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Olympics daily thread

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  • #3992
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    walshb wrote: »
    Lane 8. Everyone behind him.

    Ah yeah....i'm thinking of another run...not sure which one. Been a long two weeks !!


  • #3993
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    Lane One wasn't it, the tight lane, even more incredible.

    Definitely Lane 8, the toughest of all lanes from which to run a fast time, IMO. No-one outside you to use as a pacemaker.

    http://www.independent.ie/sport/rio-2016-olympics/400-metre-world-record-smashed-from-lane-8-as-wayde-van-niekerk-romps-home-34965678.html


  • #3994
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,407 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »
    I'd be curious to see how Ireland's performance compares to countries of a similar size.

    Does anyone know if there is a way to measure medal wins by population?

    Also, was there a medal target announced for Team Ireland?

    poster mansize posted a very detailed link on medal table based on population. It's from a few days ago on this thread.


  • #3995
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Skid X wrote: »
    Definitely Lane 8, the toughest of all lanes from which to run a fast time, IMO. No-one outside you to use as a pacemaker.

    http://www.independent.ie/sport/rio-2016-olympics/400-metre-world-record-smashed-from-lane-8-as-wayde-van-niekerk-romps-home-34965678.html

    Yeah....was Lane 8. There was I think a great race run from Lane 1 too but my mind just cant process it right now.


  • #3996
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    walshb wrote: »
    There's always a silver lining, guys. Monday blues won't last long. Rose of Tralee is back!


    I gave up on the ROT after Gabby Logan didn't win in 1991.

    F***ing judges must have been bribed, Michael Conlan all over again


    http://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0811/808549-gabby-logan-leeds-rose/


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  • #3997
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,407 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »
    I'd be curious to see how Ireland's performance compares to countries of a similar size.

    Does anyone know if there is a way to measure medal wins by population?

    Also, was there a medal target announced for Team Ireland?

    Post number 3739 on this thread.


  • #3998
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,407 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Upset! Weird looking run to the tape. Looked like an old man.


  • #3999
    FrKurtFahrt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 899 ✭✭✭FrKurtFahrt


    Wow!!! That's somewhat sensational, Centrowitz!


  • #4000
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,407 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    FFS, 3.50. Do that 'meself.'


  • #4001
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    In honour of the last late night I am staying up.


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  • #4002
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Very strange race that. Sure you could run that again tomorrow and have a completely different result.


  • #4003
    FrKurtFahrt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 899 ✭✭✭FrKurtFahrt


    Stheno wrote: »
    In honour of the last late night I am staying up.

    It's spooky being up this late, sober.


  • #4004
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,407 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    Very strange race that. Sure you could run that again tomorrow and have a completely different result.

    Kiprop was like a train on the back-straight, and that was it. Nothing left in the last 100. Must have overdone it on the back-straight.


  • #4005
    brooke 2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    Strazdas wrote: »
    Annalise's silver was definitely the high point. I don't think I've ever seen an Irish medalist look as happy as she did, the four years of hurt after London meant it was a huge release for her.....she was beyond overjoyed.

    Mick Conlan was robbed clearly and I'm beginning to think Katie was too. I read today that she outscored her opponent by 14 punches in a fight she supposedly "lost".


    Have been following Annalise's FB Sailing page for the past four years. Was gutted for her when she was pipped for a medal place in 2012, especially as she had been doing so well in the earlier days. Absolutely thrilled for her!

    Rio2016 has been fantastic!

    Feel bad for Mick and Katie, though. It would be one thing if they had fought badly, but to think they were better on the night and they did not get their just reward is heartbreaking.


  • #4006
    Stheno
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    Stheno wrote: »
    In honour of the last late night I am staying up.

    Of course, I do also have to beat Heidi Heidi on post count, and know that she was posting earlier in another thread about going to bed after doing an overnight offshore race :pac:
    FrKurtFahrt wrote: »
    It's spooky being up this late, sober.

    I have been gently imbibing alcohol this evening.

    Oooh 800m in womens up now, will Caster go all out and wallop the ancient record?


  • #4007
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    Gabby Logan to Paula Radcliffe on BBC1... "could you briefly explain the recent developments in Athletics Gender Chromosome Determinants regarding Castor Semenya" **


    There's a hospital pass question.

    ** something like that anyway


  • #4008
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Fecks sake that wasn't even a race, is she even sweating?


  • #4009
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,407 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Delighted for Caster. PB. What a final 200...


  • #4010
    FrKurtFahrt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 899 ✭✭✭FrKurtFahrt


    Stheno wrote: »
    Fecks sake that wasn't even a race, is she even sweating?
    She could have stopped, had a pee, and still won.


  • #4011
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    Tom Daly came last? I find this too funny for some reason I can't quite explain haha.


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  • #4012
    Stheno
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    Skid X wrote: »
    Gabby Logan to Paula Radcliffe on BBC1... "could you briefly explain the recent developments in Athletics Gender Chromosome Determinants regarding Castor Semenya" **


    There's a hospital pass question.

    ** something like that anyway

    Is that not to do with the CAS case taken by the Indian athlete which forced the IAAF to stop female intersex athletes being required to take drugs to reduce their testosterone?


  • #4013
    Joe_ Public
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    walshb wrote: »
    Kiprop was like a train on the back-straight, and that was it. Nothing left in the last 100. Must have overdone it on the back-straight.

    Something amiss maybe? That just looked too bad to be true.


  • #4014
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,407 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Skid X wrote: »
    Gabby Logan to Paula Radcliffe on BBC1... "could you briefly explain the recent developments in Athletics Gender Chromosome Determinants regarding Castor Semenya" **


    There's a hospital pass question.

    ** something like that anyway

    Paula knocked it out of the park.


  • #4015
    R00ster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 489 ✭✭R00ster


    Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »
    I'd be curious to see how Ireland's performance compares to countries of a similar size.

    Does anyone know if there is a way to measure medal wins by population?

    Also, was there a medal target announced for Team Ireland?

    Portugal has a population of 10m and only have a solitary bronze. In fact they have a worse historic total record than Ireland.
    4 golds to our 9, and 24 medals in total to our 31!
    Maybe its because of their football teams, but I would have expected them to have a significantly better record at the Olympics.


  • #4016
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,407 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    Something amiss maybe? That just looked too bad to be true.

    I think he got it wrong. Kicked too hard and was left without a real kick in the last 100. He kind of didn't need to push it so fast on the back-straight. It even looked overcooked.


  • #4017
    frostyjacks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭frostyjacks


    Something not quite right with that race. Was like putting Arkle in a donkey derby.


  • #4018
    Stheno
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    R00ster wrote: »
    Portugal has a population of 10m and only have a solitary bronze. In fact they have a worse historic total record than Ireland.
    4 golds to our 9, and 24 medals in total to our 31!
    Maybe its because of their football teams, but I would have expected them to have a significantly better record at the Olympics.

    Are you including our three swimming golds from Atlanta in that ten? I wouldn't


  • #4019
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,407 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Stheno wrote: »
    Are you including our three swimming golds from Atlanta in that ten? I wouldn't

    They are officially Ireland's medals, so we should include them.


  • #4020
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    walshb wrote: »
    They are officially Ireland's medals, so we should include them.

    True, I think they are tainted though, I know it's been discussed to death however :)


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  • #4021
    Joe_ Public
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    walshb wrote: »
    I think he got it wrong. Kicked too hard and was left without a real kick in the last 100. He kind of didn't need to push it so fast on the back-straight. It even looked overcooked.

    Yeah...he just needed to be in touch with 100 to go and he'd have burned them all down, tactical brain seems to let him down sometimes.

    Anyone know why Semenya pulled out of the 400 here, did she give a reason? Cant see any reason why she wouldn't have gone for the two?


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