2012 Olympic Judo Thread

**patfromlogan** · Posted On: 8/02/2012 12:21pm

Originally Posted by ignatzami

This thread makes me so sad. There's almost zero good Judo coverage in the US. Most bouts are at 1:30am, my time.

yeah, and I've yet to get the fword video online to work

Originally Posted by Ming Loyalist

here in the US, NBC seems to have the streaming on lockdown, so you have to have a subscription to cable TV to be able to access the streams. not sure what the access will be like in the countries that aren't governed by corporations.

krist, I pay for the cable and still won't work, well gotta go work so I can't read the entire thread now, seeing if anyone figured it out.....

**judoka_uk** · Posted On: 8/02/2012 12:29pm

Originally Posted by PointyShinyBurn

I imagine he'll smoothly transition to trying to take credit for her success.

After all the people congratulating Gemma the second most common thing on facebook was everyone slagging off Densign White. He's managed to make pretty much everyone in UK Judo hate him, what a mong.

**judoka_uk** · Posted On: 8/02/2012 4:01pm

In the wake of Gibbon's silver medal the BJA website has crashed due to the sheer weight of traffic.

**Res Judicata** · Posted On: 8/02/2012 4:17pm

Originally Posted by judoka_uk

In the wake of Gibbon's silver medal the BJA website has crashed due to the sheer weight of traffic.

Her semifinal match victory was fantastic: http://www.judo.com.gr/2012/08/judo-...eo-audrey-fra/

Kayla was just too much for her though: http://www.judo.com.gr/2012/08/judo-...ons-gemma-gbr/

**judoka_uk** · Posted On: 8/02/2012 4:34pm

Originally Posted by Res Judicata

Her semifinal match victory was fantastic: http://www.judo.com.gr/2012/08/judo-...eo-audrey-fra/

Kayla was just too much for her though: http://www.judo.com.gr/2012/08/judo-...ons-gemma-gbr/

Watched it all live on a ginormous flat screen in the office, but thanks for the links.

**dflanmod** · Posted On: 8/02/2012 4:48pm

Originally Posted by judoka_uk

GOLD for Russia. Ippon with drop Seoi.

Russia takes 3 men's Gold medals, incredible.

And that's what happens when Russians take Judo and bastardize it into sambo then pretend to be Judoists at the olympics.

**Vince Tortelli** · Posted On: 8/02/2012 6:30pm

As Bullshido's token obnoxious jingoistic redneck,

USA!
USA!
USA!
Marry me, Kayla!

Now that I've said that, I am checking the comments on a U.S. news website about our first judo gold medal ever, and what's the first one? Some judoka griping about how the U.S. has abandoned the pure judo of Kano for the bastardized wrestling system you Europeans use. Followed by some twit saying Kayla looks like a man.
(sigh)
And people wonder why I await the rise of the Antichrist and the ride of the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse not with dread, but with a kind of grim anticipation.

**Psycho Dad** · Posted On: 8/02/2012 6:44pm

Outright leg grabs banned and people still complain about Judo looking like wrestling? Cripes.

***battlefields*** · Posted On: 8/03/2012 12:12am

Originally Posted by Vince Tortelli

As Bullshido's token obnoxious jingoistic redneck,

USA!
USA!
USA!
Marry me, Kayla!

Now that I've said that, I am checking the comments on a U.S. news website about our first judo gold medal ever, and what's the first one? Some judoka griping about how the U.S. has abandoned the pure judo of Kano for the bastardized wrestling system you Europeans use. Followed by some twit saying Kayla looks like a man.
(sigh)
And people wonder why I await the rise of the Antichrist and the ride of the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse not with dread, but with a kind of grim anticipation.

Kayla's already engaged. I did a quick link to an article on her in Martial Arts In The News if you missed it.

***battlefields*** · Posted On: 8/03/2012 12:20am

http://www.smh.com.au/olympics/news-...803-23ivq.html

I've been struggling to keep up because Australia's coverage of the Olympics without the luxury of pay TV (and from what I understand, even with the luxury of pay TV) sucks fucking cock major. So can anyone tell me how jumbo here went?