Olympics Thread
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@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:
No non-Kenyan has won the 3000m steeplechase since 1980, amazing
Surely theirs isn't the only country people have to run nearly two miles while jumping over sleeping lions?
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@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:
No non-Kenyan has won the 3000m steeplechase since 1980, amazing
Apparently the steeplechase is like the Holy Grail for the Kenyans. I would have thought 10k or marathon, but nope, the steeplechase is their favourite.
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@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
The Moroccan takes
. The Kenyan hegemony is over.The @voodoo curse!
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
@majorrage said in Olympics Thread:
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
Women's hockey:
The Netherlands are the first to score.
0 - 1 NLDisappointing. On the flip side some of the Dutch girls are quite hawt
I stayed in these same hotel as the Dutch field hockey team once in the Nehtherlands.
Many of them, are indeed, seriously seriously hot. On the flip side, the shortest one was about 6ft 1.
How is that a flip side?
canefan wants to flip them on their side?
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@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
The women's 5,000m Final is next. It will interesting to see whether Sifan Hassan's fall and catch-up race (1,500m) this afternoon will have any effect on her result in this Final.
I’ll support her in any race that doesn’t include a kiwi.
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Smashed it. What a runner!
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:
@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:
@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:
@kiwimurph said in Olympics Thread:
@voodoo said in Olympics Thread:
@kiwimurph said in Olympics Thread:
Hubbard fails to complete a single lift in the snatch.
Huh? I just watched her lift 125? Wasn't that the snatch?
Edit- Did it not count, I see she's not on the leaderboard
Yeah too much arm wobble. Should have challenged it.
Bloody hell. What a lot of angst for nothing in the end, you have to laugh 😂
The issue is Hubbard took a female's position at the games.
Ironically the biological male is probably the most female looking of the lot.
Great Silver for Emily Campbell GB
Tremendous Olympic Record for Li Wen Wen of China
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Thank god for Hinch
4 saves in the shoot out
Brilliant
GB through to SF W Hockey
Netherlands v GB
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@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
Women's football semi-final:
FT: Australia 0 - 1 Sweden
So the final on Friday (2.00pm) will be between Sweden and Canada.
Australia will play the USA for bronze on Thursday (8.00pm).A couple of cracking games.
Aussie trying for their first ever medal in women’s football. USA. They’ve never been this far before. USA form has been very up and down, but they’ve had so much success.
Neither Sweden or Canada have won gold. Sweden will be looking to go one better than Rio when they lost to Germany in gold medal race. Canada won bronze in both Rio and London, so have been knocking on the door for a while.
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Australians lose to Sweden, "controversially." Do Australians ever lose something that is not controversial?
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@nostrildamus said in Olympics Thread:
Australians lose to Sweden, "controversially." Do Australians ever lose something that is not controversial?
Nothing controversial about that
Fucking robbed
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Nyika in his semi=final today. Tough opponent with unpronounceable name.
