Tokyo Olympics 2020

[mid_gen]

I'd love to know if any of the setters can pulls off that move on boulder 3. It looks absolutely savage, especially as the last boulder when their skin is wrecked.

 

[GreatAuk]

Yeah that move just looks ridiculously hard, having watched all the competitors fail to do it I'd like to see it actually completed! Once they've stuck the hold past the zone I'm just not sure how they're meant to move on from it. Wonder if there's just a different approach somehow that makes it possible.

All on Mawem to show us how it's done!

Edit: nope, no one finished it

 

[jonneymendoza]

I'd love to know if any of the setters can pulls off that move on boulder 3. It looks absolutely savage, especially as the last boulder when their skin is wrecked.

yea no one is having any joy on it

 

[Mr Jack]

I'd love to know if any of the setters can pulls off that move on boulder 3. It looks absolutely savage, especially as the last boulder when their skin is wrecked.

I can't help but think they pitched these final bouldering problems a little too difficult.

 

[marc2003]

Come on Holly Bradshaw. 4 vaulters left, 3 medals. She's in 2nd place.

 

[marc2003]

Bronze in the end but having never made a podium at the 2 previous Olympics or any world champs, I think she'll be happy enough.

 

[SoliD]

Pole vault was great to watch, really pleased for Bradshaw to finally get an Olympic medal!

 

[mid_gen]

Medal for Ondra? Think he can take gold if Schubert splits him and Lopez?

Scoring is mad

 

[touch]

Medal for Ondra? Think he can take gold if Schubert splits him and Lopez?

Scoring is mad

I think he's guarenteed a medal now. Gold if Schubert splits them. Possibly...i'm confused by the maths

edit: reading skills are as bad as my maths skills. I've just repeated exactly what you said...

edit2: Nope! Ondra doesn't even get a medal

 

[mid_gen]

Absolute scenes in the climbing! Schubert pulls a top out of the bag, Ondra out of the medals. Ginas Lopes takes the win.

 

[SoliD]

Can someone explain how the scoring works in the climbing?

 

[mid_gen]

Can someone explain how the scoring works in the climbing?

You get a point for your position in each discipline, at the end, all your scores are multiplied. Final results are those scores in descending order.

 

[GreatAuk]

That scoring is a bit mad - Ondra going from 1st place to 6th place due to the 3rd place athlete beating him in one event!

I guess it makes sense to weight 1st place finishes on individual events very highly (and I think all the podium finishers did win an individual event), but it does feel a bit counter intuitive that small differences can make such a dramatic difference in overall position.

Won't be such an issue next time when speed climbing gets taken out though I guess.

 

[marc2003]

This karate play acting on the beeb right now is a ****ing joke. Seriously, WT actual F????

 

[Mik3]

This karate play acting on the beeb right now is a ****ing joke. Seriously, WT actual F????

I was just thinking the same, I was expecting to see a fight.

 

[Mik3]

Ah now is the fighting

 

[marc2003]

Yeah, this is a bit more conventional.

Can you imagine a boxer prancing around the ring throwing punches at an imaginary opponent and winning an Olympic gold medal. The mind boggles.

 

[Nasher]

It's annoying the rules are so strict. Traditional karate tournaments are a lot more aggressive and don't always use pads. There are grabs, throws and all sorts in Karate but they aren't allowed to do any of it.

What they are doing looks more like kickboxing.

 

[Mr Jack]

This karate play acting on the beeb right now is a ****ing joke. Seriously, WT actual F????

Think of it like fencing; it's an abstracted sport not actual combat.

 

[Mr Jack]

That scoring is a bit mad - Ondra going from 1st place to 6th place due to the 3rd place athlete beating him in one event!

I guess it makes sense to weight 1st place finishes on individual events very highly (and I think all the podium finishers did win an individual event), but it does feel a bit counter intuitive that small differences can make such a dramatic difference in overall position.

Yeah, I'd have thought giving points to the positions (something like the F1 scoring system?) and adding them up would make more sense.