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No pictures? Why the heck do we have the warning WARNING: DO NOT OPEN AT WORK, OIYDWYMTTY(NY)G
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Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | July 30, 2012 at 01:12 PM
where exactly in england is this beach. and arent those ladies a little chilly? its not like its more than 75 degrees over there in blighty. is there men's beaach volleyball? (i'm not watching the games. too many commercials)
Posted by: queensbee | July 30, 2012 at 01:33 PM
I don't understand why anyone would want to watch a volleyball game with a bunch of young girls jumping around in skimpy bathing suits.
Posted by: nursecindy | July 30, 2012 at 01:35 PM
btw, very nice article Dave. Could you post some pictures of the men's diving team please?
Posted by: nursecindy | July 30, 2012 at 01:45 PM
This is the 21st century. Your sport is never going to gain widespread public acceptance until you open the competition to allow hot women in microscopic swimwear. I would give the same advice to officials of other little-known Olympic sports seeking TV coverage, such as skeet-shooting
Ahem: Meet Kimberly Rhode, the first American with individual medals in five straight Olympics
Posted by: wiredog | July 30, 2012 at 01:46 PM
The queen would be playing herself, but apparently she injured Her Royal Knee in a skydiving accident.
Posted by: padraig | July 30, 2012 at 02:37 PM
BTW, anybody know when the Sweden vs. Brazil match starts?
Posted by: padraig | July 30, 2012 at 02:38 PM
Maybe they should fill all those empty seats at other Olympic events with fine looking women in skimpy bikinis. I'm just saying.
Posted by: Clankie | July 30, 2012 at 03:40 PM
@snork at Clankie.
Just don' let the announcers wear bikinis. Especially if Charles Barkley is there. Ack. Or John Madden. Boom.
Posted by: HogsAteMySister | July 30, 2012 at 03:45 PM
*snork* @ 'volleybaaa'.....
my husband used to spike my drink & we'd play 'volleybra'
Posted by: ligirl | July 30, 2012 at 03:48 PM
From what I've read here, if they placed the men's volleyball uniforms with men-in-kilts volleyball, the ladies would watch.
Posted by: Steve | July 30, 2012 at 03:55 PM
I think they should go back and try to replicate the original Olympics when the men were naked. Although, I'm not sure I'd want to see a naked man doing back flips or cartwheels in a gymnastic event.
Posted by: nursecindy | July 30, 2012 at 04:11 PM
Steve, you're a genius. ~ daydreaming about kilts and voleyball ~
Posted by: Ms. Flukey | July 30, 2012 at 04:38 PM
~ daydreaming about volleyball, too ~
Posted by: Ms. Flukey | July 30, 2012 at 04:39 PM
I have been looking for Jack Bauer in the biathlon of perimeter building and thigh shooting.
Does anyone have the results of this even yet?
Posted by: MikeyVA | July 30, 2012 at 05:11 PM
Naked fellows playing volleyball may be interesting.
Posted by: Theresa | July 30, 2012 at 06:22 PM
Cindy, I am proud to say I don't watch women's volleyball. It's not that I don't want to, cause I really do. But if someone is going to try that hard to make me watch a sport, I just feel manipulated.
Posted by: Elon | July 30, 2012 at 06:48 PM
Excellent suggestion, Clankie. I second it.
Dave, I'm trying to picture women in microscopic bikinis on the luge.
Still trying...
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | July 30, 2012 at 06:50 PM
...still trying...
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | July 30, 2012 at 07:59 PM
Like this, presumably
Posted by: Elon | July 30, 2012 at 08:21 PM
Pole vaulting in kilts WBAGreat Olympic sport. I think women would most definitely watch that.
Posted by: Siouxie | July 30, 2012 at 08:51 PM
Wiredog, Kimberly Rhode may be the best shot in the world, but I am more than a little irritated that she has "15 classic cars, including a shelby cobra" and yet, her parents are still paying off the third mortgage on their house. Not too impressed with that.
Posted by: Guin | July 30, 2012 at 09:43 PM
Women's beach volleyball...
Why do the female beach volley ball competitors wear the briefest of sport bikinis while the male beach volleyball team members wear very modest loose fitting shirts?
There can be no doubt that Olympic beach volleyball was invented by men, men had a hand in designing the uniforms. It is the closest thing (yet) to Olympic porn.
Posted by: Marc | July 30, 2012 at 10:40 PM
Marc, the Olympic committee decided that safety reasons necessitated large area of exposed skin for evaporative cooling. Seriously. They tried to make the uniforms mandatory . And also mandate miniskirts for the sharpshooters and boxers. You could see the drool pouring down Rogge's face.
Posted by: Elon | July 30, 2012 at 10:53 PM
Judging from the number of condoms distributed to the athletes, the most popular sport at the games is synchronized swiving, which requires no uniforms.
Posted by: Ralph | July 30, 2012 at 11:53 PM
Elon, Rogge wasn't drooling at the young females. He always does that. They keep a little bowl on his lap.
Posted by: padraig | July 31, 2012 at 11:10 AM
Dave , by the way, Dong Dong won the gold
Posted by: Johnny Boy | August 04, 2012 at 03:29 AM
Reasons why beach volleyball is an olympic sport is because it takes a more advange skill level to play in the sand then indoors,so the sport isn't about girls jumping around in skimpy bathing suits when most are actually covered up.But regardless of the opinions on the sport, your coverage of the games is amazing and more pictures would be much appreciated.
Posted by: Anastacia | March 04, 2013 at 02:10 PM