Uncommon Olympic events

I love watching the Olympics, and especially the sports that aren’t mainstream.
Can anyone actually tell when watching fencing who scores the point without the announcer or official telling us?
Who knew Table Tennis players were in such good shape?

I watched little of the woman’s table tennis at a bar in Wisconsin Saturday afternoon, they were very good but the rally’s were short, not very exciting. The one woman looked like she was over 40, which is kind of nice seeing an older athlete playing youngsters.

I just looked it up, there’s a 61 year old woman from Turkiye playing this year

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I love this meme.

We were watching beach volleyball yesterday and my son admitted how hard it was.
He used to make fun of me for watching it, but since moving to Florida he has played it some and realizes it is hard.

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There are some morons on social media.
I have seen (not read) two threads complaining about the fact that some of the players were wearing leggings.
Two issues, one, it is the players choice. Two, watch it for the sport, not for creepy reasons.

My goal in sports has been to be no worse than have twice the score or time as the worlds best. The world record for the marathon is just over 2 hours, I feel good if I break 4 hours.

I doubt I could do an 8-minute mile these days.

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My best mile was 5:50 but that was years ago, today I could run a 7 minute mile which puts me in the ‘not worse than double’ world class time.

There’s also this approach.

So you’re saying there’s a chance!

I can break 10

Since my last surgery. I just don’t have the lung capacity. I could probably do a solid 15 minute mile. lol.

WTF???
Watching trap shooting and our shooter did not medal.
How the hell do we not run away with all sports that involve guns??

Americans like their guns. That doesn’t mean we have a clue what we’re doing with them.

This has to be photo of the year.

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Lol

Poor bastard will never live this down.

Currently watching Sweden vs Brazil. Insane how quick these guys are.