***Official 2024 Olympics Thread***

[weeman27bob]

What proportion of Olympic athletes have some sort of Olympic rings tattoo? Must be getting towards 10%

 

[Spark]

Does anyone actually know anything about diving?

The only thing I really know is that big splashes are bad.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Does anyone actually know anything about diving?

Having watched it every Olympics and Commonwealth Games I know far more about it than I used to but it is easier to spot mistakes in pairs. Synchronisation and splash are easy to spot, whether the twists etc... are good or not is beyond me.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

What proportion of Olympic athletes have some sort of Olympic rings tattoo? Must be getting towards 10%

Probably higher. Loads more each Olympics. Lots get it done after the Games over too

 

[Victor Ian]

The only thing I really know is that big splashes are bad.

Which should really be an event ..biggest splash.

 

[_Ed_]

Which should really be an event ..biggest splash.

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[flibbertyjibber]

Which should really be an event ..biggest splash.

Get some fat chuffers from Barmy Army and do some top bombing

 

[howitzer]

The only thing I really know is that big splashes are bad.

I also know that 'helicopter feet' are a bad thing but that's about the extent of my knowledge.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Yanks with a terrible dive there

 

[weeman27bob]

Damn, couldn't quite hold on to win there in the rowing - 20 metres shorter and we'd have won

 

[flibbertyjibber]

What a race in the rowing. GB pipped again. Superb from Croatia to chase them down

 

[Molehill]

Robbed at the finish again in the Rowing.

 

[weeman27bob]

A lot of the rowing finishes have been fantastic

 

[social]

Have a repechage in athletics now

nah

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Robbed at the finish again in the Rowing.

Hardly robbed. We lost it fair and square

 

[Spark]

A lot of the rowing finishes have been fantastic

Just my luck that the first one I tune into from start to finish is an uncompetitive one

 

[Molehill]

Hardly robbed. We lost it fair and square

Just a phrase, you know what I mean.

One of the British rowers seriously beating himself up about making a mistake near the finish line which he thinks cost them victory.

 

[weeman27bob]

Yeah, looks like they caught a crab with about 40 metres to go

 

[Spark]

Just a phrase, you know what I mean.

One of the British rowers seriously beating himself up about making a mistake near the finish line which he thinks cost them victory.

Comms on the international feed here were very quick to point that out too, pointing out a stroke which seems to have created too much of a splash and I guess lost momentum but I don't actually know if that made the difference in the end, it seemed like they were getting caught anyway.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Brilliant diving competition that.