Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted August 5 Paid Members Share Posted August 5 23 minutes ago, BrodyGraham said: Really exciting womens 5000m with wily tactics, a great finish and some good old fashioned beef between the Kenyans and Ethiopians. Kipyegon didn't look to have done much wrong, just a bit of a push and shove which is all part of middle distance running but no, get in the DQ bin. Mondo Duplantis is a phenom, just ridiculous. Very similar to the way the Canadian lad pissed the hammer final. Rocked up, chucked it 4 metres further than anyone else in the first round and that was that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrodyGraham Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 1 hour ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: Kipyegon didn't look to have done much wrong, just a bit of a push and shove which is all part of middle distance running but no, get in the DQ bin.  So from what I can gather the reasoning is that she hooked Segay's arm and pulled her aside/back rather than barged or checked her. It's Segay's fault for cutting in on Kipyegon's line early but yeah once Kipyegon gets an under hook it gets a bit extra legal on her side. It's bullshit really but the footage of Hassan and the Italian lass being all, "Well, sucks for Kipyegon, but yay for us!", is pretty golden in all honesty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted August 5 Paid Members Share Posted August 5 On 8/4/2024 at 10:49 PM, Chest Rockwell said: Kayak Cross is my new favourite event. Loads of fun! Much better than boring athletics We were watching this afternoon in the pub and said it looked like something from It's A Knockout. Heck of a spectacle. Brilliant day for the women's sprint cycling team as well. That world record got broken 4 times today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 6 Paid Members Share Posted August 6 The men's 1500 metres was the best race of the Olympics so far, for me. Absolutely thrilling from start to finish. For all the talk of it being Ingebrigtsen vs Kerr, neither of them win, which Paula Radcliffe called could happen. Ingebrigtsen was so focused on making sure that Kerr couldn't get past him on the outside that he left the door open for Hocker. He was the one that probably lost it for Kerr. Brilliant stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrodyGraham Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 (edited) Three great finals on the track tonight. Super high quality women's steeple chase, ran at a really good pace with a fantastic sprint finish and Yavi ran the race so well and was so engagingly chuffed afterwards. Gabby Thomas ran the 200m like it was never in doubt and it probably wasn't in all honesty. Was sort of more impressed with Julien Alfred coming in for Silver. She's seen as a 60/100m specialist and is open about not liking the 200m, so to see her pull away from that field in the last 50 was impressive. There's been a notion about Jakob Ingebritsen that he's not really mentally built for this kind of Championship. He loves the format of the Diamond League with it's pace makers and wave lights but this is the 3rd major in a row where he's shit the bed. At the last 2 World Champs he was beaten by Josh Kerr and before that Jake Wightman both of whom did it pretty much the way Kerr was set to win tonight. Kerr had basically engaged Ingebritsen in a game of who could be a bigger dickhead in the run up to the Olympics and you could see the closer in it got that Ingebritsen was properly rattled. It probably cost him a medal as well because he was so concerned with Kerr that his attention wasn't really on his own running. If he'd held his line I don't know if Hocker goes past him. Made up for Hocker though, basically pantsing the both of them although I was much more impressed with Kerr after the race than I had been in the run up. Elsewhere Matt Hudson Smith looks a good bet for a medal if his body holds up and the women's 400m Hurdles looks set to be a cracker on Thursday night between probably the 2 most impressive athletes in women's Track and Field. Would love to see Femke Bol win it though. Outside of the Athletics I was happy to see Skye Brown medal despite being riddled with injuries. She was a bit of a hero to my daughter a few years ago and I bloody love the action sports being in the Olympics. Apart from the surfing being in fucking Tahiti! Fuck that! Edited August 6 by BrodyGraham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Healys Chutney Spoon Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 Where in Paris is good for surfing then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SuperBacon Posted August 6 Author Members Share Posted August 6 31 minutes ago, Tim Healys Chutney Spoon said: Where in Paris is good for surfing then? Hook up a wave machine to the Seine. Sorted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrodyGraham Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 I mean somewhere down South, not fucking Polynesia! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted August 7 Paid Members Share Posted August 7 7 hours ago, BrodyGraham said: I mean somewhere down South, not fucking Polynesia! Here's the thing though BG, the people of Tahiti are French citizens as it is a semi-autonomous region of France. In French eyes the surfing is in France as much as it would be if it were on Monsieur Bacon's Seine wave machine. I'm with Dev about the 1500 though, race of the Olympics so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SuperBacon Posted August 7 Author Members Share Posted August 7 *Very John Peel voice* And that was the new single from 1 hour ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: Monsieur Bacon's Seine wave machine.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members I Bent My Wookie Posted August 7 Paid Members Share Posted August 7 2 hours ago, SuperBacon said: *Very John Peel voice* And that was the new single from  I had it down as the first stop on a Paris red light district tour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members I Bent My Wookie Posted August 7 Paid Members Share Posted August 7 Double post loser but highlight of the day has to be 51 year old Andy Macdonald in the Men's Skateboarding for Team GB. An absolute legend in skateboarding back before most his competition was even born completing a goal at competing for the country of his Dad's birth and doing fairly well as well. Cracking event through the day too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MachoLibre Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 Interesting fact regarding the men's 100m final the other day; Carl Lewis' 100m winning time from 1988 was slower than last place Oblique Seville's time for 2024. Another 40 years and they'll be too fast for our eyes to comprehend and result in a quantum finish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted August 9 Paid Members Share Posted August 9 (edited) On 8/7/2024 at 9:22 AM, SuperBacon said: *Very John Peel voice* And that was the new single from  I bet he played it at the wrong speed, and now has to play it again. Edited August 9 by Jazzy G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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