**Official** Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics

[NZTailender]

Special finish in the HJ

Boomers in the swamp section of news coverage on this bemoaning the everyone gets a trophy attitude of the world today thankfully being outnumbered by people with a bit of decency in their lives though.

 

[Burgey]

@honestbharani @RossTaylorsBox

Yesssss

 

[Burgey]

What epithet do we think these games will be known by? You know, Melbourne was the Friendly Games, Sydney the Greatest Games, Atlanta the Toilet, Athens the Olympics Coming Home, London the Ho Hum Games etc. I hope these aren't remembered for the pandemic, though I suppose it looms largest in terms of the context for them.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Welp

Belarus Olympics: Krystsina Tsimanouskaya refuses 'forced' flight home

Krystsina Tsimanouskaya says she fears for her safety as Belarus orders her home for complaining about coaches.

www.bbc.com

 

[Burgey]

Too many athletes blame their coaches. It's good to see Belarus standing up for its officials in the face of such criticism, and calling their athlete home

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Shame these high jump officials didn't oversee the 2019 CWC.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Lisa Carrington about to start her first race. If she has a big Olympics NZ has a decent chance of matching (or perhaps beating) the 8 golds from LA 84.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Good first heat for Carrington.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Boomers in the swamp section of news coverage on this bemoaning the everyone gets a trophy attitude of the world today thankfully being outnumbered by people with a bit of decency in their lives though.

Laurel Hubbard competes today, so get prepared for more screeching.

 

[Anil]

What epithet do we think these games will be known by? You know, Melbourne was the Friendly Games, Sydney the Greatest Games, Atlanta the Toilet, Athens the Olympics Coming Home, London the Ho Hum Games etc. I hope these aren't remembered for the pandemic, though I suppose it looms largest in terms of the context for them.

This one will be remembered as the COVID Games.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Can't bring myself to enjoy the high jump story because the Italian guy was obviously a Novak-level flog.

 

[Burgey]

Are Indian hockey fans as generally woeful as their cricket supporters, or are they usually more reasonable? Also, what's the hockey demographic over there? A lot of hard, country ****s tend to play it here.

 

[Flem274*]

Are Indian hockey fans as generally woeful as their cricket supporters, or are they usually more reasonable? Also, what's the hockey demographic over there? A lot of hard, country ****s tend to play it here.

i don't think i've ever met one which is weird because it's like their #2 sport or something. they almost lost to us though and it's like our #264654 sport so cricket must be taking over hard there.

 

[Flem274*]

Laurel Hubbard competes today, so get prepared for more screeching.

i have no idea if she's good but i hope she wins

 

[Burgey]

I thought Kabaddi was the number two sport in India?

 

[Burgey]

Couple of brilliant saves by the Indian keeper there

 

[_Ed_]

i have no idea if she's good but i hope she wins

There was a question about her in our pub quiz last week, and the quizmaster (in his 60s) has shown a few boomerish/off-colour-joke tendencies over the years, so I was like, "Uh-oh, here we go." But then he was like, "She's really brave and I hope she does well." Pleasantly surprised.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

i have no idea if she's good but i hope she wins

The Chinese athlete will win.

 

[NZTailender]

i don't think i've ever met one which is weird because it's like their #2 sport or something. they almost lost to us though and it's like our #264654 sport so cricket must be taking over hard there.

Their players seem really into it. I remember a Commonwealth games match quite a few years back between the women teams from India and New Zealand. An Indian player committed an obvious foul and NZ were awarded a penalty which lead to the umpire being surrounded by the entire Indian team for like 3 minutes being abused and eventually the umpire overturned the ruling and gave India the penalty instead, from which they scored.

it was one of the most disgraceful things I've ever seen in sport tbh.

 

[Flem274*]

Their players seem really into it. I remember a Commonwealth games match quite a few years back between the women teams from India and New Zealand. An Indian player committed an obvious foul and NZ were awarded a penalty which lead to the umpire being surrounded by the entire Indian team for like 3 minutes being abused and eventually the umpire overturned the ruling and gave India the penalty instead, from which they scored.

it was one of the most disgraceful things I've ever seen in sport tbh.

it's moments like this that make me annoyed nz teams blindly buy into taking decisions on the chin. that's a walk off moment, or at least start a fistfight with the opposition.