Thursday, August 2, 2012

F-RC: Day Six, Part II: Why I don't watch weightlifting, boxing's fixed again, and today's Olympic example of ugly Americanism...

I would like to congratulate the Nigerian mens' basketball team for scoring 73 points today.

Too bad they were playing the United States, who scored an absurd ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX POINTS to win by EIGHTY-THREE.

Throw out the NBA players and get me a real basketball tournament.

According to the NBA's Twitter account, this is an Olympic record, by nearly 20 points!  They had more three-point attempts through three quarters than shots inside the arc.

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Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports has called for an end to Olympic boxing after the latest scandals.  (Don't we go through this every Olympics?)

Iole reports that there was a BBC article from last September in which Azerbaijan was promised two boxing gold medals at these Games in exchange for a $10,000,000 loan to the boxing body AIBA, which governs amateur boxing.

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And, in the Not For the Squeamish Department...

Weightlifting.  Injury.  Here's the article.  No further comment.

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