Olympics Thread
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@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.
@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
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@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
@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 ...
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@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 said in Olympics Thread:
@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.
She's great but I can't really get behind the Canoe/Kayak sprinting. It feels small. Not many different countries, the same few athletes going in every discipline. Sort of tacked on to the end of these Olympics with little to no fanfare or narrative.
Now you can say the same about swimming, but there's a magnitude to swimming that canoeing just doesn't have.
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@booboo said in Olympics Thread:
@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.
She's great but I can't really get behind the Canoe/Kayak sprinting. It feels small. Not many different countries, the same few athletes going in every discipline. Sort of tacked on to the end of these Olympics with little to no fanfare or narrative.
Now you can say the same about swimming, but there's a magnitude to swimming that canoeing just doesn't have.
@barbarian would it help if we let them do the kayaks over like 8 different distances? And then like backwards. For 8 different distances. And then with like 2 short paddles. With 8 different distances.
And it could a week. And like 3 countries could get a million medals.
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There's a hard fact of life to be grasped at these Olympics, lads.
We're being carried by our wahine!
What happened to the glory days of Walker, Quax and Dixon?
I blame millennials!
@Chris-B said in Olympics Thread:
There's a hard fact of life to be grasped at these Olympics, lads.
We're being carried by our wahine!
What happened to the glory days of Walker, Quax and Dixon?
I blame millennials!
We're not the only ones. I think our antipodean cousins might be in thr same kayak.
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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.
@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.
Isn't this the norm in every country though? I used to think this then moved to Norway and that was on another level. They cater for a local audience. In any case, you can watch literally every event live using the 9 App. Who tf under the age of 60 watches TV news anyway?
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@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 ...
@booboo said in Olympics Thread:
@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 ...
She also missed 84 due to the boycott so probably would have 10. She also won gold at 4 Olympics post communism so reckon she gets a clean pass.
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There's a hard fact of life to be grasped at these Olympics, lads.
We're being carried by our wahine!
What happened to the glory days of Walker, Quax and Dixon?
I blame millennials!
@Chris-B said in Olympics Thread:
We're being carried by our wahine!
Fewer countries have funded female programmes. And more cultural barriers.
US Women's Football team found this - they dominated forever, and then other countries caught up. Can see hte same happening in Olympic sports (kinda like it did for our cricketers)
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@barbarian would it help if we let them do the kayaks over like 8 different distances? And then like backwards. For 8 different distances. And then with like 2 short paddles. With 8 different distances.
And it could a week. And like 3 countries could get a million medals.
@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
@barbarian would it help if we let them do the kayaks over like 8 different distances? And then like backwards. For 8 different distances. And then with like 2 short paddles. With 8 different distances.
And it could a week. And like 3 countries could get a million medals.
They kind of do even now. Look at those events the Fox family cleaned up in. Talk about niche.
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@barbarian would it help if we let them do the kayaks over like 8 different distances? And then like backwards. For 8 different distances. And then with like 2 short paddles. With 8 different distances.
And it could a week. And like 3 countries could get a million medals.
@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
And it could a week. And like 3 countries could get a million medals.
Or three people.
Michael Phelps has got as many all time Olympic medals as Portugal.
Though Michael is a bit of a try hard.
I've got as many as Bangladesh and I've barely got off my couch.
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@SBW1 said in Olympics Thread:
How are we tracking, is Lydia still a chance and is Lisa still to race?
Lisa and Aimee (who has beaten Lisa in the last year everytime) are in the K1 tonight 2300 - hopefully first two kiwis on the pdium for years with silver and gold
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DAY 15
Saturday August 107pm: Women’s golf round four (Lydia Ko)
8.30pm: Kayak sprint – Women’s K1 500m semifinal (Dame Lisa Carrington, Aimee Fisher)
11pm: Kayak sprint – Women’s K1 500m final (Dame Lisa Carrington, Aimee Fisher) – if qualified
Sunday August 11
3am: Cycling – Track – Women’s sprint 1/8 finals (Ellesse Andrews)
3.19am: Cycling – Track – Men’s keirin first round – Sam Dakin
3.59am: Cycling – Track – Men’s Madison (Aaron Gate and Campbell Stewart)
5.07am: Cycling – Track – Women’s sprint quarter-finals (Ellesse Andrews and Shaane Fulton) – if qualified
5.10am: Athletics – Men’s high jump final (Hamish Kerr)
5.30am: Artistic Swimming (Duet – Women), Free Routine (Eva Morris and Nina Brown)
6.25am: Athletics – Women’s 1500m final (Maia Ramsden) – if qualified
6.30am: Weightlifting Men’s +102kg final (David Liti)
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@SBW1 said in Olympics Thread:
How are we tracking, is Lydia still a chance and is Lisa still to race?
If things went perfectly, you could probably hope to get another half dozen medals.
Carrington, Fisher, Ko, Kerr - plus a couple in the cycling (I'd look for Andrews and the Madison guys - don't know anything about the chances of the others).
It will be a bit disastrous if we don't get at least two more.
Something in between will be good!
