Summer Paris 2024 - Track & Field

[RussellEbertHandball]

Good thing with Stan is if I turn on late to a sport session, rather than click watch live I can click on from start and I can fast forward and watch events and then can catch up or can rewind and re-watch something. Can't do that on 9 Now. But I think 9 Now have more athletics channels at the moment watching all the events.

Edit ok found alternative athletics feeds on Stan.

 

[Drummond]

Missed most of the Day 8 morning session as went to the footy at AO and got the shock of my life there, and slept thru most of the night session but Stan's replay set up is a lot better than 9Now's and watched all of both sessions.

Watched Stan's replay with only knowing the women's 100m result. It actually was ok and I might consider doing it again if sleep depravity hits again.

The yank commentating with Rob Walker sounds a lot like NBC's long time sports and Olympic broadcaster Bob Costas, but I know it isn't Bob.

Morning session for me was Abby Caldwell winning her repechage. Only middle distance run after Hollingsworth's that was run properly. The blokes were poor as were Abby and Bisset in the 800m first.

Marschall wa good in the PV, would have liked to see how he would have gone on a 5.75 jump but didn't need to do it.

Kung Fu Kenny Bednarek looked the best of the men's 100m heat runners. Fred Kerley and Kishane Thompson were also good but Noah Lyles didn't look that good to me.

The Shot Put was a bit of a farce with last 3 round in the rain and slipping and no throws as a result hurt the even. But as expected Ryan Crouser won, by getting in enough big throws before the rain came. 3 in a row at the Olympics is a first, will be interesting to see if he goes to LA and tries to make it 4 in a row like Al Oerter and Carl Lewis.

Alfred was just so dominated in the 100m thru heat, SF, and final in the rain and made easy work of Richardson and gave St Lucia their first Olympic athletic medal - a gold.

Triple jump another minnow nation wins an Olympic athletic medal for the first time, this one a gold for Dominica athlete Thea Lafond, who cracked 15m for the first time and a PB. These athletes were also were affected by the rain a bit.

The decathlon was a bit of a disappointment with world champ Pierce Lepage pulling out a few days before the Olympics started and Tokyo Olympic champ countryman Damian Warner getting injured and pulling out after the discuss. But due credit for Norwegian outsider beating more fancied German Leo Neugebauer and Grenadian Lindon Victor who has been around for years.

But the highlight was Femke Bol. I said after the heat the Dutch will be a lot better after they put here in, but I didn't expect them to win. I didn't realise teams can only make 1 change. But its redemption for Bol who at the 2023 World Champs mixed relay was being run down by American Holmes and stretches to stay in front and falls at 8m out lands 3m from line but dropped the baton as she fell and couldn't even finish the race.

Awesome recap. Totally spot on, and agree with your take on be men’s 100m.

The boys in the 1500 repechage were all incredibly disappointing. Caldwell deserved to make the semis.

Back to the Monday-Friday grind which means I’m going to now miss a lot of events. Weekends are my only real chance to catch most of everything I want.

 

[Drummond]

By my calculations Chris is in 13th position. So he has to have his best jump of the day to qualify. Oh boy. Comes down to this.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Come Chris

 

[Drummond]

And that’s it.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Mitrevski stuffed up his last jump. Jumped before he hit the board and half pulled out and recorded a 6.47.

 

[largebus]

Mitrevski botches it. That leaves Adcock who's miles off

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Geez Tamsyn really loves her small tit bits of info about every athlete she gleans from social media.

 

[Drummond]

I’m really disappointed by the long jump. I honestly thought he would make the final and could’ve done something.

 

[largebus]

Seems like it's been a while since an Australian men's athlete went close to a PB at the Olympics.
Ash Moloney in Tokyo being the obvious exception.

 

[Royces Hart]

Geez Tamsyn really loves her small tit bits of info about every athlete she gleans from social media.

I see she has graduated from Hamish McLachlan University with a degree in creepiness.

 

[Drummond]

Gayle not going to qualify. That’s really disappointing also.

 

[AdelaideGT]

Geez Tamsyn really loves her small tit bits of info about every athlete

Not just from social media.

It's great to have a well-researched commentator as opposed to say Giaan Rooney who hardly even knows the rules of swimming, let alone has any interesting/correct details about athletes.

It will be a shame if - as Tamsyn said to me last year - this may be her last year of doing commentary.

 

[largebus]

Steph Ratcliffe probably not going to make the hammer throw final. 2 foul throws and a 70.07 m has her 8th with Group B, will take a miracle

 

[Gibbsy]

Jeez what happened with Crittenden there

 

[Drummond]

What in the world happened to Crittenden? What?!

 

[Gibbsy]

Did he think it was going to be a DQ? Just didn't attack the the hurdles with any ferocity at all

 

[Jeremias]

Must be injured, surely. Doesn't look it though.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Not just from social media.

It's great to have a well-researched commentator as opposed to say Giaan Rooney who hardly even knows the rules of swimming, let alone has any interesting/correct details about athletes.

It will be a shame if - as Tamsyn said to me last year - this may be her last year of doing commentary.

She does a good job and knows the athletes and their athletic achievement, but she loves telling us obscure stuff as well as personal stuff.

I can't remember if it was Bruce, or Dave Culbert who said in Tokyo that she should write a book about all her obscure facts.

 

[AdelaideGT]

I can't remember if it was Bruce, or Dave Culbert who said in Tokyo that she should write a book about all her obscure facts.

They both always stir her about her 'Tamsyn Tales' but it is seriously good trivia about competitors - even obscure athletes from all over the world.

Seriously the best female athletics commentator we have ever had. Up there with Nicole Livingstone's swimming commentary. Often far better than the men they are paired with.

 

[Gibbsy]

Love the reading glasses from Xu in the hurdles. Great stuff

 

[PoopingHindi]

the award for the guy that looks the least like a sprint athlete goes to Xu of China

 

[JackNah_8]

Didn't expect Xu to win

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

They both always stir her about her 'Tamsyn Tales' but it is seriously good trivia about competitors - even obscure athletes from all over the world.

Seriously the best female athletics commentator we have ever had. Up there with Nicole Livingstone's swimming commentary. Often far better than the men they are paired with.

Thanks for that, I knew they had a name for it and what they said the book should be called. I'm a fan.

But watching some stuff on Stan and some on 9 is a bit of info overload with obscure facts from commentators at the moment.

 

[AdelaideGT]

Tamsyn telling us the French hurdler only started competing at age 16, was born in this territory... and Whately interrupts to add the informative 'he fell at the proverbial first hurdle'...

That's what I mean...