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  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    Japanese bar man face planted

  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    ooh and the Chinese gymnast swung round too far and put his hands down on his landing so may have blown it
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,801
    The work on the bars is amazing, the landings are Ryanair on a bad day bad 
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 8,033
    What's going on in this bar final? So many falls. 
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 6,365
    Has someone greased the bars?
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    In the pole vault was there a minimum standard to go straight through to finals? 
    Like in discus if you got 66m went straight to the final 
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,225
    That's some pole vault 66 metres.
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    MrOneLung said:
    In the pole vault was there a minimum standard to go straight through to finals? 
    Like in discus if you got 66m went straight to the final 
    I may be wrong but believe it was 4.70 today
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    rina said:
    MrOneLung said:
    In the pole vault was there a minimum standard to go straight through to finals? 
    Like in discus if you got 66m went straight to the final 
    I may be wrong but believe it was 4.70 today
    Several have qualified for the final jumping 4.40
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892
    iaitch said:
    That's some pole vault 66 metres.
    One of the Chinese vaulters will clear that.
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  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    swordfish said:
    rina said:
    MrOneLung said:
    In the pole vault was there a minimum standard to go straight through to finals? 
    Like in discus if you got 66m went straight to the final 
    I may be wrong but believe it was 4.70 today
    Several have qualified for the final jumping 4.40
    yes, it's rare to have to get near the automatic qualifying mark
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    rina said:
    I think 4.55 was 100% the correct height for Molly, it's probably where she starts in training and she makes that 99 times out of 100. on any other day she turns up, has 1 attempt packs up and is back to the village

    as it happens something was very wrong today and the height was probably pretty irrelevant; that 3rd attempt was the worst I've ever seen from her, it was the timing that was off, not the height. sometimes in sport shit just happens and this was one of those times

    That was the point I was trying to make.
    Cheers Rina.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,225
    Macronate said:
    iaitch said:
    That's some pole vault 66 metres.
    One of the Chinese vaulters will clear that.
    And pass a drugs test.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    suzisausage said:
    Japanese bar man face planted


  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,978
    Bored of gymnastics now. 
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,034
    ValleyGary said:
    Bored of gymnastics now. 
    It seems to have been going on for a very, very long time. 
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    My first look at Kayak cross. It needs Stuart Hall and Eddie Waring on commentary. Reminiscent of it's a knockout. Looks like Brazil played their Joker there to relegate ours 
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,810
    ValleyGary said:
    Bored of gymnastics now. 
    yep - where's the velodrome cycling???
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,810
    literally as I typed that BBC said from 4pm today
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,260
    The kayak cross is absolutely mental isn't it? 

    Makes me think that they should introduce an obstacle race into the Olympics 
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  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 8,033
    Kayak Cross is absolutely superb entertainment!

    There was a proposal for obstacle racing to be a new element of the Modern Pentathlon after the horse debacle at the Tokyo games but not sure if that's happening 
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,965
    sam3110 said:
    The kayak cross is absolutely mental isn't it? 

    Makes me think that they should introduce an obstacle race into the Olympics 
    And egg and spoon and a sack race
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    Too many chances to get medals in gymnastics and swimming 
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,801
    Believe the LA28 plan is to put the Athletics first and the swimming in the second week, to ensure the USA lead the medal table for the whole Olympics 
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,260
    The kayak cross women, just absolutely battering into eachother and the gates, the French girl just torpedoed into the Brazilian, slapped the gate out of the way and drove into the final
  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,106
    Do we win a medal for most flags being flown upside down?  
    Which other countries would be medal hopes?
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,279
    Loving the kayak cross. Shame one of the British girls got disqualified for doing her roll a touch late. Some great battles going round the upstream gates.
  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,636
    Kayak Cross finals in a few minutes - get the TV on, it's mental and we've a great chance of two medals across the two finals.
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,855
    swordfish said:
    My first look at Kayak cross. It needs Stuart Hall and Eddie Waring on commentary. Reminiscent of it's a knockout. Looks like Brazil played their Joker there to relegate ours 
    Good old Stuart Hall...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIiNbBQM_Go
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,010
    sam3110 said:
    The kayak cross is absolutely mental isn't it? 

    Makes me think that they should introduce an obstacle race into the Olympics 
    Not actually sure how it's even a sport, it's like watching a gameshow.

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