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| Varner Wins Gold ! | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 12 2012, 08:12 AM (1,170 Views) | |
| WrestleMe | Aug 12 2012, 08:12 AM Post #1 |
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Congrats! http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/jake-varner-of-us-wins-olympic-wrestling-gold-in-mens-96-kilogram-freestyle/2012/08/12/79d5c3ea-e485-11e1-9739-eef99c5fb285_story.html Edited by WrestleMe, Aug 12 2012, 08:15 AM.
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| ivanputzke | Aug 12 2012, 08:44 AM Post #2 |
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Awesome!!! Glad I could watch it. Thank god for Montenegro v. Serbia in Water Polo!! |
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| 1 TON | Aug 12 2012, 09:11 AM Post #3 |
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Dammit, why do you have to put the results in the thread title? In 4 years how about you make the thread title "Varner Results". |
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| guillotine1 | Aug 12 2012, 09:43 AM Post #4 |
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Sounds like Varner's semifinals and finals matches will be on NBC at 2pm. |
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| MNRodent | Aug 12 2012, 10:30 AM Post #5 |
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Is that regular NBC, or one of the affiliates? |
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| guillotine1 | Aug 12 2012, 11:02 AM Post #6 |
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Regular NBC I believe. |
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| Bearfish | Aug 12 2012, 12:34 PM Post #7 |
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No, boneheads feel the need to be the first to post the results....even though his SEMI FINAL match is on NBC currently...thanks Let usatoday or cnn post results early, thought this site was more intelligent. |
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| guillotine1 | Aug 12 2012, 12:43 PM Post #8 |
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Wrestling is on NBC right now. |
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| ivanputzke | Aug 12 2012, 01:04 PM Post #9 |
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Except they don't show the damn matches. Instead we get France v. Seribia in Handball, the Netherlands v. Sweden in Field Hockey, Rythmic Gymnastics and countless other sports where no american is competing, instead of Americans wrestling live. What a fricken joke. I suggest you take it out on NBC and not the posters. There was no guarantee that the match would be shown anyway. Edited by ivanputzke, Aug 12 2012, 01:04 PM.
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| ivanputzke | Aug 12 2012, 01:11 PM Post #10 |
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Sorry, just venting but this is what seems important to NBC, the Circus acts (rythmic gymnastics), the barbeque sports (badmindton and ping pong), field hockey and handball. Way more important than watching americans wrestling. Thumbs down!!! I'm wondering when Boche ball, Sand bag toss and danceline high kick gets introduced to our viewing pleasure? |
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| CropDuster | Aug 12 2012, 02:39 PM Post #11 |
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More importantly, all 3 medalists on the FS team wrestled folkstyle their entire collegiate career... So can we, as Americans, still pi$$ and moan about folkstyle ruining our Olympic efforts? Just food for thought... |
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| WrestleMe | Aug 12 2012, 04:10 PM Post #12 |
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Fantastic
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Friendly fire. ^_^ |
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| 1 TON | Aug 13 2012, 08:25 AM Post #13 |
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It's all good. |
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| stmabooster | Aug 13 2012, 08:53 AM Post #14 |
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I honestly thought the coverage from NBC was wonderful. We watched all of the matches live on the internet site and pretty much anyone that had any success was on TV a little bit later tape delayed. I think a lot of the TV coverage from many of the sports was tape delayed because of the 6 hour time difference. Sometimes we as wrestling fans need to remember how many other sports there are in the Olympics. We may not like them, but many others do. My wife really liked the rythmic gymnastics for example. |
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| ivanputzke | Aug 13 2012, 11:19 AM Post #15 |
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I have no problem with watching those sports if an american is involved. This is an american broadcast company and I have a big problem with watching those sports over any sport that has an american involved. How about tape delaying the rythmic gymnastics while an american is doing another sport? Or tape delaying the handball or field hockey events? No one is suggesting that they not be shown, but you're fooling yourself by justifying wrestling being on the shown on the internet is anyway the same as showing it on TV. And.......the only matches they showed were some of the gold medal matches. Did they show Scotts matches? Don't think so. And booster again, is it too much to ask for an american broadcast company to show american athletes over other nations athletes? I don't think people would be upset over that and I certainly don't think it needs to be an either/or situation. |
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| Tiny Tornado | Aug 13 2012, 12:43 PM Post #16 |
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totally agree- I wanted to watch AMERICAN wrestlers competing at the Olympics, whether they lost or not- I appreciated the gold medal matches being shown, but we all know that had they not been gold medal matches, nbc would not have found the time to squeeze them in- I don't like the fact the nbc only was interested in showing "winners" - those of us who really follow certain people's athletic careers are very invested in watching their sports, win or lose- very disappointing - but not totally unexpected- |
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| TheWombat | Aug 13 2012, 01:26 PM Post #17 |
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Fantastic
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So, what is Varner going to do now? Is he going to stick around for the next Olympic cycle or is he going to start coaching full time or speaking or something? |
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| 1 TON | Aug 13 2012, 02:07 PM Post #18 |
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I'm training for the next olympics. Lawn darts in 2016! USA is going to kick China's butt. |
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| Iowan@heart | Aug 13 2012, 02:44 PM Post #19 |
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Kevin Jackson (ISU Coach) says that he thinks he'll be back to wrestle in Rio in 2016 |
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| going4it | Aug 13 2012, 03:35 PM Post #20 |
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Betts had both his matches shown. Coleman had his match shown. These I know for sure were on tv and they didn't medal so they didn't just show the winners. |
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| Tiny Tornado | Aug 13 2012, 03:42 PM Post #21 |
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at what time of the day/evening ? prime time, or at 1 am ? not being sarcastic, I actually didn't know they were going to be shown- Edited by Tiny Tornado, Aug 13 2012, 03:42 PM.
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| going4it | Aug 13 2012, 07:48 PM Post #22 |
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Msnbc in the afternoon. Usually around 3. Thank goodness I would be flipping and hit it at the right time. That's the tough part ya never know when it might be on. |
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| TheWombat | Aug 13 2012, 08:04 PM Post #23 |
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Fantastic
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That's great to hear. With Boroughs and Varner back and still competing and with guys like Dake, Howe, Metcalf, and Tayler coming up through the ranks, the U.S. should be poised to do pretty well in the next four years. |
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