Olympics Thread
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@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
Irish also produced the bloke who won the 400m freestyle, Daniel Wiffen.
I reckon if you saw him at work you'd assume he was there to upgrade the IT system.
Put him with the Chinese hurdler and the bespectacled French sprinter and you almost have the cast of the Olympic Big Bang Theory
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
Irish also produced the bloke who won the 400m freestyle, Daniel Wiffen.
I reckon if you saw him at work you'd assume he was there to upgrade the IT system.
Put him with the Chinese hurdler and the bespectacled French sprinter and you almost have the cast of the Olympic Big Bang Theory
And that autistic Yank gymnast
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@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
Irish also produced the bloke who won the 400m freestyle, Daniel Wiffen.
I reckon if you saw him at work you'd assume he was there to upgrade the IT system.
Put him with the Chinese hurdler and the bespectacled French sprinter and you almost have the cast of the Olympic Big Bang Theory
And that autistic Yank gymnast
@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
Irish also produced the bloke who won the 400m freestyle, Daniel Wiffen.
I reckon if you saw him at work you'd assume he was there to upgrade the IT system.
Put him with the Chinese hurdler and the bespectacled French sprinter and you almost have the cast of the Olympic Big Bang Theory
And that autistic Yank gymnast
Now you need the hot girl next door. Shouldn't be hard to find one amongst the sprinters and jumpers....
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@nostrildamus said in Olympics Thread:
@Billy-Tell said in Olympics Thread:
We can’t finish behind Ireland on the table. They only passionately follow 3 sports. Gaelic football which is Aussie rules with a soccer ball. Hurling which is Aussie rules with a hockey stick. And English football involving Liverpool or Man U. These sports are generally enjoyed at the pub with a pint of Guinness. We are more sporty than them!
They don't follow rugby union passionately? Who are all these crazy fans at the pubs I chatted with who had those strong Irish-sounding accents?
They love their boxing too don't they? Or is that just in the movies?
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@nostrildamus said in Olympics Thread:
@Billy-Tell said in Olympics Thread:
We can’t finish behind Ireland on the table. They only passionately follow 3 sports. Gaelic football which is Aussie rules with a soccer ball. Hurling which is Aussie rules with a hockey stick. And English football involving Liverpool or Man U. These sports are generally enjoyed at the pub with a pint of Guinness. We are more sporty than them!
They don't follow rugby union passionately? Who are all these crazy fans at the pubs I chatted with who had those strong Irish-sounding accents?
They love their boxing too don't they? Or is that just in the movies?
They love it on Friday nights too
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Amazing finish by the American. Brilliant.
Karma for the BBC for spending 90 minutes building up to the race, ignoring the woman's pole value that the Brit didn't win gold.
@MajorRage said in Olympics Thread:
Amazing finish by the American. Brilliant.
Karma for the BBC for spending 90 minutes building up to the race, ignoring the woman's pole value that the Brit didn't win gold.
No wonder we can’t get anyone competing for GB in the field events when they show 2 mins of highlights every 4 years
The discus was even worse
Worst coverage of a major sporting event I can remember from the Beeb
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Irish also produced the bloke who won the 400m freestyle, Daniel Wiffen.
I reckon if you saw him at work you'd assume he was there to upgrade the IT system.
@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
Irish also produced the bloke who won the 400m freestyle, Daniel Wiffen.
I reckon if you saw him at work you'd assume he was there to upgrade the IT system.
Or that the medals were won at the paralympics (am I allowed to say that?)
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English commentators. What's with mixing up "just about" and "only just"? They do not mean the same thing.
It's a saying that has plagued football commentary the last few years, but some guy on the international broadcast of the athletics highlights just butchered the English language with this stupid phrase
I'm know I'm fighting a losing battle here, though. "Street" will always triumpnh over correct.
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English commentators. What's with mixing up "just about" and "only just"? They do not mean the same thing.
It's a saying that has plagued football commentary the last few years, but some guy on the international broadcast of the athletics highlights just butchered the English language with this stupid phrase
I'm know I'm fighting a losing battle here, though. "Street" will always triumpnh over correct.
@Rapido said in Olympics Thread:
English commentators. What's either mixing up "just about" and "only just"? They do not mean the same thing.
It's a saying that has plagued football commentary the last few years, but some guy on the international broadcast of the athletics highlights just butchered the English language with this stupid phrase
I'm know I'm fighting a losing battle here, though. "Street" will always triumpnh over correct.
I haven't noticed that plague but surely "just about" means almost, whereas "only just" means enough by only a small margin .
What am I missing?
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@Rapido said in Olympics Thread:
Women's golf. Regardless of the nation , they all seem to be East Asian.
have you seen the table tennis? Similar headaches for DEI
@nzzp said in Olympics Thread:
@Rapido said in Olympics Thread:
Women's golf. Regardless of the nation , they all seem to be East Asian.
have you seen the table tennis? Similar headaches for DEI
Expected though, in the ping pong. Just like Caribbean or African origin sprinters in their new migrant nations. Where the culture,knowledge or physical advantage of the migrant nation is exported to the new.
But east Asian women in golf seems a bit of an anomaly, though.
Although I've just looked up world rankings. Where it is east Asians. Or east Asian origin, dominating. So, maybe there is a stronger tradition of womens golf in those origin countries than I was aware of.
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@nzzp said in Olympics Thread:
@Rapido said in Olympics Thread:
Women's golf. Regardless of the nation , they all seem to be East Asian.
have you seen the table tennis? Similar headaches for DEI
Expected though, in the ping pong. Just like Caribbean or African origin sprinters in their new migrant nations. Where the culture,knowledge or physical advantage of the migrant nation is exported to the new.
But east Asian women in golf seems a bit of an anomaly, though.
Although I've just looked up world rankings. Where it is east Asians. Or east Asian origin, dominating. So, maybe there is a stronger tradition of womens golf in those origin countries than I was aware of.
@Rapido said in Olympics Thread:
@nzzp said in Olympics Thread:
@Rapido said in Olympics Thread:
Women's golf. Regardless of the nation , they all seem to be East Asian.
have you seen the table tennis? Similar headaches for DEI
Expected though, in the ping pong. Just like Caribbean or African origin sprinters in their new migrant nations. Where the culture or physical advantage of the migrant nation is exported to the new.
But east Asian women in golf seems a bit of an anomaly, though.
Although I've just looked up world rankings. Where it is east Asians. Or east Asian origin, dominating. So, maybe there is a stronger tradition of womens golf in those origin countries than I was aware of.
I suspect it is a sport that doesn't necessarily rely on physical strength per se. You need a high level of hand eye coordination, but a lot can be said for straight out work ethic. And they work as hard as most, if not harder
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I went to South Korea for a trip last year. Women's golf was everywhere. Not actual golf at a course for the most part, but indoor golf whereby they whack the ball into a net and the computer registers the shot. Golf advertising, especially womans, was prolific.
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@nzzp said in Olympics Thread:
@Rapido said in Olympics Thread:
Women's golf. Regardless of the nation , they all seem to be East Asian.
have you seen the table tennis? Similar headaches for DEI
Expected though, in the ping pong. Just like Caribbean or African origin sprinters in their new migrant nations. Where the culture,knowledge or physical advantage of the migrant nation is exported to the new.
But east Asian women in golf seems a bit of an anomaly, though.
Although I've just looked up world rankings. Where it is east Asians. Or east Asian origin, dominating. So, maybe there is a stronger tradition of womens golf in those origin countries than I was aware of.
@Rapido I'd say work ethic from a young age plays a part too.
About 15 years back a visiting Korean U19 golf team (mixed) played at my club.
They would practice for hours and hours, sometimes just over a 6ft putt.
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Maddie Wesche in the Shotput qualifies automatically for the final with her second throw.
To be fair she was looking OK to qualify with her first effort also.
