Soccer, Sports and Politics - Part Deux

Shelly Ann Fraser Price is out of the 100 M race this evening. That may be the curtain for this amazing champion. No

 

I loved Teddy's face when the draw was made... A lion waiting for his meal...

 

Sport is a cruel mistress and some people don't get the ending they deserve. I mean there two Aussie women, I forget their names but they had been with the team like a decade making all kinds of sacrifices and were in their final game. It seemed certain they would beat Canada and make the final but instead they got upset by Canada and heartbreak in the final seconds by the USA.

Shelly Ann is a great and will be legend in Jamaica. She deserves nothing but our respect and her flowers.

 

Good news then, the World Flying Disc Federation is a member of the Association for IOC Recognized International Sports Federations, which is the group from which new sports get chosen. Interesting list of candidate sports which you can see here.

I haven't heard scuttlebutt about the WFDF being ahead of other sports right now. But it's a good candidate based on the criteria for inclusion in a games. About a dozen years ago, one of my alums working in Beijing translated the bylaws for Ultimate into Mandarin to launch a club there.

 

I saw that, and was actually wondering if it had some political meaning...

 

FYP

 

Julien Alfred from St Lucia just won the women 100 M. What a amazing story!

 

Well yes of course. I was more speaking from a US media perspective. People don't realize that the reason the USA was in the wilderness for a decade was not for a lack of effort just that a generation of Jamaican runners had come through and changed the game. Bolt is global but there are a lot that were part of that generation that don't get the recognition they deserve.

 

Well put. Self-blame after getting beat by better talent disrespects that talent.

 

My question with the mixed 4x400 is how do you decide the order? Cause I would end with a male if I had my choice.

 

Obviously good you're not our coach

 

think they have to go male/female/male/female

However, in swimming you can choose your own order.

 

Trying to find a story that basically begins and ends with her, and can't. Same with most other Olympic stories. I guess I'll just watch the YT videos some time in the future.

Nothing to do with not being high on Sha'carri Richardson, but it seems that every available article about anything Olympic starts with the winner and then quickly segues into something about whatever American was competing in the event. Some don't even give the gold medalist the respect of the headline. "Chance Carnegie DuPont IV takes Bronze for the USA in sailing; two Germans win gold, silver"

Are we really so insular as a nation that we need every channel to cater to our outsized nationalism? The athlete her/himself deserves every bit of glory s/he can get, for working as an individual to make a team that was going to be loaded (by that I mean nationally, not necessarily for each event). But the overall feelgood medal count and focus on American athletes is like dancing in front of your TV while the USWNT beats Thailand 13-0 or some such rout.

 

Was hoping to see a France-Spain semi plus a Morocco-Egypt semi. Instead, both drew the Euro team and now both be playing for bronze, sadly.

 

Sometimes you lose but your reputation gets a boost:

Omg pic.twitter.com/dqKjnJbNIz

— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) August 3, 2024

 

What do you mean by "legit 2nd"? Was there some controversy?
I can't stand to see arbitrarily judged sports sometimes, and the judge part of it is why.
Longboarding made a huge mistake trying to stay all cool and pseudooutlaw while the Games took a totally subjective genre of skateboarding (that shit part where kids ride and destroy stair rails and park benches) and gave it Olympic status. At least they could have used proper bowl riding instead of encouraging more vandalism.

 

Mrs. Ismitje and I watched a very nice feature on Andrade, on the main NBC broadcast.

 

According to the worst place to get info from, Wikipedia, the order rule was introduced in March 2022.

edit: found a citation/source https://worldathletics.org/news/pre...cisions-227th-council-meeting?__nextLocale=en