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Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 5:09 am
by dickman69
pkay wrote:rayman612 wrote:pkay wrote: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)
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 5:12 am
by 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
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 5:13 am
by dickman69
hahaha i guess so
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 5:43 am
by Sexual_Chocolate
pkay wrote:Nevalo wrote: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.
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 5:46 am
by Sexual_Chocolate
twas a joke.
making reference to something thats 'world' but only in america. get it?
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 7:21 am
by nousd
so I'm getting that the London Olympics was held in North America & the only team sport was ice lacrosse
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:35 am
by Terpit
Nevalo wrote:making reference to something thats 'world' but only in america. get it?

Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:57 pm
by 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
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:21 pm
by Hedley King
pkay wrote: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?
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:28 pm
by pkay
Hedley King wrote:pkay wrote: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
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:32 pm
by Molzie
pkay wrote:Hedley King wrote:pkay wrote: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
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 7:36 pm
by Hedley King
pkay wrote:Hedley King wrote:pkay wrote: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.
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:36 pm
by pkay
Molzie wrote:pkay wrote:Hedley King wrote:pkay wrote: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
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:43 pm
by Molzie
Isn't beach volleyball and volleyball as the same thing? ie same rules etc
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:45 pm
by 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
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:54 pm
by pkay
Molzie wrote:Isn't beach volleyball and volleyball as the same thing? ie same rules etc
No
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:58 pm
by Molzie
that's power of population pkay. number will always win.
nz = 1 gold medal per 800k
us = 1 gold medal per 7m
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:30 pm
by ehbes
US 104 medals....
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:32 pm
by hugh
Molzie wrote: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.
Re: London 2012 Olympics Rolling Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:34 pm
by ehbes
That's not after example, Jamaica is extremely shady in their doping regulations