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Olympics 2024
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Silver...Shocker of a last round.0
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Disappointing 20 minutes. The Iranian deserved it though.0
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just looked into the actual rules, it is the team event which was on earlier this week that's mixed, not the pairs that we had todayrina said:
2 of the 8 person team can be male but no teams took up the option
so in answer to your question, the men's competition began on monday evening1 -
With the squad rotation in the 4*400, the relays must be costing the organisers a fortune in medals
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Dame Denise Lewis giving up her cosy TV job to help out at grass roots level. Good on her!4
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How do you ever find out you're any good at the artistic/synchro swimming? Does it start off with liking doing underwater handstands and realising you can hold your breath for ages?0
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Great interviews with the synchronised swimmers who got a wonderful silver. Years of underfunding and low places then they get success.2
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As we got a medal in all of the 5 relays, GB are going to request, their individual athletes can run holding a baton from 100m to 400m in future.2
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Sounds like you take after your mum!Off_it said:How do you ever find out you're any good at the artistic/synchro swimming? Does it start off with liking doing underwater handstands and realising you can hold your breath for ages?0 - Sponsored links:
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Was waiting for him to fall over and then claim he would have won the race.Off_it said:
Not his fault. Everyone else was cheating.BrentfordAddick said:George Mills last in the 5000m0 -
Love the fact that they go down the municipal pool, put their music on and practice during public swim sessions - much to the annoyance of the public.Dugdaleclass said:Great interviews with the synchronised swimmers who got a wonderful silver. Years of underfunding and low places then they get success.
... tbh, I also love the fact it isn't my municipal pool they practice in
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What bit of “ The Aussie had also won all her heats and semifinals, and was slightly faster.” don’t you understand?MrOneLung said:
How was she consistently second best? She won every single race she was in apart from the finalAddicksAddict said:
The BMX woman had been consistently second best. The Aussie had also won all her heats and semifinals, and was slightly faster.charltonkeston said:
Fine margins though, wasn't it?golfaddick said:
2 so called favourites for Gold.killerandflash said:Similar to Kerr last night, in both races the Americans were brilliant, rather than the Brits throwing it away.
Along with the bikes, the rowers, the clay shooter & the equestrian there have been Gold medals there for the taking & for one reason or another its slipped from our grasp.
How much better the medal table would look with 4 or 5 more Golds.
(because we all know Gold is everything...😉)
Could of easily gone a lot worse or another day 2 strides better.
The woman, (Rutter), in the shooting was a tad unlucky she did hit the skeet but the judges disagreed and her opponent obviously didn't see it.
The BMX girl got her tactics wrong for the final after being clearly the best.
Winning means nothing if too easy.0 -
When we went for it, the others chased us down because we’re the World Champions. When the Dutch and Italians went, the others let them go. More interested in stopping us winning.golfaddick said:
I think we missed a trick not going to the 20 points. I knew the Netherlands did and only got bronze but it seems mad not to go for it early on & then just pick up a few 1's & 2's in the sprints.stonemuse said:Great silver just using the sprints0 -
Ice speedway is the sport for you.sam3110 said:
400m hurdles on ice, now that's something I'd want to watch!Dugdaleclass said:Americans own the finishing straight again in 400 hurdles. Oh well Norway you always have the Winter Olympics to look forward to.0 -
Chess has its own Olympiad. England have come second twice in the open section, I think about eighth is their best in the women’s.seth plum said:Chess is not included in the Olympic Games, although recognised as a sport by the International Olympic Committee.
During lockdown my son and I developed a fantastic sport of throwing tea bags into mugs from across the kitchen, that should clearly be an Olympic event.1 -
If she was a man, you’d have a point.KBslittlesis said:Men telling me that a man winning a women’s event is irrelevant.
Yeah, cheers guys.0 -
I wouldn’t bother, all reason and logic has departed this conversation. People still can’t get it straight in their minds that this boxer isn’t trans - talk of her being “a man” makes utterly no sense.Off_it said:
Hang on, hang on. I know this can be an emotive subject, but that's the second or third time you've said you're refusing to listen to opinions just because they have been given by men. Is that really what you meant to say? If so then that's a very slippery slope to be going down ....... it's in the same ball park as a man saying he wouldn't listen to the opinion of a woman about football, just because shes a woman.KBslittlesis said:
I wasn’t talking about the boxer in question when I said that.Swindon_Addick said:
She isn't a man. No-one is claiming that she's a man, including those who are claiming that she has a chromosomal irregularity that would make her ineligible for women's sport. The people making those claims have no credibility, but even they don't think she's trans.KBslittlesis said:Men telling me that a man winning a women’s event is irrelevant.
Yeah, cheers guys.
The lack of credibility of the IBA doesn't in itself prove that they're lying, neither does the fact that when they held their press conference they couldn't even agree what test they were claiming they'd run that she'd failed. But I want to seem some actual evidence before we start disqualifying people, and I want to know why that evidence wasn't presented to the IOC in advance so that, if one or both of the two boxers isn't eligible, they could have been excluded without ruining the competition for everyone else.
Leaving aside the IBA, the IOC used the fact that this particular boxer was identified as female on her birth certificate therefore her passport says female.
Thats it, that’s the evidence that was deemed good enough.
Thats not science.
Until real science is used, I refuse to be told by any man that there hasn’t been an injustice here.0 -
Sifan Hassan is an athlete like no other.
She wins a Bronze in the 5k and 10k and then wins the Marathon beating the reigning champion and the World record holder.
This, after winning gold in Tokyo in the 5k and 10k
Why are East African born athletes with no fat so good at the long distance ?
Mo Farrah, Somalian born, tried to emulate Hassan but found the Marathon a step too far on the world stage.
Sifan left Ethiopia to go to the Netherlands when she was 15 and has a bronze olympic medal as well in the 1500m from Tokyo.
Skinny and stamina verses muscles and sprinting.
Yet so many in the western world are obese including a high number on CL !
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She’d be no good at sinking 8 pints of Guinness though would she?soapboxsam said:Sifan Hassan is an athlete like no other.
She wins a Bronze in the 5k and 10k and then wins the Marathon beating the reigning champion and the World record holder.
This, after winning gold in Tokyo in the 5k and 10k
Why are East African born athletes with no fat so good at the long distance ?
Mo Farrah, Somalian born, tried to emulate Hassan but found the Marathon a step too far on the world stage.
Sifan left Ethiopia to go to the Netherlands when she was 15 and has a bronze olympic medal as well in the 1500m from Tokyo.
Skinny and stamina verses muscles and sprinting.
Yet so many in the western world are obese including a high number on CL !
Horses for courses.3 - Sponsored links:
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🙋🏻♂️SuedeAdidas said:
She’d be no good at sinking 8 pints of Guinness though would she?soapboxsam said:Sifan Hassan is an athlete like no other.
She wins a Bronze in the 5k and 10k and then wins the Marathon beating the reigning champion and the World record holder.
This, after winning gold in Tokyo in the 5k and 10k
Why are East African born athletes with no fat so good at the long distance ?
Mo Farrah, Somalian born, tried to emulate Hassan but found the Marathon a step too far on the world stage.
Sifan left Ethiopia to go to the Netherlands when she was 15 and has a bronze olympic medal as well in the 1500m from Tokyo.
Skinny and stamina verses muscles and sprinting.
Yet so many in the western world are obese including a high number on CL !
Horses for courses.1 -
SuedeAdidas said:
She’d be no good at sinking 8 pints of Guinness though would she?soapboxsam said:Sifan Hassan is an athlete like no other.
She wins a Bronze in the 5k and 10k and then wins the Marathon beating the reigning champion and the World record holder.
This, after winning gold in Tokyo in the 5k and 10k
Why are East African born athletes with no fat so good at the long distance ?
Mo Farrah, Somalian born, tried to emulate Hassan but found the Marathon a step too far on the world stage.
Sifan left Ethiopia to go to the Netherlands when she was 15 and has a bronze olympic medal as well in the 1500m from Tokyo.
Skinny and stamina verses muscles and sprinting.
Yet so many in the western world are obese including a high number on CL !
Horses for courses.
You are correct, Sifan Hassan diet is anti inflammatory food like berries, chia seeds, walnuts and salmon, washed down with 2 pints of Guinness for the iron benefits.
Hassan is a lightweight 🏃🏾♀️😀1 -
Interesting story came out a few days ago, while the US athletes are all finding that extra gear/strong finish:
https://www.wada-ama.org/en/news/wada-statement-reuters-story-exposing-usada-scheme-contravention-world-anti-doping-code0 -
Probably the bit where the Australians races and times are irrelevant to the conversation as they were not against at the Brit. Her times may have been faster as pushed all the way to the line whilst our girls were slower as cruised to victories.AddicksAddict said:
What bit of “ The Aussie had also won all her heats and semifinals, and was slightly faster.” don’t you understand?MrOneLung said:
How was she consistently second best? She won every single race she was in apart from the finalAddicksAddict said:
The BMX woman had been consistently second best. The Aussie had also won all her heats and semifinals, and was slightly faster.charltonkeston said:
Fine margins though, wasn't it?golfaddick said:
2 so called favourites for Gold.killerandflash said:Similar to Kerr last night, in both races the Americans were brilliant, rather than the Brits throwing it away.
Along with the bikes, the rowers, the clay shooter & the equestrian there have been Gold medals there for the taking & for one reason or another its slipped from our grasp.
How much better the medal table would look with 4 or 5 more Golds.
(because we all know Gold is everything...😉)
Could of easily gone a lot worse or another day 2 strides better.
The woman, (Rutter), in the shooting was a tad unlucky she did hit the skeet but the judges disagreed and her opponent obviously didn't see it.
The BMX girl got her tactics wrong for the final after being clearly the best.
Winning means nothing if too easy.Hence, she was not consistently second best0 -
Think I might be in love with Laura Kenny0
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couldn’t deal with that voice 😫ValleyGary said:Think I might be in love with Laura Kenny1 -
SuedeAdidas said:
couldn’t deal with that voice 😫ValleyGary said:Think I might be in love with Laura Kenny
I like it 🤣2 -
It would be shocking if it came out that the US athletes were all on something and all of their medals got wiped. Shocking and yet hilarious at the same time!North Lower Neil said:Interesting story came out a few days ago, while the US athletes are all finding that extra gear/strong finish:
https://www.wada-ama.org/en/news/wada-statement-reuters-story-exposing-usada-scheme-contravention-world-anti-doping-code2 -
Off_it said:
I find it bizarre, and actually quite worrying, that some people can form some very clear and entrenched views based on "facts" that just aren't true at all.Swindon_Addick said:
She isn't a man. No-one is claiming that she's a man, including those who are claiming that she has a chromosomal irregularity that would make her ineligible for women's sport. The people making those claims have no credibility, but even they don't think she's trans.KBslittlesis said:Men telling me that a man winning a women’s event is irrelevant.
Yeah, cheers guys.
The lack of credibility of the IBA doesn't in itself prove that they're lying, neither does the fact that when they held their press conference they couldn't even agree what test they were claiming they'd run that she'd failed. But I want to seem some actual evidence before we start disqualifying people, and I want to know why that evidence wasn't presented to the IOC in advance so that, if one or both of the two boxers isn't eligible, they could have been excluded without ruining the competition for everyone else.
Obviously we've seen that recently with all the aggro around the UK, but this is another example of where the facts don't seem to trouble some people.
For example, my mum is insistent that the Algerian "is a man", even though nobody in any sort of official, or semi-official, capacity has ever said that, as far as I'm aware.
https://youtu.be/_9rynD9KlU0?si=PitVrj4XZFGpagvE
(Trigger warning for some of the rantier posters it does discuss the issue of micro penises)6 -
Really enjoying women's synchronised swimming. Possibly a bit more than the women's beach volleyball if I'm honest.0
