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Olympics daily thread

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  • #3872
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,431 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Ososlo wrote: »
    and this time in 4 years, we'll all have forgotten about how fantastic Modern Penthatlon is and we'll also have forgotten all the rules of all the games :D

    Rehashing the same nonsense conversations about not realising how thrilling archery was!😄


  • #3873
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    FrKurtFahrt wrote: »
    The pentathlon lad on RTE saying 'we need more people in this sport' - that's grand, where do i join? Is it in that booth beside the synchronised diving, or down the street between the artistic gymnastics and Olympic handball?

    http://pentathlon.ie/get-involved/


  • #3874
    FrKurtFahrt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 899 ✭✭✭FrKurtFahrt


    walshb wrote: »
    Don't sweat it guys. This time tomorrow it'll be all over!
    That's a depressing thing to say!


  • #3875
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,431 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Not to diss but what sports did you guys kind of refuse to watch? I chose tennis, rugby, and golf. Found myself annoyingly turning them off...


  • #3876
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,378 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Ososlo wrote: »
    and this time in 4 years, we'll all have forgotten about how fantastic Modern Penthatlon is and we'll also have forgotten all the rules of all the games :D

    I can't even remember watching the pentathlon in 2012, maybe it wasn't even shown live on RTE or the BBC?


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  • #3877
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,431 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    FrKurtFahrt wrote: »
    That's a depressing thing to say!

    Just saying it as it is!👍


  • #3878
    Ososlo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,420 ✭✭✭Ososlo


    FrKurtFahrt wrote: »
    That's a depressing thing to say!

    yeah :( I think we should keep this thread open and develop our knowledge of all the sports and follow the athletes' progress, and discuss it all for the next 4 years. We'll all return a much more informed bunch in 2020:D
    Kinda like the crazy folks over on the christmas thread who talk about christmas all year, but we'll be doing it for 4 years?


  • #3879
    FrKurtFahrt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 899 ✭✭✭FrKurtFahrt


    walshb wrote: »
    Not to diss but what sports did you guys kind of refuse to watch? I chose tennis, rugby, and golf. Found myself annoyingly turning them off...
    The correct answer is soccer football - next question?


  • #3880
    Ososlo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,420 ✭✭✭Ososlo


    walshb wrote: »
    Not to diss but what sports did you guys kind of refuse to watch? I chose tennis, rugby, and golf. Found myself annoyingly turning them off...

    can't watch soccer, tennis, or golf (in the Olympics)

    I am a convert to rugby 7s.


  • #3881
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,431 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Don't forget the final event of Rio 2016 is the gold medal for most thread posts. I'm lying in 6th at the moment. Possible medal there for me if I keep going!


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  • #3882
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,378 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    walshb wrote: »
    Not to diss but what sports did you guys kind of refuse to watch? I chose tennis, rugby, and golf. Found myself annoyingly turning them off...

    The rugby was actually okay, even though I didn't watch much of it. That Fiji team who annihilated GB in the final had a touch of the All Blacks about them.


  • #3883
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,378 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    walshb wrote: »
    Don't forget the final event of Rio 2016 is the gold medal for most thread posts. I'm lying in 6th at the moment. Possible medal there for me if I keep going!

    Otherwise we'll have to cut your funding for 2020 :D


  • #3884
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,431 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    FrKurtFahrt wrote: »
    The correct answer is soccer football - next question?

    Sorry. I forgot to add soccer.


  • #3885
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,431 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Strazdas wrote: »
    Otherwise we'll have to cut your funding for 2020 :D

    You're in silver at the moment.


  • #3886
    bajer101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭bajer101


    Two top ten finishes by our male and female modern pentathletes. Surely this is a sport that we can identify as obvious medal targets for the next olympics. Invest a couple of hundred grand a year in it and we are looking at a couple of medals. Seems like a no-brainer.


  • #3887
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,378 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    walshb wrote: »
    You're in silver at the moment.

    Haha, am I? I've been very busy alright and commenting on numerous sports :)


  • #3888
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Did not watch: soccer, beach volleyball, volleyball, basketball, judo or any floor sports, bmx or mountain biking, handball, water polo, dressage, shooting - that's just off the top of my head.

    Thinking the next week might involve catching up on the 50% of the Games I missed because I was watching something else at the time.


  • #3889
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,431 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    bajer101 wrote: »
    Two top ten finishes by our male and female modern pentathletes. Surely this is a sport that we can identify as obvious medal targets for the next olympics. Invest a couple of hundred grand a year in it and we are looking at a couple of medals. Seems like a no-brainer.

    It's not at all like that. It's this kind of complacency that puzzles me. That's not a dig at you. Just an observation regarding how we can be victims of our own success. The boxers being a prime example. No athletes have any entitlement to even make it to the Olympics.


  • #3890
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,431 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Strazdas wrote: »
    Haha, am I? I've been very busy alright and commenting on numerous sports :)

    Prioritise!


  • #3891
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    walshb wrote: »
    Don't forget the final event of Rio 2016 is the gold medal for most thread posts. I'm lying in 6th at the moment. Possible medal there for me if I keep going!

    I reckon I'm there in first :)


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  • #3892
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,431 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Stheno wrote: »
    I reckon I'm there in first :)

    I reckon you're up there alright. HeidiHeidi I think is the username is well in the lead.


  • #3893
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,431 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Sport of the games, and your sport?

    Boxing and boxing. Gymnastics and Diving a close second.


  • #3894
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    walshb wrote: »
    I reckon you're up there alright. HeidiHeidi I think is the username is well in the lead.

    Is it done purely on quantity or is it like the diving with points for difficulty of post attempted and for quality of execution? That'd be a different story entirely I reckon ;)


  • #3895
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,378 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    walshb wrote: »
    It's not at all like that. It's this kind of complacency that puzzles me. That's not a dig at you. Just an observation regarding how we can be victims of our own success. The boxers being a prime example. No athletes have any entitlement to even make it to the Olympics.

    I would definitely increase the grants and funding to Natalya and Arthur, perhaps give them double whatever they are receiving now and pump some other money into the sport in general.


  • #3896
    brooke 2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    Stheno wrote: »
    No think that was Natalya and the Eanna chap who was commenting.

    Great to see the passion the two specialist commentators have for their sport.

    Really enjoyed those two guys. They were so understated yet so informative.


  • #3897
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,431 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Strazdas wrote: »
    I would definitely increase the grants and funding to Natalya and Arthur, perhaps give them double whatever they are receiving now and pump some other money into the sport in general.

    For those two I think it's a case of what do you need? Ok, there you go!


  • #3898
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    walshb wrote: »
    Sport of the games, and your sport?

    Boxing and boxing. Gymnastics and Diving a close second.

    Might have said boxing but the crap around Levit and Conlan sickened me a bit. Otherwise I'd just say whatever sport gave me the biggest buzz so I'll nominate badminton and sailing on account of Scott Evans and Annalise Murphy. Doesn't matter the sport, it's the story that counts.

    I'm already missing the sailing tracker, the sheer madness of watching a guy on tv commentating by watching little boats moving around a screen. It was epic stuff!


  • #3899
    bajer101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭bajer101


    walshb wrote: »
    It's not at all like that. It's this kind of complacency that puzzles me. That's not a dig at you. Just an observation regarding how we can be victims of our own success. The boxers being a prime example. No athletes have any entitlement to even make it to the Olympics.

    I'm not sure why you quoted my post here. I was simply pointing out that if you have two olympic competitors finishing in the top ten, there is an obvious case to target this sport for more investment to try and win medals in the next Olympics. Britain did after Atlanta. They targetted sports like cycling where there was an obvious chance of medals if you threw a few bob at it. Modern Pentathlon is now an obvious sport to target for Ireland. Put a million a year into it and we are almost guaranteed medals. That's what Shane Ross should be doing in the morning.


  • #3900
    Ososlo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,420 ✭✭✭Ososlo


    walshb wrote: »
    Sport of the games, and your sport?

    Boxing and boxing. Gymnastics and Diving a close second.

    Track and field but mainly track. Thomas Barr's final a BIG highlight.
    Gymnastics (Simone Biles' floor routine esp) second.

    Hightlights were all the Irish competing. I must say I absolutely loved watching the Irish guy (see, I've forgotten his name already:o) in the badminton. Some great moments in his matches (which I will inevitably forget in the next few days:o).


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  • #3901
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,431 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    bajer101, I quoted your post because it interested me and I thought it relevant, as well as it hopefully illiciting debate.

    Anyway, looking at T&F tonight I can't see how any true fans could not stay up. I said it a day or two ago, but what a card.


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