Olympics Thread

Chris B.

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I think they need to look at a rule whereby once the 2 minutes elapses, the sin binned player can automatically return the field from behind the goal line. The difference between being down to 6 players for 2 minutes or 4 minutes is huge.
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Probably. 
 
Tactically, I think we should have realised having seven players on the field is more valuable than one possession and kicked for the corner. I'm going to give the coach a black mark for that and also a black mark for not enforcing more discipline - crucial that you don't have someone in the bin in a knockout match. Used to be a major achilles heel of the Fijian men and possibly still is.

Sneakdefreak

A two minute yellow card turns into four? Please....
 
 
Rugby (probably both 7s and 15) needs to follow the likes of ice hockey (and I think rugby league) where once the time is up the player is allowed onto the field straight away regardless of play.

jegga

Speaking of Mark Todd he must one of the oldest Olympians ever surely? And to be in the hunt for a medal too, legend

Chris B.

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Going in we would have taken silver wouldn't we? so this was a pretty good result. Go on you ANZACs!
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No!
 
If we could collect the silver or replay the tournament I'd go for the replay and not even think about it.

Bovidae

NZ benefitted with YCs in the SF so swings and roundabouts.
 
The problem to me had as much to do with selection as we didn't have the same speed as Aust did. Even Woodman wasn't beating players on the outside. 
 
I expected silver but can't but feel disappointed with the result.

Stargazer

antipodean

Australia deserved to win. Pace is the weapon in 7s.

NTA

Fucking tense game up until Caslick scored a try she really shouldn't have - up until that point the Kiwis' front-on defence was the business. For some reason they just held off there, probably fatigue.
 
NZ tackling early was immense, containing the Aussie girls, who looked rattled to me. A bad lineout, a try, and then the yellow card. A real turning point, particularly as it extended out by a couple of minutes and resulted in a try to us at the end of it.
 
Really feel for Woodman and she looked shattered. But silver is nothing to sniff at and I'm sure it will motivate the womens' 7s program as a whole for next season.
 
 
Having said all that: GO YOU FUCKING GOOD THINGS!!!
 
Aussie defence was probably better across the board, particularly in terms of the pace others have mentioned - NZ could make a break but get run down, whereas you felt if Cherry, Green or Caslick got into space, they were gone or had the support runners to capitalise.

booboo

Can i whinge about kicking the ball out of the ruck and the dodgy first try? I don't want to as the better team won. But doesn't help.

barbarian

What a great win, a huge moment for women's rugby in Australia. To have it in morning prime time, with millions watching around the world... incredible. I hope young girls everywhere were watching, and will be looking to pick up a rugby ball and have a run around.
 
So proud of the team, it's been such a good year for them. The ARU have also done a great job, first in the recruitment stage (finding athletes from touch, basketball, league etc) and then making them full-time professionals.
 
Think the rest of the world will catch up by the time Tokyo rolls around though, especially the USA, Russia and China.

barbarian

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Can i whinge about kicking the ball out of the ruck and the dodgy first try? I don't want to as the better team won. But doesn't help. :(
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Welcome to life as a Wallabies fan - wanting to whinge about the ref, but fully knowing the best side on the day won...

Provincial Stalwart

Well done Aussie. Clearly the better team. Great ball movement, whereas we tended to take the contact too much.
 
This sounds fucking ridiculous and 20:20 hindsighty, but we'd have been better off at 5-10 and 6 vs 7 and on attack to have kicked the ball into touch, got Woodman back, and then game on with Aussie having a defensive lineout.
 
Instead, turnover, try and skull fucked. Woodman spent about 4 minutes of game time in the bin.

SammyC

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You know earlier on when we described sports we would get rid of if we ran the IOC? I would like to put forward Water Polo. That's not a sport, that's mates on a saturday arvo mucking around at your house. At the very least they should change the rules so that you have to play with a beer in one hand, and that beer must never be empty. Reserves should be on the sideline cooking on the BBQ. 
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Spoken like a man who wouldn't last 30 seconds in a game of real waterpolo :)
 
I've always been a swimmer and took up waterpolo a few years back as a kind of social sport, first game we played the police team. In my first 20 seconds in the pool I had a bloody nose and had been punched so hard in the ribs I could hardly breathe

MN5

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Spoken like a man who wouldn't last 30 seconds in a game of real waterpolo :)
 
I've always been a swimmer and took up waterpolo a few years back as a kind of social sport, first game we played the police team. In my first 20 seconds in the pool I had a bloody nose and had been punched so hard in the ribs I could hardly breathe
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Someone punching you underwater in the ribs so hard it made your nose bleed ? who was on the other team ? George Fucken Foreman ?
 
It's all personal opinion though, there's heaps of sports that don't float my boat, Water Polo amongst them but like anything it still requires skill/fitness and all of that. Each to their own, I'm sure it has it's following.
 
Speaking of which Darts should definitely be there.

SammyC

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Someone punching you underwater in the ribs so hard it made your nose bleed ? who was on the other team ? George Fucken Foreman ?
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 2 separate incidents, I thought it was pretty clear
 
an elbow to the nose and a punch to the ribs.

Immenso Rapido

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Spoken like a man who wouldn't last 30 seconds in a game of real waterpolo :) 
I've always been a swimmer and took up waterpolo a few years back as a kind of social sport, first game we played the police team. In my first 20 seconds in the pool I had a bloody nose and had been punched so hard in the ribs I could hardly breathe</blockquote>
 
Have only played it once, at a time when I was the fittest in my life, physically hardest game I ever played. (I don't do endurance cycling or shit like that, as sport is supposed to be fun). 
Don't get any water polo hate. The pool is already built, and the medal won't be won twice by a Michael Phelps only shooting with his left hand, then 3 days later only with his right hand.

MN5

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 2 separate incidents, I thought it was pretty clear
 
an elbow to the nose and a punch to the ribs.
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Aw ok, I guess the other team was anti cyclist :fishing:
 
again, I've watched little of it but if it were up to me I'd abolish every single swimming discipline except freestyle. Based on that logic why don't they have a 100 metre "hop" in athletics ? a 50 metre "walk on your hands?" etc ?

jegga

With obesity on the increase I expect darts to be an Olympic sport sooner rather than later .

SammyC

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Have only played it once, at a time when I was the fittest in my life, physically hardest game I ever played. (I don't do endurance cycling or shit like that, as sport is supposed to be fun). 
Don't get any water polo hate. The pool is already built, and the medal won't be won twice by a Michael Phelps only shooting with his left hand, then 3 days later only with his right hand.
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it's a bloody tough sport
 
Freedom's Fury is a great documentary about the 1956 olympic waterpolo match between Hungary and the USSR.
 
Set against the backdrop of the 1956 hungarian revolution, there were stories of the pool turning red with blood.

Chris B.

I haven't watched any water polo, but as I flicked through the channels I saw the pre-start of one game and they were playing national anthems. Why?
 
Same deal with today's sevens rugby final? 
 
They don't play everyone's anthem at the start of the cycling road races.
 
It's the Olympics - you get your anthem when you win, or not at all.

The Silver Fern

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