khadeem to di worl' @Khadsss_
Grenada: Population - 110,000, Gold medals - 1. Nigeria: Population: 170,000,000. ANY medals - 0
4:30 PM - 6 Aug 12
Tyson Gay @TysonLGay
Thanks to my fans & family @omegawatches @EASBrand @Gilletteand @centurycouncil for all the support sorry for letting you all down.
6:57 PM - 6 Aug 12
How could we take these dudes lightly?!!! SERVED by Latvia! dayuuuum!
8:36 PM - 6 Aug 12
London 2012 @London2012
Welcome to Day 11! We’ve got lots of medal action today including the men’s Triathlon & the last day at the Velodrome!http://l2012.cm/OLYRF3
1:26 AM - 7 Aug 12
LEFT @LeftSentThis
This old dude from Bulgaria doing gymnastics, deserves an Olympic medal just for competing at the age of 40, with a dome full of grey hair.
1:32 AM - 7 Aug 12
Gabrielle Douglas @gabrielledoug
Ahh just one more ladies lets make it count!!!! LETS GET EM!! #USA#beamfinals #floorfinals http://instagr.am/p/OBJEpQN5kB/
2:06 AM - 7 Aug 12
Jordan Burroughs @alliseeisgold
Last day of Greco wrestling today. Goodluck to @LesterToLondon I have a good feeling about today!!!
2:31 AM - 7 Aug 12
Dwyane Wade @DwyaneWade
thank you. “@LuisERosario: You are missed at the olympics!!@DwyaneWade”
4:13 AM - 7 Aug 12
Pat Forde @YahooForde
Jason RIchardson of the U.S. just smoking his prelim heat of 110 hurdles. Best remaining American men's hope for gold in track?
4:19 AM - 7 Aug 12
Jordyn Wieber @jordyn_wieber
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." -Phil 4:13 ❤💙
4:36 AM - 7 Aug 12
US Olympic Team @USOlympic
#TeamUSA's @SarahHammer has 1 point on Great Britain's Laura Trott for @USACycling's omnium overall! Final fight for the gold later tonight.
5:39 AM - 7 Aug 12
Team GB @TeamGB
#Triathlon Coming into Lap 3 of 7 and @TeamGB are RULING the course in 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Go on boys! #OurGreatestTeam
6:14 AM - 7 Aug 12
Previous reports:
-- watching opening day and the opening ceremony (July 27)
-- watching Day 1 and the men's cycling road race (July 28)
-- watching Day 4, a men's basketball update, badminton jive, "culture war" jive, end-of-day OES and end-of-day EOES (July 31)
-- watching Day 6, men's basketball update, end-of-day OES and end-of-day EOES (Aug. 2)
-- watching Day 7, end-of-day OES and end-of-day EOES (Aug. 3)
-- watching Day 9/introducing "Event-Balanced Olympics Points (EBOP)," women's basketball update, men's basketball update, Carl Lewis update, end-of-day OES and end-of-day EOES (Aug. 5)
-- watching Day 10, men's basketball update, end-of-day OES, end-of-day EOES and 2008-2012 OES comparison (Aug. 6)
Men's triathlon: Great Britain gold, Spain silver, Great Britain bronze.
ReplyDeleteI've made a big mistake by failing to watch Today throughout the Olympics. I've been watching for the last 15 minutes, and it's just been fantastic.
ReplyDeleteRats. Justin Leston of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, has been eliminated in the quarterfinals of 145.5-pound Greco-Roman wrestling.
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. women's basketball team leads Canada, 29-13, in the second quarter of their quarterfinal.
ReplyDeleteHalf: 42-21.
DeletePresumably the Canadians are already planning how to denounce the referees, much as their women's soccer team did yesterday.
DeleteThe U.S. eliminates Canada from women's basketball. The Americans win their quarter-final match by the score of 91-48.
ReplyDeleteWomen's volleyball quarter: Japan, three sets to two over China. This appears to have been quite a match: 28-26, 23-25, 25-23, 23-25, 18-16 (Japan's scores listed first).
ReplyDeleteThis women's volleyball tournament is OTH! So Brazil finally outlasted Russia in the second quarterfinal, 24-26, 25-22, 19-25, 25-22 and 21-19. And now the United States and the Dominican Republic are playing a fantastic-looking match on NBC. Team USA won the first set, and it has come from behind to lead, 10-8 in the second ...
DeleteHurrah! On fourth set point, the U.S. women win their second set with the Dominican Republic ... up two sets to zilch ...
DeleteOn to the semis for Team USA!
DeleteWHY ARE WE SO BAD AT SAILING AND EQUESTRIAN EVENTS?
ReplyDeleteI don't know, but I'd love to know. I feel the same way about table tennis. At any given daylight moment of 1987, it seemed like about one out of every five college boys in all of WKU's Pearce-Ford Tower was skipping class and playing ping-pong in the rec room. How has that investment and sacrifice not translated into more Olympic hardware over the 25 years since?
DeleteQuarter-finals in the women's basketball tournament played so far today:
ReplyDeleteUnited States 91 - 48 Canada
Australia 75 - 60 China
Men's 145.5-pound Greco-Roman wrestling: South Korea gold, Hungary silver, Georgia and France bronze.
ReplyDeleteMen's 211.5-pound Greco-Roman wrestling: Iran gold, Russia silver, Armenia and Sweden bronze.
Men's 231-pound-plus weightlifting: Iran gold, Iran silver, Russia bronze.
ReplyDeleteWomen's team table tennis: China gold, Japan silver, Singapore silver.
Equestrian team dressage: Great Britain gold, Germany silver, Netherlands bronze.
Men's RS-X sailing: Netherlands gold, Great Britain silver, Poland bronze.
Women's RS-X sailing: Spain gold, Finland silver, Poland bronze.
Men's 3m springboard diving: Russia gold, China silver, China bronze.
I am furious with our equestrian team. If I were President Obama, I would use the equestrian team to symbolize the role of the rich in America.
DeletePresident Obama just came on MSNBC in a break of the Italy-South Korea women's indoor volleyball quarterfinal (Italy won the first set) and said he would ask the rich to pay a little more in taxes if he is re-elected. Then they flashed "FORWARD" up on the screen before going back to the volleyball. He didn't say anything about the equestrian team.
DeleteEight track-and-field medals, eight cycling, four gymnastics and two synchronized-swimming medals also are being awarded today.
ReplyDeleteI love Al Michaels, too.
ReplyDeleteAh, good ... a little track-cycling love in the afternoon!
ReplyDeleteThe track cycling looks good when you've got teams competing, but this individual business where the competitors slow down so much ... they should all have to ride those old-timey bikes with the giant front wheels.
DeleteWomen's sprint: Australia gold, Great Britain silver, China bronze.
DeleteIn women's basketball, Turkey leads Russia 52-51 with 8:41 left in the game.
ReplyDeleteIn men's football, Mexico beat Japan 3-1 in one semi-final, and Brazil is up 3-0 over South Korea late in the other semi-final. So it will be Mexico v. Brazil for the gold.
ReplyDeleteTurkey 54 - 56 Russia (6:32 left in 4th quarter)
ReplyDeleteTurkey 56 - 56 Russia (5:41 left in 4th quarter)
ReplyDeleteTurkey 62 - 64 Russia (13 seconds left in 4th quarter)
ReplyDeleteTurkey makes one of two free throws:
ReplyDeleteTurkey 63 - 64 Russia (13 seconds left in 4th quarter)
Russia's ball.
Russia calls time.
Russia is fouled.
ReplyDeleteMakes one, misses one. Gets the rebound.
Russia is fouled again.
Misses one, makes one. Turkey ball
Turkey 63 - 66 Russia (10 seconds left in 4th quarter)
Turkey calls time.
With 1.5 seconds left, Turkey shoots a three -- no good!
ReplyDeleteRussia advances to the semi-finals.
Turkey 63 - 66 Russia (Final)
Wow!
DeleteMeanwhile, in women's beach volleyball, Americans Jen Kessy and April Ross lead have match point against top-seeded Brazil. The U.S. women lost the first set, 21-15, and won the second, 21-19.
ReplyDeleteU! S! A!
DeleteIn the rain, the United States win the third set, 15-12. Brazil had beaten the United States in nine straight matches. Kessy and Ross get a 14-10 lead in the third and deciding set, but then give back two points. After calling a timeout to regroup, the Americans finish off the Brazilians!
DeleteJen Kessy of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., and April Ross of Newport Beach will play Kerri Walsh Jennings of Santa Clara and Misty May-Treanor of Costa Mesa for gold at 3 p.m. Central Wednesday!
DeleteJennings and May-Treanor swept China in today's earlier semifinal, so China will play Brazil tomorrow for bronze.
YEAHHH!!!
DeleteWe needed to start pulling some upsets. This is great.
The U.S. women's water polo team today beat Australia, 11-9, and at 2 p.m. Central Thursday will play Spain for gold. (Australia and Hungary play at noon Thursday for bronze.) The United States has medaled in every Olympic women's water polo competition, but it has never won gold. Australia, Italy and the Netherlands have each won one gold medal in the sport; Team USA has won two silvers and a bronze.
ReplyDeleteThis was an epic game -- it went to extra time after Australia tied the U.S. in the last second.
DeleteDallas's Errol Spence was just beaten by a Russian in a men's welterweight boxing quarterfinal, which means Team USA will not medal in men's boxing.
ReplyDeleteMarlen Esparza of Pasadena, Texas, fights a woman from China at 7:30 a.m. Central Wednesday in a flyweight semifinal. An hour later, Claressa Shields of Flint, Mich., is scheduled to fight a woman from Kazakhstan in a middleweight semi.
"The Sad Decline of Olympic Boxing."
DeleteSad, indeed.
Claressa Shields @Claressashields
DeleteMan if these people don't shut the hell up outside my window, I'm go walk outside around the corner and go off on all of em. Real talk.
4:45 PM - 7 Aug 12
In the final women's basketball quarter-final, France has beaten the Czech Republic 71-68. The French women are going nuts.
ReplyDeleteOh, I see. France was down 51-41 after three quarters, and they scored 30 points in the last 10 minutes to pull out the victory.
ReplyDeleteHIP HIP HOORAY FOR THE OLYMPICS!
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