Jeux olympiques d'été de 2024

[Shindig]

Olympic skateboarding is underwhelming. They should do it X-games style. Not these little baby ramps and rails.

Yep. Although I might have to refresh my memory on X Games of the past. Danny Way's big stupid half pipe aside, I'm worried it's a bit more pedestrian than I remember.

[randomlegend]

One of my best friends at primary school was the first British man to win a gold medal at the summer X games.

Trufax

[Spikey M]

One of my best friends at primary school is serving 7 years for running a county lines gang. (https://www.essex.police.uk/news/essex/news/news/2023/december/officers-dismantle-two-drug-lines-in-southend-and-chelmsford/)

Depressingly trufax.

[Baz]

One of my best friends at primary school is serving 7 years for running a county lines gang. (https://www.essex.police.uk/news/essex/news/news/2023/december/officers-dismantle-two-drug-lines-in-southend-and-chelmsford/)

Depressingly trufax.
How long was he doing it? Everything I know about it makes it seem worth it, genuinely.

[Spikey M]

How long was he doing it? Everything I know about it makes it seem worth it, genuinely.

No idea, we didn't stay in touch after primary school.

[niko_cee]

Let's hope your encrochat handle doesn't lead the filth here.

[-james-]

Swimming has got to be one of the most shit olympic sports. No personality and absolutely nothing to connect with. They might as well be greyhounds.

[Ben]

Give over, it's one of the quintessential Olympic sports.

I feel like football, golf and tennis (sports that are bigger outside of the Olympics) shouldn't be anywhere near it.

[Shindig]

Any sport that has to be a shortened version of itself doesn't really belong. Although that logic knacks boxing. Whoops.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Chinese lass completely bottled that breaststroke final.

Took an extra stroke rather than reaching and it cost her the gold.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Give over, it's one of the quintessential Olympic sports.

I feel like football, golf and tennis (sports that are bigger outside of the Olympics) shouldn't be anywhere near it.

100%

Olympics should be the PINACCLE of the sport, if it isn't why bother?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Boxing is fine as it's largely amateur.

They have allowed pros to enter now but it's usually those near the bottom/just starting their career.

If Tyson Fury rocked up it should be gone.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think literally everything should be in the Olympics. Lutte. Dragon boat racing. Formula 1. The works. Tens of thousands of athletes descending on a country.

[niko_cee]

Any sport that has to be a shortened version of itself doesn't really belong. Although that logic knacks boxing. Whoops.

Amateur boxing is pretty tragic. Make them do some decent rounds at least.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Speaking of boxing, GB lad was just robbed.

[-james-]

I'm just saying swimming is fucking dull as a spectator sport and spectacle. Every time I turn my telly on there's a very slightly different version of the event that was just on. Yawn.

[Waffdon]

Speaking of boxing, GB lad was just robbed.

Was that the Orie bloke? Or have they just been robbed again because that’s beyond mental he lost that fight (I assumed I was watching live footage but maybe not)

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Was that the Orie bloke? Or have they just been robbed again because that’s beyond mental he lost that fight (I assumed I was watching live footage but maybe not)

Yeah, Delicious Orie.

[Pepe]

Isn't boxing going away?

Swimming should 100% be there, but it should also be slashed by at least 60%. It gives an undeserved amount of medals.

[niko_cee]

Don't they regularly threaten that due to the unbelievably corrupt nature of the International Amateur Boxing Federation?

Some of the judging in this has been predictably laughable.

[Magic]

Isn't boxing going away?

Swimming should 100% be there, but it should also be slashed by at least 60%. It gives an undeserved amount of medals.

You already said that. Losing it, are we?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Don't they regularly threaten that due to the unbelievably corrupt nature of the International Amateur Boxing Federation?

Some of the judging in this has been predictably laughable.

It was much better in the old system where you had (relatively) transparent scoring. I suppose that was unattractive to the boxing powers that be.

[wullie]

Watching the shooting now and the commentator keeps pronouncing it Turk-ee-ay. Is that the official way now or is he a ponce?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's pissing me off.

[Baz]

They never said it like that at the Euros.

[Ben]

Tur-key-yeah is how they say it.

[wullie]

I'm pretty liberal about what is and isn't a sport but I'm not having this count. The commentator's burning more calories than the competitors.

[Jimmy Floyd]

All these years and I still don't understand butterfly. I haven't been in a swimming pool since about 2003 but the last time I tried it I just sank.

[-james-]

I'm not sure what would be worse as an olympic triathlete, the event becoming a duathlon or having to swim in the fucking Seine.

[Pepe]

You already said that. Losing it, are we?

I said part of it. In this instance, I am defending the inclusion of swimming in the Olympics but reiterating that there are too many swimming events. If there were less swimming events, people upthread wouldn't be moaning about it.

[Pepe]

It was much better in the old system where you had (relatively) transparent scoring. I suppose that was unattractive to the boxing powers that be.

I used to think that more 'pro-like' rules would make Olympic boxing better but I was wrong. The previous system was better, if still very flawed.

[Ben]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_David


Craig Ashley David MBE (born 5 May 1981) is part of the Team GB Olympic Archery management team in Paris, primarily as the bow selector

Every Olympics someone does this. :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

Fair fucks to the men's trap, watching them all bottle it one by one while noted shooting nations Britain and Guatemala storm through has been fun.

[Waffdon]

Guatemalan’s comeback was brilliant. Was annoyed when he finished 3rd even with same score as the Chinese

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Retaining the 4x200m gold :cool:

[Shindig]

Andy Murray's got another match. :)

[Lofty]

I think literally everything should be in the Olympics. Lutte. Dragon boat racing. Formula 1. The works. Tens of thousands of athletes descending on a country.

A guy at work has taken up Dragon Boating in THE LEAGUE and posts all the results on facebook like it is the Olympics, not glorified team building run amok.

As for Turkey, they also run tourism ads with nary a native to be seen so they can keep demanding their new pronounciation, and I'll keep ignoring it.

[niko_cee]

Is it just me or are these some of the shittest medals seen at an Olympics? They look like rosettes. Fuck the portion of the Eiffel Tower or whatever it is in the middle.

[Spikey M]

They're actually going ahead with the triathlon. :sick:

[Spikey M]

This is mental. Cyclists slipping on the pebbles all over the place. The athletes must be fuming.

[niko_cee]

Did they do the swimming bit? How could the water have been alright seeing as it had rained again?

[Spikey M]

No idea, but they did the swim, yeah.

Diarrhea all round.

[niko_cee]

Why are we pronouncing Kate Waugh as Kate Waff? I'm not having that.

Also, I didn't think you were allowed to draft on the bike in triathlon, or is that ironman? Paired with the road conditions the whole bike section seems a waste of time.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's a stupid course for a triathlon. Also the TV direction in the closing stages was bizarre, we completely missed the winning kick of the French gold medal winner because we were with a minute-long jaunt to watch 5th place running on her own.

The TV direction in general has felt like something out of North Korea at times. Completely fixed formula for who is shown on screen and for how long.

[niko_cee]

It wasn't even 5th was it, who was at least the defending champion, it was some American backmarker.

[Magic]

It's a stupid course for a triathlon. Also the TV direction in the closing stages was bizarre, we completely missed the winning kick of the French gold medal winner because we were with a minute-long jaunt to watch 5th place running on her own.

The TV direction in general has felt like something out of North Korea at times. Completely fixed formula for who is shown on screen and for how long.

Southgate levels of direction.

[thommo]

TV direction pissed me off last night as well. You could clearly hear other performances going on in the gymnastics arena, but we were constantly subjected to a camera in Biles's mush for 2-3 minutes while they milled about, rather than seeing some actual gymnastics.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It wasn't even 5th was it, who was at least the defending champion, it was some American backmarker.

They probably have some mega deal with NBC where the world feed has to show Americans for 20% of the time or something.

[hfswjyr]

I was exhausted after watching that first swim leg. Then I realised they go two laps. Jesus.

[Waffdon]

These Chinese divers are actual robots

[thommo]

The men were the same on Monday. Just insane.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's one of the sports that they train kids as young as they possibly can.

[Waffdon]

Yee playing with the NZ boy :cool:

Out of nowhere

[hfswjyr]

That reserve pace on the last 200m. Where the heck did that come from? Wow.

[Waffdon]

Christ. They’ve just won out of nowhere in the rowing too

[Jimmy Floyd]

Two absolute muggings in the last ten minutes to add to the Pidcock one earlier in the week, what a country we are.

[thommo]

Wow. What a last gasp push from the rowers for gold.

Yee :cool:

Not a bad 20 minutes that.

[Pepe]

Also, I didn't think you were allowed to draft on the bike in triathlon, or is that ironman? Paired with the road conditions the whole bike section seems a waste of time.

Drafting is not allowed in most triathlons but for some reason, Olympic triathlons are draft legal. Always funny to see how shit triathletes are at handling their bikes (compared to pro cyclists, that is).

[Waffdon]

One gold off of #1. It’s on

Until athletics start and US romp home

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Two now, China just won the BMX park.

[Ben]

I was getting all excited knowing the athletics starts tomorrow, then I've just seen it's literally the 20km walks and nothing else. Shite.

[Jimmy Floyd]

How are these guys coming off BMXs not just breaking their legs?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

British lad put it all on the line there.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I thought it was enough for gold.

Fuck the Argies.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Argie didn't deserve gold (says the BMX expert), judges were too kind to him early in the proceedings. Should have been the Frenchman or our lad who won.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Guatemala winning their first ever Olympic gold medal :cool:

[niko_cee]

Some quality spills in the mens' gymnastics. Some Aussie just fully face/neck planted off the high bar.

I always find the stupid catcher person that steps in on the uneven bars quite annoying as they seem to be entirely pointless. Maybe they should think of deploying them on other events, or is it only women who need catching?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just got home, lol at Daiki Hashimoto being in 7th.

Won the gold in Tokyo for All-Round and Horizontal Bar, plus he was being talked up massively by the BBC earlier yet sitting in 7th.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Joe :cool:

What a bar routine that was.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Chinese lad getting more on the bar than Joe is mental.

[niko_cee]

Chinese scoring starts at +1 in all events.

Been some amazing home performances so far, not least from this Marchon freak.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah, he could well be Phelps-esque.

[Lewis]

What did the other triathlon bloke do to help the winner? It sounded like he was on domestique duties on the bike part but surely that would be an obvious tactic.

[niko_cee]

They kept calling him something weird in the commentary, but yeah, most of the work must have been pushing the pace on the bike seeing as he only ran for about 5 minutes. Unless he was some sort of swimming bodyguard as well.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He led him out of the ridiculously massive lead group in the transition / first 30 seconds of the run as well. Don't know if that's actually a thing.

[Waffdon]

Are the Frenchies all roided up? Swear they were huge underdogs in the without US/China market

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Marchand is an absolute freak.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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[Shindig]

Obstacle course?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Obstacle course?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_1900_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men %27s_200_metre_obstacle_event


There were three obstacles throughout the 200 metre course. Swimmers had to climb over the first two (a pole and a row of boats), and swim under the third (another row of boats)

Sounds amazing, unfortunately it was only used in the 1900 Olympic Games.

[niko_cee]

Are the Frenchies all roided up? Swear they were huge underdogs in the without US/China market

You always get a massive host bounce, particularly on the more niche sports where you get to practice on the Olympic course for years [for example canoeing].

[Jimmy Floyd]

Or in the case of Barcelona 92 they just drug everyone up to the teeth and crack on.

[Magic]

Marchand is an absolute freak.

Agreed. That was AWESOME.

[Spikey M]

Ecuador win the 20k walk. What scenes. What neckerchiefs. What drama.

Fuck off.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There should be a 100km stroll, where you're not allowed to go above 3mph but it takes fucking days. See if anyone dies.

[Yevrah]

There really are some absolutely balls events in this. I say it every 4 years but the swimming calendar should be cut dramatically.

[Spikey M]

Alright Pepe, stop going on about it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You say that but what do you cut?

The only thing you could really get rid of is the relays.

[Jimmy Floyd]

You could cut several of the 35 gold medals available.

It should be special and rare to have an athlete that can compete for two Olympic golds at the same games, like Michael Johnson did, or Mo Farah etc. Swimming designs itself so that the better people can go for 5-8 golds because otherwise it offers pretty much nothing in terms of cutting through as a sport. People like Thorpe, Phelps, Spitz and now this frog are all just stat padders.

[Yevrah]

You have a swimming 50m, 100m, 200m and any other distances you could care to mention, but absolutely not variants of each for each different and stupid swimming style.

Now I'm a fair person and if any of those styles are anything a fit person would actually use if they suddenly found themselves in the middle of an ocean, i.e. they have a genuine practical application, then I'd be willing to hear the case for the defence of inclusion. Otherwise, in the bin.

[Magic]

I've watched every swimming final. It's been great.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You have a swimming 50m, 100m, 200m and any other distances you could care to mention, but absolutely not variants of each for each different and stupid swimming style.

Now I'm a fair person and if any of those styles are anything a fit person would actually use if they suddenly found themselves in the middle of an ocean, i.e. they have a genuine practical application, then I'd be willing to hear the case for the defence of inclusion. Otherwise, in the bin.

Which swimming styles get cut? Why are they lesser than any other?

[Spikey M]

You say that but what do you cut?

The only thing you could really get rid of is the relays.

Just allow them to use whatever stroke they want. Separate events for breaststroke, butterfly and backstroke is a nonsense. They all use front crawl in the "freestyle" competitions for a reason.

Having them is the equivalent of making the 100m's a "freestyle", then having separate races for hopping, running backwards and forward rolling.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They are obviously lesser because there are only two distances of backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly compared to six distances of freestyle.

They're not using the pool in week 2 (except for modern pentathlon maybe) so I would suggest doing six distances of all strokes and seeing if Marchand can win 20 gold medals.

[Yevrah]

Which swimming styles get cut? Why are they lesser than any other?

They don't have to get cut, anyone can use whatever they like. Natural selection at its finest.

They won't though will they, they'll use whatever the objectively best one is, which is why the others are lesser.

[niko_cee]

They are obviously lesser because there are only two distances of backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly compared to six distances of freestyle.

They're not using the pool in week 2 (except for modern pentathlon maybe) so I would suggest doing six distances of all strokes and seeing if Marchand can win 20 gold medals.

They should do the more events thing, but then either limit entry to X number of events per athlete, or make it so specific strokes get packed into specific days (it's backstroke weekend) so if you want to double up on distances you have to do them back to back.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Matteo Manassero piping a three wood down the middle live on BBC1, now this is Olympic sport.

[Ben]

This 20km walk ought to be first on the chopping block.

[Magic]

A

Archery
Artistic Gymnastics
Artistic Swimming
Athletics

B

Badminton
Basketball
Basketball 3x3
Beach Volleyball
Boxing
Breaking

C

Canoe Slalom
Canoe Sprint
Cycling BMX Freestyle
Cycling BMX Racing
Cycling Mountain Bike
Cycling Road
Cycling Track

D

Diving

E

Equestrian

F

Fencing
Football

G

Golf

H

Handball
Hockey

J

Judo

M

Marathon Swimming
Modern Pentathlon

R

Rhythmic Gymnastics
Rowing
Rugby Sevens

S

Sailing
Shooting
Skateboarding
Sport Climbing
Surfing
Swimming

T

Table Tennis
Taekwondo
Tennis
Trampoline
Triathlon

V

Volleyball

W

Water Polo
Weightlifting
Wrestling

[Spikey M]

This 20km walk ought to be first on the chopping block.

I once got dragged along to the "Race For Life", which is a 5k all the local Facebook Mum Hun's run every year to raise money for charity.

It was unbearable. A load of whooping, middle aged momen wobbling around in dayglo tutus and I'd still watch it over competitive fucking walking.

[SvN]

Bring back the plunge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunge_for_distance)


In later years, the plunge was subject to criticism as "not an athletic event at all," but instead a competition favoring "mere mountains of fat who fall in the water more or less successfully and depend upon inertia to get their points for them."



The stylish-stout chaps who go in for this strenuous event merely throw themselves heavily into the water and float along like icebergs in the ship lanes
:D

[Spikey M]

I would watch the shit out of that. Not just every 4 years, either. I want Plunge of the Day every Saturday night.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Some fun going on in the women's boxing, if that's what we're going to call it, where an Algerian who failed a gender test has battered an Italian's face in, fight stopped after 46 seconds.

[Ben]

100% a bloke.

[SvN]

You wot?

https://staticg.sportskeeda.com/editor/2024/08/23413-17224881224387-1920.jpg?w=640

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Mert?

[Yevrah]

She's just living her truth. Bigots.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If nothing else it'll probably mark the end of boxing as an Olympic sport.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Well it's currently not on the programme for 2028.

They've got until early 2025 to try and get it back on.

[Yevrah]

I can sort of understand what would lead someone to think it's fair game to beat Women in other events, but surely you have to be genuinely ill to get into the ring with one and beat the absolute shit out of her for 45 seconds?

[SincereTheRebel]

The bloke has to go on and win the competition and brutality destroy one of these chicks. Bludgeon to death before anything will change. If he dont win, it will continue.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The Arab, in my office, is furious that the Algerian is only being criticised because she's a Muslim and other cross-gender athletes get off scot free. These people are mentally ill.

[SincereTheRebel]

Why isnt the Algerian covered up?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

“The IOC has made it very clear that it cannot again organise such Olympic boxing competitions. In order to remedy this, Olympic boxing needs to be organised by a credible, well-governed international federation. Discussions are ongoing in this respect.”

Boxing is fucked.

[wullie]

I'd agree with the sentiment that there's too many swimming events, but it's been probably the most consistent entertainment so far. Marchand is an absolute freak and then the Chinese lad who battered everyone and got a world record all happening in the same session, cut to Rebecca Adlington crying her head off and Mark Foster getting all the names wrong. Top flight stuff.

I don't know if I caught the skateboarding at a bad time but it appeared to be a load of 15 year old girls doing a single trick on a rail and mostly landing on their face, I thought it'd be a full X Games routine but I may have just played too much Tony Hawk.

[Ben]

The bloke has to go on and win the competition and brutality destroy one of these chicks. Bludgeon to death before anything will change. If he dont win, it will continue.

You're right there. The chance to set the precedent was there last time around with the New Zealand trans weightlifter. But they ended up being shite so it all blew over.

[Pepe]

That Algerian dude destroyed a Mexican boxer first and no one said anything. Now that it is an Italian, everyone is clutching pearls. RACISTS.

[Pepe]

Jokes aside, this and other dudes where not allowed in the world championships if I understand correctly, yet they are allowed here. In boxing of all the fucking sports as already mentioned. The sooner we get over this shit the better.

[Yevrah]

You're right there. The chance to set the precedent was there last time around with the New Zealand trans weightlifter. But they ended up being shite so it all blew over.

I remember with the weight lifter the general response at the time seemed to be "what's the problem?", so on the plus side it's pleasing the tide is finally turning on this absolute madness.

[Ben]

I remember with the weight lifter the general response at the time seemed to be "what's the problem?", so on the plus side it's pleasing the tide is finally turning on this absolute madness.

Mainly because they were shit I reckon. It might have been a different response if they obliterated all the world records.

If an obvious bloke beating up a load of women doesn't do the trick then it's game over for common sense.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You're right there. The chance to set the precedent was there last time around with the New Zealand trans weightlifter. But they ended up being shite so it all blew over.

It was clear she wasn't going to do shit though.

She wasn't great before the transition plus age wasn't on her side and she was coming off a lot of injuries.

Plus THE PRESSURE.

[Jimmy Floyd]

For certain parts of the political left it's really incredibly important that these people get to fight women, never quite worked out why that's the case but it is. Similar to when certain parts of the political right get exercised about poppy displays before football matches and the like.

[Waffdon]

I don’t really get the whole mock outrage over the boxer. She was born a woman and has only knocked out 5 people in her life and has an absolutely bang average record in amateur boxing

[phonics]

Wait, this boxing thing, I'm confused. I've just read that she's a woman, like an actual woman with the bits and everything. What's everyone angry about?

[Jimmy Floyd]

She has XY chromosomes and failed the gender test. It's like that Caster Semenya all over again except this time in a combat sport.

[Lewis]

You wot?

https://staticg.sportskeeda.com/editor/2024/08/23413-17224881224387-1920.jpg?w=640

Looks like Antony.

[Lofty]

Yeah it's not quite laddo in the yank girl's college swimming league cutting about with long hair and his tackle out in the ladies changing room.

[phonics]

Right wingers inventing muslims and trans people so they have something to be angry about that day. Mental.

[Lewis]

I wouldn't normally cheer an intersex person with male physiology battering a woman, but then I remember some anonymous people getting annoyed and suddenly I'm all in.

[Kikó]

She lost in the QF at Tokyo a few years ago and no one gave a fuck.

[phonics]

So this whole intersex thing seems to be a Russian bloke on Telegram said it so it's true?

[phonics]

She lost in the QF at Tokyo a few years ago and no one gave a fuck.

Wasn't money in trans-bashing (ironic) at the time.

[Kikó]

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001669.htm

Seems it's not as black and white as the internet believes.

[niko_cee]

Whilst the GB kit is generally pretty good I'm really not sold on the track suits.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What a floor routine from Sunisa Lee.

[Shindig]

Just watched the boxing bout. There's nowt in that. Italian lass' head wasn't in it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Biles is too good.

[Dark Soldier]

So this whole intersex thing seems to be a Russian bloke on Telegram said it so it's true?

Yep. Weird how nobody had this problem when she competed in 2020, and was defeated by an Irish woman. Or the multiple other fights she has had and lost, like the 2022 World Championships. Or won. Or her entire fucking career.

Its like there's some cash to be made from some form of grift that's been brought to the fore in the past few years targeting impressionable fuckwits who just wanna get cunted up into a froth.

[phonics]

C'mon mate, Lewis is far too smart to be impressionable.

[Lewis]

The issue only came to light after those things. Why do you think they should be able to compete?

[Dark Soldier]

The issue only came to light after those things. Why do you think they should be able to compete?

Primarily because, at worse, they're intersex, and the Olympics has a history of allowing intersex people competing at the Olympics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intersex_Olympians

End of the day, depends on the event and there's regulations in place to check. So they've every right to be there, despite the knicker wetting hysterics. Other events, other women faced her, no bother. Some Italian gets a little tap and cries and there's furore

[niko_cee]

I always thought it was a bit unfair they stopped Semenya from running against women, 800m women's running having ostensibly been dominated by pretty hench women for a while, so I probably have to accept this woman battering fuck out of some others for lolz.

[phonics]

The issue only came to light after those things. Why do you think they should be able to compete?

Because the only proof you have that she shouldn't be able to compete is a Russian bloke on Telegram meanwhile she's seemingly been doing this exact thing for a decade with no issue but now you have a problem with it because you're a hateful person?

[Dark Soldier]

Just put em against an Irish lass, she's always beat by em.

[Lewis]

Primarily because, at worse, they're intersex, and the Olympics has a history of allowing intersex people competing at the Olympics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intersex_Olympians

End of the day, depends on the event and there's regulations in place to check. So they've every right to be there, despite the knicker wetting hysterics. Other events, other women faced her, no bother. Some Italian gets a little tap and cries and there's furore

That list is people from the olden days, a decades long gap, and then various people who were subject to controversy and extensive testing which either revealed the issue because they didn't know it themselves or was used to allow people who had undergone surgery. How does that prove your point?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I always thought it was a bit unfair they stopped Semenya from running against women, 800m women's running having ostensibly been dominated by pretty hench women for a while, so I probably have to accept this woman battering fuck out of some others for lolz.

She tried to compete in 5000m but obviously couldn't, it was too much of a jump.

[Lewis]

Because the only proof you have that she shouldn't be able to compete is a Russian bloke on Telegram meanwhile she's seemingly been doing this exact thing for a decade with no issue but now you have a problem with it because you're a hateful person?

They were disqualified from the world amateur championship last year, which the International Olympic Committee acknowledges. Their rules just happen to be more relaxed. Why do you think this is all based on some bloke on Telegram?

If they are intersex should they be allowed to box women?

[Dark Soldier]

That list is people from the olden days, a decades long gap, and then various people who were subject to controversy and extensive testing which either revealed the issue because they didn't know it themselves or was used to allow people who had undergone surgery. How does that prove your point?

28 in the modern era if we count it as 90s onwards. 27 if we count it 00s onwards. The only real furore was Semenya. But fair enough lad happy to sit on the side of wildly different viewpoints.

[Shindig]

Yeah, seeing Semaya getting pulled back in the spirit of 'fairness' is a bit shit. That's just the body she was given. She was robbed of the right to compete as an unrestricted talent.

[Magic]

Biles is just incredible. Felt for the Italian bird.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Wild.

Commentator just said one of the runners in the 100m heat ran the 5000m at the 2016 Olympics and the Marathon in 2020.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-31/solomon-islands-marathon-runner-100m-olympics-paris/104158506

It was her first 100m race, lol.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Men's synchro diving really is as gay as sport can get. Even the Chinese pair are called Long/Wang.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Thought the Brit pair had that rowing race, just went a bit too hard early and didn't have enough left.

[niko_cee]

Men's synchro diving really is as gay as sport can get. Even the Chinese pair are called Long/Wang.

On the Long/Wang front I see Leon Marchon's nickname is 'La Baguette'. I'm going for the :naughty: interpretation even if it's meant to be missile/torpedo or something colloquially en francais.

[niko_cee]

Nice to see no one massively botching their final dive there, shame Pepe's boys couldn't mug the Chinese. That +1 coming up trumps again.

[Waffdon]

The male commentator for the rowing needs to stop saying 'scenes'

[Pepe]

Nice to see no one massively botching their final dive there, shame Pepe's boys couldn't mug the Chinese. That +1 coming up trumps again.

Fucking Chinese they could have picked another sport to be good at. Why choose one of the few things we could win?

[Spikey M]

The male commentator for the rowing needs to stop saying 'scenes'

So that's what Taz is up to.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The Chinese will dominate all Olympic sports if you give them enough time. Even beat us at women's rugby the other day.

The only thing they really struggle with is creativity and thinking on their feet (hence still being pound for pound the worst football nation on Earth), but there's not much of that in the Olympics, anything you can plan for they should win easily after a few more editions. They're even much better at sprint events (track and pool) than you would expect.

[niko_cee]

Trampolining :cool:

Better luck next time China.

[randomlegend]

The Chinese will dominate all Olympic sports if you give them enough time. Even beat us at women's rugby the other day.

The only thing they really struggle with is creativity and thinking on their feet (hence still being pound for pound the worst football nation on Earth), but there's not much of that in the Olympics, anything you can plan for they should win easily after a few more editions. They're even much better at sprint events (track and pool) than you would expect.

They are world class at table tennis and badminton so not sure your theory really holds up.

[Jimmy Floyd]

No sign of them in team eventing either. Tally ho!

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Third in the medal table :drool:

[Waffdon]

Third in the medal table :drool:

0.002 off a couple more in the swimming too. The Yanks love a runners up - 17 silvers and 14 bronzes so far

[niko_cee]

They are world class at table tennis and badminton so not sure your theory really holds up.

Aren't those both mindless repetition events? Not to denigrate either, but ping pong always looks like it needs robot mode and I've never really understood the skill in badminton. China going for a clean sweep of all the medals/all the golds in the latter suggests it is something that can simply be overcome with numbers.

[randomlegend]

Aren't those both mindless repetition events? Not to denigrate either, but ping pong always looks like it needs robot mode and I've never really understood the skill in badminton. China going for a clean sweep of all the medals/all the golds in the latter suggests it is something that can simply be overcome with numbers.

Not in the slightest.

Badminton is a lot about deception and creativity at that level.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If it's not all mindless repetition stuff it's definitely a case of throwing overwhelming state resources at it, much like the old communist states used to do.

Much harder to do this for, how can I put it, globally popular sports.

[niko_cee]

I'm biased against badminton as the only people I've ever know play it seriously, and to a reasonably decent standard, are people who I wouldn't really call sporty/athletic. It's a housewife/fat fucker sport from the before times, admittedly not at Olympic level where the Chinese smash bot and reaction bot are just insane.

I appreciate these are unfair/wrong opinions.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Not a great Archery mixed team final.

Both teams were a little sloppy, especially the women.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Didn't watch too much of the Badminton mixed team final but the Chinese were bonkers good.

[randomlegend]

Judo seems like a terrible spectator sport.

[Jimmy Floyd]

How much have the beeb been paying Michael Johnson all these years to presumably outbid NBC for him? Surely they don't have anyone bigger or better than him gracing the US coverage.

[phonics]

Spent all the budget on Snoop Dogg.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I was going to joke (for the benefit of about 2 people) that NBC have Ato Boldon, but I've just looked it up and they literally do have Ato Boldon. Rule Britannia.

[Magic]

Catch up on both BBC and Discovery is a fucking nightmare.

It's either pointlessly condensed HIGHLIGHTS or the entire 3hr show with no markers or skip points. Fuck off.

[Spikey M]

I was going to joke (for the benefit of about 2 people) that NBC have Ato Boldon, but I've just looked it up and they literally do have Ato Boldon. Rule Britannia.

Who has Shaq? Someone must have.

I wonder whether they treat it a bit like we treat Olympic football and just don't pay much attention to it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Marchand yet again showing he's a freak.

[Waffdon]

Get that man tested

[Jimmy Floyd]

Macron is a fucking joke but as an actor playing the role of President of France, he has no equals.

Marchand seems to gain about 3 metres on every turn.

[Waffdon]

How many races do they do in this BMX? This British girl is shit hot but that’s the third time I’ve seen her absolutely piss a race in the last day

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Three Quarterfinal races, if you place in the top 12 you go through to the semis where you have 2 races before 1 final.

If you finished in places 13-20 you go to a last chance race where the top 4 go through to the 2 race semis.

Edit: Sorry, it's 3 race semis too.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They should all be disqualified for murdering what I presume was an Australian on the outside.

[Waffdon]

123 for french in bmx :D

[niko_cee]

Having 3 races in every round and then 1 in the final seems a bit odd.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They should all be disqualified for murdering what I presume was an Australian on the outside.

Commentators didn't even pick up on it.

Poor bastard.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Nor did the host broadcaster replays, how convénient.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Beth's tactic got shown up completely in that final.

[Lewis]

What a crap event. They should just have a thirty yard course.

[niko_cee]

lol

She nuked every other race.

[Waffdon]

GB gal absolutely bottled the final. Winning every race to finishing dead last :lol:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

She says mate far too much.

[Waffdon]

Be a dirty ride though

[niko_cee]

Mate.

That sort of interview probably tells you it's not a serious event.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It is a curious event. It's like if lap 1 of an F1 race was the whole grand prix.

I snap-googled the surname of the Australian winner to find out if that thirsty Frenchman is a significant other, and I got... a surprise.

[Waffdon]

End of this French game was amazing. Out of breath after watching it

[Waffdon]

And now for the fighting :drool:

[Waffdon]

We need cameras in that tunnel asap. Both squads just sprinted down there lmao

[Jimmy Floyd]

A real clash of the hated titans for me but when it comes down to it I always hate the Argies the most. Proper bunch of gypo cunts, beneath contempt, allez les bleus.

FIFA should ban them for quite a few tournaments the way they have been going at black people the last month or so. Maybe once Lionel retires they'll grow some balls.

[Magic]

That 10k race was epic. Possibly my favourite event.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Overtaking the USA in the medal table :drool:

[Waffdon]

Overtaking the USA in the medal table :drool:

Good few chances for more golds today. Imagine finishing ahead of them :lol:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

3 of the 4 semi-finalists in the women's archery are Koreans.

Could see them do a clean sweep of the medals for the third time.

Edit: Gold and silver GUARANTEED.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Korea bottled the bronze medal match, lol.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Judges have screwed Luke Whitehouse. Commentators were thinking it was a possible gold and he only finished 6th.

Was 100% good enough for a medal.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Biles with an insane vault first attempt.

[Pepe]

Remco Evenepoel. :cool:

[Shindig]

RoXY Algboa just won her Quarter Final. Meanwhile, I've been revisiting Jonathan Edwards' world record triple jump. I don't know if anyone will touch that in my lifetime. Same with Bolt's records.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Edwards' record is bonkers, although Christian Taylor did come close once.

If he had more wind in his favour he could have gotten it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFpX7oTWfJg

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Watching Canoe Slalom (red button) and it's a wild race.

They drop in to the water from quite high and then they're just smashing into each other racing down the course.

They even barrel-roll in the water.

Edit: Whoops, it's actually Kayak Cross.

[Pepe]

Five channels on the Olympics here and I can watch basketball, basketball, football, football, and water polo. :moop:

[niko_cee]

Watching Canoe Slalom (red button) and it's a wild race.

They drop in to the water from quite high and then they're just smashing into each other racing down the course.

They even barrel-roll in the water.

Edit: Whoops, it's actually Kayak Cross.

They seem to use old school computer game racing tactics - ie barrel into the person ahead of you and use them to make the corner.

Think it would be better without the upstream gates.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They seem to use old school computer game racing tactics - ie barrel into the person ahead of you and use them to make the corner.

Think it would be better without the upstream gates.

It's the red ones, they have to completely stall to go round them.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, I'm not sold on those.

I see our guy is some sort of super human at this so expect him to dominate and then get inexplicably fucked in the final.

[Magic]

Judges have screwed Luke Whitehouse. Commentators were thinking it was a possible gold and he only finished 6th.

Was 100% good enough for a medal.

I didn't think it was better than the Philippines boy but yeah, good enough for bronze.

[Yevrah]

When are the 100m semi's and final?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I didn't think it was better than the Philippines boy but yeah, good enough for bronze.

Yeah I thought the commentators were bigging it up a bit too much and it wasn't gold worthy but I wouldn't have been surprised if it snuck silver.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

When are the 100m semi's and final?

Women's semis are done with the final at 20:20

Men's semis start at 19:05 tomorrow with the final at 20:50.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Femke Bol is nuts, I didn't think she had a chance at catching the Americans.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Only allowed to use one pole.

[Spikey M]

I did not have Holland winning that.

Or Jamaica shitting the bed.

[Yevrah]

Cheers Mahow. Love the sprinting.

[Spikey M]

Can they not sweep some of that standing water off atleast? The track is soaking.

[Waffdon]

The American in this 100m looks nervous as fuck

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

St Lucia :cool:

First ever medal for them.

[Waffdon]

St Lucia :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Class way to do it.

Gold medal, national record, a marquee event and beats a really good field.

[Pepe]

Fucking swimming still going.

[Waffdon]

Fucking swimming still going.

:D

Making up races now

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Thea LaFond won the triple jump which was Dominica's first ever Olympic medal.

What a night for the Caribbean.

[Waffdon]

Peaty not being in this probably stuffs any chance for GB. Pap

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Men directly against women in this race at times?

Fucking disgusting, I hope Twitter is SEETHING.

[Waffdon]

That was quite funny seeing the difference in the men and woman. Not even close

[Lewis]

How do you even find out that you're good at triple jump? Also, if you're good at triple jump, would you actually be better at something less gay?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

By doing it.

We had a long/triple jump pit at my secondary school.

I was tragic, I'm not sure I even reached the sand once which is a lot closer than competitive pits.

Another secondary school in the town had a pole vault. Fuck knows how people have the stones to do that for the first time.

[Spikey M]

I was always far better at long jump than triple jump. The triple jump takes a surprising amount rhythm and coordination.

[Magic]

That Dutch bird was EPIC. Properly off the seat stuff.

And lol at the Jamaican not being let in.

[Magic]

Ledecky awesome as well. Super Olympics so far.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Men's archery final has been bonkers good.

28 and 29 needed to win every set with the final 5th set 30/30 to send it to a one arrow shoot-off.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Korean wins it by 4.9mm.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Chinese lass with a BIG fall on the uneven bars.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's bullshit, we've been screwed in the Women's skeet final.

She clipped the skeet, it was obvious live and on the replay you could see it clearly. How is there no VAR?

[Giggles]

Do you watch any of these the rest of the time or just become a month long expert in every sport?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Do you watch any of these the rest of the time or just become a month long expert in every sport?

I watch Athletics quite a bit but the rest aren't exactly given much coverage.

Isn't this the whole point of the Olympics anyway?

[Giggles]

I watch Athletics quite a bit but the rest aren't exactly given much coverage.

Isn't this the whole point of the Olympics anyway?

Actually, yeah it probably is. Ignore me I’m being too much of a cunt.

[Pepe]

That American winning the women's pedalbiking is quite the surprise.

[Pepe]

Final night of swimming!

[Kikó]

Finke just destroyed the 1500m.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Great work of the BBC to show the race on BBC One and the Red button.

[Giggles]

You think in this day and age you could watch whatever sport you wanted.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You can with Discovery+ which I have but I'll usually watch the BBC coverage.