Olympics Thread
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Wouldn't be the Olympics without finding a sport you never knew existed and it quickly becoming an obsession.
How good is Kayak Cross. Just enough luck for it to be fun, but not a complete lottery. Amazing paddles in the finals by our girl (whose sister won the other two women's kayaking events), and the Kiwi bloke.
Will be heading down to my local slalom course to have a crack. Assuming there is such a thing, which I frankly doubt.
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It's in Penrith bro.
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@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
Wouldn't be the Olympics without finding a sport you never knew existed and it quickly becoming an obsession.
How good is Kayak Cross. Just enough luck for it to be fun, but not a complete lottery. Amazing paddles in the finals by our girl (whose sister won the other two women's kayaking events), and the Kiwi bloke.
Will be heading down to my local slalom course to have a crack. Assuming there is such a thing, which I frankly doubt.
Kind of reminds me of BMX where there is the possibility of random results. But the same people seem to win more regularly. Fortunately for the Kiwi the dominant Pom got the random bad performance.
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oh yeah, i suggest he takes a knife
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@No-Quarter said in Olympics Thread:
So Wilde had E coli before the team event after swimming in the river Seine. So they were literally swimming in shit. How was that allowed lol, poor atheletes.
does that make immodium performance enhancing?
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@mariner4life I know, I've been there. Not exactly convenient, so will have to maybe head to my local creek after there's been a heavy downpour.
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@No-Quarter said in Olympics Thread:
So Wilde had E coli before the team event after swimming in the river Seine. So they were literally swimming in shit. How was that allowed lol, poor atheletes.
Should have swam in a bubble, or one of these...
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@1kiwi said in Olympics Thread:
@Donsteppa said in Olympics Thread:
@No-Quarter said in Olympics Thread:
So Wilde had E coli before the team event after swimming in the river Seine. So they were literally swimming in shit. How was that allowed lol, poor atheletes.
I imagine the traditional "best Olympic Games ever" will be tried at the end of it all, but things like making athletes swim in an open sewer should stop it from being taken too seriously...
Lets hope lessons are learned from this for future Olympic Games because this should not happen again.
You would hope "let's not make the athletes swim in literal shit" would not be a lesson that needs to be learnt. But yes, you'd hope there isn't a repeat of that in the future.
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@1kiwi said in Olympics Thread:
@sparky said in Olympics Thread:
GB get the Gold. NZ the Silver.
Silver medal a huge result for the ladies. It's NZ's first women's team sprint medal in Olympic history so pretty big deal.
From Stuff:
Overlooked as a contender in the team sprint by many pundits, who instead were tipping world champions Germany, China and the Netherlands to challenge Great Britain, the Kiwis were electric.yep was hoping to read here this morning everyone made heaps of money at the TAB after reading my hot tip from CNZ coaches.. they were great odds for a medal as such outsiders.
just wish i had more than 2 bucks in my account when i put my bet on and couldn't be arsed getting out of bed to find a card to top up as one in my account had expired.. ha.
just to put this in further perspective - NZ are literally riding museum pieces in terms of bike tech. We're on a bike made in 2015 for Rio... all other teams are rolling around on bikes that are worth between 100k - 200k.. each!
we don't even have a bike sponsor.. only place you can get one of our bikes is second hand market and it's about $4k. Was actually having an amusing thought that we might be in breach of the rules - all bikes are supposed to be commercially available to buy! -
@No-Quarter said in Olympics Thread:
So Wilde had E coli before the team event after swimming in the river Seine. So they were literally swimming in shit. How was that allowed lol, poor atheletes.
fark that water looked grim yesterday - several shades browner than when they did the individual stuff.
Wilde might be pulling the ecoli card to avoid getting lynched by the frog fans after costing them a dead cert gold medal!
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
It's in Penrith bro.
I shall be swimming in the rowing lake in Penrith in just 6 weeks!
Think it's currently turd-free, but anything can happen
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The women's pole vault was fascinating. Both UK women flamed out and failed to record a height, when all they needed to do was something well below each of their PBs. Just got the yips completely.
I really do feel for those athletes. All they are training for is this one moment. Days, months, years all put in, and you just shit the bed totally, for the world to see. Brutal.
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@Donsteppa said in Olympics Thread:
@No-Quarter said in Olympics Thread:
So Wilde had E coli before the team event after swimming in the river Seine. So they were literally swimming in shit. How was that allowed lol, poor atheletes.
I imagine the traditional "best Olympic Games ever" will be tried at the end of it all, but things like making athletes swim in an open sewer should stop it from being taken too seriously...
Even if the triathletes weren’t swimming in a make shift sewer, the press conference from the boxing alone would remove all doubt that this is no where near the best games ever. What a farce that was
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@booboo said in Olympics Thread:
@Donsteppa said in Olympics Thread:
@No-Quarter said in Olympics Thread:
So Wilde had E coli before the team event after swimming in the river Seine. So they were literally swimming in shit. How was that allowed lol, poor atheletes.
I imagine the traditional "best Olympic Games ever" will be tried at the end of it all, but things like making athletes swim in an open sewer should stop it from being taken too seriously...
At least the IOC knocked that on the head after Samaranch danced around "greatest vs best" at Barcelona and Sydney.
At Atlanta, which in hindsight was probably a forerunner to the way the games are run now on from a commercial and resource standpoint, didn't even get "best" or "greatest".
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@Billy-Tell said in Olympics Thread:
The pole vault is the best field event imo.
The anticipation, the drama, the Superman fairytale of leaping tall buildings in a single bound, plus the crowd involvement - it rarely ever fails to deliver on the big stage. Love it.
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@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
The women's pole vault was fascinating. Both UK women flamed out and failed to record a height, when all they needed to do was something well below each of their PBs. Just got the yips completely.
I really do feel for those athletes. All they are training for is this one moment. Days, months, years all put in, and you just shit the bed totally, for the world to see. Brutal.
Crazy that there are 20 in the final, 11 cleared 4.55 and they needed one more - and 9 had cleared 4.40 on their first attempt. Could be anyone's to win now, or anyone who gets close to their best.
So many athletes fail to give their best when they need it - must be difficult when the Olympics is SUCH a big thing. So many things can go wrong with the pole vault, no height is a given - unless you're the Swedish guy of course.
