Olympics Thread

Rancid Schnitzel

@rancid-schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:

Just watched the +86kg mixed weightlifting. Tbh I’m not really sure if Hubbard is out of place. It’s hard to even know what species these athletes are.

Apparently the Chinese bird weighs 150kg...

I haven’t seen her but the American must be pushing that as well! Her food bill must be massive.

voodoo

Norwegian hurdler escapes a DQ using the "but sir, I'm so hot, look at me" defense

KiwiMurph

@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:

@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.

MajorPom

@kiwimurph said in Olympics Thread:

Hubbard fails to complete a single lift in the snatch.

Theres a transgender joke in here for sure.

Failed in the snatch department.

Paekakboyz

@kiwimurph didn't see any clear break in the elbows, so I'm not sure what the issue was? Pretty stink to dnf

antipodean

@kiwimurph said in Olympics Thread:

Hubbard fails to complete a single lift in the snatch.

Well she doesn't have one

voodoo

@kiwimurph said in Olympics Thread:

@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:

@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

antipodean

@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:

@kiwimurph said in Olympics Thread:

@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:

@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.

voodoo

@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:

@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:

@kiwimurph said in Olympics Thread:

@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:

@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.

Sure, and that does suck, but at least she didn't steal someone's medal, that would have been much worse.

Stargazer

Awful weather for athletics.

Rancid Schnitzel

@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:

@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:

@kiwimurph said in Olympics Thread:

@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:

@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.

mikedogz

I just read today that she isn't the only trans at the Olympics. A former chick playing for Canadian women's soccer, identifies an non binary I think, had her boobs removed. There was an alternate who could have competed in the BMX freestyle. Unfortunate for Hubbard to inherit her fathers hairline when she is trying to be a women. Doesn't have the budget of Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner.

voodoo

No non-Kenyan has won the 3000m steeplechase since 1980, amazing

antipodean

@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:

No non-Kenyan has won the 3000m steeplechase since 1980, amazing

Surely theirs isn't the only country people have to run nearly two miles while jumping over sleeping lions?

Rancid Schnitzel

@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:

No non-Kenyan has won the 3000m steeplechase since 1980, amazing

Apparently the steeplechase is like the Holy Grail for the Kenyans. I would have thought 10k or marathon, but nope, the steeplechase is their favourite.

Stargazer

The Moroccan takes :1st_place_medal:. The Kenyan hegemony is over.

Stargazer

The women's 5,000m Final is next. It will interesting to see whether Sifan Hassan's fall and catch-up race (1,500m) this afternoon will have any effect on her result in this Final.

antipodean

@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:

The Moroccan takes :1st_place_medal:. The Kenyan hegemony is over.

The @voodoo curse!

nostrildamus

@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:

@majorrage said in Olympics Thread:

@canefan said in Olympics Thread:

@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:

Women's hockey:

The Netherlands are the first to score.
0 - 1 NL

Disappointing. On the flip side some of the Dutch girls are quite hawt

I stayed in these same hotel as the Dutch field hockey team once in the Nehtherlands.

Many of them, are indeed, seriously seriously hot. On the flip side, the shortest one was about 6ft 1.

How is that a flip side?

canefan wants to flip them on their side?

gt12

@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:

The women's 5,000m Final is next. It will interesting to see whether Sifan Hassan's fall and catch-up race (1,500m) this afternoon will have any effect on her result in this Final.

I’ll support her in any race that doesn’t include a kiwi.

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