Olympics Thread

canefan

@crucial said in Olympics Thread:

Not looking good for us in the evening. The jump course isn’t challenging the better riders at all. No movement at all in order from the first rotation and no one gaining any ground either.
Barring a France or Aus rider having a meltdown we will be stuck in fourth.

A Spinning Rhombus moment

The Nicholson candidate

MN5

@booboo said in Olympics Thread:

@crucial said in Olympics Thread:

Not looking good for us in the evening. The jump course isn’t challenging the better riders at all. No movement at all in order from the first rotation and no one gaining any ground either.
Barring a France or Aus rider having a meltdown we will be stuck in fourth.

A Spinning Rhombus moment

I haven’t spun Rhombus for years but this song was great fun back in the day.

canefan

Dutch score off a penalty stroke

Stargazer

Women's football:
The Yanks are out!! They lost 0 - 1 to Canada in the semi-final.

Edited to add that the other semi-final is between Sweden and Australia (11.00pm NZT).

NTA

@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:

Women's football:
The Yanks are out!! They lost 0 - 1 to Canada in the semi-final.

Edited to add that the other semi-final is between Sweden and Australia (11.00pm NZT).

Sweden-Canada final then. Swedes beat us 4-2 in the pool and I can't see that being turned around.

Bones

@mn5 Tom's a good EB lad, one of my best mate's when very young.

Bovidae

Ouch! A day of upsets in womens team sports so far.

Stargazer

Half time: Black Sticks 0 - 2 Netherlands

booboo

@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:

Women's football:
The Yanks are out!! They lost 0 - 1 to Canada in the semi-final.

Edited to add that the other semi-final is between Sweden and Australia (11.00pm NZT).

Kinda pleased about that

MN5

@bones said in Olympics Thread:

@mn5 Tom's a good EB lad, one of my best mate's when very young.

Fraternising with Rugby AND Music stars. There’s just no stopping you.

canefan

@booboo said in Olympics Thread:

@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:

Women's football:
The Yanks are out!! They lost 0 - 1 to Canada in the semi-final.

Edited to add that the other semi-final is between Sweden and Australia (11.00pm NZT).

Kinda pleased about that

If they are honest they probably didn't deserve much better

Bones

Is every Australian athlete being bred from the same strain as Hoopah? I swear almost every Aussie I see at these games has their eyes about a millimetre apart.

Rancid Schnitzel

@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:

Women's football:
The Yanks are out!! They lost 0 - 1 to Canada in the semi-final.

Edited to add that the other semi-final is between Sweden and Australia (11.00pm NZT).

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.

Stargazer

Hockey: The Netherlands score again. They now lead 3 - 0 against the Black Sticks.

booboo

Horseys.

Andrew Hoy is 62. Sixty fucking two

And wins silver. (Teams)

Much respect.

mariner4life

@majorrage said in Olympics Thread:

@canefan said in Olympics Thread:

@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:

Women's hockey:

The Netherlands are the first to score.
0 - 1 NL

Disappointing. On the flip side some of the Dutch girls are quite hawt

I stayed in these same hotel as the Dutch field hockey team once in the Nehtherlands.

Many of them, are indeed, seriously seriously hot. On the flip side, the shortest one was about 6ft 1.

How is that a flip side?

NTA

@booboo said in Olympics Thread:

Horseys.

Andrew Hoy is 62. Sixty fucking two

And wins silver. (Teams)

Much respect.

Original horse, long gone...

Stargazer

Full time:
The Netherlands 3 - 0 New Zealand

The Dutch progress to the semis, the Kiwis are out.
Can't really complain. The Dutch were just so much better.

The previous women's hockey quarter-finals:
Germany 0 - 3 Argentina
Australia 0 - 1 India

The last quarter-final:
Spain v Great Britain (at midnight NZT).

NTA

@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:

Australia 0 - 1 India

Tough result, that. They'd been going along reasonably well.

booboo

@nta said in Olympics Thread:

@booboo said in Olympics Thread:

Horseys.

Andrew Hoy is 62. Sixty fucking two

And wins silver. (Teams)

Much respect.

Original horse, long gone...

Yeah but he rides horfs goodly

The Silver Fern

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