BigRedFan

And Rutgers has what to do with the Ivy League?

So, is the Ivy League the only conference who has not had a team removed from consideration?

Then there's that thing (which actually caused the exclusion of some of the Russian wrestlers, and not the mere fact of the Ukraine invasion) about athletes publicly speaking in support of the invasion of Ukraine.

Immigrants commit crimes at lower levels than citizens. You can always find an instance or three of someone in an ethnic group who commits a horrible crime, but to cast that on the whole group is, well, racist. Oil is depleted? The US is a net exporter of energy. What resources are depleted, compared to the rest of the world? Who disrespects our military, besides Trump ("losers" and "suckers")? Doomsday predictions about the US currency have been going around for, what, decades? Maybe there's a reason why that just doesn't happen.Violent crime in the US has been dropping for decades, and is as low as it has ever been. From Pew: You know what has gone up? Public perception of crime rates. Who is it that beats the drum about crime, especially by illegal immigrants? What needs to change? Stop drinking the Kool-Ade, and stop listening to media outlets that spew BS 24/7.

Remember this truism about Trump and his supporters: "Every accusation is a confession"

In the women's pole vault, Brynn King passes *two* heights, and on her first attempt at a height she'd never made clears the bar, sets a PR, meets the Olympic standard, and moves from eighth place to third place and makes the Olympic team.

You are asking for logic and/or reasoning from people who pay cash dollars for t-shirts with this picture and the tagline "Never Surrender", when the photo is from when he actually surrendered? From a group with a website "catholics4trump" that supports the most non-Catholic human being and belittles the second *actual* Catholic President? Good luck with that.

That sure is some tasty Kool-Aid you folks are drinking.

The Philadelphia Inquirer eds said that Trump should drop out. Time to switch subscriptions!

That was what the individual event streams were for: put the camera on the discus ring or the long jump runway(s) and stream it. That doesn't seem to be a problem for, say, women's gymnastics.

Peacock devoted entire streams to each of the other events. You could watch every discus throw, every shot put, every long jump (which was a great competition, with the top 4-5 changing almost every jump on the sixth round). Just remember that the viewers are the product, not the competition.

You win. No mocking. He was waving his arms around to insult him, as one usually does, but not in imitation of the disabled reporter's physical condition.

No, it is not fair. He *mocked* a disabled person. That is quite different than "insulting" a disabled person. Are you denying that he mocked the reporter? Your defense of his behavior, in the face of clear evidence to the contrary, is telling. Why are you trying to defend the indefensible?

Did I say anything about "targeting"? We are saying (and you are denying) that he mocked this disabled reporter. This video is pretty clear that he is mocking the named reporter. Are you going to deny what we can all see?

Really? What's this?

Glad you agree that these things that Trump says are just lies. Progress!

Track & Field. Skiing (nordic and alpine and biathlon). Speed skating (long course and short course). Cycling (track and road). Triathlon. All sports, off the top of my head, that have multiple opportunities for individuals to get medals.

Sorta like Trump himself, huh?

Neither does Trump, so Bo's in the right place.

So you are saying we need AJ Ferrari?

Yeah, I don't think so. Simone Biles won four gold medals in gymnastics in Rio: you gonna change gymnastics rules so she should only have won one? Carl Lewis won four gold medals in athletics in LA: you gonna change the rules there, as well? What about alpine and nordic skiing: only one event (alpine has five!) per skier? In track and swimming and x-country skiing, what do you do about relays? As for your example of John Smith winning two gold medals: compare his two wrestling (relatively sparsely competed) golds against, say, Al Oerter: four gold medals in the discus across four Olympic Games. There are so many more like him that make "two in two" pale in comparison. Oh, and Spitz swam at least *fifteen* races in the 1972 Olympics to get those seven gold medals. Ever hear of the runner Alberto Juantorena? Only person ever to win the 400m and the 800m in the Olympics. To do that, he had to run four 400m races and three 800m races. Oh, and he ran either one or two races of the 4x400m relay for good measure.

A quick Google shows that about 3.3 million people in the US swam on a team in 2023. Compare that to about 300,000 high school boys and girls who wrestle competitively. The swimming totals represent perhaps 10% of those who swim recreationally, while the wrestling numbers probably represent 99% of those who wrestle in any capacity. That doesn't explain things like the huge popularity of, say, women's gymnastics, which has ~100,000 competitors, compared to wrestling. What does explain it? How about visuals? I'll leave it at that.

Not Yianni or Vito. Dave McFadden.

In what alternate universe would you rather watch Penn than Cornell?

I hear they'll have a road trip that includes Cornell, UNC, and Princeton.