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[Zafer Kaya]

If what the Canadians were doing constituted delaying the game enough to warrant a call, then probably every soccer game in the last 20 years that wasn't a blow out needs to be replayed.  The handball was extremely cheesy as well.  It's the two in conjunction with each other that totally screwed over Canada.

Refs have to use some discretion.  Once you give that kick, you know the US is going to just rocket it at someone and get a cheap handball.  So if you decide to give the cheap handball then what you have decided that the Canadians delaying the game warrants forfeiting a goal.

I don't care if the ref warned Canada or not.  Warning someone that you are going to make BS rulings does nothing to change the fact that you are making BS rulings.  It was ridiculous, and let's not even try and pretend the US women and the US audience wouldn't be bitching about it if it happened to us.

As for Abby Wambach, I really like her but I also understand why she's the type of player who tends gets punched in the face.  I mean, not condoning cheap shots at all, and that player should be suspended and all that.  But come on, she had it coming.

[juggles]

WELL ENDORSED
 

[Dan]

Sadly, ZK, I think we (or me) unfortunately agree with you. I just don't want to admit it.

[Butter]

Once you give that kick, you know the US is going to just rocket it at someone and get a cheap handball.

Whoa, really?  So that should work every time you are in the box then, shouldn't it?  Just kick it up towards people's arms and hope for the best.  Soccer should be crazy penalty shootouts in this world of ridiculously easy handball penalties.

[Juliana]

Not going back through 7 pages of stuff, but I will say

YAY Olympics!

Go Everybody!

and
Stop making me cry everything about the Olympics.  Jeez.  I cry like every time they show somebody winning or losing, or crying or falling or ...well, like once a night I cry at you Olympics.

[Zafer Kaya]

Whoa, really?  So that should work every time you are in the box then, shouldn't it?  Just kick it up towards people's arms and hope for the best.  Soccer should be crazy penalty shootouts in this world of ridiculously easy handball penalties.

It shouldn't work every time in the box, because if you kick the ball towards the person's arm and it hits them without them making any attempt to play the ball, it's not a penalty.  That's exactly why the rule only applies to INTENTIONAL handballs.

Tobin Heath just handled a ball much more blatantly in the same situation.  She moved her hand toward the ball, and then used the play off her hand to control it.  It was clearly a handball, and it wasn't counted.

[lutz]

Stop making me cry everything about the Olympics.  Jeez.  I cry like every time they show somebody winning or losing, or crying or falling or ...well, like once a night I cry at you Olympics.

That moment when the last competitor is waiting for their score, and suddenly the commentator cries "They've DONE IT!"
Instant tears.

[va-vacious]

I was at home today for lunch, and happened to turn on the Olympics. It was the marathon swim-- I had no idea that this existed!  They women were swimming in Hyde Park, which seems weird. And kinda dirty to have to swim in the Serpentine!

Since it's a marathon, they have "pit stops" to get water or gels like marathoners do, but they have to do it in the water.  The sight was hysterical: this chum of swimmers angling towards poles with national flags hanging off of them and little baskets with gatorade and gels.  They'd backstroke and refuel, and then pitch the containers and keep going.  Didn't see who won, though.

[Butter]

Hungary won, US swimmer was 2nd by four-tenths of a second.  Good finish.

[Butter]

It shouldn't work every time in the box, because if you kick the ball towards the person's arm and it hits them without them making any attempt to play the ball, it's not a penalty.  That's exactly why the rule only applies to INTENTIONAL handballs.

But you and I both know that a good 50% of the time if a ball hits an arm/hand in the box, intentional or not, it's getting called.

[Juliana]

Felix Sanchez, the man running for the Dominican Republic in the 400 hurdles, won gold in Athens, then lost in Beijing during the qualifiers because his grandma had died earlier that day.  Then he won the other night, and he pulled out that picture of his grandma he had tapped inside his running #?  I was crying, then when they showed the medal ceremony and he completly broke down on the medal stand during his anthem?  Yeah, that was amazing, and I was all the way crying, tears running down my face, not just watery eyes...

 

[c-lando]

Felix Sanchez, the man running for the Dominican Republic in the 400 hurdles, won gold in Athens, then lost in Beijing during the qualifiers because his grandma had died earlier that day.  Then he won the other night, and he pulled out that picture of his grandma he had tapped inside his running #?  I was crying, then when they showed the medal ceremony and he completly broke down on the medal stand during his anthem?  Yeah, that was amazing, and I was all the way crying, tears running down my face, not just watery eyes...

 

That's the shit that always gets me. Cry Baby Town over here.

[twentyshots]

kate bush will be performing at the closing ceremony!

also (from somewhere)

"The Who and George Michael have already confirmed their involvement in the finale of the Games, while other names banded around have included Ed Sheeran, Muse, Madness, The Spice Girls and former Kinks frontman Ray Davies."

[juggles]

The US failed to medal in Greco-Roman wrestling  for the first time since 1976. Disappointing. 

[Kwyjibo]

Anybody see the Russian high-jump guy that lost his singlet and was running around shirtless looking for it.  The judges finally told him he was running out of time and to just jump in his t-shirt.  Guy looked like a total Mongo, hilarious.