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

If I was from the Mayorstone area I would probably have direct access to the rowing clubs. But that side of the city yes.

Carnage!

Carnage in the first SF of the men's 5000m, with a pile-up on the home straight.

No fastest losers, so it was a very slow time (14:08), contributing to the problems at the end. Ingebrigtsen is sure to make the second SF faster.

Really aggressive shove by the French dude. Mills furious. Comms not picking up on it at all.

Second heat of 5,000m mens strated. RTE on a commercial break.

You are 100% spot on with it. To be blunt about it, there's a HUGE amount of NIMBYism in Athletics etc.,

It's so so hard to get into an Individual sport if your family haven't done it already. Boxing the odd example though.

Unfortunately, Tony has gone to the Great Commentator Booth in the Sky.

To be fair (for once), they got back in time for the start. After all, there is an Irish competitor in the heat.

Barshim pulls up in the high jump qualifiers.

Grassroots is number 1 priority.

Promotion and support of sports at grassroots level.

High performance is important but you capture talent at a young age in their local club.

I bet there's loads of Paul Donovans and Adelekes out there who've never played sport.

Also it's not just about nurturing talent, participation is the number 1 priority for all the numerous health benefits.

I think the European countries are better at this.

Apparently in Croatia everyone plays at least one sport if not a few.

Not sure about other sport but Athletics is one of the easiest sports to get into.. Certainly around my area. They're no shortage of clubs.. And the entry cost is very small

This second SF is going to be about the same time as the first, but they are a bit more strung out now. Fay has some ground to make up.

Brian Fay doing his usual finish, full of running when out of it.

Well Brian Fay will be bitterly disappointed there. Getting through at that pace was well within his capabilities, didn't seem to judge the shift in pace well and left himself far too much to do in the last 600.