***Official 2024 Olympics Thread***

[Brook's side]

"she's just such a beautiful woman"

UHOH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Brook's side]

deciding tie break Murray&Evans

 

[Ali TT]

So the way they've talked up the GB relay team, this is a shoo-in. DQ incoming?

 

[Brook's side]

I won't give the score in the tennis for obvious reasons (see: Carty Durham)

 

[Brook's side]

The tennis is exciting.

 

[weeman27bob]

Huge relay from Team GB 4 x 200m freestyle

 

[Ali TT]

Shoo-in it was

 

[Brook's side]

The Murray & Evans 2nd round match is now in the past tense.

 

[Ali TT]

Haha another tie-break comeback for Evans and Murray

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Easy that relay. Just too good a team.

 

[MW1304]

Those two results happened within seconds. That's something I love about the Olympics, that illusion of momentum and things building on top of each other, even in entirely unrelated sports. It's kind of nonsense, but beautiful nonsense.

 

[Hungry Llama]

I do think that 'elite sports' is off putting to many people. It sort of reduces us all to being voyeurs.
I once won egg and spoon race at school sports day. Its really quite a test of skill and technical ability.
I think it should definitely be added to the program. Also they used to have the standing jump at
the olympics. I was quite good at that too.

 

[Brook's side]

I do think that 'elite sports' is off putting to many people. It sort of reduces us all to being voyeurs.
I once won egg and spoon race at school sports day. Its really quite a test of skill and technical ability.
I think it should definitely be added to the program. Also they used to have the standing jump at
the olympics. I was quite good at that too.

You can't stand and jump at the same time. They should rename that event.

 

[_Ed_]

Freestyling in Paris: ‘We’re not sure who that was. It wasn’t Cameron Gray’

That awkward moment when it dawns on you that the man you're interviewing is not a NZ swimmer at all.

thespinoff.co.nz

Outstanding work.

 

[social]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1818382759158784511

 

[Athlai]

Heh

 

[Line and Length]

I can't recall a Games where the news items coming out are so negative.
Complaints about judging (boxing), village accommodation (no air con), controversial chair umpire over-rules (tennis), poor commentators (***ist and/or ill-informed), postponed triathalon (river too dirty) etc.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Here's another complaint - why does that cartoon have 5 different fonts

 

[Athlai]

Complaints about judging (boxing), village accommodation (no air con), controversial chair umpire over-rules (tennis), poor commentators (***ist and/or ill-informed), postponed triathalon (river too dirty) etc.

Boxing complaints, village accomodation (and often food), judging, commentators and poor conditions of some of the event locations occur every single time honestly.

When it was held in China everyone was complaining about the same style of cardboard beds and the food lacking protein, it ended up with a lot of US athletes saying they only ate McDonalds while there. And I remember there was like a green pool full of algae that people complained a lot about.

 

[duffer]

I can't recall a Games where the news items coming out are so negative.
Complaints about judging (boxing), village accommodation (no air con), controversial chair umpire over-rules (tennis), poor commentators (***ist and/or ill-informed), postponed triathalon (river too dirty) etc.

The Delhi Commonwealth Games was basically the whole world (at least the Commonwealth) giving it to India, no?