Olympics Thread
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@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
Not sure if it's been mentioned here, but how about the record set by the Cuban heavyweight wrestler Mijain Lopez.
First ever person to win Gold at the same individual event at FIVE straight Olympics. He won in Beijing, London, Rio, Tokyo and Paris.
Never been done at either Summer or Winter Olympics. That is a serious record to have.
5 golds at 5 consecutive Olympics puts these peeps in the convo for the Goatiest of Goats.
Old mate Lopez, Steve Redgrave and now Carrington. Anyone else? (Wikipedia says Redgrave is, should be updated to was (I've seen memes about that), the only man to achieve this in an endurance sport.
It's the longevity of greatness that to my mind makes it a greater achievement than Phelps who had who won his golds across 4 games (although he did attend 5).
Anyone done more than at least 1 gold in 6 successive Olympics? Shooting maybe?
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
Dame Lisa Carrington is a fucking phenom and NZs greatest athlete. She has more than a decade on most of the other people in that K4 race and still, in a "team" event, looked like the dominant athlete.
Someone build a fucking statue. you'll need a lot of bronze to do those shoulders and guns justice.
My complete guess about how the team dynamic works in the K4 is that with her at the front of the boat - the other three probably just had to match her stroke rate or die trying!
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@Donsteppa said in Olympics Thread:
@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
Dame Lisa Carrington is a fucking phenom and NZs greatest athlete. She has more than a decade on most of the other people in that K4 race and still, in a "team" event, looked like the dominant athlete.
Someone build a fucking statue. you'll need a lot of bronze to do those shoulders and guns justice.
My complete guess about how the team dynamic works in the K4 is that with her at the front of the boat - the other three probably just had to match her stroke rate or die trying!
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i'm effectively creating the memory in my mind that the other 3 quit and she dragged their asses home by herself.
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
i'm effectively creating the memory in my mind that the other 3 quit and she dragged their asses home by herself.
I'm pretty sure the girl at the back was doing the Lay Down Sally well before the end.
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Bay boys hard out deifying her. and rightly so.
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
i'm effectively creating the memory in my mind that the other 3 quit and she dragged their asses home by herself.
Dodged a couple of icebergs along the way.
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@Donsteppa said in Olympics Thread:
@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
i'm effectively creating the memory in my mind that the other 3 quit and she dragged their asses home by herself.
Dodged a couple of icebergs along the way.
U boats seems more fitting
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@SBW1 said in Olympics Thread:
We are on 13 medals with three days left, what are our chances over the next few days.
We are coming first out of countries that have never hosted a summer Olympics. Ahead of half a dozen who have.
Lisa +1 and Aimee Fisher could and probably should pick up three more canoeing medals.
Hamish Kerr a decent chance in high jump.
Lydia a chance in the golf.
Not sure what's left in track cycling, but there could well be a bit more to come - there's probably still points races and madisons and suchlike - see Willie's earlier post.
Most of the rest probably outside chances at best, but I'm probably overlooking someone.
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@booboo said in Olympics Thread:
@Chris-B said in Olympics Thread:
probably overlooking someone
Always possible, who had heard of Finn Butcher?
He was definitely an outlier. Not sure we've got any more of those hiding in plain sight
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@Chris-B said in Olympics Thread:
@SBW1 said in Olympics Thread:
We are on 13 medals with three days left, what are our chances over the next few days.
Hamish Kerr a decent chance in high jump.
Watched the heats and the Italian favourite is off his game and the Qatari is jumping injured, Kerr has a seriously good potential at not just a medal but a gold at this
As is the shotput girl who was one of only 3 I think females who actually got ahead of the qualifying distance, think was around 19m. the rest qualified under next best distance rule.
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@bayimports said in Olympics Thread:
As is the shotput girl who was one of only 3 I think females who actually got ahead of the qualifying distance, think was around 19m. the rest qualified under next best distance rule.
Yep - if she can post that in the final or close to her recent PB of 19.81 then she will be in with a medal chance. In a lot of the field events, top people have failed to get close to their best in this games.
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@booboo said in Olympics Thread:
Take out LA (Commie boycott) and it's only London and after where we start a decent bag of medals.
spot on.
Someone wrote about how high performance sport NZ has found the soft seams of medals at the Olympics and exploited it ruthlessly - velodrome, kayak, rowing. Plenty of medals, not so many serious competitors. I thought it was a very insightful point ... we are maximising our medals per dollar (and arguably that's the most importnat metric for countries like us with limited resources)
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@Windows97 said in Olympics Thread:
Hmm - how long before Russia is allowed back into the Olympics?
It's funny, I haven't noticed their absence at all. Don't know what that means.
