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Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - Treebound - 08-10-2016

Thanks for posting Eric, but as usual our Stanford sites are inconsistent.  If you look at the link below, which is noted in Wikipedia, Stanford athletes have won  280 medals.  Also, Eric Heiden won 5 golds in speed skating in the 1980 Lake Placid games and he's not listed in the link you found.    I still think Earl K and co should compile the definitive list broken out by US and all other countries. 

Here's the other Stanford link that states 280 medals at the bottom:

http://facts.stanford.edu/campuslife/athletics

Home of Champions

    Total National Championships: 129 (NCAA rank: #1)
    Total NCAA Championships: 108 (#2)
    Total Men's NCAA Championships: 62 (#3)
    Total Women's NCAA Championships: 46 (#1)
    Total Individual NCAA Championships: 462 (#1)
    NCAA Team Championships Since 1990: 95
    NCAA Team Championships Since 1980: 119
    Consecutive years with national team championship(s): 40 (#1)
    Olympic medals won by Stanford-affiliated athletes: 280

Here's the Wikipedia reference as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_universities_with_Olympic_medals



Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - larkinforever - 08-10-2016

(08-08-2016, 12:25 AM)Langdude link Wrote:I wonder... Do we call Janet Evans a former Cardinal? I mean, I know she went to Stanford and competed for Stanford. I met her as an undergrad. She was really nice. She swam for Stanford for two years, I believe, but then transferred to Texas (she did not compete for them), then to US.C (nor for them), where she graduated. So she's an SC alum. Perhaps she is a Cardinal because that is the only NCAA team for which she competed?

-m.

http://facts.stanford.edu/alumni/ <------- Stanford calls her an alum.

Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - 82lsju - 08-10-2016

(08-10-2016, 03:37 PM)Treebound link Wrote:Thanks for posting Eric, but as usual our Stanford sites are inconsistent.  If you look at the link below, which is noted in Wikipedia, Stanford athletes have won  280 medals.  Also, Eric Heiden won 5 golds in speed skating in the 1980 Lake Placid games and he's not listed in the link you found.    I still think Earl K and co should compile the definitive list broken out by US and all other countries. 

Here's the other Stanford link that states 280 medals at the bottom:

http://facts.stanford.edu/campuslife/athletics

Home of Champions

    Total National Championships: 129 (NCAA rank: #1)
    Total NCAA Championships: 108 (#2)
    Total Men's NCAA Championships: 62 (#3)
    Total Women's NCAA Championships: 46 (#1)
    Total Individual NCAA Championships: 462 (#1)
    NCAA Team Championships Since 1990: 95
    NCAA Team Championships Since 1980: 119
    Consecutive years with national team championship(s): 40 (#1)
    Olympic medals won by Stanford-affiliated athletes: 280

Here's the Wikipedia reference as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_universities_with_Olympic_medals

I would guess the 280 includes the winter Olympics and I could see us with 280 total (pre-Rio) with 243 from the summer games and 37 from the winter games, from the previous list

which as you point out excludes Eric Heiden who won 5 medals in a single Olympics and should be on both of these lists if it included the winter olympics, that's one reason I think the 243 is summer and 280 is summer + winter.

Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - DC 86 - 08-10-2016

Maya DiRado named to tonight's 4x200 Free Relay final along with Katie Ledecky.

Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - BostonCard - 08-10-2016

Walsh-Jennings and her partner won their third beach volleyball match.

http://results.nbcolympics.com/beach-volleyball/event/women/match=bvw400c06/index.html?v=20160811020739&intcmp=[#]-schline-result

I believe that this is only the second set that Walsh has lost in four Olympics.  Her record now stands at 23-0.

She is four wins away from her fourth gold.

BC

Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - BostonCard - 08-10-2016

W00t!  Another two gold medals for Stanford's Ledecky and Dirado.  Ledecky took the US from 1 second behind after Dirado's third leg to an almost 2 second win.  Ledecky swam her leg in something like 1:53, which might be the fastest 200 split in history.  At around the 50m turn, with Ledecky still trailing, the announcers called it for the US.

Missy Franklin was a scratch for the final.  Not that it matters, but anyone know why?

BC

Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - DC 86 - 08-10-2016

Franklin was not a scratch.

Schmidt, Ledecky and Smith were locked in for three spots; the eight US team coaches got together after the morning prelims and decided that a fresh DiRado gave the US the strongest lineup for the final as opposed to having Franklin, Marsalis or Runge swim again. Franklin swam well in the morning (second best split on the US team) but it wasn't enough to convince the coaches, regardless she receives a gold.

Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - ThePassionOfTheChryst - 08-10-2016

(08-10-2016, 08:11 PM)Boston Card link Wrote:W00t!  Another two gold medals for Stanford's Ledecky and Dirado.  Ledecky took the US from 1 second behind after Dirado's third leg to an almost 2 second win.

That was bleeping amazing.

Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - FarmBoy - 08-11-2016

Quote:Ledecky took the US from 1 second behind after Dirado's third leg to an almost 2 second win.

Interesting strategy by the Aussies to put the fastest two swimmers in the middle. I guess they thought the only way they would win would be to build a lead and gain a psychological edge?

Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - winflop - 08-11-2016

(08-11-2016, 05:04 AM)FarmBoy link Wrote:Interesting strategy by the Aussies to put the fastest two swimmers in the middle. I guess they thought the only way they would win would be to build a lead and gain a psychological edge?

Might as well.  No matter who they put in the final leg they would have needed a substantial lead.  They did have the lead but it wasn't nearly enough.  Needed to be at least 2.5-3 secs to have had a shot.  And I gotta believe if it had been that big Ledecky would have gone faster in the final 50.

Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - BostonCard - 08-11-2016

Ledecky already swam the fastest split of any competitor that day, and one of the fastest splits ever.  Hard to believe she would have had a higher gear than that.

BC

Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - washingtonismoney - 08-11-2016

https://twitter.com/NBCOlympics/status/763622164276711424

Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - BostonCard - 08-11-2016

As amazing as Ledecky is in the pool, I have been continually impressed with DiRado when she is interviewed.  She comes across as someone who is loving every minute of her Olympics, perhaps because she knows that this will be her last competitive swimming experience (she is retiring from swimming and starting her career, I think for McKinsey, in Atlanta, where her husband is from).  Hard not to see her succeeding in whatever career she pursues.

On a completely separate note, I saw a commercial where Ryan Lockte was talking about a swimmer that inspired him, and he picked Pablo Morales, specifically because of his sportsmanship after winning the 100m butterfly in 1992.  Nice to see Morales mentioned, and doubly nice to see him praised for his sportsmanship. 

BC

Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - fullmetal - 08-11-2016

Grace Luczak and her pair partner, Felice Mueller, locked up an A-final berth in today's A/B semifinal.  They seemed to stay off the gas for most of the race, content to let the Brits take a solid lead, and were dueling with South Africa in the body of the race (if they were even paying attention to RSA).  I have to think that's because they're saving their strength for tomorrow--usually you'd get a day off between semis and finals, but with two days having been cancelled due to conditions, race officials have compressed the schedule--and there still might be inclement weather tomorrow, who knows.  Remember that this GBR crew set the world record two years ago, so they're formidable contenders.  I like the USA sandbagging to conserve energy in what could be a barnburner tomorrow.  If conditions are terrible, any extra advantage will be welcome.

Elle Logan and the US women's eight watched the rest of the field duke it out in the repechage to not be excluded from the A-final (or just final since there is no B-final).  Australia lost out.  They'll race for medals and the continued dynastic dominance on Saturday.

Austin Hack and the US men's eight put down a great performance to win their repechage and advance to their final (also no B-final).  Was the rest of the field sandbagging it?  We'll see.  Italy was the unlucky crew excluded by virtue of finishing last.

Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - Stymie - 08-11-2016

I miss Ferrari and his knowledge of and experience in swimming.....

Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - CornFed - 08-11-2016

(08-11-2016, 11:10 AM)Stymie link Wrote:I miss Ferrari and his knowledge of and experience in swimming.....

Agree

Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - Treebound - 08-11-2016

Double Agree Stymie.  Where is Ferrari?

As for Olympic golf, we'll look to your expertise.  Please help me get the occasional par on hole 12 at Stanford, as well! 

Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - 82lsju - 08-11-2016

(08-11-2016, 11:58 AM)Treebound link Wrote:Double Agree Stymie.  Where is Ferrari?

well there was the whole banning episode........

http://thecardboard.org/board/index.php?topic=15090.msg163256#msg163256

http://thecardboard.org/board/index.php?topic=15075.0

Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - DC 86 - 08-11-2016

(08-10-2016, 03:50 PM)eric link Wrote:[quote author=Treebound link=topic=15401.msg167483#msg167483 date=1470868630]
Thanks for posting Eric, but as usual our Stanford sites are inconsistent.  If you look at the link below, which is noted in Wikipedia, Stanford athletes have won  280 medals.  Also, Eric Heiden won 5 golds in speed skating in the 1980 Lake Placid games and he's not listed in the link you found.    I still think Earl K and co should compile the definitive list broken out by US and all other countries. 

I would guess the 280 includes the winter Olympics and I could see us with 280 total (pre-Rio) with 243 from the summer games and 37 from the winter games, from the previous list

which as you point out excludes Eric Heiden who won 5 medals in a single Olympics and should be on both of these lists if it included the winter olympics, that's one reason I think the 243 is summer and 280 is summer + winter.
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This points out the inherent ambiguity involved in compiling these lists and why it's inevitable that various lists will be inconsistent. Consider Eric Heiden:

Competed internationally in speed skating from 1976-1980, retiring after his brilliant 5 gold medals (and 5 world records) at Lake Placid. During this time he was an undergrad at University of Wisconsin. After the Olympics he transferred to UCSD, and then he transferred to Stanford and graduated in 1984, at which point he started competing as a professional cyclist.

I'm proud that he's a fellow alumnus and great representative of the university, but it's a stretch to consider him a Stanford student-athlete in the context of the Olympics since he was at Wisconsin during the time that he was training and competing in speed skating. The counter argument is that he is indeed an alumnus (2x) and an Olympian, which opens the door for even more tenuous candidates such as Kerri Strug or even Al Oerter.

Bottom line is that different schools are going to use different criteria (and I assume that they will err on the side of inflating their numbers) and that third party articles are likely to be inconsistent due to the ambiguity of cases such as Heiden.

Personally I don't think Heiden should count towards Stanford's Olympic medal count, but if other schools are counting their numbers loosely then I understand that it's frustrating to feel short-changed when the numbers are compared, therefore tempting to use the same loose standards in compiling these lists.


Re: Stanford athletes schedules & performances in the Olympics - 82lsju - 08-11-2016

(08-11-2016, 12:59 PM)DC 86 link Wrote:This points out the inherent ambiguity involved in compiling these lists and why it's inevitable that various lists will be inconsistent. Consider Eric Heiden:

Competed internationally in speed skating from 1976-1980, retiring after his brilliant 5 gold medals (and 5 world records) at Lake Placid. During this time he was an undergrad at University of Wisconsin. After the Olympics he transferred to UCSD, and then he transferred to Stanford and graduated in 1984, at which point he started competing as a professional cyclist.

I'm proud that he's a fellow alumnus and great representative of the university, but it's a stretch to consider him a Stanford student-athlete in the context of the Olympics since he was at Wisconsin during the time that he was training and competing in speed skating. The counter argument is that he is indeed an alumnus (2x) and an Olympian, which opens the door for even more tenuous candidates such as Kerri Strug or even Al Oerter.

Bottom line is that different schools are going to use different criteria (and I assume that they will err on the side of inflating their numbers) and that third party articles are likely to be inconsistent due to the ambiguity of cases such as Heiden.

Personally I don't think Heiden should count towards Stanford's Olympic medal count, but if other schools are counting their numbers loosely then I understand that it's frustrating to feel short-changed when the numbers are compared, therefore tempting to use the same loose standards in compiling these lists.

looking at the list at gostandford.com list of summer olympic medal winners, Kerri Strug and Al Oerter are not listed as medal recipients so maybe Eric Heiden in not included in my assumed 37 winter medals.