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?
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?
Similar to Kerr last night, in both races the Americans were brilliant, rather than the Brits throwing it away.
2 so called favourites for Gold.
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...😉)
Fine margins though, wasn't it? 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.
The BMX woman had been consistently second best. The Aussie had also won all her heats and semifinals, and was slightly faster.
How was she consistently second best? She won every single race she was in apart from the final
What bit of “ The Aussie had also won all her heats and semifinals, and was slightly faster.” don’t you understand?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Men telling me that a man winning a women’s event is irrelevant.
Yeah, cheers guys.
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.
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.
I wasn’t talking about the boxer in question when I said that. 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.
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.
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.
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 !
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 !
She’d be no good at sinking 8 pints of Guinness though would she?
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 !
She’d be no good at sinking 8 pints of Guinness though would she?
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 !
She’d be no good at sinking 8 pints of Guinness though would she?
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.
Similar to Kerr last night, in both races the Americans were brilliant, rather than the Brits throwing it away.
2 so called favourites for Gold.
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...😉)
Fine margins though, wasn't it? 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.
The BMX woman had been consistently second best. The Aussie had also won all her heats and semifinals, and was slightly faster.
How was she consistently second best? She won every single race she was in apart from the final
What bit of “ The Aussie had also won all her heats and semifinals, and was slightly faster.” don’t you understand?
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.
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!
Men telling me that a man winning a women’s event is irrelevant.
Yeah, cheers guys.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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 evening
... tbh, I also love the fact it isn't my municipal pool they practice in
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 🏃🏾♀️😀
https://www.wada-ama.org/en/news/wada-statement-reuters-story-exposing-usada-scheme-contravention-world-anti-doping-code
I like it 🤣
(Trigger warning for some of the rantier posters it does discuss the issue of micro penises)