Paris 2024 Olympics Thread - 11th August (pg 430)

BringBackSwales said:
A lot of people slagging the golfers but 5 or 6 hours a day for 4 days, with one gold medal to be won. Gymnastics has far too many gold medals available (and it’s soppy and boring as fuck, full of people who need a bacon butty)
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Enjoyed the golf, but when it's not the pinnacle of the sport it still feels wrong to be an event. I think a lot of them were more positive about it afterwards but the Olympics should be your crowning moment and in golf you'd still rather win a major than the Olympics. Football shouldn't be in it, especially when it's an U23 tournament but for a few over age players. Gymnastics is shown way too much. Team all around. Individual all around. Then individual apparatus. Too many medals.
 
supercity88 said:
Enjoyed the golf, but when it's not the pinnacle of the sport it still feels wrong to be an event. I think a lot of them were more positive about it afterwards but the Olympics should be your crowning moment and in golf you'd still rather win a major than the Olympics. Football shouldn't be in it, especially when it's an U23 tournament but for a few over age players. Gymnastics is shown way too much. Team all around. Individual all around. Then individual apparatus. Too many medals.
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Agree about golf and football, same with tennis, but once it’s in then it’s a huge amount of effort for one gold. Gymnastics is fucking awful and completely overdone by the bbc
 
The commentators knowledge is poor too. In the mixed triathlon this morning the gb girl was well ahead in the cycling and according to the commentators she was a miles better runner than the other 2 and they wouldn’t get close. Look how that turned out
 
Gold medal men’s singles Badminton match has turned in to a coronation for the Danish player.

His Thai competitor just has no answers for anything. Getting absolutely crushed.
 
Fuck sake wanted two golds in that canoe rigmarole. Again brilliant in heats and semi finals and not as good when it counts. Same at bmx at least they medalled.
 
BringBackSwales said:
The commentators knowledge is poor too. In the mixed triathlon this morning the gb girl was well ahead in the cycling and according to the commentators she was a miles better runner than the other 2 and they wouldn’t get close. Look how that turned out
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To be fair she was in the 10k in Tokyo as an athlete and is a much better runner, but as a sprint format over a shorter distance and having medalled individually it was always going to be a bit more even. The commentators do my head in. Same in the kayaking then, Joe Clarke world number 1, the best in the final, renowned as a fast starter....gets an awful start!
 
MCFC1993 said:
Silver in the men's chaos kayaking.

Over to the Cycling and Keely for today's golds.
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We need one big time. Feel like we've thrown some excellent opportunities away in the past couple of days. Reminds me of the GB of old. The female race was wide open, but Joe Clarke should have won his and we should have won the triathlon earlier with France crashing in the first leg. Need someone to break the duck as I'm sure in the camp the pressure increases a bit when other gold medal hopefuls crash out. It's huge pressure on Keely at the moment after the pole vault failures earlier and lots of silver and bronze elsewhere. I so hope she does it, she's looked superb so far but hopefully she can get her tactics right tonight.
 
BringBackSwales said:
A lot of people slagging the golfers but 5 or 6 hours a day for 4 days, with one gold medal to be won. Gymnastics has far too many gold medals available (and it’s soppy and boring as fuck, full of people who need a bacon butty)
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A comparison with Gymnastics would be medals for, Longest Drive, Longest Putt, Most Birdies, Most Eagles, Most Albatross’, Best single round
 
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