Olympics Thread
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@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
@canefan Do you have Sky Sports?
Yup. Can't find the replay. Not on replay on skygo either. Yet.
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The stats make us look luckier than we were. Our defence was pretty assured through the first half, where south Korea did dominate possession, and then we looked the better team until we scored, at which point Korea threw players forward but never really threatened.
Aside from the goal (and a couple of sharp saves)key moment might have been a triple change by South Korea early in the second half. Really disrupted their rhythm and allowed a lot more time on the ball and started our period of dominance that lead to the goal.
Great result. Stoked that Wood got the goal too.
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@canefan I think they appear the next day.
Not sure whether these links work, but - for example - the highlights of the Football Ferns v Australia are here (found under Tokyo 2020 - Olympic Moments):
And the full match is here (found under "Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Football"):
I found these categories by going to "Browse", then "Channels", then "Sky Sport".
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@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
@machpants FOOTball (sorry, pet peeve).
Association football, or Soccer. As opposed to any other form of football.
I really hate it when people try and claim "football" is the exclusive name of one type of football.
Very English centric.
And awesome result for the Olywhites Soccer team!!!
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@machpants said in Olympics Thread:
@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
A Burnleyesque win there. Reid was immense.
Now NZ needs to get another win.
Is that our first ever All Whites win in a major tournament?
We made the knockout round in U-19s in 2019 plus last 16 in U-20s in 2015
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@booboo said in Olympics Thread:
Association football, or Soccer. As opposed to any other form of football.
Going full derailment on the thread (sorry @Stargazer), my Oxford English Dictionary defines 'football' as describing the main code in the country of origin.
The examples include, football in UK = association football/soccer. USA = american football. NZ = Rugby Union. Pretty sure (from memory) that AUS = Aussie Rules.
Edit: I looked it up a few years ago when having a discussion with someone ... basically I'm an anorak on the internet
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If by some miracle the Games make it through to the end i would expect to see events where only 2 or 3 competitors line up.
Can imagine the 100m Mens final with just 3 in the final, the rest are isolating as either covid positive or close contacts.Team events where games are won by default as the other team has had to pull out.
Its barely begun and the number of cases are piling up.
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Watching the Opening Ceremony, it’s actually quite sad. Sad for the Japanese people that they don’t get to experience this at the stadium and all the atmosphere that usually comes with it.
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@act-crusader I agree. The lack of a crowd also affects the acoustics. It just isn't the same watching something like this on tv.
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I just found out the Olympics has 3-on-3 basketball. This festival has jumped the shark. They're not even trying to hide that it's about money and fuck all else
