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

The Odum of Ala Igbo

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I legit had to wiki Carl Lewis. Forgot all about his ass :mjlol:

That should tell you everything really. If he truly was an icon I wouldn't need to search him up to remind myself :francis:

I'm pretty sure I won't need to search up 'Usain Bolt' in 20 years doe

Your anecdotal evidence means little. It just means you were probably born in 95 and you love Young Thug.
 

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This triathlon fukkery :russ:

USA broad and Swiss broad lettin each other pass and swerving back and forth. Laughin at each other.
 

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I legit had to wiki Carl Lewis. Forgot all about his ass :mjlol:

That should tell you everything really. If he truly was an icon I wouldn't need to search him up to remind myself :francis:

I'm pretty sure I won't need to search up 'Usain Bolt' in 20 years doe

This has to be the dumbest post in this whole thread. If you about 20 years old then I understand your dumbness. If you are older than 20 then you are legit stupid. Usain Bolt is today what Carl Lewis used to be.

Carl Lewis is one of the biggest names in track and field history. Not only was he a sprint champion, but he was a long jump champion too.
 

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I bet it was the Canadians they were laughing awful hard in the tunnel before the race :pacspit:
In shoes borrowed from Felix, Gardner earns gold

8/20/2016

RIO DE JANEIRO – An old rhyme indicates that on her wedding day, for good luck a bride should wear “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.”

Friday night at Olympic Stadium, English Gardner had all of those fronts covered during Team USA’s gold-medal 4x100m relay performance. Running in her new, blue USA uniform and her usual jewelry, her “something borrowed” was her most important piece of equipment – her shoes.

Gardner says that after Thursday night’s time trial for the relay, which advanced them into the final, she returned to the apartment she shared with her parents in Rio and never touched her spike bag. Friday night at the stadium’s warm-up track, she left her bag in a tent as she warmed up. Just more than 10 minutes before the team was to report to the call room, she prepared to practice hand-offs with Allyson Felix. She went to her bag to get her shoes: “I opened my bag, and it looked like stuff had been moved around. And there was only one spike in it.”

Gardner discreetly told a Team USA assistant coach about her conundrum, and they searched for an athlete with size 7.5 feet. Gardner then confided in Felix, who wears a size 8. The most decorated female track & field athlete in history had an extra pair of spikes in her bag. And although the shoes were custom-made for Felix’s narrow feet rather than Gardner’s and were a half-size too big, “It was nothing an extra pair of socks couldn’t fix,” Gardner said.

Running in those borrowed, big shoes, Gardner’s third leg was critical in propelling the Americans to victory in 41.01 seconds, the second-fastest time in history.

After the race, Gardner thanked Felix for the loaner and tried to return the shoes, which had helped to fulfill that old good-luck poem about wedding days.

“You keep those,” Felix told Gardner. “You earned a gold medal in them.”
 

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Man you nikkas really trying to jump thru hoops to deny the simple fact Jamaica just might be better sprinting.

I'll add this. Jamaica has even more poverty and violence than the US. Less sporting infrastructure such as we have in our high school and college system. I would argue that there could also be many potential sprinting greats that fall thru the cracks in Jamaica and never reach their full potential.

Remember Usain Bolt never wanted to run track. He said he wanted to play cricket (which is the most popular sport in Jamaica). It was his parents and coaches that forced him. Even to this day he says he doesn't like training for track and only does it because he loves the reaction of the crowd to his performances.

You nikkas just need to accept the fact Jamaica is just better at sprinting than anyone else in the world. And we might never get an explanation of why this is the case.
100 metres at the Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

200 metres at the Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Again, let's talk facts...look at these tables of historical results, US is still ahead of the game. Secondly, the disparity between Jamaican men's and women's performance historically is pretty big. The women have been in the mix over the years, which is likely because that's the only sport women there really have an interest in and see a life from. The men just showed up this century, with a little better showing in the 200 historically. You gonna tell me that there isn't a correlation between a sport's popularity and breeding some of the best in it? Nah, the women's side lets you know - the more something dominates the more people are gonna be interested in it. Jamaica is in its golden age for the sport, it's luck that Bolt's dominance also coincided with the women breaking through as well. Bolt is an anomaly, had he been Bahamian bajan trini etc he still would've been dominant (given the right training) he's a natural (:mjpls:). The field is about to open up, who knows what country might be the next to experience a golden age in their program, jamaica caught up and their talent is showing, but some other country will do the same.
 
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