**Official** Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics

[Burgey]

Anyone else watch some of the boxing or Tai Kwon Do and think "Mate, he's 56kgs ffs, just knock the **** out"?

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Big hour tomorrow 12:30-1:30pm NZT. NZ are a decent chance for 3 medals (possibly golds) in 3 rowing races to add to the rowing gold today and silver yesterday. I remember the old joke about NZ being great at a sport where you sit on your butt and go backwards.

 

[Athlai]

Rowing is so ****ing boring.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

They need to cut about 3/4 of the swimming events. Way too many.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Rowing is so ****ing boring.

No, it is pretty good. I'll be annoyed if a rowing crew wins the Halberg team of the year ahead of the Black Caps. (Or basically if anyone wins it apart from the Black Caps tbh).

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I hear the Chinese beat the Yanks and Aussies in a swimming relay. Good on them.

 

[Bahnz]

They need to cut about 3/4 of the swimming events. Way too many.

Always thought this. It's like having separate track events for running backwards, skipping and hopping.

TBH though, it's not something that really bothers me, the Olympics is a celebration of sporting excess, so why not have 4 different medal races for each distance?

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

I hear the Chinese beat the Yanks and Aussies in a swimming relay. Good on them.

Hell of a race, I didn't check but it looked like all 3 medal places broke the WR.

 

[Chewie]

Why is Hong Kong competing separately? I had a look and saw they have done so in the past, but I thought China might have put the kibosh on it given everything else going on there. It strikes me as being a bit like Tassie competing separately from the rest of Australia or the Isle of Wight from the UK.

That 100m freestyle race was something else. Chalmers with a massive swim.

There are quite a few nations that aren't sovereign countries but have their own separate olympic committee so participate separately I think

 

[Chewie]

There are quite a few nations that aren't sovereign countries but have their own separate olympic committee so participate separately I think

• American Samoa
• Aruba
• Bermuda
• British Virgin Islands
• Cayman Islands
• Cook Islands
• Hong Kong
• Kosovo*
• Palestine*
• Puerto Rico
• Virgin Islands

May have got some of those wrong or missed others out

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Also Guam

 

[Howe_zat]

'Chinese Taipei' would fit with Kosovo and Palestine as the not-entirely-recognised nations taking part. But otherwise that's all of them.

Spotter's badge for the two recognised sovereign nations that haven't sent an Olympic team.

 

[Burgey]

There are quite a few nations that aren't sovereign countries but have their own separate olympic committee so participate separately I think

I think that's a bit silly, really.

 

[Burgey]

'Chinese Taipei' would fit with Kosovo and Palestine as the not-entirely-recognised nations taking part. But otherwise that's all of them.

Spotter's badge for the two recognised sovereign nations that haven't sent an Olympic team.

Timor Leste, South Sudan?

 

[Howe_zat]

Timor Leste, South Sudan?

Both there.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Vatican City and Russia?

 

[Burgey]

Imagine if the Vatican sent a team.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Speaking of weird outlier countries, San Marino just won a medal in trap shooting

 

[Burgey]

Vatican City and Russia?

That would be pretty cool. Largest and smallest nations on earth.

 

[Howe_zat]

Imagine if the Vatican sent a team.

Divine intervention required for a medal, you'd think.