2024 Paris Olympics

[Panthera Tigris]

Watched the women’s 100m heats.

Shelly-Anne Fraser may not win the gold this time around. But gee wizz she still has it at 37.

16 years after storming Beijing for a dominant 100m gold.

She will feature at the pointy end of the field.

 

[CarnTheTiges]

Not for mine. Way to much possible damage in open slather chemical enhancement.

Hasn’t bothered James Magnusson who is spruiking and competing in the enhanced games.

 

[Sintiger]

Geezoos. Rory almost holed for albatross ....on the fly.

Minwoo Lee 5 over yesterday. 4 under after 6 today

 

[craig]

 

[Sammy Cougar]

What a Great Morning 3 More Aussie Gold Medals

 

[Mr Brightside]

Tony *smile* Jones , you’ve got to be joking

 

[CarnTheTiges]

Tony *smile* Jones , you’ve got to be joking

Against all logic, he’s their main sports ‘reporter’, so they were always going to send him there. A little like how BT is still one of 7’s preferred callers.

 

[spook]

Cam McEvoy, re-writing the training textbooks to win the 50 free, gives hope to every athlete who hates training. Bacsically trained 10% as much as everyone else and won gold aged 30 at his fourth Olympics. What a story.

Joshua Cheptegei confirms his greatness winning a fantastic 10,000m final in Olympic record time. The first 13 finishers beat the old Olympic record. Amazing.

19-year-old Aussie Claudia Hollingsworth ran superbly to finish second in her heat of the 800 and go straight to the semis.

 

[Redford]

Cam McEvoy, re-writing the training textbooks to win the 50 free, gives hope to every athlete who hates training. Bacsically trained 10% as much as everyone else and won gold aged 30 at his fourth Olympics. What a story.

Joshua Cheptegei confirms his greatness winning a fantastic 10,000m final in Olympic record time. The first 13 finishers beat the old Olympic record. Amazing.

19-year-old Aussie Claudia Hollingsworth ran superbly to finish second in her heat of the 800 and go straight to the semis.

The BMX story with Sakakibara is great too.

 

[spook]

The BMX story with Sakakibara is great too.

I missed that?

 

[Baloo]

The BMX story with Sakakibara is great too.

She destroyed her field. Not bad for someone who caught covid in the village.

I missed that?

Her brother was also a BMX racer. He had a bad accident in 2020 and is now with severe brain damage. She nearly gave it away due to lingering concussion symptoms after her fall in the Tokyo semis.

Great post race interview here. I counted 3 f-bombs.

Saya Sakakibara's tearful interview after BMX triumph


Quote of the Olympics so far from Saya:

"All I had to do was just *smile* go and I just *smile* went"

 

[Redford]

I missed that?

Brother severe brain injury from bmx racing. He was pretty talented from what I can gather.

She then had a nasty accident herself. Hospitalised. Thought about giving it away. But has continued on to what we've seen her achieve today for herself and her family. Nice.

 

[Ridley]

Kaylee McKeown what a champion. Now has the most individual gold medals of any Australian ever.

 

[CarnTheTiges]

Kaylee McKeown what a champion. Now has the most individual gold medals of any Australian ever.

And the first female backstroker to do the double double. I think.

 

[TigerForce]

IBA will pay Carini $A75K for that loss. Looks they're gonna revise the laws due to that chromosomes issue.

 

[Baloo]

IBA will pay Carini $A75K for that loss. Looks they're gonna revise the laws due to that chromosomes issue.

Politics and point scoring.

IBA was discredited by the IOC and are not managing the boxing in Paris. IBA have banned Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting from female bouts. IOC let them box.

 

[Baloo]

Eben & Peers currently in the Tennis Doubles gold medal match. Currently in the 1st set tie breaker

 

[TigerMasochist]

And the first female backstroker to do the double double. I think.

Pretty sure the first swimmer, male or female to do the double double. Might even be the first athlete of any sort to win the same two events back to back, but I could be wishful dreamin on this bit.

 

[CarnTheTiges]

Pretty sure the first swimmer, male or female to do the double double. Might even be the first athlete of any sort to win the same two events back to back, but I could be wishful dreamin on this bit.

I'm not sure, but I thought Phelps may have done it. He seems to have done everything else.

 

[Panthera Tigris]

Shame what happened to Shelly Ann Fraser. Disappointing way to go out from a stellar career in the sport. Absolute champion. A pint sized giant of the sport.

But good to see the Caribbean string of victories over the Americans continues.

Imagine if the short lived West Indies Federation had survived (of course the West Indies cricket team being a left over legacy of the short lived Union).

Such a country would dominate the sprint events.