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

Yes, you would think so. At time of posting they hadn't won the omnium cycling gold.

I watched the full race and I just felt that the baton receiver on two of the exchanges was not going ‘near full pelt’ when receiving the baton. If my memory serves me right they were ‘half looking back’ to make sure that things were going ok rather than having the receiving hand back and looking straight forward while nearly full pelt. I felt that there was the equivalent of a slight hesitation in two of the baton exchanges. I wonder if it is on utube or equivalent.
Please do not think that I am trying to blame anyone here, - all 4 performed out of their skin and to the VERY BEST of their abilities on the day- I am just curious on a VERY TECHNICAL matter

Never thought I'd see a haka in a velodrome!

Timmy Time! USA vs France for gold should be a good finish to this.

Most of the rest of us too including Byrne. Pure genius setting a deadline for after you're dead. Removes the need for a lot of hard work and responsibility.

Didn't know this until I saw your post. Ridiculous. Ya, rules are rules etc, but 4s outside the allowed window for appeal. That's a hollow medal for Romania. It's no way to win a medal.

Ugh, already feeling the post olympics misery. They could do with spreading it out over a month or longer rather than squeezing it all into 2 weeks… The thought of heading into the autumn with absolutely nothing on. Hopefully the US election will take my mind off it.

For any RTE fundamentalists, it's time to ditch them. Their coverage was awful compared to the iPlayer. Thankfully my work laptop has a UK VPN built into it but would definitely buy a month of VPN in future. 2 streams from 7am to 11pm, a really good player that you can watch back over anything, skip forward/back 20 seconds. No stone unturned, very little analysis/ad breaks. Don't know how I'm going to get the screen burn of Derval O'Rourke's skull off my television from having RTE on..

anyone else really excited for 2072?

Thats the thirteenth Olympics I remember, I remember seeing parts of it in '74 but I didn't really understand things. 1976 I remember clearly with Nadia Comaneci probably being the star of the games.

Lasse Viren winning the 5000 and 10000 were the standouts for me in the Athletics because my dad loved him.

I hope I get to see another seven, I'd be happy with that.

Ah i dont know. The PL season starts next week so that will take the sting out if it. The majority of olympic sports wont be watched for another 4 years.

I knew what to expect in advance and stuck to EUROSPORT. From what I did see and read about their coverage I was vindicated. Between crap pundits, commentators & incessant ad breaks, it’s a wonder that anyone would think they were a success

I didn't watch the competition, but I was reading an article last night about the photos of the Olympics that will be remembered. It was of Biles hugging Chiles after she won her first individual Olympic medal.

That's devastating for her.

Another photo that featured was of Britain's Bryony Page after winning gold for the women's trampoline final in gymnastics.

I couldn't help thinking of Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone when he applied after shave to his face. She even looks a little like him.

From an Irish Perspective Rhys winning gold the highlight for me. Of all our athletes after what happened to him in Tokyo I was really hoping he'd at least perform to his level and get a medal at least. Amazing mental strength to get Gold. Outside of Irish moments, Pinnock reversing a 40 second deficit after getting a puncture to win Gold, Hocker shocking everyone with an OR to win the 1500, Duplantis breaking the WR with his last attempt and the finish in the Women's marathon probably the moments of the Olympics for me.

USA surely have the refs bribed in the basketball.

There's loads to be fair, Alford winning the 100m her countries first medal, the closest finish ever in the men's 100m, the men's 400m final, The Cuban winning his 5th Gold at 41 years old, Bol last leg in the mixed relay final