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Post by Makers on Aug 11, 2016 21:18:20 GMT -5
Amazing..Phelps has to be one of the greatest athletes of all time!!!
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Post by fish on Aug 11, 2016 21:34:39 GMT -5
In the hot tub for another race....wow.
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Post by Makers on Aug 12, 2016 4:36:31 GMT -5
Race of the day..Great to see this gal win!!!
American Simone Manuel wins gold medal in women’s 100-meter freestyle in a tie with Canada’s Penny Oleksiak.
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Post by Gooba on Aug 12, 2016 4:45:08 GMT -5
COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL USA 13 12 10 35 CHN 10 7 9 26 JPN 6 1 12 19 AUS 5 3 6 14 KOR 5 2 4 11 HUN 5 1
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Post by Gooba on Aug 13, 2016 6:05:12 GMT -5
As much as the swimming portion of the Olympics has been about saying goodbye to the legendary Michael Phelps, it has also been about introducing Katie Ledecky to non-swimming fans.
The 19-year-old American is building a legend of her own, capping her Rio Olympics with a stunning win in the women's 800-meter freestyle Friday night. Stunning not for the fact that she won, but in how she did it.
Toward the end of the eight-lap race, the television cameras had to pull back so viewers could see Ledecky's competitors. Ledecky broke her own world record with a time of 8:04.79 and finished a staggering 11 seconds ahead of second-place finisher Jazmin Carlin from Great Britain.
Ledecky has five gold medals, having added a quartet this year in addition to a gold in London in the 800 free.
And if the IOC let women swim the 1,500 meters like the men do, she'd have one more gold.
She'll leave Rio having set two world records.
As for Phelps, he didn’t win his final individual race in the Olympics, the 100-meter butterfly. Phelps was one of three swimmers who tied for silver. One more hundredth of a second and any of them would have been fourth. Joseph Schooling won the race, earning the first ever gold for Singapore.
Schooling has long cited Phelps as his idol. In 2008, Schooling's parents helped to host a meet with the US swimming champion, where the Singaporean met Phelps for the first time.
The other two medal races Friday were won by Americans. Anthony Ervin became the oldest Olympic swimming champion with gold in the men's 50-meter freestyle and Maya Dirado earned her first gold of the Rio Games in the women's 200-meter breaststroke.
The United States women’s soccer team – which had never failed to medal in the Olympics -- wasn’t nearly as successful. It lost to Sweden in a penalty kick shootout after a 1-1 draw in regulation play.
US goalie Hope Solo – who allowed Sweden’s final penalty kick -- told reporters that Sweden played like cowards. The better team lost, she said.
Track and field competition got underway Friday, and a record fell on the first day. Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana smashed the decades-old mark in the 10,000 meters.
She finished in 29:17.45, 14 seconds faster than the record set in 1993 (when Ayana was 2).
American Michelle Carter – whose Twitter handle is @shotdiva – became the first US woman to win gold in the shot put.
On the cycling track, Bradley Wiggins – who won the Tour de France four years ago –and his British teammates set a world record in a pulsating men’s pursuit final victory over Australia
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Post by Gooba on Aug 13, 2016 6:06:06 GMT -5
COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL USA 20 13 17 50 CHN 13 10 14 37 GBR 7 9 6 22 JPN 7 3 14 24 KOR 6 3 4 13 GER 6 3
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Post by Gooba on Aug 13, 2016 6:13:06 GMT -5
The biggest betting Olympic upsets through Week 1 in Rio
An Olympics wouldn’t be an Olympics without some truly stunning upsets - and we’ve seen some real doozies through the first seven days of competition in Rio.
Here are some of the biggest upsets through Week 1:
Tennis Takedowns
It would have been a big enough story had one of the top singles seeds fallen in the early going. But no, no! We’ve seen both men’s No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic and women’s No. 1 Serena Williams knocked out before the quarterfinals, leaving bettors who banked on them as heavy favorites feeling shell-shocked.
Juan Martin del Potro unceremoniously dumped Djokovic in the opening round of the men’s tournament, leaving the top player in the world a sobbing mess. Del Potro was an 8/1 longshot to prevail - odds that undoubtedly would have been lower had it been known that Djokovic was dealing with an undisclosed injury that subsequently forced him to withdraw from the Cincinnati Masters event later this month.
Williams came in as the defending Olympic champion, but she was trounced by Ukraine’s Eline Svitolina in the round of 16, bowing out in just 72 minutes. Svitolina closed at 5/1. She was also ousted from the doubles competition, as she and sister Venus fell to the Czech duo of Lucie Safarova and Barbora Strycova. Williams doesn’t appear to be dealing with an injury, but that’s small consolation to those who laid serious money on her.
Ju-d’oh!
Israel’s Golan Pollack was considered one of the top contenders for a medal in the men’s 66kg judo competition. But the 2015 world championship bronze medalist was sent home in shocking fashion, falling to 112th-ranked Mathews Punza of Zambia.
Pollack, who came in at 12/1 to win gold, was never in the preliminary-round match; his initial takedown attempt was thwarted by Punza, who promptly pinned him to the mat. Pollack couldn’t escape, and Ponza was awarded the winner by ippon, shaking up the bracket in a major way.
Canada Spikes U.S.
Not bad for a country that hadn’t competed in men’s Olympic volleyball in nearly a quarter-century. The 12th-ranked Canadian side trounced the No. 5 American team in straight sets to cash in on 9/2 odds in the tournament opener for both teams.
Canada, which last fielded a team at the 1992 summer games in Barcelona, took advantage of an uncharacteristically sloppy U.S. side that committed 10 service faults in the first set, then allowed 10 of the final 12 points in a one-sided second set. The Americans finished with 28 err ors in the match, compared to 16 by Canada.
Woo-jin Pierced by Agatha
South Korea’s Kim Woo-jin entered the men’s archery competition as the event’s top seed, and a whopping -200 to reach the podium in Rio. But the reigning Olympic and world record holder suffered a round of 32 defeat at the hands of Indonesia’s Riau Ega Agatha, sending shockwaves throughout the competition.
Kim, who had set the world record just one day earlier, couldn’t get anything going on a breezy day at the Sambodromo, dropping a 6-2 decision to Ega Agatha. The Indonesian had never beaten the world’s top archer prior to that match.
Lucky Sevens for Japan
There are upsets, and then there are upsets. This one falls under the latter category, as the Japanese men’s rugby sevens team took down powerhouse New Zealand 14-12 in group action.
The Kiwis came into the match ranked third in the world, but fell victim to a late try en route to the stunning loss to No. 15 Japan, which came in as 20/1 longshots to prevail. It isn’t the first big rugby victory for Japan, which upended South Africa in last year’s Rugby World Cup - a win considered by many to be the biggest upset in the history of the sport.
Not-so-Fine China
It’s no secret, even to the casual fan, that China dominates the Olympic diving pool. But the heavily-favored duo of Qin Kai and Cao Yuan settled for a bronze-medal result as Britain’s Jack Laugher and Chris Mears won their country’s first diving gold.
China had won the first three diving medals in Rio to that point, but Kai and Yuan could only watch as Laugher and Mears posted a sky-high total of 454.32 to convert on their 9/1 odds of winning. Americans Sam Dorman and Mike Hixon (450.21) finished second, while Kai and Yuan posted a score of 443.70 as China failed to win gold in the event for the first time since 2004.
USA is A-OK
What a difference four years can make. After finishing dead last in the 12-team pool at the 2012 games in London, the U.S. women’s field hockey team came to Rio looking to take care of business - and oh, has it ever.
The fifth-ranked Americans opened their tournament with a 2-1 stunner of No. 2 Argentina as 9/2 underdogs, and followed that up with an equally impressive 2-0 triumph over No. 3 Australia. It’s an incredible turnaround for a team that looked completely outclassed in London - and has a legitimate shot at reaching the podium.
Home Side Spanks Spain
Bettors could understand a competitive Lithuanian side handing Spain a loss in the opener for both teams at the Olympic men’s basketball event. But what happened next to the Spanish side was completely unexpected.
Brazil gave the home fans plenty to cheer about at Carioca Arena, stunning Spain 66-65 on a tip-in by Marcus Marquinhos with five seconds remaining. The Brazilians converted 9/1 odds to beat the Spanish side, which came into the competition with a -150 shot at finishing on the podium but has some work to do in order to make that pay off.
Soccer Stumbles
As jubilant as basketball fans were to see their team defeat Spain, local soccer enthusiasts were feeling something quite different. That’s what happens when one of the biggest host city favorites opens competition with draws against a pair of minnows.
Brazil entered its opener as a 1/10 favorite against South Africa, but instead settled for a scoreless draw that wound up paying 9/1. The following game against Iraq yielded the same result, with Brazil entering as a 2/11 fave but settling for the 11/2 draw. A 4-0 win in the next game against Denmark had the country breathing a little easier, but after such a disappointing start, nothing less than an appearance in the final will satiate nervous fans.
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Post by Gooba on Aug 14, 2016 5:35:13 GMT -5
COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL USA 24 18 18 60 CHN 13 11 17 41 GBR 10 13 7 30 GER 8 5 3 16 JPN 7 3 14 24 RUS 6 9 8 23 AUS 6 7 9 22 ITA 6 7 5 18 KOR 6 3 4 13
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Post by Gooba on Aug 14, 2016 7:51:48 GMT -5
A storybook ending Michael Phelps went out on top, winning a gold medal in his final Olympic race. He swam the butterfly in the 4x100-meter medley relay, and watched Nathan Adrian finish the race in Olympic-record time. Phelps finishes his storied Olympic career with 28 medals and 23 golds, both records. Despite the protests of his teammates, Phelps reiterated after the race that this is his final Olympics, and that he is looking forward to what comes next.
Rule the pool The U.S. swimming team absolutely dominated the pool in Rio de Janeiro. The Americans took home 33 total swimming medals -- 16 gold, eight silver and nine bronze -- in what was expected to be a weak year. That medal total would currently be third as an independent nation.
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Post by Gooba on Aug 14, 2016 13:11:51 GMT -5
Ryan Lochte and three other U.S. Olympic swimmers were robbed at gunpoint, the U.S. Olympic Committee said after initially denying that Lochte was robbed.
Lochte and fellow swimmers Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and Jimmy Feigen were robbed by individuals posing as police officers as they headed to the Olympic Village, USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky said.
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Post by fish on Aug 14, 2016 13:22:38 GMT -5
They should have had these games in Milwaukee.
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Post by Makers on Aug 15, 2016 4:49:29 GMT -5
Jamaica's Usain Bolt becomes the first sprinter to win three successive Olympic 100-meter golds, winning Sunday night in 9.81 seconds.
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Post by Gooba on Aug 15, 2016 5:15:25 GMT -5
COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL
USA 26 21 22 69 GBR 15 16 7 38 CHN 15 13 17 45 RUS 9 11 10 30 GER 8 5 4 17 FRA 7 8 7 22 ITA 7 8 6 21
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Post by Makers on Aug 16, 2016 6:13:13 GMT -5
Odds to win 2016 Olympics Mens Basketball Gold Medal USA 1/14..WOW Spain 10/1 France 14/1 Brazil 22/1 Serbia 25/1 Argentina 33/1 Lithuania 33/1 Croatia 50/1 Australia 75/1 Venezuela 150/1 China 175/1 Nigeria 300/1
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Post by Gooba on Aug 16, 2016 7:15:06 GMT -5
COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL
USA 26 23 26 75 GBR 16 17 8 41 CHN 15 14 17 46 RUS 11 12 12 35 ITA 8 9 6 23 GER 8 6 6 20 FRA 7 9 8 24 JPN 7 4 16 27
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