Olympics Thread

[sparky]

Gold for the UK's Keely Hodgkinson in the women's 800 metres. Far too strong for the rest of the field.

[Billy Tell]

I wish the tv stations would let you choose track or field. Watching the pole vault and it kept going away to sprint heats. So annoying.

[booboo]

@JK said in Olympics Thread:

@booboo said in Olympics Thread:

I always find these per capita comparisons to be cringey as fuck

Hell yeah, fun when we're in front of Aussie though

[Billy Tell]

Duplantis girlfriend…

[Billy Tell]

That jump is worth an o on the awesome scale. Just fantastic

[MiketheSnow]

Mondo Magic

[sparky]

And Duplantis gets a new World Record of 6.25 on the third attempt. Awesome!!!!!!

[sparky]

His 9th World record!

[Billy Tell]

The pole vault is the best field event imo. Any medal for nz would be great.

[MiketheSnow]

@sparky said in Olympics Thread:

His 9th World record!

Epic

Got a bit of work to catch Bubka

35 times

[scribe]

Yeah he only breaks it by a cm each time though. Smart guy with his sponsor incentives.

[sparky]

@Billy-Tell said in Olympics Thread:

Duplantis girlfriend…

Desiré Inglander.

https://www.voguescandinavia.com/articles/desire-inglander-mondo-duplantis-swedish-girlfriend#

[Billy Tell]

@scribe said in Olympics Thread:

Yeah he only breaks it by a cm each time though. Smart guy with his sponsor incentives.

Looks like the Ukrainian was the same though. At the limit of your capacities you can’t just add 5 cm. I mean it took him 3 goes there after strolling past the other heights.

[Billy Tell]

@sparky said in Olympics Thread:

@Billy-Tell said in Olympics Thread:

Duplantis girlfriend…

Desiré Inglander.

https://www.voguescandinavia.com/articles/desire-inglander-mondo-duplantis-swedish-girlfriend#

So much room for double entendres. Pole. Desiré…

[sparky]

@Billy-Tell He was so confident of the win that he got his girlfriend a front row seat right by the pole vault mat so the world's press could get the shot of them embarrassing to celebrate his win.

https://twitter.com/olympics/status/1820552101761540277

[Windows97]

Didn't even know who Finn Butcher was before this but a fantastic victory in tbh what seems to be a bit of a lottery of a sport but he dominated that race from start to finish (which given the mash-up that can occur when you try and circle the upstream bouys seems like a wise tactic).

So a completely unexpected gold medal - which is just awesome

[MiketheSnow]

Watching the W 3 on 3 basketball final

German Mevius’ dives would win Gold in the pool

Shameful

Spanish pissed off because of the cultural appropriation

[Bovidae]

@Rapido said in Olympics Thread:

I had noticed Ireland doing well.

The young 400 m runner (Rhasidat Adeleke) looks to be a good chance of a medal. She started jogging with 50 m to go in the heats such was her lead.

[No Quarter]

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.

[1kiwi]

@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.