Olympics Thread
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Regular Monday-itis magnified 10x today with the end of the games. I've lapped it all up, lost countless hours of sleep, watched as much as I possibly could. Some epic moments, the joy and heartache on display as good as ever.
I might head off to bed for a couple of weeks I think.
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@Damo said in Olympics Thread:
Wollaston in 5th after 2 events in the omnium. Not many points off a bronze. I don't know how they are able to work out the placings in the tempo race for those who scored no points at all. Anyone know?
place across the line last lap.
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Well it's our best Olympics ever as far as gold medals go (which tbh is the true barometer) - have we ever finished 11th on the medal table before??
Probably a once in the lifetime Olympics for all of us, but what massive progress we made from our lonely gold in Sydney.
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@Windows97 We've finished higher than 11th!!
In time honoured tradition all our golds and all bar two of our medals won sitting on our arses
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@dogmeat said in Olympics Thread:
@Windows97 We've finished higher than 11th!!
In time honoured tradition all our golds and all bar two of our medals won sitting on our arses
Those '84 Olympics were terrible for Krusty Burger
they gave away a free burger any time USA won goldIt didnt help the Eastern Block boycotted the games
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@dogmeat said in Olympics Thread:
@Windows97 We've finished higher than 11th!!
In time honoured tradition all our golds and all bar two of our medals won sitting on our arses
Thanks! Didn't know we finished that high in LA and of course famously ahead of Australia, but it always has that gloomy specture of "it wasn't a full Olympics" hanging over it.
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@Windows97 said in Olympics Thread:
@dogmeat said in Olympics Thread:
@Windows97 We've finished higher than 11th!!
In time honoured tradition all our golds and all bar two of our medals won sitting on our arses
Thanks! Didn't know we finished that high in LA and of course famously ahead of Australia, but it always has that gloomy specture of "it wasn't a full Olympics" hanging over it.
Russia etc boycotted those games
And in the 80's sport Australia was woefully underfunded.
Thats all changed now with their institute of sport. -
I must also admit that the most nerve - wracking and harrowing spectaor sport ever is watching someone on the last hole of a golf course closing out for the gold medal.
Ko played it beautifully but my goodness it's all just one shank away from unravelling completely. Possibly I was just seeing myself out there completely louse it up.
Those players must have absolute nerves of steel.
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
@ACT-Crusader said in Olympics Thread:
wait till they have the swimming leg of the triathlon down the Brisbane river
the time will be slick as everyone gets chased by bull sharks
Haven't we been pushing for this on this thread?
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@Windows97 said in Olympics Thread:
I must also admit that the most nerve - wracking and harrowing spectaor sport ever is watching someone on the last hole of a golf course closing out for the gold medal.
Ko played it beautifully but my goodness it's all just one shank away from unravelling completely. Possibly I was just seeing myself out there completely louse it up.
Those players must have absolute nerves of steel.
One of my favourite moments of the games - Swiss player in the lead tees off - ball tracker looking good then holy sh*t massive hook to the left cut to other camera one bounce then in the water!
hole or two later big swing in the rough ball went about 2 metres.
Very relatable!
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@Windows97 said in Olympics Thread:
I must also admit that the most nerve - wracking and harrowing spectaor sport ever is watching someone on the last hole of a golf course closing out for the gold medal.
Ko played it beautifully but my goodness it's all just one shank away from unravelling completely. Possibly I was just seeing myself out there completely louse it up.
Those players must have absolute nerves of steel.
I would ABSOLUTELY have put that chip into the drink. There is just zero doubt.
I may have hit it fat, taking a foot of dirt before the ball to loft it up and in there. Alternately, I may have thinned it, seeing it skim a couple of times before settling under the surface.
But there is simply no other possibility as to where that approach would have ended up.
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@Virgil said in Olympics Thread:
@Windows97 said in Olympics Thread:
@dogmeat said in Olympics Thread:
@Windows97 We've finished higher than 11th!!
In time honoured tradition all our golds and all bar two of our medals won sitting on our arses
Thanks! Didn't know we finished that high in LA and of course famously ahead of Australia, but it always has that gloomy specture of "it wasn't a full Olympics" hanging over it.
Russia etc boycotted those games
And in the 80's sport Australia was woefully underfunded.
Thats all changed now with their institute of sport.I wouldn't agree that "in the 80's sport Australia was woefully underfunded."
They were adequately/normally funded.
They responded by becoming 'overfunded'. Which we, and now many others in the wealthy world, have followed to keep up. Basically we all became Eastern Bloc, but hopefully minus the state orchestrated doping.
You could say that 1984. With the absence of the state-funded Eastern Bloc was the last true 'amateurish' games. Where the (well funded, but not state funded) US collegiate system obviously crushed it.
It was a weird games for the Aussies to have 'a bad year'
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@SBW1 said in Olympics Thread:
@Virgil I might add that we were ahead of Aussie in the 84 Olympics.
That may have been the most galling for them.
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@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:
@Windows97 said in Olympics Thread:
I must also admit that the most nerve - wracking and harrowing spectaor sport ever is watching someone on the last hole of a golf course closing out for the gold medal.
Ko played it beautifully but my goodness it's all just one shank away from unravelling completely. Possibly I was just seeing myself out there completely louse it up.
Those players must have absolute nerves of steel.
I would ABSOLUTELY have put that chip into the drink. There is just zero doubt.
I may have hit it fat, taking a foot of dirt before the ball to loft it up and in there. Alternately, I may have thinned it, seeing it skim a couple of times before settling under the surface.
But there is simply no other possibility as to where that approach would have ended up.
Don't forget the number of chip and putt saves she had to make. You could see Lydia taking longer and longer to line up all those 3 foot putts as she got closer to the end. I can't putt for toffee so I could barely breathe watching it live 🫣
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@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:
@SBW1 said in Olympics Thread:
@Virgil I might add that we were ahead of Aussie in the 84 Olympics.
That may have been the most galling for them.
Didn't that make them start up the AIS?
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@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:
@SBW1 said in Olympics Thread:
@Virgil I might add that we were ahead of Aussie in the 84 Olympics.
That may have been the most galling for them.
Didn't that make them start up the AIS?
The AIS started before that, in 1981. Initial driver was a report commissioned by the Whitlam government in the early 70s, when Olympic results were OK.
But the process got a boost after the Montreal games when no gold was won. It took about a decade to get back to Top 10 ranking for the Barcelona games.
