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

[Eccles Blue]

No same deal as last time.

£6.99 for Discovery+ for a month if you want to watch the lot.

Or BT has given Discovery+ to their TV Subscribers for free.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Not in the script mate..

I spent every Saturday when I was a kid waiting to see if Jackie Pallo or Steve Logan would get their comeuppance

 

[MCFC1993]

As usual I'll share my GB Schedule:

Team GB Schedule
Sat 27th July

Some times might not be bang on but more a reflection of when the event starts i.e. the Cycling time trial where the athletes will go off staggered.

08:00 - Shooting - Mixed Team - 10m Air Rifle - S McIntosh/MBargeron
09:00 - Hockey - Men's - Groups - Great Britain v Spain
09:10 - Badminton - Men's Doubles - Chia/Sohn (MAS) v Lane/Vendy (GBR)
10:00 - Artistic Gymnastics - Men's Qualification - J Fraser, L Whitehouse, H Hepworth, J Jarman, M Whitlock
10:00 - Diving - Womens's Synchronised 3m Springboard - FINAL - Y Harper, S Mew Jensen
10:00 - Swimming - 100m Butterfly - Women's - Heats - KL MacInnes
10:18 - Equestrian - Team & Individual Dressage - T McEwen
10:30 - Swimming - 100m Butterfly - Heats - J Wilby, A Peaty
11:00 - Rowing - Womens's Double Sculls - M Hodgkins Byrne, R Wilde
11:00 - Tennis - Men's Singles - Jack Draper (GBR) v Kei Nishikori (JPN)
11:15 - Swimming - Women's 4 x 100m freestyle - Great Britain
11:22 - Swimming - Men's Freestyle - Heats - K Bird
11:26 - Swimming - Men's 4 x 100m freestyle - Great Britain
11:30 - Rowing - Men's Quadruple Sculls - Heats - Great Britain
11:50 - Rowing - Men's Quadruple Sculls - Heats - Great Britain
13:00 estimate, follows Draper v Nishikori - Tennis - Men's Singles - Gallon Griekspoor (NED) v Cameron Norrie (GBR)
13:30 - Cycling Road - Women's Time Trial - FINAL - A Henderson
14:00 - Canoe Slalom - Men's Canoe Single - Heats 1st Run - A Burgess
14:27 - Equestrian - Team & Individual Dressage - L Collett
15:00 estimate, follows Griekspoor v Norrie - Tennis - Men's Singles - Moez Echargui (TUN) v Evans (GBR)
15:00 estimate - follows 2 matches - Tennis - Women's Singles - Anna Schmiedlova (SVK) v Kate Boulter (GBR)
15:00 - Canoe Slalom - Kayak Single - Heats 1st Run - K Woods
15:00 til the evening - Judo - No Info but there Will be British involvement
15:32 - Cycling Road - Men's Indigidual Time Trial - FINAL - J Tarling
16:10 - Canoe Slalom - Men's Canoe Single - Heats 2nd Run - A Burgess
17:10 - Canoe Slalom - Kayak Single - Heats 2nd Run - K Woods
17:21 - Equestrian - Team & Individual Dressage - R Canter
19:00 - Boxing - Women's 54kg - Round of 32 - Charley Davidson (GBR) v Hatice Akbas (TUR)
19:30 - Swimming - 100m Butterfly - Women's - Semifinals - KL MacInnes
20:12 - Swimming - Men's 100m Breaststroke - Semifinals - A Peaty
20:34 - Swimming - Women's 4 x 100m freestyle - FINAL - Great Britain
20:44 - Swimming - Men's 4 x 100m freestyle - FINAL - Great Britain

What else is on?

https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/27-july

 

[TinFoilHat]

Surely they aren't rowing in the Seine?

Some of those turds in that river are more like landmines.

Might add some more drama to proceedings.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Gojira were quality, never fails to make me laugh at how confused bbc commentators are by metal bands

I thought it was the best part by a mile. Mario going ham on the drums to a symphonic chorus of “we will hang the aristocracy” and blood red streamers exploding out of the building. And death growls. I think that might be peak metal.

Think I’ll give From Mars to Sirius another spin this weekend.

 

[east2]

Hoisting of the Olympic flag upside down just about sums up the abomination of an opening ceremony!

 

[Bill Walker]

I spent every Saturday when I was a kid waiting to see if Jackie Pallo or Steve Logan would get their comeuppance

Yeah, with Kent Walton.
Billy 2 Rivers was my favourite. Mick McManus was a twat ;)

 

[daveoswald]

I spent every Saturday when I was a kid waiting to see if Jackie Pallo or Steve Logan would get their comeuppa

I spent every Saturday when I was a kid waiting to see if Jackie Pallo or Steve Logan would get their comeuppance

I was the same with big daddy, he always came through in the end.

 

[jonah62]

They do know that's your typically looking French woman?

They train their armpit hairs growth to meeet on the face

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Not watched but the general vibes seems to be …

‘Actually , this has been amazing ‘

Or

‘wtf is this woke shit, awful’

With no In-between

I watched about an hour and a half, but I didn’t care about any “woke shit” but I still thought it was wank. Nice idea, but in reality it ended up not working for me. I’m in Asia, so the plan was to watch the performance bit and then go to bed when they did the athletes parade. But the way it was done meant you’d have to watch the full 4 hours or whatever it was. And because of that, they didn’t really seem to have any spectacular set pieces like London or Beijing did in the past. Maybe they did at the end. The metal band bit was decent. Probably the highlight for me. But overall, it was just a bit disjointed. Some boats, Lady Gaga, more boats, a few people dancing around, more boats, a prerecorded bit…

Sometimes I genuine wasn’t sure whether something was a performance starting or just a cutaway to a bunch of the more general dancers, and because the performers didn’t really know when they were appearing on camera (no overall rehearsal) they weren’t always doing something good when they got on camera. It reminded me of watching a parade where it’s a bunch of people in fun costumes and occasionally you’d see something vaguely fun, but it might happen a bit further down the road so you don’t get to see it properly.

 

[stonerblue]

I spent every Saturday when I was a kid waiting to see if Jackie Pallo or Steve Logan would get their comeuppance

Saturday afternoons on our telly.

 

[BigJoe#1]

some right cynical sods on this - go put a film on or summat if you don't like it.

I did.... High Plains Drifter ITV4, with our Clint.... fell asleep on that too.... I am getting old!

 

[bluesmith]

No same deal as last time.

£6.99 for Discovery+ for a month if you want to watch the lot.

Signed up tonight and they have an offer on for for 3.99 per month until the end of the year. I've thought about signing up for a while and that's cheap enough, if it's no good I'll get about 6 times as much live coverage as the bbc across supposedly 55+ streams for next to nowt.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

As usual I'll share my GB Schedule:

Team GB Schedule
Sat 27th July

Some times might not be bang on but more a reflection of when the event starts i.e. the Cycling time trial where the athletes will go off staggered.

08:00 - Shooting - Mixed Team - 10m Air Rifle - S McIntosh/MBargeron
09:00 - Hockey - Men's - Groups - Great Britain v Spain
09:10 - Badminton - Men's Doubles - Chia/Sohn (MAS) v Lane/Vendy (GBR)
10:00 - Artistic Gymnastics - Men's Qualification - J Fraser, L Whitehouse, H Hepworth, J Jarman, M Whitlock
10:00 - Diving - Womens's Synchronised 3m Springboard - FINAL - Y Harper, S Mew Jensen
10:00 - Swimming - 100m Butterfly - Women's - Heats - KL MacInnes
10:18 - Equestrian - Team & Individual Dressage - T McEwen
10:30 - Swimming - 100m Butterfly - Heats - J Wilby, A Peaty
11:00 - Rowing - Womens's Double Sculls - M Hodgkins Byrne, R Wilde
11:00 - Tennis - Men's Singles - Jack Draper (GBR) v Kei Nishikori (JPN)
11:15 - Swimming - Women's 4 x 100m freestyle - Great Britain
11:26 - Swimming - Men's 4 x 100m freestyle - Great Britain
11:30 - Rowing - Men's Quadruple Sculls - Heats - Great Britain
11:50 - Rowing - Men's Quadruple Sculls - Heats - Great Britain
13:00 estimate, follows Draper v Nishikori - Tennis - Men's Singles - Gallon Griekspoor (NED) v Cameron Norrie (GBR)
13:30 - Cycling Road - Women's Time Trial - FINAL - A Henderson
14:00 - Canoe Slalom - Men's Canoe Single - Heats 1st Run - A Burgess
14:27 - Equestrian - Team & Individual Dressage - L Collett
15:00 estimate, follows Griekspoor v Norrie - Tennis - Men's Singles - Moez Echargui (TUN) v Evans (GBR)
15:00 estimate - follows 2 matches - Tennis - Women's Singles - Anna Schmiedlova (SVK) v Kate Boulter (GBR)
15:00 - Canoe Slalom - Kayak Single - Heats 1st Run - K Woods
15:00 til the evening - Judo - No Info but there Will be British involvement
15:32 - Cycling Road - Men's Indigidual Time Trial - FINAL - J Tarling
16:10 - Canoe Slalom - Men's Canoe Single - Heats 2nd Run - A Burgess
17:10 - Canoe Slalom - Kayak Single - Heats 2nd Run - K Woods
17:21 - Equestrian - Team & Individual Dressage - R Canter
19:00 - Boxing - Women's 54kg - Round of 32 - Charley Davidson (GBR) v Hatice Akbas (TUR)
19:30 - Swimming - 100m Butterfly - Women's - Semifinals - KL MacInnes
20:12 - Swimming - Men's 100m Breaststroke - Semifinals - A Peaty
20:34 - Swimming - Women's 4 x 100m freestyle - FINAL - Great Britain
20:44 - Swimming - Men's 4 x 100m freestyle - FINAL - Great Britain

What else is on?

https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/27-july

Your providing an invaluable service fella as always.

 

[Eccles Blue]

It was as if the organisers hadn’t bothered telling the broadcasters who was going to be taking the flame. It was ‘that looks like x’ ‘yes I think it is’ ‘oh look that’s y passing it to z.’
Plus they didn’t seem to know what new delight was coming next.
It wasn’t too bad but not a patch on London or Beijing.
A heck of a lot of organising had gone into it so kudos to them for that. Shame about the rain.I noticed that our own Prime Minister appeared to be one of the only ones prepared for rain with his GB Olympic kagoule/anorak with a rain hood. Well done Keir Starmer.
All in all I’m glad I recorded it and watched just the bits that didn’t seem too boring. :-)
I don’t envy the organisers sorting that out. They said they had a plan B wonder what that was? :-)

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Saturday afternoons on our telly.

An ex girlfriends dad was really into it. So much so he would put the chair right up to the telly and he was so engrossed in it by the end of the bout, he and the chair would be at the other side of the lounge. Comical to watch a 18 stone Irishman going through the moves on a wing back.

 

[Tourist since 1971]

Not a patch on London’s.I still love the 10 minutes when Redgrave brings the torch into the stadium and the kids run the torch round the track.
Anyway, best bit last night was the mechanical horse on the Seine, and the white horse across the bridge followed by the flags. looked fantastic
The rest, meh.

 

[BlueMoonday]

Obesity/gluttony really isn't something to be championed.

 

[fanatic1]

Not a patch on the London opening ceremony in 2012 directed by Danny Boyle at one third of the cost. He showed very well our nation's heritage (historical, scientific, sporting, social). Parts of Paris were okay (Parkour - extreme running over rooftops, Les Mis extracts re the revolution, skeletal horse ride on river) but come on a fashion catwalk parade with costumes only fit for scarecrows and bearded lady weirdos. Also too much dancing filler and Lady Gaga (WTF).

 

[GornikDaze]

Saturday afternoons on our telly.

But I can put a tennis racket up against my face. And pretend that I am Kendo Nagasaki.