Olympics Thread
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<p style="margin-left:40px;">YUS!</p>
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<p>Gill was a wonder kid, so expect that's why?</p>
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<p>AWESOME.</p>
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<p>I wonder why I've heard about Jacko Gill for so many years, but never heard of Tom Walsh. And then Tom Walsh beats him at his own game at the olympics!!</p>
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<p>Sounds like Gill did well just to make it there given a recent foot injury.</p> -
<p>Nice work by Walsh, another medal to the tally - both him and Gill looking good for gold in Tokyo.</p>
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<p>Man, I was sweating on that last put from the dude after Walsh.</p>
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<p>Huge congrats to Tom, did enough when it counted - some of those other finalists were a bit rubbish, with the number of fouls etc. If only Jacko Gill had pulled out another qualifying throw.</p> -
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<p>Gill was a wonder kid, so expect that's why?</p>
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<p>Wonder kid who didn't make the cut - although it seems injury played it's part.</p>
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<p>Really stoked for Walsh though. Seems like a classic NZ slip-under-the-rader but step up when it counts story. Good on that man.</p> -
<p>meant he was a wonder kid, age group champ, so got more exposure, whereas Walsh didn't seem to take that path.</p>
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<p>Walsh has had plenty of exposure in NZ the past 18 months or so, Gill less so, because of Walsh.</p> -
<p>great result! well done lad! what a day for kiwi athletes!</p>
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<p>Good shit from Walsh. That's five medals today.</p>
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<p>TBH I'm a bit skeptical of that new OR. Always thought all of those 70s/80s records were rife with roided out Yanks and Soviets.</p>
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<p style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Crouser had one more winter of collegiate eligibility left; as a fifth-year senior, he threw a personal best 21.73 m (71 ft <span>3<span> </span><sup>1</sup>â„<sub>2</sub></span> in) at the 2016 Big 12 indoor championships and won his second collegiate indoor title with a put of 21.28 m (69 ft <span>9<span> </span><sup>3</sup>â„<sub>4</sub></span> in).<sup><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Crouser#cite_note-tp-7'>[7]</a></sup> Crouser's Big 12 mark equaled <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Whiting' title="Ryan Whiting">Ryan Whiting</a>'s collegiate indoor record from 2008; he ranked second behind New Zealand's <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas_Walsh' title="Tomas Walsh">Tom Walsh</a> on the 2016 world indoor list.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Crouser completed his studies in 2016 and hired Paul Doyle as his <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_agent' title="Sports agent">agent</a>.<sup><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Crouser#cite_note-ready-14'>[14]</a></sup> He improved his personal best in the shot to 21.85 m (71 ft <span>8<span> </span><sup>1</sup>â„<sub>4</sub></span> in) shortly before the <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_Olympic_Trials_(track_and_field)' title="2016 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)">2016 United States Olympic Trials</a>; pre-Trials, he was ranked second on the American year list, eleven inches behind reigning World Champion <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Kovacs' title="Joe Kovacs">Joe Kovacs</a>.<sup><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Crouser#cite_note-ready-14'>[14]</a></sup> Then during the Olympic Trials, on his second throw of the finals, Crouser uncorked a 22.11 m (72 ft 6<span><sup>1</sup>â„<sub>4</sub></span> in) to not only win in an upset over Kovacs, but to become the <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_put#Top_25_performers' title="Shot put">number 18</a> thrower in history.</p>
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<p>Throwing nearly a metre further than his PB earlier this year. He's had a meteoric rise.</p> -
I am really enjoying this!<br>
Channel 7 in Oz always takes great delight after the first couple of days in showing Oz is 5th on the medal table and NZ is 31st.<br>
So now they are 10th and we are 14th they no longer make the comparison.<br>
And we've won more than half as many medals as them.<br><br>
Now bring on the Bledisloe!!
