The men haven’t medaled in the 4x1 since 2004 or something crazy like that.
US had baton pass failures/ DQ in 2008, 2016, 2020, and 2024. In 2012 they had a DQ for Tyson Gay doping.
Maybe we put more emphasis on individual achievement than collective achievement in athletics? The individual athletes don’t put in the time to be good in the team event? There is no room for a poor exchange in the 4x100.
That men’s 4x400 was one exciting race!
Edited this to clarify I was referring to the men’s race.
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Women’s 4x400 was also exciting, just in a different way.
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It looked like the person who dropped the baton had it sticking out to the side rather than straight ahead. I think it made the baton more vulnerable to be knocked out of the hand.
Big day for breakdancing in Canada. If NBC covers it, it is worth watching Phil “Wizard” from Vancouver in the final.
I guess Steph Curry wanted that medal.
He was clutch at the end there. Good game. France had a chance until Curry iced it.
Simone biles?
Ouch.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/10/g-s1-16471/american-gymnast-jordan-chiles-olympic-bronze-ruling
Four lousy seconds.
Being 4 seconds late is ok if that is the rule, but the rule is dumb. You get 4 minutes to appeal, they took 64 seconds to do so. 64 seconds < 4 minutes. Problem is that the final athlete to compete only gets 1 minute to appeal, not 4, and Chiles was the final athlete to compete.
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Faith Kipyegon? Except the Euro championships don’t make sense for a Kenyan
Please read Law 8. And, heck, all of the Laws of The Game.
Are you implying that the coin flip was unfair? Perhaps it was a magic coin that Jack got his beans from…
I’m saying that the start time created a situation in which the winner of the coin flip had an advantage, but had the start time been 1 hour later, there would not have been a clear advantage from winning the coin flip but still enough time to finish the game in daylight.
OK, I get what you’re saying, but I thought I saw it differently, so I checked my Peacock…
Um, USA played into the sun in the first half.
I had the game start at 8AM PDT on my TV. That is 5PM Paris time.
And, since the sun was setting at that time, BRA would have their eyes facing the lowering sun for the second half, which yes, seems “unfair.”
Where is that old thread from the AO?
This is what makes sports such as gymnastics so dumb. The athletes are incredible, but the sport fails to measure up to them.
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I just watched the floor competition.
The judges made 2 errors out of 8 athletes, which is unacceptable IMO. I may not know the difference between a double layout with a half-twist vs a triple-double, but I sure as hell can see if a gymnast steps out of bounds on floor. Or doesn’t, as Maneca-Voinea did not.
Jordan Chiles (USA) and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea (Romania) were both erroneously given scores 0.1 too low. This initially had the rightful 5th place finisher, Ana Barbosu of Romania, showing as placing in 3rd.
Then Chiles’s coach challenged which put Chiles into 3rd but Maneca-Voinea’s coach did not challenge after her score came out, or else she would have been 3rd.
So Jordan Chiles shouldn’t really have a bronze medal, but since Maneca-Voinea’s coach didn’t bother to challenge at all, I think Chiles is more deserving than Barbosu.
It seems Romania DNGAF which of their gymnasts gets bronze as long as at least one of them does. Looks like it will be going to the gal who should have finished 5th rather than the one who should have finished 3rd. And Chiles will be credited with a 5th place finish when she should have gotten 4th.
The one minute rule is dumb and unfair. And the whole thing is a massive clusterf***.
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Irrespective of all of that, it was nice to see Rebeca Andrade win gold. Good for her, and for her country. She’s incredibly talented and a worthy adversary to Simone Biles.