The Official 2016 Olympics thread: Medals Are For the Elite but Zika is For Everybody

[Chrishaune]

The fastest player in the NFL would get smoked by any elite sprinter. They are training for completely different sports.

They don't train for track.....more stop and go in football. But anyway, I'm not hating on the Jamaicans or Bolt. They are GOAT......Just pointing out a tidbit that most are overlooking. Black athletes showing out everywhere, but some countries spend more time on other specific non olympic sports.

 

[Big Boss]

Devin Hester tho

 

[Originalman]

Exactly. There's guys that are all over the football field on Sundays that ran track, but chose football on their way to college, and went on that bulk up plan for football. Guys all over college football fields that chose football over track , but ran track in High school. Football just is more attractive to a lot of athletes.

Football just potentially pays better that is why they do this.

I mean from a history stand point you can say hey why doesn't the US produce any great black heavy weight boxers (look at the Olympics) or great black American baseball players.

Well all that potential talent is playing TE, LB, QB, WR, safety in the NFL and PG and SG in the NBA.

Way safer sport and less punishment (than boxing) and black Americans gravitated to the sport because of perceived more opportunities (basketball). Also the ability to play positions that was never opened to them (MLB, SS, QB in the NFL) in the past.

I mean what if Wade played baseball instead a short stop? What if Shawn Merriam was a heavy heavy weight boxer.

What if Randy Moss played the outfield? Dude probably would have been a golden glover.

 

[Swagnificent]

Japanese fast as fukk

I don't know why yall are surprised by this.

Asians ain't as slow as cacs.

In my high school, we had a chinese dude that was the fastest at the 100m. And mind you our school was 50+% black.

So I've had respect for the Asians in sprinting since then.

 

[Big Boss]

Cornball brother was a trackstar

 

[Miggs]

Yeah I know. But he's angry at something breh. Btw, Mike was lame for that bullshyt! I lost respect for him from that day on.


What country to you live in? From?

Now this is an honest Israelite right here

 

[Larry Lambo]

whose the fastest player in the nfl right now?

Right now, I'm not sure.

Jacoby Ford ran a 10.01 in college. He's in the CFL right now.

 

[DynamoEAR]

Trayvon Brommel hauled out the stadium in a wheelchair.

Time to go under the knife at the TMC when he gets off that return flight in Houston.

 

[#1 pick]

While Football players bulk up way too much, come on, most of these nikkas are not in the same class with De Grasse or Gatlin much less Bolt. The improvement and God given ability to be an elite spiriter is crazy. You can't predict it. I know too many who had elite track speed like Demiko Goodman at UGA who just topped out. But I do agree with some of the guys. Most of the athletes don't have the passion for the sport like the Jamaicans for the best athletes to run track. The thing is not getting the faster people to run, it's getting the most potential to run.

 

[Chrishaune]

Football just potentially pays better that is why they do this.

I mean from a history stand point you can say hey why doesn't the US produce any great black heavy weight boxers (look at the Olympics) or great black American baseball players.

Well all that potential talent is playing TE, LB, QB, WR, safety in the NFL and PG and SG in the NBA.

Way safer sport and less punishment (than boxing) and black Americans gravitated to the sport because of perceived more opportunities (basketball). Also the ability to play positions that was never opened to them (MLB, SS, QB)

Those Jamaican relay athletes look like potential ball players to me in the tunnel compared to the US athletes. I'd pick that team off of looks alone, in the tunnel. They're bigger, they're faster, and stronger. That's the way it works in the U.S. for sports, the big, fast, and strong get plucked up for other sports.

 

[Jaylen Tatum]

 

[Wacky D]

this super-store show on nbc is hilarious.

 

[#1 pick]

That's because our women are flat out better. Fukk is you taking about? The Jamaican women just got their asses smoked by us.

LOL, Jamrock girls are faster, they just wasn't good with the handoffs. They were just as suggish as the US men. You saw how awful Thompson's pass was but he smoke the fukk outta the comp.

 

[BlackManLiveFromLondon]

@Reinscarf @malcolmxxx_45 We gotta talk about De Grasse last leg one of the best anchor legs ive seen hes gonna get that Gold in Tokyo his split had to have been at least a 9.7 for that leg

 

[nomoreneveragain]

Even the gawd Bolt was surprised for a second