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

[MCFC1993]

Sky Brown gets bronze again!

 

[GornikDaze]

Sky Brown gets bronze again!

Great effort - such fine margins for all of the finalists tbf

 

[BringBackSwales]

20 years since we finished behind aus or France in the olympics. Looking tough this time

 

[JRockBlues]

Sky Brown guaranteed a medal.

Sat in silver, with the Japanese woman in bronze left to go.

Some performance from Sky, she only dislocated her shoulder a few days ago.

She's due to have surgery on it after the Olympics finishes.

 

[BringBackSwales]

The women’s event at the cycling at the moment looks tough - if we qualify in 4th I assume we ride against NZ who look very strong

Looking good for third and ride against USA not nz?

Just wonder if we were holding something back? 2 seconds slower than kiwis

 

[jimharri]

20 years since we finished behind aus or France in the olympics. Looking tough this time

Very seldom the Aussies have a poor Olympics. And the host country nearly always over-achieves.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Very seldom the Aussies have a poor Olympics. And the host country nearly always over-achieves.

They're overperforming in terms of the colour of the medals though, and we're underperforming. We've got quite a few more medals than them, but 18 of ours are bronze and only 8 of theirs are.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Very seldom the Aussies have a poor Olympics. And the host country nearly always over-achieves.

We comfortably beat the Aussies in 2008 2012 2016 and 2021

 

[kaz7]

Girls are a bit slow cycling at the minute

 

[jimharri]

We comfortably beat the Aussies in 2008 2012 2016 and 2021

Fair enough. Point made, and taken.