Olympics Thread

Rancid Schnitzel

@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.

nzzp

@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)

Rancid Schnitzel

@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.

Chris B.

@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.

SBW1

How are we tracking, is Lydia still a chance and is Lisa still to race?

Machpants

@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

canefan

@barky1 said in Olympics Thread:

And beaten

Did Ellesse medal, or is the medal round yet to come?

barky1

@canefan still to come. I think was 4th fastest in qualifying

canefan

@barky1 said in Olympics Thread:

@canefan still to come. I think was 4th fastest in qualifying

So she's in the bronze ride off?

Chris B.

DAY 15
Saturday August 10

7pm: 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)

Chris B.

@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!

SBW1

barky1

@canefan round of 16, then hopefully quarters, semi and final

Damo

I only watched the first few holes in Ko's round. However what I saw was impressive. She got into real trouble on 2 of them but calmly got out of trouble and made par. Then she drove well and made an easy birdie. I am not surprised to see her tied for first this morning.

mariner4life

@SBW1 said in Olympics Thread:

How are we tracking, is Lydia still a chance and is Lisa still to race?

You ask the same question literally every day

Do you have a bet on?

Donsteppa

Very pleased to see the Netherlands win the gold in the Women's hockey shootout, after some of the Chinese player behaviour in their semi final.

antipodean

@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

The farce may have been necessary. And thanks to an Australian we may not see this type of cringe again:

https://twitter.com/TrapperHaskins/status/1821966224710054166

https://twitter.com/RefusalToComply/status/1822014819429753330

Twitter is full of these types of posts:
https://twitter.com/alex_abads/status/1821945716064821450

bayimports

@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:

@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

The farce may have been necessary. And thanks to an Australian we may not see this type of cringe again:

https://twitter.com/TrapperHaskins/status/1821966224710054166

https://twitter.com/RefusalToComply/status/1822014819429753330

Twitter is full of these types of posts:
https://twitter.com/alex_abads/status/1821945716064821450

Don’t know what’s funnier the fact this actually was made an Olympic sport or the fact Australia actually sucking at said “sport” finally

Chris B.

@Damo Lydia's past experiences at the Olympics hopefully might stand her in good stead - less pressure when you've already got a couple of medals in the cupboard at home?

canefan

Just got a chance to watch the men's basketball SF, USA vs Serbia. Wow that was a great game. Jokic was superb as the fulcrum of their offense, the Serbs pass and shoot extremely well. The US left it extremely late but standout performances from Steph, LeBron and Embiid in particular got them home

The Silver Fern

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