She has that mentality, yet she looks like a kid just fucking around on her trampoline.

They hired another coach that led them to (arguably more) international glory (than Pia even managed), so by your own logic, the USWNT hiring process was both incorrect and correct. “So-and-so happened to be the coach when her collection of superior athletes won a highly random, single elimination tournament” is not…

Of all the things to criticize, you're going to go with looking for another coach and Hope Solo's correct take?

She literally makes it look so damn easy. It’s like we are trapped in the imagination of an 8 year old who decided to start daydreaming about the Olympics and imagined herself just doing a bunch of insane stuff.

I don’t understand why people still want to see these comments ripped to shreds. The trolling is beyond obvious.

Your people must be ecstatic about Simone Biles.

Or, I dunno. Is aliens people?

“Everyone at that level is talented”
Of course, but the very best are more talented than the others. That is the biggest difference. Work ethic is out, because athletes have to worry about overtraining. There is an upper limit to the amount of effort you can put into being the very best while having it be remotely…

No they are not. The sooner this take dies, the better.

Being an asshole has absolutely fuck-all to do with hand-eye coordination, VO2 Max, being tall, or whatever skill you *actually* need to play a sport well. I can’t possibly imagine a scenario in which being an asshole makes you ride a bike faster.

There were around 9.5 runs per game during the steroid era. There are 8.5 runs per game today. Become a Rockies fan. Problem solved.

It is entirely possible and probable that the best cyclists did not dope, and that a bunch of mediocre cyclists ended up winning races because doping is just a game breaking advantage in a sport that is almost purely endurance.

You also have to consider that Lance's team had such a sophisticated doping regime, that…

I’ve had it with these fucking spoilers.

The Tokyo Olympics don't start for another 4 years, and I already know who wins the women's 400 and 800 free.

CBC has more than two employess, so, no.

THEN WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING ON A SWIMMING BLOG smfh

I think the constant assuming the worst of everybody is getting pathetic.

Does the world really get just how good Simone Biles is? She’s the prohibitive favorite in her four individual events, and if she wins, it's be the greatest Olympics by a female gymnast, ever. She is bordering on a Ledecky-level chokehold on the sport.

They *could* step on a tough QF matchup.

Canada missing the hockey podium is not all that strange. They ran into the best goalie of all time while he was in alien-mode, then lost another game against a very good Finland team. These were relatively small upsets.

Team USA missing the *basketball* podium would be a quantum leap in terms of WTF, although they…

The Olympics are one of the biggest sports mediapaloozas on the entire planet. Which means, it’s going to include a whole lot of people coming up with a whole lot of comments on a very public forum.

Of course you’re going to find borderline or overtly sexist comments five or twenty times over the course of the games,…

A hockey podium consisting of Hasek-Russia-Finland is nothing particularly out of the ordinary.

Team USA staying off of the podium altogether would be maybe a 1% shot.

These announcers are the literal worst. These athletes have been training their whole lives for this opportunity.




They don't need to be told that they have to try.