Olympics Thread
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@sparky said in Olympics Thread:
@barbarian London 2012 was a particularly popular concept until the Games started either.
assuming you mean wasn't, and even that would be a massive understatement, mainly because, being British I think everyone assumed it would be a massive failure and nothing would work. Seems to be a fairly consistent view within host cities in the build up though.
I think it does an amazing thing for the national psyche if its done well and that is worth a fair chunk of cash. I'll be fascinated to see how long the pride and feel good factor lasts within Paris, could genuinely have an effect on the presidential election.
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@SBW1 There a site called Greatest Sporting Country which measure performances across a number of sports in addition to the Olympics. New Zealand was actually named the sportiest nation in the world in 2016. If the table of medals is anything to go by the nations ahead of us were probably outliers who had very few competing. Any nation with at least 5 medals we pretty much blew away.
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@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
@booboo said in Olympics Thread:
@sparky said in Olympics Thread:
After Melbourne bailing on hosting the Commonwealth Games, is there a chance that Brisbane will do the same on hosting the 2032 Olympic Games?
Are local politicians and Brisbane residents behind what it a massive undertaking?
Doesn't seem to generating much excitement
Neither did Sydney during the mid-90s in the lead-up to the games. Like Brisbane the focus was on cost, bureaucratic bungles, impact on residents etc etc etc
And then the flame was lit and everything was forgotten.
I expect the same will happen with Brisbane.
Nah this is completely different. There was genuine enthusiasm for the Sydney Games despite the bureaucratic BS and ticketing debacles. There is zero, and I mean zero interest here. Nobody wanted it and nobody would care if it's dumped. Sydney is an Olympic city, Brisbane most certainly is not.
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Don’t know if it’s an ingrained thing because of my age and when I started watching the Olympics but my preference is for 1957-1986
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@MiketheSnow said in Olympics Thread:
This guy had a tragic life really, those 2 Golds were stripped from him after it was discovered he played semi professional Baseball.
It wasnt until 30 years after his death that that decision was reversed.From the sounds of it he was an extraordinary athlete.
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@barbarian said in Olympics Thread:
@booboo said in Olympics Thread:
@sparky said in Olympics Thread:
After Melbourne bailing on hosting the Commonwealth Games, is there a chance that Brisbane will do the same on hosting the 2032 Olympic Games?
Are local politicians and Brisbane residents behind what it a massive undertaking?
Doesn't seem to generating much excitement
Neither did Sydney during the mid-90s in the lead-up to the games. Like Brisbane the focus was on cost, bureaucratic bungles, impact on residents etc etc etc
And then the flame was lit and everything was forgotten.
I expect the same will happen with Brisbane.
I recall quite a bit of excitement in Melbourne during the late 90s for the Sydney Games. Lots of promotion, volunteer call outs, trips being planned.
About the only time in all y time in Oz that Melburnians were all in on something in Sydney…
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Seth Godin today
The paradox of lottery thinking
Tim Brownson points us to this recent poll of people in Great Britain. About one out of four people surveyed (of all ages) believe that they could qualify for the Olympics if they trained for the n…
And the poll he references
Amazing
A quarter of Britons think they could qualify for the 2028 Olympics | YouGov
The public are most likely to fancy their odds at shooting sports
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I saw those results - the highest ranking sports were the ones perceived to involve the least athleticism. Shooting, archery and then at 10%, table tennis and badminton. Having played badminton to a decent level when I was younger, I can guarantee that the 10% who believe they could qualify for the Olympics have never played it. The Olympians are impossibly good, I've played against guys who made national squads when they were younger and they strolled around making me run to all corners - I didn't get a single point unless they messed around.
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@KiwiPie said in Olympics Thread:
I saw those results - the highest ranking sports were the ones perceived to involve the least athleticism. Shooting, archery and then at 10%, table tennis and badminton. Having played badminton to a decent level when I was younger, I can guarantee that the 10% who believe they could qualify for the Olympics have never played it. The Olympians are impossibly good, I've played against guys who made national squads when they were younger and they strolled around making me run to all corners - I didn't get a single point unless they messed around.
oh god same! i was a decent jnr at our club, went to my first tournament against real decent players, and i distinctly remember the "coach" offering to by me something if i could even get a point off this girl. I did not.
That stat simply cannot be right, people can not be this stupid.
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
@KiwiPie said in Olympics Thread:
I saw those results - the highest ranking sports were the ones perceived to involve the least athleticism. Shooting, archery and then at 10%, table tennis and badminton. Having played badminton to a decent level when I was younger, I can guarantee that the 10% who believe they could qualify for the Olympics have never played it. The Olympians are impossibly good, I've played against guys who made national squads when they were younger and they strolled around making me run to all corners - I didn't get a single point unless they messed around.
oh god same! i was a decent jnr at our club, went to my first tournament against real decent players, and i distinctly remember the "coach" offering to by me something if i could even get a point off this girl. I did not.
That stat simply cannot be right, people can not be this stupid.
When I was 17, I was the best under 18 singles player in our small English town (maybe the 5th best in the county of Shropshire). There was an under 18 match between West Midlands (Birmingham etc) and Leinster of Ireland in our town and I was called in as a late sub for West Midlands when someone got injured. So embarrassing, I think I only played doubles but lost every game around 15-5 as all the 3 other players on the court were so much better than me.
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i would love to say i would just transition to being a woman and enter those events
but
have you seen their fucking running times? I would be the real life equivalent of when Cartman entered the special olympics and got smoked.
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