Olympics Thread
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@rapido said in Olympics Thread:
@stargazer said in Olympics Thread:
Just saw the last bit of the cycling. So the NZ men finished 7th and women finished 8th in the team pursuit?
I've no idea where they sit in the field, but it doesn't sound too great.
Now cheering for the Dutch in the men's team sprint ...
I think your mixing up team pursuit with team sprint.
Yep.
Women 8th in team pursuit.
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@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@chris-b said in Olympics Thread:
@chris-b said in Olympics Thread:
@williethewaiter I'm sure they'll be looking for a way to give it to the Danes - because basically the race was all over.
But, they'll have to find a rule to let them - and they may not have one.
Logically, it's pretty hard to see how the fourth British rider - who has been clearly caught - can come back into play as the third rider.
He can only end up running interference, which is exactly what happened
That was the third British rider - who crashed.
But, the fourth guy had already been caught, so I don't see how he could come back and be counted.
Unless - as WtW is contemplating - the catch rule doesn't apply.
But, I think it does.
I reckon Rapido's intel will be right and the Danes will go through.
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“Chris Boardman said on the BBC that he believed the Danes had won as they had caught the rearmost GB rider just before they crashed, hence they won the race. You don’t have to finish the 4k if you catch the team in front.”
From guardian blog.
Way I understand, Danes won but got disqualified for causing crash. But appealed that they already won.
Do you have to entirely pass rider or just edge a bit in front of their back wheel.
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@machpants UCI
but I don't see anything on their twitter
scanning the rules - the catch rule applies so Denmark should be thru. But their job to stay out of the way.
But Poms could appeal for dangerous riding taking their team out..
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@williethewaiter said in Olympics Thread:
@machpants UCI
but I don't see anything on their twitter
scanning the rules - the catch rule applies so Denmark should be thru.
But Poms could appeal for dangerous riding taking their team out..
Fucking hell can't someone get Rassie on the line to stitch a video together?
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@williethewaiter said in Olympics Thread:
@machpants UCI
but I don't see anything on their twitter
scanning the rules - the catch rule applies so Denmark should be thru.
But Poms could appeal for dangerous riding taking their team out..
If the race had been called over there would never have been a collision in the first place....
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@mn5 said in Olympics Thread:
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@kiwimurph said in Olympics Thread:
Hubbard fails to complete a single lift in the snatch.
Huh? I just watched her lift 125? Wasn't that the snatch?
Edit- Did it not count, I see she's not on the leaderboard
Yeah too much arm wobble. Should have challenged it.
Bloody hell. What a lot of angst for nothing in the end, you have to laugh 😂
The issue is Hubbard took a female's position at the games.
Ironically the biological male is probably the most female looking of the lot.
Great Silver for Emily Campbell GB
Tremendous Olympic Record for Li Wen Wen of China
That’s a whole lot of women.
Either that or something manufactured in a lab somewhere. Christ on a bike she certainly ain’t no beach volley baller that’s for sure.
But as Campbell showed in the footwork for her PB Clean & Jerk and Sumo wrestlers show all the time they’re built for purpose.
Supremely athletic with the bulk to compete.
The worrying thing is there are too many Emily Campbells in the general UK populace who can barely lift themselves off the couch let alone lift a barbell.
When they interviewed Campbell’s Mum and sister they were normal sized women. Emily will scale down once her career is over.
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I know this is the Olympics, cut throat competition and all that but having been comprehensively reamed in that race shouldn’t the Brits do the right thing and concede? If it was a rugby game it would be a 30 point lead deep into the second half.
On the other hand the Danish rider was a ginger and deserves nothing but scorn and failure.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Olympics Thread:
On the other hand the Danish rider was a ginger and deserves nothing but scorn and failure.
Ugly fucker. Oh wait you already mentioned they were a ranga.
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@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@williethewaiter said in Olympics Thread:
@machpants UCI
but I don't see anything on their twitter
scanning the rules - the catch rule applies so Denmark should be thru.
But Poms could appeal for dangerous riding taking their team out..
If the race had been called over there would never have been a collision in the first place....
yeh they have to catch them to call it over. apparently gun went just as he smacked him.
anyway common sense prevails Danes thru I presume we're up against aussies.
Poms could feel more aggrieved if they looked like they were in with a shot of coming 4th but they were miles off
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@virgil said in Olympics Thread:
@antipodean said in Olympics Thread:
@virgil said in Olympics Thread:
A quick glance at current Track and Field WR and heres the ones that its hard not to think hmmmm (based on prejudice and deep seated suspicions of course..)
Mens Hammer throw - Russian 1986
Mens Discus - East German 1986Womans 400m - East German 1985
Womans 800m - Czech 1983
Womans High jump - Bulgarian 1987
Womans Long Jump - Russian 1988
Womans Shot Put - Russian 1987
Womans Discus - East German 1987
Womans 10km Walk - Russian 1990
Womans 4 x 400 Relay - Russian 1988
Womans 4 x 800 Relay - Russian 1984Men dont seem so dodgy, most records these days have been broken in the last 20 years.
But the woman, amazing how many records were set in the mid-late 80's and have never been broken since...1987/1988 seems especially to have been the height of the drug i mean track and field program..
Most of those women had more testosterone than Laurel Hubbard...
Top Secret is the most underrated comedy of all time. Soooooo good.
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@williethewaiter I think we'll be up against the Brits, won't we.
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@gt12 said in Olympics Thread:
Bikes just completed her beam routine.
Currently in 2nd.
Not sure if she dialled down the difficulty level from normal. Comms saying that those in the gymnastics community think she made the right decision to withdraw, that her problems were real and significant
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@chris-b said in Olympics Thread:
@williethewaiter I think we'll be up against the Brits, won't we.
Weren't they slower? We were the fastest loser, the British were slow as their 4th had to catch up
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@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@chris-b said in Olympics Thread:
@williethewaiter I think we'll be up against the Brits, won't we.
Weren't they slower? We were the fastest loser, the British were slow as their 4th had to catch up
It was a semi though. Aussie were in the plate final draw.
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@rapido said in Olympics Thread:
@canefan said in Olympics Thread:
@chris-b said in Olympics Thread:
@williethewaiter I think we'll be up against the Brits, won't we.
Weren't they slower? We were the fastest loser, the British were slow as their 4th had to catch up
It was a semi though. Aussie were in the plate final draw.
I thought it logical that the SF losers face off. Other posters beg to differ, that it is based on fastest time for the entire field
