of PU-239 Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: On a huge rock covered in water, highly advanced moss and 7 billion parasites Posts: 1,264	Exactly. Whose 'perfect' are they using here? Olympic weightlifting contender perfect, which she apparently is? She's not my perfect. Heck, I'm not even my perfect __________________ "I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then getting' upset 'cos they act like people." ~Adam Young, Good Omens "I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out." ~Adam Young, Good Omens

07-10-2012, 06:35 AM	#14
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	The best thing about the Olympics so far is this - a life size Stonehenge bouncy castle. Britain, I salute you. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

07-13-2012, 09:18 AM	#15
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Just in case you are following Romney's wife's horse

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