***Official 2024 Olympics Thread***

[Spikey]

Chalmers just became the 3rd swimmer in history to medal in 3 consecutive 100m finals

Feels like Charmers has never had the same profile though. Hell Magnussen might still have a higher one thanks to his recent antics

 

[TheJediBrah]

Australian male swimming suffers from the same problem as other sports here - competition

Go through the list of AFL players and you’ll find any number of elite athletes with the physical traits to make a champion swimmer - tall, lean, fast and endurance

Plus it’s way more fun to kick a footy than to do 10-12 pool sessions a week

AFL is a great sport but it's hard not to fantasise about how much better we'd be on the world sporting stage without it

Kiwis would probably suffer the most as a result

 

[Victor Ian]

I'd like to see medals per investment (however you measure that). Australia spends a lot to get those medals.

 

[Coronis]

I'd like to see medals per investment (however you measure that). Australia spends a lot to get those medals.

Turkey in the shooting - $0 (actually we made money)

 

[Victor Ian]

Turkey in the shooting - $0 (actually we made money)

Yeah. That guy is how it should be

 

[Coronis]

Yeah. That guy is how it should be

It would be kinda cool if there was like, no professional training in any sort of sport. You just have to show up and be awesome purely yourself after seeing a TV ad for the Olympics.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

It may be anecdotal / misremembering but I'm pretty sure the Australian women have dominated the men in the pool medal-wise since the Klim/Thorpe/Hackett generation retired - which was Athens I guess?

Yeah but the men usually get a gold or two. None till last night

 

[Molehill]

AFL is a great sport but it's hard not to fantasise about how much better we'd be on the world sporting stage without it

Kiwis would probably suffer the most as a result

Your AFL is everybody else's football.

 

[Molehill]

BMX is fun but brutal. British woman looks head and shoulders above the rest but anything can go wrong.

There are 3 who have gone unbeaten through those heats, her and the US and Aus riders. But the power she puts down on the second half of the opening straight looks different class. But the start is still somewhat of a lottery, so you never know.

We had 2 chances of gold yesterday and screwed them up. Two more today (female pairs rowers), do we get luckier?

 

[weeman27bob]

Kevin Mayer out of the decathlon - should have been a reasonably comfortable gold for France, so pretty gutting for him.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Your AFL is everybody else's football.

No a ****load of Aussies play soccer too

Without AFL, we'd be a little better at cricket, a lot better at Rugby and probably a lot better at soccer (aka football). You'd have to assume a little better at most other sports too

 

[Spark]

No a ****load of Aussies play soccer too

Kids do. Adults - and kids with serious athletic talent - not so much.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Kids do. Adults - and kids with serious athletic talent - not so much.

Well said, soccer = no athletic talent

 

[social]

I'd like to see medals per investment (however you measure that). Australia spends a lot to get those medals.

Not sure how much it is these days as Gina was needed to prop up swimming

Undoubtedly will ramp up for Brisbane

 

[Shady Slim]

There's also a pedophile child rapist playing for the Netherlands Olympic beach volleyball team. And the damn corrupt Europeans running the IOC really want to make us think it's okay, and cover it up so that we'll forget about it.

Honestly the whole Olympics just seems sour and under a cloud.

as opposed to a non paedophile child rapist, which is a real thing?

 

[social]

Tubby commentating on the diving

 

[TheJediBrah]

Tubby commentating on the diving

Diving is sponsored by fujitsu

 

[social]

Diving is sponsored by fujitsu

Have no doubt that he knows more about air conditioners than diving

Such a random appointment

Could sort of understand Mark Waugh doing equestrian or Starc doing athletics

 

[TheJediBrah]

Does anyone actually know anything about diving?

 

[social]

Divers