***Official 2024 Olympics Thread***

[Shady Slim]

real keen for noted penrithite jess fox to win the gold again

 

[Shady Slim]

real keen for noted penrithite jess fox to win the gold again

fox ofc did carry the flag so between her and pat cummins that's two noted penrithites leading the country in the most important sporting echelons

 

[Furball]

Literally every sport in the Olympics, no?

Nah, there's plenty of sports that I don't give a **** about in or out of the Olympics, and some of the sports like football shouldn't be Olympic sports.

 

[Ali TT]

Nah, there's plenty of sports that I don't give a **** about in or out of the Olympics, and some of the sports like football shouldn't be Olympic sports.

Very true although I am looking forward to becoming one of several ten million world experts in breakdancing for a couple of days in the next fortnight

 

[Furball]

Very true although I am looking forward to becoming one of several ten million world experts in breakdancing for a couple of days in the next fortnight

Exhibit A in 'ridiculous non-sports which should not feature at the Olympics.'

 

[Ali TT]

Exhibit A in 'ridiculous non-sports which should not feature at the Olympics.'

It is exactly that but I'm still looking forward to it

 

[Ali TT]

Exhibit A in 'ridiculous non-sports which should not feature at the Olympics.'

Should also be Xzibit A

 

[Spark]

Put on the 7s. That was absolutely putrid in the 2nd half by Aus

 

[Ali TT]

A silver for GB in the women's time trial but the Aussie Grace Brown was immense, winning by 90s in a 40 minutes race in grim conditions on the road. The American in bronze had a nasty fall on the cobbles

 

[Spark]

A silver for GB in the women's time trial but the Aussie Grace Brown was immense, winning by 90s in a 40 minutes race in grim conditions on the road. The American in bronze had a nasty fall on the cobbles

Yeah that course looked an absolute nightmare on the road, the women were falling off left and right during their race and Ganna (who got silver in the end) was about 0.1s from faceplanting the concrete over the barriers at one point.

 

[weeman27bob]

Rough puncture for the Team GB cyclist

 

[howitzer]

Well that was an absolute dismantling of Fiji there.

 

[Ali TT]

Well that was an absolute dismantling of Fiji there.

Dupont du homme

 

[Brook's side]

Well done France.

Let's go Adam Peaty!

 

[social]

Call it off now

Good guys are at the top of the table and we don’t need another two weeks of competition to work out who is best

 

[weeman27bob]

Call it off now

Good guys are at the top of the table and we don’t need another two weeks of competition to work out who is best

No, not yet, we haven't had any medals in sports about sitting down yet, which everyone knows are the ones that matter most.

 

[Redbacks]

Woke up to Gold, Gold, Gold to Australia!

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Don’t let Canada fool you guys, they are miscreants.

 

[Burgey]

Woke up to Gold, Gold, Gold to Australia!

Standard stuff. Comfortably the world’s greatest sporting nation.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Pretty easy explanation tbh