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***Official 2024 Olympics Thread***

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Ali TT

International Regular
Lol a false start in the men's k4 canoe sprint. Couldn't think of a worse event to have an FS, takes the boats ten minutes to paddle back around to the start. Think this is the one the kiwis did the dodgy practice in qualification to get into (resulting with two of team looking like right numpties in the c1 pairs earlier this week)
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
Ali TT said:
Lol a false start in the men's k4 canoe sprint. Couldn't think of a worse event to have an FS, takes the boats ten minutes to paddle back around to the start. Think this is the one the kiwis did the dodgy practice in qualification to get into (resulting with two of team looking like right numpties in the c1 pairs earlier this week)
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Hell of a race this turned out to be
 
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Ali TT

International Regular
Some race. This time Australia coming inches short, with Germany taking the gold.

NZ last by a long way, what a joke. Very deserved with the trick they pulled to get into the competition.
 
Molehill

Molehill

International Captain
Ali TT said:
Lol a false start in the men's k4 canoe sprint. Couldn't think of a worse event to have an FS, takes the boats ten minutes to paddle back around to the start. Think this is the one the kiwis did the dodgy practice in qualification to get into (resulting with two of team looking like right numpties in the c1 pairs earlier this week)
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An unusual event in this Olympics, Aus getting pipped on the line by the Germans.
 
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Ali TT

International Regular
Molehill said:
An idea why there's no GB entry in this sport? I thought we used to pick up the odd medal in it.
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No boats. Just reading that they removed the 200m event, which was a stronger event for us (golds in London and Rio, plus one over 1000m in Beijing). It's never been a big competition for us.

Sailing seems to be a much bigger disappointment this games though. We usually rack up medals in the sea.
 
Bahnz

Bahnz

Hall of Fame Member
Ali TT said:
Some race. This time Australia coming inches short, with Germany taking the gold.

NZ last by a long way, what a joke. Very deserved with the trick they pulled to get into the competition.
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They were actually only 0.2 seconds behind the seventh placed boat. The question for me is why they had to pull those kind of shenanigans to qualify in the first place. They made the final in a highly competitive field.
 
Hungry Llama

Hungry Llama

U19 12th Man
If I had £1 for evry time they say Katarina Johnson Thompson on the BBC during the next 3 days I would get
back all the money i've spent financing team GB over the last 20 years.
 
shortpitched713

shortpitched713

International Captain
Molehill said:
The Dutch are having a great Olympics, up to 10 golds now and you'd think more to come in Hockey and Cycling at least (plus Femke Bol in 400m Hurdles).
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They were really hard up for medals this year. Even sent a pedo. No respect for me for any of their accomplishments this Olympics with that kind of ethos.
 
Molehill

Molehill

International Captain
Ali TT said:
Sailing seems to be a much bigger disappointment this games though. We usually rack up medals in the sea.
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Maybe it's the light winds we've struggled in. We do have a medal contender later today, although whether those races takes place seems debatable.

The Sailing in general has just been a bit rubbish. Whilst other sports have flourished, Sailing has had a nightmare.
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Bahnz said:
They were actually only 0.2 seconds behind the seventh placed boat. The question for me is why they had to pull those kind of shenanigans to qualify in the first place. They made the final in a highly competitive field.
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what were these shenanigans? Must have missed this
 
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