Olympics Thread
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@1kiwi said in Olympics Thread:
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@Higgins said in Olympics Thread:
@Damo Lisa Carrington a sitter for a couple along with a possible one from Tom Walsh plus the high jumper looking good. Also fingers crossed for Lydia Ko to complete her full set of medals.
I thought you were joking about Lisa, I had no idea she was still going and in Paris!!!
Didn't Lisa get beaten in the nationals in one of her disciplines? Does that mean she won't compete in that race?
Think so, didn't Aimee Fisher beat her?
Aimee Fisher beats Lisa Carrington in world record win
A New Zealand Olympic one-two is fast becoming a very real possibility in the K1 500, after Aimee Fisher beat Dame Lisa Carrington in a world record time.
Looks like they will both race the K1 500. Fisher has the WR, so we could have a 1-2 podium
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:
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@MiketheSnow said in Olympics Thread:
They’re actually shifting and would beat most recreational park run runners
Still stoopid.
It's the butterfly of athletics.
It is to running what handball is to basketball/football
Nah. Defined sport with defined rules you play as hard as you can. Butterfly and race walking are both events where you're required to race slowly.
Slower of course but ridiculous to say slowly. Its certainly not easier. Ultimately they are in fact operating within defined rules and doing it as hard as they can.
No they're not. They could run or swim properly.
It may not be "proper" but they are still doing it as hard as they can within the rules that are set. It may be a slower version but it certainly isn't easier.
Never said it was easier, just slower and dumber
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@1kiwi said in Olympics Thread:
@Higgins said in Olympics Thread:
@voodoo She has been going for at least as long as Sophie Pascoe but think Sophie is sitting out these Paralympics.
I think she has hung up her swimming cap altogether hasn't she?
She seems to have been going forever but is only thirty but there is a good reason why she is taking time out
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I'm watching 3 on 3 basketball for the first time. It's still basketball right? In a white men can't jump/ Rucker Park kind of way. American women's team is pretty weak, the only player I recognise is Haley van Lith who plays college basketball. Surely they could pick 3 WNBA players who could excel at this? Maybe the top athletes can't be bothered with it
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@Billy-Tell said in Olympics Thread:
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@Billy-Tell said in Olympics Thread:
Great mornings work. Thought we might pip the USA but I think we used up the energy from 1000 to 1500 m. We are bloody good at rowing for a small country.
Yes. NZ has a great record for a country of such a relatively small population.
The worst sporting country by a mile is India. Most populous country in the world and they currently have 3 bronze medals. Get the impression 98% live in abject poverty and 2% have unbridled wealth.
They're the least athletic people I've ever seen
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Oz vs Canada in women's basketball. How the flying fuck is this an Olympic sport? Looks like the skateboarding, ffs this is apparently worth the same as a rowing/ triathlon/ athletics/ etc. medal.
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Canoe and kayak slalom are great events.
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At the swimming the guy announcing the names in English sounds like Barack Obama. No wonder the swimmers feel like they can.
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It’s seem a bit weird that you can swap swimmers in and out of the relay between earlier races and the final.
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@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:
@Billy-Tell said in Olympics Thread:
@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:
@Billy-Tell said in Olympics Thread:
Great mornings work. Thought we might pip the USA but I think we used up the energy from 1000 to 1500 m. We are bloody good at rowing for a small country.
Yes. NZ has a great record for a country of such a relatively small population.
The worst sporting country by a mile is India. Most populous country in the world and they currently have 3 bronze medals. Get the impression 98% live in abject poverty and 2% have unbridled wealth.
They're the least athletic people I've ever seen
I think Barcelona recently shuttered their Academy there without signing a single prospect.
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@Billy-Tell said in Olympics Thread:
It’s seem a bit weird that you can swap swimmers in and out of the relay between earlier races and the final.
They do that on the track as well I think. Way back in the day they could even do that in individual events (or at least in the WC). Now that was stoopid.
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On the athletics, there's a good chance that NZ will finish with zero medals. Walsh doesn't look like the force he once was but still a medal chance. Hamish Kerr will be a medal chance if he can hit his best height. We're strong in women's pole vault but only McCartney has a medal chance if she can hit her season's best - would be a great story after all her injury issues.
On the track, making finals will be the target. Tanner a chance in the 1,500m but not a real medal prospect. Preston who recently broke Snell's NZ record for 800m is still only ranked 23rd in the world this year which shows the standard! Geordie Beamish has the 8th best time this year for 3000m steeplechase which is awesome and he could be a chance of top 10 behind all the Ethiopians and Kenyans.
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@MajorRage said in Olympics Thread:
Barbarian was right (first time etc). I’ve moved the other topic.
Let’s go back to leading questions about the authenticity of the Aussie swimmers ….
Yes, how bloody authentic are they. Loaded up with a double dose of the ANZAC spirit, imbued with the spirit of Phar Lap and Don Bradman.
Where our rivals are on the juice, we just stick to sunshine, mateship and replays of the the final minutes of game 2 in the 94 State of Origin.
You lot could all learn a bit from them.
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