(08-01-2024, 11:22 AM)Hieronymus Wrote: Women’s soccer cruising mostly so far. Smith and Girma looking great. Davidson has been hurt the last 1.7 or so games. I hope she is back for the first knockout game.
The team I will shill for though is Women’s volleyball - total mayhem. Karch has a bunch of talented but variously flawed pieces at OH including Plummer. She has had some good moments hitting and some bad moments returning serve. They went 5 sets in both matches so far, almost reverse sweeping China and almost getting reverse swept by Serbia. One set is brilliant volleyball and the next is total chaos. I have no idea who the best 6 are or if Karch just needs to keep rotating players; but it is hugely entertaining, and the announcers are great. Finally, it is shocking how little it resembles the college game these days. Instead, it’s blast away even out of system with very few long rallies. Definitely worth watching.
Agree, I've been watching the volleyball too. We think our top college teams are strong, and they are, but the Olympics is like another level. Seems like dinking hardly ever works in Olympics, have to take a strong spike on every set, and try to locate it around or deflecting off side or fingertips of blockers. Seems like the talent on the US team hasn't played as much together as some of the other teams, and hopefully they get more together quickly.
(08-01-2024, 11:39 AM)82lsju Wrote: Regan Smith silver medal in the 200m butterfly!!
And then had only about an hour to recover and swim again in 200 back semi's to qualify in 6th for the finals.