Tokyo Olympics 2020

This lead route for the women looks brutal, harder than the men's!

Janja Garnbret probably going to come out and breeze through it though!
 
200m final coming up, hoping the kid wins.

If the women's race is any indication of time, I'm going for 19.45-50.

Edit: 19.63, really struggled to get excited with men's sprinting this Olympics, Bolts gone and the best Americans were all on drugs and were banned.
 
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Shame to see Shauna Coxsey not make it to the sports climbing final, but still a good performance from her. Despite not making it to the final, coming 10th in the Olympics is not a bad way to end her competitive career! Seems to have a great attitude too.
 
GreatAuk said:
Shame to see Shauna Coxsey not make it to the sports climbing final, but still a good performance from her. Despite not making it to the final, coming 10th in the Olympics is not a bad way to end her competitive career! Seems to have a great attitude too.
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She was never likely to compete. She is 90% a boulderer and her peak was probably 4+ years ago now. At her peak she was the best female competition boulderer in the world and is by far the best UK competition climber ever.

Just a shame climbing wasn't in the olympics in a format that was sensible last time around. Injuries have just caught up with her and other climbers have overtaken her.

Janja is just a monster and a country mile better than anyone else if she is remotely in form. She cruises moves that others find impossible and does things that other climbers can only dream about. Just genetically superior to the other competitors.
 
GreatAuk said:
Shame to see Shauna Coxsey not make it to the sports climbing final, but still a good performance from her. Despite not making it to the final, coming 10th in the Olympics is not a bad way to end her competitive career! Seems to have a great attitude too.
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Oh no that's a shame she's never won a gold.
 
Merlin5 said:
It's really impressive. China 70 medals and we have 48, only 22 behind. Yet think about how small the UK is compared to China, USA and Russia.
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Australia would like a mention if results for size matter. Bit over 1/3 the population of the UK and consistently up there.
 
Naively I half thought Clare Balding & Co / BBC were in Tokyo ... but it's elaborate like Capricorn One, it seems

https://www.ibc.org/trends/tokyo-ol...c-reveal-remote-production-plans/7727.article

“So early on we had decided on a virtual set. Now we’re doing everything in Salford that turned out to be a very wise decision.”

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The physical set design and build is by Toby Kalitowski at design house Scott Fleary and the virtual studio design is by Jim Mann at Lightwell with graphic company MOOV executing production. It apes a huge Japanese rooftop pagoda. The lighting director is David Gibson. This is largely the team that worked on the BBC’s FIFA 2018 studio.

“It’s complicated in that it has got multiple presentation areas. There’s a main presentation platform and also a garden area and a separate runaway. The tricky part is that while it’s three levels to the viewer it’s only one physical space so making sure everybody’s in the right place is important. You can’t physically hand from one level to the other.”
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in other news the 4k sky material maybe upscaled like NBC's

https://piunikaweb.com/2021/07/26/youtube-tv-olympics-4k-streaming-quality-issues-come-to-light/
An explanation for this could be that NBC is taking the Japanese 1080p HDR broadcast and upscaling to 4K. This technical casualty is likely an effect of Covid, although we can’t be too sure.
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