Olympics Thread

[voodoo]

@Windows97 said in Olympics Thread:

I must also admit that the most nerve - wracking and harrowing spectaor sport ever is watching someone on the last hole of a golf course closing out for the gold medal.

Ko played it beautifully but my goodness it's all just one shank away from unravelling completely. Possibly I was just seeing myself out there completely louse it up.

Those players must have absolute nerves of steel.

I would ABSOLUTELY have put that chip into the drink. There is just zero doubt.

I may have hit it fat, taking a foot of dirt before the ball to loft it up and in there. Alternately, I may have thinned it, seeing it skim a couple of times before settling under the surface.

But there is simply no other possibility as to where that approach would have ended up.

[Rapido]

@Virgil said in Olympics Thread:

@Windows97 said in Olympics Thread:

@dogmeat said in Olympics Thread:

@Windows97 We've finished higher than 11th!!

In time honoured tradition all our golds and all bar two of our medals won sitting on our arses

Thanks! Didn't know we finished that high in LA and of course famously ahead of Australia, but it always has that gloomy specture of "it wasn't a full Olympics" hanging over it.

Russia etc boycotted those games
And in the 80's sport Australia was woefully underfunded.
Thats all changed now with their institute of sport.

I wouldn't agree that "in the 80's sport Australia was woefully underfunded."

They were adequately/normally funded.

They responded by becoming 'overfunded'. Which we, and now many others in the wealthy world, have followed to keep up. Basically we all became Eastern Bloc, but hopefully minus the state orchestrated doping.

You could say that 1984. With the absence of the state-funded Eastern Bloc was the last true 'amateurish' games. Where the (well funded, but not state funded) US collegiate system obviously crushed it.

It was a weird games for the Aussies to have 'a bad year'

[antipodean]

@SBW1 said in Olympics Thread:

@Virgil I might add that we were ahead of Aussie in the 84 Olympics.

That may have been the most galling for them.

[canefan]

@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:

@Windows97 said in Olympics Thread:

I must also admit that the most nerve - wracking and harrowing spectaor sport ever is watching someone on the last hole of a golf course closing out for the gold medal.

Ko played it beautifully but my goodness it's all just one shank away from unravelling completely. Possibly I was just seeing myself out there completely louse it up.

Those players must have absolute nerves of steel.

I would ABSOLUTELY have put that chip into the drink. There is just zero doubt.

I may have hit it fat, taking a foot of dirt before the ball to loft it up and in there. Alternately, I may have thinned it, seeing it skim a couple of times before settling under the surface.

But there is simply no other possibility as to where that approach would have ended up.

Don't forget the number of chip and putt saves she had to make. You could see Lydia taking longer and longer to line up all those 3 foot putts as she got closer to the end. I can't putt for toffee so I could barely breathe watching it live 🫣

[canefan]

@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:

@SBW1 said in Olympics Thread:

@Virgil I might add that we were ahead of Aussie in the 84 Olympics.

That may have been the most galling for them.

Didn't that make them start up the AIS?

[Kiap]

@canefan said in Olympics Thread:

@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:

@SBW1 said in Olympics Thread:

@Virgil I might add that we were ahead of Aussie in the 84 Olympics.

That may have been the most galling for them.

Didn't that make them start up the AIS?

The AIS started before that, in 1981. Initial driver was a report commissioned by the Whitlam government in the early 70s, when Olympic results were OK.

But the process got a boost after the Montreal games when no gold was won. It took about a decade to get back to Top 10 ranking for the Barcelona games.

[sparky]

Los Angeles will do a fine job. They have great sporting facilities and venues.

The only problem that I can see by shifting it forward two weeks there are going to be clashes in the sporting calendar.

As things stand it's going to be back-to-back with the Copa America and the Euros in July 2028 and will clash with Wimbledon and the Open.

I could see The Open shifting to early August in 2028. Wimbledon might need to have the men's and women's finals both on the same Saturday and the doubles finals a bit earlier or something.

[MN5]

@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:

@Windows97 said in Olympics Thread:

I must also admit that the most nerve - wracking and harrowing spectaor sport ever is watching someone on the last hole of a golf course closing out for the gold medal.

Ko played it beautifully but my goodness it's all just one shank away from unravelling completely. Possibly I was just seeing myself out there completely louse it up.

Those players must have absolute nerves of steel.

I would ABSOLUTELY have put that chip into the drink. There is just zero doubt.

I may have hit it fat, taking a foot of dirt before the ball to loft it up and in there. Alternately, I may have thinned it, seeing it skim a couple of times before settling under the surface.

But there is simply no other possibility as to where that approach would have ended up.

That’s why she’s an Olympic Gold medalist and you’re talking shit about Golf with other losers decent blokes on the interweb.

I’m not going to comment having played Golf about twice in my entire life. But yeah, good stuff Lydia, I’m on the bandwagon !

[MN5]

@Virgil said in Olympics Thread:

@dogmeat said in Olympics Thread:

@Windows97 We've finished higher than 11th!!

In time honoured tradition all our golds and all bar two of our medals won sitting on our arses

Those '84 Olympics were terrible for Krusty Burger
they gave away a free burger any time USA won gold

It didnt help the Eastern Block boycotted the games

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[MajorPom]

Yeah I’ll miss the games massively. Was fantastic having them on at work snd home.

So I’m going camping. Zero screens for kids. Rad.

[MiketheSnow]

[Daffy Jaffy]

[SBW1]

@sparky New Zealand has a good history in LA and also our Rubgy 7s teams both Men and Women regularly play there as part of the Rugby 7s Circuit.

[MN5]

@MiketheSnow said in Olympics Thread:

Can someone fill me in as to why this guy became such a phenomenon? I’ve been sent memes which I don’t really understand but have laughed politely all the same.

[ACT Crusader]

@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:

M4L has hit on a point for me that has reoccurred throughout the games: nobody remembers the medal counts, but they remember the moments.

Except for 84 of course. That is part of the school PE curriculum in NZ

Love the Olympics because of those moments. There were far too many NZ (and other) moments where I’d swear the air conditioner was leaking from the roof. Koh, Lisa Carrington and Hoskin, Finn Butcher, the 7s (NZ, Canada and US), Andrews in the Kierin, the Aussie 1500m runner Hull (mainly because of the call by Whately and Tamsin Lewis riding the emotion), chef Curry winning his first gold.

Thank you Stan. The best coverage of the games ever. A mix of full length and packaged up highlights that made it an enjoyable watch and gave the viewer real choice.

Actually contemplating going to LA for 2028.

[canefan]

@ACT-Crusader said in Olympics Thread:

@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:

M4L has hit on a point for me that has reoccurred throughout the games: nobody remembers the medal counts, but they remember the moments.

Except for 84 of course. That is part of the school PE curriculum in NZ

Love the Olympics because of those moments. There were far too many NZ (and other) moments where I’d swear the air conditioner was leaking from the roof. Koh, Lisa Carrington and Hoskin, Finn Butcher, the 7s (NZ, Canada and US), Andrews in the Kierin, the Aussie 1500m runner Hull (mainly because of the call by Whately and Tamsin Lewis riding the emotion), chef Curry winning his first gold.

Thank you Stan. The best coverage of the games ever. A mix of full length and packaged up highlights that made it an enjoyable watch and gave the viewer real choice.

Actually contemplating going to LA for 2028.

Probably cheaper to wait until it's in Brisbane...

[MN5]

Really, really entertaining viewing.

Thanks to the Olympics I’m now an expert in Trampolining, cycling, break dancing, skateboarding, high jump, shot put, table tennis and various other track and field events ( I tend to zone out a bit for the swimming )

Paris absolutely nailed it, they should have it there every four years. What a location.

[dogmeat]

Interesting to note given all the medals per capita fapping that we had the 14th biggest team

So on that yardstick we finished slightly ahead of expectations.

[MiketheSnow]

@MN5 said in Olympics Thread:

@MiketheSnow said in Olympics Thread:

Can someone fill me in as to why this guy became such a phenomenon? I’ve been sent memes which I don’t really understand but have laughed politely all the same.

https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-turkiye-shooting-yusuf-dikec-medal-pose

[Rapido]

@dogmeat said in Olympics Thread:

we had the 14th biggest team

Wow. That is quite amazing, actually.

Some of that must be due to the easy Oceania path for the 2 football teams. Plus a general focus on team sports (hockey, rugby7, even rowing crews).

But in other recent games we've even had both basketball teams qualified. I wonder if we've had even bigger teams, in 2016?