Olympics

[Lsdolphin]

Forget Simone Biles and Caeleb Dressel. The American stealing the show at the Paris Olympics is Flavor Flav.

The 65-year-old performer, whose real name is William Jonathan Drayton Jr., has been a fixture at the 2024 games thanks to his partnership with USA Water Polo.

The Public Enemy rapper has embraced his new role as “official hype man” of the women’s team, appearing poolside at the team’s matches wearing a water polo cap and Team USA branded waterproof clock necklace.

Under the terms of the sponsorship deal announced earlier this month, Flavor Flav will make multiple appearances at USA Water Polo events each year, as well as lend his social media presence to the team to help “amplify the sport’s reach and engage new audiences.”

“This is one of the biggest things that I feel that I could have ever done in life, outside of the other accomplishments that I’ve made to music,” he said in an interview with NBC Olympics. “By sponsoring a water polo team and helping these girls out, this is bigger than me winning a Grammy.”

The rapper first connected with the team in May after athlete Maggie Steffens posted on Instagram about the lengths to which she and her teammates have gone to make their Olympic dreams a reality in a sport that isn’t as widely popular as some others.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/29/oly...-flav-became-a-sponsor-of-usa-water-polo.html

This was a great story but very sad to hear that Maggie Steffens sister-in law passed away unexpectedly a day or two after she arrived in Paris to watch the Women’s water polo competition. Also her sister-in-law was an artist who designed and made a clock necklace for Flavor Flav which he has been wearing during games.

 

[Karin1984]

Snoop is of course working for NBC so he is expected.

I read he is getting 500k per day plus all expenses paid, so if they want to get some value for money, he is going to be everywhere

 

[ronandannette]

Woot!! Canada takes gold in the Men's 4X100!! What an exciting event to watch and the win takes (a tiny bit of) the edge off our huge disappointment in basketball.

 

[RedAngie]

I’m amazed at how serious these spectators are taking the ping pong, oops, excuse me, table tennis final.

And the unusual serving techniques. A far cry from rec room matches.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I’m amazed at how serious these spectators are taking the ping pong, oops, excuse me, table tennis final.

And the unusual serving techniques. A far cry from rec room matches.

I've only been watching those through fastforward on the recordings I have but I must say it's more of an intense sport than I thought it would be, the players look downright fierce at times I could imagine the spectators fuel that or feed off of that.

 

[Disneefun]

The Romanians have filed an official appeal of the gymnastics results: https://www.today.com/news/paris-olympics/romanian-gymnastics-floor-inquiry-response-rcna165615

And Chiles has now lost her medal. The inquiry was filed outside the 1 minute time limit, and so the bronze must go to the romanian, says CAS. The problem is, the judges still scored Chiles wrongly. Shouldn't the goal here be to get it absolutely right rather than worrying about weird time limits? I mean, I could understand if it was hours/days later, but I read somewhere that the inquiry was filed something like 4 seconds past the time limit. If it was past the time limit, the judges shouldn't have accepted the inquiry at all. But they did, and everything was handled in good faith at the time, so now, five days later, you strip a medal, as though Chiles dod something wrong? She did nothing wrong. The judges screwed this all up and now she has to pay. SMDH.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story...oids-inquiry-led-jordan-chiles-olympic-bronze

 

[monsterkitty]

And Chiles has now lost her medal. The inquiry was filed outside the 1 minute time limit, and so the bronze must go to the romanian, says CAS. The problem is, the judges still scored Chiles wrongly. Shouldn't the goal here be to get it absolutely right rather than worrying about weird time limits? I mean, I could understand if it was hours/days later, but I read somewhere that the inquiry was filed something like 4 seconds past the time limit. If it was past the time limit, the judges shouldn't have accepted the inquiry at all. But they did, and everything was handled in good faith at the time, so now, five days later, you strip a medal, as though Chiles dod something wrong? She did nothing wrong. The judges screwed this all up and now she has to pay. SMDH.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story...oids-inquiry-led-jordan-chiles-olympic-bronze

This is not official. The FIG and IOC are the ones who will make the official call. They have never changed the results for judging errors. The only time results have been changed is for doping or for age falsification.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I read he is getting 500k per day plus all expenses paid, so if they want to get some value for money, he is going to be everywhere

Heck. They could have gotten me to be foolish for $500 a day plus expenses.

I’m amazed at how serious these spectators are taking the ping pong, oops, excuse me, table tennis final.

And the unusual serving techniques. A far cry from rec room matches.

I'm just waiting for cornhole to be an Olympic sport, complete with rule that you have to have at least 3 beers before you play. Oh and Lawn Jarts too.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

I saw that water park on a youtube channel recently. It was not there back in the day. Just curious where you were in Choctaw. We were practicing at the high school in Choctaw when the F5 tornado May 5th came through. We lived in the next town over, Harrah. I am honestly out of the loop regarding traveling softball. Back then it was ASA and USSSA. My daughter is in the USSSA Hall of Fame from the world championships in Muscle Shoals Alabama. When my daughter graduated high school and left traveling, I honestly thought I would not know what to do with myself. Now, I can't imagine going back to that. Detroit, Chicago, St Louis, Joplin, Alabama, Colorado. My head hurts thinking how much $$ we spent. I much preferred when she started in California as they have so many tournaments here, we didn't have to travel far. Back to the olympics. I'm sure OKC will do the USA proud. My daughter's friend works for a company that may be providing support so I'm thinking she's hoping to get tickets.

We played at Bouse Sports Complex. We stayed in OKC, but it wasn't an awful drive.

I have to be honest...the tornado component has me nervous about DD17 going to OU. Granted, every place is going to have its issues... and we've had plenty of late. The derecho in May and the hurricane right after we got back from softball in Colorado have made me want to live in a bubble.

That's awesome about your daughter being in the USSSA Hall of Fame! Very cool! We played a bit of USSSA when DD15 was younger, but I think it may just be that things change with time. Sometimes it's even just the region/area. I share your pain with the travel...and we have several more years to go. Softball has given us quite a few years traveling all over the US. We finished our summer season up in California about 2 weeks ago and I'm still in recovery!

As for the Olympics...at some point, I may ask DDs coach for her opinion. She played in a couple of Olympics and I'm sure she has thoughts. I have no doubt that OKC will roll out the red carpet for these athletes. On the plus side, while I'm sure tickets for us non-connected people will probably still be in line with standard Olympic pricing, OKC...even with Olympic price gouging, has got to be cheaper than visiting SoCal under these circumstances.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

And Chiles has now lost her medal. The inquiry was filed outside the 1 minute time limit, and so the bronze must go to the romanian, says CAS. The problem is, the judges still scored Chiles wrongly. Shouldn't the goal here be to get it absolutely right rather than worrying about weird time limits? I mean, I could understand if it was hours/days later, but I read somewhere that the inquiry was filed something like 4 seconds past the time limit. If it was past the time limit, the judges shouldn't have accepted the inquiry at all. But they did, and everything was handled in good faith at the time, so now, five days later, you strip a medal, as though Chiles dod something wrong? She did nothing wrong. The judges screwed this all up and now she has to pay. SMDH.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story...oids-inquiry-led-jordan-chiles-olympic-bronze

Your article by the way hasn't said she lost her medal. It said CAS has requested the prior order be restored; the medal aspect is left up to FIG.

Gymnastics has had a long history of controversy over judging but I don't consider this as cut and dried because there were two situations, both with dramatic changes. It shows an issue with judging and adhering to rules but the way you present it is more one sided towards Chiles when in fact 3 gymnasts were affected (this isn't about country vs country but about the actual people affected).

I actually just watched last night the event where this happened (we're really behind) and there was an audible gasp and confusion in the commentator's voice regarding the penalty assessed to Maneca-Voinea, when that score came out you could tell there seemed to be something up.

If Chiles difficulty score should have been higher it should have been higher, however they shouldn't hear out that appeal and deny another if both are not eligible to appeal due to xyz. Without that penalty Maneca-Voinea would have been above Chiles even wih her appeal towards a higher difficulty level.

If you're about getting it absolutely right and a review of the video for Maneca-Voinea (which is compelling towards an incorrect penalty if that's the point where the judges assessed it) is accepted for an appeal of the score then you would accept that Chiles wouldn't have qualified for Bronze and Maneca-Voinea would have based only on the penalty.

 

[monsterkitty]

Your article by the way hasn't said she lost her medal. It said CAS has requested the prior order be restored; the medal aspect is left up to FIG.

Gymnastics has had a long history of controversy over judging but I don't consider this as cut and dried because there were two situations, both with dramatic changes. It shows an issue with judging and adhering to rules but the way you present it is more one sided towards Chiles when in fact 3 gymnasts were affected (this isn't about country vs country but about the actual people affected).

I actually just watched last night the event where this happened (we're really behind) and there was an audible gasp and confusion in the commentator's voice regarding the penalty assessed to Maneca-Voinea, when that score came out you could tell there seemed to be something up.

If Chiles difficulty score should have been higher it should have been higher, however they shouldn't hear out that appeal and deny another if both are not eligible to appeal due to xyz. Without that penalty Maneca-Voinea would have been above Chiles even wih her appeal towards a higher difficulty level.

If you're about getting it absolutely right and a review of the video for Maneca-Voinea (which is compelling towards an incorrect penalty if that's the point where the judges assessed it) is accepted for an appeal of the score then you would accept that Chiles wouldn't have qualified for Bronze and Maneca-Voinea would have based only on the penalty.

The replay from different views shows that Voinea touched out of bounds with her toe as she circled her foot right before the heel was shown not to touch out of bounds.

There is a person on Twitter who has time stamps of when Jordan finished her routine and when her coach filed the appeal on her D score. The time stamps show that appeal was filed within the one minute allowed.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

The replay from different views shows that Voinea touched out of bounds with her toe as she circled her foot right before the heel was shown not to touch out of bounds.

There is a person on Twitter who has time stamps of when Jordan finished her routine and when her coach filed the appeal on her D score. The time stamps show that appeal was filed within the one minute allowed.

I deleted the recording already do you happen to have that video (my own curiosity here)? as the only one I can find on the internet now doesn't show the toe touching the ground (sweeping over it) but that would be because it's just from that certain angle. In other sports they've used that really cool camera angle replay where it's like a 3D effect. On my recording they didn't show replays of her routine pointing out the errors and I'm guessing because they didn't expect her to be penalized like I said it was an audible gasp from our commentator.

On the time stamps that's gonna be hard for I think us at home to use because there's official clocks they use at the arena and how they start the clock for the inquiry. One person on twitter reddit framed it as "4 seconds is the difference between the judge pushing the button immediately when Cecil says "Inquiry for Jordan Chiles", or waiting for Cecil finish her statement on what they're inquiring about before pressing the inquiry button" I'm not taking that at face value as that's what actually could have happened but just to say it would be hard for us at home to use arena clocks and say it was in time. That's something the judges have an internal process on where they may have been off may not have been. Someone else mentioned they wouldn't be surprised if USA did their own appeal which if allowed I could see happening.

 

[Babs Johnson]

I'm just waiting for cornhole to be an Olympic sport, complete with rule that you have to have at least 3 beers before you play. Oh and Lawn Jarts too.

Why not? They’re objective activities with little chance of judging “errors” or biases. Better than breaking, which I understand Los Angeles 2028 is throwing in the trash dumpster.

My choices for additions are speed roller skating on rollerblades. Both basic on an oval track and on an obstacle course type track.

Lacrosse too, but it’s really only a US and Canada sport.

 

[Marrila]

Why not? They’re objective activities with little chance of judging “errors” or biases. Better than breaking, which I understand Los Angeles 2028 is throwing in the trash dumpster.

My choices for additions are speed roller skating on rollerblades. Both basic on an oval track and on an obstacle course type track.

Lacrosse too, but it’s really only a US and Canada sport.

I'm delighted baseball and softball will be back at the 2028 Olympics.
Break dancing? It was a big no thanks for me.

 

[irlandaise]

No spoilers, but that was a very exciting men's basketball game! Both teams really brought their A-games.

 

[tx911]

No spoilers, but that was a very exciting men's basketball game! Both teams really brought their A-games.

Cloudy with a chance of....Curry!

 

[irlandaise]

My choices for additions are speed roller skating on rollerblades. Both basic on an oval track and on an obstacle course type track.

Lacrosse too, but it’s really only a US and Canada sport.

There will be lacrosse in 2028. It was one of the host city's discretionary choices.

 

[Babs Johnson]

There will be lacrosse in 2028. It was one of the host city's discretionary choices.

Thanks for the info.

 

[Karin1984]

Snoop Dogg also helps out the UK with their social media.

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[Disneylover99]

Watching it now. What a show!

Yep! Great show!