Official Paris Olympics 2024 thread

[Blackmac]

Shit, Dina just couldn't hold onto 3rd.

Although Asher Smith was no more than an outside bet for a medal, this is happening a bit too often for comfort for the UK medal total. Their target is pretty steep and there are just too many people either not getting medals or not getting the colour expected. Although the published target is 50 to 70, anything under 60 will cause a bit of explaining.

Yeah, seems to be a lot of missed opportunities. The Kayak racing yesterday were both expected to be golds

[Hugo]

Shit, Dina just couldn't hold onto 3rd.

Although Asher Smith was no more than an outside bet for a medal, this is happening a bit too often for comfort for the UK medal total. Their target is pretty steep and there are just too many people either not getting medals or not getting the colour expected. Although the published target is 50 to 70, anything under 60 will cause a bit of explaining.

Absolutely, prior to the race I was thinking Dina was a good bet for 6th, she ran a good race, what a shame that she couldn't cling on in the last few metres.

Both her and Neita (in the 100) missed bronze by the narrowest of margins. It's heartbreaking, they are a pair of very likable ladies.

weegie, is there any discipline that we have overachieved?

[weegie01]

Shit, Dina just couldn't hold onto 3rd.

Although Asher Smith was no more than an outside bet for a medal, this is happening a bit too often for comfort for the UK medal total. Their target is pretty steep and there are just too many people either not getting medals or not getting the colour expected. Although the published target is 50 to 70, anything under 60 will cause a bit of explaining.

Absolutely, prior to the race I was thinking Dina was a good bet for 6th, she ran a good race, what a shame that she couldn't cling on in the last few metres.

Both her and Neita (in the 100) missed bronze by the narrowest of margins. It's heartbreaking, they are a pair of very likable ladies.

weegie, is there any discipline that we have overachieved?

I don't know what expectations were on a sport by sport basis. Chatting to BOA officials before we came back they were worried in general terms that there were too many near misses, but were hoping it would change. It hasn't.

[Jethro]

Just checking the news around and about in Oz, apparently still on about gold medals won days ago, and the world being outraged by the Boomers being out of medal contention. People actually have interest in this shite? In news, well down the page - below the folding line, Free Russian forces invade Russion territory near Kursk, and some racist shit going down elsewhere. Thank god news Oz have their priorities right.

[Biffer]

Shit, Dina just couldn't hold onto 3rd.

Although Asher Smith was no more than an outside bet for a medal, this is happening a bit too often for comfort for the UK medal total. Their target is pretty steep and there are just too many people either not getting medals or not getting the colour expected. Although the published target is 50 to 70, anything under 60 will cause a bit of explaining.

Absolutely, prior to the race I was thinking Dina was a good bet for 6th, she ran a good race, what a shame that she couldn't cling on in the last few metres.

Both her and Neita (in the 100) missed bronze by the narrowest of margins. It's heartbreaking, they are a pair of very likable ladies.

weegie, is there any discipline that we have overachieved?

Rowing?

[Uncle fester]

Kellie!!!

[Dogbert]

Although Asher Smith was no more than an outside bet for a medal, this is happening a bit too often for comfort for the UK medal total. Their target is pretty steep and there are just too many people either not getting medals or not getting the colour expected. Although the published target is 50 to 70, anything under 60 will cause a bit of explaining.

Absolutely, prior to the race I was thinking Dina was a good bet for 6th, she ran a good race, what a shame that she couldn't cling on in the last few metres.

Both her and Neita (in the 100) missed bronze by the narrowest of margins. It's heartbreaking, they are a pair of very likable ladies.

weegie, is there any discipline that we have overachieved?

Rowing?

Rowing indeed

Great Britain hit a 49-year low in Tokyo. 2 medals , one Silver , one Bronze.

Team GB had led the rowing medal table for the last three Games: in Tokyo, they were 14th.

The current GBR rowing team is in transition, with all bar eight athletes making their Olympic debut in Paris ( out of 42 ) in 10 separate boats.

8 of those boats won medals , 3 gold , 2 Silver, 3 Bronze, GBR second in the rowing medal table behind the Netherlands , although we won the same number of medals as the Dutch.

GBR surpassed their previous best medal haul for an overseas Olympics.

[S/Lt_Phillips]

Absolutely, prior to the race I was thinking Dina was a good bet for 6th, she ran a good race, what a shame that she couldn't cling on in the last few metres.

Both her and Neita (in the 100) missed bronze by the narrowest of margins. It's heartbreaking, they are a pair of very likable ladies.

weegie, is there any discipline that we have overachieved?

Rowing?

Rowing indeed

Great Britain hit a 49-year low in Tokyo. 2 medals , one Silver , one Bronze.

Team GB had led the rowing medal table for the last three Games: in Tokyo, they were 14th.

The current GBR rowing team is in transition, with all bar eight athletes making their Olympic debut in Paris ( out of 42 ) in 10 separate boats.

8 of those boats won medals , 3 gold , 2 Silver, 3 Bronze, GBR second in the rowing medal table behind the Netherlands , although we won the same number of medals as the Dutch.

GBR surpassed their previous best medal haul for an overseas Olympics.

My annoying Dutch colleague is now extremely confident that team NL will finish ahead of team GB in the medal table. This will make him insufferably smug. Irritatingly he's probably right. The men's hockey team are certainties to win gold, Lavreyson will win 2 more in cycling, one of the sailing classes is guaranteed gold, Femke Bol is odds-on in the 400m and Hassan is very highly rated in 10k and marathon. They have other strong chances too, like the women's hockey team. Orange twat.

[Biffer]

Rowing?

Rowing indeed

Great Britain hit a 49-year low in Tokyo. 2 medals , one Silver , one Bronze.

Team GB had led the rowing medal table for the last three Games: in Tokyo, they were 14th.

The current GBR rowing team is in transition, with all bar eight athletes making their Olympic debut in Paris ( out of 42 ) in 10 separate boats.

8 of those boats won medals , 3 gold , 2 Silver, 3 Bronze, GBR second in the rowing medal table behind the Netherlands , although we won the same number of medals as the Dutch.

GBR surpassed their previous best medal haul for an overseas Olympics.

My annoying Dutch colleague is now extremely confident that team NL will finish ahead of team GB in the medal table. This will make him insufferably smug. Irritatingly he's probably right. The men's hockey team are certainties to win gold, Lavreyson will win 2 more in cycling, one of the sailing classes is guaranteed gold, Femke Bol is odds-on in the 400m and Hassan is very highly rated in 10k and marathon. They have other strong chances too, like the women's hockey team. Orange twat.

Depends what happens in track cycling, GB have good chances in several more events. I assume there's a chance in sailing, we often get something there.

But nothing from boxing, taekwondo, or other sports we often get something in is a blow to the overall position.

[Big D]

Matt Hudson Smith should go well.

Britain should get to close to 60 medals as there are still medal chances in:
Cycling
Diving
Modern Pentathlon
Taekwondo
Laura Muir
Relays (women's 4x100)

Not sure about the sprint kayaking and sailing.

[Big D]

Rowing?

Rowing indeed

Great Britain hit a 49-year low in Tokyo. 2 medals , one Silver , one Bronze.

Team GB had led the rowing medal table for the last three Games: in Tokyo, they were 14th.

The current GBR rowing team is in transition, with all bar eight athletes making their Olympic debut in Paris ( out of 42 ) in 10 separate boats.

8 of those boats won medals , 3 gold , 2 Silver, 3 Bronze, GBR second in the rowing medal table behind the Netherlands , although we won the same number of medals as the Dutch.

GBR surpassed their previous best medal haul for an overseas Olympics.

My annoying Dutch colleague is now extremely confident that team NL will finish ahead of team GB in the medal table. This will make him insufferably smug. Irritatingly he's probably right. The men's hockey team are certainties to win gold, Lavreyson will win 2 more in cycling, one of the sailing classes is guaranteed gold, Femke Bol is odds-on in the 400m and Hassan is very highly rated in 10k and marathon. They have other strong chances too, like the women's hockey team. Orange twat.

Bol v McLaughlin will be a great battle. McLaughlin broke her world record 6 weeks ago so is flying.

[Jethro]

Rowing?

Rowing indeed

Great Britain hit a 49-year low in Tokyo. 2 medals , one Silver , one Bronze.

Team GB had led the rowing medal table for the last three Games: in Tokyo, they were 14th.

The current GBR rowing team is in transition, with all bar eight athletes making their Olympic debut in Paris ( out of 42 ) in 10 separate boats.

8 of those boats won medals , 3 gold , 2 Silver, 3 Bronze, GBR second in the rowing medal table behind the Netherlands , although we won the same number of medals as the Dutch.

GBR surpassed their previous best medal haul for an overseas Olympics.

My annoying Dutch colleague is now extremely confident that team NL will finish ahead of team GB in the medal table. This will make him insufferably smug. Irritatingly he's probably right. The men's hockey team are certainties to win gold, Lavreyson will win 2 more in cycling, one of the sailing classes is guaranteed gold, Femke Bol is odds-on in the 400m and Hassan is very highly rated in 10k and marathon. They have other strong chances too, like the women's hockey team. Orange twat.

Take the moral high ground and ask him how his Rugby team is doing

[S/Lt_Phillips]

Rowing indeed

Great Britain hit a 49-year low in Tokyo. 2 medals , one Silver , one Bronze.

Team GB had led the rowing medal table for the last three Games: in Tokyo, they were 14th.

The current GBR rowing team is in transition, with all bar eight athletes making their Olympic debut in Paris ( out of 42 ) in 10 separate boats.

8 of those boats won medals , 3 gold , 2 Silver, 3 Bronze, GBR second in the rowing medal table behind the Netherlands , although we won the same number of medals as the Dutch.

GBR surpassed their previous best medal haul for an overseas Olympics.

My annoying Dutch colleague is now extremely confident that team NL will finish ahead of team GB in the medal table. This will make him insufferably smug. Irritatingly he's probably right. The men's hockey team are certainties to win gold, Lavreyson will win 2 more in cycling, one of the sailing classes is guaranteed gold, Femke Bol is odds-on in the 400m and Hassan is very highly rated in 10k and marathon. They have other strong chances too, like the women's hockey team. Orange twat.

Take the moral high ground and ask him how his Rugby team is doing

[S/Lt_Phillips]

Depends what happens in track cycling, GB have good chances in several more events. I assume there's a chance in sailing, we often get something there.

But nothing from boxing, taekwondo, or other sports we often get something in is a blow to the overall position.

Medal chances for men's laser & mixed mutihull, but too far back to get gold. Women's kitesurfing is the only gold medal chance left, and I think that one is a sudden-death final like the windsurfing, and with unpredictable winds, anything could happen there.

Hopefully Emma Finucane will do well in the women's sprint, (track cycling) but I think both pursuit teams will get silver.

[Openside]

Does the IOC even have their own set of rules in place? All i can see is they supply advice, that is very "inclusive", to other sporting bodies

Fucking BBC doesn't even mention what the issue is, just that he failed eligibility rules. pathetic.

How is someone born with female genitalia meant to know they have xy chromosomes?

because they have a clitoris the size of a marrow

[inactionman]

Just on the topic of medals, the boxers missed outy by some tight margins. The scoring has always been a bit impenetrable to me, but it seemed on another day we might have had a few more finalists.

[Raggs]

No idea if this has been posted, I'm not really following the olympics much, but there was a fun nerdy stat posted on reddit.

If they were still using starters pistols, instead of the wired in speakers behind each runner, then Noah Lyles would likely not have won the 100m, as the time it would have taken the sound to get to him, vs 2nd place, would have been greater than the difference between them at the finish!

[inactionman]

Some shenanigans in the 5k - the French runner Hugo Hay knocked over George Mills on the home straight and he took out a few other runners o his way to the deck.

Mills is the son of ex-footballer Danny Mills, himself no shrinking violet, so like a chip off the old block he had a few words with Hay the finish line. Not quite the Olympian spirit.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/vi ... 5n67qen07o

Mills has been advanced to the next round by the race ref.

[Sandstorm]

Some shenanigans in the 5k - the French runner Hugo Hay knocked over George Mills on the home straight and he took out a few other runners o his way to the deck.

Mills is the son of ex-footballer Danny Mills, himself no shrinking violet, so like a chip off the old block he had a few words with Hay the finish line. Not quite the Olympian spirit.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/vi ... 5n67qen07o

Mills has been advanced to the next round by the race ref.

Couple of dodgy elbows by the Frenchie there.

[tabascoboy]

Some shenanigans in the 5k - the French runner Hugo Hay knocked over George Mills on the home straight and he took out a few other runners o his way to the deck.

Mills is the son of ex-footballer Danny Mills, himself no shrinking violet, so like a chip off the old block he had a few words with Hay the finish line. Not quite the Olympian spirit.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/vi ... 5n67qen07o

Mills has been advanced to the next round by the race ref.

Couple of dodgy elbows by the Frenchie there.

Didn't look all that much to cause the falls and as has been said Mills had got himself in a bad position, but the race officials obviously saw enough to make that call

[Slick]

Some shenanigans in the 5k - the French runner Hugo Hay knocked over George Mills on the home straight and he took out a few other runners o his way to the deck.

Mills is the son of ex-footballer Danny Mills, himself no shrinking violet, so like a chip off the old block he had a few words with Hay the finish line. Not quite the Olympian spirit.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/vi ... 5n67qen07o

Mills has been advanced to the next round by the race ref.

Couple of dodgy elbows by the Frenchie there.

Didn't look all that much to cause the falls and as has been said Mills had got himself in a bad position, but the race officials obviously saw enough to make that call

They were going pretty fast to be fair

[tabascoboy]

Couple of dodgy elbows by the Frenchie there.

Didn't look all that much to cause the falls and as has been said Mills had got himself in a bad position, but the race officials obviously saw enough to make that call

They were going pretty fast to be fair

Hay definitely gave a couple of nudges and enough to catch Mills slightly off balance I guess. As you say getting into the sprint at that stage and camera angles don't help to clarify much. Hay did looks just a little contrite though when confronted..

[duke]

Didn't look all that much to cause the falls and as has been said Mills had got himself in a bad position, but the race officials obviously saw enough to make that call

They were going pretty fast to be fair

Hay definitely gave a couple of nudges and enough to catch Mills slightly off balance I guess. As you say getting into the sprint at that stage and camera angles don't help to clarify much. Hay did looks just a little contrite though when confronted..

Did Hay get DQ'd?

[tabascoboy]

They were going pretty fast to be fair

Hay definitely gave a couple of nudges and enough to catch Mills slightly off balance I guess. As you say getting into the sprint at that stage and camera angles don't help to clarify much. Hay did looks just a little contrite though when confronted..

Did Hay get DQ'd?

Looks like he qualified for the final too

https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/ ... 0100--.pdf

[Uncle fester]

Fucking BBC doesn't even mention what the issue is, just that he failed eligibility rules. pathetic.

How is someone born with female genitalia meant to know they have xy chromosomes?

because they have a clitoris the size of a marrow

Good man OS. That thing got put to bed here about a week ago. Finger on the pulse.

[Big D]

Charley Hull not allowed to smoke on course this week and plays terribly.

[Jock42]

Have they changed the sprint format? Did it not used to be best of 3?

[S/Lt_Phillips]

Have they changed the sprint format? Did it not used to be best of 3?

I think the later stages are still best of 3

[Jock42]

Have they changed the sprint format? Did it not used to be best of 3?

I think the later stages are still best of 3

Cheers.

[Blackmac]

Just on the topic of medals, the boxers missed outy by some tight margins. The scoring has always been a bit impenetrable to me, but it seemed on another day we might have had a few more finalists.

Last nights was shocking. Richardson ahead after two rounds and by everyone's account, won the last but certainly didn't lose enough for the deficit to be overturned

[Sandstorm]

Team GB Gold Medal hype train is derailing….

[Big D]

Another great race.

Not winning these golds but NR is defeat really can't be sniffed at.

[Blackmac]

Team GB Gold Medal hype train is derailing….

Big style.

[Big D]

5th fastest time of all time? Great effort. Great run by the American too.

[Big D]

Finest of margins but he has so much to be proud of. 5th fastest time ever is a sensational run.

[Lady P]

Extremely over these last minute silvers

[Big D]

Many memorable moments for team GB that have come down to fine margins:
Kerr.
Hudson-Smith.
Tarlings puncture and no medal.
Pidcocks puncture coming at a point he could get a wheel change in time.
A shoot off.
Rowing medals.

[Big D]

I wonder how fast MJ would have been on this track in these shoes?

42 something?

[Big D]

I'm surprised they replayed that fall.

Heavy fall and he might have been out.

[Blackmac]

Absolutely loved watching Andy MacDonald in the skateboarding today. Had never heard of him before but it's a great story.