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Announcer talking about a diver who landed on her stomach a few years ago and "punctured a lung, separated chest cartilage and popped ribs out of place" : "She doesn't do that dive anymore."
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The triple jump is the least practical contest ever. Who thought of this thing?

 

I've always wondered how the steeplechase came about.

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The triple jump is the least practical contest ever. Who thought of this thing?

 

I've always wondered how the steeplechase came about.

 

Steeplechase makes sense. It's a competition replicating what racing through untamed nature might be (over hills, through streams, whatever).

 

The triple jump is like the least efficient way to jump a long distance

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The triple jump is the least practical contest ever. Who thought of this thing?

 

Not sure who invented it, but apparently it goes way back to the ancients.

 

Personally I'm *CERTAIN* it's an ancient greek drinking game.

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The triple jump is the least practical contest ever. Who thought of this thing?

 

I've always wondered how the steeplechase came about.

 

Steeplechase makes sense. It's a competition replicating what racing through untamed nature might be (over hills, through streams, whatever).

 

The triple jump is like the least efficient way to jump a long distance

 

They should have a combination steeplechase and javelin except instead of throwing it for distance they have to hit a target.

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The triple jump is the least practical contest ever. Who thought of this thing?

 

Google ftw.

 

Also known now as the "hop, step and jump", the triple jump appeared in the 1896 Athens Olympic Games as the 'hop, hop and jump', but its origins lie centuries earlier in the tiny Cotswold hamlet of Inn Breding on the Wold. As today's visitors will know, this picturesque settlement is bisected by the River Phoenix, which runs through the central green. When a spate washed away four of the stepping stones in the fifteenth century, villagers quickly became adept at hopping and jumping the resulting gaps (although strangers often came to grief!). The young men of the village would compete to see who could cross the fastest at the annual harvest fair, and from this the Triple Jump was born.
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Totally made this guy's day....

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/hKmUq.gif

 

 

And this is good times too...

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/C2Pl7.gif

 

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Thank you, NBC for choosing 5 hours of diving over any minutes of basketball. You must've been reading my mind.

You do know that basketball is on its own separate channel, right?

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Pretty crazy that the Jamaican women would have posted an Olympic record in the 4x100 by .19 seconds and missed a world record by .04 and yet they still lost by .59 seconds.
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Thank you, NBC for choosing 5 hours of diving over any minutes of basketball. You must've been reading my mind.

You do know that basketball is on its own separate channel, right?

 

Yeah, they didn't show any soccer on NBC either. Both were shown on MSNBC or CNBC I believe.

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At a bar. No idea why the woman in a Mexican soccer jersey is at all interested in the US-France women's basketball game and rooting for the US.
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At a bar. No idea why the woman in a Mexican soccer jersey is at all interested in the US-France women's basketball game and rooting for the US.

You're surprised somebody is rooting against France?

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At a bar. No idea why the woman in a Mexican soccer jersey is at all interested in the US-France women's basketball game and rooting for the US.

 

Not surprising to me at all. Tons of 1st and 2nd generation Mexican folk want to see the US win things.

 

Except against El Tri. Then the urine bags come out.

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