RL is on a proper joykill rampage today.
RL is on a proper joykill rampage today.
They’d have to use rakes, surely.
Do you even have an exclusive rights deal with Dyson?
I'm talking to them as well as the Brummie fella from GTech, advanced negotiations with Mr Sheen for the indoor version of the game too.
Germany knocking out Sweden & Canada to reach the final in the hockey
Russian Bobsled woman charged with doping. Y'know, if my country was under the microscope for this stuff, you might be wanting to knock it off for 18 months until the dust clears.
This is her:
Brilliant.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/bl...s-impartiality
Barney Ronay, what the fuck are you writing? Someone needs to give him a good, solid slap.
I thought that was absolutely brilliant and spot on. There are millions of kids wanting to play football, basketball, and all other sports and they can't because we plough all our money into these irrelevant cunts supposedly 'inspiring us' by winning medals, as only inspirational people like them can do. They can all piss off and the money should be used to build playing fields and sports centres everywhere.
I couldn't finish it. My eyes started to glaze over around the Ark of the Covenant reference and it was never going to last long after that.
The final of the Big Air was rubbish. Nobody could land a jump, and the winner was the one who put down two vaguely competent jumps without ending on his face. Every landed jump was mediocre, without a single 90.
Mass start speed skating is pretty good.
Mass speed skating was outstanding. Really exciting finishes in both races.
The fin(n)ish of the 50km cross-country was worth watching for the preceding hour. Admittedly, I didn't have much else on this afternoon, but it was time well-spent. It showed how little the commentators knew though, as they spent the last 10 minutes writing off Niskanen and saying he was exhausted and would inevitably drop away, before he turned on the afterburners and left the Russian behind with a minute to go.
As obvious as it seems though, Ledecka winning gold medals in two different sports is the highlight of the games, and possibly one of the most staggering things I've ever seen in sport. Admittedly, both events involve getting down a hill quickly, so it's not like winning, say, the 100m and the middleweight boxing. But anyone who has done both will tell you that they are definitely two different skillsets, and winning both is remarkable.
Guess it's like Carl Lewis winning the 100m and the long jump.
He's not the only one to do that. Marion Jones got bronze, and there's quite a lot of crossover athletes. Most long jumpers have been sprinters at a high level. I once asked someone who knew these things, and apparently the skillset is quite similar. The long jump mostly hinges on going very, very fast and then raising your legs, but it's fundamentally a very close sport.
If we start to see more snowboard/skiers, it'll be the same thing. But I've never heard of another one at this point.
I'm not sure what the right analogy is. Maybe winning the archery and the shooting? Or possibly the Judo and the Taekwondo? Possibly even the 100m and the triple jump, which is a lot more about the actual launching aspect of the jump, rather than raw speed.
Either way, it's bloody impressive.
The weightlifting and the dressage.
Elyse Perry innit. It's all snow.
Hang on, she won skiing and snowboarding? That's bonkers.
The differences are massive but subtle. You'd take the same turn at a different angle, you'd start to turn at a different moment, and you'd distribute your weight completely differently.
In terms of the size of the differences in two superficially similar events it's like someone winning the 100m and the 10k.
John Surtees > any snowboarder.
Good Olympics overall. Timezone helped for me, I imagine.
A solid 8.5/10.