Olympics Thread

[Billy Tell]

@sparky said in Olympics Thread:

That breaks the record from Los Angeles.

This is New Zealand's most successful Olympics ever!!!!!!!

Once again the Russians not there. Bloody Russians.

[sparky]

Team GB has hit the British Olympic Association's target for 60 medals with a day to spare. This is good news for sports funding in the UK.

Unlike previous recent games, there was no BOA target for Golds.

[Damo]

Watched the last hour of the high jump in bed. Great to see gold for Lydia.

Amazing night for the Kiwis.

Totally perfect and unblemished night for NZ sport.

[MajorRage]

Brilliant for Kerr!

I fucking love it when sports people prove me wrong. Good for him!

[Billy Tell]

Watching the basket now. Cmon France.

[sparky]

USA leading France 20-15 at the end of the first quarter.

[Smudge]

First medal for an NZ male in a field event with Kerr's gold.

We've got the faster with Snell, Lovelock, Halberg, and Walker. Now the higher.

Stronger: can we use Val?

[Billy Tell]

Watching the break dancing semis. Yeah, Robertson wouldn’t medal.

[sparky]

@Smudge

Stronger = Ted Morgan's Gold (NZ's first one) in Welterweight Boxing in Amsterdam in 1928.

[sparky]

USA 72 France 66 entering the final quarter of the Basketball final.

[Billy Tell]

Curry is just a machine at 3 pointers. Soul destroying for the French.

[sparky]

Steph Curry rather good.

[SBW1]

Do we still have a shot at more medals or does that look like our final total?

[Billy Tell]

France weren’t bad but their shooting percentage was too low.

[sparky]

USA 98 France 87 in the Men's Basketball Final.

Curry unbelievable.

[MiketheSnow]

It’s crazy that it’s even a contest

USA should be smashing everyone in their sleep

[canefan]

@MiketheSnow said in Olympics Thread:

It’s crazy that it’s even a contest

USA should be smashing everyone in their sleep

It's a team game, and the sum of the parts blah blah ......

[MiketheSnow]

@canefan said in Olympics Thread:

@MiketheSnow said in Olympics Thread:

It’s crazy that it’s even a contest

USA should be smashing everyone in their sleep

It's a team game, and the sum of the parts blah blah ......

That’s a lot of sums

Hence their collective wage bill

[canefan]

@MiketheSnow said in Olympics Thread:

@canefan said in Olympics Thread:

@MiketheSnow said in Olympics Thread:

It’s crazy that it’s even a contest

USA should be smashing everyone in their sleep

It's a team game, and the sum of the parts blah blah ......

That’s a lot of sums

Hence their collective wage bill

The NBA is a different game. Serbs almost rolled them with amazing shooting, brilliant team offense and defense. This team was as stacked as any for some time. Curry, KD, LeBron and all played great when it mattered

[sparky]

@canefan What was interesting in the last two games was how much game time the USA gave to their starting stars.

International standards are getting better. One year they will go rolled.