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

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  • #8522
    orangerhyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,654 ✭✭✭orangerhyme


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122490550#Comment_122490550

    Her advertisements are all over Tiktok today.

    In theory she should continue improving for 3 or 4 years and then hit her peak in LA.

    She'll definitely be in lots of finals.

    I'm hoping lots of kids of African heritage are turning up to their local athletics clubs. I hope lots of kids in general are doing so also.



  • #8523
    klr87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 886 ✭✭✭klr87


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122490561#Comment_122490561

    I'd say that one will run and run for weeks if not months, most likely final outcome is that two bronze medals are awarded. The whole mess originated in Chile's routine having an incorrect difficulty being entered into the scoring system. The fact that the USA team took four seconds (!!!) too long to lodge an appeal is just daft. Expect some hand-wringing, and potential changes of rules and procedures.



  • #8524
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yeah its certainly questionable.



  • #8525
    RoscommonHero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭RoscommonHero


    Gillespie out herself in medal contention after getting a lap back early and was only a few points off the medals, but then she seemed to have nothing in the tank for the second half of the race as all her rivals picked up points and she slipped all the way down to 10th. It's what the studio pundit Irvine warned against, which is not to use up all your energy too early, a but naive perhaps. Then again you look at the Polish girl who seemed to contest every sprint and attack for almost the whole race, she must have had a few Red Bulls in her in advance of the race because it was incredible how she sustained it throughout the whole race.



  • #8526
    hahashake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 839 ✭✭✭hahashake


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122489032#Comment_122489032

    This is now looking likely!

    Edit: Scratch that, at time of posting they hadn't women's omnium. Now looking possible but unlikely as I assume the US are heavy favourites in women's basketball?

    Post edited by hahashake on


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  • #8527
    BQQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭BQQ


    is it?

    Surely the basketball is a certain gold for US



  • #8528
    hahashake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 839 ✭✭✭hahashake


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122490642#Comment_122490642

    Yes, you would think so. At time of posting they hadn't won the omnium cycling gold.



  • #8529
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,679 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122490642#Comment_122490642

    Close to certain but it's a French team they face in the final medal game of the Olympics so you'd just never know.



  • #8530
    Field east
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭Field east


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122490229#Comment_122490229

    I watched the full race and I just felt that the baton receiver on two of the exchanges was not going ‘near full pelt’ when receiving the baton. If my memory serves me right they were ‘half looking back’ to make sure that things were going ok rather than having the receiving hand back and looking straight forward while nearly full pelt. I felt that there was the equivalent of a slight hesitation in two of the baton exchanges. I wonder if it is on utube or equivalent.
    Please do not think that I am trying to blame anyone here, - all 4 performed out of their skin and to the VERY BEST of their abilities on the day- I am just curious on a VERY TECHNICAL matter



  • #8531
    hahashake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 839 ✭✭✭hahashake


    Duplicate

    Post edited by hahashake on


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  • #8532
    Melodeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,695 ✭✭✭Melodeon


    Never thought I'd see a haka in a velodrome!



  • #8533
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,337 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    2072? I'll probably be dead by then.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #8534
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,337 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    Timmy Time! USA vs France for gold should be a good finish to this.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #8535
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 35,705 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    New Zealand with 20 medals. That's absolutely immense.

    EVENFLOW



  • #8536
    Westernview
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,211 ✭✭✭Westernview


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122490733#Comment_122490733

    Most of the rest of us too including Byrne. Pure genius setting a deadline for after you're dead. Removes the need for a lot of hard work and responsibility.



  • #8537
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,679 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122490747#Comment_122490747

    Incredible, and well spread out too. 5 track cycling, 4 rowing, 4 canoe, 2 athletics, 2 sailing and one each in golf, rugby sevens and triathlon.



  • #8538
    G1032
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,596 ✭✭✭G1032


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122490561#Comment_122490561

    Didn't know this until I saw your post. Ridiculous. Ya, rules are rules etc, but 4s outside the allowed window for appeal. That's a hollow medal for Romania. It's no way to win a medal.



  • #8539
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,679 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    I really hope the USA win the medal table. If it was anybody else besides China as their competition I would be shouting for France.



  • #8540
    Markus Antonius
    Site Banned Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Markus Antonius


    Ugh, already feeling the post olympics misery. They could do with spreading it out over a month or longer rather than squeezing it all into 2 weeks… The thought of heading into the autumn with absolutely nothing on. Hopefully the US election will take my mind off it.

    For any RTE fundamentalists, it's time to ditch them. Their coverage was awful compared to the iPlayer. Thankfully my work laptop has a UK VPN built into it but would definitely buy a month of VPN in future. 2 streams from 7am to 11pm, a really good player that you can watch back over anything, skip forward/back 20 seconds. No stone unturned, very little analysis/ad breaks. Don't know how I'm going to get the screen burn of Derval O'Rourke's skull off my television from having RTE on..



  • #8541
    orangerhyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,654 ✭✭✭orangerhyme


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122490692#Comment_122490692

    It's on Eurosport channel on YouTube.

    Don't go near the RTE player. It's a disaster. You'll be watching ads for an eternity.

    I'm not knowledgeable enough to opinionate. Maybe someone else can input.

    It's difficult to be critical when they ran so well. GB and NL ran NRs and we were just behind them. France in 5th ran a NR also.

    France and GB are traditionally strong in 400m.



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  • #8542
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,161 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    anyone else really excited for 2072?



  • #8543
    Westernview
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,211 ✭✭✭Westernview


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122490771#Comment_122490771

    People that like RTE and it's coverage aren't 'fundamentalists' just because you don't want to watch it. Your reference to Derval is very disrespectful. She represented her country with class which is more than can be said for your comment.



  • #8544
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,679 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    Thats the thirteenth Olympics I remember, I remember seeing parts of it in '74 but I didn't really understand things. 1976 I remember clearly with Nadia Comaneci probably being the star of the games.

    Lasse Viren winning the 5000 and 10000 were the standouts for me in the Athletics because my dad loved him.

    I hope I get to see another seven, I'd be happy with that.



  • #8545
    Markus Antonius
    Site Banned Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Markus Antonius


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122490805#Comment_122490805

    I think it's clear from my comment that I also watch RTE. Was communicating to those who are fans of Olympics but don't watch anything outside of RTE, that there are far better options, unfortunately…

    As for the Derval comment - this is After Hours boards, not Whirlpool Maternity forums. She's been overanalysing athletics for over a decade now. It's time for RTE to freshen up the stagnant formula



  • #8546
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122490771#Comment_122490771

    Ah i dont know. The PL season starts next week so that will take the sting out if it. The majority of olympic sports wont be watched for another 4 years.



  • #8547
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,679 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122490825#Comment_122490825

    Back in the day they had Tony O'Donoghue and Jimmy Magee as the commentators, no one talking bull. Bill O'Herlihy was the main man in the studio and he was brilliant and the experts on each area were all good.

    How times have changed. I only watched RTE when there were Irish competitors on who weren't on other channels. The only good ones in the studio that I seen were the boxing guys



  • #8548
    wazzzledazzle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,216 ✭✭✭wazzzledazzle


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122490771#Comment_122490771

    I knew what to expect in advance and stuck to EUROSPORT. From what I did see and read about their coverage I was vindicated. Between crap pundits, commentators & incessant ad breaks, it’s a wonder that anyone would think they were a success



  • #8549
    weadick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭weadick


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122490851#Comment_122490851

    Bill is really missed. Don't forget Jerry Kiernan in athletics and Gary O'Toole in the swimming. Both excellent analysts.



  • #8550
    sligeach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,833 ✭✭✭✭sligeach


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122490561#Comment_122490561

    I didn't watch the competition, but I was reading an article last night about the photos of the Olympics that will be remembered. It was of Biles hugging Chiles after she won her first individual Olympic medal.

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    That's devastating for her.

    Another photo that featured was of Britain's Bryony Page after winning gold for the women's trampoline final in gymnastics.

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    I couldn't help thinking of Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone when he applied after shave to his face. She even looks a little like him.

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  • #8551
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,448 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    US basketball coach has the look of a "Jesus guns babies" type Republican politician about her.



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