Does anyone play fencing around here? Clock issue, and they dont change their ruling? how is that even possible..Really pissed at this shiiit. I remember crying my ass of when i was 15 after losing a final in a badminton match back home...all that hardword watsted..
overall it seemes like a very gentleman like sport where they don't get mad about seconds. if there is to much passiveness, they just skip the last minutes of a period and so on...I guess nobody usually has a problem with stuff like that. but when it all of a sudden is about an olympic medal things change.
did anyone see the badminton match between south korea and china?...both teams tried to lose!!! what a disgrace!
^ Dont know about Korea history of cheating but I know for sure China has had a long one.
The reality is that, tanking is a common practise in sport. Pussy call..Instead of disqualification, let it go and change the damn system. Unfair decision..everyone just wants to win medals..their is absolutely nothing illegal in trying to lose game to get a better match-up..You basketball fans should know.
Dropping a few basketball game in the regular season doesn't even come close to dropping a match to get gold....for your country.
Not only does that expose you, but it makes your country look like a bunch of cheats.
It really does not matter. Both the koreans and the chinese were trying to avoid the number 1 seed not because they are chinese but because they are seeded number 1. It is not something to be proud of, absoultey not. but it is what is..As an ahtlete specially on this kind of event you would do whatever it is that you need to do to win games legally. Nothing illegal with what they did at all.
The reall difference in opinion and on the decision is the fact that fans would much rather watch a fun game at least neutrals that is and not givve a fck about the re s while yerspl in general would rather win. This is not our games, this is IMO is an event for the athletes..fans get what they can get...
And the severity does not change the fact that it is a common practise. Moral win, moral lost..all you really need to do is make sure you dont do something illegal..play by rules..not the players fault but the system..
Been happening in badminton games for as long as i can remember..change the damn system to a knockout phase and eliminate tanking.
Its not illegal but its considered cheating and if they were to advanced and win the gold it would have been a shallow win.
And actually the officials had warned them before and they kept doing it so they had it coming.
So they did something that is legal and you would still consider it cheating..C'mon. you might as well disqulity the Japanese woman soccer team who applaud the tanking that they just did..Severity does not matter...
they had to lean on something..Man up and accept the fact that like this would happen if you dont fix it..or act like like this doesnt happen in badminton...i've been watching badminton for as long as i can remeber..and they do this now? weak sauce
Just because its not illegal doesn't mean you can do it and not be punished for it.
Dropping games is not taken seriously when doing it in your sport, in a long season. This is the Olympics if you hadn't figure that out.
It is even more stupid of them to keep doing that when they were forewarned before.
The idiots kept doing it despite warnings. That's like saying you to the officials.
They got what they got and are lucky not to be banned from ever going to the Olympics. Period.
Severity does not matter at all. Well fck the officials then..they have been tolerating this kind of so its their fcking fault. change the damn system. Alot of are frown upon hakc-a-shaq, etc...it does not matter where it happens..all that matters to the athletes is to win games.
they got fcked hard by an incompetent body..that is all
I guess we should punish the spurs for doing the hack-a-shaq since no one wants to watch that right?
If you want to push for something at least be consistent with it.
Basketball has nothing to do with the Badminton so what is your point?
The Olympics have their own rules. If they deem it cheating or abusive then that's their right to do so.
And just to be clear, if Stern was to put a rule that DQs a team for doing something liek you mentioned then they wouldn't do it.
Croatia Strikes again...
Antonija Mišura
Ouch
Painfully hot
both sports and both are meant to be compe ive maybe?
France is having a nice start, 4th on medal total and gold !
USA and China are just untouchable
andSpain
The Chinamen are pissing me off honestly. lolFrance is having a nice start, 4th on medal total and gold !
USA and China are just untouchable
and
Those ers are unshakeable.
The Koreans are also coming up.
Overall, the USA is underachieving. Just earlier one of those fencing chicks choked a gold for USA.
She got so s ed shocked she didn't only loss gold but didn't even medal.
don't tell me about fencing... usually France is collecting medals with fencing same as judo but this year we have absolutely 0 medal !The Chinamen are pissing me off honestly. lol
Those ers are unshakeable.
The Koreans are also coming up.
Overall, the USA is underachieving. Just earlier one of those fencing chicks choked a gold for USA.
She got so s ed shocked she didn't only loss gold but didn't even medal.
Pakistan 2 - Argentina 0 in hockey.
Huge win for the Pakis.
I think the issue was beacause the time is started on refs' command manually while stopped automatically by the machine as soon as the contact is made, also i believe the error was made in between and the time run out and the clock was reset (back to full second). But tbh i didn't watch it as women's epee is as boring as fencing gets.
There is still team events in fencing, although no epee men's team this year (probably France's best bet).don't tell me about fencing... usually France is collecting medals with fencing same as judo but this year we have absolutely 0 medal !
Well, at least Del Potro got to avenge the basketball/handball losses, only to get trounced by Federer in the next game...
Dropping games in general may be a common practice, but with the olympic oath there is any reason to disqualify them!
That USA judo chick was impressive beating the Brazilian this morning. Submission by armbar. She could be the first American woman to win judo gold in history.
five rings/ways to improve the olympics:
red ring...as in "who gets the red traffic light":
Get rid of some of the shooting events and horse riding events (never liked horses being more important than humans in the olympics...feels a little like f1 or nascar)...nothing against them but who is watching them anyway and we will need room for...
green ring...as in "who gets the green traffic light":
...rugby and karate need to be in (rugby will be in 2016...karate does not)...maybe bring back baseball too!
blue ring...as in "blue chips":
Either have all sports use age limits and other restrictions, or no sports at all...I don't like soccer players having harsh restrictions but basketball or tennis players not...no problem with all of them having something like an "amateur or under-23years"-limit, but its just stupid to have it one way here and another there (and that also would include pro-weightlifters and so on)!
yellow/golden ring...as in "for the gold":
Have different sizes of medals (yeah, thats stolen from bill simmon's mvp-trophy idea)...make it huge for sports where you have to put in a lot of effort in order to win a single medal (thing tennis), small for sports where you can win multiple medals in a few days (think swimming) and medium for everything in between. Actually I don't like my own idea, but doesn't it suck that the team-usa-basetball-medal is basically worth as much as a one minute effort of one of the swimmers, which also starts in like 6 other events too?...at least get rid of the medal table or count medal winners (team-usa=12...phelps in beijing=1) and not medals!
black ring as in "black sheep" and "blackout":
- Enhanced drug testing!...but thats another story...At least dq all prior drug users lifetime from the Olympics (it hurts the games, when the drug-biker wins or this cesar-swimmer would make it)!
- Make more disciplines ko-style (for example badminton ^^)!
- Increase it to at least three weeks in order to make it possible to follow more events...right now there are like 4-5 things happening at the same time...2-3 would work better...the soccer world cup has it 3 weeks, so the olympics can too! TV is doing a bad job right now but even if they didn't its just impossible to follow enough of the events if you are really interested! also there would be one more week of world peace every three years....what, there is still war at the moment??? :O
Last edited by mudyez; 08-02-2012 at 01:44 PM.
Very impressive victory by her and I'm surprised that's the first ever gold in Judo for the USofA. She beat the home country Judo representative, tlong, not a Brazillian. She beat a Brazillian in the semis
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
