Summer Paris 2024 - General Discussion

[Barrybran]

I bet Pav never saw himself ever reporting on Olympic equestrian

 

[Royces Hart]

Matthew Pavlich

Matthew Pavlich

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is reporting from the equestrian, looks like he should be competing.

 

[drd23]

There's so many olympic sports for the rich kids, it's good to see some for regular folk.

Not everyone has a horse, a gun or a ribbon lol

Or a tennis racket if this image from the Opening Ceremony is anything to go by (LeBron James is a billionaire, but the father's of two of the other women in the photo are worth more than him )

 

[Ghost Patrol]

Equestrian reminds me of when Chewbacca didn't get a medal in Star Wars.

 

[Barrybran]

Simone Biles whipping out a one-footed 720 on a beam because why not

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

I'm just pumped for the Breaking

Is Jonah representing Tonga?

 

[Jamolad]

Seeing the rowing made me remember the 2004 Athens Women's 8 Final and "Lay Down Sally", and so told the story to my teenage girls. Then went to show them and, it might be my shit search skills, but ****ed if I can find any footage of it.

Closest I could get was a news story about one of her team-mates punching her in the face after the street parade in Sydney - that story had a single still-shot of her laying in the boat. Can't find any footage, not even the segment Roy & HG did on it in their Athen's version of The Dream.

One of my girl's asked why it was such a big deal that she stopped if she was so exhausted. I explained that it was not the first time she had done it; that many of the team knew she was mentally weak and did not want her in their boat/team as they knew she could not (would not) push through the pain barrier like is required at that level; that she gave up with still about a quarter of the distance to go when Australia were in bronze medal position and a chance of Silver; that not only did she stop rowing but she left her oars dragging in the water; and that you could somewhat forgive her if it was an individual sport but in a team sport you just cannot do that to your team-mates (she wasn't injured, she simply gave up).

Might be that I am mis-remembering or embellishing some of that, but I can't find any footage of it anywhere which seems really odd. Am I just shit at searching?

 

[FreoGirl]

I smiled when the US gymnast stacked it - I'm sorry, no not sorry

 

[Donakebab]

The things Biles can do is just utterly amazing.

 

[BobbyMorri]

Love how respectful the hockey refs are and vice versa.

They also use the referral perfectly. The player has to explain why the call is wrong, she asks the Video ref, and everything is explained.

Soccer needs to look into something like this. It would never work in that cluster F of a sport and how they treat the refs.

The AFL needs to learn that umpires make mistakes. They can make the wrong call, just say it. They know in their hearts.

One sport needs to stop treating Ref like dirt. The other needs to stop protecting them overzealously.
Rant over.

 

[Barrybran]

Seeing the rowing made me remember the 2004 Athens Women's 8 Final and "Lay Down Sally", and so told the story to my teenage girls. Then went to show them and, it might be my shit search skills, but ****ed if I can find any footage of it.

Closest I could get was a news story about one of her team-mates punching her in the face after the street parade in Sydney - that story had a single still-shot of her laying in the boat. Can't find any footage, not even the segment Roy & HG did on it in their Athen's version of The Dream.

One of my girl's asked why it was such a big deal that she stopped if she was so exhausted. I explained that it was not the first time she had done it; that many of the team knew she was mentally weak and did not want her in their boat/team as they knew she could not (would not) push through the pain barrier like is required at that level; that she gave up with still about a quarter of the distance to go when Australia were in bronze medal position and a chance of Silver; that not only did she stop rowing but she left her oars dragging in the water; and that you could somewhat forgive her if it was an individual sport but in a team sport you just cannot do that to your team-mates (she wasn't injured, she simply gave up).

Might be that I am mis-remembering or embellishing some of that, but I can't find any footage of it anywhere which seems really odd. Am I just shit at searching?

Nope. I can't find anything either.

 

[JP Sauce]

Nope. I can't find anything either.

Yeah the footage is impossible to find, in my experience.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Nice that our Aussie women are doing decent in the hockey doubt we are going near a medal but we’ve needed to rebuild

 

[Satan]

Nope. I can't find anything either.

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[Satan]

Is biles limping ?

 

[Drummond]

Is biles limping ?

Yes hurt her ankle warming up for floor. Didn’t stop her from beasting as usual.

 

[Satan]

Yes hurt her ankle warming up for floor. Didn’t stop her from beasting as usual.

Could swell ?

 

[Donakebab]

Is biles limping ?

Wish I could move like that with a limp.

 

[MJG14]

The sports climbing is grouse though, one of the highlights of Tokyo for me.

Is going to be amazing watching them climb the Eiffel Tower.

Yeah I put on the sports climbing one time out of curiosity. Ended up watching it for about an hour I reckon.

 

[JP Sauce]

Watching the mountain bike riding is making my thighs hurt.

 

[Trojan90]

They actually get a medal for this I can’t believe it

Meh, it’s better than equestrian.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

That’s my first and only skateboarding event I’ll ever watch

Still better than the tedious boring equestrian which is a horse prancing around a circle for hours. Least they got rid of half of that.

Whether people like it or not if the Olympics is viable long term these new sports are going to be needed.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Skateboarding is not for me how is it an Olympic sport I’ll never know

Much better than a few of the sports, it’s fun and it’s one that gets new fans to watch the games that otherwise wouldn’t. The X games is amazing to watch.

It’s better than the BMX cross which is just a roller derby, and it’s sure better than equestrian

 

[GreyCrow]

They all look very very young

 

[Satan]

Bmx stack ouch