London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread

[dickman69]

States that suck at football play lacrosse

Ie everyone but Texas, Florida, Cali, and ohio

ppl play lacrosse here & we've got better football history than ohio...

that being said the only ppl that play lacrosse here are ppl that aren't good enough to play football

You get ranked teams and players but your state offers no competition.

I went to Dallas skyline SR year and played 6 top 50 teams
Some of the.Florida teams could beat big.east.teams.

LOL maybe not now but... look at the hall of famers from PA 29 (more than ohio... more than TEXAS)

[pkay]

Yeah but do you really compare mike ditkas era to ray Lewis? Ray Lewis would pull men's.hearts.out.of.their.chests if he played in the 50s

[dickman69]

hahaha i guess so

[Sexual_Chocolate]

lacross is getting big in highschools here now...

also, NBA players have a FUCKLOAD spent on them making sure that their bodies are good to go week in week out... but that doesnt mean its a harder sport, it just means its developed further than what rowing has in terms of skill, fitness etc because of the funds its had avalliable.

You realize they were world class athletes living in the Hood at 17 and not much changes at 19 in the nba

LOL ffs pkay.

im talking about the skills & conditioning. not natural born talent.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

is international lacrosse like the world series in baseball?

U bad at sports knowledge

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Baseball_Classic

twas a joke.

making reference to something thats 'world' but only in america. get it?

[nousd]

so I'm getting that the London Olympics was held in North America & the only team sport was ice lacrosse

[Terpit]

making reference to something thats 'world' but only in america. get it?

[pkay]

Got into debate on facebook about why our women are leaps and bounds above the rest of the world. Found most folks countries have nothing similar to title 9. Decided this is why we are so far ahead


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX#section_7

[Hedley King]

Got into debate on facebook about why our women are leaps and bounds above the rest of the world. Found most folks countries have nothing similar to title 9. Decided this is why we are so far ahead


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX#section_7

Are your women leaps and bounds above the rest of the world?

[pkay]

Got into debate on facebook about why our women are leaps and bounds above the rest of the world. Found most folks countries have nothing similar to title 9. Decided this is why we are so far ahead


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX#section_7

Are your women leaps and bounds above the rest of the world?

In sports yes

[Molzie]

Got into debate on facebook about why our women are leaps and bounds above the rest of the world. Found most folks countries have nothing similar to title 9. Decided this is why we are so far ahead


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX#section_7

Are your women leaps and bounds above the rest of the world?

In sports yes

what sports? (excl track & field and swimming)

Genuinely interested to know

[Hedley King]

Got into debate on facebook about why our women are leaps and bounds above the rest of the world. Found most folks countries have nothing similar to title 9. Decided this is why we are so far ahead


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX#section_7

Are your women leaps and bounds above the rest of the world?

In sports yes

If that is the case, isn't that more about popularity, population size and funding? Women in most of the western world have equal rights in the way that title IX seems to state.

USA women's football (soccer) do well because that is a relatively well funded and popular sport with a big pool of people to choose from and good coaching etc in the USA compared to a lot of other countries. USA women didn't do so well at things like handball or badminton or table tennis that are more popular with women in other parts of the world.

[pkay]

Got into debate on facebook about why our women are leaps and bounds above the rest of the world. Found most folks countries have nothing similar to title 9. Decided this is why we are so far ahead


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX#section_7

Are your women leaps and bounds above the rest of the world?

In sports yes

what sports? (excl track & field and swimming)

Genuinely interested to know

Volleyball, beach volleyball, basketball, gymnastics. If the USA women were a country they'd have placed third in the overall medal count. Not gonna insult you with a link as I'm sure you have Google too

[Molzie]

Isn't beach volleyball and volleyball as the same thing? ie same rules etc

[Forum]

Like i said earlier, the US has far better sports facilities in schools than other countries. Im sure theres reasons why the men don't dominate athletics like they used to

[pkay]

Isn't beach volleyball and volleyball as the same thing? ie same rules etc

No

[Molzie]

that's power of population pkay. number will always win.

nz = 1 gold medal per 800k
us = 1 gold medal per 7m

[ehbes]

US 104 medals....

[hugh]

that's power of population pkay. number will always win.

nz = 1 gold medal per 800k
us = 1 gold medal per 7m

do gold medal per dollar spent per capita on sports funding. I think you will find the numbers similarly disparate, so you can't just make a statistical summary like that. How do you explain Jamaica winning so many track and field events? Answer > They invest a lot in track in field compared to other sports because sprinting is their national sport.

[ehbes]

That's not after example, Jamaica is extremely shady in their doping regulations