***Official 2024 Olympics Thread***

[RossTaylorsBox]

Anraku choked at the end there.

British kid was clearly roided though, shameful

 

[Ali TT]

Anraku choked at the end there.

British kid was clearly roided though, shameful

Well they called the Japanese kid the human octopus but don't know whether inter-species gene splicing is prohibited or not.

 

[Molehill]

Really fun event to watch

Love the camaraderie between competitors and teams too - they were all kind of helping each other plan how to get up it.

 

[Molehill]

Anraku choked at the end there.

British kid was clearly roided though, shameful

Got them off a Kiwi canoeist who's been doing quite well apparently....

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Love the camaraderie between competitors and teams too - they were all kind of helping each other plan how to get up it.

That's the spirit of Ninja Warrior.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Well they called the Japanese kid the human octopus but don't know whether inter-species gene splicing is prohibited or not.

He's actually called that because he can accurately predict football matches.

 

[Molehill]

That's the spirit of Ninja Warrior.

Until he Terminated the Octopus anyway!!

 

[Molehill]

Not a lot between the top 4 in the Women's Track Sprint with all of them going ahead of the existing WR, Finucane 2nd quickest and Andrews 3rd.

Carlin v Lavreysen now in the semis, be surprised if the Dutch rider didn't win 2 zip.

 

[Burgey]

Only came on to see if you’d ensured the UK rider’s defeat by calling her favourite. Disappointing tstl

 

[Victor Ian]

Not taking away from the athletes, but why have world records for the bikes? They are more to do with tech. Same for all equipment sports really.

 

[Molehill]

Only came on to see if you’d ensured the UK rider’s defeat by calling her favourite. Disappointing tstl

I think she would've been favourite if she hadn't done a couple of events already, but doesn't seem as fresh. Looks wide open.

The Men's has looked like Lavreysen v Richardson from the very start (were the two quickest qualifiers). If it helps, I'd probably go with the Dutch over the Aussie.....

 

[Burgey]

That’s a tremendous help for our fella. Cheers mate!

 

[flibbertyjibber]

That’s a tremendous help for our fella. Cheers mate!

Born in England. Can't even produce your own, have to nick others.

 

[Molehill]

That’s a tremendous help for our fella. Cheers mate!

But I can also confidently predict that Lydia Ko will win the golf!!

 

[Spark]

Love the camaraderie between competitors and teams too - they were all kind of helping each other plan how to get up it.

Seems to be a very common theme across a lot of the "smaller" sports - kayakers etc - I suspect the lack of funding means there's a lot more relying on your fellow competitors to get by when you're tour and competing; probably a lot of sharing hotel rooms, training sessions etc

 

[Spikey]

Madison Keeney killed it in all her rounds of competition, a very deserved silver medal. Even got the highest scoring dive but Chen Yiwen just had such a high floor on all her dives

 

[Molehill]

Seems to be a very common theme across a lot of the "smaller" sports - kayakers etc - I suspect the lack of funding means there's a lot more relying on your fellow competitors to get by when you're tour and competing; probably a lot of sharing hotel rooms, training sessions etc

True, half the BMXers seemed to be sharing hotel rooms at these Olympics!!

 

[Spark]

Great effort by the Aus diver getting the highest place that's actually achievable by mere mortals

 

[Spikey]

She was a clear second throughout the whole comp and her last two dives were constantly something special, but you just can't have one medicore dive. Chang Yani, in 3rd, had a similar problem

 

[weeman27bob]

I can't say that the breaking makes an awful lot of sense to me as an Olympic event...