Olympic Games Paris 2024 - AH Thread [Thread banned posters listed in first post.]

Nice interview from Tom Pidcock, seemed upset that he got boo-ed from the French crowd. Says more about the French than him. Well done Tom, great performance and recovery from a puncture

I'll stick with BBC for the Athletics. Their pundits and especially their commentary team are excellent.

Sadly in this country we all have to bow to the horsey sht because something something do you not know how many people it employs something something.

They lost their sht when the FAI pointed out how little of the betting share they command now.

RTE buy a 200-hour live package from Discovery, and afaik have to agree in advance what is shown. This is then fed directly from Olympic Broadcasting Services to RTE. It's a tailored package specifically for Ireland, and other EU/EBU countries will get a similar package tailored for them. I don't believe RTE have the right to flick a switch and say 'this event is no longer what we want, move to something else'. Or at least there's definitely a limit to how much they can change.

So you'll sometimes end up with an event that RTE chose because Ireland might potentially get a medal, but we get to the final stages and there is no prospect of a medal or even an Irish athlete remaining.

It's not ideal, but that's the nature when a behometh holds the rights and RTE just gets whichever minimum coverage that the EU forces on Discovery via the reserved sports list.

Yep, this is it. And of course you'd trust RTE to pick horseshit primarily and not show fast action/moving sports. Do they even have a "today at the games" type show? where they can show sports not shown during their daytime coverage(just checked there, they don't)

They are piss poor at EVERYTHING they throw their hand to. From presenters (in fairness, she's the best out of the three others ladies they have) to commentators to coverage.

Useless fcuks

Canoeing is good entertainment, fast and competitive. Even the best can screw it up too.

I don't think so he saw a gap and took it.

That's mad. The Cameroon canoeist was cutting it fine going through those gates. It looked like he had set the 2nd fastest time, but he's been given a 50 second penalty for missing gate 9 and goes from hero to zero.

**** It, that penalty fucked him.

Tough for Jegou…went for it and came unstuck at the end

Good canoeists to come though

I thought Burgess was gone after that mid course mistake. But he's finished top, so Jegou is out of the medals now.

Gutted for Jegou….. he knows he blew it on that last gate….

Trave had a similar run to Jegou. Both will be gutted, any mistake is so costly.