Paris Olympics 2024

bingham67 · 9 Aug 2024 at 19:39

Not sure what more KJT could do there well done :cool:

Merlin5 · 9 Aug 2024 at 19:40

Did KJT get a medal then?

robfosters · 9 Aug 2024 at 19:40

Merlin5 said:
Did KJT get a medal then?

Silver

bingham67 · 9 Aug 2024 at 19:40

Merlin5 said:
Did KJT get a medal then?

Silver

Merlin5 · 9 Aug 2024 at 19:41

robfosters said:
Silver

bingham67 said:
Silver

Awesome! Finally after 4 Olympics.

Calpol · 9 Aug 2024 at 19:47

Brilliant from KJT.
So pleased for her. Gutsy athlete and but for a freak competitor in Thiam she works have had gold. I hope she's very pleased with that.
Running 2.02 for 800m as a multi event athlete is so so impressive.

Locke · 9 Aug 2024 at 19:56

36 pts off Gold, bless her. Thiam is amazing so really good result considering.

200sols · 9 Aug 2024 at 20:02

Races like these 10k track runs are a big slog and very boring to watch.

adidan · 9 Aug 2024 at 20:03

Women's 10km, it tickles me Keith and Daniel are running

Psycho Ned · 9 Aug 2024 at 20:03

200sols said:
Races like these 10k track runs are a big slog and very boring to watch.

Most of these championship races seem to turn into a 1 or 2k sprint as well. Just plod round for about 20 laps!

adidan · 9 Aug 2024 at 20:03

And Ryan, lol

bingham67 · 9 Aug 2024 at 20:31

Fair play to the Italian in the 10k

marc2003 · 9 Aug 2024 at 20:32

I remember seeing Battocletti winning the euros with ease but thinking she no chance against this type of opposition. She proved me wrong there.

Psycho Ned · 9 Aug 2024 at 20:41

Jonathan Edwards probably doesn't get the respect he deserves for his triple jump WR, almost 30 years later (Jeez and I remember watching him as a kid do it!) and no one can touch it.

marc2003 · 9 Aug 2024 at 20:42

Warholm next. Might win, might not.

Psycho Ned · 9 Aug 2024 at 20:45

marc2003 said:
Warholm next. Might win, might not.

His run in Tokyo was one of the best things I've ever seen in athletics!

Don't think he'll ever top that again but he's still got to be fave here.

marc2003 · 9 Aug 2024 at 20:46

Psycho Ned said:
Jonathan Edwards probably doesn't get the respect he deserves for his triple jump WR, almost 30 years later (Jeez and I remember watching him as a kid do it!) and no one can touch it.

In fairness, the winning jump in the Euros was 18.18 - only 11cm behind. It could happen at some point.

Grim5 · 9 Aug 2024 at 21:10

scarps · 9 Aug 2024 at 21:12

Grim5 said:

This is the one I mentioned earlier on. It was awful.

mid_gen · 9 Aug 2024 at 21:35

marc2003 said:
I don't think many people knew who Toby Roberts was. I certainly didn't. We do now.

Us climbers nerds do! , It's a bit off the BBC calling it a 'shock' gold, he's been winning world cup comps the last year and one of the favourites coming into the Olympics.

Immense effort to beat Soratu, he just fluffed the sequence on the campus traverse section and gassed out at the top. Toby fully deserves the gold, spent half life training for it!

Hope this doesn't mean my climbing gym is going to get even more rammed

Great to see the sport on the front pages