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

Brilliant Olympics, I think it really shows the value of hosting the games in historic cities where you can have some stunning venues for some events. London and Paris have shown this.

In this regard I think LA and Brisbane will be disappointing, cities with not a lot of history. However, the sporting culture of those 2 countries will hopefully make up for it.

Viewing figures will drop in the UK for those 2, hopefully back in Europe after that.
 
MCFC1993 said:
Brilliant Olympics, I think it really shows the value of hosting the games in historic cities where you can have some stunning venues for some events. London and Paris have shown this.

In this regard I think LA and Brisbane will be disappointing, cities with not a lot of history. However, the sporting culture of those 2 countries will hopefully make up for it.
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LA probably too much razzmatazz.
Tom Cruise doing some sort of a stunt tonight on the Paris/LA handover.
 
What was everyone's highlight then? Mine is undoubtedly Tom Pidcock coming back after the puncture to win the gold medal. It was already a phenomenal effort just to get back near the front, but the drama at the end and that last minute overtake was incredible.
 
Xhavenjoe said:
LA probably too much razzmatazz.
Tom Cruise doing some sort of a stunt tonight on the Paris/LA handover.
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The last LA Olympics was quite famously low-key and done on a shoe string budget. It is one of the only Olympics in modern times to actually make a profit. They did that by building very little new infrastructure. That is part of the logic of them getting it again. Almost no countries are bidding for it these days because it is unaffordable, and LA seeks to demonstrate how it can be done (but it is easier when you're a country that has existing infrastructure like the US).

Personally, I think the economics side of things is not really the reason any country should want to host. The benefit that is harder to measure is the improved outcomes for young people that get into these athletics events that lasts for decades after it's been hosted. It's not a coincidence that 5 of the top 7 in the medal table are all countries that have hosted the games in the last 25 years.
 
bluemoon32 said:
Not sure population is a good mark, otherwise India would win loads
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4 of their top 5 most popular sports are cricket football, badminton and field hockey.
Their second most popular is a new one to me.

Kabbadi? Millions play it. Havent a clue what it is?

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bluemoon32 said:
It's been a really good games, GB are well down on gold medals compared to Tokyo but i still think we've done pretty well.
The Olympic games are special
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One more medal overall though. UK Sport measure performance on raw medal count, they don't care much for the colour given there can be such a fine line between gold and silver. They targeted 50-70 medals so we're on the stronger end of the performance scale with 65.

Also, really important is they wanted a broader coverage in medals across different sports, and they have achieved that in a big way. By my count, Team GB have medals in 23 different sporting categories, the broadest spread of any nation ever. In Tokyo they had medals in 18 different sports. We compete at a high level in nearly everything, and I think that diversity is the best thing about our performance.
 
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