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Olympics daily thread

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  • #2582
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,108 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Stheno wrote: »
    Hmm can't see them waiting much longer
    You don't know the patience of race committees, then!!!

    Boys finished in 13th, now lying 5th overall.


  • #2583
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,108 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    ..... and the girls are off again!

    around mark 2 and in 6th/7th - much better!!


  • #2584
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,108 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Around the last mark in 5th - go on, go on, go on!!!


  • #2585
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Annalise's twitter reckons they will wait until at least 715 but says wind is filling in


  • #2586
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Were they second there in the finish?


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  • #2587
    HeidiHeidi
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    Girls finish 6th.

    7.30pm for the radials (earliest)


  • #2588
    Stheno
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    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Girls finish 6th.

    7.30pm for the radials (earliest)

    That's a great showing for them though isn't it?


  • #2589
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,108 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    And back to the boys again!

    This is exhausting!! :D

    They're in 6th/7th somewhere on the first beat.


  • #2590
    HeidiHeidi
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    Stheno wrote: »
    That's a great showing for them though isn't it?
    Absolutely. They're now 12th overall. If they could somehow grind out a top 10 result overall it'd be fantastic.


  • #2591
    Corruptedmorals
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    Men's vault final exciting so far! Womens beam to follow.


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  • #2592
    HeidiHeidi
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    7.45pm........

    Boys in 10th on second beat.


  • #2593
    Leinsterview
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    walshb wrote: »
    Never a truer word said.

    Amen


  • #2594
    ahlookit
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    Corruptedmorals wrote: »
    Men's vault final exciting so far! Womens beam to follow.

    North Korea in the lead at the minute. They'll be dancing on the streets of Pyongynang


  • #2595
    fergal.b
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    Boy's are 7th .






    '


  • #2596
    Chivito550
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    I'm at the sailing here. Her boat hasn't moved as of 15 minutes ago. Seems like today was a bit of a wasted journey. Stunning views and nice beach vibe though.


  • #2597
    HeidiHeidi
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    Chivito550 wrote: »
    I'm at the sailing here. Her boat hasn't moved as of 15 minutes ago. Seems like today was a bit of a wasted journey. Stunning views and nice beach vibe though.
    You lucky sod!

    Will you get in tomorrow instead, assuming it doesn't get off today?


  • #2598
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,108 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    8pm......

    Boys finished 7th, but the overall results page has gone doolally on me so can't see the overall standings. But that can't have done them any harm!


  • #2599
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 32,108 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Girls race 9 is on..... coming to mark 2 in 11th


  • #2600
    KevinK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 661 ✭✭✭KevinK


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    8pm......

    Boys finished 7th, but the overall results page has gone doolally on me so can't see the overall standings. But that can't have done them any harm!

    I guess they will still be in 5th, moving ahead of Denmark but overtaken by France


  • #2601
    Chivito550
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,697 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Chivito550 wrote: »
    I'm at the sailing here. Her boat hasn't moved as of 15 minutes ago. Seems like today was a bit of a wasted journey. Stunning views and nice beach vibe though.
    You lucky sod!

    Will you get in tomorrow instead, assuming it doesn't get off today?

    Not sure tbh. I planned to do other stuff tomorrow.


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  • #2602
    fergal.b
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    Girls 12th at the 3 mark.





    .


  • #2603
    Skid X
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    Ososlo wrote: »
    Who won a sailing medal for Ireland in 1980 and what event?
    Stheno wrote: »
    David Wilkins and James Wilkinson won silver
    Strazdas wrote: »
    Wilkins and Wilkinson in the Flying Dutchman class.

    A little known fact is that they were presented with their medals by the then IOC President Lord Killanin, who was a fellow Irishman :)
    mansize wrote: »
    They competed under the Olympic Flag as Ireland had a partial boycott of Moscow


    Another Wilkins/Wilkinson fact: Those medals were actually won off the coast of Tallinn, in modern day Estonia.

    One to remember next time you are in Tallinn!


  • #2604
    HeidiHeidi
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    Girls finished 13th, lying 12th overall at the end of the day.


  • #2605
    mickmackmcgoo
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    Boats being sent out now for laser final but her brother not confident of race taking place .


  • #2606
    HeidiHeidi
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    mickmackmcgoo wrote: »
    Boats being sent out now for laser final but her brother not confident of race taking place .
    Coverage (of not a lot, so far!) has started on BBC4


  • #2607
    Strazdas
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    mickmackmcgoo wrote: »
    Boats being sent out now for laser final but her brother not confident of race taking place .

    About 40 mins to race start time then?


  • #2608
    HeidiHeidi
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    Last men's skiff race is on - boys in 15th at mark 1


  • #2609
    errlloyd
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    Can't watch sailing no wind. People missing dives, too much wind.


  • #2610
    mickmackmcgoo
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    Strazdas wrote:
    About 40 mins to race start time then?

    That's the very latest it could start. They sent them out in case the breeze fills in . Will be dark there in another hour and a bit


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  • #2611
    HeidiHeidi
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    Around mark 2 in 11th

    8.30pm is the limit for starting racing - and looks like there isn't a puff there!


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