Olympics Thread
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
I do find triathlon a bit funny sometimes, where after the swim and the bike they are all generally in a big pack.
Why not just save everyone's time and have a 10km running race?
on the flip side, why should i be impressed with the 10,000m when they haven't done 1.5km in a river and rode 40km first?
Oh you shouldn't. I know I'm not. I've always maintained Haile Gebraselassie is one of the most fraudelent athletes of all time.
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yeah, them African runner ain't shit!!
Hichem el Guerrouj totally isn't one of may favourite olympians ever
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(in before anyone mentions that, even at their current ages, both would absolutely destroy me in a triathlon)
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
Which brings me to one of my ideas to bring a bit of life to the Olympics: instead of being the same five events, the Modern Pentathlon should consist of five Olympic events randomly drawn at the opening ceremony.
In Paris it could be tennis, judo, equestrian, BMX and diving. In LA it might be artistic swimming, archery, taekwondo, weight lifting and surfing.
Reward the ultimate all-rounder. Don't tell me you wouldn't watch some 100kg romanian martial arts guru try and ride a barrel in Tahiti...
i like the idea i saw floating around social media the last olympics
have a random Joe in every event so you get a comparable base line. So in your triathlon the winner comes in with a time of 1.53. And then we wait an hour and a bit for average Joe to finish.
If average Joe can even finish. Most wouldnt make it back up the river!
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@nzzp said in Olympics Thread:
my mate (who did big triathlons) reckons chasing is easier than defending on the run. So there's that, too.
Due the psychological stimulus of having a clear target in front of the attacking runner?
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@JK said in Olympics Thread:
@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
Which brings me to one of my ideas to bring a bit of life to the Olympics: instead of being the same five events, the Modern Pentathlon should consist of five Olympic events randomly drawn at the opening ceremony.
In Paris it could be tennis, judo, equestrian, BMX and diving. In LA it might be artistic swimming, archery, taekwondo, weight lifting and surfing.
Reward the ultimate all-rounder. Don't tell me you wouldn't watch some 100kg romanian martial arts guru try and ride a barrel in Tahiti...
i like the idea i saw floating around social media the last olympics
have a random Joe in every event so you get a comparable base line. So in your triathlon the winner comes in with a time of 1.53. And then we wait an hour and a bit for average Joe to finish.
If average Joe can even finish. Most wouldnt make it back up the river!
that had occurred to me
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seem like a few good roosters out there on the tri circuit
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@voodoo yeah was reading Yee had similar things to say about one of his team mates.
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@taniwharugby said in Olympics Thread:
@voodoo yeah was reading Yee had similar things to say about one of his team mates.
yeah the bloke that pulled the bike group along was cooked after that, lasted about 200m of the run, sent Yee on his way and effectively pulled up. Wonder where he finished?
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
@taniwharugby said in Olympics Thread:
@voodoo yeah was reading Yee had similar things to say about one of his team mates.
yeah the bloke that pulled the bike group along was cooked after that, lasted about 200m of the run, sent Yee on his way and effectively pulled up. Wonder where he finished?
I don't think he finished did he? Sam someone?
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@booboo said in Olympics Thread:
Coverage of that Triathlon was shit.
Why were we getting saturation coverage of the Frogs with no coverage of the leader showing split to second changing.
Absolute rubbish commentary- went to get a beer out of fridge as commentators said it was basically race won and came back and he had been overtaken. No disappointment in being second best in the world at what you do so still managed to raise a glass to his efforts.
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I'm calling suss on the Chinese guy who won the 100m free too. In a slow pool he smokes everyone and sets a new WR? yeah, absolutely nothing to see here.
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
I'm calling suss on the Chinese guy who won the 100m free too. In a slow pool he smokes everyone and sets a new WR? yeah, absolutely nothing to see here.
Totally. It was his own WR too that he set in Feb. 0.4 of a second is a lot in the 100m too
He was crap the other night in the heats - presumably hadn’t had his bag of blood yet…
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
I'm calling suss on the Chinese guy who won the 100m free too. In a slow pool he smokes everyone and sets a new WR? yeah, absolutely nothing to see here.
Yep, that was ridiculous. Dodgy as hell.
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@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
Which brings me to one of my ideas to bring a bit of life to the Olympics: instead of being the same five events, the Modern Pentathlon should consist of five Olympic events randomly drawn at the opening ceremony.
In Paris it could be tennis, judo, equestrian, BMX and diving. In LA it might be artistic swimming, archery, taekwondo, weight lifting and surfing.
Reward the ultimate all-rounder. Don't tell me you wouldn't watch some 100kg romanian martial arts guru try and ride a barrel in Tahiti...
That would be as exciting as watching the teenage girls falling off their skateboards
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@MiketheSnow said in Olympics Thread:
@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
Which brings me to one of my ideas to bring a bit of life to the Olympics: instead of being the same five events, the Modern Pentathlon should consist of five Olympic events randomly drawn at the opening ceremony.
In Paris it could be tennis, judo, equestrian, BMX and diving. In LA it might be artistic swimming, archery, taekwondo, weight lifting and surfing.
Reward the ultimate all-rounder. Don't tell me you wouldn't watch some 100kg romanian martial arts guru try and ride a barrel in Tahiti...
That would be as exciting as watching the teenage girls falling off their skateboards
As opposed to the current Modern Pentathlon, which is just edge of your seat stuff from start to finish.
