100% this - nothing to do with medals table - but when people Are throwing out greatest Olympians of all time type discussions Swimming has always been weighted unfairly imho So totally agree
Brilliant from Noah Lyles!!! Hard luck Kishane. Overall a wonderful 100m with 0.13 separating 1st from 8th. Overall a more intense race than Bolt's Olympic win in 2012 9.63 as I think some did not go under 10.
Can't get behind an athlete, who has essentially been bought, competing for a new country. I don't mind someone competing for a new country if they have a connection, ie a parent (ala Sky Brown), but countries 'buying' athletes mainly from Africa (ala Bahrain) just seems hollow. Motivate your own citizens into sport if want success.
I agree. Olympics is what it is but all of international sport is tarnished as a result of this type of stuff.
Seeing the speed climbing. Very impressive. Highly.likely to be very doped though but anyway. First time in the Olympics as its own thing and there's a massive crowd in. 6 seconds up the wall hit a pad and that's thst. There's a curved all too so id say it was a spectacle I've just tuned I to and missed half of.
I assume the "curved" you are referring to is bouldering where the climbers are set a series of climbing "puzzles" / difficulties and points are awarded for how far you can progress .
Yeah, it was to the left. I only got to see the speed runs up the wall that the Polish woman took gold in.
the speed runs are more spectacular but the bouldering probably has more relevance for actual climbing
Yeah that was great. Madness tbh. I've just seen quincy hall refuse to be beaten in the 400m. He was absolutely to the pin of his collar at 300m ok he robbed our lad but he put absolutely everything in there and just absolutely refused to lay down and came from nearly nowhere. I had to turn off the skateboarding as they were flopping over more than completing moves. Really not good. I'm watching discus as well and that's a serious comp now that the Jamaican lad threw his life best from nowhere. Might need a near wr throw to get back up there for the big names now as if they throw far enough then they will be sailing out towards that line
hmmm Americans winning unexpected medals, this doesn't bode well for LA 2028. They usually finish top2 nations, but it looks like they've already started to supercharge their programs to be ready for a home games. GB Athletics, apart from Keely, seems to have been a story of close but no cigar at the moment. Wonder what will happen with funding for some of the sports. Boxing clearly not had a good games, although I think boxing is teetering on whether it should be in the Olympics. Alot of controversies and a scoring system that nobody seems to understand, even the judges. Also its the only sport in the Olympics that insists competitors are amateur.
US get more medals because the send more athletes than anyone else... and when you look at it per capita, only twice GB medal count with five times the population. One could say GB either overperforms already at most olympics or US underperforms... Then you get tiny countries like Jamaica that are absolute power-houses compared to their tiny populations every olympics.. Of the countries with 10mill or more citizens though- Australia is probably the normal powerhouse... although, the same thing that drives US medal count up also drives Australia's up- all those dozens of almost identical swimming events. Getting off-track a little here, but I don't think GB, should expect or could expect to get more medals- given population and resources GB already does pretty darn well. Maybe if more Brits took up swimming.... increasing funding to do better at most sports might be a case of chasing diminishing returns though...
Wasn't saying US are getting alot of medals, as I said they always finish top2. More that they are getting medals in events they usually don't focus on. They've got the next games, where they will want to win as much as possible and host teams tend to have a bounce not just because it's a home games, but because funding is increased by the authorities to ensure they have a good games. It looks like they've already started that, which tbh would only be sensible. Although the American system is slightly different, don't think they have a central funding authority like GB. Saying that gone are the days where US would end up with 40+ gold medals as world sport has a wider spread now.
It's not a home-games, but I expect a mini-boost for GB in LA too. It's not home, but a common language and understood culture is probably going to make countries like GB and Australia a little more settled than say China, or Russia who may find the home-crowd hostile and the culture a little more removed. Even this olympics in France, being so close to home is probably a little bit of a benefit to GB compared to some teams. Probably getting more medals than if the games were held in, say, Laos.
The UK athletics and cycling and swimming have all seen an agng out process and a really lack of to young talent flowing through. It does feel slightly like 2012 was a huge push for political reasons and the investment and focus as slipped since to the point where they are probably going to have to build up again from the bottom up Hardly like its a big thing but some of the sports have probably been sitting on their laurels
Lyles decides to pretend to not be able to walk off and gets carted off on a wheel chair just cos he lost. Got the sniffles bless him. Massive ****ing egotist. Dick was well.able to come.bpuncing out screaming pre race. I cheered tebogo over the line there
