Why is Embiid getting booed every time he gets the ball?
Olympics Thread
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He got a French passport and could have played for the French team, but chose the U.S. instead.
Watching USA in basketball and how much more athletic they are made me think how crazy it is that USA's best athletes by far are (American) football players. Which means very few of the best athletes from USA go to the Olympics. From a young age unless you're really tall the biggest, strongest, fastest, and most skilled athletes almost always play one sport in the US. Maybe that's why our women's team dominate so much. We're mostly sending our best female athletes.
Coach Ellis
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France is illegitimate. Japan won that game and had it stolen by some seriously home cooked officiating.
Many Olympic sports aren’t available to the masses either. Youth sports are expensive AF. Football is typically available to everyone….but it’s no accident that a position like QB is dominated by affluent kids who go to camps year round.
What? I guess like the extremely niche ones no one really cares about, but Summer Olympics is mostly track and field events which are the most available, which is what I'm sure Ron is referring to. Some NFL WR set the combine 40 time this year. What if he focused on being a track and field athlete? I think that's what Ron is getting at.
France would likely have gone through the the quarter final anyway, and Japan would still be out. Would get different opponents, though.
He told some French rep that he'll play for them but later on decided to play for US. He's 30 already and probably thinking this is his best shot to get an olympic medal and play with the best in the world. Lebron, steph and durant will be 43, 40 and 39 next 2028 olympics.
Costs about 4k (soccer) to register a kid to play football in Australia, if the kid gets selected for state teams and so on, it costs more.
Didn't have much yachting where I grew up, or golf or tennis, equestrian? Only time we'd see horses would be on TV. Not a heap of Olympic sports were available in my community. Martial arts like judo, karate, taekwondo and boxing were available, swimming (swimming was by far the easiest and cheapest to access) and soccer were all within walking distance or a 5 to 10 minute drive. Closest athletics track was 20ks away, no basketball facilities, forget hockey and rowing, tennis required private coaching that no one in our community could afford not that there where any tennis courts around anyway. There used to be an outdoor velodrome a few suburbs over but it had fallen into decay and was closed cause it was dangerous. In short so many Olympic sports require infrastructure, maintenance and investment, basketball has seen massive investment in the last 30 years, as has tennis there are now all weather tennis courts in most parks. But its hit an miss and access to these facilities really depends on where you live and your class status.
Anyway in other news, a male member of the Australian Hockey team has been arrested buying a gram of cocaine in Paris. What a ****ing dickhead! who only buys 1 gram of cocaine? Get a ****ing 8 ball at least.
That's why I said track and field
Did y'all see the thing where Gobert said he has finger surgery and the French coach was like nah I just didn't play him?
No, what happened?
View: https://x.com/homahoops/status/1821180221217001693
Still insane to me this dude didn't make the French team. He's the kind of guard who can go off and win you a game.
What I'm saying is not many places have track and field facilities like the US.
My parents did, I was born here grew up in a lovely place named Sunshine.
Go outside and run
What sports did you play growing up?
Tennis, cricket and basketball for me.
Also badminton.
Representing my school were tennis in Summer and badminton in Winter.
At my age? Id die.
When we were kids we all played football and cricket because we had the facilities. Nobody was interested in little athletics that was a 20 minute drive away to the only facilities our side of town. Why do that **** when you can walk two blocks to the footy club and have a kick with your mates? Cost like 3 bucks to play on the weekend and if you didn't have it one of the coaches would sort it and one of the mums would make sure you always had a clean uniform if your parents couldn't. The football and cricket clubs were big parts of the community, especially back then when gangs and drugs were everywhere.
Swimming, AFL, cricket and basketball. Did a couple of seasons of baseball but wasn't very good at it. Thought about playing rugby union when I was at Uni but then I started working and didn't have the time. Did a couple of years of BJJ in my early 20s too. Only sport I do now is watching it on TV.