Olympics Thread

Chris B.

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With Burling and Tuke picking up the sixth. As I write this the Black Sticks power in another one to go up 4 - 1 over the Aussies.
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Burling and Tuke are looking very good after nine races.
 
 
NZ 21
Germany 39
Australia 54
 
So - three races plus the medal race left.
 
Great thing for B&T is that their worst finish so far is a 7th, so if they have a shocker they can count the 7 - just don't want to have two shockers - especially not in the medal race - but a good day tomorrow and we could wrap it up before the medal race (presumably 20 is the worst you can score in that).
 
Conversely, the Germans have two 14ths and the Aussies two 13ths, so both are already counting one of those and much worse "insurance".

Immenso Rapido

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A lot of Jamaicans run for Bahrain. They are trying to buy medals.</blockquote>Bahrain, Qatar. 
Jamaican sprinters (which is new) and African distance runners (which is a decade or so old trend). 
It's weird, I don't get it, 
If you have all the money in the world, why would you want to spend that money highlighting to the world on the biggest stage that you are so crap, and so unprincipled? 
Maybe I'm not the target audience? 
Same I don't get the Qatar World Cup bid. Why are you showing the world you're country is so undesirable that you have to bribe the fuck out of the most corrupt global sporting organisation? And then expose how you treat your guest workers. 
Why would you pay billions for that? Because all it highlights to me is the not good stuff.

Unco

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Points scored in heat races are carried forward and the top ten (in this case the lowest points scorers!) race off in the medal race which carries double points. These are then added to the previous points totals to determine the overall winner.
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Yes. Carry your points from prelims (including disregarding your worst result) then medal race counts double. Add to prelim points. Lowest score wins. 
According to nzherald Meech just has to be within 5 places of the 3 boats behind him to medal. Unlikely to catch the guy in gold. Apparently.
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Cheers Higgins and booboo. I tried looking on the official Rio site as it was useless.

taniwharugby

was having a chat with a mate yesterday about Bolt, and given his start, I am sure he has had better starts....I wonder what his time would be, if they looked at his times over say 20m sections over the hundred, when he has surely had better starts, and used his best time in these 20m blocks over his career, what his time would be for a 'perfect' race? <9.5s surely?
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/15/sports/olympics/usain-bolt-mens-100-meters-final.html?rref=collection%2Fspotlightcollection%2Frio-olympics-2016-interactive-stories&_r=0'>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/15/sports/olympics/usain-bolt-mens-100-meters-final.html?rref=collection%2Fspotlightcollection%2Frio-olympics-2016-interactive-stories&_r=0</a>
 
I can post that image, but it is very wide!

canefan

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Immenso Rapido" data-cid="605696" data-time="1471304588">
Bahrain, Qatar. 
Jamaican sprinters (which is new) and African distance runners (which is a decade or so old trend). 
It's weird, I don't get it, 
If you have all the money in the world, why would you want to spend that money highlighting to the world on the biggest stage that you are so crap, and so unprincipled? 
Maybe I'm not the target audience? 
Same I don't get the Qatar World Cup bid. Why are you showing the world you're country is so undesirable that you have to bribe the fuck out of the most corrupt global sporting organisation? And then expose how you treat your guest workers. 
Why would you pay billions for that? Because all it highlights to me is the not good stuff.</blockquote>It's all ego, if they can buy it then they want it

antipodean

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Women's steeplechase. Colleen Quigley.
 
#today's Olympics eye-candy
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Anyone who gives up a modelling career to compete is going to be a medallist in the eye-candy event. Particularly if they can look like this while competing:
 
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/lDLenZGl.jpg" alt="lDLenZGl.jpg">

NTA

So I've just seen Cavendish footage of him basically diving into the pack from a high point on the velodrome track.
 
How the fuck is he not just DQ'd automatically? That was fucking bullshit.

SammyC

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So I've just seen Cavendish footage of him basically diving into the pack from a high point on the velodrome track.
 
How the fuck is he not just DQ'd automatically? That was fucking bullshit.
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That's Mark Cavendish for you, has always been a selfish arsehole

Smudge

Rudisha goes back to back in the 800m.

hydro11

Rudisha is the first do do it since Peter Snell.

booboo

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Cheers Higgins and booboo. I tried looking on the official Rio site as it was useless.</blockquote>
 
Yep. Was/is shit. Hence i googled deeper and found the World sailing site.

hydro11

Great dive from Miller to win the 400 metres.

canefan

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Anyone who gives up a modelling career to compete is going to be a medallist in the eye-candy event. Particularly if they can look like this while competing: <img src="http://i.imgur.com/lDLenZGl.jpg" alt="lDLenZGl.jpg"></blockquote>She's bound to get a fair amount of interest in the village from the men and some ladies

taniwharugby

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RoninWC

Amazing pole vault competition between the defending champ from France and the young hometown boy from Brazil. 
Gripping stuff. 
Current height 6.04 just passed by the Brazilian putting him in the Gold medal spot.

NTA

Fuck that Brazilian crowd though. No need to boo the French man

RoninWC

The Frenchman passed after two misses at 6.03 and went for it at 6.08 and misses. 
The Brazilian who cleared on his 2nd attempt at 6.03 wins Gold!

Smudge

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The Frenchman passed after two misses at 6.03 and went for it at 6.08 and misses. 
The Brazilian who cleared on his 2nd attempt at 6.03 wins Gold!
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Unfortunately, we didn't get to see the winning vault live in NZ, as Sky Sport NZ (not the host broadcaster, and I'd love to see Sky Sport try and pin it on them) decided to roll in a post-race IV with the women's 400m winner, simply because their own Andrew Mulligan had convinced her to stop for a chat. They had snuck in an IV with Alison Felix a few minutes earlier, but that was a close-run thing.

canefan

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Fantastic win for the Black Sticks over Australia. <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/83203535/rio-olympics-2016-black-sticks-women-to-play-for-medal-after-australia-upset">http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/83203535/rio-olympics-2016-black-sticks-women-to-play-for-medal-after-australia-upset</a></blockquote>I would to see the girls beat the Brits to avenge their fourth place loss to them in 2012. Then anything can happen in the final. They seem to be on a mission rather than being just happy to be there this time

Chris B.

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I would to see the girls beat the Brits to avenge their fourth place loss to them in 2012. Then anything can happen in the final. They seem to be on a mission rather than being just happy to be there this time
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Yep - would be gutting to see them miss a medal again and I think it might well be easier to beat the Brits to make the gold medal match and ensure at least silver, than to beat (most likely) the Germans (or the Dutch!) in the bronze match.

The Silver Fern

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