**Official** Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics

[RossTaylorsBox]

Man I love the keirin, really fun.

 

[_Ed_]

Ooh, now the bouldering final is on.

EDIT: And another cycling silver for Campbell Stewart, who was only included in the event because of Aaron Gate's injury.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Gold in mens Omnium. Hopefully Kenny can win womens as well.

 

[Athlai]

Tremendous effort from Australia in the basketball imo. Reckon they're playing out of their skins, the US, even having an average game, are simply just way better than them.

 

[stephen]

Bloody Chokeaburras.

 

[morgieb]

If we had rolled the Yanks in basketball it would've been the equivalent of the Netherlands beating Australia in cricket or something. Even today you'd still say like of the 30 best basketballers in the world at least 20 are American. Only one Aussie would be even close and he wasn't even there.

 

[morgieb]

Kookaburras a bit more of a choke/upset probably, with the caveat that I know very little about field hockey.

 

[Meridio]

Kookaburras a bit more of a choke/upset probably, with the caveat that I know very little about field hockey.

Wouldn't have said Aus were favourites going into that final. Belgium are gun, reckon before the game I'd have put it slightly above 50/50 for them, and having seen the game I'd say they just shaded it. Not a choke for Aus to lose by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[stephen]

Wouldn't have said Aus were favourites going into that final. Belgium are gun, reckon before the game I'd have put it slightly above 50/50 for them, and having seen the game I'd say they just shaded it. Not a choke for Aus to lose by any stretch of the imagination.

Mate they were ranked #1 and just like at every Olympics they choked in the biggest match.

No way your first player should miss in a set of 1v1s.

 

[Meridio]

Mate they were ranked #1 and just like at every Olympics they choked in the biggest match.

No way your first player should miss in a set of 1v1s.

That's like saying no player should miss a penalty. Yet they do, all the time. The best players in the world, sometimes. And the 1v1 is a much, much harder thing to do.

I'd say in some previous Olympics Aus have maybe choked, where I would have put them as the clear best team in the world, but that's just not the case here.

 

[Victor Ian]

Lol. ****ing kookaburras. They do it all the time at the Olympics, which, let's be honest, is the only time 99.9% of Aussies give a **** about the sport. Their name is apt. Everyone is laughing.

 

[Spark]

I've never thought it before but on balance I have to conclude that @Howe_zat was right all along about the immense tedium that is "choking" discussions

 

[Flem274*]

TIL keirin is a thing.

read about those skaters today. 13 years old jfc those kids are ****in amazing. serious guts to do that sport and olympic champions at such a young age is the sort of thing i thought was reserved for kids movies etc

 

[Spark]

TIL keirin is a thing.

read about those skaters today. 13 years old jfc those kids are ****in amazing. serious guts to do that sport and olympic champions at such a young age is the sort of thing i thought was reserved for kids movies etc

Keirin is really fun to watch tbh, my favourite of the track cycling events

 

[Flem274*]

Keirin is really fun to watch tbh, my favourite of the track cycling events

i just youtubed it and it looks like the closest sport comes to creating a several-athlete wind up toy. kinda fun concept to just speed them up with that safety car bike thing then let them go at it for 2 laps.

 

[Flem274*]

They do but none of them are genuinely top tier NBA players. Slovenia and France's best players are leagues ahead of Patty Mills, and in basketball, how good your best player is matters a great deal. Theyve put on a perfectly respectable show.

stephen's probs used to football codes where combinations and no roster gaps are more important than who your best player is (same is true in cricket but to a much lesser extent).

i don't know anything about basketball either (played in school, that's it) so what you've just said is pretty foreign to me too.

even going into a game like that though, expecting a country who doesn't care about basketball much beating the one country who really cares about basketball is pretty naive of stephen.

 

[Howe_zat]

@Howe_zat was right all along

This is a first for me. It's exhilarating

 

[Howe_zat]

Keirin is really fun to watch tbh, my favourite of the track cycling events

I really enjoyed the elimination race earlier. Distance running races should have checkpoints like that, as they are I tend to only watch the last five minutes.

Makes me laugh that the 1 on 1 sprints required them to intervene and stop them from being stationary for more than 30 seconds or they'd just stay there for days staring at each other

 

[Spark]

I really enjoyed the elimination race earlier. Distance running races should have checkpoints like that, as they are I tend to only watch the last five minutes.

Makes me laugh that the 1 on 1 sprints required them to intervene and stop them from being stationary for more than 30 seconds or they'd just stay there for days staring at each other

Yeah that sort of stuff is why I find the sprints hard to watch at times.

 

[Anil]

France vs US in men’s basketball…we have to play much better and more consistently than we did against Spain and the Aussies to win…