Olympics Thread
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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:
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@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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@Donsteppa said in Olympics Thread:
The archers are insanely accurate too for what's involved.
Met a couple of Aussie archers who competed in the national championships here and were trying to crack the Aussie team. The mental and physical ability was pretty amazing. Their physical training is focused on knowing how to calm their heart rate and control certain muscles to steady their body and then perform.
Most people can’t sit still for 30 seconds.
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Archery on TV is made to look easy by the camera. It's a close up of the archer, and then cut instantly to the arrow thudding in to the target. It looks like it is 10m
The distance is either 50 or 70m. And if you watch that arrow for it's full flight, they aim way the fuck up and it arcs. It's frankly incredible.
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@mariner4life said in Olympics Thread:
Archery on TV is made to look easy by the camera. It's a close up of the archer, and then cut instantly to the arrow thudding in to the target. It looks like it is 10m
The distance is either 50 or 70m. And if you watch that arrow for it's full flight, they aim way the fuck up and it arcs. It's frankly incredible.
And has anyone ever tried to pull even one of those even one of those modern bows?I saw a social post on this and was amazed at how far the target actually was. It's definitely quite deceiving when watching on TV.
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