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Hope Solo is Flying on her Own, Suspended!

8 years ago in Olympics
Hope Solo is Flying on her Own, Suspended!
Hope Solo is Flying on her Own, Suspended!

Hope Solo is now flying on her own for getting suspended and contract terminated as decided by the U.S. Soccer team as disciplinary actions for her comments against Sweden in the recently concluded Rio Olympics 2016.

Sweden played a very defensive game protecting their own goal and stretched the game into a penalty shootout where Sweden sealed the win. After the game Solo commented —

“I think we played a bunch of cowards” and “the best team did not win.”

In some social media interesting comments:
https://twitter.com/Robert_Zeigler/status/768682721069699072

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UFC 202 – McGregor vs Diaz $28 Million Dollar Pay Day

8 years ago in UFC
UFC 202 - McGregor vs Diaz $28 Million Dollar Pay Day
UFC 202 – McGregor vs Diaz $28 Million Dollar Pay Day

BJ Penn went ahead and made an estimated earnings of McGregor and Diaz got for UFC 202.

In the estimate below is a quick breakdown of the earnings:

Conor McGregor UFC 202 Earnings
Fight purse: $3 million.
Reebok Sponsorship earning: $250.000.
PPV Share: $11.5 million.
Fight of the night bonus: $50.000.

Nate Diaz UFC 202 Earnings
Fight purse: $2 million.
Reebok Sponsorship earning: $250.000.
PPV Share: $10.5 million.
Fight of the night bonus: $50.000.

BJ Penn even included a show money for his vegas afterparty show, article on UFC 202 Conor vs McGregor Payday.

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UFC 202 – How Did Conor McGregor Won vs Nate Diaz?

8 years ago in UFC

Fight Info

  • UFC 202 – Welterweight Fight – Nate Diaz vs Conor McGregor
  • Location: Las Vegas, Nevada SAT. AUG. 30, 2016
  • Nate Diaz: 20-11-0
  • Conor McGregor: 20-3-0

 

Conor McGregor Wins by Majority Decision vs Nate Diaz

 

Fight Scores

  • Conor McGregor: 193/313 Strikes, 0/1 Takedowns, 0 Submission Attempts
  • Nate Diaz: 271/446 Strikes, 1/5 Takedowns, 0 Submission Attempts

 

FIGHT HIGHLIGHTS
  • Conor McGregor had a knockdown against Nate Diaz in the 1st round
  • Conor McGregor had two knockdowns against Nate Diaz in the 2nd round
  • Nate Diaz came back in the 3rd round by pinning Conor against the cage and barraged Conor with punches

 

UFC 202 – Nate Diaz vs Conor McGregor fought on August 21, 2016, Conor wins match on majority decision against Nate Diaz
UFC 202 – CONOR MCGREGOR vs NATE DIAZ RECAP

How did Conor McGregor win against Nate Diaz? This argument started when Nate Diaz beat Conor McGregor on a day’s notice and everyone has counted Conor McGregor out especially since Nate Diaz now has the time to prepare against him.

The argument is completely flawed as same thing can be said of Conor McGregor and while he had the time to prepare excessively, all of his preparations were against Rafael dos Anjos who was the same height, almost same reach as Conor. As far as strategy is concerned both Nate and Conor only had a day’s preparation and with Nate Diaz having more experience was able to bring the fight to his strength on the ground as Nate defeats Conor on UFC 196 on the 2nd round via a rear-naked choke submission.

Now with time and preparation, Conor McGregor is at the height of his athletic ability, hunger to regain the title and his excessive work ethic and preparation allowed him to prepare against the strengths of Nate. Conor went to train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu as Nate is a black belt in the art. His training was not meant to go into offensive against Nate but was more of being able to defend when the fight went to the ground. McGregor did everything to stay on their feet but when on one just one occasion in the last minute of the last round Nate was able to get to the ground and Conor locked the guard and stayed in defense until time expired. The strategy worked well for him since on the ground it is Nate’s time.

On the feet, Conor is known for his strikes via kicks, and quick punches, and fluid movements around the cage. He also floated and evaded Nate Diaz like Mayweather and Ali does, brilliant strategy. For the bashers who say he run throughout the match, the picture below of Nate shows otherwise:

Conor’s corner

Conor McGregor coaching staff stressed to Conor to get out when Nate is pressing him to the cage, that is the only time Nate is able to strike and he is getting the upper hand in that situation.

Nate’s corner

Nate Diaz is pushing him to go for a takedown against Conor and push the advantage of pushing Conor against the cage.

Conor McGregor’s speech after winning
In classic Conor McGregor style — “Surprise, surprise motherfucker, the King is back”.
https://twitter.com/mikesanz19/status/767481712695767041

Nate Diaz’s speech after losing
He seems to think he has won with his comment — “They are not gonna allow me to win” – referring to the judges decision of favoring Conor McGregor.

This is a very close fight and Conor McGregor clearly won the first two rounds when he had more strikes and Nate went down on both rounds. The 3rd and 4th rounds were close but Nate had the upper hand especially in the closing minutes when he pressed Conor against the cage and was able to strike repeatedly. Round 5 was still close but Conor McGregor had more strikes, was not pressed way less against the cage compared to round 3.

Conor McGregor came out more prepared and wanted this fight more.

In a tweet below, I agree on the motivation of Conor on getting back his name on the winning column:

In the end, both fighters respected each other for a fight well fought to the end:

Below is the video for the full highlights of UFC 202 – Conor McGregor vs Nate Diaz

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Hidilyn Diaz Humble Beginnings to 1st Philippine Olympic Medal in 20 Years

8 years ago in Olympics

It has been 20 years since the Philippines last celebrated an Olympic medal and a win by Hidilyn Diaz is a celebrated victory without equal for the south east asian country.

The last time the Philippines won a medal was by Onyok Velasco at the 1996 games in Atlanta in boxing.

Teary-eyed Hidilyn Diaz for a well deserved and epic victory for herself and her country:

The Philippines doesn’t have world class sports program, or facility that produce numerous athletes at world class level. What they have are outliers who on their own managed to climb to the highest ranks like Manny Pacquiao and now Hidilyn Diaz.

Hidilyn Diaz doesn’t come from a wealthy family, neither does she live in a progressive city. Her hometown Zamboanga City is down south of the Philippine Archipelago, a city you wouldn’t find in any of the top 15 positive (richest, liveable, etc) rankings in the country.

The video below show the humble beginnings of Hidilyn, rusted metal bars, plates that wiggle, a hot and humid environment. While these conditions are not ideal, Hidilyn was able to channel all these shortcomings into something productive. The wiggling metal plates and environment strengthened her resolve, focus that made winning at the highest level possible:

Another photo showing the plates she has successfully utilized to get where she is now:

Diaz putting her medal where it belongs, in here she says — “It is more beautiful if it has something in it, Thank you Lord, there is really nothing impossible from you!”

Hidilyn Diaz successfully lifted 200kg at the women’s 53kg division in weightlifting, almost four times her body weight.

As Diaz comments — “Ginawa ko yung best para sa country. “Yun lang talaga yung goal, tapos mag medal. Bronze lang talaga yung aim namin ng coach ko.”

In english, she says “I did my best for my country. That’s it really is the goal, then to medal. Bronze really is the aim of the coach and me”.

The weightlifting favorites were Chinese-Taipei’s Hsu Shu-Ching and China’s Li Yajun, which were expected to battle it out for the gold and silver and everyone else would settle for the bronze.

Hsu and Li were able to take an early lead in the snatch round where they scored 101kg and 100kg respectively. At that point Hidilyn felt discouraged as she told her coach — “Nadiscourage ako pero sabi ng coach ko na wala na kaming magagawa. Sa clean and jerk ako bumawi”. In english translation — “I am discouraged but I told my coach we cannot do anything. In clean and jerk I will make it up.” True enough she went ahead scoring 200kg.

Video below shows how Hidilyn Diaz won the Silver medal in the Rio Olympics.

Hidilyn’s Olympic journey started in Beijing in 2008 as a wild card entry by the Philippine Weightlifting Association. At this point she became the first female weightlifter to represent the Philippines in the Olympics, and just the second weightlifter for the country, her coach Ramon Solis was the first. She finished 11th of the 12 competitors in the 58-kg class but being just 17 years and already breaking the Philippine record which she herself set at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games showed a lot of promise. In this Summer Olympics she lifted 85-kg in the snatch and 107-kg in the clean and jerk for a 192-kg total. Philippine Sports Commission Chairman William Ramirez said that Diaz competed for experience and would be a strong contender in future competitions.

4 Years later at the Summer Olympics in London 2012, Diaz once again competed setting a record for Philippine athlete to be able to compete in two consecutive Olympics. She qualified via the 58kg in the Continental and World Qualifying Tournaments, ranking 9th in the event going into the Olympics. She became the flag bearer for the Olympics in the Opening ceremony. The London Olympics had a lot of expectations that she will have a better performance than in Beijing Olympics, unfortunately, she is one of two competitors along with Lina Rivas of Columbia to have a “did not finish” status after failing three times in the Clean and Jerk on 118 kg.

Going into the Summer Olympics in Rio 2016, Diaz decided to go down to the 53 kg weight class instead of the 58 kg she has competed in the past. In her first Olympics she weighed at 56.28 kg which means she is the lightest in her 58 kg class, a disadvantage against the competitors who are closer to the maximum limit. She managed to increase her weight to 57.70 kg but was still performing at the bottom half of the division.

At the 53 kg class she was able to win the gold medal in the 1st Southeast Asian Weightlifting Championship in Bangkok. She went on to place 3rd in the 53 kg division of the IWF World Weightlifting Championship held in Houston, Texas on November 22, 2015 which allowed her to get top spot in the 2016 Rio Olympics.

It was a long journey for Diaz who started the sport at age 11 on humble beginnings. Through years or hard work, determination and perseverance competing in one Olympic tournament to another, she was able to bring the Philippines its first medal in 20 years and the first none-boxing Olympic medal in 80 years for the country.

Congratulations to Hidilyn Diaz for the victory!

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List of Security Incidents in Olympics Rio 2016

8 years ago in Olympics

The latest report incident was with Ryan Lochte and his fellow swimmers who were stopped and robbed by armed men while in a taxi — Ryan Lochte and Others Robbed at Rio Olympics 2016

Prior to that these are the following incidents reported so far

August 11 – Russian swimmer Evgeny Korotyshkin who is not a competitor was robbed and was able to take a photo of the two armed men and had it posted on instagram, however, it seems he has taken it down
August 6 – An attempted robbery againts opening ceremony security co-ordinator as he left the Maracana stadium the morning after, it was reported that his guards opened fire on the assailants, one was killed
August 6 – Robbery against Portuguese education minister in Ipanema as he came from a cycling event
August 6 – A bullet tore through the tent and entered the equestrian media centre

August 5 – Robbery at knifepoint on Ipanema beach against two rowing coaches, this was reported by the Australian Olympic Committee

Sarcasm on the Rio 2016 security is brought to social media, saying they are able to confiscate a bug spray —

Other people reporting about security are as follows:

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Ryan Lochte and Others Robbed at Rio Olympics 2016

8 years ago in Olympics

Ryan Lochte together with US Olympic swimmers Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and Jimmy Feigen were robbed by people who posed as armed policemen.

The robbers demanded money and personal items from the swimmers as the US Olympic committee confirmed the attack. In the official statement “All four athletes are safe and co-operating with authorities,”.

The swimmers were at the French Olympic team’s hospitality house prior to the attack and on their way home to the olympic village their taxi was stopped and the robbery occured.

Lochte’s mother Ileana told USA Today that her son was shaken up by the incident — “I think they’re all shaken up. There were a few of them,”.

An incompetent people from the International Olympic Committee confirmed with absolute certainty that the report of the robbery is not true, IOC spokesman Mark Adams said — “absolutely not true”.

There are 80,000 police and soldiers that were deployed by Brazil to patrol and help keep the Rio games secure.

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Nadezhda Bazhina Joins Diving Zero Club via Olympics Rio 2016

8 years ago in Olympics

Russia’s Nadezhda Bazhina just made history in an infamous way by joining the club of divers hitting the score of zero in a tournament.

The video below show how she lost her footing towards a disastrous dive in the 3m springboard preliminary round.

Social has reacted to this epic fail:

Epic photos of the captured moment of landing on the back:

This Olympic fail gave her entry to the zero club of diving together with German Stephan Feck in the Olympics London 2012 and the Filipino divers John Elmerson Fabriga and John David Pahoyo in the SEA Games 2015.

Stephan Feck of the Olympic fail below:

John Elmerson Fabriga and John David Pahoyo SEA Games 2015 Diving fail.

Philippines, Germany and now Russia diving team in the elusive zero club

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Ginny Trasher, the Bubbly Teen Who Won Rio Olympics First Gold Medal

8 years ago in Olympics

Teenage American Ginny Trasher made waves early on when she won the first gold medal in Rio Olympics on Saturday in the Women’s 10M Air Rifle event.

Ginny is a Sophomore engineering student at West Virginia University who led the Mountaineers to their 18th NCAA team rifle championship as well as 4th straight title.

Ginny has momentarily celebrated in interviews having that bubbly personality as she knows she needs to refocus for her next event on Thursday August 11.

“I have to go refocus for my next match, After I shoot that match, I’ll be going back, straight to classes for my sophomore year,”. She notes that classes start immediately — “They start the day after I get back.”

Thrasher beat out China’s Du Li, the 2006 World Champion had to settle for silver. China’s Yi Siling brought home the bronze for her country.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BI0_x6zAyud/?taken-by=ginnythrasher_

Air Rifle requires extreme precision repeated over and over again. Trasher who averaged 10.4 during qualification describes it as —

“It’s a sport of precision. Picture a pencil, and if you take the eraser of that pencil, that’s the very middle of the circle. And then if you took a period in size 12 Times New Roman font, and you put it in the middle of that pencil eraser, that is the 10. So, I have to hit that dot at 10 meters to shoot a 10. Now that’s just a 10.0, if I hit that dot it’s just a 10.0, and then if I hit in the very exact center it’s a 10.9”

“I mean it’s not an Olympic sport for nothing!” saying it with her usually bubbly self.

Ginny Trasher has been training for five years, what seemed to be a short time to become an Olympic gold medalist. However, shooting comes natural to her and probably because it is a family thing with her father in the Air Force and grandpa loves deer hunting. Ginny was introduced to shooting when her grandpa took her to one of his deer hunting trips which led to joining the high school air rifle team.

Ginny loves everything about the sport of shooting from practicing, competitions and everything else about it — “For me, I think that the best part about shooting is you get out of it what you put into it and I’ve had a great five years, I absolutely fell in love with the sport of shooting, and I love practicing, I love competing, I love everything about it.”

Given that this was her first Olympics she didn’t created the buzz and expectations of winning the first Gold Medal in Rio Olympics and for Team USA however, what happened, happened and she was proud of the outcome —

“Knowing that I had the first gold medal in the entire Rio 2016 Olympics, that was the moment when I thought I am so proud, I am so proud of being American, I am so proud to stand on that podium, to listen to my nation’s anthem and to just be able to represent, and start off this Rio 2016 games on such a positive note.”

On her plans on future Olympic games she notes — “I have three more years of NCAA eligibility, and then I’ll be shooting the next year after that aiming for Tokyo.”

The gold won by Ginny the United States’ third Gold Medal in women’s air rifle, the last time they won it was 16 years back by Nancy Napolski-Johnson in 2000.

Ginny Trasher

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