Olympics Thread

[Crucial]

Putting aside the question of whether golf should be at the Olympics (I think not), seeing it there highlights a rather bizarre sporting situation where the competitors have “on-field” support and input from a caddy/coach on every move they make.
Either make it a team of two (with both having to be from the same country) or make it an individual sport only with no caddies.
In cycling they remove the outside support of radios to advise tactics. Golf should take a similar move.

[barbarian]

@crucial Why they made it individual strokeplay I have no idea. Teams foursomes/fourballs like the Zurich Open would be heaps better. Or a team matchplay.

[Bones]

Just watching the women's 100m....is it typical for the athletes to have to wear bits of paper with their names and numbers?

Probably my memory failing but I don't recall seeing it before (at this level).

[taniwharugby]

@crucial give them golf carts, speed it up too!

[Stargazer]

Emma Twigg in the Women's Single Sculls final at 12.33pm (Tokyo 2020 channel 6).

[Stargazer]

Go Emma!

Edit: she's in lane 4.

[Stargazer]

Twigg leading after 1000m.

https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/rowing/results-women-s-single-sculls-fnl-000100-.htm

[Stargazer]

Twigg's lead after 1500m is 2.73 seconds. Will it be enough?

[Virgil]

Gold!!!

[dogmeat]

@stargazer YESSSS!

[Stargazer]

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!

[Bovidae]

Redemption.

[taniwharugby]

great row there!

Started strong and just kept inching ahead!

But man, that looks like hard work!

[Rapido]

Awesome. Delighted for her. After 2 4ths, would have hated an Ostapcuk sort of moment. So good.

[Bovidae]

An Olympic best time from Twigg.

[Machpants]

What was the gap to second? I was out

[Toddy]

@machpants said in Olympics Thread:

What was the gap to second? I was out

About 3.5 seconds. She never looked like losing.

[Rapido]

It's funny that rowers obviously spend so much time with shades on that all 3 think nothing of keeping their sunglasses on top of their heads in the most photographed moment of their lives.

[Crucial]

@taniwharugby said in Olympics Thread:

@crucial give them golf carts, speed it up too!

Fuck it’s a hard watch. Droning commentary, slow, no graphics to give an idea of how your country is going…..
Not a good ad for the sport.

[Crucial]

Women’s eights about to go.