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

Moment of the Games for me aside from Irish stuff was the Pakistani Javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem breaking the Olympic Record. I can’t get the throw out of my head.

Low point like others mentioned above is Noah Lyles’ actions post 200m race.

Damn good thread folks, nice to share the 16 days with ye.

except for these 2 on the naughty step… what clowns get banned from an Olympics thread.

ciao

my god!!

The women's 4x400m final is definitely the moment for me.

It's rare I'm so emotionally invested in a sporting event.

Beyond that Hocker's win was amazing to see live.

Oh that’s why it was only a 2 , I thought France had snatched a draw

Has to be said NZ and Australia are phenomenal sporting nations. Win in a variety of things too. Netherlands will be very happy with their Olympics as will the hosts France, Britain will be happy with total medals but a lack of Gold this time around, Jamaica had a bit of a disaster this year as well. Uzbekistan an absolute powerhouse in the combat sports but if there's no boxing in LA it's probably the best Olympics they'll ever have.

British secretly won’t be happy. Worst gold medal return in 20 odd years. They really bigged up a lot of their chances. One track gold and one velodrome gold are crap returns

No individual gold in swimming either. Been a poor return from them in the major sports. Only one bronze in boxing too is a very bad return. In fairness they had a few near misses like Kerr and Smith, they threw away another rowing Gold as well.

I would concur with that. Never seen a throw like it. Also loved Hocker and Hall winning on the line, especially the latter given the angry face run he made.

Lyles needs a kick up the hole. At least Usain backed up his confidence.

shame St Lucia isn’t shown, they’re return must be incredible.

Bolt was confident but had the charisma to make himself likeable. Lyle's just comes across as an arrogant Richard and a very sore loser. Had to make it all about himself and took a moment away from a young man who just won his countries first Gold Medal. Have to say overall brilliant Olympics, France can feel very proud the backdrop for many events was incredible, best Olympics since London for me, nice to get to watch so much of it live as well.

The Brits are still dining out on the investment from London 2012, and fair play, they are still getting some return on that, particularly in the facilities and funded training centres of excellence, but it is ebbing away.

London 2012: 29 Gold, 18 Silver, 18 Bronze

Paris 2024: 14 Gold, 22 Silver, 29 Bronze

Same number of medals, considerably less value overall.

This sounds like good news - talk of increased funding for the elite athletes and for coaching too

I really hope we can build on this, we should really target a few key sports like Rowing, Cycling and Swimming. Would like to see a real push for field events. Looking at the medals it's an area not dominated by genetic factors. Australia, NZ, Japan, Pakistan, India, Sweden, Greece etc all winning medals including Golds. No point targeting sprint events or the 10000m.

True. All the more reason why stats like these are pretty meaningless for smaller nations. When an exceptional athlete like Alfred comes along the stats get completely skewed.

I see also that the population of the Republic of Ireland is used there although Team Ireland represents a larger population than that