Olympics Thread

[nostrildamus]

I'm always amazed NZ and Australia do well in cycling, wouldn't have thought we'd have the mass of riders, culture, or specialist facilities to compete with the Europeans..

[Bones]

@nostrildamus lots of roads and not many cars!

[nostrildamus]

@bones said in Olympics Thread:

@nostrildamus lots of roads and not many cars!

you mean Australia? Cycling in most places outside maybe of Canberra is a masochistic deathwish.

[Bones]

@nostrildamus looked pretty sweet in Moree last time I was there.

[nostrildamus]

@bones said in Olympics Thread:

@nostrildamus looked pretty sweet in Moree last time I was there.

Too many pecans..

[Stargazer]

@nostrildamus said in Olympics Thread:

@bones said in Olympics Thread:

@nostrildamus lots of roads and not many cars!

you mean Australia? Cycling in most places outside maybe of Canberra is a masochistic deathwish.

It's the same in most of NZ, unless you're lucky enough to find a cycleway.

[mofitzy_]

A single gold would almost certainly put us in the top 10 - looking unlikely but still possible.

[booboo]

@nostrildamus said in Olympics Thread:

@bones said in Olympics Thread:

@nostrildamus lots of roads and not many cars!

you mean Australia? Cycling in most places outside maybe of Canberra is a masochistic deathwish.

You refer to the capitals.

That's why Anna Meares was from Rocky.

[Stargazer]

Bugger, Andrews close, but loses her heat. To the repechage in the women's sprint.

[Bones]

@stargazer centimetres in it!

[Bovidae]

Did anyone watch the Heavyweight boxing final? The Russian Gadzhimagomedov got beaten 5-0 by the Cuban la Cruz.

I will have to find a replay.

[Stargazer]

Andrews will ride in repechage heat 3 at 9.59pm.

[Tordah]

@bovidae Yeah, the Cuban had some nice reflexes and had his arms low the whole time, ducking and weaving away from every punch, basically. Landed just a few himself, but was enough.

[Stargazer]

The two Dutchmen have to go to a decider on the sprint. Wow.

[Rancid Schnitzel]

@nostrildamus said in Olympics Thread:

@bones said in Olympics Thread:

@nostrildamus lots of roads and not many cars!

you mean Australia? Cycling in most places outside maybe of Canberra is a masochistic deathwish.

Not in Brisbane. Heaps of those bloody cycle paths. Still doesn’t stop the Lycra clad piston wristed gibbons from using suburban roads.

[Rapido]

Man, modern pentathlon looks brutal mind fuck.

All that swimming, running, fencing training etc for 4 years. yet can all be for nothing if your nag from the olympic car pool is spooked .

[canefan]

Andrews through to the last 8 of the sprint. She is having an outstanding first O games

[Tordah]

Modern Pentathlon is weird, I like the combination of running, swimming, shooting and fencing, but why would you have riding there, when the athletes are randomly allotted the horses - way too much luck involved. The German leading athlete has just lost her almost guaranteed medal because she couldn't get the horse to work, and she was crying her heart out before and during the attempt.

[Bovidae]

@canefan said in Olympics Thread:

Andrews through to the last 8 of the sprint. She is having an outstanding first O games

She looked good there.

[Rapido]

@tordah said in Olympics Thread:

Modern Pentathlon is weird, I like the combination of running, swimming, shooting and fencing, but why would you have riding there, when the athletes are randomly allotted the horses - way too much luck involved. The German leading athlete has just lost her almost guaranteed medal because she couldn't get the horse to work, and she was crying her heart out before and out during the attempt.

The chance that your horse has already been taken for an earlier round by a worse rider who has barrelled through several fences.

Although the event is based on an officer escaping from behind enemy lines and stealing a random horse.