Author Topic: 2020/2021 Olympics  (Read 12478 times)

Jaded

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2020/2021 Olympics
« on: 24 July, 2021, 07:26:12 am »
They have started, and are quite weird.

We have already had Heather Watson beaten, Helen Glover struggle in a heat, and Geraint Thomas fall.

No new infections reported yet…
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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #1 on: 24 July, 2021, 08:41:23 am »
Not since the start, but there have been several cases in the build up.  Surely Geraint falling is nothing unusual.
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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #2 on: 24 July, 2021, 08:44:32 am »
Arseholes!  Following several hours of predictable peloton boredom, just when the road race is at the crucial part they cut to a meaningless interview with Cav.
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T42

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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #3 on: 24 July, 2021, 10:41:06 am »
Well, it was one of those stinking foreigns about to win it, so why hang about?
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Snakehips

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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #4 on: 24 July, 2021, 10:54:10 am »
No new infections reported yet…
Simon Geschke had to miss the road race.
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quixoticgeek

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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #5 on: 24 July, 2021, 12:22:11 pm »

I'm kinda avoiding the Olympics this time. I'm a bit pissed off with some of the stuff around it.

But, I am loving some of the headlines to come out of it.



I dunno what impresses me more, that a cyclist is winning all these events, or that he's doing so all on the first day!



I didn't realise you could win at shooting just by announcing more covid cases. Maybe that's what Johnson's strategy is?

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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #6 on: 24 July, 2021, 12:25:54 pm »
Excellent stuff, J.!

Jaded

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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #7 on: 24 July, 2021, 04:09:12 pm »
Indeed!

May I add this paragraph from the BBC

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Adam Peaty began the defence of his Olympic 100m breaststroke title in impressive style as Team GB beat hosts Japan in the women's football on day one of the Tokyo 2020 Games.
   ???
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #8 on: 24 July, 2021, 04:25:35 pm »
Saw that one, too, J.  There could be a book, Colemanballs-style in this!  It's shaping up nicely.

Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #9 on: 25 July, 2021, 04:26:18 pm »
Today's Women's cycling road race where no one knew a rider had got away so everyone was riding for 2nd. The winner is an Austrian lady with a ph. D in mathematics (specialising in all kinds of brainiac numbers) who hasn't had a full time career in cycling since 2017. I suspect she won't be giving up the day job.

quixoticgeek

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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #10 on: 25 July, 2021, 06:00:56 pm »
Today's Women's cycling road race where no one knew a rider had got away so everyone was riding for 2nd. The winner is an Austrian lady with a ph. D in mathematics (specialising in all kinds of brainiac numbers) who hasn't had a full time career in cycling since 2017. I suspect she won't be giving up the day job.

I want her to win a Nobel prize now...

J
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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #11 on: 25 July, 2021, 07:00:28 pm »
She may already have won won - but the rest of academia doesn't realise.....!

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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #12 on: 25 July, 2021, 11:07:16 pm »
Mincing about on horses in a pandemic  ???

T42

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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #13 on: 26 July, 2021, 07:53:52 am »
Today's Women's cycling road race where no one knew a rider had got away so everyone was riding for 2nd. The winner is an Austrian lady with a ph. D in mathematics (specialising in all kinds of brainiac numbers) who hasn't had a full time career in cycling since 2017. I suspect she won't be giving up the day job.

I want her to win a Nobel prize now...

J

They don't give Nobels for maths. It'll have to be the Fields medal.

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Meanwhile, I was pleased to see that a French bloke had won the men's épée.  That used to be my sport at university.  No damn good at it, though.
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quixoticgeek

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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #14 on: 26 July, 2021, 09:13:44 am »
They don't give Nobels for maths. It'll have to be the Fields medal.


But they do i Physics and Economics, which are both just applied Maths...

J
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Beardy

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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #15 on: 26 July, 2021, 10:14:09 am »
They don't give Nobels for maths. It'll have to be the Fields medal.


But they do i Physics and Economics, which are both just applied Maths...

J
everything is just applied mathematics really.  :demon:
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Wowbagger

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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #17 on: 26 July, 2021, 11:27:58 am »
Tom Pidcock seemed to do all right in the mountain biking.
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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #18 on: 26 July, 2021, 12:10:54 pm »
Tom Daley and Matty Lee get gold...  :thumbsup:
 
https://www.eurosport.co.uk/diving/tokyo-2020/2021/it-s-finally-come-true-tom-daley-and-matty-lee-emotional-on-podium-with-gold-medals_vid1510547/video.shtml

I've just seen the BBC report on that.  The diving was superb - but the English commentator was embarrassing.

CommuteTooFar

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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #19 on: 26 July, 2021, 01:51:38 pm »
I feel a little  worried for Pidcock, he expects to get a golden MTB but who can make it for him.  Is team bike sponsor was Pinarello who do not currently make mountain bikes usually make special bikes for their big winners. He rode a non team customised unmarked BMC.  So they will not make him a golden bike either.   

Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #20 on: 26 July, 2021, 04:40:42 pm »
They don't give Nobels for maths. It'll have to be the Fields medal.


But they do i Physics and Economics, which are both just applied Maths...

J
everything is just applied mathematics really.  :demon:

And mathematics is applied coffee drinking1.



1 "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems" ~ Hungarian mathematician Alfréd Rényi (this quote is commonly misattributed to Paul Erdős)
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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #21 on: 26 July, 2021, 05:00:57 pm »
Excellent, Spesh!  ;D

A meteorologist is a device for turning coffee into thermals

A cup is a device for turning coffee into thermos?

(Yours is much better - but I thought I'd try!)

quixoticgeek

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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #22 on: 26 July, 2021, 10:33:51 pm »



Well that's one way to stand holding a gun... If it works for you, go for it!

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Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #23 on: 26 July, 2021, 10:36:57 pm »
I think she's Russian?  The electronic device which automatically registers a bull is possibly in her left pocket!  (Think fencing, a number of years ago.)

Re: 2020/2021 Olympics
« Reply #24 on: 26 July, 2021, 11:19:42 pm »
Watching that on video, there seems to be no recoil at all from those pistols.