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

People complaining about RTE’s coverage is understandable but in their defence, the Olympics has been completely watered down. There’s wayyyyyyyy too many events now, thus having more events to give attention to.

When people think Olympics they think Track & Field and Swimming, then maybe Gymnastics. Now we have too much bollox at it between Golf and Tennis which is so stupid when you think about it; Soccer there’s absolutely no need for, now BMX and Skateboarding, Trampoloning. It’s genuinely gone out of control. So I’ll defend RTE, and I can’t believe I’m saying that.

If they showed the rest of the gymnastics final and missed an Irish person in action in the most niche of sports you’d still get a tonne of complaints….

Leave Skateboarding etc to their X Games… the reason they’re so chill like the person above said, is because the Olympics isn’t historically a big deal for them, so why would they care? It’s supposed to be the pinnacle of your sport… Golf - The Masters, Tennis - Wimbledon.. I could go on

I saw a bit of that on the Eurosport, to even constantly have to thread water they must be ultra fit. I was wondering why former top swimmers do not switch to it for the craic as they get older. It seems like a mix of basketball/handball/rugby in the water.

There is one hybrid basketball version I am always fascinated with at the Olympics. The 3 on 3 basketball on a half court I never see it anywhere else until the Olympics.

I agree with you I think the Olympics should be left to amateur sports let it be their pinnacle. If there was non-professional soccer, for instance it would be very interesting.

I know Ireland has a chance in the Golf but there is something off about it in the Olympics. Multi-millionaires going over for the craic really they hardly dreamed of Gold in golf when they were youngsters

I have found it very hard to keep up with everything that is going on, I have just seen bits here and bits there, of all sorts of sports. Then a lot of it is doubled because there are male and female versions.

Golf should be least matchplay. Stroke play is stupid for me. Least matchplay would be bit differnt and more exciting and I think medal be more earned even if silver or bronze.

Dont mind tennis In it for some reason.

What's matchplay ?

Is that like the Ryder Cup set-up ?

I agree.

Soccer, tennis and golf shouldn't be there.

It should be the pinnacle of each participating sport and a showcase for sports that we don't see very often.

I don't mind there being lots of sports but get rid of the ones where the Olympics isn't the pinnicle of it eg football, tennis, golf

Yes, the IBA. They were removed from Olympic boxing last year as they were believed to be corrupt, fixing fight results and because of the close links of their boss with Putin.

Yes, and the start of the athletics programme too. Very interested to see how the mixed relay team runs this evening and if Mawdsley can get us into a relay final.

I'm agreeing with you completely. I'm all for more Sports. However, i'd dump a few currently like Boxing and maybe skateboarding

We'll qualify from the Heats, i'd be pretty sure of that. We have enough with Healey, Becker and Charlene to get us through

Dunno about the finances point - Would love to see if there’s a specific correlation though.

Another frustrating thing from my own point of view now is people can play the whole ‘oh yay the most medals we’ve ever gotten’ etc..

Well yes… there’s more events so you’d expect more. Again it’s probably a per capita view of things (competitors to events and their return of medals) compared to purely ‘here’s an Olympic Games and here’s how many medals we got’

Yeh I think so anyway

However it’s hard to see them ever scaling it back too much now. More likely the Games is spread out a small bit longer over time.

At this point I'd consider dumping all/most of the sports where humans get to decide who wins or loses…

In rowing, running, swimming and a host of other sports, there is no doubt or question as to who has won as it's simply a case of who finished 1st/fastest/jumped highest/longest, or how many goals/points they scored etc… All measurable metrics that can't be disputed, but when you are relying on a human to decide a score based on what they've seen, then I'm afraid its open to manipulation, and therefore not definitive who actually won.. (unless it's blindingly obvious, but even then we are seeing boxers lose fights that they've clearly not lost).

Mind you if Rhys wins gold on the pommel horse (decided/judged by humans), I'll gladly take it.