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

[normskih]

I'm like you EB. I use clothes pegs, and I've been known to use tent pegs. Does that qualify as pegging? Otherwise, no idea what this lot are talking about…

Also, how many of us FOC have our own toofy pegs? I have my own:)

 

[Coljj]

Great game that. Levels above the other semi final between France & Germany

 

[yankblue]

Great game. Serbia has the top end talent but not quite deep enough

 

[SebastianBlue]

Impressive fight back from the US against Serbia but it looked to me like the referees were trying to get them through to the gold medal game at the end. Some very suspect officiating over the last 5 minutes or so.

This goes back to one of the reasons I have never really been that interested in basketball (in the same way as I don’t care for boxing or figure skating): the officials have an outsized influence on the outcome compared to many other sports due to the extreme subjectivity and leeway in making calls and the relative impact of each call on the game due to the number of players, shear count of interactions, and the structure of play.

It has always appeared to me to be one of this easiest sports to fix via officiating (and it be very difficult to detect), if one wanted to do so.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Trained at GB but without access to funding from uk sport. Boxed well tonight so far regardless of how the last round goes

Thought she might have sneaked it with the point deduction but no complaints really, her opponent landed the better shots in each round. No shame in bronze!

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

That refugee fighter is very unlucky there.

Yeah I thought so. Good contest though.

 

[BringBackSwales]

I wouldn’t want to get in a fight in Uzbekistan. Dunno what the Frenchy is shaking his head at

 

[BringBackSwales]

Thought she might have sneaked it with the point deduction but no complaints really, her opponent landed the better shots in each round. No shame in bronze!

Was listening on 5 live and they reckoned the refugee had done enough, more attacking and the point deduction

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Was listening on 5 live and they reckoned the refugee had done enough, more attacking and the point deduction

It's basically whether you favour quality of work or volume and being the aggressor, it was a subjective fight, Cindy was very game but her opponent was much longer and was able to keep her at bay and land some flashy counters on Ngamba coming in which sways the judges.

 

[SebastianBlue]

US v France in the gold medal men’s basketball game at the Paris Olympics is one supremely optimised match up for viewership and engagement.

Almost like it was manufactured. ;-)