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Rio Olympics
- Thread starter Mr Brightside
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They don't have a lot of swimmers, but the current world record holder for the 100m breast stroke is Adam Peaty. He was streets ahead of everyone else and apparently he was actually scared of water as a kid.Michael said:
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easy_tiger
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spook said:
he pulled out The Big Flexi Pole spook. He didnt even bother crossing himself and looking skyward. He knew his insurance policy dont cover The Big Flexi Pole.
The Frenchman looked like a pack of Capybaras was charging towards him, and he had carrots in all his pocket, undies and socks.
The Kid put his nuts on the chopper and surmounted the *smile* out of it.
Rookie him.
The Frenchman pulled out the big pole too. He backed up Olympic gold in London with silver in Rio. You can laud the winner's performance without disparaging a fine effort by the runner-up. A couple of his jumps at 6.03 missed by millimetres. Then he sacked up and went for 6.08. Triumph and disaster, mate. Imposters.
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easy_tiger
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by no means do i wish to disparage the frenchman.
But I reckon the Frenchman was jumping off his 2nd biggest pole.
Chris Scott pulled out the big pole at 3/4 time while Dimma stuck to lolly snakes.
But I reckon the Frenchman was jumping off his 2nd biggest pole.
Chris Scott pulled out the big pole at 3/4 time while Dimma stuck to lolly snakes.
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Bill James
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Bill James said:
He's coaching the fuckng entire Aussie Olympic Squad!
How much of a white elephant have these Olympics been with respect to spectators? Stadiums have constantly been half empty. Swimming, main stadium for the athletics. It's been a terrible sight.
Bill James said:
:hihi Very disappointing result from the Opals no matter how you cut it. They would have been expecting to medal no doubt. The trend of strong Aussie medal chances under performing continues.
Credit to Penny Taylor for telling it how it is and not reverting to sugar coating like some in other sports have.
A lot of debate about the future of the Olympics. The standards for facilities is now so high they are hugely expensive and run at huge losses. Even London with massive marketing and top business handling made a huge loss. A lot of the venues become white elephants. Talk is to have two or 3 Northern Hemisphere venues and one southern and just rotate between them.
jb03 said:
I'm paraphrasing here JB but she basically just said that they were extremely disappointed with how they played in that game and about being knocked out at the quarter final stage. They expected to go a lot further and the performance was nowhere near acceptable.
Ridley said:
In the same vein as Bogut after the loss to the US. No excuses - we lost and I'm not happy about it.
The Opals were flirting with danger, continually giving away big leads. Too much reliance on Cambage (superstar).
Every four years, the Olympics remind me that tennis players are not the hottest female athletes. Sprinters are. I've loved Allyson Felix for years, and the line-ups for the 200m semis looked like a supermodel convention. Woof!
Every four years, the Olympics remind me that tennis players are not the hottest female athletes. Sprinters are. I've loved Allyson Felix for years, and the line-ups for the 200m semis looked like a supermodel convention. Woof!
lspook said:
It is a perennial problem in Basketball. Having a dominant tall like Cambage gives them a huge advantage. After a while, most of the team ended up playing defence and doing not much else. they were just waiting for Cambage to get into position so they could give her the ball. She is basically unstoppable so it usually works. The problems were evident throughout their tournament right from the beginning. Every time Cambage was off the court, only Penny Taylor was capable of keeping the score ticking over. Every other player was in "just play your role" mode.
Eventually, someone was going to do this to them.
This is going to keep happening throughout her career until their coaches find a better way to share the load.
I've seen Lithuania give us thumpings in past Olympic Games so it was bliss to see us thrash them last night enjoyed every minute. Wow we have some great players surely a first medal is in the offing preferably gold.
Brilliant demolition job by the Boomers on the 3rd-ranked team in the world. In contrast to the Opals, the guards are the stars. Mills and Delly shot the lights out, Baines and Bogut played very good big man games and the role players were excellent. Fantastic defence, selfless offence, brilliant shooting. Big medal chance. Imagine if we had Simmons and Irving!
