Olympics Thread
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@machpants said in Olympics Thread:
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
Women's hockey:
Great win for the Black Sticks.
Full time: NZL 3 - 0 Argentina.
Good start to the campaign. Who had the higher rank going in?
Argentina were ranked 2, I'm pretty sure we're not first!
Great result for us then
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@machpants said in Olympics Thread:
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
Women's hockey:
Great win for the Black Sticks.
Full time: NZL 3 - 0 Argentina.
Good start to the campaign. Who had the higher rank going in?
Argentina were ranked 2, I'm pretty sure we're not first!
Black Sticks women have been steadily improving since a couple of years before Gold Coast Comm games where they obviously did very well. Still a great win to beat Argentina who are always near the top of the ladder but there are other improvers also Japan China Gt Britian
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This is a good game (Bball) between Italy and Germany. Germany were leading and Italy have made a good run in the 4th. Now up 6 with a minute to go.
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@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@bones said in Olympics Thread:
So Taekwondo is weird and a shit watch.
Agreed. Not enough clean strikes. CF Jr used to do karate and I hope for a better spectacle in their kumite/ fighting
Yeah it's like a passive aggressive form of ballroom dancing.
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NZ gave up a cheap goal right before HT, firstly from a poor clearance leading to a corner and then Woud couldn't stop the header.
A stunner from Cacace to open the score. Unfortunately Reid went off injured after 5 mins.
I wish this English commentator could pronounce the names of Cacace and Stanger right. Annoying.
1-1 at HT.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:
@nevorian said in Olympics Thread:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:
@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
From Stuff (Clareburt's splits):
Needs to work on his butterfly.
Probably blew his load a bit last night in the heats. But with no semis it’s very difficult to ease off.
Seems ridiculous too that final wasn’t in tonight’s session which is normally the case
Yeah what’s the story about that? Weird watching a final in the morning.
May have been posted .... but Yank TV.
Finals are evening US time, i.e., morning JP time.
Expect this is a #booboo
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@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:
@nevorian said in Olympics Thread:
Seems ridiculous too that final wasn’t in tonight’s session which is normally the case
Yeah what’s the story about that? Weird watching a final in the morning.
As I said before, it's all to do with having the finals broadcast in the evening for the US market. They must pay the IOC the big money.
Yep #booboo
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@bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
I wish this English commentator could pronounce the names of Cacace and Stanger right. Annoying.
Weird, I can't even fucken find it on any of the dozen or so channels here! They almost seem to be going out of their way to not broadcast anything involving NZ.
And the BBC blurb for their coverage mentioned the Brit in the road race and that Katie Ledecky is swimming today. WTF?