Summer Olympic Sports in between Olympics thread.

[Sydney Kicker]

3:50.83 for Hull
what the actual ****?
a national record, 5 second PB and the fifth fastest all time!

the race is here



post race interview is here

Spoiler

I hate to be that guy but if she was Kenyan or Russian (or from any other country really) people would be asking questions. To improve by 6 1/2 seconds in a season at the age of 27 is unheard of.

Better prep than ever & never reached optimal potential in a race +1.5sec
Dragging off Faith/perfect pacemaker +1.5sec
Women peak later in this generation +1sec
Shoe technology +2.5sec

These numbers are all guesses. Absolutely everything perfect on the night.

Note the huge number of PBs in the race. This is the first olympic cycle where new shoe tech has made the quantum leap. Won't be the last Athletics WR in the next month I expect.

 

[GreyCrow]

Did not know that about the shoe tech - will definitely keep an eye out

 

[Sydney Kicker]

Better prep than ever & never reached optimal potential in a race +1.5sec
Dragging off Faith/perfect pacemaker +1.5sec
Women peak later in this generation +1sec
Shoe technology +2.5sec

These numbers are all guesses. Absolutely everything perfect on the night.

Note the huge number of PBs in the race. This is the first olympic cycle where new shoe tech has made the quantum leap. Won't be the last Athletics WR in the next month I expect.

Further on my last comment. I think a lot of athletes themselves don't know what they can be capable of with new shoe tech and tapering into the Olympics. Would not have been surprised if Laura Muir had gone with the two leaders at their seemingly suicidal pace she would have been right up there with Jess battling for 2nd.

 

[Sydney Kicker]

Did not know that about the shoe tech - will definitely keep an eye out

Some good articles. Focus is on long distance but increasingly the benefits are flowing through to middle distance shoe design.

‘Why wouldn’t you, if you can run faster?’: the unstoppable rise of the carbon-fibre super shoe

Hi-tech shoes have sent world records tumbling. Do they herald the end of the level playing field, or are they the saviour of long-distance racing?

www.theguardian.com

How a 'disposable' shoe is changing the face of long distance running

Adidas' new running shoe helped Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa take more than two minutes off the marathon world record in Berlin at the weekend — but if you want to get hold of the the one-run-and-done shoe, you'd better start saving.

www.abc.net.au

 

[AdelaideGT]

New shoe tech has certainly improved performances (from sprints - not just distances).

But the good thing about recent years is that there are more Aussies at a high level than has happened for quite a while. Regardless of shoes.

 

[Satan]

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/09/sport/netherlands-joost-luiten-to-miss-olympics/index.html

 

[getthefooty]

Jess Hull peaking at the perfect time. Flying at the moment.

 

[GreyCrow]

 

[Cmarsh]

You know the sporting landscape is evolving when the IOC take Esports seriously.

Inaugural Olympic Esports Games 2025 Will be Held in Saudi Arabia - IGN

The International Olympic Committee has announced that Saudi Arabia will host the inaugural Olympic Esports Games in 2025. The IOC is reportedly eyeing partnerships with video game developers to include Rocket League, Street Fighter, and League of Legends in the festivities.

www.ign.com

 

[magpie_marty]

Rising Australian swim star Lani Pallister has forfeited her chance to join her team mate Ariarne Titmus in the ‘race of the century’ at the Paris Olympics to save herself for her two long-distance showdowns with American legend Katie Ledecky.

Selected for her first Olympics, Pallister had secured places in the 400m, 800m, 1500m and 4x200m freestyle relay events at last month’s Australian trials, but has withdrawn from the 400m, giving up her spot to Aussie teenager Jamie Perkins, the reigning junior world champion.
The switch is one of six that the Australian team has made since the trials.

Teenager Iona Anderson will replace Mollie O’Callaghan in the 100m backstroke while Ella Ramsey is not contesting the 100m breaststroke, leaving Jenna Strauch as the lone Australian entrant.

In the men’s races, Tommy Neill has been picked to swim the 200m individual medley even though he didn’t contest the event at the trials.

Matt Temple will also add the 200m butterfly and Sam Short the 1500m freestyle.

There have also been some significant changes internationally with Canadian sensation Summer McIntosh joining Ledecky in withdrawing from the women’s 200m freestyle, where she would have lined up against Titmus and O’Callaghan.

Sweden’s world record holder Sarah Sjostrom has signed up for the 100m freestyle after initially saying she would only swim the 50m.
American Katie Douglass is skipping the 100m, while Canada’s Maggie Mac Neil has included the 100m freestyle in her program.

Tunisia’s Ahmed Hafnaoui - the 400m gold medallist at Tokyo - is missing the Games altogether, boosting the medal chances of Short and Elijah Winnington.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

You know the sporting landscape is evolving when the IOC take Esports seriously.

Inaugural Olympic Esports Games 2025 Will be Held in Saudi Arabia - IGN

The International Olympic Committee has announced that Saudi Arabia will host the inaugural Olympic Esports Games in 2025. The IOC is reportedly eyeing partnerships with video game developers to include Rocket League, Street Fighter, and League of Legends in the festivities.

www.ign.com

< insert shakes head emoji>

 

[GreyCrow]

I got my STAN upgrade today

 

[Drummond]

Wasn’t sure where to put this, so this’ll do.

 

[giggler99]

Salt Lake City also to host the winter games in 2034

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Salt Lake City also to host the winter games in 2234

NBC is gonna love this - LA 2028 and Salt Lake City in 2034.

So LA get 11 years to prepare, Brisbane get 11, Salt Lake City get 10, Paris got 7 and the French Alps get 6.

Salt Lake having hosted in 2002 wont be building a massive amount of new stadiums and like LA will keep the budget lower than other cities.

France probably wont use much of the venues from Albertville 1992 Olympics as this 2030 Olympics is spread out over 2 regions Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and the region above it Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, which Albertville is in the eastern part of that it.

OK NBC are going to have to put in a bid for 2034, their long term deal ends at Brisbane in 2032.

NBC secures $7.5bn deal to broadcast Olympics through 2032

US network to pay additional $100m 'signing bonus' for promotion of the games from 2015 to 2020m after secret talks with IOC

www.theguardian.com

The network will pay $7.5bn for exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympics from 2021 through 2032, according to an announcement by the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday. That’s six Olympics games in all. Under the deal, NBC also will pay out a $100m signing “bonus” for promotion of the games from 2015 to 2020.

NBC has had a lock on broadcasting the Olympics in the 21st century. The network’s last deal, signed in 2011, was for $4.4 billion to broadcast every Olympics from 2014 through 2020.

The 2012 London Olympics attracted a record audience and brought NBC an estimated $1bn in advertising revenue, but also copious criticism for broadcasting so many events on taped delay, in an age of live video streaming.

 

[GreyCrow]

Salt Lake City also to host the winter games in 2234

What about climate change

 

[giggler99]

What about climate change

lol I fixed it