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<p>I’m surprised that they got to play, with the crazy weather we’ve had today.</p>
<p>BMX racing looks odd to me, grown men on little kids’ bikes. I feel like I’m watching 7th graders. “Hurry up and give me my gold medal! I have to take out the garbage and do my Algebra homework!!”</p>
<p>Can’t say I don’t have fun watching, though. That goes for all of the sports I (and I only) think are ridiculous. They’re still fun to watch.</p>
<p>^ There was a 3 hour-ish rain delay in the middle so they switched to the women playing in Montreal. Play started again in T’onto about 20 minutes ago. They must have been rained out yesterday though, as they are still in the 3rd round.</p>
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<p>I have never really watched it until today, but I had the exact same thoughts. I’m sure it is very difficult and requires a lot of skill and artistry to do, but quite frankly, it just looks silly. My husband said the same thing about the BMX racing.</p>
<p>Oh well, a lot of people just don’t get American football, while I absolutely love it.</p>
<p>If our one US rhythmic gymnast is part of team that does the 5 people/2 apparatus (prop?) event, they should go on America’s Got Talent. They could go pretty far. Those judges seem to be unduly impressed by little girl dance companies and cheer squads, of which there are many just as talented all over the country.</p>
<p>what do people think of trampoline jumping as an olympic sport?</p>
<p>I like the trampoline jumping.</p>
<p>What I think is over rated is the rhytmic gymnastics. It should AT LEAST be called balet!</p>
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<p>It seems odd to have an entire Olympic sport be over, start to finish, in about 2 hours. </p>
<p>To me it seems like if it’s going to be in the Olympics, it should be a part of a larger sport - maybe call it Acrobatics. Trampoline could be easily combined with Power Tumbling.
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbling_(gymnastics[/url])”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbling_(gymnastics)</a>
<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8flIoIPMsM[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8flIoIPMsM</a></p>
<p>There should also be team event - 3 or 5 people do trampoline and power tumbling, then some individuals qualify for the all around.</p>
<p>The trampoline event is part of the trampoline discipline (included tumbling) which is governed by the International Gymnastics Federation.</p>
<p>I don’t think we’ll be seeing any more trampoline events added to the Olympics.</p>
<p>“Oh well, a lot of people just don’t get American football, while I absolutely love it”</p>
<p>And there you go. I HATE American football. It seems like a waste of free time. One minute of play, ten minutes of talking about it. Oh…a seven point score…who cares? Arghh! But when I watch soccer, and “know” who is playing, and someone ALMOST scores? I hardly breath.</p>
<p>shrinkrap,
I’m with you! I love soccer (the “real” football) and find American football slow and boring.The coach sending in each play? Really? And it’s a big deal if a quarterback calls his own play?</p>
<p>I found out that the women’s association football final received 4.35 million viewers (on a cable channel no less), and 1.467 million stream viewers.</p>
<p>And yes, I did use the full name of the sport.</p>
<p>As the parent of a world level competitive ice dancer training to qualify for the 2014 Olympics, I can tell you that ice dancers certainly train like athletes in a discipline that blends strength, stamina, speed, flexibility, and acrobatic lifts with the *aesthetic qualities of dance. *However, I know from experience that there are many who don’t consider a judged event to be a sport. *As for corruption in the judging, it still goes on, but less so as the old guard are retired or forced out.</p>
<p>Also, an athlete may compete for another country for a variety of personal reasons, but never because his or her country of origin thinks it’s a good idea. *In fact, quite the opposite. *In figure skating, the world governing body stipulates that an ice dancer or pairs skater who has competed internationally and changes countries must sit out from competition for an entire year, while singles skaters must sit out for two. *Individual countries may have even stricter rules and are allowed to hold a skater for up to four years–or long enough to end a career. *(Our daughter competes for her ice dance partner’s country, but switched before she had competed internationally, and was never required to sit out.)</p>
<p>Lady Lorna…</p>
<p>Good luck to your daughter. I will watch Ice Dancing at the next Olympics.</p>
<p>Thanks for the inside scoop, Lady Lorna. I thoroughly enjoy watching ice dancing. :)</p>
<p>Weren’t Torville & Dean ice dancers? They were the absolute best. I could watch their routines a hundred times over. </p>
<p>Lady Lorna, good luck to you and your daughter!</p>
<p>So what’s with all the yellow shoes?</p>
<p>Looks to be part of Nike’s uniform deal.</p>
<p>I live in Nike Central (where Phil Knight ran track, where he invented the Nike brand, where the U of O Ducks have the most lauded and most scorned uniforms in the country…) and it’s all a Nike thing. During the Trials, which Nike sponsored, they had a huge pop-up store filled with those yellow shoes and other various things that people spent amazing amounts of money on. It was crazy!</p>
<p>Question: if the women’s relay team qualified with one team and won with different people, who gets the medals? The four who ran the final? Or the six who were involved in getting them there and then winning the final?</p>