Olympics Thread

[sparky]

@MiketheSnow said in Olympics Thread:

Spain win the Gold in a cracking football final

Spanish football teams just don't lose finals.

[Billy Tell]

@MiketheSnow said in Olympics Thread:

Spain win the Gold in a cracking football final

One sport I never ever watch at the Olympics. Only nz being there would get me to watch.

[sparky]

28 finals and 25 years in a row now for Spanish teams in not losing football finals to anyone but other Spanish teams.

Maybe a winning streak in sport only beaten by the New York Yacht Club.

[MiketheSnow]

@sparky said in Olympics Thread:

28 finals and 25 years in a row now for Spanish teams in not losing football finals to anyone but other Spanish teams.

Maybe a winning streak in sport only beaten by the New York Yacht Club.

Or Kim Jong Un

[sparky]

@Billy-Tell With the naked eye it looked like her final throw was over 20 metres.

Obviously the officials saw a mark I couldn't see.

[sparky]

Great battle in the Heptathlon too.

Nafi Thiam of Belgium won her third Gold medal in a row.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson of Great Britain , twice the world champion in the event, fell just 36
points behind her rival.

[sparky]

I think both Thiam and KJT ran personal best in the 800 metres. Talk about leaving it all out there after seven events over two days.

[MiketheSnow]

@sparky said in Olympics Thread:

I think both Thiam and KJT ran personal best in the 800 metres. Talk about leaving it all out there after seven events over two days.

Great competition

[sparky]

@MiketheSnow

Nafi Thiams's PB in the 800m before tonight was 2.11.79.

Tonight she ran 2.10.62 on a soaked track.

[canefan]

@sparky said in Olympics Thread:

@Billy-Tell A break-through performance for her and she will probably be challenging for medals including the Gold one at World Championships and the Oympic Games over the next four years

Amazing. Self belief and a medal will do her confidence a world of good

[sparky]

Beatrice Chebet of Kenya does the women's 5000m and 10,000m double.

[sparky]

Great support by the Dutch fans for their women's hockey team in the final.

[sparky]

And the Dutch get double Gold in the men's and the women's Hockey.

[sparky]

13 Golds for the Dutch now. Wow!

That beats their previous best of 12 Golds in Sydney 2000.

[MiketheSnow]

USA domination on the track

Benjamin wins the Gold in the M 400m Hurdles

Disappointing track meet for the Norwegians

[sparky]

@MiketheSnow said in Olympics Thread:

Breakdancing is on, excuse me Breaking

We've hit rock bottom

Absolute fucking shambles

It's like watching a Bar Mitzvah

Breaking? Broken

I don't why we didn't enter Razor into the Olympic Breakdancing.

[Rapido]

Absolutely terrible camerawork at the end of the wonens shot put final. You had one job ....

[mariner4life]

@ACT-Crusader said in Olympics Thread:

@SBW1 said in Olympics Thread:

https://www.1news.co.nz/sport/ Watching the games in Oz is insufferable, Channel 9 News in particular, virtually hijacked by reports on the games, reporting like no other country was in the Olympics and not even putting on much news. Gave a whole lot of their journalists including the weatherman a cushy gig in Paris.

Stan is the only way to go.

I meant to post how good Stan has been

Watch what you want, when you want, with international commentary. It's been the best Olympics viewing since Fox Sports.had like 8 channels for the winter Olympics years ago

[booboo]

@Nevorian said in Olympics Thread:

Surely Lisa Carrington is our greatest Olympian of all time

Ours?

In the conversation for the greatest Olympian of all time.

[booboo]

@sparky said in Olympics Thread:

@Nevorian said in Olympics Thread:

Surely Lisa Carrington is our greatest Olympian of all time

I'd argue she is The Greatest Female Olympian of All Time now.

Only really swimmers ahead of her for her time Golds.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_Olympic_medalists

Moderating my stance slight.

Birgit Fisher 8 Golds in canoeing over 6 Olympics.

But East Germany ...