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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    MrWalker said:

    se9addick said:
    sam3110 said:
    Thailand win the gold in the lightweight Taekwondo, in the middle of the Grand Palais (what an amazing venue btw) but what's the scoring all about? VAR replays to see one girl gently tap her toe on her opponent's headguard
    No one will ever be able to compete with Paris for venues. They’ve won that for eternity. 

    Certainly agree with that, the use of a rugby stadium for the swimming allowed so many more people to watch and create a good atmosphere. The archery was held at the Palace of Versailles and the aerial shot of the range, with the palace in the background was amazing.
    As was the marathon in London the beach volleyball in Horse Guards Parade, the shooting in Thamesmead and the Horse Dancing in Greenwich Park.

    Every Olympics has its iconic venues. Paris matches a long line of amazing hosts.
    I still remember the Barcelona diving, which created some iconic images, even if the venue itself is pretty underwhelming up close! It's the location on the hill which created the magic.






  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/czdp1jlj22po

    A great pole vaulter has failed a drugs test. So far that's 4, pretty unknown competitors, 2 in Judo.
  • Rothko said:
    You can't get into an arms race with Paris on having beautiful old buildings, the advantages of not being bombed in the WW2, Paris is a museum of a city, where London changes and evolves. Paris has been ready to host an Olympics since 1998, it was the whole point of building Stade de France and had grand Olympic Park plans in 2012 in Saint Denis, but that's had to change as that part of the city changed. 
    London has equally ‘beautiful buildings’ only ours have been cleaned up. 

    The legacy of the London games compared to other host cities has been pretty good. When the temporary photo shoot venues have been removed what’s the legacy of the Paris games going to be for Parisians and France ?

  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,263
    Jade Jones was talked up last night by BBC, out in the very first round!
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    edited August 2024
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  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    The Wiff Waff and Climbing the Walls are both entertaining events. Less so the sailing, which I'm finding hard to follow.  
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,802
    Rothko said:
    You can't get into an arms race with Paris on having beautiful old buildings, the advantages of not being bombed in the WW2, Paris is a museum of a city, where London changes and evolves. Paris has been ready to host an Olympics since 1998, it was the whole point of building Stade de France and had grand Olympic Park plans in 2012 in Saint Denis, but that's had to change as that part of the city changed. 
    London has equally ‘beautiful buildings’ only ours have been cleaned up. 

    The legacy of the London games compared to other host cities has been pretty good. When the temporary photo shoot venues have been removed what’s the legacy of the Paris games going to be for Parisians and France ?

    Mainly transport as the big upgrades have been to the Metro, cleaner Seine, new Aquatics centre, new housing in Saint Denis from the Village. 
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,605
    MrWalker said:

    se9addick said:
    sam3110 said:
    Thailand win the gold in the lightweight Taekwondo, in the middle of the Grand Palais (what an amazing venue btw) but what's the scoring all about? VAR replays to see one girl gently tap her toe on her opponent's headguard
    No one will ever be able to compete with Paris for venues. They’ve won that for eternity. 

    Certainly agree with that, the use of a rugby stadium for the swimming allowed so many more people to watch and create a good atmosphere. The archery was held at the Palace of Versailles and the aerial shot of the range, with the palace in the background was amazing.
    As was the marathon in London the beach volleyball in Horse Guards Parade, the shooting in Thamesmead and the Horse Dancing in Greenwich Park.

    Every Olympics has its iconic venues. Paris matches a long line of amazing hosts.
    I still remember the Barcelona diving, which created some iconic images, even if the venue itself is pretty underwhelming up close! It's the location on the hill which created the magic.






    And they still haven’t finished the blooming church! 😜
  • sam3110 said:
    Jade Jones was talked up last night by BBC, out in the very first round!
    Could still get a chance to go for bronze if the Macedonian who beat her gets to the final.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,263
    Many of the Paris venues were built before the Olympics but with the Olympics in mind, like the Velodrome, the Arena La Defense, the white-water facility, shooting centre and the climbing centre. 

    They have a wonderful mix of lasting venues, temporary arenas in iconic locations and historic backdrops. They've also renovated Stade de France and built a huge new university accomodation village (used as the Olympic Village) 
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  • iaitch said:
    sam3110 said:
    BBC are so frustrating, just endlessly twaddling on about any old shit, meanwhile on Eurosport they are simultaneously showing the men's discus final and the women's pole vault
    And what a great couple of finals they were.

    Kept flicking between Eurosport and BBC, all talk talk talk on the beeb no action. Why do they need three people to discuss things.

    Eurosport have Iuan Thomas who is a good summariser and gives his opinion.
    I have to admit that I find the BBC coverage largely annoyingly jingositic (it's better on the Red Button).

    I get that there are Team GB athletes doing brilliantly (as are many) and that they have reasonable chances of getting medals, but they seem to be too keen to ignore other exceptional stories for endlessly going on in studio discussions about either the potential or the performance of UK athletes.

    Just a bitter Norn Irish man (who cannot get the RTE coverage because it's blocked...  
    If you think the BBC is jingoistic, come over here and watch it on French TV!

    This has nothing to do with the Olympics happening in Paris, but it‘s particularly bad now.

    French TV jumps from one sport to the other based on the fact that a Frenchman/woman is taking part to the detriment of all other competitors. The most recent was a cut to a Frenchman coming third in a competition and they didn‘t even go to the effort of mentioning who won gold or silver!
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,263
    Far too much diving and gymnastics given airtime over other sports on the beeb IMO, there has been barely a sniff of some of the other disciplines, like Water Polo, Volleyball, Basketball and weightlifting, for instance. 

    I get that some of them are more niche or things Team GB don't compete in, but I'd rather see 10-15 minutes of that instead of Balding or someone else licking the arse of some ex Olympian about their own niche sport that they don't actually show for half an hour
  • I'm no fan over the extended talking sessions but part of being a sports fan is knowing that you have to pay for the streams and the money charged by Discovery for cameras pointing at every event, often with commentary, is great value. To be fair I think that the BBC coverage has curated pretty well and has showed highlights of at least some of those things you mentioned. 
  • Rothko said:
    Rothko said:
    You can't get into an arms race with Paris on having beautiful old buildings, the advantages of not being bombed in the WW2, Paris is a museum of a city, where London changes and evolves. Paris has been ready to host an Olympics since 1998, it was the whole point of building Stade de France and had grand Olympic Park plans in 2012 in Saint Denis, but that's had to change as that part of the city changed. 
    London has equally ‘beautiful buildings’ only ours have been cleaned up. 

    The legacy of the London games compared to other host cities has been pretty good. When the temporary photo shoot venues have been removed what’s the legacy of the Paris games going to be for Parisians and France ?

    Mainly transport as the big upgrades have been to the Metro, cleaner Seine, new Aquatics centre, new housing in Saint Denis from the Village. 
    And by using existing facilities and temporary site, they have attempted to keep the cost of the Games within reason. That's one legacy that the host city's population can do without. The 2012 legacy is questionable. Certainly was good for Stratford and environs (and West Ham of course).
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,802
    Rothko said:
    Rothko said:
    You can't get into an arms race with Paris on having beautiful old buildings, the advantages of not being bombed in the WW2, Paris is a museum of a city, where London changes and evolves. Paris has been ready to host an Olympics since 1998, it was the whole point of building Stade de France and had grand Olympic Park plans in 2012 in Saint Denis, but that's had to change as that part of the city changed. 
    London has equally ‘beautiful buildings’ only ours have been cleaned up. 

    The legacy of the London games compared to other host cities has been pretty good. When the temporary photo shoot venues have been removed what’s the legacy of the Paris games going to be for Parisians and France ?

    Mainly transport as the big upgrades have been to the Metro, cleaner Seine, new Aquatics centre, new housing in Saint Denis from the Village. 
    And by using existing facilities and temporary site, they have attempted to keep the cost of the Games within reason. That's one legacy that the host city's population can do without. The 2012 legacy is questionable. Certainly was good for Stratford and environs (and West Ham of course).
    It got things paid for, or at least started, be that Overground, or Crossrail, DLR extensions, and that part of east London needed the money spent on it, which benefits London, and if London works, the rest of the country gets the money 
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    Sinden through to Semis in the Taekwondo after kicking his opponent in the head, which I was screaming at the telly for him to do. 😀
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    edited August 2024
    swordfish said:
    Especially at the Olympics, football etc you can try to write down and remember anything needed about 30 odd players.

    There's a couple of thousand athletes just in the athletics I think.

    Poor bloke calls someone in the women's shot put a woman and gets called out and has articles written about it.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,263
    swordfish said:
    Should have put in the research really, shouldn't he/she/they? (Whatever Steve Backley's preferred pronoun is)
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,627
    swordfish said:
    The Wiff Waff and Climbing the Walls are both entertaining events. Less so the sailing, which I'm finding hard to follow.  
    Sailing was a nonsense. Medal events abandoned due to "lack of wind" where the flags & sails were certainly not limp. GB given a "penalty" on the start line but were unaware it was for them. & carried on. 

    And the wall climbing ???  Medal events were knockouts based on a single run that takes 5 seconds!! Why not have best of 3.....hardly taking up much time. Compared to the BMX where they had 6 heats before the final. And athletes who have 2 or 3 heats for races over 800 or 1500 metres !!
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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    swordfish said:
    Sinden through to Semis in the Taekwondo after kicking his opponent in the head, which I was screaming at the telly for him to do. 😀
    Loses in the semi. In the QF he scored points at will, but he couldn't get anywhere near the Jordanian
  • I like the VAR in the taekwondo.
  • cafcpolo
    cafcpolo Posts: 3,811
    Great win by Aldridge in the kite sailing for gold!
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    edited August 2024
    Who cares about other events, I'm only watching Kite sailing from now on   ;)
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    I like the VAR in the taekwondo.
    A good system, and this referee was nice and quick too
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    cafcpolo said:
    Great win by Aldridge in the kite sailing for gold!
    10 minutes ago I had no idea this was an olympic sport, switched on just as it started and watched her win gold, I'm a big fan now

    no idea how these weird hoverboard things they've got work though
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,627
    cafcpolo said:
    Great win by Aldridge in the kite sailing for gold!
    Who would have thought that would have been our next Gold. Was it called by the experts 😉😄
  • Just watching the cycling and the leader is on a motorbike. Bit unfair!
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    An expensive crash that
  • cafcpolo
    cafcpolo Posts: 3,811
    cafcpolo said:
    Great win by Aldridge in the kite sailing for gold!
    Who would have thought that would have been our next Gold. Was it called by the experts 😉😄
    She had silver in the worlds and been up there most qualifying races. Just didn't cock up like the windsurfer did!