Olympics Thread
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From the NZ Paralympic team's FB account:
In just under 5 minutes time 10.21am, Paralympian Liam Malone will contest the Men's 200m T44 Final - thanks to TVNZ, you can watch this AND the Para-Swimming Finals live by visiting: www.tvnz.co.nz/ondemand/paralympics-swimming www.tvnz.co.nz/ondemand/paralympics-athletics GO KIWIS - IS IT A GOLD RUSH?! #SpiritofGold #Rio2016 #ParalympicsHope the links will work outside quote:
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and he won it!
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@taniwharugby said in Olympics Thread:
and he won it!
And removes Oscar Pistorious' name from the record books.
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@Mokey said in Olympics Thread:
I love this stuff. Nothing puts dust in my eyes like young people dealt a really shit hand saying fuck it, you won't stop me. Totally inspirational.
High fives to all of them. Go hard.
Might want to be a bit sensitive with your wording there @Mokey
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Some of today's results at the Paralympics:
Women's 200m IM SM7 (swimming) - GOLD for Nikita Howarth
Women's 100m Freestyle S10 (swimming) - SILVER for Sophie Pascoe -> five medals in five days!
Women's Javelin F46 (athletics) - SILVER and pb for Holly RobinsonMen's 400m Freestyle S6 (swimming) - 16 year old Hamish McLean finishes 7th and swims a pb
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Another story on Liam...
Listened to him being interviewed on RS yesterday, seems a pretty laidback fella.
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Some of today's results:
Women's Shot Put F34 (athletics) - BRONZE for Jessica Hamill
Women's 400m Freestyle S7 (swimming) - Rebecca Dubber finishes 4th
Women's 100m Breaststroke SB8 (swimming) - Nikita Howarth finishes 7th
Women's Time Trial C4 (road cycling) - Kate Horan finishes 8thMen's KL3 sprint (para-canoe) - Scott Martlew qualifies for the final (tomorrow) after finishing 4th in the semi-final
Men's 400m T44 (athletics) - Liam Malone qualifies as 2nd fastest for the final (tomorrow)
Sonar (Three-person keelboat - Sailing) - Chris Sharp, Andrew May and Richard Dodson sit in third place after 6 races (out of 11 races) -
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@Bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
An interesting stat. The winning time, and that of the first 4 placegetters, in the visually-impaired mens 1500 m final were all faster than Centrovitz's time at Rio.
Yes, the Olympic race may have been relatively "slow" for able-bodied athletes, but these Paralympians have shown what a quality athletes there are at the Paralympics!
Four Paralympians just ran the 1500m faster than Rio Olympics gold medallist
Gold medallist Abdellatif Baka finished 1.7 seconds faster than Olympic champion Matthew Centrowitz along with three other Paralympic athletes
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well, lets not over-egg it. This new record for the paralympics is 22 seconds slower than the real world record. The last time the world record was 3.48 was 1934.
It's a great time, and there are some seriously good displays on offer, but comparing middle distance races purely on time alone doesn't mean much except for a great headline.
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@mariner4life That's why I said it was interesting, as I wasn't making a comparison based purely on athletic ability. Obviously the 1500 m final was a tactical race and the slowest winning time since 1932.
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@Bovidae yep, but then Stargazer links an article that says "meaning that four Paralympic athletes had run times fast enough to win gold had they competed in the Olympic Games". That's over-egging it
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Liam Malone has picked up his 2nd gold in the 400m in Paralympic record time.
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
@Bovidae yep, but then Stargazer links an article that says "meaning that four Paralympic athletes had run times fast enough to win gold had they competed in the Olympic Games". That's over-egging it
Yeah, it's true but disingenuous.
Hope this is not insensitive but given the rough push and shove in the Olympic event the vision impaired runners may have had some difficulty in that race.
Despite that a cool achievement.
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Update:
Men’s 400m T44 (athletics) - GOLD for Liam Malone in a new olympic record (smashing another record from Pistorius)
Men’s 400m T36 (athletics) - BRONZE for 16 year old William Stedman
Women's 200m Individual Medley SM11 (swimming) - Mary Fisher finishes 6th
Men's 100m Backstroke S9 (swimming) - Jesse Reynolds finishes 7th
Women's 100m Backstroke S9 (swimming) - 15-year-old Tupou Neiufi finishes 7th
Men's 50m Backstroke S5 (swimming) - Cameron Leslie finishes 8th
Women's 100m Freestyle S7 (swimming) - Rebecca Dubber finishes 9th in her heat, missing qualification for the Final by just under three tenths of a secon
Men's Road Race C3 (cycling) - Fraser Sharp finishes 11thThe para-sailors (Sonar) currently sit at 5th place with two more races to go.
