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

Yeah I think the whole country stopped to watch Friday and Saturday night.

It's funny how it lifts the spirits of a nation.

Lara being very well marked sadly.

It's great. The whole competition was so welcome as a diversion from a lot of stuff in the news. Not much other sport happening with GAA and rugby WC over and the premiership yet to start so it's great that it got our full attention.

It does look like Rhasidat will be the superstar of Irish sport for the next good few years, especially if she can continue to improve and lower her times. She's probably already at the level Sonia O'Sullivan was interest wise in the 1990s.

Phil Healy will be gone but 30 and 31 isn't too old for 400m assuming they've no bad injuries. It's just slightly past their peak. But really we need to find a world class talent to replace Phil Healy, I'm not denigrating her but she'll be 33 in '28.

One of the Jamaicans was 35. I think their anchor leg runner.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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..