Love high level table tennis - that Swedish team comeback over Japan was amazing, almost as amazing as the Swedish player Moregard, #26 in the world almost winning gold over Fan from China.
That was a BALLSY run by Rooks!!! First time on a stage like that and he just went for it! 9 second PR! US distance men have been incredible. Has to be the best Olympics ever for them
Small nitpick. The 200M final hasn’t happened yet (it will today). Hall won the 400M.
Just like high school or college BUT it was the Cuban who moved into the final, NOT Sarah, when the Indian girl failed to make weight.
I will say, I bought Peacock so I could watch replays of the matches as I was not getting up at 5am to watch live. It turned out to be a bad purchase. When you fast forward you can't tell where you're at in the telecast. So just to see Brooks wrestle, I had to sit through 12 commercials. I finally gave up after watching one match.
Yeah, sorry if i misspoke.......... I knew Sarah was already in the finals..
Agreed. Peacock has everything which is nice, but finding what you specifically want to see within a given event is brutal. You have to play around with the time stamps, but doing so causes a ton of ads….and each one is like 120 seconds. Paying for the service and then ridiculously long ads??? Very frustrating.
The problem is the weight class jumps in the Olympics jump so much as there's only 6 weight classes(NCAA/folkstyle 10). I read in India, Phogat wrestles a weight class similar to the NCAA system. She was just too small to go up a weight class, so she decided to cut and the whole tournament she was having trouble. It's the same in the USA, some of the best NCAA wrestlers don't make good freestyle wrestlers simply because of the weight classes. Some guys and gals just get stuck in between.
It's crazy. In the US, if you make the finals and something happens where you can't compete (injured or don't make weight), it's a forfeit and you'd still get a silver medal. The Indian woman was set to meet Hildebrandt in the finals, didn't make weight and they elevated the person in the consolation final into the gold medal match. Effectively taking away the silver. I think its a goofy rule. It could lead to someone getting beat in the semis who then gets a second chance at the match in the finals.
6 weight classes is the problem. Also, in other events multiple athletes from each country compete. It blows my mind that there are only 6 guys on the men's freestyle team. There are 26 men on the swim team and there are only 4 damn strokes!
