Off Topic The 2024 Olympic Games

[Saintmagic]

I can happily watch all of them, bar the fencing which is a struggle.

Hmm not for me really. Some of the more main stream sports like Tennis and swimming bore me tears anyway and stuff I never watch like Kayaking or something there is a reason I don’t watch it normally

The boxing can be good but quite often mismatched but apart from that and some of the athletics I don’t think I could sit and watch the rest of it, each to their own as they say

 

[fran-MLs little camera]

Gold for eventing. Needed that to shove us up the table.

 

[jaySFC]

Djokovic vs Nadal about to begin, for what could be the very last time. Just annoying this has been scheduled on an early Monday afternoon!

 

[fran-MLs little camera]

Good match for Murray/Evans…wish I’d watched it. Saved 5 match points. Norrie dropped out with injury

 

[tomw24]

This is outrageous from Pidcock in the mountain biking. Despite suffering a puncture he's reeled in a 30 second gap to the leader and is in contention for gold!

 

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I watched the fencing one afternoon, but they put it up crooked. Cowboys.

 

[tomw24]

This is outrageous from Pidcock in the mountain biking. Despite suffering a puncture he's reeled in a 30 second gap to the leader and is in contention for gold!

He now has the lead!

 

[st_brendy]

Boom!

 

[Le Tissier's Laces]

Incredible gold from Pudcock!

 

[tomw24]

What an epic final lap that was!

 

[tomw24]

This what I love about the Olympics - I get hooked watching sports I never watch normally!

 

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Ok... that was a very exciting race. Well done Pidcock.

 

[ChilcoSaint]

That was epic from Pidcock! Great little move in the trees to take the lead and nearly push Koretzky off the line.

Worth remembering that Pidcock had to pull out of the Tour de France with Covid just a couple of weeks ago. That, and the puncture, was the most incredible comeback.

 

[fran-MLs little camera]

That’s 2 golds today…reminds me of that Australian who said the British were good at sports where they could sit down

 

[ChilcoSaint]

And a bronze for Laura Collett in the individual eventing.

 

[Paddy Podped]

That cycling was so good


I wonder if he has that spot in mind for an overtake or if it was just impulsive at that moment ?

 

[fran-MLs little camera]

That cycling was so good


I wonder if he has that spot in mind for an overtake or if it was just impulsive at that moment ?

I suspect he knew that was his only chance.

 

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So, the Parisians booing Pidcock, burning their own trains, and now a French woman interviewed on the BBC saying she had to leave Paris as the people there are normally so unpleasant. What a shock! My own experiences of French people are normally positive, but Parisians... not positive at all.

 

[Lemons and Oranges]

Heard on the radio that Adam Peatty has tested positive for Coronavirus. So it seems as if he was unwell during his Silver Medal race. Might explain why he was noticeably slower than his own world record

 

[st_brendy]

The Chinese don’t do screwing up. Silver for GB.

They're doing their best to screw things up now though.