Odd Olympic sports...

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Did anyone find any rather odd Olympic sports you found yourself getting into?

I found a few, but my #1 is probably Handball. These guys are pretty gnar!! Body slams, blocking and best of all, TONS of scoring. Way fun to watch.

Watched a badminton match go 90 minutes the other day! (i only caught the 3rd set)

Ping Pong (refuse to call it table tennis) is badass!

Woman's field hockey, some of those chicks are seriously HOT!

Im sure there is more i can name, just curious if anyone else found themselves watching sports they had not really gotten into before.

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AHRMA361 8/18/2016 9:38am
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Did you catch Dong Dong from China taking the Silver Medal in the Trampoline event?

Just imagine all the possible names for his children.
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ocscottie 8/18/2016 10:14am
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LMAO!!!! the video clip is hilarious.

Im watching womens wrestling, USA just won to get into the gold match. Weird sport.

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ocscottie 8/18/2016 5:26pm
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Another one i forgot to mention that surprised me that i enjoyed watching, Archery. Team and single events, no waiting around, get up there and make your shot, pretty interesting.

...never thought i would be saying that lol
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Odd sports? #phelpsface.
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I saw speed walking on nbcsports this morning
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Syncro swinning and diving.
GeorgiePorgie 8/19/2016 12:00pm
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Limbo. Why not have a motocross race...they do equestrian. We know the horse does all the work in that sport right ?!
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I got into following a few just because their Dad's played in the NFL. Vashti Cunningham - High Jump. Dad is Randall. And Michelle Carter - Shot Put who won the Gold medal in Rio last week. Dad is Michael who was a beast on the defense for the 49ers back in the 80's and was a silver medalist in the '84 Olympics in LA.

Cunningham is in the finals for Women's high jump tomorrow @ 4:30. Pretty cool.
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ocscottie 8/19/2016 1:41pm
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Cool info Ted, i had no idea.

I was watching the long jump, thats pretty gnar, they throw their bodies FAR and just smash the landings. Havent seen any high jump yet, would like to see that.

Mens basketball into the Gold round, whooptie freakin doo......

Caught some Taekwondo, that was interesting.
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jamma10 8/19/2016 2:38pm
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Ted722 wrote:
I got into following a few just because their Dad's played in the NFL. Vashti Cunningham - High Jump. Dad is Randall. And Michelle Carter -...
I got into following a few just because their Dad's played in the NFL. Vashti Cunningham - High Jump. Dad is Randall. And Michelle Carter - Shot Put who won the Gold medal in Rio last week. Dad is Michael who was a beast on the defense for the 49ers back in the 80's and was a silver medalist in the '84 Olympics in LA.

Cunningham is in the finals for Women's high jump tomorrow @ 4:30. Pretty cool.
Shame the US didn't have too much success in the rugby 7s but this was a cool story about Nate Ebner who plays for the New England Patriots:

http://youtu.be/GtZMqvxoj-4
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I like the hockey, Ive always thought it was quite an underrated sport.
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Ted722 8/19/2016 2:43pm
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Ted722 wrote:
I got into following a few just because their Dad's played in the NFL. Vashti Cunningham - High Jump. Dad is Randall. And Michelle Carter -...
I got into following a few just because their Dad's played in the NFL. Vashti Cunningham - High Jump. Dad is Randall. And Michelle Carter - Shot Put who won the Gold medal in Rio last week. Dad is Michael who was a beast on the defense for the 49ers back in the 80's and was a silver medalist in the '84 Olympics in LA.

Cunningham is in the finals for Women's high jump tomorrow @ 4:30. Pretty cool.
jamma10 wrote:
Shame the US didn't have too much success in the rugby 7s but this was a cool story about Nate Ebner who plays for the New...
Shame the US didn't have too much success in the rugby 7s but this was a cool story about Nate Ebner who plays for the New England Patriots:

http://youtu.be/GtZMqvxoj-4
Cool story, had no idea. I don't watch Rugby enough, but the more I watch it the more I like it.

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