Has it started, then?Taking this at face value...
Has it started, then?
.... I've just got to someone getting a special award.
Nasty injury to a French gymnast Samir Ait Said. Double break of the lower leg. The BBC are not showing pictures or video.There is a photo of the aftermath here:
Hope he makes a full recovery.
It does, and thanks for the link. The man suffered it, we can at least look and see how horrible it was.
best thing so far (apart from the comedy rowing through waves) is the sevens rugby - brilliant to watch. GB women going well too.Five of the rugby sevens players are from Bristol! Only three of the five are playing for GB though...
A French judo player (or whatever one does at judo)
Michael Phelps just won his 19th (NINETEENTH) Olympic Gold Medal (23 medals in all).
I don't want to jump to any conclusions but I reckon he's, potentially, a good swimmer.
Talking of strange rules:
I did try to get into the fencing. but apparently you don't score anything for sticking your sword in your opponent's torso if they have
Right of Way.
I'm sure it makes sense if you follow these things ...
James T Kirk in peek-a-boo nipple shock.
Meanwhile BRITAIN are having any chance of a medal in the women's Rugby destroyed by New Toyland chiz.
The Black Ferns regained the advantage through Ruby Tui,
Talking of strange rules:That's foil and sabre. With Epee, it's just who hits first.
I did try to get into the fencing. but apparently you don't score anything for sticking your sword in your opponent's torso if they have
Right of Way.
I'm sure it makes sense if you follow these things ...
That Peat guy swims about 4 times as fast as I do. When I try hard I can do a 25 metre length in under a minute. I don't think I can keep that speed up or 4 lengths though.
They have such an event. They call it "freestyle".Is there an equivalent of HPVA of the swimming world, where people can where whatever flippers or fins they like and see how fast they can go?
(is there a back crawl?)
She was expelled from school for fighting with boys until she found judo...
Running 100m backwards.... is true, but would be true without swimming. e.g. the track sprinters can often grab 4+ medals (1/200 or 2/400, plus a relay-or-two, plus the long jump and/or hurdles).
Swimming is weird.
One bloke has 19 Gold Medals in four Olympic Games. He could have got more, he got a few bronzes and silvers.
Another has 5 Gold Medals in 5 games. He couldn't possibly have got any more.
Yebbut none of that addresses Lee's point, which is that whereas athletics simply has "run this distance as fast as you can", swimming has "swim this distance using your arms and legs in a certain way". The running equivalent of swimming events could be "the 100m with your arms by your sides", "the 200m with your arms above your head", "the 400m on tip toes", "the 800m starting on the left foot", etc.
I'm just as fast doing sidestroke as I am doing crawl - and I can do sidestroke as quick as many people can crawl. I think the only time I tried doing butterfly I actually went backwards.
The BBC's Wyre Davies looks at why there are so many empty seats at Rio 2016.
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Michael Phelps just won his 19th (NINETEENTH) Olympic Gold Medal (23 medals in all).
I don't want to jump to any conclusions but I reckon he's, potentially, a good swimmer.
I would suggest that he has little potential left!
Yebbut none of that addresses Lee's point, which is that whereas athletics simply has "run this distance as fast as you can", swimming has "swim this distance using your arms and legs in a certain way". The running equivalent of swimming events could be "the 100m with your arms by your sides", "the 200m with your arms above your head", "the 400m on tip toes", "the 800m starting on the left foot", etc.
Yebbut surely there's only really one way of running, one foot in front of the other as fast as you can to get to the end of the race? Unless you want three legged races.
The algae in the diving pool made the divingevenmuch more entertaining.
Hurrah for BRITAIN's J Clarke, who has just pwned all teh FOREIGNS in the Chaps K1 slalom :thumbsup:That should get more thumbs up. K1 slalom is immensely difficult, requiring huge fitness, skill and focus. The UK has some truly great training courses now (middlesborough of all places has a terrific course)
Hurrah! BRITAIN has just pwned South Africa in the Chaps ruggerball to set up a final against Fiji.
So, a silver medal then :-\
2500 watts per corner!! No wonder they looked tired!! Great stuff
2500 watts per corner!! No wonder they looked tired!! Great stuff
That's Philip Hindes pushing 2500Watts out of the gate into the first corner.
2500 watts per corner!! No wonder they looked tired!! Great stuff
That's Philip Hindes pushing 2500Watts out of the gate into the first corner.
I don't think I can get anywhere near that on my watt bike. Phenomenal! No wonder he has a specially built bike!
Why have I never heard of any of these GB rugby players?
Although sevens has proven a commercial and competitive success, sevens is starting to become divorced from the 15-man game. Former Wales international and current pundit John Taylor wrote in 2010 that sevens
“ ...is in danger of becoming a totally separate game. Ben Ryan, the England Sevens coach, dismisses the idea that it should be seen mainly as a development tool. A few years ago players would spend a year or two with the Sevens squad to improve their running and passing skills. Many international players refined their game on the Sevens circuit including all-time greats such as Jonah Lomu.
That is happening less and less. Players have to make a choice – do they want to concentrate on Sevens or 15s? The techniques and training required are becoming very different. Modern professional players are already pretty lean but the forwards in 15-a-side do need bulk as well. In Sevens that is not required and new training regimes are making body fat levels even lower so they are not able to transfer from one game to the other.
(in the continuing series of lazy questions)
Why are Hungary doing so well? Are they shit-hot fencers and swimmers, or what?
Hurrah! BRITAIN has just pwned South Africa in the Chaps ruggerball to set up a final against Fiji.
So, a silver medal then :-\
Hurrah! BRITAIN has just pwned South Africa in the Chaps ruggerball to set up a final against Fiji.
So, a silver medal then :-\
Lottery numbers next pls.
Interestingly, I think the Kiwis had a number of players from their "fifteens" squad. #nocitationgonnahappenWhy have I never heard of any of these GB rugby players?Quote from: WikinaccurateAlthough sevens has proven a commercial and competitive success, sevens is starting to become divorced from the 15-man game. Former Wales international and current pundit John Taylor wrote in 2010 that sevens
“ ...is in danger of becoming a totally separate game. Ben Ryan, the England Sevens coach, dismisses the idea that it should be seen mainly as a development tool. A few years ago players would spend a year or two with the Sevens squad to improve their running and passing skills. Many international players refined their game on the Sevens circuit including all-time greats such as Jonah Lomu.
That is happening less and less. Players have to make a choice – do they want to concentrate on Sevens or 15s? The techniques and training required are becoming very different. Modern professional players are already pretty lean but the forwards in 15-a-side do need bulk as well. In Sevens that is not required and new training regimes are making body fat levels even lower so they are not able to transfer from one game to the other.
(in the continuing series of lazy questions)Hungary is *the* country for fencing.
Why are Hungary doing so well? Are they shit-hot fencers and swimmers, or what?
(in the continuing series of lazy questions)Hungary is *the* country for fencing.
Why are Hungary doing so well? Are they shit-hot fencers and swimmers, or what?
A question apropos of the 100m smiling handkerchief race; if a hypothetical chap in a hypothetical sport manages to win 20-something odd medals of the metallic variety, what are we to conclude? That he's really very very good at somethingball? Or perhaps that there are, as some have discussed, a number of similar varieties of the same thing? I'm inclined to believe the former.Generally it will be a little of both.
Interestingly, I think the Kiwis had a number of players from their "fifteens" squad. #nocitationgonnahappen
Did GB field any Welsh players that we can blame for that massacre? [I think there was only one Welsh woman.]
There's an interesting "discussion" on R2 with the delightful Vanessa Feltz and some geezer/journo who thinks it should be Gold or nothing. Tom Daley shouldn't be delighted with a Bronze medal.Och, he can fuck off. It's not like he's even the third best geezer/journo in the world.
He suggested that being a full-time GB-sponsored for (say) 8 years is
"an extension of the welfare state".
He makes some valid points, but it's mainly the usual shouty R2 "debate". (Although you have to laugh at brining Eddie the Eagle onto the programme).
Meanwhile more gold today at 'sitting down sports' which I find are the best kind. I've only ever sat down whilst competing.
Meanwhile more gold today at 'sitting down sports' which I find are the best kind. I've only ever sat down whilst competing.
AKA - "Requires a Carbon Fibre Thingy jointly developed with McClaren to compete properly ....sports"
Meanwhile more gold today at 'sitting down sports' which I find are the best kind. I've only ever sat down whilst competing.
AKA - "Requires a Carbon Fibre Thingy jointly developed with McClaren to compete properly ....sports"
Mark Cavendish is supposed to be the reserve for this evening’s cycling team pursuit, but has thrown his toys out of the pram and refused to come down and warm up, the Guardian understands. Cavendish, who will race the omnium on Sunday, has fallen out with the pursuit coach, Heiko Salzwedel, it seems. He has made it clear he wanted to ride team pursuit but was unable to keep up with the other guys, who effectively self-selected the squad without him. The 31-year-old Manxman really ought to have at least shown up, in case Bradley Wiggins, Steven Burke, Ed Clancy or Owain Doull fall suddenly ill and can’t race.
There's favorite and there's getting pummeled into the ground!!!
Winners of best hat competition : China.The faces painted on the tops of the helmets? They are gorgeous!
Crivens! Two BRITONS has qualified for the final of the Gels Assisted Bouncing (aka trampolining, which I didn't know was even an Olympic sport until I pressed the button to get away from the horse dancing)
On a similar subject did the British secret squirrel club think of putting the chain on the wrong side of the bike a la USA/Felt and decide it was pointless
OMgeh!
That was astounding.
Currently third in the medal table. Wasn't expecting that.Mrs Wunja has pointed out that that will change once we have to rely on the running around in circles people to do their jobs. Leave it to the people in the sitting down sports!
Next thread, most obscure Olympic sport you didn't know was there?
I'll start with poetry, back in the days of de Coubertin
"Chemistry is not an exact science" . Say organisers after closeing fart smeling pool . Must have be lucky dip when I used to check ph levels at the local lido .
The most graceless Olympic loser ever? Does sports psychology leave no room for manners? Don't bother answering that!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37066215
We are currently in 3rd place behind China and USA in the medals table.
That's probably just a few hundredths of a second of a few centimetres from being ahead of China. It's a hell of a turnaround from my childhood.
Does anyone remember the 1970's? If anyone British won a Gold you were basically guaranteed an OBE and a place on TV chat shows for life.
(Adam Peaty will never be remembered in the same way David Wilkie is).
We were, to put it bluntly..shit at sport at the highest level.
It shows what you can do when you invest in sport and I'm sure the knock-on effect around the country is worth every penny*
* I predict many "Trampoline Fail" videos appearing on Youtube.
What the heck was our young female weightlifter called? She was The Next Big Thing, and got some horrendous Twitter trolling? :facepalm:Rebekah Tiler?
No, but the magic of google led me to ...Zoe Smith!What the heck was our young female weightlifter called? She was The Next Big Thing, and got some horrendous Twitter trolling? :facepalm:Rebekah Tiler?
No, but the magic of google led me to ...Zoe Smith!What the heck was our young female weightlifter called? She was The Next Big Thing, and got some horrendous Twitter trolling? :facepalm:Rebekah Tiler?
it turns out she is injured, so rebekah got GB's only weightlifting slot. Zoe's a real character, she seemed destined for Big Things. Good luck to them both.
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Ah, Zoe, I was wondering why she wasn't there.
The pocket powerhouse.
Max Whitlock gets the Floor Gold!!
Mr Rose is on his way to Gold
and gets it!
Now GB are second in the medal table! This seems weird
Don't worry there is still a week to go, so that feeling will soon be over :)
erm... GB still second just nowthat is because someone won after I posted, they need to chill these sportballpersons :)
| 10 Team GB: | Oh hai! We are teh BRITONS' velodromatic team and we are full of teh win! |
| 20 Teh ROTW: | Pi55! Here we go again... |
| 30 GOTO 10 |
Is it permitted to have a little LOL @ A Meares getting pwned by the indescribably ancient S Krupeckaite?
Cav, u plonker! With most of the other contenders gaily shooting themselves in the toeses and you go and do something daft like that :facepalm:
Loved the fan getting booted out!!He'd better hope Andy's mum doesn't catch up with him!
If it's not "Arise Sir Jason" in the New Year Honours it'll be time to storm the (Winter) Palace.
Loved the fan getting booted out!!He'd better hope Andy's mum doesn't catch up with him!
Well done Andy. Fantastic win in a gruelling match.
India don't have any medals.
Is that a cultural thing? Don't they invest in sport?
There was a bbc report on this. Most Indian elders are traditional so wants their sons to be doctors/lawyers and females to be dutiful wives. Fucking backwards if you ask me.
There was a bbc report on this. Most Indian elders are traditional so wants their sons to be doctors/lawyers and females to be dutiful wives. Fucking backwards if you ask me.
How do you do that?
Olympics officials on Saturday gave what they said was a definitive explanation why the water in two competition pools turned green this week. Someone, the officials said, mistakenly added 160 liters of hydrogen peroxide on Aug. 5, neutralizing the chlorine and allowing the growth of “organic compounds” that might have included algae.
Here are the top nine comments made by sports commentators during the Olympics that they would like to take back:
1. Weightlifting commentator: "This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria . I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing."
2. Dressage commentator: "This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother."
3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father."
4. Boxing Analyst: "Sure there have been injuries, and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious."
5. Softball announcer: "If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again."
6. Basketball analyst: "He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces."
7. At the rowing medal ceremony: "Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew."
8. Soccer commentator: "Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field."
9. Tennis commentator: "One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them . . . Oh my God, what have I just said?"
It may be just me projecting stereotypes but the Chinese and Russian gymnasts always look like they have the weight of the world on their shoulders.
There seems to be almost no joy about it.
It may be just me projecting stereotypes but the Chinese and Russian gymnasts always look like they have the weight of the world on their shoulders.
There seems to be almost no joy about it.
Because their families will be on a one way trip to the gulag if they don't win?
| L Trott: | O hai! I am L Trott and I am made ov teh Win! Take that, FOREIGNS! |
| FOREIGNS: | P155! |
The Omnimiumnims...
The Omnimiumnims...
Weren't they special talking horses?
Wonderful performance by Trott.
I would rather like her to stoke me to Dunwich
Wonderful performance by Trott.
I would rather like her to stoke me to Dunwich
Is that a euphemism? :o [waits for RogerZ to quote the Urban Dictionary]
So, 7 golds?
A rare mistake from Team GB in cycling means "The plucky Scot" Skinner is OOT!!
We are currently in 3rd place behind China and USA in the medals table.
That's probably just a few hundredths of a second of a few centimetres from being ahead of China. It's a hell of a turnaround from my childhood.
Does anyone remember the 1970's? If anyone British won a Gold you were basically guaranteed an OBE and a place on TV chat shows for life.
(Adam Peaty will never be remembered in the same way David Wilkie is).
We were, to put it bluntly..shit at sport at the highest level.
It shows what you can do when you invest in sport and I'm sure the knock-on effect around the country is worth every penny*
* I predict many "Trampoline Fail" videos appearing on Youtube.
So, 7 golds?
6 with high confidence (Kierin and Omnomnium), but I wouldn't want to bet against Ligtlee in the sprint...
Aren't there usually more people in the Keirin? Or am I thinking of the omnomnium? Not that I understand either event.TV's C Boardman says max of seven in the keirin. The omnium is 6 different events (think pentathlon plus one, on bikes). The last event is the points race, which has all the competitors at once and is v. confusing, v. tactical and v. entertaining.
Which is the one where they have to tig each other? And there are loads of them?Tig is The Madison, which isn't in the Olympics (it might have been in 2012). Wiggo and Cav won it at the World's in London in March this year.
again FFS.
I need another drink
Fuck yeah :thumbsup:
Every member of the GB Track Cycling team got a medal :o
ITYM:Every member of the GB Track Cycling team got a medal :o
Forget Jason Kenny and yer Laura Trotters. Gold goes to me this morning . . . 50 pedal strokes to get to work.
True I was taking advantage of the downhill WITH the wind behind me, but well within the UCI permitted limits.
and you can sort of understand why:
GB - have 11 medals, 6 of them gold
Dutch, Germans are next on the table with 1 gold + one other medal
China and Italy are next with just 1 gold each
we've won 6 of the 10 golds. If china or russia had done that, I'm sure we'd be suspicious too.
ITYM:Every member of the GB Track Cycling team got a medal :o
And there's still BMX and mountains biking to go :thumbsup:
It's really the track cycling that is causing the controversy, and partly because the GB are so totally dominant, but also because they only dominate at the Olympics and are relatively lacklustre at the intervening Worlds.
Who knows. I wouldn't bet any money on it being down to harder work and better planning , however.
I do know that they are totally focused on the Olympics though, as that is what their funding depends on. The Worlds are relatively unimportant so maybe they just don't try as hard.
Boardman claimed that the GB team kept any new tech back for the Olympics, while the others used it at the Worlds.... and/or they might test some new parts at each champs, but only bolt the whole integrated package together every 4 years.
I note also that in many of the interviews with the GB Olympic cyclists they have mentioned 'living in each others' pockets' in Manchester for the last year. How common in other sports and with other nations is it to billet the team together for so long?Apparently footballers often share the same granny.
some people get sniffy about Sky massively over-prioritising the Tour
You know what I'm really happy about?
That obnoxious git sutton is gone and we are winning, with a happy smiling team.
Complaining about pro cycling teams focusing on the Tour is like complaining about international football teams focusing on the World Cup. Like, duh!
...as a follower of pro cycling, I think there are far more important and interesting races than the Olympics, but apparently even Greg Van Avermaet rates the Olympics as the biggest win of his career. It was Nibali's big target this year too, and you can see why it might have been more rewarding in many ways for him to win the Olympics RR than Il Lombardia or even the Giro.
Isn't it a case of just saying she's gifted in terms of athletic ability?
Afro-Caribbean people are inclined to build lots of fast-twitch muscle around the Glutes.
As a rule of thumb, men have a 10-12% performance advantage over women, which is why there are separate categories for sporting events. For example, without providing protected categories for women, they wouldn't get a look-in at the Olympics outside of the equestrian and sailing events.
As a rule of thumb, men have a 10-12% performance advantage over women, which is why there are separate categories for sporting events. For example, without providing protected categories for women, they wouldn't get a look-in at the Olympics outside of the equestrian and sailing events.
I'd have thought they might be on a par in shooting and archery too, but I CBA to check.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, Olympic pole vault penis claim denied by Japan athlete Hiroki Ogita (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37103648). Apparently there is no truth in the story that his failure to proceed to the next round was down to his colossal tool getting in the way chiz.
BRITAIN are about to cop another gold in some variety of yatching to which one can but shout "Hurrah!" and, optionally, throw one's hat in the air.
It's interesting that in the two traditional big money, high exposure, sports, by which I mean tennis and golf, that are in the olympics, it seems to me that Murray and Rose both value their olympic golds very highly compared to their monetary worth. Maybe they are the exception, I don't know. How many of the other leading players in those two sports took part? Djokovic did, and Nadal, so that's 3 out of the world top 4 in tennis. I don't know anything about golf, as I deliberately avoid it (I didn't during the olympics though) and have heard of precious few of the players involved.The Williams sisters, Johanna Konta, the other Murray, Angelique Kerber, Juan Martin del Potro, Martina Hingis, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
There's a really tight volleyball match going on between Italy and Iran. Come on Iran!
oh dear
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37112545 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37112545)
It's interesting that in the two traditional big money, high exposure, sports, by which I mean tennis and golf, that are in the olympics, it seems to me that Murray and Rose both value their olympic golds very highly compared to their monetary worth. Maybe they are the exception, I don't know. How many of the other leading players in those two sports took part? Djokovic did, and Nadal, so that's 3 out of the world top 4 in tennis. I don't know anything about golf, as I deliberately avoid it (I didn't during the olympics though) and have heard of precious few of the players involved.The Williams sisters, Johanna Konta, the other Murray, Angelique Kerber, Juan Martin del Potro, Martina Hingis, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
oh dear
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37112545 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37112545)
Could have been worse, he could have been a Russian diver...
Yulia Timoshinina lands on her face in the 10m preliminary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37112542
Ilya Zakharov of Russia gets his timing all wrong: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37099465
Nadezhda Bazhina loses her footing and flubs a 3m prelimanry dive: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37066659
Those were some of this year's.It's interesting that in the two traditional big money, high exposure, sports, by which I mean tennis and golf, that are in the olympics, it seems to me that Murray and Rose both value their olympic golds very highly compared to their monetary worth. Maybe they are the exception, I don't know. How many of the other leading players in those two sports took part? Djokovic did, and Nadal, so that's 3 out of the world top 4 in tennis. I don't know anything about golf, as I deliberately avoid it (I didn't during the olympics though) and have heard of precious few of the players involved.The Williams sisters, Johanna Konta, the other Murray, Angelique Kerber, Juan Martin del Potro, Martina Hingis, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
Apologies. I was referring only to this year, and all I saw was the results of the tennis. Of the list you submit, I have only heard of the Williamses, Murray Minor and Hingis (wasn't she quite a long time ago?). I don't take a lot more notice of tennis than I do of golf.
It's interesting that in the two traditional big money, high exposure, sports, by which I mean tennis and golf, that are in the olympics, it seems to me that Murray and Rose both value their olympic golds very highly compared to their monetary worth. Maybe they are the exception, I don't know. How many of the other leading players in those two sports took part? Djokovic did, and Nadal, so that's 3 out of the world top 4 in tennis. I don't know anything about golf, as I deliberately avoid it (I didn't during the olympics though) and have heard of precious few of the players involved.
The Brownlee's are presently distancing their main rival Mola in the bike section of the traithlon - something like 1:22 ahead of him after 3 laps out of 8. One thing I noticed - no tri-bars.On any bikes or just theirs?
Good show by Brownlee and Brownlee. MOAR medalses for BRITAIN :thumbsup:
Edit: Norty A Brownlee just done a Bad Swear ;D
Edit: Norty A Brownlee just done a Bad Swear ;D
I missed it. Did he call Jonathan Edwards a cunt?
Not while I was watching. Should he have?
I was surprised to see when one of the riders took off his helmet, that those BMX bikes are being ridden by grown ups.;D
Now, I know less than nothing about boxing but there was so much talk of that Conlan chap this morning that I watched a little precis of last night's fight. Two things:The latter, I believe. That was not the only strangely judged bout. I heard that six boxing judges have now been sacked.
1) His opponent was a dead ringer for Lord Voldemort, but twice as scary.
2) The judges must either have pressed the wrong buttons, or been very generously paid off.
Now, I know less than nothing about boxing but there was so much talk of that Conlan chap this morning that I watched a little precis of last night's fight. Two things:The latter, I believe. That was not the only strangely judged bout. I heard that six boxing judges have now been sacked.
1) His opponent was a dead ringer for Lord Voldemort, but twice as scary.
2) The judges must either have pressed the wrong buttons, or been very generously paid off.
How long before he mysteriously falls fatally ill with kind of poisoning exotic in composition and/or delivery system?
How long before he mysteriously falls fatally ill with kind of poisoning exotic in composition and/or delivery system?
I was pondering whether that fate awaited the divers... :demon:
I was a little concerned by the sight of one of the Dutch riders carrying his bike home minus its front wheel and 2/3 of the fork blades.
That U Bolt lad looks like he could be a bit handy; has he got any previous sprinting form?According to the man himself, he's now past it!
I think the GB BMX rider was exaggerating somewhat when he described his event as being as tough if not tougher physically than track or road cycling, citing the fact they get up to 60kph by the first jump. Er, not quite - you go down a bloody steep hill from the start to give you a bit of help! Also from what I see you only pedal for about 12 seconds in an event that lasts just over 30.
Not even apples and oranges - more like apples and millet seed.
Well, the US press are not giving Lochte and easy ride over it. Pretty much disowning him, despite his medal successes.This may turn off sponsors, & hurt him & the others in their bank accounts. Worse for the younger ones, as I doubt they'll have piled up a big wad the way he probably has.
Best celebration ever?The coach seemed to like it.
http://zeenews.india.com/sports/rio-olympics-2016/watch-japans-risako-kawai-celebrates-gold-medal-win-by-slamming-coach-to-the-mat-twice_1920305.html
Apparently she did it to him after her semi final win (and probably choreographed it with him beforehand).Best celebration ever?The coach seemed to like it.
http://zeenews.india.com/sports/rio-olympics-2016/watch-japans-risako-kawai-celebrates-gold-medal-win-by-slamming-coach-to-the-mat-twice_1920305.html (http://zeenews.india.com/sports/rio-olympics-2016/watch-japans-risako-kawai-celebrates-gold-medal-win-by-slamming-coach-to-the-mat-twice_1920305.html)
Ah - she said she'd told him she wanted to if she won, & he said 'fine'. So she did.
"Oh, shut up, you stupid people!" says diving colemantator Bob Ballard, having just eesisted the temptation to refer to an Egyptian diver as a geezer from Giza creating a geyser.
Watching the women's hockey final, I'm struck by the lack of histrionics. There's more than a few footballers could learn some lessons in sportsmanship from those ladies.
Watching the women's hockey final, I'm struck by the lack of histrionics. There's more than a few footballers could learn some lessons in sportsmanship from those ladies.
Yeah they could. I work with a hockey unpire and the umpires have a lot of power. They decide the length of a yellow card suspension based on where, what happened, what's gone before, etc., so there's no messing. Also, have you noticed how players sprint off to sit their time out? That's because the time starts when their bum hits the bench - what a great rule!
In the middle of all the fuss about that U Bolt's ninth gold medal can I just take a second or two to point at two-time drug cheat Justin Gatlin and shout "Ha ha! You got beaten by Japan!"Japan have gone for very short shorts this year.
Caster Semenya has abnormally high levels of Testosterone which allows her an unfair advantage (according to many people).
They say such levels "make her the equivalent of a man".
But, if she's a woman, even with high levels of Testosterone, that's an advantage just like Simone Biles (the Gymnast) being 4'8" tall or Serena Williams having the build she has.
Afro-Caribbean people are inclined to build lots of fast-twitch muscle around the Glutes. That is a huge advantage when it comes down to covering short distances bloody quickly.
Isn't it a case of just saying she's gifted in terms of athletic ability?
Ross Tucker, a professor of exercise physiology in South Africa, points to Semenya's career as an example of natural testosterone's effect. In 2009, before the public knew she was intersex, Semenya dominated the 800m race at the world championships in Berlin. Then the IAAF instituted its testosterone rule. Semenya was required to suppress her levels, and voilá: Her performance dropped off. Though she won a silver medal at the London Games (behind a Russian runner who has since been accused of doping), she failed to move beyond the semifinals in Beijing. After the testosterone rule was suspended in 2015 and she went back to her normal levels, she started dominating again. In April this year, she won the 400m, 800m, and 1500m races at the African Championships—all on the same day. "Now, she is untouchable," Ross wrote recently.
And who is this with the blue and white jersey and the very orange frame up in third place.
Crazy P Sagan, that's who :thumbsup:
GB got DQd for the men's 4x400m and nobody still knows why.More detail here: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/20/team-gb-martyn-rooney-4x400m-relay-team-disqualified-final-rio2016-athletics
French guy was being a wus, covering up. How's the Brit supposed to hit him if he does that? Not fair ref.
French commentators having an orgasm though. They're pretty good at parochial.
Bent boxing judges throughoutthe Olympics :(Boxing History
Is it finished? Damn. Missed it again. :demon: