Olympics Thread
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i'm effectively creating the memory in my mind that the other 3 quit and she dragged their asses home by herself.
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
i'm effectively creating the memory in my mind that the other 3 quit and she dragged their asses home by herself.
I'm pretty sure the girl at the back was doing the Lay Down Sally well before the end.
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Bay boys hard out deifying her. and rightly so.
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
i'm effectively creating the memory in my mind that the other 3 quit and she dragged their asses home by herself.
Dodged a couple of icebergs along the way.
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@Donsteppa said in Olympics Thread:
@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
i'm effectively creating the memory in my mind that the other 3 quit and she dragged their asses home by herself.
Dodged a couple of icebergs along the way.
U boats seems more fitting
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@SBW1 said in Olympics Thread:
We are on 13 medals with three days left, what are our chances over the next few days.
We are coming first out of countries that have never hosted a summer Olympics. Ahead of half a dozen who have.
Lisa +1 and Aimee Fisher could and probably should pick up three more canoeing medals.
Hamish Kerr a decent chance in high jump.
Lydia a chance in the golf.
Not sure what's left in track cycling, but there could well be a bit more to come - there's probably still points races and madisons and suchlike - see Willie's earlier post.
Most of the rest probably outside chances at best, but I'm probably overlooking someone.
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@booboo said in Olympics Thread:
@Chris-B said in Olympics Thread:
probably overlooking someone
Always possible, who had heard of Finn Butcher?
He was definitely an outlier. Not sure we've got any more of those hiding in plain sight
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@Chris-B said in Olympics Thread:
@SBW1 said in Olympics Thread:
We are on 13 medals with three days left, what are our chances over the next few days.
Hamish Kerr a decent chance in high jump.
Watched the heats and the Italian favourite is off his game and the Qatari is jumping injured, Kerr has a seriously good potential at not just a medal but a gold at this
As is the shotput girl who was one of only 3 I think females who actually got ahead of the qualifying distance, think was around 19m. the rest qualified under next best distance rule.
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@bayimports said in Olympics Thread:
As is the shotput girl who was one of only 3 I think females who actually got ahead of the qualifying distance, think was around 19m. the rest qualified under next best distance rule.
Yep - if she can post that in the final or close to her recent PB of 19.81 then she will be in with a medal chance. In a lot of the field events, top people have failed to get close to their best in this games.
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@booboo said in Olympics Thread:
Take out LA (Commie boycott) and it's only London and after where we start a decent bag of medals.
spot on.
Someone wrote about how high performance sport NZ has found the soft seams of medals at the Olympics and exploited it ruthlessly - velodrome, kayak, rowing. Plenty of medals, not so many serious competitors. I thought it was a very insightful point ... we are maximising our medals per dollar (and arguably that's the most importnat metric for countries like us with limited resources)
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@Windows97 said in Olympics Thread:
Hmm - how long before Russia is allowed back into the Olympics?
It's funny, I haven't noticed their absence at all. Don't know what that means.
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@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
@Windows97 said in Olympics Thread:
Hmm - how long before Russia is allowed back into the Olympics?
It's funny, I haven't noticed their absence at all. Don't know what that means.
It means poor old China gets all the government sponsored/covered up doping heat, rather than Russia taking it's fair share of it!
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Also watched NZ make a qtr final in mens sport climbing last night. The sports climbing event is nuts, first time I've watched it, its the closest thing I have ever seen that looks like it is straight out of the MCU. Seriously was expecting Peter Parker to represent USA
