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

[BringBackSwales]

Thank fuck for Hazel, that girl on the bbc seemed out of her depth

 

[Blue Maverick]

USA bmx woman proper screwed that up.

 

[mexico1970]

did you know that they have a piece of the Eiffel Tower in them?

I think someone mentioned it.

When the bloody thing falls down someone's going to have a red face.

 

[GornikDaze]

BBC doing a great job. Watch the women’s BMX alive on the ‘second’ channel, switch by to the main channel when it’s finished and watch it all again…

 

[chesterbells]

I reminds me of the different strokes in swimming. Why do they even exist? Why is it not just a case of seeing who can get to the end the fastest? And I say that as someone who came second on the Cumbria all-Scouts 100m breaststroke final in the 90s. Why not have the 100m hopping? Or running backwards? It'd be like the high jump splitting into two separate events, when the fosbury flop was invented, and some people continuing to do the scissor technique.

Well in this case we are talking about the difference between running and walking, which I guess is fairly important, unless walking races were to be scrapped (which personally I wouldn’t have an issue with!).

Some of the rules in athletics don’t serve any purpose, eg refusing to measure a javelin distance if it doesn’t land nose first.
I know some old skoolers would disagree but I’d also like to see long jump measured from where you take off; get rid of all of this foul jump business, and just measure who jumps the furthest.

Anyway, rant over. Congrats on the breaststroke btw. Always found that the hardest stroke to do, could never get the leg action right. Backstroke for me, dead easy - as long as you could keep going in a straight line …

 

[Protein Junkie]

Have the BBC finished rimming Simone Biles yet ?
I know she excels at her sport but she’s getting Rag/Dipper levels of adulation.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

USA bmx woman proper screwed that up.

What did she do, I couldn’t tell?

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Well in this case we are talking about the difference between running and walking, which I guess is fairly important, unless walking races were to be scrapped (which personally I wouldn’t have an issue with!).

Some of the rules in athletics don’t serve any purpose, eg refusing to measure a javelin distance if it doesn’t land nose first.
I know some old skoolers would disagree but I’d also like to see long jump measured from where you take off; get rid of all of this foul jump business, and just measure who jumps the furthest.

Anyway, rant over. Congrats on the breaststroke btw. Always found that the hardest stroke to do, could never get the leg action right. Backstroke for me, dead easy - as long as you could keep going in a straight line …

The long jump idea has been mooted, not sure if it’s going to happen soon though as it’s not popular with some athletes and ex-athletes like Carl Lewis.

 

[Scottyboi]

This BMX contest is crazy, fearless.

 

[BringBackSwales]

I’m no BMX expert but how the fuck was that Argentinian better than the British guy? Eurovision rules?