Tokyo Olympics 2020

Any sport which doesn't actually bring the best competitors from around the world is questionable at the olympics.

But looking up football its GBs own issues blocking a team being sent. The FA just doesn't wanna.
 
MagicBoy said:
4th on the medal table.

The three countries that did better numerically :
China has 21x the UK population
USA 5x the UK population
Japan 2x the UK population

There's always this chart for the per capita calculation : https://www.medalspercapita.com
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The biggest factor in Olympic success is money, not population. This is an interesting take: https://ig.ft.com/tokyo-olympics-alternative-medal-table/

I’d be fascinated to know what each country spends per athlete to see the correlation vs medals.
 
GBs olympic warchest is massive and helps reduce the financial drama/distractions of trying to live from trying to compete.

Might think USA shovels money at their athletes but it's all private money. Have to earn or beg for sponsorship (good luck if you're not already a winner in a high profile sport) for the money to do training.

It also happens in the UK if UK Sport doesn't think you're medal material but if you can prove them wrong you can get support.

Wouldn't say GB is punching above its weight if you account for it being a decent sized country throwing a lot of money into the games.

I'm very surprised at Germany, it's larger, richer and significantly worse than GB at producing medallists. But you can see their athletes bemoaning the lack of a massive funding program for elite sport like GB so that's probably it.

BBC has done a big list of (GB) funding vs medals now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/58112331

Take away the funding and we could be back to 1996 and getting 15 medals total.
 
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Mixed feelings on Tokyo. Harsh on athletes who tested positive before they had a chance of glory, the lack of spectators really killed the usual atmosphere especially in the athletics. But good to let the other athletes chase their medal dreams after training for years. Nice to have live sport to watch some mornings, but equally loads of events I miseed altogether due to the time difference and the limited BBC coverage. Given the pandemic, even though there were some shock results, GB did well to equal the medal haul of 2012 and only a few down on 2016.

At least the next one in Paris is less than three years away after Tokyo's delay.
 
I think it'll forever be known as the covid olympics and obviously didn't have the same feel as previous ones. Felt sorry for the japanese its their big moment in the spotlight and totally spoiled by covid and most didn't really want it but I think they warmed to it quite a bit. TV coverage was atrocious due to limited coverage I seemed to spend most of my flipiping channels between One and the Red Button/981 and the sports section on the beeb website trying to find what I was looking for it didn't help they kept switching channels sometimes literally before the british guy was supposed to go and couldn't find what happened after!

Hotwired said:
Might think USA shovels money at their athletes but it's all private money. Have to earn or beg for sponsorship (good luck if you're not already a winner in a high profile sport) for the money to do training.
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Michael Johnson was explaining that they don't have the equivalent of govt funding its all done via the collegiate system and its quite cutthroat they seem to have done pretty well regardless
 
Hopefully it’ll be easier to watch with just one hour time difference

bbc coverage - looked like Discovery already purchased 2024 olympic rights, albeit if they purchased C4 that would fix the problem
https://www.cityam.com/olympics-broadcaster-discovery-mulls-bid-for-channel-4/
plus, if they can fix the 4k/hdr distribution too (from upscaled 1080 they distributed)
.... I'd be able to really see some of the climbing/bouldering they didn't broadcast. - yes should have sub'd too discovery

they said 5mill watched 100m on bbc and 100k on discovery/eurosport.
 
Decided to stick with it for another few days whilst I wait for the cycling to start. Checked out rhythmic gymnastics which is a bunch of ladies throwing balls, hoops, clubs and ribbons around in time to music. It's very skilful and mesmerizing to watch, especially the group event where there's five of them doing tricks all at once. It's better than the more popular artistic gym if you ask me.
 
ic1male said:
Decided to stick with it for another few days whilst I wait for the cycling to start. Checked out rhythmic gymnastics which is a bunch of ladies throwing balls, hoops, clubs and ribbons around in time to music. It's very skilful and mesmerizing to watch, especially the group event where there's five of them doing tricks all at once. It's better than the more popular artistic gym if you ask me.
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I find it ridiculous along with synchronised swimming or whatever its called these days, funny its only women reminds of the ruckus over the women's beach volleyball team's bikini's not being skimpy enough to compete, the mens teams are exempt from all this of course.
 
I'm impressed in general that it went ahead with so few covid cases among the athletes. I was expecting it to get shut down, or have a lot of events disrupted with favourites pulling out etc.

Climbing is my main sport and it was great to see it at the Olympics, shame the commentary and camera work was so mickey mouse. Need an IFSC director, and get Matt Groom doing the commentary! Or any of the IFSC commentators. Will be nice to have the speed split off next time. The multiplier scoring was a bit rubbish really as it was nearly impossible to tell what the athletes needed to do on each run, and one climber can completely upend the table.
 
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