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Pac 12 @ London Olympics

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It seems the top tier Pac 12 schools have specific specialties. Washington has rowing. Oregon has track. USC, Stanford and Cal have some combination of water polo, swimming, vollyball soccer and track. These schools not only make a point to develop US athletes, but also international athletes.

I suspect CU would be uniquely situated as an Olympic training Mecca for cycling, both road bike and mountain bike. Investments might also enhance CU's output of winter Olympic athletes in Nordic and Alpine events.

To some extent, Nike U has pulled distance running away from Boulder. CU primarily offers partial scholarships for track and XC. Colorado does not actively recruit foreign runners. Coach Wetmore prides himself on developing Americans. If CU and the Pac wanted Colorado to increase the conference's number of Olympic athletes, an easy strategy would be to increase the number of full ride scholarships for athletes competing in running events of 1500M or above (including steeple) and also recruit international athletes to compete at CU.
 
Skidmark said:
Investments might also enhance CU's output of winter Olympic athletes in Nordic and Alpine events.
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I'm afraid that the athletes in both skiing disciplines in college are not Olympic caliber. Like in gymnastics or tennis, if you're playing in college you've already washed out of the top ranks or you were never good enough to begin with. Top skiing athletes are on the World Cup circuit when they're in their mid-to-late teens. Jeremy Bloom is the one exception that comes to mind, but he was always looking at an NFL career first.

Golf seems a natural place for CU to focus its efforts. The women had a great season last year and the men have a tremendous history with four US Open titles plus guys like Dale Douglass. Golf will be in the Olympics again in 2106.
 
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I'm afraid that the athletes in both skiing disciplines in college are not Olympic caliber. Like in gymnastics or tennis, if you're playing in college you've already washed out of the top ranks or you were never good enough to begin with. Top skiing athletes are on the World Cup circuit when they're in their mid-to-late teens. Jeremy Bloom is the one exception that comes to mind, but he was always looking at an NFL career first.

Golf seems a natural place for CU to focus its efforts. The women had a great season last year and the men have a tremendous history with four US Open titles plus guys like Dale Douglass. Golf will be in the Olympics again in 2106.
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I don't think I'll be around to see it. :wink2:
 
jcatcher said:
Golf seems a natural place for CU to focus its efforts. The women had a great season last year and the men have a tremendous history with four US Open titles plus guys like Dale Douglass. Golf will be in the Olympics again in 2106.
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Will they allow pros?
 
The Pac 12 swimming team members (and the rest of the country's contribution) in a new Team USA goofy video:

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A lot of these kids will be taking home some serious medals.

GO USA!
 
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Yeah. I said it. I got my right hand full with the Cal athletes in the Olympics already so what's the answer Mr. Mark?
 
Left is for the stranger... so wtf? Am i supposed to know all of the 4 CU athletes in the Olympics?
 
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Flora Duffy (women's triathlon) Team Bermuda

University of Colorado senior

Hometown: Warwick, BER
WTS rank: 37

Olympic Schedule:
Women's Triathlon
Saturday 8/4: Finals, 9AM GMT (2A mountain)
TV: Live on NBC Sports Network between 2-4:15 a.m.

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Dana Vollmer, former Cal Bear, won gold in WR time over the 100 freestyle

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The PAC 12 is currently responsible for a good portion of the USA medals so far. As far as I can tell, here's the conference count:

Arizona -1 Silver
Cal - 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 3 Bronze
SC - 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze

The Huskies are coming up next in rowing which should greatly increase the count and if the water polo teams keep winning, a lot of furd medals will appear soon.
 
liverflukes said:
The PAC 12 is currently responsible for a good portion of the USA medals so far. As far as I can tell, here's the conference count:

Arizona -1 Silver
Cal - 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 3 Bronze
SC - 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze

The Huskies are coming up next in rowing which should greatly increase the count and if the water polo teams keep winning, a lot of furd medals will appear soon.
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Which by default means Cal gets more too! With rowing and polo that is.
 
Quite a few medals going to P12 athletes with the US women´s water polo and football teams winning gold
 
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