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[Other Sport] Paris 2024 Olympics & Paralympics ***Official Match Thread***



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Men's Vault - Bronze. 🥉
 




nwgull

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Seagull58 said:
Yes, she did. As I recall, she had a coach with a very dodgy history, possibly East German, and they jointly threw a tantrum over some perceived insult (possibly being required to take a drugs test) and flew home before competition started.
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The two 1996 Olympic golds were Pérec's last international titles. In 1997, she shifted to the 200 metres but withdrew at the semi-finals stage in the World Championships that year, and she barely raced at all in 1998 and 1999.
On 8 July 2000, having not run a 400 metres race since 1996, Pérec began her Olympic title defence by finishing third in Nice (at the Nikaia meeting of the 2000 IAAF Grand Prix), behind eventual Olympic silver and bronze medalists Lorraine Graham and Katharine Merry.[3] This was the last significant race Pérec took part in. On 22 September 2000, she pulled out of the 200 metres and 400 metres events of the 2000 Sydney Games, several days before they were due to start. Pérec claimed that she had been threatened and insulted several times since arriving in Australia and that the local press, who were supporting Australian athlete Cathy Freeman, had been trying to sabotage her chances of winning 400 metres gold.[4][5]
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Yep, fishier than the contents of Baldrick’s apple crumble, and not dissimilar to Kostas Kenderis and his mysterious motorcycle accident on the eve of the Greek games 4 years later.
 




Scappa

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Fleetwood needs birdie on the last to take world #1 Scheffler to a gold medal play off
 










Pavilionaire

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Great effort from Fleetwood in a genuinely world class field.
 






A1X

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Astonishing, they just let Faulkner go without challenge
 






Frutos

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Got to feel sorry for Vas in 4th - 98 miles and you miss a medal by such a tiny amount.
 




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Hugo Rune said:
It was hilarious the way they were all looking at each other saying “you lead it”!!!!
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Meanwhile, Faulkner…

Ex On The Beach Goodbye GIF by MTV Nederland
 




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Frutos said:
Got to feel sorry for Vas in 4th - 98 miles and you miss a medal by such a tiny amount.
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In fairness to the women, it was always unlikely we'd see a vas deferens between them.
 


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They should’ve awarded two golds and no silver.
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Yes, i said to mrs DTH that it would be the correct outcome to retrospectively announce that an unfortunate error had been made and that they would be awarding 2 golds. Especially with the televised evidence.
Chances of that happening are virtually nil even though it could be a big plus for the games image.
 


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Being a bit out of touch this time round with the Olympics, are we about par for what's expected re medal count so far? 22 golds in 2020 - seems like it'd be tough to equal or beat that now? Great medal count overall but shame we've stalled a bit with the golds!
 


Deadly Danson

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BN41Albion said:
Being a bit out of touch this time round with the Olympics, are we about par for what's expected re medal count so far? 22 golds in 2020 - seems like it'd be tough to equal or beat that now? Great medal count overall but shame we've stalled a bit with the golds!
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I don't know anything but the indoor cycling starts tomorrow so usually that means at least another 424 more Golds!
 




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Mens 100m semis coming up, featuring Zharnel Hughes and Louie Hinchliffe.
 




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