Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens
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@canefan 13 Gold still on course to beat our previous best whether that be 17 or 22 according to event inflation. Hopefully hold 3rd, England appear to have won a big haul. It is showing that New Zealand is a pretty well rounded sporting nation.
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@booboo said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@canefan said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@booboo said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
So, eventually negotiated my way through 7+ and found replays of Corbin Strong, Bryony Botha and Ellesse Andrew's.
Glad did. Awesome watches.
Cycling is such a strange sport ...
I found the scratch race difficult to follow. They should have a graphic of the leaderboard during the race.
Can I say that Sky's scheduling has been a little bit shit? I tried to save some highlights packages early this morning only to find something else on. Makes me long for on demand Spark service. At least I get to see what I want to see
Seeing as if we're in whinge mode...
The 7+ app has Pommie commentators (though admittedly Aussie chicks colour comes, one of which seems to be Anna Mears, who despite myself I respect massively
) so the cycling commentary I've followed is all about how Team GB can possibly win gold ... or maybe Scotland... or perhaps Wales ....I'm assuming this is the generic, "World Feed " commentary,so would expect to them to be impartial.
But it seems not ...
Not sure if it is 'World Feed'
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@SBW1 said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@canefan 13 Gold still on course to beat our previous best whether that be 17 or 22 according to event inflation. Hopefully hold 3rd, England appear to have won a big haul. It is showing that New Zealand is a pretty well rounded sporting nation.
The cyclists have kicked ass this time. Lots of youngsters in there too so hope for the future and Paris in 2 years
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@canefan said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@SBW1 said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@canefan 13 Gold still on course to beat our previous best whether that be 17 or 22 according to event inflation. Hopefully hold 3rd, England appear to have won a big haul. It is showing that New Zealand is a pretty well rounded sporting nation.
The cyclists have kicked ass this time. Lots of youngsters in there too so hope for the future and Paris in 2 years
I don't want to be negative but with CG you can find that some countries place more emphasis in their long term programs than others.
I hope this isn't the case but it wouldn't surprise me if say, Australia, had a longer term target in the cycling such as the next Olympics and this is just a tester along the way.
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@Crucial A number of sports where we are traditionally very strong like rowing, kayaking and various sailing events are not in the Commonwealth Games. Given that Australia are incredibly strong at swimming and probably close to the top nation in the Olympics, New Zealand have done really well in the pool. I think New Zealand is becoming a more well rounded sporting nation, if you look at our performances in Tokyo, the Winter Olympics and now the Commonwealth games.
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@Crucial said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@canefan said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@SBW1 said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@canefan 13 Gold still on course to beat our previous best whether that be 17 or 22 according to event inflation. Hopefully hold 3rd, England appear to have won a big haul. It is showing that New Zealand is a pretty well rounded sporting nation.
The cyclists have kicked ass this time. Lots of youngsters in there too so hope for the future and Paris in 2 years
I don't want to be negative but with CG you can find that some countries place more emphasis in their long term programs than others.
I hope this isn't the case but it wouldn't surprise me if say, Australia, had a longer term target in the cycling such as the next Olympics and this is just a tester along the way.
NZ seem to have really targeted success here and are reaping the rewards.Nice to win some tin along the way
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@SBW1 said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@canefan Would have been cool to have Rugby League 9s, since League is almost a Commonwealth sport.
NSW, QLD, Norf Inglerlund, and bits of Auckland and Wellington?
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I haven't watched a single event of this yet.
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@SBW1 said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@Crucial A number of sports where we are traditionally very strong like rowing, kayaking and various sailing events are not in the Commonwealth Games. Given that Australia are incredibly strong at swimming and probably close to the top nation in the Olympics, New Zealand have done really well in the pool. I think New Zealand is becoming a more well rounded sporting nation, if you look at our performances in Tokyo, the Winter Olympics and now the Commonwealth games.
I don’t disagree. Just saying that cycling places a huge emphasis on Worlds and Olympics and it wouldn’t surprise me if Oz (despite wanting medals) have a program targeting those while picking up what they can along the way.
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@antipodean 9s aren't really a sport as such it is kind of a version of rugby 7s. You could include the island nations, PNG, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Island possibly Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia. Would be a viable event, may have featured in past games, if not there would be a strong case for it as an event in the future.
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@canefan said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@SBW1 said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@canefan 13 Gold still on course to beat our previous best whether that be 17 or 22 according to event inflation. Hopefully hold 3rd, England appear to have won a big haul. It is showing that New Zealand is a pretty well rounded sporting nation.
The cyclists have kicked ass this time. Lots of youngsters in there too so hope for the future and Paris in 2 years
Sir Chris Hoy was commenting that NZ have been really smart with recruiting new coaches from Oz and GB and that, combined with the improved infrastructure and a good pool of current athletes is starting to realise the results we see. He said a lot of it is about freshening up at the end of each Olympic cycle; NZ has done really well at this.
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@SBW1 said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@antipodean 9s aren't really a sport as such it is kind of a version of rugby 7s. You could include the island nations, PNG, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Island possibly Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia. Would be a viable event, may have featured in past games, if not there would be a strong case for it as an event in the future.
Rugby league Nines to feature at Glasgow Commonwealth Games in exhibition tournament
Nines to feature at Commonwealth Games
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@SBW1 said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@canefan 13 Gold still on course to beat our previous best whether that be 17 or 22 according to event inflation. Hopefully hold 3rd, England appear to have won a big haul. It is showing that New Zealand is a pretty well rounded sporting nation.
I know 17 is for 1990, but when was the 22?
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@SBW1 said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@canefan 13 Gold still on course to beat our previous best whether that be 17 or 22 according to event inflation. Hopefully hold 3rd, England appear to have won a big haul. It is showing that New Zealand is a pretty well rounded sporting nation.
@Rapido said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@SBW1 said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
@Crucial Really hope she gets her medal, hopefully there is some kind of appeal. New Zealand now have 10 Gold and are Number 3, only being edged out by England with one more Gold. New Zealand did pretty well in the pool last night, must have given the Aussies a run for their money, really good effort by our swimmers. Have a good feeling we might overtake our previous best tally of 17 Gold and hoping we can overtake England,
With event inflation. Would actually need 22.35 golds to
beatout-perform Auckland 1990 effort.280 events, compared to 213 in 1990.
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The King Is Dead
No 1 seed in the Ladies squash, Joelle King, is thrashed in the first SF of the day by Canadian Holly Naughton
Final score 3-1 with Naughton's guile bamboozling King
Huge upset
Game of her life
Magnificent
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Paul Coll on the other hand has been imperious
Cruises through to the Men's Final with a 3-0 thrashing of India's Ghosal
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@MiketheSnow said in Commonwealth Games (2022) - all sports, except Sevens:
The King Is Dead
No 1 seed in the Ladies squash, Joelle King, is thrashed in the first SF of the day by Canadian Holly Naughton
Final score 3-1 with Naughton's guile bamboozling King
Huge upset
Game of her life
Magnificent
She was shaky in the QF too
