July 27 through August 12





*Cullen Jones just qualified again in an upset*

6/29/2012 9:17:58 PM

fuck yeah, when basketball season is over and football season hasn't started yet, there is the best spectator sport in the world...swimming

6/29/2012 9:18:59 PM

6/29/2012 9:23:18 PM

Olympics 2012: Irvington's Cullen Jones grabs trip to London, while Nathan Adrian wins 100-meter freestyle

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"OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Nathan Adrian has won the 100-meter freestyle at the U.S. Olympic trials, while Cullen Jones took the second spot for London. Adrian led at the turn Friday night and never let up on the return leg, winning clearly in 48.10 seconds, the fourth-fastest time in the world this year. Jones went out strong, as always, and managed to hold on for second in 48.46. Matt Grevers was next (48.55), followed by Ricky Berens (48.80), which assures them of spots in the pool for the 400 free relay. Jimmy Feigen and 2008 Olympic relay star Jason Lezak could also be in the mix for that event after finishing fifth and sixth. Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/olympics/2012/06/29/adrian-jones-100-free.ap/index.html#ixzz1zEtJViWe"

6/29/2012 10:21:07 PM

I'm interested in Swimming the most out of all of the events. Women's beach volleyball is a close second.

6/30/2012 1:41:07 AM

can't wait to watch gymnastia

6/30/2012 6:17:31 AM

These Phelps/Lochte races have been dynamite in the trials. They are going to be gold/silver in the 3 events they race together. Will be interesting to see who takes gold. Lochte coming on is probably the best thing that could have happened for Phelps. It has prevented him from becoming complacent.

7/1/2012 10:56:23 AM

NCSU's Ryan Hill qualifies in the men's 5000 m

7/1/2012 9:21:30 PM

damn, nastia liukin is all kinds of fucking up

7/1/2012 9:34:55 PM

damn, that had to hurt.

7/1/2012 9:40:05 PM

Cullen Jones won the 50m as well.

7/1/2012 9:44:45 PM

i guess i've never really watched the trials before, but are there always this many fuck ups in gymnastics? i mean 2 belly busters on the uneven bars back to back

7/1/2012 9:46:41 PM

lol that chick on the bars sucks

glad she won't be fucking up for our country this month

[Edited on July 1, 2012 at 9:50 PM. Reason : that black chick is gonna win us the gold with her fast twitch athleticism]

7/1/2012 9:47:00 PM

7/1/2012 10:11:36 PM

So what is everyone actually interested in watching? I'll probably tune into men's soccer, men's boxing, Track & Field, swimming, and maybe some men's basketball. After that I don't really care.

7/1/2012 10:17:25 PM

- basketball
- track and field
- women's gymnastics

7/1/2012 10:22:20 PM

If it's anything like last time, I will watch literally everything. I watched the the previous summer olympics constantly.

7/1/2012 10:29:32 PM

Can't talk olympics without talking Alicia Sacramone




[Edited on July 1, 2012 at 10:46 PM. Reason : ]

7/1/2012 10:34:33 PM

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"If it's anything like last time, I will watch literally everything. I watched the the previous summer olympics constantly."

7/1/2012 10:42:23 PM

i cannot wait for the indignant bitch meltdown by the girls who don't make the cut for gymnastics

there may be a flood

7/1/2012 10:51:20 PM

Men's basketball
Track & field
Swimming

7/2/2012 8:52:42 AM

My wife hates swimming because she claims that the swimming events have been scheduled in the past to assists Phelps to get all of his golds.

7/2/2012 12:55:05 PM

7/2/2012 12:56:42 PM

You know that white boy Phelps is gonna get some special consideration.

And DAYUM, these female gymnasts have got abs just rippling underneath their suits. It is pretty hot.

[Edited on July 2, 2012 at 2:04 PM. Reason : fd]

7/2/2012 2:03:08 PM

it's motherfucking badminton time

7/2/2012 2:10:20 PM

No run off for third place qualifier in women's 100m.

London 2012 video game is pretty good. Not as heavy on the button mashing and they've added commentary to the events

7/2/2012 9:58:05 PM

The problem with the summer Olympics is that they don't have women's curling.

On the upside, there's TEAM HANDBALL.

7/3/2012 1:43:19 AM

No Brazilian jiu-jitsu though. That needs to be an olympic sport soon. It's much more deserving of a spot than synchronized diving or rhythmic gymnastics.

Most of the summer olympics sucks. I'll watch the track and field (even though they're all juiced, on HGH, blood dopers, etc.) and swimming because the races are so close and so competitive. I'll watch women's beach volleyball for the ass, and I'll that's about it.

Olympic boxing is a travesty, the team sports are mostly made up of second rate guys or people for whom this isn't a very big deal (baseball, soccer, basketball).

Track & Field and swimming are really the only thing that makes the summer olympics anywhere near as enjoyable to watch as the winter games.

7/3/2012 4:09:45 AM

Track will always be good

Baseball isn't an Olympic sport anymore, because it's the middle of the MLB season and it makes no sense to have an international competition right now

Basketball would be interesting as long as the whole thing isn't just constant yakking about LeBron finally winning a ring

Badminton is fucking awesome in the Olympics

7/3/2012 11:37:14 AM

Hmmm, so it was. No more baseball and no more softball. Fortunately we get to enjoy golf and ruby sevens in their place.

7/3/2012 12:19:59 PM

RUBY

SEVENS

7/3/2012 1:25:52 PM

mlb should do what the nhl does and take a two week break

7/3/2012 2:02:22 PM

I find the World Baseball Classic to be a more fun tournament than whatever the IOC would have anyway. Unlike the IOC, at least MLB is honest that they're about making money.

[Edited on July 3, 2012 at 2:32 PM. Reason : .]

7/3/2012 2:29:14 PM

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"mlb should do what the nhl does and take a two week break "

as much as Gary Bettman hates having to cancel an All-Star game every four years he is a better commissioner for it. Not sure you'd see the same out of Bud Selig. But honestly, i don't think the ball players would care either way. Not that there isn't international pride in the majors (World Baseball Classic has been a modest success) but Olympic Hockey is a different animal.

7/3/2012 4:28:16 PM

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"(World Baseball Classic has been a modest success)"

MLB has made a lot of money on it compared to shutting down the majors for a weeks in the summer that'd lose them a lot of money. Even for baseball folks, John Manuel down the road at Baseball America will tell you the WBC blows the socks off of Olympic baseball.

past Olympics baseball review:

http://media.baseballamerica.com/mp3/free/080825.mp3

past WBC review:

http://media.baseballamerica.com/mp3/free/090311.mp3
http://media.baseballamerica.com/mp3/free/090320.mp3
http://media.baseballamerica.com/mp3/free/090327.mp3

I think baseball should be there more than something like modern pentathlon (the most pointless Olympic sport ever), but it's a sport like cricket or rugby union or ice hockey that is only popular in a handful of countries and if you let the handful of countries organize a competition in contrast to the IOC, it'd be a better competition. And I have little love lost for the IOC, they make the NCAA look unhypocritical by comparison.

7/4/2012 10:57:58 AM

soccer is what needs to have the real players

7/5/2012 2:36:59 PM

How do people feel about the double amputee on the South African relay team? Seems like he might have an unfair advantage between the weight savings and the purpose-built carbon fiber blade feet.

[Edited on July 5, 2012 at 7:27 PM. Reason : T]

7/5/2012 7:22:21 PM

http://www.foxsportsarizona.com/07/05/12/ASUs-Boateng-picked-for-Olympics-team/landing_sundevils.html?blockID=756770&feedID=3702

7/5/2012 7:52:02 PM

personally, i don't have a problem with oscar pistorius competing.

7/5/2012 8:33:01 PM

That baseball player with the bionic eye from Century City thinks it's bullshit.

7/5/2012 8:38:31 PM

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"soccer is what needs to have the real players"

They really can't though on the men's side because of Euro Cup and all of the league schedules around the world. That is why it went U-23 after 1988. Sepp Blatter along with some other people are even in favor of making it a U-20 tournament on the men's side, since a lot of clubs don't want to release their best players for it. The FIFA World Cup winner will always be considered the world champion anyway, so there is no real reason to have an Olympic soccer tournament. It is nothing but a second FIFA Confederations Cup.

7/5/2012 8:39:47 PM

Every sport has world championships

7/6/2012 4:09:24 AM

Swimmin' ain't no sport, it's a survival technique

7/6/2012 7:05:16 AM

^^True, but I don't know of any other sport that has a club season followed by a month long continental tournament and then an Olympic tournament about a month later.

7/6/2012 9:12:24 PM

synchronized swimming

[Edited on July 8, 2012 at 9:31 AM. Reason : oh and diving....I love that shit]

7/8/2012 9:30:53 AM

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"Coach K wants to get freaky"

-LeBron James

7/8/2012 11:20:01 AM

http://triblive.com/news/2195533-74/olympic-uniforms-athletes-china-american-lauren-ralph-usoc-committee-games
>.<

7/12/2012 2:51:55 PM

I'm sorry. Did someone say Alicia Sacramone?

7/12/2012 3:13:22 PM

This site explains the rules of the different olympic sports

http://www.bigpondsport.com/Olympics/SportPreviews/InteractiveEventGuide/tabid/739/Default.aspx

7/14/2012 5:13:25 PM

http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/story/_/id/8133052/athletes-spill-details-dirty-secrets-olympic-village-espn-magazine

7/14/2012 5:14:54 PM