Some I-Definitely-Prefer-Team-Sports Things
Posted by Erica August 22nd, 2004 • Uncategorized • Permalink
- The IOC says no blogging for Olympic athletes. Lame. (via Funkalicious)
- USA Softball is playing for the gold medal against Australia tomorrow. To get there, they shut out Australia for the second time in today’s semifinal. Yeah, the gold medal game will be the third meeting with Australia in this tournament. And I’m actually gonna go to bed now (okay, soon) so I can get up early to watch the game.
- Svetlana Khorkina says, “I was robbed!” And then she fell off the bars in the individual medal competition. I didn’t know she had a move named after herself that both the Americans included in their routines. (via AOGB)
- Women’s basketball kicked China’s ass and will play Greece in their quarterfinal on Wednesday. Diana Taurasi finally found her shot and had a team high 19 points.
BrutusKatie Smith played a minute, re-sprained her knee, and spent the rest of the game either on the bench or in a wheelchair. At this point I’d rather see her just rest, get her token minutes in the gold medal game, and be healthy for the Lynx when WNBA play resumes. - I love how in volleyball the whole team hugs/slaps hands/whatever after every play, even if they lose the point. Team USA beat Cuba (who has won the last two gold medals) 3-0 to stay alive and knock Germany out of the quarterfinal. This is the team’s most inspired performance so far. They totally had it together. Logan Tom and Heather Bown, in particular, had spectacular games. And let’s keep that camera shot from behind the server when Logan Tom bends over to bounce the ball before every serve.
- A Norweigan beach volleyball team were reprimanded by the IOC for advertising a product during their matches. The product? Contraceptive patches. Team Norway insists the patches are a “personal item.” (via AOGB)
- Now Buzz gets it. The Olympics are all about the love.
- How come we only got 15 minutes of Misty May and Kerri Walsh’s quarterfinal win over Canada? You suck, NBC. We sure as hell better get the entirety of their semifinal against the other Team USA, Elaine Youngs and Holly McPeak (who have lost to May/Walsh something like 11 times).
- When that Greek guy won the gold medal on the rings, it was neat to hear the whole arena singing along with the national anthem. Alsok I will never ever refer to gymnastics as “gymno.”
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August 23rd, 2004 at 11:27 am
I had a feeling you’d be all over the volleyball thing. I was watching a snippet last night and thought, “I bet Erica really likes this particular event.” No reason. *grin*
August 23rd, 2004 at 2:38 pm
Thanks for the linkage. :-)
August 29th, 2004 at 6:18 pm
khorikina was robbed on one apparatus. her score was entirely too low. she has 2 or 3 moves named after her. isn’t that fucked? she falls and people who used her moves didn’t.