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

[nwgull]

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.

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.

 

[Frutos]

Utter, utter delusion.

 

[Swegulls]

Table tennis 9%. They won’t be able to return a serve the first year!

 

[tigertim68]

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]

Utter, utter delusion.

I wonder how many are Leeds and Massive fans

 

[Flounce]

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

We were led to believe we’d probably get 8 golds too

 

[Algernon]

Mark Lewis has an excellent channel on YouTube and in it he attempts to match various endeavours.

 

[essbee1]

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

And many of our boxers were cheated - with some of the most corrupt (or plain incompetent) judges.

 

[Triggaaar]

That’s just insane. People genuinely think that the competitors at the Olympics have just practised really hard for the last 3-4 years.

It's so insane that I've just completely ignored it because I don't feel it can be real.

 

[Triggaaar]

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

We need new laws that stop people like Laura Kenny from retiring.

 

[tigertim68]

And many of our boxers were cheated - with some of the most corrupt (or plain incompetent) judges.

The boxing was always going to have dodgy judges , since the IOC have taken control of the boxing ,

 

[Triggaaar]

Mark Lewis has an excellent channel on YouTube and in it he attempts to match various endeavours.

I like the idea of that, but his 200m run is a bit pathetic.

 

[Triggaaar]

And many of our boxers were cheated - with some of the most corrupt (or plain incompetent) judges.

Is that a fact or just opinion?

 

[essbee1]

Is that a fact or just opinion?

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]

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.

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.

 

[essbee1]

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.

Interesting. Two that stand out for me especially are the Welsh girl and the heavyweight bloke.

 

[tigertim68]

Just seen the size of the Chinese female weightlifter, my goodness, never knew they made like that

 

[KZNSeagull]

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?

 

[KZNSeagull]

Jack Carlin into the final of the Keirin. Hamish Turnbull crashed in his semi-final.
Women's Modern Pentathlon Laser run just starting. Bryson the Brit is 7th but has 61 seconds to make up.

 

[Triggaaar]

Just seen the size of the Chinese female weightlifter, my goodness, never knew they made like that

Amazing what you can achieve with state sponsored doping