Olympics Thread
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:
@nostrildamus said in Olympics Thread:
On Lisa's chinups (from 2012)
Yeah I’m still calling complete bs on that. She perhaps does a total of 30 during a workout but no freaking way is she doing 30 in a row.
But I would totally marry her. Absolutely adore women like her. Actual strong women, not the pearl clutching pretenders.
Exactly, one rep with about half your body weight puts you in a pretty elite class ( which she is ). 30 in a row is fantasy land.
In saying all that she’s one medal away from beating Ian Ferguson to become our best Olympian ever ( heard the tail end of this on the radio so correct me if I’m wrong )
Some fucken achievement, I remember him coming to chat to us at primary school. Absolute GC.
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@nta said in Olympics Thread:
An American kid just ran the 200m semi without looking like he was trying. He was watching the other guys down the straight to see how much effort he needed to win.
Ran 20.02 😮
and he was not even breathing hard at the end
5,000m mens were kinda boring. Really slow pace. Well, except for the Kenyans talking to each other the whole time.
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@act-crusader said in Olympics Thread:
@tewaio said in Olympics Thread:
@nta 19.19, no way....
I never thought Michael Johnson’s 19.32 would ever have been topped. Then along came Bolt. I’ll never forget watching that Beijing performance by Bolt to just clip Johnson when he ran 19.30. Fast forward 12 months and at the World Champs he blew it out the water with 19.19 - basically running two world record pace 100m back to back - that is insane.
Records are there to be broken, right? Once upon a time the 4-minute mile was a thing. The 10s barrier for 100m was only broken in 1968 with hand timers often rounded to 1 decimal place. Electronic timing changed it again.
Carl Lewis was apparently the first electronically timed runner to break 10s in 1983. That wasn't so long ago, and as we get more potential record breakers into the mix instead of just private school pakeha from England and the USA
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
@nta said in Olympics Thread:
An American kid just ran the 200m semi without looking like he was trying. He was watching the other guys down the straight to see how much effort he needed to win.
Ran 20.02 😮
and he was not even breathing hard at the end
5,000m mens were kinda boring. Really slow pace. Well, except for the Kenyans talking to each other the whole time.
Best part of the 5000m is trying to pick which non-African is going to win.
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I see that the young Namibian silver medallist (Christine Mboma) in the women's 200 m wasn't allowed to compete in her favoured 400 m due to having elevated testosterone levels - the Caster Semenya rule. The same for their other runner, who finished 6th.
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@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
I see that the young Namibian silver medallist (Christine Mboma) in the women's 200 m wasn't allowed to compete in her favoured 400 m due to having elevated testosterone levels - the Caster Semenya rule. The same for their other runner, who finished 6th.
Pretty strange that the rule only applies to certain events. If you are deemed ineligible (or eligible) then that should be that.
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@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
I see that the young Namibian silver medallist (Christine Mboma) in the women's 200 m wasn't allowed to compete in her favoured 400 m due to having elevated testosterone levels - the Caster Semenya rule. The same for their other runner, who finished 6th.
Yeh weird that it doesn’t apply to 100 and 200
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@nta said in Olympics Thread:
@act-crusader said in Olympics Thread:
@tewaio said in Olympics Thread:
@nta 19.19, no way....
I never thought Michael Johnson’s 19.32 would ever have been topped. Then along came Bolt. I’ll never forget watching that Beijing performance by Bolt to just clip Johnson when he ran 19.30. Fast forward 12 months and at the World Champs he blew it out the water with 19.19 - basically running two world record pace 100m back to back - that is insane.
Records are there to be broken, right? Once upon a time the 4-minute mile was a thing. The 10s barrier for 100m was only broken in 1968 with hand timers often rounded to 1 decimal place. Electronic timing changed it again.
On the flipside, the lack of progress in some of the jumps events is really interesting.
The long jump winner in Sydney would have won gold quite easily at the last four Olympics. The high jump numbers have been static at about 2.35-7 since Atlanta.
Given the progress in other areas I'm surprised we haven't seen any advances there. Maybe it's drugs (or the lack of them), maybe it's just the nature of jumping?
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@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
@nta said in Olympics Thread:
@act-crusader said in Olympics Thread:
@tewaio said in Olympics Thread:
@nta 19.19, no way....
I never thought Michael Johnson’s 19.32 would ever have been topped. Then along came Bolt. I’ll never forget watching that Beijing performance by Bolt to just clip Johnson when he ran 19.30. Fast forward 12 months and at the World Champs he blew it out the water with 19.19 - basically running two world record pace 100m back to back - that is insane.
Records are there to be broken, right? Once upon a time the 4-minute mile was a thing. The 10s barrier for 100m was only broken in 1968 with hand timers often rounded to 1 decimal place. Electronic timing changed it again.
On the flipside, the lack of progress in some of the jumps events is really interesting.
The long jump winner in Sydney would have won gold quite easily at the last four Olympics. The high jump numbers have been static at about 2.35-7 since Atlanta.
Given the progress in other areas I'm surprised we haven't seen any advances there. Maybe it's drugs (or the lack of them), maybe it's just the nature of jumping?
That is a good point. I'd be keen to see the data based on athlete stats compared to atmospheric data specific to each location.
Apparently the velodrome at Tokyo has the right combination of factors to make it a record-breaking track (was listening to commentators say this, mind). The pools at Sydney and Beijing were apparently favourable to fast speeds as well, for reasons I forget.
Maybe they need to evolve the thinking around the athletes in jumping events? Remember back in the 80s and 90s the sprinters were all musclebound freaks? Now they're all lean and wiry. That was probably drugs of course, but they were all going for power through bulk as well. Bolt changed that.
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@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
@nta said in Olympics Thread:
@act-crusader said in Olympics Thread:
@tewaio said in Olympics Thread:
@nta 19.19, no way....
I never thought Michael Johnson’s 19.32 would ever have been topped. Then along came Bolt. I’ll never forget watching that Beijing performance by Bolt to just clip Johnson when he ran 19.30. Fast forward 12 months and at the World Champs he blew it out the water with 19.19 - basically running two world record pace 100m back to back - that is insane.
Records are there to be broken, right? Once upon a time the 4-minute mile was a thing. The 10s barrier for 100m was only broken in 1968 with hand timers often rounded to 1 decimal place. Electronic timing changed it again.
On the flipside, the lack of progress in some of the jumps events is really interesting.
The long jump winner in Sydney would have won gold quite easily at the last four Olympics. The high jump numbers have been static at about 2.35-7 since Atlanta.
Given the progress in other areas I'm surprised we haven't seen any advances there. Maybe it's drugs (or the lack of them), maybe it's just the nature of jumping?
Lack of interest maybe? They aren’t exactly “sexy” sports. Doesn’t appear as if sprinters cross over into long jump any more either. Marion Jones was maybe the last to give it a crack?
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@jk said in Olympics Thread:
Ladies golf starts this morning
Lydia is off at 11.41 NZ time and playing with Inbee Park, so a couple of good medal chances there.
My fav Gaby Lopez is off just after 1pm and grouped with Jessica Korda so should also get a fair bit of TV time.
Another good grouping is the one just before Lydia with Lexi Thompson and Brook Henderson.
Just realised that Lydia's group are the 3 medal winners from Rio
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@jk said in Olympics Thread:
Ladies golf starts this morning
Lydia is off at 11.41 NZ time and playing with Inbee Park, so a couple of good medal chances there.
My fav Gaby Lopez is off just after 1pm
Can you help her out? She needs something to hang off, apparently...
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Regal straight through to K1 500m quarter, although a fast finishing opponent almost got her after the front 3 eased up when they were well clear (first 3 qualified)
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:
@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
@nta said in Olympics Thread:
@act-crusader said in Olympics Thread:
@tewaio said in Olympics Thread:
@nta 19.19, no way....
I never thought Michael Johnson’s 19.32 would ever have been topped. Then along came Bolt. I’ll never forget watching that Beijing performance by Bolt to just clip Johnson when he ran 19.30. Fast forward 12 months and at the World Champs he blew it out the water with 19.19 - basically running two world record pace 100m back to back - that is insane.
Records are there to be broken, right? Once upon a time the 4-minute mile was a thing. The 10s barrier for 100m was only broken in 1968 with hand timers often rounded to 1 decimal place. Electronic timing changed it again.
On the flipside, the lack of progress in some of the jumps events is really interesting.
The long jump winner in Sydney would have won gold quite easily at the last four Olympics. The high jump numbers have been static at about 2.35-7 since Atlanta.
Given the progress in other areas I'm surprised we haven't seen any advances there. Maybe it's drugs (or the lack of them), maybe it's just the nature of jumping?
Lack of interest maybe? They aren’t exactly “sexy” sports. Doesn’t appear as if sprinters cross over into long jump any more either. Marion Jones was maybe the last to give it a crack?
The young guy from the USA in the high jump was doing long jump final the next day. That's related somewhat I guess but up versus across might be difficult.
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