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are the US male gymnasts as dominant as the ladies? I never hear about them
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indigi posted:men play softball?? not at the olympics. softball is the designated replacement for baseball because girls can't play baseball apparently
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Peanut President posted:not at the olympics. softball is the designated replacement for baseball because girls can't play baseball apparently Isn't softball a thing because people decided that girls throwing overhand was bad for them somehow?
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bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:Isn't softball a thing because people decided that girls throwing overhand was bad for them somehow? gently caress if i know. all i know is that women played baseball in a pro league during ww2 but then at some point everyone decided 90 feet is too far for a girl to run or whatever  poo poo they came up with
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Jul 21, 2021 22:42
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Peanut President posted:gently caress if i know. all i know is that women played baseball in a pro league during ww2 but then at some point everyone decided 90 feet is too far for a girl to run or whatever Yeah they made a move about the team Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell played for
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Jul 21, 2021 22:44
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Peanut President posted:gently caress if i know. all i know is that women played baseball in a pro league during ww2 but then at some point everyone decided 90 feet is too far for a girl to run or whatever until 1993, girls in iowa played six-on-six basketball. the game kept players on one half of the court based on position, which minimized running. it was fuckin weird https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-on-six_basketball
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Jul 21, 2021 23:27
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What the gently caress, that's basically netball.
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Jul 21, 2021 23:31
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Peanut President posted:gently caress if i know. all i know is that women played baseball in a pro league during ww2 but then at some point everyone decided 90 feet is too far for a girl to run or whatever i asked a search engine and quote:The distance between the pitching mound and home plate is smaller, too. So not only do women work with a smaller field, they use the oversized ball as well. The reasoning behind both items is that women have smaller hands and don't have the power necessary to throw the ball as efficiently on a baseball-sized field. thats really dumb who the gently caress cares how efficiently anyone throws a baseball
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Jul 22, 2021 00:03
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I'm so glad that women's hockey is in the winter olympics instead of some dumb bullshit like ringette.
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Jul 22, 2021 00:23
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https://twitter.com/ralphDrussoAP/status/1417965273844432900 i stopped following college football a decade ago when this ridiculous trend started it remains unclear to me how its actually to anyones advantage to jump to a different conference
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Jul 22, 2021 01:23
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https://twitter.com/rodger/status/1417887948893216774 so if im understanding this correctly literally no one in the entire country could be watching football and it would be no big deal that fans shouldnt worry about because tv contracts are signed years in advance
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Jul 22, 2021 01:35
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Peanut President posted:gently caress if i know. all i know is that women played baseball in a pro league during ww2 but then at some point everyone decided 90 feet is too far for a girl to run or whatever they thought their vaginas would fall our or something 
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Jul 22, 2021 01:39
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how were they measuring any of this were they taking sweaty jerseys and weighing them to see which sports produced the most perspiration
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Jul 22, 2021 01:42
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Some Guy TT posted:i asked a search engine and baseball teams, generally
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actually anything wed describe as efficiency in regards to modern baseball is a fairly recent development moneyball completely revolutionized the sport and improved speed detection technology only really became a thing in the eighties before then no one really paid that much attention the exact numbers attached to baseball actions just their outcomes the whole softball is baseball for girls thing seems to date from the seventies entirely as a response to title ix and schools just arbitrarily deciding that girls cant play baseball because its too manly so they have to play a similar sport instead
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Jul 22, 2021 01:50
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https://twitter.com/CrossFitGames/status/1417579852752957442
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Jul 22, 2021 01:51
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god crossfit is so stupid lol
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Jul 22, 2021 01:55
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a few DRUNK BONERS posted:they thought their vaginas would fall our or something Women's marathon was only added to the olympics in 1984, and up to 1980 the longest track and field race for women was the 1500 meters. For reasons not too distant from what you jokingly say here.
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Some Guy TT posted:https://twitter.com/ralphDrussoAP/status/1417965273844432900 thats good actually if they leave gently caress the Big12
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Peanut President posted:gently caress if i know. all i know is that women played baseball in a pro league during ww2 but then at some point everyone decided 90 feet is too far for a girl to run or whatever There's a dollop episode where they look at a lady baseball pitcher who struck out Babe Ruth, who would go on to deny that it happened up to his dying day.
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Forceholy posted:There's a dollop episode where they look at a lady baseball pitcher who struck out Babe Ruth, who would go on to deny that it happened up to his dying day. thats loving hilarious. in my searches I actually found that the WBSC, who organizes baseball and softball for the olympics, HAS A WOMEN'S BASEBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
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Jul 22, 2021 14:33
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there should probably be some lady delivers by this point but idk if they could hold up as a starter for a whole season, at least not until theres some institutional changes to develop women pitchers from a young age. maybe they could be like Jamie Moyer, my favorite pitcher. can women throw heat?
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Jul 22, 2021 15:12
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joepinetree posted:Women's marathon was only added to the olympics in 1984, and up to 1980 the longest track and field race for women was the 1500 meters. For reasons not too distant from what you jokingly say here. this will be the first Olympics where the men's 800m freestyle and women's 1500m freestyle will be contested in swimming. the women weren't allowed to swim the 1500m freestyle because it was "too long for them". then they added in the open water 5K and 10K for both and the difference between genders made zero sense to keep up. still took the Olympics a while to adjust accordingly.
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https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/1418567909643804674 what are they guarding
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Jul 24, 2021 01:26
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Some Guy TT posted:what are they guarding
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Jul 24, 2021 01:28
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to steal a joke from SAS: definitely not the basepaths https://twitter.com/RaysBaseball/status/1418717484971134982
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hi so i do a sport. its called fencing and its really fun and cool and oh would u look at that its on tv for the olympics right now!!! wow!!!!!!!11111
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Jul 24, 2021 06:11
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I had a friend who did fencing at the olympics as part of the Modern Pentathlon
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indigi posted:I had a friend who did fencing at the olympics as part of the Modern Pentathlon oh neat! modern pentathlon is really interesting to me as a fencer
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Jul 24, 2021 06:58
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didn't some fencer get screwed out of the gold at the olympics because the timekeeper (who turned out to be a highschooler) forgot to start the clock?
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is pepsi ok posted:didn't some fencer get screwed out of the gold at the olympics because the timekeeper (who turned out to be a highschooler) forgot to start the clock? i don't know about this but it's a good reason to fence sabre, we don't have timekeepers lol
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is pepsi ok posted:didn't some fencer get screwed out of the gold at the olympics because the timekeeper (who turned out to be a highschooler) forgot to start the clock? youre referring to shim a lam and the issue wasnt that the timekeeper forgot to restart the clock it was that she restarted the clock wrong and also the clocks used in international fencing at the time were very stupid because they couldnt display fractions of a second this was also in the semifinals not the finals for her event i have no idea if they ever fixed the clocks apparently the reason why the international fencing federation required the use of lovely clocks was because not everyone could afford good ones
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A Gin Palace posted:oh neat! modern pentathlon is really interesting to me as a fencer I think the laser guns are really cool
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Some Guy TT posted:apparently the reason why the international fencing federation required the use of lovely clocks was because not everyone could afford good ones As someone involved in running a college fencing club this is not as stupid a move as it sounds, fencing equipment is ridiculously overpriced and there's a very large amount of background maintenance you have to do -- which can run up costs quickly. Blades break, lames go dead, even strips stop working. At lower levels, lots of club equipment is jury-rigged and homemade. Of course, fencing isn't very popular in my area -- maybe things are a little better if you live in Italy or Hungary. At a super high-level event, though, lovely clocks would be apocalyptic for epee fencers, who often try to win off of time remaining rather than getting to 15 points.
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Jul 24, 2021 22:03
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do they have dual wield fencing events
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Jul 24, 2021 22:08
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indigi posted:do they have dual wield fencing events one time a guy walked into my club with two kopeshes (ancient egyptian sword, no one knows how they were actually used which is extra funny considering this guy claimed to be a historical fencing expert) and demanded to duel our best fencers using them. he said if he won then all our freshmen would have to leave and join him in making a historical fencing club. (historical fencing people are notoriously elitist and poo poo all over olympic fencing bc it's not "real swordfighting". i think they're a bunch of idiot loving nerds lol) our then-club president, in a move which shocked everyone (lol) said "no gently caress off"
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which subforum does he moderate?
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