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[Other Sport] Paris 2024 Olympics & Paralympics ***Official Match Thread***
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And that's it.
India clinical and deserved winners with a heroic effect overcoming the numerical disadvantage.
GB not enough quality and didn't take advantage.
India clinical and deserved winners with a heroic effect overcoming the numerical disadvantage.
GB not enough quality and didn't take advantage.
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- May 12, 2009
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Really poor from GB, India excellent.
KZNSeagull
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Who, What, Why: Why is it Team GB, not Team UK?
Who was this athlete whose record has taken two millennia to beat?
www.bbc.co.uk
TLDR: Team GB is wrong as GB does not include NI, Team UK is wrong as UK does not include Isle of Man, Channel Islands and overseas territories.
Wouldn't it be easier to just compete as different nations? Sure, would look bad in the medal table but who gives a f***.Who, What, Why: Why is it Team GB, not Team UK?
Who was this athlete whose record has taken two millennia to beat?www.bbc.co.uk
TLDR: Team GB is wrong as GB does not include NI, Team UK is wrong as UK does not include Isle of Man, Channel Islands and overseas territories.
KZNSeagull
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The individual nations are not recognised by the IOC whereas they are by FIFA.
Anyone else see Crittenden in the 110m hurdles?
nwgull
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Good crowds for all sessions at the athletics, which is a nice contrast from Rio (and Japan obvs).
Fair play to the French fans. I don’t think they have any star names in the track and field, do they?? In fact I can’t think of the last time a French track/field athlete won an Olympic gold. Anyone?
Fair play to the French fans. I don’t think they have any star names in the track and field, do they?? In fact I can’t think of the last time a French track/field athlete won an Olympic gold. Anyone?
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Marie-José Pérec 200 & 400m gold in Atlanta '96?
nwgull
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That was the last one I could think of. Didn’t she pull out of the Sydney ganes under some odd circumstances 4 years later?
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We played a classic Southgate way, he must have worked with the hockey coach. Take it slow, give the opposition time to get back & organised, play it along the back line lots then just hit it hard & hope.
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Thought the same. Potterball at it’s most ineffective too. Very very frustrating watch and some bad decision making and cluelessness. But as I said before I know f*** all about hockey. When I played it I don’t think sticks above the shoulder were illegal either, maybe I was just a shit hockey player, I did play in the Bs or Cs
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Renaud Lavillenie took gold in London 2012 and silver in Rio 2016 in the pole vault.
Before Duplantis took over, he held the indoor world record for 6 years.
But yes, generally they're not as strong in track and field as other European nations.
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Lottie Fry in Individual Dressage - Bronze. 
But we're one country, so it wouldn't make sense to compete as different nations. Why don't the United States compete disunited?
Because the United States doesn't pretend that they're several different nations when they're playing football, basketball, rugby, curling, lacrosse etc. to then pretend every 4th year that they're one happy united bunch?
If it makes no sense that Andy Murray is competing as Scottish rather than British, why does it make sense does it make sense that Billy Gilmour is competing as Scottish rather than British?
Is it PotG?
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I want to watch the golf uninterrupted but a local internet outage is preventing that and causing much distress.
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Going on from this, Chris Boardman who covers the cycling only ever seems to wear Polo Ralph Lauren mesh polo shirts.
He's rocking a rather fetching purple number today.
Your dislike of our country is really odd. The UK is made up of different nations. That's a fact. We could compete in football as one, but the first ever international football match was between England and Scotland (same for rugby), and we like to keep the teams separate for both tradition and a sense of pride for each nation. I'm not sure why that upsets you. And for the Olympics we compete as one. Again I'm not sure why you care about that.
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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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