Olympics Thread

[ACT Crusader]

The Dutch girl has some power. Was great to see Twigg push her

[canefan]

Amazing spirit between the two women, echoes of Wilde and Yee

[Damo]

Good tactical decision to not field 8's this Olympics. This enables us to spread our best rowers around more crews.

However the 8's are a lot of fun and I think are the cream of the regatta. Perhaps it is a little disappointing we didn't defend our Gold and Silver from Tokyo?

[canefan]

@Damo said in Olympics Thread:

Good tactical decision to not field 8's this Olympics. This enables us to spread our best rowers around more crews.

However the 8's are a lot of fun and I think are the cream of the regatta. Perhaps it is a little disappointing we didn't defend our Gold and Silver from Tokyo?

The Romanian women all backed up, perhaps we could have done something similar? At the end of the day I expect Rowing NZ made the best decision for the team. There is something particularly exciting about the 8s though

[Damo]

Macintosh was off pace early but now comfortable in 3rd. I recall he pushed on in the 3rd quarter in one of his races.

[canefan]

McIntosh fourth with 700 left

[Damo]

Mcintosh faded badly to finish 5th.

[Donsteppa]

McIntosh got back up to third, but then (along with the Greek) faded significantly at the end.

[Donsteppa]

German rower is a machine.

[canefan]

Where did the independent rower come from? Ridiculous final 300m to take 3rd

[Damo]

@canefan said in Olympics Thread:

Where did the independent rower come from? Ridiculous final 300m

Left his run a bit late by the looks of it.

[antipodean]

Zeidler looks like a WW2 poster for the Herrenvolk.

[canefan]

@Damo said in Olympics Thread:

@canefan said in Olympics Thread:

Where did the independent rower come from? Ridiculous final 300m

Left his run a bit late by the looks of it.

I'd love to see a bird's eye view to see how he did it. Was near the back at the half way and 1500m marks

[Donsteppa]

Herald with a slightly rose tinted take on the final 200m.

The Kiwi is denied at the death!

Did look like a race where everyone gave it the kitchen sink tho.

[MiketheSnow]

Once again the BBC coverage is garbage

2 channels on iplayer

Swimming heats and 248km to go in the cycling

FFS

[Bovidae]

@canefan said in Olympics Thread:

Where did the independent rower come from? Ridiculous final 300m to take 3rd

He was the rower who caused the delay in the start time.

[canefan]

Time for the 8s medal presentation. Do the winners still throw their cox in the water?

[canefan]

@Bovidae said in Olympics Thread:

@canefan said in Olympics Thread:

Where did the independent rower come from? Ridiculous final 300m to take 3rd

He was the rower who caused the delay in the start time.

Infusing a bag of blood takes time

[canefan]

Just flicked onto the men's road race. There is a lead group out ahead. NZ have a couple of riders well placed in the main peleton about 8 minutes back. A long way to go

[Canes4life]

Josh Armit finishes 4th overall in the Men's Windsurfing. Windsurfing is a bit stupid in my view. Instead of having one medal race to decide the medalists like all other fleets, they have a quarter, a semi and then a final based on seedings from the round-robin. Josh went straight through to the semi final because he placed third in the round-robin but a third placing in the semi means he misses out on the top three final.

Super guttering for him. Kind of makes the round-robin somewhat meaningless which is just bizzare if you're familiar with sailing comp structures.