***Official 2024 Olympics Thread***

[flibbertyjibber]

Yep. You can at least usually guarantee the equestrians will whip something up for you.

Well ahead in team and 2nd in individual 3 day event going into showjumping today.

Pidcock fav in the mountain biking and Daley might get another diving medal. Plus might sneak a medal in swimming tonight.

 

[Molehill]

Well ahead in team and 2nd in individual 3 day event going into showjumping today.

Pidcock fav in the mountain biking and Daley might get another diving medal. Plus might sneak a medal in swimming tonight.

No longer well ahead in the Team after the French managed to throw a questionable 15 point penalty on us (guess who is second?).

Pidcock should be a massive fave for the Mountain Bike, having to miss the second half of the TdF due to Covid looks very beneficial now.

 

[Molehill]

Wasn't funny in 2012 and certainly isn't now

Ironic given 90% of Aussie medals are basically a form of lying down in the bath!!

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

When you think about it humans evolved out of the ocean so being a good swimmer is actually a form of devolution.

 

[Ali TT]

Looks like an Irish hurling team on summer tour in Paris has got mixed up in the hockey tournament

 

[Ali TT]

Does a Chinese diver ever make a mistake? Like even a toe out of alignment?

 

[Molehill]

Does a Chinese diver ever make a mistake? Like even a toe out of alignment?

Early days, but to my untrained eye, these two looks streets ahead of everyone else.

 

[Chubb]

Tom Daley has been kicking around for almost as long as Jimmy Anderson, yet still ten years younger than me.

I remember him on the local news in Devon when he was ~10 years old.

Shows the kind of place my home is that he had to be pulled out of school after that because the bullying got so bad. people still make homophobic jokes about him too.

Nasty small minded people have to tear down anyone different and more successful than them.

 

[Spikey]

god diving rules

 

[Ali TT]

Deserve all the pain and losses for supporting Adam Peaty and his horrendous tattoos.

No match to one of the Aussie divers on this morning

 

[Molehill]

I'm watching on mute, but looked like a clear error by one Chinese diver there who hadn't remotely completed his rotation when entering the water. Yet, they get the top score again? How does that work?

 

[Ali TT]

I'm watching on mute, but looked like a clear error by one Chinese diver there who hadn't remotely completed his rotation when entering the water. Yet, they get the top score again? How does that work?

Cause their minor error a lot smaller than everyone elses.

I like that France have a 40yo professional cliff diver champion (and also ex-Brit). I think his name is pronounced Zha-ree Un

 

[Spikey]

I would never be out of sync with my diving partner. What are these guys doing

 

[Molehill]

Looking like a nailed on silver for Daly & Williams at the moment. We keep on finding one too good at the mo, need someone to break the mould and get the golds going.

 

[Spikey]

Lmao it's been difficult for the Canadian team to train because their training facility caught fire. guys use the water to put it out!!!

 

[Molehill]

Cause their minor error a lot smaller than everyone elses.

I like that France have a 40yo professional cliff diver champion (and also ex-Brit). I think his name is pronounced Zha-ree Un

Yeah, to be fair, you can pick up the major errors in the lesser teams straight away - shocker of a dive from the Aussies a while back.

 

[Spikey]

Btw for those that don't know, former Australian captain and author of the popular book, Time To Declare, Mark "tubby" Taylor is doing the diving commentary in Australia

 

[Ali TT]

Lmao it's been difficult for the Canadian team to train because their training facility caught fire. guys use the water to put it out!!!

It's where their women's football team stored the drones and a battery caught fire.

 

[Spikey]

Yeah, to be fair, you can pick up the major errors in the lesser teams straight away - shocker of a dive from the Aussies a while back.

One of the teams were totally out of sync just during their run up for the dive lol

 

[Ali TT]

Btw for those that don't know, former Australian captain and author of the popular book, Time To Declare, Mark "tubby" Taylor is doing the diving commentary in Australia

We've got a former diver called Leon Taylor who's pretty brutal. Called one Australian dive "shonky - a combination of shoddy and wonky"