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

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

4x200M was unreal, amazing swimming

 

[jimharri]

James Guy who did the 1st leg, he's from Bury I believe.

Poor sod.





"TAXI!!!!!!"

 

[threespires]

One more win for Evans and Murray and they get a bronze medal.

So far these have been fitting performances for his last tournament, full of grit and fight. They'll have to go some to get past their next opponents but if they could get a medal what an ending it would be.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Great swimming that and Murray doing it the hard way. Why are the boxers nit wearing head guards these days I thought they did in the Olympics?

They were actually found to contribute more to concussions. They still wear them in sparring so they don't get cut.

 

[levets]

One of the Aussie players has an interesting name on her back.

Looks like a nice guy the Irish swimmer.
Well done Ireland

Can we not claim him too? He was born in England

 

[remember arthur mann]

Blimey ! Who designed the trackies ? Aldi !!

 

[Protein Junkie]

I love watching some sports that don’t get great coverage on free to view normally.
Seeing Team GB win any medal is a feel good factor and has been for many years.
As a FOC I will never get my time back from 70’s and 80’s when GB golds were like rocking horse shit thanks to the PED riddled Eastern Europeans.

 

[deano ou812]

I love watching some sports that don’t get great coverage on free to view normally.
Seeing Team GB win any medal is a feel good factor and has been for many years.
As a FOC I will never get my time back from 70’s and 80’s when GB golds were like rocking horse shit thanks to the PED riddled Eastern Europeans.

Yeah East Germany were the masters of this ..

 

[red 2 hats]

James Guy

He's a red

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Can we not claim him too? He was born in England

He was born in Leeds.
Came to N Ireland at age of two.
I'd say he swam over

 

[Protein Junkie]

Can we not claim him too? He was born in England

The Paddies are now like the Rugby team -all Ireland. Not sure when that changed but he would have been ours years ago GB&NI.
(Can’t be arsed to look it up but someone will :-)

 

[chesterbells]

I love watching some sports that don’t get great coverage on free to view normally.
Seeing Team GB win any medal is a feel good factor and has been for many years.
As a FOC I will never get my time back from 70’s and 80’s when GB golds were like rocking horse shit thanks to the PED riddled Eastern Europeans.

We had Allan Wells though ;-)

 

[MCFC1993]

He's a red

He's a blue I follow him on twitter.

 

[levets]

They were actually found to contribute more to concussions. They still wear them in sparring so they don't get cut.

The girls still wear them

 

[levets]

He's a red

He’s a blue 100%

 

[Black&White&BlueMoon Town]

One more win for Evans and Murray and they get a bronze medal.

Actually, one more win and they get to the final 4, where as long as they don't lose both, they'd get the bronze, (or silver if they win the first match there).

Win the first of those, and they're playing for Gold.

Of course, I can see who they are potentially playing in their next match, the winners of:

T Fritz (USA)/ T Paul (USA) or R Haase (NED)/ J-J Rojer (NED)

Their next opponents might be an, um, interesting match tearing me apart.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Actually, one more win and they get to the final 4, where as long as they don't lose both, they'd get the bronze, (or silver if they win the first match there).

Win the first of those, and they're playing for Gold.

Of course, I can see who they are potentially playing in their next match, the winners of:

T Fritz (USA)/ T Paul (USA) or R Haase (NED)/ J-J Rojer (NED)

Their next opponents might be an, um, interesting match tearing me apart.

Don’t both losing semi finalists get bronze medals?

 

[Black&White&BlueMoon Town]

Don’t both losing semi finalists get bronze medals?

Nah, per wiki there's Bronze Medal matches in all of the tennis competitions once teams/individuals make the final 4:

Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[remember arthur mann]

WTF !! BBC, leading with fooking Biles and the yanks, GB get a Gold and that's what they come up with, don't tell me the beeb are being taken over by Trump. It's making me bilious.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

The girls still wear them

It's a weird one but that was the reason given for removing them for the men. Can only feel its optics, women's boxing was only recently introduced and they might not want any bloody fights.