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

[hart's shirt]

Tough for Joe Clarke who lost it at the beginning and ended in 5th.

 

[PascalGroß Tips]

Indeed. Completely moronic sport, straight up barbarian. And obviously all the fighters are idiots (with the odd, odd exception) or they couldn't punch someone who haven't done shit.

Ban the sport and save a couple of hundred, or maybe thousand, brains per year.

If you ban boxing - for starters it would probably go underground without the medical checks etc - but many more young lads would probably end up in prison. Well run boxing clubs are great for local communities and offer a way out for young lads going down the road of criminality.

 

[Han Solo]

If you ban boxing - for starters it would probably go underground without the medical checks etc - but many more young lads would probably end up in prison. Well run boxing clubs are great for local communities and offer a way out for young lads going down the road of criminality.

I'm somewhat torn on boxing clubs. They can provide good stuff to a community but (at least here) a lot of them are shaaady. Professional boxing is banned in Sweden because the idea of making money from beating people up isn't accepted - it gives young people ideas that are arguably equally likely to get them into prison as keeping them out. "Hurt people, get money, get glory".

Understand that views and reality can be different in less pacifism-oriented cultures than the Scandinavian but I'm pretty happy about it. My experiences abroad with fanatics of boxing or MMA etc haven't been to pleasant, lots of testosterone and attitude, though I'm sure this is obviously not the case for everyone.

 

[hart's shirt]

If you ban boxing - for starters it would probably go underground without the medical checks etc - but many more young lads would probably end up in prison. Well run boxing clubs are great for local communities and offer a way out for young lads going down the road of criminality.

Yes, I'm with you here. My father had the chance to box during his National Service years. Done well, it's the noble art.

Picasso, Hemingway, T.S.Eliot...all fans of boxing. More films have been made about the sport than any other, Raging Bull a seminal masterpiece.

At a time when masculinity is under the spotlight, good role models that teach discipline, hard work, camaraderie and respect should be welcomed.

And of course, the opportunity for girls to box should be there as well. GB's done very well here in the past with Nicola Adams.

Like martial arts, there's the opportunity for many different weight categories that should bring fairness and increased inclusivity for all sizes.

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Thanks to @Leekbrookgull who started a thread specifically on Carini v Khalif and what's been discussed on here earlier today.

That's probably the best place to talk about those particular issues as the potential consequences are bigger than just these Olympics.

 

[Flounce]

Does anybody know why the BBC keep switching the Olympics from BBC 1 to BBC 2 and vice versa? f***ing annoying!

 

[PascalGroß Tips]

Does anybody know why the BBC keep switching the Olympics from BBC 1 to BBC 2 and vice versa? f***ing annoying!

It’s like an Olympic sport in itself. I’m well positioned for a medal the amount of channel switching I’ve done.

 

[Flounce]

Yes, I'm with you here. My father had the chance to box during his National Service years. Done well, it's the noble art.

Picasso, Hemingway, T.S.Eliot...all fans of boxing. More films have been made about the sport than any other, Raging Bull a seminal masterpiece.

At a time when masculinity is under the spotlight, good role models that teach discipline, hard work, camaraderie and respect should be welcomed.

And of course, the opportunity for girls to box should be there as well. GB's done very well here in the past with Nicola Adams.

Like martial arts, there's the opportunity for many different weight categories that should bring fairness and increased inclusivity for all sizes.

..........

Thanks to @Leekbrookgull who started a thread specifically on Carini v Khalif and what's been discussed on here earlier today.

That's probably the best place to talk about those particular issues as the potential consequences are bigger than just these Olympics.

Completely random but my wife’s uncle was a Horse Guard and boxed Idi Amin when they were both in the British Army. He knocked him out and told me that he wished he’d killed him! Old school I know….

 

[A1X]

Does anybody know why the BBC keep switching the Olympics from BBC 1 to BBC 2 and vice versa? f***ing annoying!

The News, I believe there’s a requirement to broadcast it on BBC One except in exceptional circumstances

 

[Flounce]

The News, I believe there’s a requirement to broadcast it on BBC One except in exceptional circumstances

Then just put the Olympics on BBC 2?

 

[PascalGroß Tips]

Then just put the Olympics on BBC 2?

This is what I keep saying. Just make BBC2 the Olympic channel and other stuff and the news can be on BBC1. There’s always the risk something big will be missed when the channels change… Tom Pidcock’s puncture for example.

 

[A1X]

Then just put the Olympics on BBC 2?

You’d assume that would be the obvious choice but I guess they don’t want to

 

[A1X]

Murray and Evans just getting started

 

[dazzer6666]

Biles is a freak. Must be made of that staff they make the extra-bouncy balls out of that we had as kids.

 

[Han Solo]

Hopefully Truls Möregårdh can channel his inner Jan Ove Waldner tonight.

This is what I wanna see:

 

[highflyer]

If you ban boxing - for starters it would probably go underground without the medical checks etc - but many more young lads would probably end up in prison. Well run boxing clubs are great for local communities and offer a way out for young lads going down the road of criminality.

I dunno, not sure it reflects very well on society when the best support we can offer young men in danger of going astray is 'fight each other for our entertainment'. Seems a bit hunger games to me. Must be better ways to solve urban deprivation that doesn't involve brain damage. Surely? Reckon Sweden might be a step or two ahead on this one.

I appreciate I'm in a minority right now, but I'm fairly certain people in the future will.look back at footage of boxing and think 'wtf''.

 

[Frutos]

Murray and Evans just getting started

Not going especially well so far.

Fritz and Paul lead the first set 5-2.

 

[Flounce]

Murray and Evans just getting stuffed

Corrected for you, sad to see the deterioration in Murray

 

[Is it PotG?]

Bye Bye Andy, Andy goodbye

 

[Flounce]

Glimmer of hope as they break back

 

[Han Solo]

Corrected for you, sad to see the deterioration in Murray

Done a lot better than I expected. But then again I thought he retired five years ago.