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What is your all time favorite moment at the summer Olympics?
Posted on 7/11/16 at 11:33 am
Posted on 7/11/16 at 11:33 am
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Posted on 7/11/16 at 11:35 am to WestCoastAg
keri strug... hands down.
Posted on 7/11/16 at 11:36 am to WestCoastAg
Derek Redmond 1992 Barcelona
Sorry that is the GOAT and I show that to my class every year sometime during the year.
Sorry that is the GOAT and I show that to my class every year sometime during the year.
Posted on 7/11/16 at 11:36 am to WestCoastAg
Posted on 7/11/16 at 11:37 am to WestCoastAg
Jason Lezak is an American hero. Get fricked Alain Bernard
Posted on 7/11/16 at 11:40 am to Cap Crunch
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Jason Lezak is an American hero. Get fricked Alain Bernard
That was so electric. Thanks for posting that, OP. Those Beijing olympics were one of my favorites from the amazing opening ceremony to the swimming events, etc. Just so memorable. I usually say frick China, but good for China that year.
Posted on 7/11/16 at 11:40 am to WestCoastAg
Carl Lewis singing the anthem.
Posted on 7/11/16 at 11:43 am to Tiger Ryno
When did a New Jersey Nets game become an Olympic Sport?
Posted on 7/11/16 at 11:46 am to oleyeller
Probably Janet Evans.
It was incredible. This little teenager was beating laboratory muscled East German men.
I think 1988 Seoul is the greatest performance for an athlete considering the odds she was under and the cheating she was going against as the Eastern bloc was barely holding on and going all-in with their cards. Wasn't remotely the drug scrutiny we have today. These were men swimming against women after being pumped full of testosterone for over 10 years as we later found out.
In 1988, Evans a new world record in the 400-meter freestyle event. This record stood for 18 years.(That's an eternity in swimming)
It was incredible. This little teenager was beating laboratory muscled East German men.
I think 1988 Seoul is the greatest performance for an athlete considering the odds she was under and the cheating she was going against as the Eastern bloc was barely holding on and going all-in with their cards. Wasn't remotely the drug scrutiny we have today. These were men swimming against women after being pumped full of testosterone for over 10 years as we later found out.
In 1988, Evans a new world record in the 400-meter freestyle event. This record stood for 18 years.(That's an eternity in swimming)
Posted on 7/11/16 at 11:47 am to WestCoastAg
That I've watched live, Phelps winning his 8th gold
Posted on 7/11/16 at 11:47 am to WestCoastAg
When USA beat Nigeria by 100 in basketball
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Posted on 7/11/16 at 11:49 am to WestCoastAg
Kurt Angle, who did it with a BROKEN FREAKIN NECK
Posted on 7/11/16 at 11:55 am to WestCoastAg
Ben Johnson (roider) ran an incredible race
Posted on 7/11/16 at 11:57 am to WestCoastAg
Abebe Bikila winning the 1960 marathon barefooted or Abebe Bikila doing exercises right after destroying the field in the '64 marathon
...either one.
...either one.
Posted on 7/11/16 at 12:20 pm to WestCoastAg
Ah, Jesse Owens sticking it to Hitler.
Posted on 7/11/16 at 12:30 pm to lenlews
Michael Johnson's 19.32 for me.
Posted on 7/11/16 at 12:40 pm to WestCoastAg
when those teenagers beat the hated Russians in hockey
frick those commie bastards
frick those commie bastards
Posted on 7/11/16 at 12:42 pm to WestCoastAg
Barkley elbowing the shite out of that African guy.
Posted on 7/11/16 at 12:46 pm to lenlews
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Ah, Jesse Owens sticking it to Hitler.
Dude seriously?
Sorry but I hate when people continue to spout bad history.
Just to provide some real history...because like any story from the past...it gets cartoon like.
That's middle school history.
This is you...
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Growing up in the United States, I was taught in history about Jesse Owens going over to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, winning a gold medal and then getting snubbed by Hitler who was angry that a black man beat all of the white athletes. I even remember my teacher reading a picture book about this to us.
And this is real history...
Owens said in his autobiography that the Germans cheered him and that he was treated worse in the USA. So you could say, he stuck it to Jim Crow. But America at that time didn't want to hear that.
In Owens' own words: "I wasn't invited up to shake hands with Hitler- but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either."
On the first day of the 1936 Olympics, Hitler met with two German medalists and a Finnish medalist in his suite. In the afternoon, two black American athletes won medals - but Hitler had left. It looked very much like an intentional snub, and the world press noticed it. The next morning, the Olympic officials informed Hitler that he had to congratulate all athletes - or none.
Hitler decided not to meet any other athletes, and thus did not meet Owens or any other medalist on the second day of competition, when Owens won his first medal.
Several other misconceptions and false myths about the 1936 Olympics are prevalent.
Not only was Owens not rebuffed by Hitler, Owens wasn't shunned by the German audience at the Berlin stadium either.
Baker reports that Owens so captured the imagination of the crowd it gave him several ear-shattering ovations. Later Owens recalled that he had gotten the greatest ovations of his career at Berlin.
Another popular belief is that the games marked a humiliating moment for the Germans because a few blacks walked away with a fistful of medals.
In reality, the competition was anything but a German humiliation.
It is forgotten that Germany managed to pick up more medals than all the other countries combined.
Posted on 7/11/16 at 12:48 pm to WestCoastAg
Up until 2008, it was Michael Johnson busting out the gold shoes.
But it just. Does. Not. Get. Better. Than. Lezak's. Comeback.
Holy shite I could watch that every day and still get the same chills.
Only wish I could have seen it live. I was at Air Force Field Training and remember my whole flight trying to sneak peeks at the Olympic highlights on the TV across the room where the officers ate breakfast
But it just. Does. Not. Get. Better. Than. Lezak's. Comeback.
Holy shite I could watch that every day and still get the same chills.
Only wish I could have seen it live. I was at Air Force Field Training and remember my whole flight trying to sneak peeks at the Olympic highlights on the TV across the room where the officers ate breakfast
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