Olympics Thread
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Lydia hasn't played too many bad holes.
That double-bogey on the first day - and bogeying the last two holes yesterday have been pretty expensive. Without some of those, she could have been third on her own, or in a tie for silver - or a shot behind Korda... I guess all the others have various tales of woe.
I doubt they'll do anything too half-arsed (like the cricket) to determine bronze if tomorrow is a washout.
They'll either organize a 4-way play-off or just dish out four bronze medals.
I'm always amazed NZ and Australia do well in cycling, wouldn't have thought we'd have the mass of riders, culture, or specialist facilities to compete with the Europeans..
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I'm always amazed NZ and Australia do well in cycling, wouldn't have thought we'd have the mass of riders, culture, or specialist facilities to compete with the Europeans..
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@nostrildamus lots of roads and not many cars!
@bones said in Olympics Thread:
@nostrildamus lots of roads and not many cars!
you mean Australia? Cycling in most places outside maybe of Canberra is a masochistic deathwish.
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@bones said in Olympics Thread:
@nostrildamus lots of roads and not many cars!
you mean Australia? Cycling in most places outside maybe of Canberra is a masochistic deathwish.
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@nostrildamus looked pretty sweet in Moree last time I was there.
@bones said in Olympics Thread:
@nostrildamus looked pretty sweet in Moree last time I was there.
Too many pecans..
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@bones said in Olympics Thread:
@nostrildamus lots of roads and not many cars!
you mean Australia? Cycling in most places outside maybe of Canberra is a masochistic deathwish.
@nostrildamus said in Olympics Thread:
@bones said in Olympics Thread:
@nostrildamus lots of roads and not many cars!
you mean Australia? Cycling in most places outside maybe of Canberra is a masochistic deathwish.
It's the same in most of NZ, unless you're lucky enough to find a cycleway. :magnifying_glass_tilted_right:
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@bones said in Olympics Thread:
@nostrildamus lots of roads and not many cars!
you mean Australia? Cycling in most places outside maybe of Canberra is a masochistic deathwish.
@nostrildamus said in Olympics Thread:
@bones said in Olympics Thread:
@nostrildamus lots of roads and not many cars!
you mean Australia? Cycling in most places outside maybe of Canberra is a masochistic deathwish.
You refer to the capitals.
That's why Anna Meares was from Rocky.
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@stargazer centimetres in it!
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Did anyone watch the Heavyweight boxing final? The Russian Gadzhimagomedov got beaten 5-0 by the Cuban la Cruz.
I will have to find a replay.
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@bones said in Olympics Thread:
@nostrildamus lots of roads and not many cars!
you mean Australia? Cycling in most places outside maybe of Canberra is a masochistic deathwish.
@nostrildamus said in Olympics Thread:
@bones said in Olympics Thread:
@nostrildamus lots of roads and not many cars!
you mean Australia? Cycling in most places outside maybe of Canberra is a masochistic deathwish.
Not in Brisbane. Heaps of those bloody cycle paths. Still doesn’t stop the Lycra clad piston wristed gibbons from using suburban roads.
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Modern Pentathlon is weird, I like the combination of running, swimming, shooting and fencing, but why would you have riding there, when the athletes are randomly allotted the horses - way too much luck involved. The German leading athlete has just lost her almost guaranteed medal because she couldn't get the horse to work, and she was crying her heart out before and during the attempt.
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Modern Pentathlon is weird, I like the combination of running, swimming, shooting and fencing, but why would you have riding there, when the athletes are randomly allotted the horses - way too much luck involved. The German leading athlete has just lost her almost guaranteed medal because she couldn't get the horse to work, and she was crying her heart out before and during the attempt.
@tordah said in Olympics Thread:
Modern Pentathlon is weird, I like the combination of running, swimming, shooting and fencing, but why would you have riding there, when the athletes are randomly allotted the horses - way too much luck involved. The German leading athlete has just lost her almost guaranteed medal because she couldn't get the horse to work, and she was crying her heart out before and out during the attempt.
The chance that your horse has already been taken for an earlier round by a worse rider who has barrelled through several fences.
Although the event is based on an officer escaping from behind enemy lines and stealing a random horse.
