Olympics Thread

[barbarian]

@crucial Why they made it individual strokeplay I have no idea. Teams foursomes/fourballs like the Zurich Open would be heaps better. Or a team matchplay.

[Bones]

Just watching the women's 100m....is it typical for the athletes to have to wear bits of paper with their names and numbers?

Probably my memory failing but I don't recall seeing it before (at this level).

[taniwharugby]

@crucial give them golf carts, speed it up too!

[Stargazer]

Emma Twigg in the Women's Single Sculls final at 12.33pm (Tokyo 2020 channel 6).

[Stargazer]

Go Emma!

Edit: she's in lane 4.

[Stargazer]

Twigg leading after 1000m.

https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/rowing/results-women-s-single-sculls-fnl-000100-.htm

[Stargazer]

Twigg's lead after 1500m is 2.73 seconds. Will it be enough?

[Virgil]

Gold!!!

[dogmeat]

@stargazer YESSSS!

[Stargazer]

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!

[Bovidae]

Redemption.

[taniwharugby]

great row there!

Started strong and just kept inching ahead!

But man, that looks like hard work!

[Rapido]

Awesome. Delighted for her. After 2 4ths, would have hated an Ostapcuk sort of moment. So good.

[Bovidae]

An Olympic best time from Twigg.

[Machpants]

What was the gap to second? I was out

[Toddy]

@machpants said in Olympics Thread:

What was the gap to second? I was out

About 3.5 seconds. She never looked like losing.

[Rapido]

It's funny that rowers obviously spend so much time with shades on that all 3 think nothing of keeping their sunglasses on top of their heads in the most photographed moment of their lives.

[Crucial]

@taniwharugby said in Olympics Thread:

@crucial give them golf carts, speed it up too!

Fuck it’s a hard watch. Droning commentary, slow, no graphics to give an idea of how your country is going…..
Not a good ad for the sport.

[Crucial]

Women’s eights about to go.

[Machpants]

It's wierd seeing men in the women's teams