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Olympics daily thread
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HeidiHeidi wrote: »BBC4 anchorman getting a bit carried away with himself there, awarding GB a gold medal in the women's 470 sailing when the medal race isn't till tomorrow
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Would really love to see Thomas Barr make the final. Of all the competitors I've seen interviewed he was the one who I would point out to my kids and say, "See that? That is why you should take up sports."
I don't think that is realistic.
But open to any surprises at this stage.
Rob Heffernan our last real part of the games to go.
I'm the only man in Ireland - and I guess I have to listen to experts .
But from my amateur eyes - our boxers were very unfit, a bit one dimensional and unprepared.
Even Conlon, a level above the rest, looked a bit unfit in his first fight, a bit puffy after 3 minutes.
I was looking at Taylor thinking she was so One dimensional throwing the same one / two every time and looked a bit unprepared too.
And this is where I get crazy
- looking at the Russian fighter he was actually very good - he got a lot of very powerful clean head shots - Michael is an incredible boxer - but he was hitting a lot of gloves and blocks.
Again - as a total outsider to boxing - I found it fascinating , that you only actually react positively to your own mans hits. The Russian boxer was incredibly efficient with powerfull head shots.
And - the saddest reality that we as the "Holy Irish" have to accept , but don't - if you have an actual drug ban in your team - how on earth can you be the pontificates of boxing.
It is also laughable that Conlon thinks his redemption will be in pro boxing - best of luck with that - the most ugly corrupt game in the game, outside of UFC.
What is drug testing like in the pro game
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Just caught the men's pole valut medal ceremony there now, with crowd booing silver medalist because...well, they'd booed him during the competition because...well, he was competing against their home boy (who went on to win). Happy to see a host-nation winner, but the Brazilian audience haven't covered themselves in glory
. Of course it seems to be a genuine cultural difference - expression of passion for their competitors, no malice and all that - but it's not a difference I think I'd ever be able to appreciate
ETA - didn't see previous posts on this before posting, so excuse redundancy
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nomdeboardie wrote: »Just caught the men's pole valut medal ceremony there now, with crowd booing silver medalist because...well, they'd booed him during the competition because...well, he was competing against their home boy (who went on to win). Happy to see a host-nation winner, but the Brazilian audience haven't covered themselves in glory. Of course it seems to be a genuine cultural difference - expression of passion for their competitors, no malice and all that - but it's not a difference I think I'd ever be able to appreciate
Yes for all the empathy we are suppose to show to the Brazilians and that.
They could be just very over emotional fools , who are like sheep.
A bit like the soccer team and this idea they could win world cup by divinity - when they were crap.
The only reason the stadiums are near full is an external anger that they are not.
There is a chance they are just too lazy - if this was held in Ireland every seat would be full.0 -
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