Tokyo Olympics 2020

The_One · 1 Aug 2021 at 13:52

Was never gonna medal anyway

Fancy the nigerian or chinese to take this with a shock

*EDIT* well that went well

marc2003 · 1 Aug 2021 at 13:52

Unlikely to get near the podium anyway. Super slow time incoming to make me look stupid.

edit: Decent evening for the Italians.

Merlin5 · 1 Aug 2021 at 13:54

Italy gold. Who'd have thought that was on the cards.

jonneymendoza · 1 Aug 2021 at 14:16

Merlin5 said:
Italy gold. Who'd have thought that was on the cards.

Good year for Italy. Euro Cup winners and now this

Mik3 · 1 Aug 2021 at 14:36

Is that all for the Athletics for today?

marc2003 · 1 Aug 2021 at 14:37

Mik3 said:
Is that all for the Athletics for today?

Japan are 8 hours ahead of us. What do you think?

LOLN1 · 1 Aug 2021 at 20:33

Merlin5 said:
Italy gold. Who'd have thought that was on the cards.

LOOL

robfosters · 1 Aug 2021 at 20:40

Hopefully will grab gold in the 3 day eventing tonight

jpaul · 1 Aug 2021 at 20:49

gymnastics - BBC uneven bars ? is that a dumbing down of asymmetric bars

bbc interview with Zharnel Hughes https://twitter.com/BBCSport/status/1421821755174395910
thought he handled it well , and was honest/humble; Barsham and Tamberli interviews, came over well too - personable
stark contrast to both Biles and Smith interviews where they come over as petulant/insincere.

- Enthusisam of youth - Charlotte - the best.

robfosters · 1 Aug 2021 at 20:57

I mean this in the nicest way as I found it charming, but some people spent years wondering if this guy was gay or not :cry:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58047795

Mr Jack · 1 Aug 2021 at 23:56

mysticsniper said:
Just watch Charlotte Worthington a few mins ago, that 2nd run was inspirational, amazing flips, ain't no cherry pickers anymore

I just watched this on German TV, and even with the usual home bias the commentors were going absolutely nuts watching her performance. You just love to see it.

marc2003 · 2 Aug 2021 at 05:26

jpaul said:
gymnastics - BBC uneven bars ? is that a dumbing down of asymmetric bars

BBC??

https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/oly...s/results-women-s-uneven-bars-fnl-000001-.htm

marc2003 · 2 Aug 2021 at 06:10

Track cycling starts in a bit. No medals today but we should see who is in shape for the team pursuit.

dave28 · 2 Aug 2021 at 07:20

We are 4th in total medals, not bad for a tiny country

looks like the Ireland of Ireland dont really do sports with 3 medals, and 2 of those are Bronze

SoliD · 2 Aug 2021 at 08:48

marc2003 said:
Track cycling starts in a bit. No medals today but we should see who is in shape for the team pursuit.

well I think thats us in the women! Spoke too soon! Big fall apart in that last kilometre.

marc2003 · 2 Aug 2021 at 08:51

That was an insane ride from ze germans though. They smashed the old world record.

SPG · 2 Aug 2021 at 09:15

Yes, insane ride from the Germans that one.

Track cycling has TEAM GB to thank for making so awesome over the past 15 years

touch · 2 Aug 2021 at 09:18

Decent ride from GB though - could be close to the Germans with some better scheduling.

Either that or just leave Katie Archibald on the front the whole time. Looks like she could win this thing doing an individual pursuit!

SPG · 2 Aug 2021 at 09:20

touch said:
Decent ride from GB though - could be close to the Germans with some better scheduling.

Either that or just leave Katie Archibald on the front the whole time. Looks like she could win this thing doing an individual pursuit!

Hahaha yes, she is a machine

I bloody love track cycling

jpaul · 2 Aug 2021 at 09:34

marc2003 said:
BBC??

https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/oly...s/results-women-s-uneven-bars-fnl-000001-.htm

I wasn't alone wondering when uneven bars came in ... when the word asymmetric stopped being taught in schools seems one answer
but an adjunct https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/1706374/when-did-the-asymmetric-bars-become-the-uneven-bars

They can have the bars as close or as far apart as they want, but the move you're describing has been banned I think, something to do with injuries to internal organs. If the bars are further apart it means they can do more complicated (and high scoring) release and catch moves, that couldn't be done with the bars close together. There's nothing to stop them having the bars closer together, but they'd never score that highly, because they'd not be able to do the big release and catches.
....
Yeah, the Korbut Flip was one of the moves they banned, something to do with standing on the high bar.