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Post by DanMcQ on Jun 17, 2016 19:25:36 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Jun 17, 2016 19:31:56 GMT -5
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Post by tashoya on Jun 19, 2016 23:47:09 GMT -5
If anyone can speak intelligently and realistically about mosquito borne viruses/diseases, it's Dikembe. I hope he brings the attention to zika that he has brought to malaria.
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 14, 2016 6:53:59 GMT -5
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Post by tashoya on Aug 14, 2016 9:38:58 GMT -5
Her greatness in goal aside, Ms. Solo really says some stupid stuff. She should have been, at the least, smart enough to realize that her unfiltered opinions are not the most well considered and that, perhaps, someone else should speak for the team. One doesn't have to like the strategy of the opposing team to tip one's cap to them for beating you. It's not like the game was dirty. Solo just didn't like the opponents' style of play because it limited what the US was able to do and, fwiw, they knew it was coming. It's not remotely fun to watch but it is effective. She really did come off like a crybaby. I really wish she had just kept her pie hole shut but, it appears, she has a lot of trouble doing that.
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Post by Elvado on Aug 14, 2016 10:33:01 GMT -5
When you play on the best soccer team in the world, you should be prepared for and able to handle an opponent playing "negative football" without whining about it.
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Post by SaxaCD on Aug 14, 2016 21:37:53 GMT -5
When you play on the best soccer team in the world, you should be prepared for and able to handle an opponent playing "negative football" without whining about it. I even think she's well within her rights to criticize the style as negative for the game etc, as long as she had acknowledged that being the best means being prepared for everything. If she had said something like "We knew they were going to play that horrible, insomnia-curing style of theirs, so I'm really disappointed that the defense and I let that one goal slip by, I had to be better in a game like this", then no problem. But she didn't do that and came off like the whiny trash talker who mutters all the way back to the locker room after losing.
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 18, 2016 7:34:52 GMT -5
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Post by EasyEd on Aug 18, 2016 18:47:25 GMT -5
"We were taking fire when our helo landed in Rio".
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Post by hoyarooter on Aug 18, 2016 20:18:00 GMT -5
When you play on the best soccer team in the world, you should be prepared for and able to handle an opponent playing "negative football" without whining about it. I even think she's well within her rights to criticize the style as negative for the game etc, as long as she had acknowledged that being the best means being prepared for everything. If she had said something like "We knew they were going to play that horrible, insomnia-curing style of theirs, so I'm really disappointed that the defense and I let that one goal slip by, I had to be better in a game like this", then no problem. But she didn't do that and came off like the whiny trash talker who mutters all the way back to the locker room after losing. If Hope had played better against Colombia (at least I think it was Colombia - I follow soccer only in passing), wouldn't the Sweden match have been a total non-event?
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Post by njhoya78 on Aug 18, 2016 20:48:57 GMT -5
I even think she's well within her rights to criticize the style as negative for the game etc, as long as she had acknowledged that being the best means being prepared for everything. If she had said something like "We knew they were going to play that horrible, insomnia-curing style of theirs, so I'm really disappointed that the defense and I let that one goal slip by, I had to be better in a game like this", then no problem. But she didn't do that and came off like the whiny trash talker who mutters all the way back to the locker room after losing. If Hope had played better against Colombia (at least I think it was Colombia - I follow soccer only in passing), wouldn't the Sweden match have been a total non-event? Bingo. And I've seen little comment in that regard. If we don't draw with Colombia, we don't match up with Sweden in the Round of 16. Of course, thanks to Ryan Lochte, nobody is even talking about Hope Solo anymore.
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Post by Filo on Aug 19, 2016 6:51:44 GMT -5
Of course, thanks to Ryan Lochte, nobody is even talking about Hope Solo anymore. That dude is 32 years old. Un-freakin-believable.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Aug 19, 2016 11:22:16 GMT -5
Simone!!! Nuff said!
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Post by tashoya on Aug 20, 2016 9:30:39 GMT -5
I know nothing about gymnastics but I do know I've never seen anyone like her. Watching her felt a bit like watching Usain Bolt. You expect both of them to win and win big every time out against the top competition in the world. Unreal.
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Post by SirSaxa on Aug 20, 2016 10:45:11 GMT -5
And fittingly, she will carry the Stars & Stripes for the closing ceremony. An honor well-earned. ExcerptsThe world’s greatest female gymnast, Simone Biles, will lead Team USA during the Closing Ceremonies as the flag-bearer after being chosen by fellow American teammates, the U.S. Olympic Committee announced Saturday morning.
Biles, 19, entrenched herself as one of the best ever in the sport and potentially the greatest American gymnast of all time after winning four gold medals and one bronze at the Rio Olympics.
“It’s an incredible honor to be selected as the flag bearer by my Team USA teammates,” Biles said in a statement. “This experience has been the dream of a lifetime for me and my team and I consider it a privilege to represent my country, the United States Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics by carrying our flag. I also wish to thank the city of Rio de Janeiro, and the entire country of Brazil, for hosting an incredible Games.”
“I’m in awe watching her, and I’ve trained with her for so long,” teammate Aly Raisman said of Biles after winning silver in the floor exercise.Linkwww.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/08/20/simone-biles-selected-as-team-usas-closing-ceremonies-flag-bearer/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-low_el-biles-1128am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 20, 2016 16:48:02 GMT -5
Choice.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Aug 20, 2016 18:18:19 GMT -5
Sally Jenkins absolutely destroys Lochte. It seems whenever people screw up like this, I really feel sorry for them. Wish he wouldn't have done it, and didn't have to endure this trainwreck that everybody's watching, even if he deserves the criticism. Oh well, guess I'm getting soft as I age.
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Post by tashoya on Aug 20, 2016 21:22:27 GMT -5
Sally Jenkins absolutely destroys Lochte. It seems whenever people screw up like this, I really feel sorry for them. Wish he wouldn't have done it, and didn't have to endure this trainwreck that everybody's watching, even if he deserves the criticism. Oh well, guess I'm getting soft as I age. I'd probably be more in line with how you're feeling if Lochte was an Olympic rookie and 18 years old. He's neither and it's not close. He's been an ass in the past as well. Great in the pool. Not so much outside of it. The guy embarrassed his teammates and his country.
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 21, 2016 13:27:47 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 24, 2016 20:54:16 GMT -5
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