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



nwgull

nwgull

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Jul 25, 2003
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A1X said:
Can guarantee these are the same people who answer yes on the questions like “Could you take a point off Serena Williams?” and the like.
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With stuff like that, I think people just have very little concept just how good elite-level sports people are compared to the average Joe. If you were to have watched the women’s marathon earlier, they made it look like they’re running an ‘easy’ pace, but they’re actually going at around 3:25 per km for most of the race. To put it into context, that’s a 17:05 5K. I reckon I could get my 5K PB to that in 4 years, but irrelevant for 2 reasons: Firstly, I’m a bloke. Secondly, I doubt I’d be able to keep that pace going for another K nevermind another 37K!

The fact that 1 in 16 people believe that they could train themselves to run the 100m in 10s is actually quite scary.
 








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tigertim68

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Not sure what’s happened to the GB cycling team , they seems To be tactically inept , they all seem to be lacking in self confidence,
compared to the last 3 Olympics it’s been pretty poor, I think one gold on day one , since then no where near a gold
 






Flounce

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Nov 15, 2006
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tigertim68 said:
Not sure what’s happened to the GB cycling team , they seems To be tactically inept , they all seem to be lacking in self confidence,
compared to the last 3 Olympics it’s been pretty poor, I think one gold on day one , since then no where near a gold
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We were led to believe we’d probably get 8 golds too :down:
 




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essbee1

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Jun 25, 2014
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tigertim68 said:
Not sure what’s happened to the GB cycling team , they seems To be tactically inept , they all seem to be lacking in self confidence,
compared to the last 3 Olympics it’s been pretty poor, I think one gold on day one , since then no where near a gold
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And many of our boxers were cheated - with some of the most corrupt (or plain incompetent) judges.
 




Triggaaar

Triggaaar

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Oct 24, 2005
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Goldstone
nwgull said:
That’s just insane. People genuinely think that the competitors at the Olympics have just practised really hard for the last 3-4 years.
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It's so insane that I've just completely ignored it because I don't feel it can be real.
 


Triggaaar

Triggaaar

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Oct 24, 2005
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tigertim68 said:
Not sure what’s happened to the GB cycling team , they seems To be tactically inept , they all seem to be lacking in self confidence,
compared to the last 3 Olympics it’s been pretty poor, I think one gold on day one , since then no where near a gold
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We need new laws that stop people like Laura Kenny from retiring.
 






Triggaaar

Triggaaar

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Oct 24, 2005
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Algernon said:
Mark Lewis has an excellent channel on YouTube and in it he attempts to match various endeavours.
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I like the idea of that, but his 200m run is a bit pathetic.
 




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essbee1

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Triggaaar said:
Is that a fact or just opinion?
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Opinion. But if you heard the reaction of the BBC commentators also, then you might come to the
same conclusion. I've been watching boxing for donkeys years and have never see such poor
bizarre decisions.
 




Triggaaar

Triggaaar

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Oct 24, 2005
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essbee1 said:
Opinion. But if you heard the reaction of the BBC commentators also, then you might come to the
same conclusion. I've been watching boxing for donkeys years and have never see such poor
bizarre decisions.
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I've listened to a fair bit of it, but it's not been clear whether people are just a bit surprised, or if it really is cheating. Presumably someone has taken the time to investigate the judges scores in each round to determine whether it's possible the results were honest, or if there's a link with specific judges making clearly incorrect calls.
 


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essbee1

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Triggaaar said:
I've listened to a fair bit of it, but it's not been clear whether people are just a bit surprised, or if it really is cheating. Presumably someone has taken the time to investigate the judges scores in each round to determine whether it's possible the results were honest, or if there's a link with specific judges making clearly incorrect calls.
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Interesting. Two that stand out for me especially are the Welsh girl and the heavyweight bloke.
 




KZNSeagull

KZNSeagull

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Nov 26, 2007
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Why did they change the boxing scoring system back again? I thought that things had got better when there was in round scoring with judges pressing buttons and if several did it simultaneously, then the boxer scored points. Or was that bent too?
Based upon the physiques of the ladies currently weight lifting, we already have quite a large population shaped like that so maybe 4 years training isn't so far-fetched? :)
 








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