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

All the athletes could have said ‘no’ ti Gillick but none of them did. And the ones people think he demeaned or talked down to came back for more.

End of story.
Just the usual begrudgers think different for whatever jollies they get from it. Worse than the lads pulling on their todgers.

Maybe by LA they’ll have matured a bit. I live in eternal hope 😁

With the athletes we have at the moment, those said todgers won't last till 2028 Francie. Will be worn out altogether. Agree that Gillick has been a star throughout, seems well- respected.

Being close to same timezone has made it a lot easier following events live, especially commenting here with everyone else watching.

LA and Brisbane gonna be a different prospect.

You win some you lose some.

Indeed, she was holding the baton very loosely and her arms were swinging all over the place. It was an accident waiting to happen.

Ireland ran 10th fastest time ever.

It was an incredibly fast race.

NRs for most teams.

https://worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/relays/4x400-metres-relay/all/women/senior

had to turn to bbc as a result of him

I will keep saying the same thing over and over but Becker's leg time is not comparable to the others as she started from the blocks while the others had a running start. As a general rule the 1st leg runners are around 0.9 of a second slower due to the stationary start. Becker had the 4th best time in her leg and in the semi final she ran the same time and was a second faster than all of her opponents

Healy is our weakest link but a) she is primarily a 100/200m runner. b) she works a full time job. An extra Becker or Mawdsley on the team would have got us a silver.

That said Phil ran a phenomenal leg and it was the fastest 400m relay time of her career.

We would ideally like to have at least 4 more European class 400m runners but we are only a nation of 5m compared to GB, Italy, France, Germany etc who all have 10 x + our population and we easily beat most of them. This was really a phenomenal achievement/performance.

I don't think you're reading that right. I think it says our PB is the 10th fastest of all time.

Team USA would have most of the top 10 fastest times surely

I hear Monday, August 12 2024 will be the most depressing day of the decade.

Oh definitely. It's always been her style. Much tougher against elite competition though.

Given Amber ran a PB yesterday, making it as tough as possible as early as possible on Amber would never be a bad strategy either. The team need to find someone to step in at the third leg.

Really disappointing last 24 hours.

Athletics (Track & Field) are the pinnacle of the Olympics.

The medal table is worldwide unlike swimming and rowing and everything else.

There are approx 150 medals available and again we go home empty handed.

As we have at every Olympics since Sydney 2000.

Part 1 - Adeleke 4th - race went to form but there was an opening for a medal. It always just seems to be random Brits and America’s who outperform and grab medals, never us.

Part 2 - Women’s 1500m was wide open behind the winner and arguably GOAT Kipyegon.

Our best middle distance athlete since Sonia, Ciara Mageean, is injured.

Silver and Bronze go to girls who Ciara comfortably beat in the World Championship final 12 months ago. No Hassan or unbeatable Kenyans or Ethiopians apart from Kipyegon.

So frustrating.

Part 3 - That relay 4th. 

I don’t think we will ever again have a better team or chance at an Olympics.

Maybe next year at World Championships in Tokyo they’ll go one better.

Winning gold medals is great and all but have to say that 4x400 was the most exciting and emotional event of the Olympics for me.

USA almost broke the WR which was set by dodgy USSR in the 80s.