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

[BringBackSwales]

PB for Emily Campbell in the snatch portion, on course for a medal.

Snatch portion?

 

[MCFC1993]

Snatch portion?

I did pause before posting I swear.

Yeah the first part, clean and jerk to come...yeah I don't know who named these lifts.

 

[Mancity1980]

Disappointing in the women’s omnium, and the sprint semi final first leg (Funicane looked well off it). Laura Kenny’s prediction of 8 GB track cycling golds was way off I’m afraid

The cycling and the boxing have been disappointing this games. The athletics got 10 medals although only one gold. 14 gold and 63 medals is a good GB haul overall. A strange games for us.

 

[MCFC1993]

About 1 in 4 of us being thick as fuck. The true answer is <1%. 1 in 16 think they could make the 100m in LA or the Cycling team haha.

I wonder what sports you'd get closest in, I imagine a lot of the non-physical sports, Archery, Shooting are your best chances.

 

[BringBackSwales]

I did pause before posting I swear.

Yeah the first part, clean and jerk to come...yeah I don't know who named these lifts.

Snatch, clean and jerk? Stop digging MCFC1993

 

[Gray]

Bit of a damp squid in the Track Cycling for GB, hope Jack Carlin can pull something out of the bag.

 

[BringBackSwales]

The cycling and the boxing have been disappointing this games. The athletics got 10 medals although only one gold. 14 gold and 63 medals is a good GB haul overall. A strange games for us.

6th at best, worst performance since 2004, top 4 in the last 4 Olympics so I think overall under achieved on golds. Enjoyed it though, some near misses, but you expect that in the Olympics

 

[Eccles Blue]

Bit of a damp squib in the Track Cycling for GB, hope Jack Carlin can pull something out of the bag.

I was expecting more after listening to Laura Kenny. She was so sure.

 

[Gray]

I was expecting more after listening to Laura Kenny. She was so sure.

She predicted 8 Golds from the 12 events, don't ask her for a dead cert in the Derby.

 

[BringBackSwales]

I was expecting more after listening to Laura Kenny. She was so sure.

I think she is completely unrealistic and gets very carried away with herself. Sir Chris Hoy is a lot more knowledgeable and rational. But of course the bbc give more airtime to the chatty unrealistic one

 

[Gray]

I think she is completely unrealistic and gets very carried away with herself. Sir Chris Hoy is a lot more knowledgeable and rational. But of course the bbc give more airtime to the chatty unrealistic one

She was barking mad with her predictions but I really like her as a person, you could have a good laugh with her.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

About 1 in 4 of us being thick as fuck. The true answer is <1%. 1 in 16 think they could make the 100m in LA or the Cycling team haha.

I wonder what sports you'd get closest in, I imagine a lot of the non-physical sports, Archery, Shooting are your best chances.

Dunno. From what I’ve seen I’d fancy my chances at ‘breaking’.

 

[BringBackSwales]

She was barking mad with her predictions but I really like her as a person, you could have a good laugh with her.

That doesn’t make her a good, knowledgeable pundit though, and she isn’t

 

[BringBackSwales]

Dunno. From what I’ve seen I’d fancy my chances at ‘breaking’.

Wind?

 

[I'm With Stupid]

About 1 in 4 of us being thick as fuck. The true answer is <1%. 1 in 16 think they could make the 100m in LA or the Cycling team haha.

I wonder what sports you'd get closest in, I imagine a lot of the non-physical sports, Archery, Shooting are your best chances.

I reckon I could have qualified for the Australian breakdancing team.

 

[Pubteam Lomas]

That doesn’t make her a good, knowledgeable pundit though, and she isn’t

Still too close to the team to be objective.

 

[MCFC1993]

Emma Finucane bronze means we've matched Tokyo for medals. 1 behind London. 3 behind Rio.

Obviously the golds are down but the medal count is a reflection of how competitive we've been.

 

[BringBackSwales]

The cycling and the boxing have been disappointing this games. The athletics got 10 medals although only one gold. 14 gold and 63 medals is a good GB haul overall. A strange games for us.

Athletics did well (so close to 2 more golds); rowing and equestrian did well as did shooting. Cycling decent number of medals but disappointing re golds, boxing really bad as they were hyped up (then again Bunce hypes everything up). Sailing disappointing, although women’s windsurfing was fucked over by the format

 

[BringBackSwales]

Emma Finucane bronze means we've matched Tokyo for medals. 1 behind London. 3 behind Rio.

Obviously the golds are down but the medal count is a reflection of how competitive we've been.

Sorry but I don’t agree (with respect, as you’ve been the top expert in the Olympics thread), for me the Olympics is about golds, as important as valiant second and third places are

 

[GaudinoMotors]

And back to the boring track cycling right at the vital moment of the weightlifting.