Summer Olympics 2012 LD

[MrLamper]

Would have been a better result if Laura could keep her cool in games.

Yeah, she should learn from Murray. He's been a lot more calm recently then he has been before. Played a fantastic match today, Federer just couldn't get into it at all; I think that can partly be attributed to the crowd.

 

[Remix]

Would have been a better result if Laura could keep her cool in games.

And not fuck up her serves so often. But that's the kind of thing that only comes with experience, something she really lacks.

 

[a0161613]

No. Not by a long shot.

It is a big moment for British tennis and for Murray himself in terms of a potential lift off point for the rest of his career, but Olympic gold is nothing compared to winning Wimbledon.

Agree with this. It's great and shows that it should be a matter of time before he does win it.

One other thing about Wimbledon: I remember hearing something about if an Englishman wins Wimbledon he gets knighted. Is that true or did I imagine hearing that?

I've never heard it. Who's the youngest person to be knighted. Hoy has to be close.

BBC Olympic coverage SO good.Lots of events, great commentary

It's flawed, especially outside of BBC One and BBC HD.

 

[Барбоса]

Who's the youngest person to be knighted. Hoy has to be close.

Hoy was 32 when he was knighted. Ellen MacArthur became a Dame at 28.

There was likely some young men knighted at an early age centuries ago.

 

[Harthan]

Because you can't expect a Winter Olympics venue, which is usually half way up a mountain, to be able to build or sustain a baseball arena.

Baseball got taken out because not enough countries play it. In 5 Olympic games, there were only 6 medallists, and 16 competitors. Of those 16, 3 were host nations who finished dead last.

For the most part, baseball got taken out because there were no superstars. Get the MLB players in there and we have a decent story. Most every North, Central, and South American country in addition to Japan and both Koreas would be fielding respectable teams.

The issue with that is, only a handfull of countries actually play baseball. It's not really a global sport.

How many countries "actually" play basketball? I see the US kicking everyone's ass resoundingly. But it's still there.

 

[Megatron]

Don't worry Harthan, the World Baseball Classic has pretty much taken over the Olympics place in hosting national baseball tournaments. I couldn't see MLB teams stopping play for two weeks midseason to allow others to play in the Olympics anyways. At least the WBC is before the season starts

 

[Lee]

Baseball's far too long a game to be an olympic sport.

 

[Megatron]

It's not dependent on time...

 

[Stormtrooper]

Baseball's far too long a game to be an olympic sport.

but RACEWALKING is fine? It's longer. As is a marathon. As is cycling.

And all those is just people walking/running.

 

[a0161613]

What a run by Bolt.

 

[Барбоса]

Baseball has something of a problem with getting back into the Olympics depending on whether it is considered the same 'sport' as softball as every sport that now enters the Olympics has to be played by both men and women.

It also requires far too many players for the likes of MLB to allow their players to go to it. You could argue that not enough nations play it, but not that many nations play rubgy and Rugby Sevens will be appearing in Rio 2016.

However, baseball has one real drawback - it's shite.

 

[Megatron]

The timing of it would be bad. Having it run during the season just isn't going to happen. Which is why the WBC is more ideal since it's during spring training which allows the better hitters to play. If it was put back into the Olympics it'd have to feature primarily college players (or have an age limit).

 

[Lee]

but RACEWALKING is fine? It's longer. As is a marathon. As is cycling.

And all those is just people walking/running.

Yes and those long marathons thats the only round to do. With baseball you can't have a knock out tournament of 3 hour games.

 

[Megatron]

You could always shorten the games to 7 innings and have some pre-qualifying games.

 

[Lee]

No one outside of the American continent or Japan gives a fuck about Baseball. Just accept it.

 

[Gelgarin]

Olympic cricket would make more sense, and that is in no way an endorsement of bringing back Olympic cricket.

 

[Megatron]

No one outside of the American continent or Japan gives a fuck about Baseball. Just accept it.

Yes that's why many European nations (Great Britain, France, Germany, Czech Republic, and Spain) are trying to qualify for the upcoming WBC. Plus South Korea and China, along with Australia. There's certainly an interest in the sport.

 

[Lee]

Yes that's why many European nations (Great Britain, France, Germany, Czech Republic, and Spain) are trying to qualify for the upcoming WBC. Plus South Korea and China, along with Australia. There's certainly an interest in the sport.

There isn't though, not at all. Heck even Baseball attendance in the US is down.

Also the woman who fell over in the hurdles was called Vania Stambolova

 

[Gelgarin]

There is literally more interest in high school girls rounders than baseball in the UK.

 

[Megatron]

There isn't though, not at all. Heck even Baseball attendance in the US is down.

No it isn't.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/press_relea...nt_id=25386600&vkey=pr_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

 

[MrLamper]

There isn't though, not at all. Heck even Baseball attendance in the US is down.

Also the woman who fell over in the hurdles was called Vania Stambolova

Hah... Classic! She was definitely pre-determined to fall, then...

 

[hatehabsforever]

Considering some of the asinine sports that manage to remain as Olympic sports, I can't see why baseball couldn't find it's way back into the fold.

 

[Lee]

Considering some of the asinine sports that manage to remain as Olympic sports, I can't see why baseball couldn't find it's way back into the fold.

Because in the asinine sports it's more than "USA and Japan" who win stuff.

 

[Gelgarin]

It takes a unpredictably long time, requires infrastructure that most people don't have, isn't widely played (In five Olympics only six countries made it onto the medal table), is even less widely watched, isn't in compliance with WADA and, as Barbosa expositied earlier, is shite.

 

[Megatron]

If you're just going to keep sports like baseball out because of it's dominance by Asian/American countries why bother with basketball when the US teams have lost, what, 3 times in Olympic history (with 1 of those losses being a total sham and the other 2 coming in the same Olympics)?

EDIT: Like I said, you could shorten the games up. Basketball has 8 minutes cut out of it, I wouldn't see a problem with 2 innings cut out of it. And teams could always play every day or have a doubleheader to speed the process up.

I don't want baseball in the Olympics since it would put a delay on the MLB season for two weeks, but these complaints could be fixable or just a matter of opinion (like me thinking something like archery being shit).