They have come a long way. You'll be surprised to know that nearly all pageants are now run by women. Women organizers, women sponsors and women judges. Men no longer are involved. It's totally now a women's empowerment platform. Swimsuit is now like 10% if not already gone. My wife is a pagaent junkie.P.D.X. wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 11:23 amAwww, look how far they've come in that misogynistic and antiquated competition.degenerasian wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 10:58 am Japan is becoming more inclusive. More than other Asian countries such as Korea and China for example. They had Hachimura carry the flag.
And most importantly, Miss Japan is mixed.
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So, Degen, if swimsuit is 10%, roughly how does the other 90% break down?
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I just asked my wife. In Miss Universe the prelims are 60% interview, 20% Evening Gown and 20% Swimsuit. This determines the top 20.
In the Final 20, there are two interviews, one swimsuit, and one evening gown, then the cut to the top 5 where they have to answer two additional questions. She says, yes you have to be beautiful but it's basically a job interview to represent the Miss Universe Organization for a year.
Then she says in other pageants, like Miss World, there are talent and sports contests which lessens the bikini even more.
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DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 12:04 pmWatching the London games in Australia was an eye-opener. Much more of a 'global' approach, and instead of just focusing on atheletes that medaled, they would show the 'local kid of Wollongong who finished 6th in the hurdles! Awesome!' kind of thing.Rush2112 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 11:17 amI was wondering if this was still the case. Watched most Olympics on CBC 6 from Montreal. Even better than NBC back in the day when they had 95% less backstory on how the fencer's dog was an influence....and they show others besides just Canadians.degenerasian wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20, 2021 4:11 pm Get a Canadian VPN. CBC will show everything live with little backstory. Just the events. And you get the CBC Olympic Jingle as a bonus.
And a lot of coverage of different sports....so much field hockey!
For what it’s worth, NBC’s live streaming coverage uses the world feed (with Aussie announcers and no bells or whistles). It’s been that way for the last few Olympics. Anybody who just wants to see the events can just go there.
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Watching the Mike Tirico/Savana Guthrie coverage.'
I love it. They are goofy and allow me to just fil in my own shit.
I love it. They are goofy and allow me to just fil in my own shit.
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Smiling contentedly at the video game music during the parade.
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I can’t watch the heavyweight weightlifting because I always think the dudes are gonna snap their spines.
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Me too, I think SNL put it into my head with the Drug Olympics:
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Hearing the name “Phil Dalhausser” made me wistful for past Olympics.
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Our male gymnasts may be wearing nazi eagles?
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Dan Hicks looks like Bob Hope now.
he’s a fixbking cyborg or some shit. The
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Oh wow the USA has logged in to the chat room
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Did NBC really just bottle the butterfly semi with the two Americans in it? Too bad for everyone at the watch party for the girl that missed the final.
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Tunisia entered 1 swimmer in the entire meet, he just won gold.
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From the outside lane! Great Olympic moment.degenerasian wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 9:08 pm Tunisia entered 1 swimmer in the entire meet, he just won gold.
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What a fun race. The announcers were not expecting that.degenerasian wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 9:08 pm Tunisia entered 1 swimmer in the entire meet, he just won gold.
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I think I was more excited seeing that dude win then our guys 30 minutes earlier.A_B wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 9:30 pmWhat a fun race. The announcers were not expecting that.degenerasian wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 9:08 pm Tunisia entered 1 swimmer in the entire meet, he just won gold.
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Our softball squad is going into extras against the kangaroos over on CNBC.
ETA: and apparently they do the ghost runner.
ETA: and apparently they do the ghost runner.
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Skateboarding!
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I screamed out “oh shit!” In front of my 13 y/o daughter when that happened.
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I know this makes me an angry, old man. So be it. Skateboarding does not belong in the fucking Olympics.
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DeChambeau tests positive for Covid-19, out of the Olympics.
His replacement: Patrick Reed.
His replacement: Patrick Reed.
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Even though I read COVID, I thought PEDs.degenerasian wrote: ↑Sat Jul 24, 2021 10:30 pm DeChambeau tests positive for Covid-19, out of the Olympics.
His replacement: Patrick Reed.
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Jon Rahm has tested positive again and is out.
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As soon as I flipped on skateboarding and saw the first competitor, the first thing I thought was how closely I associate skateboarding and uniforms.
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Frederic Weis will sleep better tonight.
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I don’t want to get all Chicken Little, but after watching that, I have doubts whether we can even medal.
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I can't believe what Jrue Holiday did in that game. Led the team in minutes, was 18/7/4 and basically indispensable for his defense. All that after what had to be a wild 48 hours of partying and a plane trip across the world. For comparison, Middleton barely played and Booker was a zombie out there.
Also, does Pops still basketball? That game turned when USA got burned on the exact same BLOB play twice in a row for 6 points. They were looking pretty good for the win until then.
Also, does Pops still basketball? That game turned when USA got burned on the exact same BLOB play twice in a row for 6 points. They were looking pretty good for the win until then.
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I think I saw this happen live last night. Had to rewind to make sure what we thought happened because dumb NBC didn’t note it beyond an in the moment “ooooh” and didn’t show a replay (I’m sure the Canadian broadcast did).
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From Joe Vardon's recap of the US-France game at the Athletic:
Bomani Jones has mentioned on a few occasions that Pop is a Larry Brown guy, which could be some sort of explanation for the recent shortcomings of the 2004 Olympics (Brown) and 2019 FIBA World Cup (Pop).
It seems like trying to teach "an offense" is a fool's errand in the limited amount of prep time, especially when Holiday just showed up and was the leading scorer.The players are frustrated, too, grumbling on their way back to the locker room about “running the San Antonio offense” when apparently they feel like there are better ideas. Pop has said, because of the truncated nature of Team USA’s training camp, the offense would be based on “concepts” instead of set plays.
Bomani Jones has mentioned on a few occasions that Pop is a Larry Brown guy, which could be some sort of explanation for the recent shortcomings of the 2004 Olympics (Brown) and 2019 FIBA World Cup (Pop).
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They can grumble all they want but they missed 3 open 3s in that one sequence near the end.
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This really did happen!
Also, good to know that Tokyo is willing to put on a sporting event as early as 6:30am local time. Roger Goodell just placed a couple of phone calls.
Also, good to know that Tokyo is willing to put on a sporting event as early as 6:30am local time. Roger Goodell just placed a couple of phone calls.
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swimming will be live for the next few hours - Ledecky going for the gold in the 400 free.
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young gal from my neighborhood just got nipped from a medal in the butterfly stroke. She is young, going to Stanford, and am sure will be back in 4 years but that is tough. 0.01 of second from a medal.
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Second walk-off in as many days for the US in softball. They are the home team Tuesday against Japan for the gold.
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Seems to me field hockey would be 100% better with actual hockey sticks. The game is so random, and too hard to control the ball with the 3 foot stick
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and played on ice with skatesdegenerasian wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 10:45 pm Seems to me field hockey would be 100% better with actual hockey sticks. The game is so random, and too hard to control the ball with the 3 foot stick