Olympics Thread
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@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:
@sparky I think that's getting pedantic to the point of stupidity. He's French. His parents are French. He represents France at the French Olympics.
Ergo home town.
Home town hero sounds much catchier than home country hero.
Yeah, but it's not correct.
You can describe it as a home Olympics for any French person. But it's only a "Hometown" Olympics for Parisians.
Facts will always matter to me more than "what feels good." And it's a great hill to die on.
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@sparky said in Olympics Thread:
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:
@sparky I think that's getting pedantic to the point of stupidity. He's French. His parents are French. He represents France at the French Olympics.
Ergo home town.
Home town hero sounds much catchier than home country hero.
Yeah, but it's not correct.
You can describe it as a home Olympics for any French person. But it's only a "Hometown" Olympics for Parisians.
Facts will always matter to me more than "what feels good." And it's a great hill to die on.
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Ok. Since Paris is a city it’s home city and not home town. Can’t be having errors now.
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@Bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
Bizarre scenes in Emma Twigg's women’s single sculls QF where the Spanish women overtook the Serbian for the third and last qualifying place in the last 500 m. The Serbian women basically did a lay-down Sally after being passed.
Yeah odd. Was she saving energy for a repecharge, or is she out?
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@Bovidae said in Olympics Thread:
Bizarre scenes in Emma Twigg's women’s single sculls QF where the Spanish women overtook the Serbian for the third and last qualifying place in the last 500 m. The Serbian women basically did a lay-down Sally after being passed.
It was odd but I can sort of understand it. She was caught and knew she had no energy left to catchup so she gave up. Not a great advertisement for giving it your all and fighting to the end.
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Pairs girls looked good. Quickest time too
But those fucking Romanians look strong. -
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@nzzp said in Olympics Thread:
@Damo said in Olympics Thread:
What happened to the Serbians there at the end?
looked like they just blew up - tough finish
Looked extremely weird. I haven't done much rowing, I wondered if the oar got stuck in the water or he lost grip on it or something? Is that a thing?
Looked like he just gave up at the end there with the poor other guy trying to do it all on is his own
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@Damo said in Olympics Thread:
@nzzp said in Olympics Thread:
@Damo said in Olympics Thread:
What happened to the Serbians there at the end?
looked like they just blew up - tough finish
Looked extremely weird. I haven't done much rowing, I wondered if the oar got stuck in the water or he lost grip on it or something? Is that a thing?
Looked like he just gave up at the end there with the poor other guy trying to do it all on is his own
Starting to see a pattern with the Serb rowers....
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Brazilian Gabriel Medina in the picture of the Olympic Games so far
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And the vid
