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

[Triggaaar]

puts to bed the theory big stadium = zero atmosphere.

What theory is that? I've never heard it.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Gold. What a week for our rowers.

I’m utterly in awe of the rowers.

I row 5km every morning (on an ERG, obviously, not on a lake…) at 30 strokes per minute, which I increase to 31 or 32 for the last 500 metres. And that hurts quite a lot.

This lot are racing in the mid 40 strokes per minute - and today I saw a Dutch crew take it up to about 48, ffs. I didn’t even know 48 was possible.

 

[A1X]

 

[Han Solo]

They're slow to the party. We celebrate St Lucia every year here.

 

[hart's shirt]

India have a player sent off midway through the 1st half in their QF with GB.

Huge chance of making the SF now.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Deserved red card for India there, smacked our bloke on the nut with his bat.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Pleases me greatly that we have players called Nick Park and Wallace but sadly no Gromit

 

[essbee1]

Deserved red card for India there, smacked our bloke on the nut with his bat.

Is it like footie, where it's essentially all over for the team down to 10 men?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Deserved red card for India there, smacked our bloke in the nut with his stick

Is it like footie, where it's essentially all over for the team down to 10 men?

Seems to have opened the game up, India realising they need to go for it.

 

[pasty]

India score ! Assuming now we’ll see hockey equivalent of parking the bus.

 

[hart's shirt]

And GB go a goal down.

Still, plenty of time to recover. They've been in this situation before.

 

[pasty]

GB equaliser

1-1

 

[Birdie Boy]

Presumably we will wear them down this 3rd, hopefully.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

What a shot, what a save.

Seems like GB are running out of ideas

This match is a bit like watching Albion play versus a team with a man down.

 

[Han Solo]

I’m utterly in awe of the rowers.

I row 5km every morning (on an ERG, obviously, not on a lake…) at 30 strokes per minute, which I increase to 31 or 32 for the last 500 metres. And that hurts quite a lot.

This lot are racing in the mid 40 strokes per minute - and today I saw a Dutch crew take it up to about 48, ffs. I didn’t even know 48 was possible.

Ffs read the first part of the sentence and thought "here's either a beautiful lie or a wonderful world". But nope... straight down to middle aged-men realities where Bambi is shot and eaten 30 seconds into the movie.

 

[Weststander]

I’m utterly in awe of the rowers.

I row 5km every morning (on an ERG, obviously, not on a lake…) at 30 strokes per minute, which I increase to 31 or 32 for the last 500 metres. And that hurts quite a lot.

This lot are racing in the mid 40 strokes per minute - and today I saw a Dutch crew take it up to about 48, ffs. I didn’t even know 48 was possible.

In oar .

 

[Bry Nylon]

Ffs read the first part of the sentence and thought "here's either a beautiful lie or a wonderful world". But nope... straight down to middle aged-men realities where Bambi is shot and eaten 30 seconds into the movie.

You’ve lost me a little on this one..?

5km on an ERG isn’t a big deal. It takes a little over 20 mins (or about 6 tracks on Spotify).

 

[hart's shirt]

India down to 9 temporarily now!

GB might take their keeper out for that time.

 

[Frutos]

GB might take their keeper out for that time.

Imagine that option in football!

 

[A1X]

Based on nothing more than their antics during this match I’ve reached the conclusion the Indian team are all just dickheads