Olympics Thread

[KiwiMurph]

@canefan just watch Cobra Kai instead.

[Bones]

@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.

[ACT Crusader]

@bones the Judo is better.

[Stargazer]

So they've moved the Oly Whites game to a Tokyo 2020 ch 11. But that channel is not on Sky Go.

[Dice]

@stargazer Channel 1 is showing it.

[Stargazer]

@dice Do you mean TVNZ 1?

[Dice]

@stargazer yeah.

[Bovidae]

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.

[Stargazer]

@dice Cheers, just in time for the 2nd half.

[KiwiMurph]

@bovidae a lot more entertaining game than vs Korea. End to end stuff.

[booboo]

@stargazer you're doing great work keeping us foreign dwellerzms up with Nuzild athletes.

Keep up the good work.

[Bovidae]

@kiwimurph Perhaps too open. There will be goals in the 2nd half, hopefully more for us.

NZ needs more accuracy with passing from the midfield to capitalise.

[booboo]

@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

[booboo]

@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

[Bones]

@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?

[Stargazer]

Highlights of the women's hockey game NZL v Arg.

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[KiwiMurph]

You'll struggle to find a softer goal than the Oly Whites just gave up.

[Canes4life]

This keeper is a shocker. Do we not have anyone better?