OT: Non-Hockey Sports Thread XII - Heeeeeeressss JJ! (Percy Harvin Edition)

[Hall of Faber]

I’m a big beach volleyball fan. Really enjoy the 2 athlete teams and its simplicity and competitiveness.

 

[TaLoN]

Suni Lee is about to be the first woman to podium in the individual all around since Nadia Comăneci in consecutive Olympics

Gold in Tokyo, likely Bronze today, but already guaranteed bronze as a minimum.

Minnesota's own

 

[TaLoN]

Biles wins gold, Lee wins bronze!

 

[TaLoN]

Rebecca Andrade of Brazil gets silver

 

[Sweetnut]

We have track and field on the menu today.
Who's your favorite tracker? Fielder?
Looking forward to all the jumps.

Any Minnesotans on Team US?

 

[TaLoN]

We have track and field on the menu today.
Who's your favorite tracker? Fielder?
Looking forward to all the jumps.

Any Minnesotans on Team US?

Meet the Minnesotans who are headed to the Paris Olympics

Swimmer Regan Smith of Lakeville, gymnast Suni Lee of St. Paul, and a pair of pro basketball stars lead the contingent of athletes with Minnesota ties representing Team USA at the Summer Games.

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Sarah Bacon, Gophers, diving (3-meter springboard, 3-meter synchronized)
Napheesa Collier, Lynx, women’s basketball
Lara Dallman-Weiss, Shoreview, sailing (mixed dinghy-470)
Anthony Edwards, Timberwolves, men’s basketball
Suni Lee, St. Paul, women’s artistic gymnastics
Dakotah Lindwurm, St. Francis, track and field (women’s marathon)
Payton Otterdahl, Rosemount, track and field (men’s shot put)
Cheryl Reeve, Lynx, women’s basketball (head coach)
Regan Smith, Lakeville, swimming (100 backstroke, 200 backstroke, 200 butterfly)
Jordan Thompson, Edina, volleyball
Alise Willoughby, St. Cloud, BMX cycling
Matthew Wilkinson, Minnetonka/Carleton/Gophers, track and field (3,000-meter steeplechase)

 

[Sweetnut]

The beach volleyball arena is something else.
What a cool location.

 

[TaLoN]

Hughes and Cheng sweep their pool!

 

[Sweetnut]

Cheng is so impressive. What a player.
But I like the other US team, a really tall and a small player.
Is it possible to have a final with the two US teams?
Hoping team Sweden wins the men's gold.

 

[TaLoN]

Cheng is so impressive. What a player.
But I like the other US team, a really tall and a small player.
Is it possible to have a final with the two US teams?
Hoping team Sweden wins the men's gold.

Both US teams are good, but Hughes and Cheng are the #1 ranked pair in the world for a reason

 

[Digitalbooya]

Starter day 1?

 

[TaLoN]

Starter day 1?

No chance. This is likely because he starting in preseason

 

[Digitalbooya]

No chance. This is likely because he starting in preseason

I'll have to tune in for the preseason games then

I do think it will take a little bit to get used to the system. Might even be a year+. Using Jordan Love as an example, he had 3 years learning the system from the bench and it still took about a half of a season for the training wheels to come off.

 

[Digitalbooya]

Love dropping in some nice passes during Family Night. I can’t wait for this year to start.

 

[TaLoN]

Noah Lyles is the fastest man in the world by a 5000th of a second

 

[TaLoN]

Hughes and Cheng advance to the quarter finals

 

[Wabit]

I just can't get into the Olympics this year. I like seeing the articles and videos, but I can't sit and watch them live.

 

[kfan22]

No chance. This is likely because he starting in preseason

No chance huh?? lol

 

[MuckOG]

I just can't get into the Olympics this year. I like seeing the articles and videos, but I can't sit and watch them live.

I've always been a bigger fan of the winter games than the summer games.

 

[Wabit]

I've always been a bigger fan of the winter games than the summer games.

I'm more a fan of the winter games now, but growing up it was the summer games.

The summer games have the more iconic moments and memories. Carl Lewis is who I think of when I think of the Olympics. He was just so amazing at everything.

 

[Wabit]

Noah Lyles is the fastest man in the world by a 5000th of a second

Looking at the replays and photos of the finish I couldn't tell you who won that race.

 

[TaLoN]

Looking at the replays and photos of the finish I couldn't tell you who won that race.

First torso to cross the line.

Here's the official photo that made the determination

 

[Wabit]

Are you planning to watch the Olympics? Who's your biggest favorite to win a gold?
My vote would be Duplantis, the Swedish/American pole vaulter, who's competing for Sweden.

Duplantis is the Sergey Bubka (watched film on him when I was doing it in high school) of this generation for pole vaulting.

I've been watching some youtube vids on Duplantis' vaults, What he does is just amazing.

 

[57special]

First torso to cross the line.

Here's the official photo that made the determination

It's weird to me that they go by the torso, rather than the first body part. The foot often precedes the rest of the body.

I have found myself getting moved by the Ukrainian team's showings, and behavior. The way they put things in perspective by saying that those staying at home and giving up their lives for them are the heroes, not them, is refreshingly sane in a world that seems to want to deify and commercialize athletes.

 

[TaLoN]

It's weird to me that they go by the torso, rather than the first body part. The foot often precedes the rest of the body.

I have found myself getting moved by the Ukrainian team's showings, and behavior. The way they put things in perspective by saying that those staying at home and giving up their lives for them are the heroes, not them, is refreshingly sane in a world that seems to want to deify and commercialize athletes.

The reason for the torso is to even the playing field. Otherwise long limbed racers would have an extreme advantage

Originally the way to identify the torso was by a strip across the finish, whoever broke it, was the winner