***Official 2024 Olympics Thread***

[Magrat Garlick]

Age of Empires lied to me

should have researched thumb ring

 

[Spikey]

Now to turn on the badminton finals

 

[weeman27bob]

Incredibly high quality men's rings final so far

 

[Spikey]

Incredibly high quality men's rings final so far

Oooo thank you for the alert I thought it hadn't started yet

 

[weeman27bob]

Comfortably through for Joe Clarke in the Kayak cross. So far ahead of everyone else in the heat that they started to show everyone else instead.

 

[weeman27bob]

It's interesting how much worse Team GB's medallist in the C1 (i.e. just one end has a paddle on) is at the kayak cross when someone like Jess Fox is so good at both.

 

[Spikey]

Ahhahaahah that Hedwig heat

 

[weeman27bob]

Women's uneven bars final maybe not quite as high quality as the rings so far - two athletes of the first four have fallen off, including GB's Becky Downie who was looking so good before that.

 

[Spikey]

These Denmark fellas are throwing away a bronze medal in the badminton

 

[Ali TT]

Shooting brutal - they draw for their bib number and in the event of tie after each round, the person with the higher bib number gets eliminated.

 

[Spikey]

These Denmark fellas are throwing away a bronze medal in the badminton

Well that's gonna hurt them for a long time

 

[Spark]

Minor choke from the Chilean shooter, should have sealed the gold there but missed 3 of the last 10

 

[Spark]

Both choking now lol

 

[Spark]

Oh the British shooter has been dudded by the ref here

EDIT: Ahhh that's a horrible way to decide it, got to say. Not fair. Clear hit on the replay

 

[weeman27bob]

Ah absolutely robbed there.

She seems to be taking it in her stride though, which is great to see. Not sure she'll feel the same way when she sees the replay.

 

[Spark]

Honestly it's hard to get a more obvious case of robbery than that. It's difficult to get a more objective, black and white yes/no decision than "was the target hit or not" and they ****ed it up at the most critical time

 

[weeman27bob]

Jess Fox gets a little unlucky in colliding with her sister at the wrong time and goes out of the kayak cross!

 

[Spark]

Really feels like those races are decided in the first five seconds

 

[weeman27bob]

Really feels like those races are decided in the first five seconds

Definitely a lot of the time - although I thought J. Fox was probably back in it until she couldn't get round that red marker in time. Feels like it's still at the stage that if you're a good paddler you can catch up. Not sure that will last to the final though.

 

[Spark]

Definitely a lot of the time - although I thought J. Fox was probably back in it until she couldn't get round that red marker in time. Feels like it's still at the stage that if you're a good paddler you can catch up. Not sure that will last to the final though.

Sure but that was the battle for second, in terms of who wins I literally haven't seen a single race that wasn't decided before the first gate because of how much easier it is if you're in front