Love any newsletter talking about Faulkner and "abstruse". You're a national treasure.
I hope today is a bit of a rest day, seems a bit lighter on the calendar (but already I feel awful for that Romanian floor routine gymnast that thought she had a bronze).
Randomly flipped on the shotgun shooting final... you could totally see that the target got nicked, even just on the regular TV slo-mo replay, no fancy high speed cameras or whatever necessary. However, the Chilean woman who won had an earlier shot of her own that was deemed a miss and she wanted to protest/review and couldn't. So maybe the universe worked it out fairly in the end.
How's this for a possibly dumb idea: shoot-offs, whether archery or guns, should be more of a paintball type situation. Give the shooters a paintball gun and the archers some arrows with styrofoam tips, and let them loose on a woodlands course.
The fun part of Olympic golf is that the number of players is limited by country, so you get the guy who is 100th on the Asian tour playing with the pros he watch on TV. Frenchman Victor Perez is currently ranked 70th in the world golf rankings, yet shot a scorching 63 yesterday, one stroke shy of a medal. So much fun!
I think the dumbest thing is there's no prize money to play for and no cut, so after a couple rounds a majority of the field just has to play out the string with nothing to play for.
My fix would be a bracket-style competition:
-Round 1: 64 golfers divided into 16 foursomes with 2 best scores from each group advancing to
-Round 2: 32 golfers from Round 1 divided into 8 foursomes with 2 best scores from each group advancing to
-Round 3: 16 golfers from Round 2 divided into 4 foursomes with 2 best scores from each group advancing to
-Round 4: final 8 golfers divided into 2 foursomes, play for medals.
Love any newsletter talking about Faulkner and "abstruse". You're a national treasure.
I hope today is a bit of a rest day, seems a bit lighter on the calendar (but already I feel awful for that Romanian floor routine gymnast that thought she had a bronze).
Randomly flipped on the shotgun shooting final... you could totally see that the target got nicked, even just on the regular TV slo-mo replay, no fancy high speed cameras or whatever necessary. However, the Chilean woman who won had an earlier shot of her own that was deemed a miss and she wanted to protest/review and couldn't. So maybe the universe worked it out fairly in the end.
Ball... er, skeet(?)... don't lie.
You read As I Lay Dying 13 times?
How's this for a possibly dumb idea: shoot-offs, whether archery or guns, should be more of a paintball type situation. Give the shooters a paintball gun and the archers some arrows with styrofoam tips, and let them loose on a woodlands course.
The fun part of Olympic golf is that the number of players is limited by country, so you get the guy who is 100th on the Asian tour playing with the pros he watch on TV. Frenchman Victor Perez is currently ranked 70th in the world golf rankings, yet shot a scorching 63 yesterday, one stroke shy of a medal. So much fun!
One of my fave Rio 2016 memories was interviewing the Brazilian golfer who autoqualified. He was so happy!
I think the dumbest thing is there's no prize money to play for and no cut, so after a couple rounds a majority of the field just has to play out the string with nothing to play for.
My fix would be a bracket-style competition:
-Round 1: 64 golfers divided into 16 foursomes with 2 best scores from each group advancing to
-Round 2: 32 golfers from Round 1 divided into 8 foursomes with 2 best scores from each group advancing to
-Round 3: 16 golfers from Round 2 divided into 4 foursomes with 2 best scores from each group advancing to
-Round 4: final 8 golfers divided into 2 foursomes, play for medals.