Cosmic Kid
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| 02/06/2022 10:38 PM |
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| Smokey, if you have Comcast, I highly recommend the Peakcock app instead of the broadcast. You can pick and choose what to watch and a lot of the events are virtually commercial free. |
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Orange Crush
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| 02/07/2022 11:52 AM |
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Anyone catch Van der Poel on skates?
And of course Ireen Wust. 5th olympic participation. 5th time she returns home with gold. That is some career.
Not that I saw any of it, just catching up on the news. |
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Dale
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| 02/07/2022 12:03 PM |
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It's time for the Summer Olympics to be hosted in Athens (that's the one in Greece, not in Georgia or Ohio) from now on and the Winter Olympics in Norway.
And let's do away with events that take something other than a stop watch or a finish line to determine the winner. |
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79pmooney
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| 02/07/2022 12:37 PM |
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Posted By Dale Dale on 02/07/2022 12:03 PM
It's time for the Summer Olympics to be hosted in Athens (that's the one in Greece, not in Georgia or Ohio) from now on and the Winter Olympics in Norway.
And let's do away with events that take something other than a stop watch or a finish line to determine the winner.
So all ball sports? That's kinda harsh. (And ice hockey plays well in Norway.)
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Cosmic Kid
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| 02/07/2022 12:40 PM |
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And let's do away with events that take something other than a stop watch or a finish line to determine the winner.
Or an objective scoring system...i.e. put a ball *here* to score *this many* points. |
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Orange Crush
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| 02/07/2022 12:46 PM |
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Don't forget about shuttlecocks. And bullets.
Frisbees? |
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Dale
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| 02/07/2022 12:48 PM |
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Sorry, I did leave off the contests with objective scores.
Other than curling. A fancy synchronized housekeeping skill should not be turned into an Olympic event. |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 02/07/2022 01:50 PM |
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A fancy synchronized housekeeping skill should not be turned into an Olympic event.
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Orange Crush
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| 02/07/2022 08:21 PM |
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| So what’s up with this Eileen Gu that everyone suddenly seems to be writing about? |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 02/07/2022 10:02 PM |
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She is a Chinese-American athlete who decided to compete for China instead of the US.
She is extremely smart (1580 SAT score) and does side modeling jobs.
She is also ridiculously talented. |
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79pmooney
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| 02/08/2022 10:35 AM |
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| Thanks CK. I Duck-Ducked "Georgia, the country" to see how far from Greece it is to make a smart quip about Athens and the real Georgia (also I'm reading about the Crusades and that part of our world a millennia ago). Clicked on the usual sea of images, photos and maps on Georgia, the scenes, the architecture, the dress, ... and photo after photo of an Asian woman named Gu! Huh? |
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Orange Crush
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| 02/08/2022 11:20 AM |
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Posted By Cosmic Kid on 02/07/2022 10:02 PM
She is a Chinese-American athlete who decided to compete for China instead of the US.
She is extremely smart (1580 SAT score) and does side modeling jobs.
She is also ridiculously talented.
Yes, all that is clear. But can't figure out the why. Doesn't seem political. Is it about money? - lots of sponsorship deals with Chinese companies. Or something else. It seems a risky personal move that wasn't needed with no obvious reason beside what little she lets on. |
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Dale
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| 02/08/2022 11:37 AM |
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But can't figure out the why.
This.
It's not like she has no talent and competes for some tiny semi-connected country just to go the the Olympics. |
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Orange Crush
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| 02/08/2022 12:12 PM |
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| Ben - now I'm wondering if DuckDuckGo is somehow related to Quack.com. This was an early smart search voice recognition phone portal to the internet before they put screens and actual internet on phone. Some friends were involved and I trialed it in 1999 - it had a hard time with my Dutch accent. Still, they struck it pretty rich selling to AOL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quack.com |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 02/08/2022 01:04 PM |
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But can't figure out the why.
I think it is just a combination of all the above...she is attractive, incredibly talented and essentially defected to China. |
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