Rio Olympics

[Dev Tiger]

The thing that would be disappointing for the swimmers is that so many of them haven't swam up to their best in Rio. It makes you think that the coaches haven't quite got their taper right.

 

[Ridley]

The thing that would be disappointing for the swimmers is that so many of them haven't swam up to their best in Rio. It makes you think that the coaches haven't quite got their taper right.

Yep no doubt investigations will be underway as soon as the games finish.

Both McEvoy and CC swam over a second outside PB in 100m finals. That's a huge margin in the scheme of things.

 

[Baloo]

Chinese swimmer with a positive test.

 

[IanG]

Just listening to Gerard Whateley on ABC radio. He said that CC absolutely blew the start. She almost false started and then rocked back as the buzzer sounded. It appears she tried to make up for it by going like a cut cat in the first 50m. She was over a second in front of both winners at the 50m but swam like a brick in the last 20m. On that basis it could be considered a massive choke.

Whateley also said that the swimming hierarchy would be very disappointed with the results so far. After starting in a blaze of glory on night one they've fallen in a heap. He said they would have been expecting golds in both mens and womens 100 & 200 backstroke and only ended up with one silver out of the lot. Emily Seebohm didn't even make the final of the 200m, and event in which she is current world champion. McEvoy another world champion who has failed to translate results to the Olympics. Missed the 50m final.

I guess it shows how much pressure is on for this once in 4 years event.

Questions should definitely be asked about the mental preparation of the swimmers and what the coaches are doing about it. CC is known for having anxiety issues in big events.

 

[AngryAnt]

wouldn't be surprised if antman is prostituting his extracts

What I do in my own time is my business

 

[AngryAnt]

Wasn't it cannibas though? Not exactly performance enhancing.

Or was he busted for something else?

Yep, Phelps bringing hope of Olympic glory to slackers everywhere!

 

[Baloo]

Yep, Phelps bringing hope of Olympic glory to slackers everywhere!

The first snowboarders of the winter games did that long before phelps

 

[AngryAnt]

The first snowboarders of the winter games did that long before phelps

I guess they do it in competition too, so fair play

 

[easy_tiger]

Wow think that gold was Fiji's first Olympic medal of any kind.

Yeah, I think so. Even though I dint mind Jarryd Hayne, Im stoked the Fijian 7's didnt give him a gurnsey.

It seemed an attempted bandwagon jump aboard too me.

The Fijian No.8 makes Dusty look like Brandon Ellis. He doesnt just fend off, he grabs em by the jumper and throws them, like some kind of rugby superhero.

:clap yay fiji

 

[Mr Brightside]

US swim team is just phenomenal.

 

[Bill James]

It wasn't Basil who called the Chalmers win, some old fart with Nicole. At least on the channel Seven stream.

He completely botched it. Missed the moment by a country mile. It was the worst call I've heard in a long time.

Basil just called Michelle Ford as Australia's last 800m gold medallist at Melbourne in 1956 and then corrected it to Shane Gould. Clueless.

 

[Mr Brightside]

I don't like been critical of anyone living the dream, however there's a common statement with a lot of our athletes after sub standard performances...." Just thrilled to be at the Olympics, thrilled to be competing and giving my best "

 

[Giardiasis]

I don't like been critical of anyone living the dream, however there's a common statement with a lot of our athletes after sub standard performances...." Just thrilled to be at the Olympics, thrilled to be competing and giving my best "

Why are we forced to pay for these athletes again?

 

[Mr Brightside]

Why are we forced to pay for these athletes again?

My cousins kid, who's the Australian heavy weight Judo champ , who competed at the London Olympics and won a medal at the CGs . His only 23 and has retired from competion because of the costs. I think for memory he gets very little as an Olympian, flights and accomodation but not much else for the year. Works in a bottle O and trains others is how he survived.

On others I've got no idea mate how much they get funded.

 

[Giardiasis]

My cousins kid, who's the Australian heavy weight Judo champ , who competed at the London Olympics and won a medal at the CGs . His only 23 and has retired from competion because of the costs. I think for memory he gets very little as an Olympian, flights and accomodation but not much else for the year. Works in a bottle O and trains others is how he survived.

On others I've got no idea mate how much they get funded.

Yeah, which suggests that without tax payer funding our 400 athletes would be severely reduced. People don't care about the majority of Olympic sports to justify handing over their hard earned. Just goes to show the huge waste of money the Olympics is, not just to the huge infrastructure spending, but also to the funding for athletes that governments around the world pump into these sports.

 

[Baloo]

Singapore is in party mode now. Joseph Schooling's gold in the 100 butterfly is Singapore's first ever Olympic gold medal.

 

[Bill James]

Why are we forced to pay for these athletes again?

Very little of the money goes to the athletes. Its the coaches and support staff that get paid. Coaches livelihood depends on athlete results not their well being. For every success we see there are dozens of athletes broken by the system just to keep the system going.

 

[Giardiasis]

Very little of the money goes to the athletes. Its the coaches and support staff that get paid. Coaches livelihood depends on athlete results not their well being. For every success we see there are dozens of athletes broken by the system just to keep the system going.

Pretty grim.

 

[jb03]

I don't like been critical of anyone living the dream, however there's a common statement with a lot of our athletes after sub standard performances...." Just thrilled to be at the Olympics, thrilled to be competing and giving my best "

You mean like Richmond being happy with making the 8.

 

[tigerman]

Singapore is in party mode now. Joseph Schooling's gold in the 100 butterfly is Singapore's first ever Olympic gold medal.

That's fantastic Baloo, it's a great story after meeting Phelps as s young kid he goes on to beat him in an Olympic final.

I'm in party mode too, after Schooling qualified fastest to make the final, I took the $3 for him to win the final.