Quote from: JOE on August 10, 2024, 07:06:09 AMBut you guys cheat cuz ya got summer 365 days of the year, eh caskur caskur? Let's see the Aussies win gold at Ice Hockey during the Winter Games, eh?

well our summer has plenty of days 35c-42c, I would like to see you guys try to train in that.

Most of the world has summer 365 days a year. Africa, India, Central and Sth America...Asia, the Middle East, the bottom states of the USA. What excuses do you have for Canadians not training 365 DAYS a year?

Quote from: caskur on August 10, 2024, 07:32:18 AMwell our summer has plenty of days 35c-42c, I would like to see you guys try to train in that.

Most of the world has summer 365 days a year. Africa, India, Central and Sth America...Asia, the Middle East, the bottom states of the USA. What excuses do you have for Canadians not training 365 DAYS a year?

Actually I think a good chunk of these athletes around the world train 365 days of the year, many at US universities in the US sunbelt on athletic scholarships, including Canadians.

Is not like the good old days when they trained exclusively at home in their own countries.

Quote from: JOE on August 10, 2024, 07:48:36 AMActually I think a good chunk of these athletes around the world train 365 days of the year, many at US universities in the US sunbelt on athletic scholarships, including Canadians.

Is not like the good old days when they trained exclusively at home in their own countries.

what bothers me GREATLY is professional sports people can participate and it's no longer just an amateurs game... seeing whats his name win the tennis was just wrong.

Congrats USA for 1st Place 

China 2nd

then Bloody Japan came 3rd pushing Australia 4th   

5th place France

6th Netherlands

7th Great Britain

8th South Korea

9th Italy

10th Germany

11th New Zealand

12th then Cananda

move us all down a notch if Russia participated.

what a heartbreak Russian athletes have a miniture boar for a President who has destroyed the dreams and lives of Russian Citizens over a bit of dirt.

Quote from: caskur on August 11, 2024, 06:53:24 PMCongrats USA for 1st Place 

China 2nd

then Bloody Japan came 3rd pushing Australia 4th   

5th place France

6th Netherlands

7th Great Britain

8th South Korea

9th Italy

10th Germany

11th New Zealand

12th then Cananda

move us all down a notch if Russia participated.

what a heartbreak Russian athletes have a miniture boar for a President who has destroyed the dreams and lives of Russian Citizens over a bit of dirt.

Canada Defeated by lowly New Zealand .
.

...how humiliating.

Perhaps keeping Covid out for as long as they did wasn't a bad strategy for NZ after all.

Quote from: JOE on August 11, 2024, 07:48:17 PMCanada Defeated by lowly New Zealand .
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...how humiliating.

Perhaps keeping Covid out for as long as they did wasn't a bad strategy for NZ after all.

NZ have always punched above their weight. They like to tell Aussies they win more medals per capita.


Yeah something is going on in Canada... maybe the young people are really struggling with poverty under Trudeau.

Something is wrong for sure... or maybe it was covid..

One of our Gold medal girls father kept her away from being anywhere near other sportmen and women making sure she didn't catch anything. It paid off...

Who knows... it's all good.

The East Germans and Russians are/were drug cheats anyway back in the day.


Apart from the River Seine being full of human faeces Paris is a STUNNING city. I saw much of it by drone watching the marathons.

Beautiful place...

Well LA next time.. that should be good.

I am writing in a very disjointed way because I am trying to save gigs until I get my gigs reset on the 14th.

Sorry about that jumping from one subject to the next.

Canada actually did better than it usually does caskur caskur.

It's best runner Andre de Grasse finally broke thru and gotta gold in the 4x100.

I suspect it's his last Olympics tho. He won 7 medals in his career inc 3 gold.

He should just quit after thos and go out in a blaze of glory.

Buy low. Sell high.

Not just the business world

This applies to sport as well.

Quit while yer ahead and retire on top

Quote from: caskur on August 11, 2024, 08:03:13 PMI am writing in a very disjointed way because I am trying to save gigs until I get my gigs reset on the 14th.

Sorry about that jumping from one subject to the next.

Actually caskur caskur one story that was quite relevant in the games that ordinary people can learn from was the incidence of COVID at the Olympics.

An No...Covid sure as hell aint the common cold.

It actually ended up costing the USA at least 2 gold medals because their ace sprinter, Noah Lyles came down with COVID.



Had he not done so, Lyles might have won the 200m race, but he didn't cuz he was actually sick when he won the bronze.

The 2nd event was the 4x100 m relay. And since Lyles was absent, the USA lost that race too at Canada's gain. But Canada might not have won that race had Lyles been in it.

2 Gold meals is a pretty big deal. That's the total gold medal haul for many nations competing in the Olympics.

So to dismiss COVID as a minor health issue, the deniers ought to think twice before making statements like this.

COVID actually hits the pocketbook and as the Lyles incident shows can cost a country its national prestige.

https://www.wired.com/story/noah-lyles-covid-olympics-new-normal/

QuoteCovid cases have spiked every summer since 2020, and this season is no exception. A Covid wave is once again sweeping through much of the world and has reached the 2024 Paris Olympics.

But the Games have gone on without interruption, despite at least 40 athletes testing positive for the virus, according to the World Health Organization. One of those, US track star Noah Lyles, ran the men's 200-meter race on August 8 despite getting a positive result on a Covid test just two days before. After earning a bronze medal in the race, he received medical attention and was taken off the track in a wheelchair. Lyles, who also has a history of asthma, said he was short of breath and experienced chest pain after the race and that Covid "definitely" affected his performance.

...anyways I often notice how these deniers often put you down and dismiss your warnings about COVID as 'scare tactics'.

Quote from: JOE on August 13, 2024, 10:52:52 PMActually caskur caskur one story that was quite relevant in the games that ordinary people can learn from was the incidence of COVID at the Olympics.

An No...Covid sure as hell aint the common cold.

It actually ended up costing the USA at least 2 gold medals because their ace sprinter, Noah Lyles came down with COVID.



Had he not done so, Lyles might have won the 200m race, but he didn't cuz he was actually sick when he won the bronze.

The 2nd event was the 4x100 m relay. And since Lyles was absent, the USA lost that race too at Canada's gain. But Canada might not have won that race had Lyles been in it.

2 Gold meals is a pretty big deal. That's the total gold medal haul for many nations competing in the Olympics.

So to dismiss COVID as a minor health issue, the deniers ought to think twice before making statements like this.

COVID actually hits the pocketbook and as the Lyles incident shows can cost a country its national prestige.

https://www.wired.com/story/noah-lyles-covid-olympics-new-normal/


...anyways I often notice how these deniers often put you down and dismiss your warnings about COVID as 'scare tactics'.

I am not too worried about put downs when I know I am right... I get more angry with myself when I get things wrong.

The elderly lady across the road, a retired science teacher of botany had her daughter and 2 granddaughters over from San Francsico and they came with covid and were quite sick for the first couple of weeks... well my neighbour who has had at least 5 covid shots didn't catch it even though she was nursing 3 sick people... so at least in her situation the vax was successful.... I remain in shock and awe of her constitution.