Tokyo Olympics 2020
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They have some fantastic passing and skills also, i really enjoyed the world cup
Money, I expect. Eurosport / Discovery paid 1.3bn to broadcast these and the next Olympics...
new 3 against 3 mens basketball is exciting to watch - some yesterday. ... waiting to see climbing too.
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I haven't investigated if you can get an introductory Discovery channel sub ... and maybe see coverage in UHD/4K ??.
BBC iplayer coverage still seems OK, even if you can't see as many sports live.
Red button ...
I haven't investigated if you can get an introductory Discovery channel sub ... and maybe see coverage in UHD/4K ??.
BBC iplayer coverage still seems OK, even if you can't see as many sports live.
Not sure about that
Did anyone see the upset of the games in the 400m freestyle men?
18 year old tunisian scraped into the final last qualifier and got outside lane then won gold knocking over 3secs off his pb
the aussie favourite couldn't believe it lol
Did anyone see the upset of the games in the 400m freestyle men?
18 year old tunisian scraped into the final last qualifier and got outside lane then won gold knocking over 3secs off his pb
the aussie favourite couldn't believe it lol
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The fact that there is only 3 pages regarding this sport event is not great…
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Thats because most of the brain dead lager drinkers would rather watch a football being kicked about. Who cares.
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Well said. I’m open minded and watch many sports and love the olympics more than the World Cup football despite being a massive football fan.
Olympics is just more special for me
Fantastic win for the Austrian in the Womens cycle road race this morning! Good to see a lot of underdogs beating the odds so far! Shame that Jade Jones got beat! not sure when it'll be decided if she can get through the Repecharge(sp?)
Did anyone see the upset of the games in the 400m freestyle men?
18 year old tunisian scraped into the final last qualifier and got outside lane then won gold knocking over 3secs off his pb
the aussie favourite couldn't believe it lol
I saw that. Yeah, real upset!
I didn't see the women's road race but I watched Jade Jones get knocked out the competition. I don't know about the repecharge but would be good if she still gets another chance to compete. Bradly Sinden won his 68kg Taekwondo qualifier and is going for gold at 1.45pm.
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Enjoying the weight lifting on Eurosport, it's just a shame they're mucking the commentary up (i.e. only one event so far has had any!)
Damn, good close fight with Bradly Sinden but got silver.
I was thinking the same. We don't have the stars we've had in the past. Adam Peaty should get gold and might be our only one. Maybe Max Whitlock too. Dinah Asher Smith probably silver. Pity there's no Mo Farah.
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Jade lost to the Rio bronze medalist. Ordinarily Jade wouldn't have fought her until later rounds, but the Iranian hasn't competed for her home country for several years and is competing under the Olympics refugee flag while living in Germany awaiting citizenship. Her coach is also an ex Team GB coach.
Very decent -68Kg mens final, Bradly Swinden narrowly missing out in a final round that swung one way then another.
No doubt there will be plenty of surprise results in this Olympics, from all sorts of factors including a massive reduction in competitive matches during Covid and the lack of spectators at Olympic venues.
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I'm not even sure why they aren't allowing crowds (at least the local populace) in the venues. Watching some of the Tokyo streamers on Twitch, there are people everywhere going about their normal business. You wouldn't know there's a state of emergency declared.
We've only just finshed day 2!