By STEVEN WINE, AP Sports Writer 12 minutes ago BEIJING (AP)—Roger Federer’s bid for his first Olympic singles medal has ended with a loss to American James Blake. With the sort of lackluster performance that was once unthinkable for Federer, he was eliminated in the quarterfinals on Thursday night. The upset was a stunner in that Blake had won only a single set in their previous eight matches. But the top-seeded Federer is battling a yearlong slump that has left him stalled at 12 major titles, two shy of Pete Sampras’ record. Federer’s latest defeat means no rematch in Sunday’s final against Nadal, who won in epic fashion when they met for the Wimbledon title. http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/be...5pSVTZd4?slug=ap-ten-tennis&prov=ap&type=lgns
Hurry up, NBC, ESPN, CNN, New York Times etc. The world is waiting your report disclosing the fact how a Chinese girl cheated her way into beating your Venus Williams!
WOW. The US (Gibb/Rosenthal) vs. Japan Beach Vollyball was great. Spoiler US handles Japan fairly easy in the first set. Japan stages big comeback in second set to win. Third set has early huge US lead wiped out by 6-2 Japan run and 2 match points for both teams before US wins.
Why doesn't the olympics use a point system for scoring? Say something like 5 2 1 for gold silver and bronze or some other formula. The total count is clearly wrong. Three gold clearly is worth a lot more than say 4 bronze. But seven silver I would say is worth a lot more than one gold, so the gold count isn't great either. US for some reason love the total count while the rest of the world love the gold count. If they develop a common scoring system, eveything would be happier.
Yes, I still have no idea how people in the US could think miles, feet, pound and ounce is easier than kg, meter, km etc, the base 10 system is so much easier to use. I guess there are so many people who are just too set in their ways. Just like many posters in the D& D forum.
You can't raise ANYTHING with the Chinese without them getting hyper defensive about everything...paranoia much?
For breaking barriers also want to congratulate Ronda Rousey for winning the first medal for a US woman in Judo http://www.nbcolympics.com/judo/photos/galleryid=212719.html Way to go US JUDO!
I can sympathize with the guy but unfortunately even at the Olympics people get screwed by the refs. Remember the pairs skating gold that went to the Russians in 2002 or the men's all-around gymnastic gold in 2004? Those were egregious violations that happened during the glamour events of the Olympics where the refs still screwed someone over. As I tell my players though its the coaches and managers jobs to complain and not the players to protect them from making a scene that might cost them in future competitions. You also don't want to show up the other competitors who busted their @sses too to get there. Finally for anyone who knows about wrestling even though its a combative sport the rules are fairly arcane and complex leading to judgement calls by the refs. As much as people complain about the subjectivity of sports like gymnastics and figure skating unfortunately many other sports aren't immune from that either.
I got tired of thinking about how this m*ther freaker DISRESPECTED the judges and the OLYMPICS... So I had to do something about it:
