Wednesday, July 25, 2012
I Am Watching the Olympics (Day i)
Women's soccer qualifying is already underway, and the Great Britain homegirls are up on New Zealand, 1-0, in penalty time or injury time or extra time or whatever they call it in soccer.
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Final: GBR 1, NZL 0.
ReplyDeleteI've got to get out my little paper flags tonight.
ReplyDeleteNow we've got the United States and France tied at 2 at halftime.
ReplyDeleteIt's "injury time" and "penalty kicks."
ReplyDeleteRight--thanks.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure the American women beat France. During a break in a lunchtime game of Candyland, I popped in to find the United States ahead, 4-2. Now NBC has panned us back to a wide shot of the whole arena, and there are some other women going through some pre-game drills on the field. And you can hear some bagpipes.
ReplyDeleteYes ... Final: USA 4, FRA 2.
Delete35 minutes in, and Brazil is leading Camaroon, 2-0.
ReplyDeleteStill.
DeleteBREAKING ON TWITTER: MARY CARILLO HAS MADE HER FIRST APPEARANCE ON NBC'S COVERAGE!!!
ReplyDeleteI love Mary Carillo. And as I've been saying all along, I find her in-studio banter with Bob Costas to be charmingly reminiscent of the Mariette Hartley-James Garner Polaroid commercials.
ReplyDeleteSeven months until Christmas as of today. Well, 33 years since this Christmas.
Well, Colombia and North Korea are underway after an hour-plus delay because of this flag flap.
ReplyDeleteWe've just gone to an Emergency Alert System (EAS) dealio 12 minutes into this game, and, frankly, it's a little disconcerting given that North Korea is all hacked anew at the West.
DeleteStart of second half: PRK 1, COL 0.
DeleteWhat labels to put on these daily Olympic reports is going to just absolutely perplex me for the next few days. Hopefully, I'll get it straightened out over Days i and ii and before Day I. Right now, I'm planning one daily "I Am Watching the Olympics" post, with the labels reflecting the nations and sports that are discussed in the comments in some depth. So, for example, I just stripped the New Zealand label from this post. Another issue here is how to abbreviate the sports; Blogger's 200-character limit on labels some days really busts on my flow.
ReplyDeleteJapan is leading Canada, 2-1, in the 76th minute--I think that's how you're supposed to say it in soccer. This might be an upset in the making, or I might be getting the Canadian women's soccer team confused with its women's hockey team.
ReplyDeleteStill JPN 2-CAN 0, now in injury time ... If the score holds, this would not be an upset, as Japan placed fourth in the 2008 tournament in Beijing.
Delete2008 medalists: United States gold, Brazil silver and Germany bronze.
The 2012 women's tournament has 12 teams: Brazil, Cameroon, England and New Zealand in Group E; Canada, Japan, South Africa and Sweden in Group F, and Colombia, France, North Korea and the United States in Group G. (Where the heck are the Germans?)
ReplyDeleteFour of these teams will be eliminated in the first-round matches through Tuesday. The surviving eight will advance to the medal round. Quarterfinals will be played Aug. 3; semis, Aug. 6, and the bronze- and gold-medal games, Aug. 9.
Wow. Germany, winner of the 2003 and 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup and host of the 2011 tournament, lost in the quarterfinals of that tournament (won by Japan) and simply failed to qualify for the Olympics.
DeleteWikipedia is so awesome.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know a lick about the ongoing food rationing in England so long after World War II. BBC America is showing an original production, Going for Gold, The '48 Games, which, in the UK, is known as "Bert and Dickie."
ReplyDeleteI also didn't know a lick about Doctor Who.