Posts by Hadyn Green
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How about those pretty fireworks?
When we were watching the firework footprints I said "that looks like CGI". Then there was a shot inside the stadium with the fireworks exploding overhead and I said, "wow that was real". I feel kinda duped.
P'raps they can also sketch in a few happy smiling family members to watch from the empty seats.
The weightlifting, gymnastics, basketball etc seem to be full. Also the Japanese hockey and soccer matches were quite full too.
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...I suggest though that they get rid of the butterfly, breaststroke and backstroke as freestyle is the fastest. Why the hell would you do something a slower way and then turn it into a competition...
and now I shall attempt to defend swimming, after dissing it.
You do those strokes for the same reason weightlifting has judges: technique. Ok, not quite the same.
Every swimmer (apparently) hates breaststroke. It's hard and slow. So why do it? Because it's a very tricky stroke to master, hence if you win a lot of your victory comes from the fact that you have a better form and technique compared to the other swimmers, rather than just brute strength or speed (compare and contrast Phelps with Kisuke Kitajima who won the 100m Breaststroke).
In this way athletics has the hurdles, the cross country, the triple jump, and the the pole vault.
Distance is a different issue.
Also just as a side note: Freestyle means you can swim that race (or leg) in any style you want. It's just that the front crawl is the fastest, so everyone uses that.
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How NZ can match Phelps
That was exactly my argument too.
Weightlifting is the same. It's not like they get a medal for the snatch and another for the clean and jerk.
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Yes, turning into another person is truly amazing, even for someone as talented as Phelps.
Yeah, I got that. I was talking about Phelps' last 25m. Where he was trailing the Australian by maybe 2m and he caught it up.
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Phelps is the most freakish athlete I have ever seen. I always thought Thorpe was good, but Phelps is really something else. His last 25m in the relay where he just turned it on and caught up to first was stunning.
But is he the greatest Olympian of all time?
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Canoodle - canoodling
ergo
Google - googling
See now I agree, but my beloved's argument is that Google is a concrete noun. So it'd be more like Xerox to Xerox-ing.
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Australia sports teams seem to have completely lost it on the uniform front. That man-bra thing the Wallabies wear has to be the ugliest international jersey ever.
The Walla-bra is sported by any international team that wears Canterbury jerseys. Scotland, Ireland, the USA.
The Aussie women basketballers have also had some pretty shocking uniforms.
I am formulating an Olympic uniform post too.
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Give them a couple of minutes and they might have something rational to say.
Ha! Or it's the same bollocks but they aren't puffing when they say it.
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Back to the word conversation, I have just been reminded of a brief but intense argument I had with Amy last night:
To use the search engine Google to find something is "googling" or Google-ing"? -
is this the safe 'it's okay to just talk about the sport' zone?
it's ok Charles, you're among friends