Summer Paris 2024 - General Discussion

[The Flying Belgian]

Not a biggie in the grand scheme of things, but is anyone else irked by the official typeface of this Olympics? Maybe just the anal retentitive and graphic design freaks among us.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

My end of Day 12 medals table vs medals handed out table. These events are getting more complicated to reconcile.

Adjustments in Day 12 was the following;

Cycling men's and women's Team Pursuit handed out 2 x 4 medals per placing
Artistic Swimming Team event handed out 9 medals per placing
Athletics Marathon Team Race walk handed out 2 nedals per placings

Notes for day 11 - Wrestling like all combat sports give out 2 bronze medals. 3 events so 3 extra bronze medals.
Boxing men's 63.5kg and 80kg classes Gold and Silver awarded day 12 and bronzes in day 10.\
Boxing 2 x bronzes handed out in Men's 57kg and 92kg but no golds and silvers.

To the left is national medal count, to the right is medal count to individuals for that nation.

With out doing full reconciliation of multiple medallists, 30+% of Great Britain, and South Korean team have won medals as highlighted in yellow, 20+% of USA, China team have won medals as highlighted in orange.

In light blue are the nations that 10+% of a nations athletes are taking home a medal with teams of at least 100 athletes. I will also add how many teams in team sports countries have and how many athletes those teams supply at some point.

I have started adding more teams data now that every one of 8 team sports is at the Semi Final or later stage. Will try and get them all down by Saturday.

USA already have 2 bronze sports medals , their women's football side is in the final, their men's volleyball team is in the bronze medal play off game and 5 of their other teams are at the semi final stage. They could win 100 to 120 medals from their team sports. They already have 12 from women's Rugby and 4 from women's 3x3 basketball.

Spain and Germany also still have a lot of teams alive in line for medals.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Was watching ch9 and then they go to the rugby league

Urghh

 

[BobbyMorri]

Speed climbing gold is decided by .02 of a second, 4.75 to 4.77. A gold for Indonesia.

I really want to watch more of this.

 

[amazingjoshy]

The speed climbing might be my new favourite sport

Great to watch

 

[Richard Cranium]

Speed climbing gold is decided by .02 of a second, 4.75 to 4.77. A gold for Indonesia.

I really want to watch more of this.

Crazy they don't do best of three or something. One of the quarters was a .002 difference. That's cruel.

 

[largebus]

Not a biggie in the grand scheme of things, but is anyone else irked by the official typeface of this Olympics? Maybe just the anal retentitive and graphic design freaks among us.

Best one was Athens 2004 with Gill Sans

 

[The King!]

Speed climbing gold is decided by .02 of a second, 4.75 to 4.77. A gold for Indonesia.

I really want to watch more of this.

It's bloody amazing how quick they do it

 

[The King!]

I'm looking forward to the break dancing , have no idea about it , but all the recent sports additions have been enjoyable.

Well except Golf , not really phased by it being there

 

[RU_]

Netherlands v Spain Water Polo game is insanely good.

 

[juice t]

The French spectacularly shitting themselves in the women's kite surfing to hand Britain the Gold

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

mentioned this in the swimming thread on Tuesday in relation to winning individual events vs golds with lots of relays in totals. First person to win 5 in a row in an individual event

 

[juice t]

Gold to the Kiwis in the Keirin

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Jess Fox's stocks keep rising.

Jessica Fox voted onto IOC Athletes Commission

Paris 2024 dual gold medallist and Australian Flag Bearer Jess Fox has been elected to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Athletes’ Commission. On...

www.olympics.com.au

 

[Cmarsh]

Random thought-


Could "scooter park" be an olympic event one day?

I see way more kids on scooters at the local skate park than on skateboards.

 

[X_box_X]

Waterpolo was brilliant. Go girls.

 

[AdelaideGT]

Could "scooter park" be an olympic event one day?

I see way more kids on scooters at the local skate park than on skateboards.

How about 'old people with motorised scooters'?

I see way more of them these days.

"Here comes the Aussie Gran into the final straight. C'mon Joyce - you can do it"...

 

[GreyCrow]

How about 'old people with motorised scooters'?

I see way more of them these days.

"Here comes the Aussie Gran into the final straight. C'mon Joyce - you can do it"...

 

[Gibbsy]

How about 'old people with motorised scooters'?

I see way more of them these days.

"Here comes the Aussie Gran into the final straight. C'mon Joyce - you can do it"...

Lime scooters will overtake them both by then! Turn off the speed limiter and let them at it

 

[Big Red Machine]

Lime scooters will overtake them both by then! Turn off the speed limiter and let them at it

Brisbane CBD Street Circuit on the Lime Scooters?

Sign me up!

 

[Royces Hart]

Brisbane CBD Street Circuit on the Lime Scooters?

Sign me up!

Could be like a video game, extra points for hitting a bin chicken

 

[Royces Hart]

Not sure why the marathon swimmers need feed stations, surely there is enough nutrition in that water.

 

[Ghost Patrol]

Looks like the breakdancing starts tonight, b-girls at 12.07am

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

FMD - Roz Kelly just told us the French spent $100 billion dollars to clean up the Seine.

It was $1.4 bil USD or $2.1 bil AUD Roz.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

FMD - Roz Kelly just told us the French spent $100 billion dollars to clean up the Seine.

It was $1.4 bil USD or $2.1 bil AUD Roz.

Whatever they spent it wasn't enough.

They're still swimming through e coli