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

[lastmanback]

How come in some event's Ireland are Ireland and than in some other event's it GB & Ireland ?

How come Scotland or Wales are not in the Olympics:-)

 

[MCFC1993]

Good first round of head kicking for the Brit.

 

[kunaguero10]

Canada just won the men’s breakdancing, I know absolutely fuck all about this event but I thought the French guy was streaks ahead

 

[MCFC1993]

If you need a medical during a Taekwondo fight surely that's game over ffs.

 

[inchy14]

The gap between the US and everyone else is wide in just about every sport now.

Doping.

 

[MCFC1993]

Bit of gamesmanship in that bout. Turkish girl using a medical break to have a rest is a bit of a joke.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

Feel like I’ve spent most time watching us lose.

 

[Blue Maverick]

How come in some event's Ireland are Ireland and than in some other event's it GB & Ireland ?

I was going to ask the same thing

 

[Blue Maverick]

Bit of gamesmanship in that bout. Turkish girl using a medical break to have a rest is a bit of a joke.

I don’t understand the scoring, to me it looked like our girl got body shots in but they never counted, yet the Turkish girl seemed to get loads.

 

[Blue Maverick]

It's "Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Ireland is a separate country.

But in the relay n Eurosport the commentator said GB (didn’t say NI) and Ireland were separate, unless it was just a mis pronouncing