Olympics - does anyone actually care anymore?

[Spikey]

Oh hell yes penny

 

[Spikey]

they've been ads with bad covers of both walk on the wild side and the passenger in the last 15 minutes.

 

[_Ed_]

So great to see Luuka Jones get silver in the K1 slalom. It's one of my favourite events to watch in every Olympics, and an unexpected NZ medal just made it even better.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Haha the Pool has been another disaster again. Some surprises though, which is better than London I guess.

 

[Bahnz]

So great to see Luuka Jones get silver in the K1 slalom. It's one of my favourite events to watch in every Olympics, and an unexpected NZ medal just made it even better.

Yeah, seems like she kinda came from nowhere (ranked 22nd and all) and performed the race of her life. Hard to remember the last time there was such a shock result for one of our athletes. I mean, I know Natalie Rooney won silver a couple of days ago, but the surprise about that seems to be more because nobody knew she existed rather than her being a massive underdog in her event.

 

[Burgey]

Every Olympics these swimmers go in as favourites and never swim their best times when it matters most under the most pressure.

They're aquatic Tendulkars.

 

[Victor Ian]

I'd like a new medal count - the how many medals you lost count. Take the starting predictions minus the end results and see who comes on top. Aussies would top this most years I think.

 

[vogue]

Fiji winning is one of my favourite things that's happened in these whole Olympics. They massively deserved it, and obviously it was a huge deal for the country. Really awesome to see.

This. Best thing.

 

[Burgey]

I'd like a new medal count - the how many medals you lost count. Take the starting predictions minus the end results and see who comes on top. Aussies would top this most years I think.

In fairness, that's because we expect to win everything we compete in. Misguided though that may be, the people of Australia want to know their tax payers' dollars are being spent on people who actually win something, not someone who has several hundred grand tipped into them, cops a massive sponsorship on top of that from a ****ing breakfast cereal, goes in as gold medal favourite, bombs then gets out of the pool and says "Oh well, I don't need a gold medal to define who I am" or "It's not whether you win, but the fact you try your best to win". GAGF then.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Well the swimming started well for Australia, wasn't it 2 golds on the first night? Been a bit of a disaster ever since though. Looks like GB will power a long way clear of you in the overall table in the next few days given the amount of our bankers coming out.

 

[morgieb]

Well the swimming started well for Australia, wasn't it 2 golds on the first night? Been a bit of a disaster ever since though. Looks like GB will power a long way clear of you in the overall table in the next few days given the amount of our bankers coming out.

Getting to the events where you sit down and go backwards?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Getting to the events where you sit down and go backwards?

Yeah yeah.

Well Glover and Stanning are unbeaten since before London so they must have a chance. I meant Farah and Ennis-Hill/Johnson-Thompson and got a few chances in the velodrome too.

 

[Spikey]

dont know why burguy cares so much about a couple of south africans turned queenslanders losing to a pair of cooler people

 

[Daemon]

God I hope Schooling beats Phelps again

 

[vogue]

Athletics and women's boxing starting today.. Should see at least 2 golds there from the v lovely Jessica and Nicola

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Crazy how we peak for the Olympics all the time.

Marginal gains.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Decent half hour that.

 

[vogue]

Now fourth in the medals table...

 

[MW1304]

How many of those 10k runners are on drugs do we reckon.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Some time that.

Well the old record was probably set by a drugged up runner as most of those Chinese athletic and swimming records from the 90's were.