**Official** Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics

[Flem274*]

stoked for the australian boomers. great performance from then and seeing mills and the tall 3 pointer **** so emotional was something to see. great reward for a strong aussie team.

also watched the soccer. yuck, god i hate the diving and ref abuse. im not a big football fan in general and that stuff just puts me right off trying. the brazillian screaming in the refs face at one point needs a bullet.

Apparently the German modern pentathlon coach has been thrown out of the games for punching a horse.
Whilst not in any way condoning this action, it's as good a reason as any to take a look at this.
Mongo Knocks out a Horse! - YouTube

it's not a real ban. pentathlon doesn't fall under the FEI umbrella but that of whoever runs pentathlon, hence the open on field abuse, and the ban ends when the olympics ends. it's just optics.

im guessing everyone at the games is still subject to japanese animal welfare laws so would be good to see her charged under proper law.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Did the Saudi really used too much force against the Iranian to cause the disqualification?
I haven’t seen it.

 

[andruid]

Some big names already struggling with the heat in Sapporo, in the Marathon

 

[andruid]

And that's the marathon. World Class performance from Eliud Kipchoge.

 

[cnerd123]

Sarah Lee is a beast. Keirin is a weird sport. May be a dumb question, but does anyone understand why they waste 2 laps going slow in the 1 vs 1 sprints instead of going full blast right from the get go?

And in the larger races why do they have a pacer for the first half of the race?

 

[Chubb]

Sarah Lee is a beast. Keirin is a weird sport. May be a dumb question, but does anyone understand why they waste 2 laps going slow in the 1 vs 1 sprints instead of going full blast right from the get go?

And in the larger races why do they have a pacer for the first half of the race?

Keirin and sprints are different disciplines. Kierin winds up to full speed using the pacer.

Sprinters go slow for tactical reasons: you get an advantage by slipstreaming so neither racer will want to lead off, tho occasionally they go so slow one of them can get the jump on the other one.

poor Craig, RIP, could explain it all a lot better than me or anyone else on cricketweb.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Jason Kenny, what a legend. Our greatest ever Olympian and even when not at his best he still goes home with a gold and a silver. Hopefully he carries on to Paris but what a way to go out if he doesn't.

 

[Chubb]

Malaysian partner and I after the kierin final.

Partner “go Malaysia! Hah! Singapore haven’t won any medals”

Me “but they’ve won gold medals before, Malaysia never have. And San Marino won the same number of medals as both of you combined.”

Partner “Doesn’t matter ?.”

 

[Spark]

So looking back, this actually turned out to be a lot less **** than I feared it would be. The track and field events were a little soulless because that was the one stadium where the spectating athletes couldn't create a real atmosphere but pretty much everything else was great.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Best things: mixed gender events like relays in the swimming and athletics, 13 year olds winning gold medals, that evil horse who ruined the pentathlon

Worst things: karate as a viewing experience, Novak Djokovic being let into the country, Australian state-sponsored PED program continuing to be ignored

 

[TT Boy]

What a talented athlete Lauren Price is. That's a superb performance.

 

[weeman27bob]

Two golds today means we finish above Russia ROC.

Still going to watch the handball out of spite to hope that they lose.

 

[Daemon]

Handball is an underrated sport. Incredibly physical and you basically have to have no regard for your own safety to play.

 

[weeman27bob]

Handball is an underrated sport. Incredibly physical and you basically have to have no regard for your own safety to play.

Also had this absolute unit playing for the DRC in the World Champs

 

[_Ed_]

Women's volleyball final was a bit disappointing in the end - a tight first set, but one-way traffic after that.

 

[weeman27bob]

Apparently we've won medals in more different sports than any other nation, which is pretty cool.

 

[Shady Slim]

Lots of Asian representation in top womens Golf compared to mens. Wonder why.

my theory on this, totally apropos of nothing and just based on Shady Knows Sports, is that the women's game took off in these countries alongside it taking off in the west, while whereas in the mens' game the funding, infrastructure, generationality, etc, has been around for much longer for the men's game

when i say "take off" i mean in terms both of popularity (thus leading to more take it up from a younger age) as well as direction of government funding and of the sport's infrastructure

 

[Howe_zat]

Apparently we've won medals in more different sports than any other nation, which is pretty cool.

That was true in 2016 but this year It's the USA and it's not very close.

 

[Howe_zat]

First time watching handball.

Anyone know the purpose of goalkeepers in handball?

 

[TT Boy]

Shows how big the Super Heavyweights are as Richard Torres is apparently 6’2 and has looked like a kid throughout the games fighting adults. Some balls on him to go toe-to-toe with a guy that put him on a stretcher previously. Look forward to seeing him in the pros. Can punch and has heart.

Was high on Jalolov prior to the games but not sure on him now. Will be a menace given he is a 6’7 southpaw with some pop but he gets hit too much and he doesn’t seem to respond well to it. Loves a hug.