Olympics Thread

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.

Donsteppa

@No-Quarter said in Olympics Thread:

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.

I imagine the traditional "best Olympic Games ever" will be tried at the end of it all, but things like making athletes swim in an open sewer should stop it from being taken too seriously...

booboo

@Donsteppa said in Olympics Thread:

@No-Quarter said in Olympics Thread:

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.

I imagine the traditional "best Olympic Games ever" will be tried at the end of it all, but things like making athletes swim in an open sewer should stop it from being taken too seriously...

At least the IOC knocked that on the head after Samaranch danced around "greatest vs best" at Barcelona and Sydney.

1kiwi

@Donsteppa said in Olympics Thread:

@No-Quarter said in Olympics Thread:

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.

I imagine the traditional "best Olympic Games ever" will be tried at the end of it all, but things like making athletes swim in an open sewer should stop it from being taken too seriously...

Lets hope lessons are learned from this for future Olympic Games because this should not happen again.

barbarian

Wouldn't be the Olympics without finding a sport you never knew existed and it quickly becoming an obsession.

How good is Kayak Cross. Just enough luck for it to be fun, but not a complete lottery. Amazing paddles in the finals by our girl (whose sister won the other two women's kayaking events), and the Kiwi bloke.

Will be heading down to my local slalom course to have a crack. Assuming there is such a thing, which I frankly doubt.

mariner4life

It's in Penrith bro.

booboo

@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:

Wouldn't be the Olympics without finding a sport you never knew existed and it quickly becoming an obsession.

How good is Kayak Cross. Just enough luck for it to be fun, but not a complete lottery. Amazing paddles in the finals by our girl (whose sister won the other two women's kayaking events), and the Kiwi bloke.

Will be heading down to my local slalom course to have a crack. Assuming there is such a thing, which I frankly doubt.

Kind of reminds me of BMX where there is the possibility of random results. But the same people seem to win more regularly. Fortunately for the Kiwi the dominant Pom got the random bad performance.

antipodean

@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:

It's in Penrith bro.

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