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    @Billy-Tell said in Olympics Thread:

    Skateboarding is a joke of an Olympic sport. All the medal hopes are about 14, all keep falling off their skateboards. But fun to watch.

    Sucked balls

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    Murray and Evans just won the gold medal in the first round.

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    @Bones said in Olympics Thread:

    Murray and Evans just won the gold medal in the first round.

    😂😂😂

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    Marchand dominates

    Almost 6 secs ahead of the pack

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    The kiss of death from the NZ media for Clareburt. He would been hoping to make the podium.

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    @Billy-Tell said in Olympics Thread:

    Skateboarding is a joke of an Olympic sport. All the medal hopes are about 14, all keep falling off their skateboards. But fun to watch.

    Another attempt at a ratings grab by the Olympics. Let's sell our souls for a couple more X Games events

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    @Billy-Tell said in Olympics Thread:

    Skateboarding is a joke of an Olympic sport. All the medal hopes are about 14, all keep falling off their skateboards. But fun to watch.

    My son is an avid skateboarder and he had zero interest in watching it.

    If you think that's bad wait for the breakdancing. I shit you not, that is an event.

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    @Rancid-Schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:

    @Billy-Tell said in Olympics Thread:

    Skateboarding is a joke of an Olympic sport. All the medal hopes are about 14, all keep falling off their skateboards. But fun to watch.

    My son is an avid skateboarder and he had zero interest in watching it.

    If you think that's bad wait for the breakdancing. I shit you not, that is an event.

    As an ex Sailor it really sucks to see the Finn class get dropped for shit like this.

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    If the Olympics got rid of the dogshit x-game events I could be motivated to let swimmers dog paddle their way to gold medals.

    Emphasis on could be. But probably not.

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    The New York Times has turned the Olympics 400m Medley Swimming Final into an animation.

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    @Rancid-Schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:

    @Billy-Tell said in Olympics Thread:

    Skateboarding is a joke of an Olympic sport. All the medal hopes are about 14, all keep falling off their skateboards. But fun to watch.

    My son is an avid skateboarder and he had zero interest in watching it.

    If you think that's bad wait for the breakdancing. I shit you not, that is an event.

    My kids are 13 and 10, and they don't give a fuck about the Olympics. Maybe one day it will go the way of Telethon. Wait until the Olympic sanctioned E sports begins 🤦🤷

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    NZ media trying to put the jinx on another medal hopeful

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350359355/new-zealands-first-paris-olympic-games-medal-tipped-tuesday

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    @Rancid-Schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:

    @Billy-Tell said in Olympics Thread:

    Skateboarding is a joke of an Olympic sport. All the medal hopes are about 14, all keep falling off their skateboards. But fun to watch.

    My son is an avid skateboarder and he had zero interest in watching it.

    If you think that's bad wait for the breakdancing. I shit you not, that is an event.

    I thought I’d watch to see what it was like. I was sort of expecting a race with tricks. Instead it looked like teenagers practising in a central city anywhere in the world. And they kept falling off their skateboards.

    Breakdancing is already dropped for 2028.

    My favourite so far is the mountain bike race. That is a great event. Apparently the Olympic course is built more for speed than technical prowess. Still had a spectacular fall though from the French rider.

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    Arm wrestling should be in there.

    That’s one of my new favourite sports. So technical and brutal.

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    @MN5 said in Olympics Thread:

    Arm wrestling should be in there.

    That’s one of my new favourite sports. So technical and brutal.

    Why stop there??

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    @canefan said in Olympics Thread:

    @MN5 said in Olympics Thread:

    Arm wrestling should be in there.

    That’s one of my new favourite sports. So technical and brutal.

    Why stop there??

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    Fuck me, look at the synthol in old mates arms !

    No wonder he got slapped.

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    @MN5 said in Olympics Thread:

    Arm wrestling should be in there.

    That’s one of my new favourite sports. So technical and brutal.

    Would agree but not a single competitor would pass a drug test.

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    @Rancid-Schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:

    @MN5 said in Olympics Thread:

    Arm wrestling should be in there.

    That’s one of my new favourite sports. So technical and brutal.

    Would agree but not a single competitor would pass a drug test.

    Not even Devon Larrett ?

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    Nadal is playing Djokovic in the second round of the Olympic tennis singles, for what might be their last ever encounter. They have played each other 60 times!! (Or this is the 60th, I think the comms said Djokovic is up 30-29. Crazy).

    Nadal showed clear signs of rust after an almost 2 year layoff, losing in 2. But the crowd enjoyed seeing two greats playing together one more time

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