{"id":10072,"date":"2016-08-05T11:26:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T11:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=10072"},"modified":"2016-08-06T12:17:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T12:17:22","slug":"u-s-women-short-in-size-but-long-on-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/u-s-women-short-in-size-but-long-on-humor.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. women short in size but long on humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">U.S. women short in size but long on humor<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>U.S. women short in size but long on humor<\/strong>: RIO DE JANEIRO \u2014 Besides being really, really good at gymnastics, the U.S. women have a good sense of humor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Gymnasts are short, that\u2019s just a fact. And in an Olympic Village where most athletes have at least a foot and 100 pounds on them, yeah, they\u2019re going to stand out. There\u2019s not much they can do about that, so they may as well get a laugh out of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">The U.S. women have been entertaining themselves by taking photos with really tall athletes. The best is the 4-8 Simone Biles standing back-to-back with U.S. volleyball player David Lee to show their 2-foot height difference. (If you haven\u2019t seen it yet, Google. It will make your day.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201cI feel like Simone is just so much shorter that it just looks even more ridiculous,\u201d team captain Aly Raisman said, laughing. \u201cWhen Simone gets up for a photo they\u2019re like, `Oh my God, you\u2019re so tiny!\u2019 \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Added Gabby Douglas, the \u201ctallest\u201d of the group at a little over 5-2, added, \u201cIt\u2019s just funny. I think everyone recognizes us when we walk by, like, `Yeah, those are the gymnasts,\u2019 because yeah, there\u2019s a big height difference.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">While the photos make for great souvenirs \u2013 the Americans already have ones with Michael Phelps, Conor Dwyer and the Cuban men\u2019s volleyball team \u2014 being so much smaller than everyone else does have its drawbacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u201cEveryone in the village is so tall,\u201d Biles said. \u201cI just feel like I\u2019m going to get stepped on or something.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/span> :<\/span> http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/2016\/08\/04\/us-women-short-size-but-long-humor\/88275724\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/u-s-women-short-in-size-but-long-on-humor.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. women short in size but long on humor U.S. women short in size but long on humor: RIO DE JANEIRO \u2014 Besides being really, really good at gymnastics, the U.S. women have a good sense of humor. 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