Olympics Thread
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:
@nzzp said in Olympics Thread:
@cyclops said in Olympics Thread:
Although they do the same at every other sport too so I guess you can't really call it 'moneyball'. Not sure what the rest of the schedule is like but they're holding onto their lead at the top of the leaderboard pretty handily at the moment.
Say what you like about communism, but by god it turns into medals.
Just ask the Germans. East Germany won 35 gold in 1988. Germany currently has 6 I think. They’ve gone from about 12 gold in the pool to 1 bronze.
It did fuck the country doing it. All those resources put to work, but no bread for the people
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@windows97 said in Olympics Thread:
@kiwimurph said in Olympics Thread:
Hubbard fails to complete a single lift in the snatch.
Quite possibly the funniest unintended wit I've read in awhile...
Or was it
The penis is on later today. A new event, the snatch is old news.
Hubbard will do better in that I think.
I'm going to be in so much trouble with the QWERTY folk for that.
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@snowy said in Olympics Thread:
@windows97 said in Olympics Thread:
@kiwimurph said in Olympics Thread:
Hubbard fails to complete a single lift in the snatch.
Quite possibly the funniest unintended wit I've read in awhile...
Or was it
The penis is on later today. A new event, the snatch is old news.
Hubbard will do better in that I think.
I'm going to be in so much trouble with the QWERTY folk for that.
I think Laurel would be better at the clean and jerk
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@machpants said in Olympics Thread:
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
Kiwi kayak pair is racing now. We appear to be getting smoked
Only the first pair, not carringuns powered
Yeah. Development pair
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Some of these 400m girls have great
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@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:
Some of these 400m girls have great
bodiesathleticism.i just came to post what a spunk the Dutch woman Klaver is.
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:
Some of these 400m girls have great
bodiesathleticism.i just came to post what a spunk the Dutch woman Klaver is.
The Swiss beach volleyball team are superior however. On the other channel
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The IOC may be corrupt as all fuck, but they're smart enough to link the competitor's insta accounts:
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A quick glance at current Track and Field WR and heres the ones that its hard not to think hmmmm (based on prejudice and deep seated suspicions of course..)
Mens Hammer throw - Russian 1986
Mens Discus - East German 1986Womans 400m - East German 1985
Womans 800m - Czech 1983
Womans High jump - Bulgarian 1987
Womans Long Jump - Russian 1988
Womans Shot Put - Russian 1987
Womans Discus - East German 1987
Womans 10km Walk - Russian 1990
Womans 4 x 400 Relay - Russian 1988
Womans 4 x 800 Relay - Russian 1984Men dont seem so dodgy, most records these days have been broken in the last 20 years.
But the woman, amazing how many records were set in the mid-late 80's and have never been broken since...1987/1988 seems especially to have been the height of the drug i mean track and field program..
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@virgil said in Olympics Thread:
@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:
Women's 400m WR is held by a, checks notes, East German from 1985. Ridiculous that is still an official record.
There’s a few track and field records from the 70s and 80s from the Eastern Block that are still current today.
It's not just the Eastern Block countries, but that era, and into the 1990s. Randy Barnes, the US shot putter was juiced and his WR from 1990 was only broken this year by Crowser.
