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Albanian weightlifter, Hysen Pulaku, becomes first athlete ejected for failed drug test.
Why is it life or death?
China is not North Korea.
Albanian weightlifter, Hysen Pulaku, becomes first athlete ejected for failed drug test.
China pulls kids out of homes at very early ages if they have certain physical characteristics and they end up in sports camps full-time until they either succeed or wash out. Maybe not life or death but pretty serious .Why is it life or death?
China is not North Korea.
GB wins the silver in gymnastics.
Japan is pissed and immediately protests and applies for an inquiry.
Strange that he had money in his hand but they said that it is part of the process. lol
It worked. Japan wins silver and GB gets the Bronze.
Gymnastics is a ing joke. I know the cash fee is part of the process, but that just looks terrible.
Major choke job for USA men's gymnastics team. I can not believe how bad they were. Kudos to Great Britain.
Ironic that Lochte came in fourth.
The women are heavy favorites to win the team gold...nice to see Missy Franklin win a gold only mere minutes after racing another race.
Tony Estanguet with a third olympic gold medal in slalom after 2000, 2004 and 2012
Congrats!Tony Estanguet with a third olympic gold medal in slalom after 2000, 2004 and 2012
Urska Zolnir (SLO) Wins gold in Judo W63kg class. After bronze in Athens this is very deserved.
Heard an interesting comment today about how she didn't make any mistakes, the other two Americans were simply better. The rule is harsh but hardly unfair. Let's see how she does today, since she is competing only for the team and her country, not for herself. If she goes all out and does good that will be a true test of her character.
And if she does will the US reward her for it? Or will the individual medal holders reap all the glory (as they so often do)?
On a related note, I love watching Gabrielle Douglas. She's still a bit too "youthfull" (for lack of a better description) and not as polished as some of the other compe ors (Chinese, Romanian), but she's just fun to watch. She definitely looks as though gravity has a hard time keeping its hold on her
actually I'd love to have (nearly) all events ko-tournament style...some of the events like fighting stuff, table tennis and tennis use it anyway, but how about using it in basketball and other sports too? (in that case there could be more nations in it, which some people might not like, but which should be a good thing)
that way an olympic winner had to go win at all times.
only problem would be stuff like swimming and track and field.
IOC tries to keep the number of participants as low as possible (less expenses). That's why most sports feel more like exhibitions done by top athletes/teams than actual tournaments.
Women's gymnastics team was AWESOME today! They crushed the compe ion.
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That was a dominant performance by the U.S. Women Gymnastics...wow...it was like the dream team dominance so to speak.
true...but in gymnastics you can skrew it up easier, so it was more fun to watch (since I'm from germany, I'm not rooting for the US all the time, but I liked those girls a lot).
Fencing controversy forces Korean to sit on piste for ages, eventually costs her medal
By Cameron Smith | Fourth-Place Medal – Mon, 30 Jul, 2012 3:12 PM EDT
South Korean fencer Shin A Lam waits out the Korean protest of her loss — AFP
The Olympic fencing tournament was thrown into an incredibly emotional, dramatic and elongated controversy when a semifinal bout of the women's individual epee compe ion was won on a final touch with 1 second remaining and the losing fencer launched an appeal of the decision which eventually cost her a place on the podium.
Yet it was the appeal of the decision itself which led to incredibly acrimony and one of the lengthiest delays in recent Olympic memory. Here's how everything unfolded:
[ Photos: Fencing controversy causes long, unusual delay ]With time running out in one of the two semifinal matches for the women's individual epee compe ion, South Korea's Shin A Lam led Germany's Britta Heidermann by a single point. Officially, Heidermann had just one second to launch an attack and score a touch, which would advance her on to the gold medal match to face the Ukraine's Yana Shemyakina, a lack of time which all but ensured that Shin would advance.
Instead, the timing mechanism on the piste became stuck, giving Heidermann extra time to complete her attack and win the bout, which earned her the spot in the gold medal bout. Officials, unsure what to do without a true, official protocol to follow, eventually decided to award the victory to Heidermann.
South Korean fencer Shin A Lam during her country's protest — AP
As one might expect, Shin and her coaches were enraged with the decision, and launched an immediate appeal. Yet the appeal itself proved to be incredibly lengthy and also contained a unique bylaw that required Shin to remain on the piste throughout its duration. Unable to leave the playing surface, Shin bawled uncontrollably for the first 10-15 minutes, often shading her head in a towel while occasionally looking out to the crowd before rubbing her eyes again.
At long last, after more than 30 minutes of a delay that included the Korean federation having to expedite a payment for the use in the official appeal, Shin's attempt to overturn the result failed. That brought a crushing end to a ridiculously long period marked by piquant discussion between Olympic and Korean officials and occasional announcements trying to explain what was going on to the spectators in the crowd.
Clearly, Shin should have had a chance for the gold medal; if the timing mechanism didn't get stuck, the clock would have run out and she would have advanced. Yet denying Heidermann a shot without some kind of a playoff-style bout might have been equally cruel.
Either way, the fencing tournament somehow ended up with an unfortunate and completely unforeseen loser which will lead to plenty of gripes and arguments going forward from multiple national federations, to be sure.
Just to rub salt in the wound, Shin was forced to come back out and fence for the bronze medal almost immediately. In that bout, after jumping out to an early lead, the Korean fell to China's Sun Yujie, who claimed the bronze by a score of 15-11.
[ Related: Americans risk DQ over IOC social media ban ]There was little consolation for that result for Shin, particularly after she quite rightfully should have been fencing for a gold medal, a position which would have guaranteed her at least a silver. Still, throughout her bout — just as during the delay — the Korean was applauded and cheered by fans, and she earned a rapturous applause as she went and was consoled by her coach after the bronze medal defeat.
Somehow, that might not go far enough to making the Korean federation feel better about being royally worked over en route to missing out on a medal.
thats what I was talking bout.
but don't blame the player...blame the game!
She will get a chance on the finals of the floor exercise. I hope she does great that day!
It has to be hard on Aly, as well. She wants to celebrate getting to the all-around finals, but her best friend and Olympic roommate is crushed and was eliminated from doing so herself in the process.
You also have put a little blame on the US. If they wanted to make sure of who would get to the all-around, then they could have chosen to have only 2 girls do all 4 events in the qualifying round. That is what the men did with their 6 events. Only the top 2 men did all 6.
Personally I feel worse for the Korean fencer.
This is not the first issue with the timing mechanism.
That happened on the women swimming too. The horn went off before the "take your mark" announcement.
London fails.
The fencing controversy was flat out mesmerizing.
As for the gymnastics rule of only two compete for the all-around...rules are rules, but it doesn't make any sense to allow 20 other people who finished below her to compete for a medal over the current world champion who ended 4th of 24 (and clearly would have had a very good chance of winning a medal).
Wow. That fencing story enraged me.
USA women win gold in gymnastics.
Russia
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