Off Topic Olympics

I'm there for all the home games for the Swans & the Ospreys

 

I am off to Peterborough on Tuesday God I hope he puts a decent team out

 

"Team GB have won golds across 14 different sports in Rio - the same spread as in London four years ago. That is four more sports than any other country, with USA and Germany both on nine." - BBC.

I think that is what is most impressive about our medal haul - the ability to win medals in so many different sports.

Just having a quick scan down the medal tables and its fascinating to correlate medals against the size of the population for that country:

UK, 60 medals, 24 gold, population 64 million
Portugal, just one bronze medal (judo), population 10 million
India, 2 medals, 1 silver & 1 bronze, population 1.2 billion

Interesting how China has 'emerged' with Olympic medals in proportion yet India hasn't. Will it ever?

 

Is the south of England the only place with swimming pools?

 

We can be so proud of Team GB's achievements for sure.

India clearly don't place any sort of interest or investment into anything other than cricket. It takes investment of cold hard cash to develop talent. But this is a country with skewed priorities. It invests billions into a space program whilst children die of starvation in the streets and public defication in the gutter is common. Crazy.

Can't believe that Mohammad lost his taekwondo match in the last second. Literally the last second. He could have easily disengaged but walked right into the kick. Little sympathy from me I'm afraid. He has to learn to concentrate until the bell goes. Silly boy.

 

I can't fathom that one out either, I would have backed right off him as you say no need to engage. Such a shame he was distraught afterwards!!

 

Did you know there are more 50m swimming pools in Paris than the whole of the UK.

 

You're right, Never. I did feel so sorry for him during that interview. I've rarely seen an athlete so distraught. Hard not to feel for him but he asked for it so my sympathy has to be tempered a little. Terrible judgement from him at the end there. Credit to the Ivorian for pulling off that brilliant kick.

 

Are you sure?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_long_course_swimming_pools_in_the_United_Kingdom

 

A lot of the pools on the list aren't FINA compliant. Basically they are not of competition standard.

But since 2012 more pools have been built, so you might be correct. I think the Paris figure was around 30 pools.

I know of one pool on the list, that was built and they found out at the end of the build that the dimensions of said pool were wrong. It was slightly too short, thus any time set in a competition would be void. So they had to dig the concrete back to make it compliant.

 

Well done Liam Heath in the K1 race. Amazing and another gold.

 

But if they don't have competitions like the Olympics then I guess its not a problem, bit surprised that the Wales National Pool is not compliant, why didn't they add another 4 meters to the width to make it so? What is it with these Cardiff numskulls with their funding restrictions, both the Liberty and this were restricted in size because of them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales_National_Pool

 

Great news We are now only 5 medals short of beating our tally in London 2012, what an achievement

 

That would be a fantastic achievement.

 

The compliance thing is a funny one, to hold a FINA event the pools need to be long course 50m x 25m and short course is 25m x 25m. These are all ten lane pools, but you only use eight lanes.

 

Thanks didn't know that, why only use 8 lanes? And why is a 8 lane pool not compliant?

 

It's to stop the bow wave wash hitting the swimmer in the outside lane, so the swimmer gets drag on them from the wash rebounding off the pool wall and thus swim slower.

 

Thanks , learn something new everyday

 

I see Tom Daley cocked it up, and not made the final of the 10m platform. Always said he was over rated!!

 

Nicola Adams next in the boxing. Go girl!