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Anyone else interested? Absolutely love the Olympics personally. Up at 9 on a Saturday morning with a coffee watching random sports I couldn?t care less about normally.
Fantastic Bronze in the diving for the British girls just now. First medal on the opening day of the Olympics for GB since 2004!
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Posted 27 July 2024 - 11:57 AM
Love watching the olympics, getting interested in and having to read up on sports you?ve no idea about previously. Sadly not the wall to wall coverage we?ve had in previous years due to the ioc selling tv rights as they did but still plenty to go at.
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Posted 27 July 2024 - 12:00 PM
Interesting that there are Olympic teams that aren't recognised as independent countries by the UN including the 'Russians that aren't Russian' team.
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Posted 27 July 2024 - 01:11 PM
The women?s cycling time trial is like watching Bambi on ice in these conditions. Apparently we?ve a decent shot at a medal with Josh Tarling in the men?s event at 3.30
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Posted 27 July 2024 - 01:40 PM
Mr Mercury, on 27 July 2024 - 01:11 PM, said:
The women?s cycling time trial is like watching Bambi on ice in these conditions. Apparently we?ve a decent shot at a medal with Josh Tarling in the men?s event at 3.30
Nightmare conditions for them. The American girl fell 3 times!
Fantastic silver for Anna Henderson.
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Posted 27 July 2024 - 05:50 PM
Mr Mercury, on 27 July 2024 - 01:11 PM, said:
The women?s cycling time trial is like watching Bambi on ice in these conditions. Apparently we?ve a decent shot at a medal with Josh Tarling in the men?s event at 3.30
Really unfortunate for Tarling to miss out on a podium place after getting a puncture and having to swap bikes. Ended up 4th only 2 seconds off 3rd.
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Posted 27 July 2024 - 07:36 PM
Just seen a brief compilation of David Wilkie clips on the BBC. Had the pleasure of meeting him as a small kid when he opened the brand new gym at Tibshelf School in the early 80s, 81/2 I?d guess.
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Posted 29 July 2024 - 05:26 PM
JonB, on 29 July 2024 - 05:25 PM, said:
Some ride by Tom Pidcock in the mountain biking this afternoon to get gold again?.bonus that he elbowed the French bloke out of the way near the end to get it annoying the home crowd in the process!!
Only spoilt for me in that I knew the result before I watched on iplayer, but yes what a superb ride and gold medal.
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Posted 29 July 2024 - 05:34 PM
Mr Mercury, on 29 July 2024 - 05:26 PM, said:
Only spoilt for me in that I knew the result before I watched on iplayer, but yes what a superb ride and gold medal.
I was fortunately able to have it on at work. He looked strong before the puncture he suffered but to get back from where he was after that in the heat and still have something to stay in it at the end was some effort especially when you consider he was racing in the Tour de France a couple of weeks ago and had to drop out after getting covid!
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Posted 31 July 2024 - 10:43 AM
JonB, on 31 July 2024 - 10:36 AM, said:
That would have been a brilliant 10k run by Alex Yee on its own let alone doing it on the back of the swimming and cycling they've already done. Another great gold medal.
29:47 run split which puts him inside the top 40 in GB this year for a road 10k. Nobody else in the top 40 had done a swim and bike leg beforehand mind! Yee is a phenomenal runner.
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Posted 31 July 2024 - 10:50 AM
hilly81, on 31 July 2024 - 10:43 AM, said:
29:47 run split which puts him inside the top 40 in GB this year for a road 10k. Nobody else in the top 40 had done a swim and bike leg beforehand mind! Yee is a phenomenal runner.
He's got a running past hasnt he including i think representing GB and it shows. Not sure if he paced it really well or the lad from NZ blew up but either way it was a great run. Wasnt just a normal swim either, the swimming in the Seine looks really hard when they go upstream on the way back to the pontoon. Saw the ladies swim this morning and they flew downstream but then when they turned the buoy they seemed to be just swimming on the spot before they managed to get going upstream!
Second gold of the day in the rowing as they nick it on the line.
My three monitor setup getting some use today....Olympics on one screen, Derbyshire cricket on another and actually doing a bit of work on the other!
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Posted 31 July 2024 - 12:11 PM
Great specatacle is the Olympics.
Less keen on subjective judge based scoring events and I don't think they help themselves appeal to a wider audience. The diving commentator really helps you follow it but the judges don't get to see replays. how can they score that??
I cannot fathom the boxing and gymnastic scoring - it seems trumped up to me or based upon reputation or something else...
I thought the diving girls were quite fortunate with their scoring - especially on dive 4 but, the GB boxers must have upset someone.
Less keen on subjective judge based scoring events and I don't think they help themselves appeal to a wider audience. The diving commentator really helps you follow it but the judges don't get to see replays. how can they score that??
I cannot fathom the boxing and gymnastic scoring - it seems trumped up to me or based upon reputation or something else...
I thought the diving girls were quite fortunate with their scoring - especially on dive 4 but, the GB boxers must have upset someone.
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Posted 31 July 2024 - 12:17 PM
I'm partly the same with the judge based scoring ones, its hard to know when you dont really follow the sport to know whether they've been judged fairly or not. Commentators have been good on the gymnastics and diving for you to get a good idea of whats happened and why they were scored what they were. I've not seen much of the boxing but it does seem the GB boxers have been treated harshly on the scoring, even thingy Bunce who does a lot of the boxing coverage has talked about it without going as far to say its been bad.
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Posted 31 July 2024 - 12:49 PM
hilly81, on 31 July 2024 - 10:35 AM, said:
What a finish in the men?s triathlon! Alex Yee is an absolute monster!
Just watched the run on iplayer, hopeless camera choice by the French director missed the actual catch up.
But fantastic effort by Yee.
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