Olympic Games Paris 2024 - AH Thread [Thread banned posters listed in first post.]

Surely, and I'd be fairly hopeful that'd it be the case, that young girls would be looking up to Kellie and Rashidat. They are the big ones to get kids interested. We should be pumping money into both sports.

Rashidat wouldn't have been there at all if the other girls hadn't qualified for the final first tho 🤷,it's a #£&£@#£ team sport

If you haven’t see one in recent times you’re in for a bit of a shock!

Staged events for quick times pretty much. It’s also rare to see any Irish athletes at any of them

I think they’re great all the same

I dunno....there may be some merit in them...think theres only about .8 of second between a winning 100m sprint now and one 100 years ago....despite all the equipment, coaching, nutrition etc etc in that time...they probably ran in boots and trousers back then!

Imagine being in your 30s and being involved in 'breaking'. Eminem should rap about it.

Surely they've got to give priority to a real sport like breakdancing

No, by having to be involved in 2 handoffs and with the cross over to the inside lane it means she runs slightly more than the 400 metres so it's an advantage to have her run the second leg out of the 4 as she's the strongest runner of the 4 of them.

I love the breakdancing.

Appreciation Post

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David Gillick

I wouldn’t have thought a singular olympics medal could give you the tag of dominant for years. Think she was dominant in European circles though.

I suppose she did put us in a good spot

and fingers crossed we aren’t doping as well, yeh?

Felt bad for Sharlene for feeling like it was her fault that we missed out on a medal, she also felt so bad for Rashidat as she didn't want her to miss out again. I was hoping the other girls would have reassured her and consoled her, I'm sure they did, just not on air.

Gillick is getting a lot of kudos for two very simple things

a) having a knowledge of the sport
b) empathising with the athletes

You would these would be the most basic of pre-requisites for any on-site reported but he looks so good by comparison with the litany of folks on RTE and BBC who fail to tick these two boxes.

I find it odd that the trackside reporter on the BBC is Irish and I don't think it's a good choice at all. She doesn't seem to have a great knowledge nor can she really properly empathize with the British athletes, her questions and queries are usually unbelievably trite. I wonder how she got the gig.

One last thing I will say is that I don't like when athletes and participants are constantly asked about the support, it's like the go-to question when the reporter runs out of things to say. The query almost always reveals absolutely nothing. Your country could have one person in the stadium and the athlete will say "support was great, blah, blah, blah". Total waste of time of a question, I am counting the days down until some no-nonsense athlete responds with "I thought I would have seen a few more flags around the place, support was fairly shite, obviously people spent their cash on Benidorm rather than watching me, hope they regret it now."

Those kind of comparisons are really pointless. Standards and times improve . Comparing to times 32 years ago!!!

It was a class olympics imo. Obviously the timezone and the fact I could watch so much of it live and could choose what to watch at any given time with discovery and the coverages on RTE, BBC and Eurosport made a difference.....but everything I watched was brilliant entertainment and the more traditional elements, track & field, swimming really delivered great races almost every day...