Olympics Thread
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We usually had a habit of getting more bronze medals than silvers so that was a welcome change. The flip side of that fact is that some of those silver medals could so easily have been gold.</p></blockquote>
And a few of those silvers were out and out surprises.<br><br>
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<p>And a few of those silvers were out and out surprises.<br><br>
Best Olympics ever IMO</p>
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<p>As were some of the bronzes, in track and field no less!! We witnessed the emergence on the world stage of Tom Walsh (with honourable mention to Jacko Gill) and Eliza McCartney, who have the potential to go back stronger in 2020</p> -
<p>Valerie's silver was pretty amazing after all the surgery last year (she could barely compete) and the years of toll on the body from all the training. She's a great follow on fb/instagram, videos of some of the weights she's throwing around on a daily basis are remarkable. </p>
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<p>knew I shoulda invested in Gold!</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="pakman" data-cid="608192" data-time="1471902479"><p>
Guardian reported that UK's golds cost £5.5m each.</p></blockquote>
Yeah, but it's a dumb way to measure it. <br><br>
It values minor medals as being worth zero, let alone 4ths, finalists, and also rans.<br><br>
Discussion of spending is a worthwhile topic in this age of central funding for Olympic athletes. But the first rule of discussions of spending is dont use dumb emotive maths to make your point. -
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<p>And a few of those silvers were out and out surprises.<br><br>
Best Olympics ever IMO</p>
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<p>I thought it was a bit of a mess of an event, especially with all the empty seats, feral Brazilian fans and the way they fucked over the Paralympics.</p>
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<p>But the athletes did what they do best and made that mess into a great show regardless and our NZ athletes in particular were fucking awesome.</p> -
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<p>Guardian reported that UK's golds cost £5.5m each.</p>
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<p>The independent is saying £4.1M per medal.</p>
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<p>NZ's costed $9.6m per medal.</p> -
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The independent is saying £4.1M per medal.<br><br>
NZ's costed $9.6m per medal.</p></blockquote>
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Wow that is amazingly comparable. Will be interesting what other countries come out with. -
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<p>Another measure was, for the entire medal haul, GB people paid equivalent of £1.05 each. Money well spent imo.</p>
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<p>that's a heaps better way of looking at it eh.</p> -
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<p>Another measure was, for the entire medal haul, GB people paid equivalent of £1.05 each. Money well spent imo.</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Rembrandt" data-cid="608210" data-time="1471906568"><p>Wow that is amazingly comparable. Will be interesting what other countries come out with.</p></blockquote>Ours would be cheaper if we stopped pissing money away in the pool
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Unco" data-cid="608198" data-time="1471904769"><p>I thought it was a bit of a mess of an event, especially with all the empty seats, feral Brazilian fans and the way they fucked over the Paralympics.<br>
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But the athletes did what they do best and made that mess into a great show regardless and our NZ athletes in particular were fucking awesome.</p></blockquote>i think they tried their best but it seemed like they had organisational issues, funding problems and lots of peripheral stuff going on like Zika and the instability of the government. The empty seats detracted from the event especially in the track and field. In Japan they will have none of those issues, everything will be super organised and the stadia will be full -
<p>A word here for Mahe Drysdale - he was bloody 37! Would have won in Beijing if not struck down by illness, when he was undoubtedly the best in the world. Still battled for a bronze - so 3 medals across 3 games in the man-killer than is the Single Sculls and all of it from the age of 29. He only decided to get back into rowing when he saw Rob Waddell win in Sydney so that is bloody impressive.</p>
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<p>His medal could easily have been silver of course if the race as a few metres shorter or longer.</p> -
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<p>I thought it was a bit of a mess of an event, especially with all the empty seats, feral Brazilian fans and the way they fucked over the Paralympics.</p>
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<p>But the athletes did what they do best and made that mess into a great show regardless and our NZ athletes in particular were fucking awesome.</p>
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<p>Most people who were at the Olympics said that they ran great. Apparently the transportation was fantastic. There was hardly any crime and zika was irrelevant. Some of the crowds were disappointing at the athletics but I thought most other events were reasonably attended.</p> -
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<p>Most people who were at the Olympics said that they ran great. Apparently the transportation was fantastic. There was hardly any crime and zika was irrelevant. Some of the crowds were disappointing at the athletics but I thought most other events were reasonably attended.</p>
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<p>Yeah, some of the atheletes "questionable" stories to get attention didn't help but overall it wasn't anywhere near the disaster many picked it to be.</p>
