Godl medal winners are all happy, but who would you rate as the unhappiest medal winners in track and field?
My list:
1)Wariner
2)Sanya Richards
3)Alyson Felix
* honorable mention to Jenn S's pole vault coach.
The happiest non gold medal winners:
1)The Australian silver medlaist in the women's 100 hurdles.
2)David Neville
3)Shalene Flanagan
I did not see every event to I could be missing some.
Unhappiest:
Walter Dix - Bronze in the 200m
"I still lost"
Ramzi didn't look too happy after he won the 1500m
Ara Abrahamian(sp?). Didn't see anyone else throw their medal away on the podium.
Terminator X wrote: Ara Abrahamian(sp?). Didn't see anyone else throw their medal away on the podium.That was my first thought also, although I'd make it a tie between him and the dude in the gold medal match who got DQd and decided to give the ref a roundhouse kick to the head. Did that guy get his silver medal, or did they throw him right out of the Olympics?
1) wrestler who threw his medal on ground and stormed off the medal stand.
2) Tae Kwon Doe guy from Cuba who would have receieved the bronze medal, becomes enraged and throws a kick to refs face. (pretty funny-ref was ok).
Priscilla Lopes-Schliep, bronze in the hurdles, from Canada, was pretty gosh darn happy
The Chinese diver who kept China from sweeping the diving golds by getting silver.
Milorad Cavic, lost to Michael Phelps by 1/100th of a second although many people believed he touched first based on visual evidence.
Here's the thing about Cavic. He was leading Phelps and by all accounts he got to the wall first...except one. His final stroke left him short of the wall, and he had to glide in. That's what cost him. It happens in swimming sometimes.
You would be as well if you came in at around the 14th fastest time in the world!
how about blanca vlasic? she is still super hot though...
oh the humanity... wrote:
1) wrestler who threw his medal on ground and stormed off the medal stand.
2) Tae Kwon Doe guy from Cuba who would have receieved the bronze medal, becomes enraged and throws a kick to refs face. (pretty funny-ref was ok).
this guy is the winner. nobody beats these 2.
I thought the girl gymnasts showed a lot of class in their post competition interviews after their silver. Maybe it's because they had a 20 year old and a couple of 18 year olds.
Plus ALicia Sacramone had every reason to be pissed big time after getting cheated out of a medal in the vault.
South Shore wrote:
My list:
1)Wariner
2)Sanya Richards
3)Alyson Felix
* honorable mention to Jenn S's pole vault coach.
The happiest non gold medal winners:
1)The Australian silver medlaist in the women's 100 hurdles.
2)David Neville
3)Shalene Flanagan
Who are "Alyson Felix" and "Shalene Flanagan?"
joev9 wrote:
how about blanca vlasic? she is still super hot though...
Yeah, first time she's lost in over a year ... I was really disappointed that we didn't get to see her super hot victory boogie.
How about Priscilla Lopes-Schliep of Canada after she got the bronze in the 100 meter hurdles in a photo finish? Especially poetic since right before the start Ato Bolden said ( in a polite way) she had no business being in the finals.
hounddogharrier wrote:
How about Priscilla Lopes-Schliep of Canada after she got the bronze in the 100 meter hurdles in a photo finish? Especially poetic since right before the start Ato Bolden said ( in a polite way) she had no business being in the finals.[/quote]
Priscilla Lopes-Schliep for happiest, of course.[quote]
Two happy medalists missed by NBC...
1) Barbora Spotakova of the Czech Republic beat a Russian on her last throw, and on the 40th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Prague to boot. She couldn't stop crying.
2) Kim Geveart anchored Belgium to an unexpected silver in the 4x100, her first Olympic medal ever. Just three days before the Games started she announced she'll retire at the end of the summer.
Lolo is very unhappy