Olympics daily thread

BorneTobyWilde

The photographers around the gymnasts are a little creepy.

DJIMI TRARORE

Poor kellie struggles with the english lingo

Howjoe1

walshb wrote: »

So go correct your original classless post then. I don't disagree with this post.

tainted. that's all I was implying. and I think it affected team moral.

walshb

DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »

Poor kellie struggles with the english lingo

Expectational footwork. Love it!

elastico

Howjoe1 wrote: »

O’Reilly becomes the first Irish Olympic competitor to be sent home for a doping offence.

and found out to be a liar. ruined the boxing camp.

Wasn't sent home though. Still there.

walshb

Howjoe1 wrote: »

tainted. that's all I was implying. and I think it affected team moral.

Fair enough. That's not what your original post implied. Plus, I think MOR did inform the testers that he took a supplement before they tested. A liar? Well, that's a dangerous allegation to make.

Steve

Howjoe1, walshb, you are both around boards long enough to know better. Stop the bickering please.

Howjoe1

Steve wrote: »

Howjoe1, walshb, you are both around boards long enough to know better. Stop the bickering please.

no further comment. fair enough.

I was just trying to expand the impact of O'Reilly's action will have on the World Stage. We lost the the high moral ground when it comes to Boxing being our untainted sport (unlike swimming & horses).

Steve

Howjoe1 wrote: »

no further comment. fair enough.

I was just trying to expand the impact of O'Reilly's action will have on the World Stage. We lost the the high moral ground when it comes to Boxing being our untainted sport (unlike swimming & horses).

It is a worthy discussion, not for this thread though

28064212

Chivito550 wrote: »

Nah there's 5 in execution and 4 in synchro. 3 and 2 get crossed off in each respectively. Huge variation among the execution marks.

Skid X wrote: »

That is odd. One of the divers messed it up that last dive completely, hard to see how it got two 9.0 scores.

4.0
3.0
3.5
9.0
9.0

https://www.rio2016.com/en/diving-womens-synchronised-10m-platform-final

There are 6 execution scores: 3 are for diver A and 3 for diver B. Diver A was poor, diver B was excellent

RedemptionZ

Do Ireland have a chance at medalling in anything? Is no return a likely possibility?

Joe_ Public

RedemptionZ wrote: »

Do Ireland have a chance at medalling in anything? Is no return a likely possibility?

You'd get around 33/1 for no medal in the books I'd say...maybe even 50s if they were feeling generous.

Steve

RedemptionZ wrote: »

Do Ireland have a chance at medalling in anything? Is no return a likely possibility?

I really hope Annalise Murphy can do it but sailing is an 'on the day' sport. fingers and toes crossed.

fryup

how can they tell who's in the lead?? i can't make head nor tail of it

spock.

Steve wrote:

I really hope Annalise Murphy can do it but sailing is an 'on the day' sport. fingers and toes crossed.

The O'Donovan brothers have a great chance at a medal too in the rowing.
Semi final is on at 1pm tomorrow in case anyone didn't know!

Chivito550

RedemptionZ wrote: »

Do Ireland have a chance at medalling in anything? Is no return a likely possibility?

We have 3 massive medal chances in boxing. Would expect 2 at the minimum. Probably 3. After that hopefully we can squeeze another medal or two. I'd be delighted with 4.

BorneTobyWilde

fryup wrote: »

how can they tell who's in the lead?? i can't make head nor tail of it

Yea it's deeply dippy /

BorneTobyWilde

Hans Solo just made a huge gaff for USA to concede a goal to Columbia . Tried to catch it but went through her hands and then her legs into goal.

Skid X

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Hans Solo just made a huge gaff for USA to concede a goal to Columbia . Tried to catch it but went through her hands and then her legs into goal.

The force wasn't with her

ThisRegard

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Yea it's deeply dippy /

Strazdas

Steve wrote: »

I really hope Annalise Murphy can do it but sailing is an 'on the day' sport. fingers and toes crossed.

I've a funny feeling she's going to medal this time. She seems to be almost a woman on a mission to put right the wrong of 2012.

Stheno

Strazdas wrote: »

I've a funny feeling she's going to medal this time. She seems to be almost a woman on a mission to put right the wrong of 2012.

I feel the same

Strazdas

Chivito550 wrote: »

We have 3 massive medal chances in boxing. Would expect 2 at the minimum. Probably 3. After that hopefully we can squeeze another medal or two. I'd be delighted with 4.

Apart from the boxers and Annalise, I'd throw the O'Donovan brothers in rowing into the mix. They seem in good form and to have a great attitude.

Skid X

From Annalise's Brother on The Facebook Page

Forecast looking good for tomorrow with decent breeze forecast for Rio! Annalise will be out on the Copacabana course which is outside the bay at sea. Tidal conditions and breeze will be totally different to anything seen on the first two days so should make for some very interesting racing. Should be kicking off around 5:10 Irish time. No TV coverage again but the live blog will be running here!

https://www.facebook.com/AnnaliseMurphySailing

Strazdas

Skid X wrote: »

From Annalise's Brother on The Facebook Page



https://www.facebook.com/AnnaliseMurphySailing

Fingers crossed she can do some good work. Annalise is a big strong girl and loves the windy and choppy conditions.

HeidiHeidi

Also from the brother on her page

For anyone wondering about the level of fitness and strength needed to compete in sailing at this level have a look at some of the pre-games strength and balance training Annalise was doing last month!

https://www.facebook.com/AnnaliseMurphySailing/posts/1055201527902327

:eek:

Pherekydes

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Hans Solo just made a huge gaff for USA to concede a goal to Columbia . Tried to catch it but went through her hands and then her legs into goal.

I Hope you realise you've made a huge gaff yourself.

Cosmo Kramer

I'd actually be a bit concerned that she hasn't made more progress while the wind has blown. Because, as soon as the seas calm, she could be obliterated out there. However, another windy day is forecast tomorrow so it will be another chance for her to push on ahead of the pack. But really, she will need the wind to blow all the way until the medal race to stay in the top three.

In terms of medals at the moment, it would be a disaster if Taylor didn't at least get a medal of some colour (ridiculously she only needs to win one fight against an unseeded boxer to achieve that), it would also be a bit of a disaster if there wasn't at least one men's boxing medal (most likely either Conlan or Ward).

After that there should hopefully be a third medal out there for us somewhere between the boxing, rowing, sailing, equestrian, golf, pentathlon and racewalking. Our competitors are mostly top eight to ten standard in these events rather than top three, but you'd hope there's a third medal in there somewhere for us. That looks like it will be as much as we can hope to manage this time around.

Corruptedmorals

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Oh the irony - an American gymnast using Russian dance music for her floor routine - you wouldn't have seen that in the 70's, hah!

Stupid question alert.....

Do these all have to perform again for the individual medals, or are their scores here somehow translated for the individual competition???

That's Aly Raisman, reigning Olympic floor champion. She's Jewish and always uses some sort of folk music.

Yes anybody qualified further starts afresh with scoring. Qualifications on Sunday determined top 8 teams to the team final, top 24 gymnasts to the individual all-around final (all 4 events), and the top 8 to each individual event final. Only two are allowed per country so girls who qualified lower than that end up actually competing. Simone qualified first to the all-around and also to beam, floor and vault. She is expected to win all of those (the tiny Brazilian girl Flavia Saraiva is a threat on beam though) In the vault final gymnasts compete two vaults each.

Feel free to ask me questions or PM, I am a superfan in my element this week!

Strazdas

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

I'd actually be a bit concerned that she hasn't made more progress while the wind has blown. Because, as soon as the seas calm, she could be obliterated out there. However, another windy day is forecast tomorrow so it will be another chance for her to push on ahead of the pack. But really, she will need the wind to blow all the way until the medal race to stay in the top three.

In terms of medals at the moment, it would be a disaster if Taylor didn't at least get a medal of some colour (ridiculously she only needs to win one fight against an unseeded boxer to achieve that), it would also be a bit of a disaster if there wasn't at least one men's boxing medal.

After that there should hopefully be a third medal out there for us somewhere between the boxing, rowing, sailing, equestrian, golf, pentathlon and racewalking. Our competitors are mostly top eight to ten standard in these events rather than top three, but you'd hope there's a third medal in there somewhere for us. That looks like it will be as much as we can hope to manage this time around.

I think Annalise is good enough to medal no matter what the conditions (though windy weather this week would be a boost). I think if she's top 3 going into the medal race, she'll medal this time, it was sheer inexperience that cost her in 2012. She needs to have a reasonably good next three days though.

Must say I fancy Katie for gold. Sure, she's been off the pace a little this year but even a 5% improvement would move her seriously into contention to go all the way.