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

[dora_da_destroyer]

No shyt. I'm not saying pluck the NFLs best today and put them on a track. I'm saying if a lot of these players
chose track instead of football you'd see more elite US sprinters

Dudes are idiots for missing this point.

Most the cats I knew in high school ran track and played football, but the talented ones could really only focus on one sport when they hit college and most go for football. The money is too small and limited to too few athletes in track compared to even getting a few years in the nfl. If these cats stayed on the track path we'd be back. Jamaica literally has soccer and sprinting - 100 and 200 - that people work to perfect. Jamaicans aren't dominating other lengths or events (field...hurdles).

But whatever, men's team tonight

 

[MikelArteta]

Tyreek Hill who's in the NFL ran a 9.98 in juco! He got beat out by that degrasse nikka with a 9.96

Hill ran a wind-assisted (+5.0 m/s) 9.98 in the 100-meter dash at the 2013 Hutchinson NJCCA Championships.

If a tail wind exceeds 2metres per second (3.9 kn) the result cannot be registered as a record on any level.[

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[Big Boss]

All the 100 and 200 sprinters are all in nba and football..

U a fool



All the heavyweights are in the NFL

 

[Chrishaune]

You do know that track is more than the 100 and 200 right? The US are much better on the other runs and events. Be fair breh.

Nobody's arguing about who's the best, I already said Jamaica is. All I'm doing is adding perspective to the situation.

 

[Wacky D]

so japan had a blackaneese cat running anchor?

 

[Originalman]

U a fool



All the heavyweights are in the NFL

Right and all the best black athletes in football are at white schools and not at HBCUs....

 

[sportscribe]

Dudes made real Olympic gold medal winners like Willie gault look avg in terms of speed and they were moving faster than him with more size and bulk.

What Olympic gold medal did he win?

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

Nobody's arguing about who's the best, I already said Jamaica is. All I'm doing is adding perspective to the situation.

I know breh. I'm just pointing out that the US has its BETTER athletes out there in track. They do great and medal more than others.

 

[Chrishaune]

I know breh. I'm just pointing out that the US has it best athletes out there in track. They do great and medal more than others.

Don't agree, but The women probably, but not the men. A visual comparison tells you that.

 

[The axe murderer]

 

[sportscribe]

All the 100 and 200 sprinters are all in nba and football..

The best US athletes are really playing Dungeons and Dragons.

 

[L&HH]

Examples and why?

It's resources and what sport most people prefer to play. In my high school our best track athletes didn't even run track. Some of them would wait until their senior year when football season is over and they had nothing else to do but graduate and then decide to come out for outdoor. The track coaches would always be at why these nikkas waited until then to actually try. The nikkas that did take track more seriously than them were much smaller and were mostly football rejects. They played jv but saw there was no future in it for them so then they take track more seriously their sophmore year.

Look at Devon Allen from Oregon, he also plays football. He's the U.S.'s best 100m hurdler and placed 5th in Rio. Imagine if he said fukk track and focused on football, we'd never know he existed. But also imagine if he said fukk football and put more effort into track, it's possible he'd be much better. All those hits and nagging injuries carried over from a 4-5 month football season likely effects his training for track. But here's the other thing, if you look at him and his stature, I'm almost certain you can find better "athletes" than him on Oregon's team alone yet those guys likely never gave track and field a shot because their focus and commitment was 100% to football. Maybe they may have dabbled in it when they were younger to stay in shape and workout in the offseason, but it's def not anything they took seriously.

Compare Devon Allen's stature to the guys who beat him, and compare those guys to other players on Oregon's team.

Here's Omar Mcleod, the Jamaican gold medalist compared to Devon Allen. Allen physically isn't all the way there with Mcleod. Bigger thighs, broader shoulders, more muscle definition. I'm sure you could find some guys on Oregon's team that match up better physically to Mcleod than Allen. However those guys likely never cared or even thought of competing in this event.

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

this taekwondo shyt is wack

 

[010101]

the best athletes go where the cash and glory are
in the us track is for the cats who wash out of football/basketball

for ja track and field takes center stage and gets the best of their athletes
it's easy enough to understand what is being said

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[MikelArteta]

top track athletes make much more than that

Just getting home and see we DQ'ed...fukking

Men's SPRINTING is at an all-time low. I would advocate for these dudes to stop with their football dreams, but 400k/yr as a NFL scrub for a few years >>> 40-100k/yr as a top 10-20 track star I guess

Title ix saved the US


my US ladies tho