The real Gold Medal Contenders

[Zeno]

Women's softball. These gals can play and are a stellar team.

Team USA Softball


-Zeno

[nicky g]

Why is the Olympics full of games that virtually noone outside the US plays? Not that I care about anything to do with the Olympics beyond avoiding it as best as possible.

[Zeno]

I think that many sports that the US dominates in are more popular and well known and are covered more in the media. The US is very poor or mediocre in many events that are held at the Olympics - for example judo, fencing, weight lifting, soccer (football), sailing, badminton and many other activities.

The achievement of the softball team, so far, is very remarkable. This is a challenging sport and these gals are very talented and athletic. Fast-pitch softball is not for wimps. This is a damn tough sport to play.

-Zeno

[Taxman]

Not to mention that pitcher of theirs is hot. Maybe we should start a thread of pictures of her [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[poorbus96]

Some other pictures that would be good are the beach volleyball girls. [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] Some of the shots on tv made my face turn red [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[M2d]

As I posted in another thread (about hot olympic chicks), Lovie Jung is the nuts.

[pudley4]

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Why is the Olympics full of games that virtually noone outside the US plays? Not that I care about anything to do with the Olympics beyond avoiding it as best as possible.

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In order for a sport to be included in the Olympics, there is a certain minimum number of countries who must compete in the event and it must be played on a certain minimum number of continents.

[vulturesrow]

Ask and ye shall receive

[Martin Aigner]

WTF is softball??

The dresses look like baseball dresses, right?

Sorry, this question might sound dumb for Americans, but I really don´t know.

Ah, and looking silly anyway I can safely ask two more questions.

1) What is a TiVO? Read of it lots of times here, but can´t find it in any dictionary. Guess it´s sort of a VCR???

2) What´s a soccer mom??? Well, I obviously know what is both a soccer and a mom, but how do they fit together?

Thanks in advance

an embarrassed

Martin Aigner

[nicky g]

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In order for a sport to be included in the Olympics, there is a certain minimum number of countries who must compete in the event and it must be played on a certain minimum number of continents.

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No offence but just because a game is officially played somewhere doesn;t mean anyine really cares about it. I can assure you close to noone outside the US even knows what the difference between softball and baseball even is. Cricket for example, which I have just as little time for, is a vastly more popular sport in terms of people who actually care.