Posted on 12/04/2017 2:32:55 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
>>But I was for the U.S. “Magnificent 7” Gymnastics team winning Gold in Atlanta...after Kerri Strug stuck her landing with a broken ankle. That was awesome :)!
Among other special moments!<<
Except for the fact there should NEVER have been a 10 awarded ever. And once one was awarded t was the only “good” mark meaning they are unable to differentiate or distinguish. Which was the original “point” to the point system.
Which is when gymnastics ceased being a sport and joined “rhythmic gymnastic” as pure spectacle. A chance to see prepubescent girls all but naked.
To the Soviet hockey team’s credit...this is an incredible documentary on their story from Lake Placid 1984. Trailer here. Called “Red Army” - you may have already seen it. It won several awards. Slava Fetisov is hilarious, but the story is full of sadness and drama. To be expected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLiakZO8FzU
To the Soviet hockey team’s credit...this is an incredible documentary on their story from Lake Placid 1984. Trailer here. Called “Red Army” - you may have already seen it. It won several awards. Slava Fetisov is hilarious, but the story is full of sadness and drama. To be expected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLiakZO8FzU
1980*
Thank you. I’ll check it out.
YouTube is an amazing thing.
If they exclude Russia, it will be official that the Olympics are just another tool and plaything for the world’s globalist, progressive elites.
You mean the globalist elites the Russian oligarchs finance?
Perhaps the right way was the way that the Tour de France took when it stripped Lance Armstrong of his 7 victories. The record for each of those 7 years has NO WINNER as almost everyone of his rivals and the 2nd & 3rd place platform sharers were just as guilty of doping as he was.
Thank you for that. Short and arresting...
Any Country in question should have ALL of its athletes given “drug tests” before they are allowed to participate.
Point about NFL players disrespecting the National Anthem.
Imagine an Olympic contest won by a country that most Americans find reprehensible, say North Korea, and suppose the U.S. finishes 2nd or 3rd so that the U.S. team is on the podium during the ceremony. Imagine that during the playing of the North Korean national anthem that all the white players on the U.S. team walked off the podium.
The media would go ballistic saying this is extremely impolite and disrespectful, and for once, they’d be right.
Did a Russian touch you in a way that made you feel icky?
No NHL players are going anyway. This does effect KHL players.
I agree. That means that their medal ceremonies are worthless.
Have not seen Red Army but I did see the ESPN 30 in 30 “Of Ice and Men” about the 1980 Soviet team that lost at Lake Placid. Fetisov was interesting but so were Mikhailov and Petrov, who with Kharlamov were the best line in hockey. Mikhailov was an unreconstructed Soviet Russian. When asked if he’d ever watched “Miracle” his response was “Why? I want to watch the movie where we win.” I think he or Petrov just recently passed away.
That 1980 team was one of the best hockey teams ever assembled. And of the many crimes against humanity committed by the USSR, one of them was its refusal to grant those guys the freedom to play in North America.
Credit to Fetisov for insisting on leaving the way he did. “I have to do this so that others can follow.” They have, and the NHL is a much better product for it.
Rhythmic Gymnastics became an Olympic sport due to a deal we cut with the Soviets. They wanted a trash sport to pad their medal count, so we agreed to allow it if we could get a trash sport to pad ours. And so Synchronized Swimming became an Olympic sport too.
Years ago when I was between marriages I used to go to a local municipal golf course and play as a single. One Saturday afternoon, I got paired with a nice young man and his father-in-law. We were all decent players and got to chatting during a typical backup at the first par three hole and were discussing Olympic sports since it was not long until the Summer games I forget where. Anyway, I was mocking the newish event called Synchronized Swimming and the young man blushed. He told me that his mother was the head of the team and instrumental in lobbying for it’s inclusion. I told him I was sorry but I really wasn’t. The father-in-law winked at me behind the young man’s back and I figured he thought it was a crock of shit, too.
What a backfire for going after Roy Moore.
I wonder what North Korea has planned for the Olympics?
Nowadays though he is reversing course and trying to keep Russia’s best players inside, and to up the level of the domestic leagues. Understandable.
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