Olympics Thread
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@cyclops said in Olympics Thread:
@nzzp said in Olympics Thread:
@crucial said in Olympics Thread:
Her stroke rate for the first 50 was about 15% higher than anyone else
only three years to the next olympics...
K1-200 is not on the Paris schedule sadly. It's such a fun event, watching them just go all out for about 40 seconds is amazing.
What is on the 2024 schedule?
Back in 1984, when we won the huge bag of kayaking golds. There were no 200m events.
The two distances were 500 and 1000 (for men).
The women only competed over 1 distance (500m).
It meant there were crossover athletes between the 500 and 1000 and Mac and Ferg got a swag.
Having the 200 and the 1000 seems to mean no crossover, hence the more sensible choice.
So, currently for men. Two very different types of athletes.
Currently , for women, closer - with the distances being 200 and 500.
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answering myself:
Changes to the canoeing event programme will see men’s and women’s extreme slalom included in the Paris 2024 canoe programme.
The addition of the new discipline in the Olympic schedule will not require any extra athlete quotas, with many of the canoe slalom competitors likely to contest the extreme competitions.
With the IOC confirming no additional medals, the introduction of extreme slalom will see the canoe sprint programme reduced from 12 events to ten.
The IOC accepted the canoe sprint programme proposal from the International Canoe Federation confirming that the men’s and women’s K1 200m will not be contested in Paris.
Under the changes, the men’s K2 1000m and C2 1000m will both become 500 metre events.
There will be K4 500m races for both men and women.
The K1 and C1 1000m events for men, and K1 and K2 500m for women remain unchanged.
The women’s C1 200m and C2 500m, which will be raced at an Olympics for the first time next year in Tokyo, also remain unchanged for Paris 2024.
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@mn5 said in Olympics Thread:
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@kiwimurph said in Olympics Thread:
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@kiwimurph said in Olympics Thread:
Hubbard fails to complete a single lift in the snatch.
Huh? I just watched her lift 125? Wasn't that the snatch?
Edit- Did it not count, I see she's not on the leaderboard
Yeah too much arm wobble. Should have challenged it.
Bloody hell. What a lot of angst for nothing in the end, you have to laugh 😂
The issue is Hubbard took a female's position at the games.
Ironically the biological male is probably the most female looking of the lot.
Great Silver for Emily Campbell GB
Tremendous Olympic Record for Li Wen Wen of China
That’s a whole lot of women.
Either that or something manufactured in a lab somewhere. Christ on a bike she certainly ain’t no beach volley baller that’s for sure.
Being in Japan you’d think they’d be catching the attention of the Sumo wrestling community. Massive potential there!
I’m not sure what all the fuss was about…. Laurel had no chance.
What is her nickname? The angry panda?
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@nzzp said in Olympics Thread:
this sport C2 1000 looks harder than rowing. Way more awkward, and good lord just sustained suffering
The best sort of sport.
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@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:
@nzzp said in Olympics Thread:
this sport C2 1000 looks harder than rowing. Way more awkward, and good lord just sustained suffering
The best sort of sport.
yeah. It's awkward though, off centre paddling, no leg drive to speak of, just pure muscular pain that grinds. Awesome to watch, but damn, it's a sport for masochists
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@frye said in Olympics Thread:
Watching the men's canoe sprints.
The Kiwi commentator obviously doesn't know that STP stands for Sao Tome and Principe. Looooong pause before just referring to them as STP again
They've dusted the cobwebs off John McBeth. The expert commentator is Ben Fouhy.
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@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
@frye said in Olympics Thread:
Watching the men's canoe sprints.
The Kiwi commentator obviously doesn't know that STP stands for Sao Tome and Principe. Looooong pause before just referring to them as STP again
They've dusted the cobwebs off John McBeth. The expert commentator is Ben Fouhy.
McBeth? Must be a vampire from What we do in the shadows’
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@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
@frye said in Olympics Thread:
Watching the men's canoe sprints.
The Kiwi commentator obviously doesn't know that STP stands for Sao Tome and Principe. Looooong pause before just referring to them as STP again
They've dusted the cobwebs off John McBeth. The expert commentator is Ben Fouhy.
Really nice bloke, had a beer with him at a function many, many years ago. He must be over 100 years old by now though.
