All I said was the women shot putters were obviously chucking failed Yorkshire puddings and she poked me on my face !
10,000 m runner Daniel dropped out of the women’s race but to be honest she/ he looked like the dodgy Algerian boxer and ran like a bloke - maybe gone to the pub ?!
Here is the Gold Medal winner if they ever get round to adding it to the Olympics https://youtube.com/shorts/pf-NdkgtPpk?si=xs4i0B6JRYUpm3jF
He climbed at a top professional level at 15. Age 11 he climbed what would reasonably be considered the absolute limit for a very dedicated non-pro that had spent a lifetime climbing as a hobby. It’s a new sport with huge recent advances in the sport science so the current crop of youngsters coming through are just unbelievable.
To put that into perspective, Adam Ondra is the Cristiano Ronaldo of climbing, the best there has ever been, smashed all the records and achieved the most unbelievable feats, yet still couldn’t manage to earn a medal between two Olympic Games.
Been watching some cycling this morning, not sure if I like it or not, it seems a bit too contrived somehow. The women's sprint where they seem to go as slowly as they can at first to gain position, they're even allowed to stop for 30 secs, twice! And the men's keirin where they follow a motorbike round upto a certain speed before careering off as fast as they can. Why can't they just have a race from the start? It's a bit like saying eg the 400m track race, you can all just walk round for a bit until you fancy a sprint home.
They can race from the start But if you go early You will let the opponent draft and then overtake you Its tactical as well as power and speed And even on these bikes Draft is huge
How pointless is that water football crap this just been on... well not pointless it was 13-10 or something...
So GB ended up with 65 medals, 1 more than Tokyo, 2 less than Rio and the same as London. But, a lot fewer golds,14, than London 29, Rio 27, Tokyo 22. Have we got worse, the others better, entered fewer events? Seems strange on the face of it.
It was a decent medal haul and the varied spread shows that sport is in good health in GB, compared to 1970s -1990s. Boxing and cycling were weaker this OL for GB - don't know enough about either to give a valid answer why. GB has always struggled with team sports in the olympics - hockey, water polo etc. Maybe football dominates? There were several close calls that silver could/should have been gold - Peaty, Kerr etc small margins...
