Olympics Thread
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@1kiwi said in Olympics Thread:
@sparky said in Olympics Thread:
GB get the Gold. NZ the Silver.
Silver medal a huge result for the ladies. It's NZ's first women's team sprint medal in Olympic history so pretty big deal.
From Stuff:
Overlooked as a contender in the team sprint by many pundits, who instead were tipping world champions Germany, China and the Netherlands to challenge Great Britain, the Kiwis were electric.yep was hoping to read here this morning everyone made heaps of money at the TAB after reading my hot tip from CNZ coaches.. they were great odds for a medal as such outsiders.
just wish i had more than 2 bucks in my account when i put my bet on and couldn't be arsed getting out of bed to find a card to top up as one in my account had expired.. ha.
just to put this in further perspective - NZ are literally riding museum pieces in terms of bike tech. We're on a bike made in 2015 for Rio... all other teams are rolling around on bikes that are worth between 100k - 200k.. each!
we don't even have a bike sponsor.. only place you can get one of our bikes is second hand market and it's about $4k. Was actually having an amusing thought that we might be in breach of the rules - all bikes are supposed to be commercially available to buy! -
@No-Quarter said in Olympics Thread:
So Wilde had E coli before the team event after swimming in the river Seine. So they were literally swimming in shit. How was that allowed lol, poor atheletes.
fark that water looked grim yesterday - several shades browner than when they did the individual stuff.
Wilde might be pulling the ecoli card to avoid getting lynched by the frog fans after costing them a dead cert gold medal!
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
It's in Penrith bro.
I shall be swimming in the rowing lake in Penrith in just 6 weeks!
Think it's currently turd-free, but anything can happen
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The women's pole vault was fascinating. Both UK women flamed out and failed to record a height, when all they needed to do was something well below each of their PBs. Just got the yips completely.
I really do feel for those athletes. All they are training for is this one moment. Days, months, years all put in, and you just shit the bed totally, for the world to see. Brutal.
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@Donsteppa said in Olympics Thread:
@No-Quarter said in Olympics Thread:
So Wilde had E coli before the team event after swimming in the river Seine. So they were literally swimming in shit. How was that allowed lol, poor atheletes.
I imagine the traditional "best Olympic Games ever" will be tried at the end of it all, but things like making athletes swim in an open sewer should stop it from being taken too seriously...
Even if the triathletes weren’t swimming in a make shift sewer, the press conference from the boxing alone would remove all doubt that this is no where near the best games ever. What a farce that was
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@booboo said in Olympics Thread:
@Donsteppa said in Olympics Thread:
@No-Quarter said in Olympics Thread:
So Wilde had E coli before the team event after swimming in the river Seine. So they were literally swimming in shit. How was that allowed lol, poor atheletes.
I imagine the traditional "best Olympic Games ever" will be tried at the end of it all, but things like making athletes swim in an open sewer should stop it from being taken too seriously...
At least the IOC knocked that on the head after Samaranch danced around "greatest vs best" at Barcelona and Sydney.
At Atlanta, which in hindsight was probably a forerunner to the way the games are run now on from a commercial and resource standpoint, didn't even get "best" or "greatest".
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@Billy-Tell said in Olympics Thread:
The pole vault is the best field event imo.
The anticipation, the drama, the Superman fairytale of leaping tall buildings in a single bound, plus the crowd involvement - it rarely ever fails to deliver on the big stage. Love it.
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@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
The women's pole vault was fascinating. Both UK women flamed out and failed to record a height, when all they needed to do was something well below each of their PBs. Just got the yips completely.
I really do feel for those athletes. All they are training for is this one moment. Days, months, years all put in, and you just shit the bed totally, for the world to see. Brutal.
Crazy that there are 20 in the final, 11 cleared 4.55 and they needed one more - and 9 had cleared 4.40 on their first attempt. Could be anyone's to win now, or anyone who gets close to their best.
So many athletes fail to give their best when they need it - must be difficult when the Olympics is SUCH a big thing. So many things can go wrong with the pole vault, no height is a given - unless you're the Swedish guy of course.
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OK so another idea I have to improve the Olympics: we've established here the Triathlon isn't fair as the swimmers don't get the benefit for their skills, generally being reeled in easily in the cycle leg by the chasing pack.
So you should be allowed to complete the three legs in any order you like. Will make the event chaotic, which is what we all want. To build a bit of tension we can put the finish line at the end of a 100m sprint, so everyone has to finish the same way at the same place.
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like it
i stopped taking triathlon competition seriously when they allowed drafting in the cycle leg
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@mohikamo said in Olympics Thread:
like it
i stopped taking triathlon competition seriously when they allowed drafting in the cycle leg
could maybe take the cycling leg off the road and go mountain bikingThey have to allow drafting, otherwise you'd need 300 officials on the bike course on motorbikes enforcing subjective penalties and you could also never hold a race in a tight urban setting.
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@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
OK so another idea I have to improve the Olympics: we've established here the Triathlon isn't fair as the swimmers don't get the benefit for their skills, generally being reeled in easily in the cycle leg by the chasing pack.
So you should be allowed to complete the three legs in any order you like. Will make the event chaotic, which is what we all want. To build a bit of tension we can put the finish line at the end of a 100m sprint, so everyone has to finish the same way at the same place.
If you want to be rewarded for your swimming, be a swimmer. Fixed
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@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
OK so another idea I have to improve the Olympics: we've established here the Triathlon isn't fair as the swimmers don't get the benefit for their skills, generally being reeled in easily in the cycle leg by the chasing pack.
So you should be allowed to complete the three legs in any order you like. Will make the event chaotic, which is what we all want. To build a bit of tension we can put the finish line at the end of a 100m sprint, so everyone has to finish the same way at the same place.
If you want to be rewarded for your swimming, be a swimmer. Fixed
OK great. Then the cyclists can do cycling, and the runners can do running.
No need for the sport then. Fixed
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do you hate triathlon because you can't do it from home?
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@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
OK so another idea I have to improve the Olympics: we've established here the Triathlon isn't fair as the swimmers don't get the benefit for their skills, generally being reeled in easily in the cycle leg by the chasing pack.
So you should be allowed to complete the three legs in any order you like. Will make the event chaotic, which is what we all want. To build a bit of tension we can put the finish line at the end of a 100m sprint, so everyone has to finish the same way at the same place.
If you want to be rewarded for your swimming, be a swimmer. Fixed
OK great. Then the cyclists can do cycling, and the runners can do running.
No need for the sport then. Fixed
The point of the event is that you are the best at the end of all 3. Just like the decathlon, you have to compete in order for a reason
If you don't like one of the disciplines, maybe triathlon isn't for you
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@WillieTheWaiter I know a guy who was a mechanic for one of the top teams in Europe for a few years.
He's as bullish as you. Said three will be disappointed with bronze and a couple more to podium
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
do you hate triathlon because you can't do it from home?
Again, I'm against full time work from home. You've got to find the balance.
So you should have to do two legs at the venue, but be permitted to do one leg at home.
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@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
OK so another idea I have to improve the Olympics: we've established here the Triathlon isn't fair as the swimmers don't get the benefit for their skills, generally being reeled in easily in the cycle leg by the chasing pack.
So you should be allowed to complete the three legs in any order you like. Will make the event chaotic, which is what we all want. To build a bit of tension we can put the finish line at the end of a 100m sprint, so everyone has to finish the same way at the same place.
If you want to be rewarded for your swimming, be a swimmer. Fixed
OK great. Then the cyclists can do cycling, and the runners can do running.
No need for the sport then. Fixed
The point of the event is that you are the best at the end of all 3. Just like the decathlon, you have to compete in order for a reason
If you don't like one of the disciplines, maybe triathlon isn't for you
Look, this is all bullshit anyway because it isn't going to happen. But for the sake of argument... what's the reason you have to compete in order?
Surely the point of the event is to measure who is the cumulative best across the three disciplines. So in that regard it shouldn't matter what order that you complete them.
Now if drafting was banned (which it is at amateur level) then it's a different story. The whole point of my change is the acknowledgement that the cycling leg is compromised by drafting, so trying to minimise that advantage as best I can.
I suspect if this WAS to happen then over time the athletes would conform to one or two ways of doing it, so they can gain the most advantage by cycling with the most others. But it would be an interesting experiment.
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@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
OK so another idea I have to improve the Olympics: we've established here the Triathlon isn't fair as the swimmers don't get the benefit for their skills, generally being reeled in easily in the cycle leg by the chasing pack.
So you should be allowed to complete the three legs in any order you like. Will make the event chaotic, which is what we all want. To build a bit of tension we can put the finish line at the end of a 100m sprint, so everyone has to finish the same way at the same place.
If you want to be rewarded for your swimming, be a swimmer. Fixed
OK great. Then the cyclists can do cycling, and the runners can do running.
No need for the sport then. Fixed
The point of the event is that you are the best at the end of all 3. Just like the decathlon, you have to compete in order for a reason
If you don't like one of the disciplines, maybe triathlon isn't for you
Look, this is all bullshit anyway because it isn't going to happen. But for the sake of argument... what's the reason you have to compete in order?
Surely the point of the event is to measure who is the cumulative best across the three disciplines. So in that regard it shouldn't matter what order that you complete them.
Now if drafting was banned (which it is at amateur level) then it's a different story. The whole point of my change is the acknowledgement that the cycling leg is compromised by drafting, so trying to minimise that advantage as best I can.
I suspect if this WAS to happen then over time the athletes would conform to one or two ways of doing it, so they can gain the most advantage by cycling with the most others. But it would be an interesting experiment.
It's starting to sound like you're actually advocating for this now rather than just taking the piss - but there a bunch of reasons for doing it in order, mostly safety and organisational efficiency. You'd need to staff the water all race, keep the roads closed for both bike and run all race, transition would be a total clusterfuck. And nobody would have the slightest clue what is going on.
It would be the equivalent of allowing 10,000m runners to each decide what direction to run around the track...
Hang on a second...
