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Post by Count de Stockport on Aug 10, 2024 17:29:50 GMT
Jokes aside, that zero-contact dyno on the bouldering was outrageous
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 11, 2024 9:53:14 GMT
Jokes aside, that zero-contact dyno on the bouldering was outrageous If this is the climbing I watched late on last night then yes, absolutely amazing to watch. Really love sports like that. I've never EVER seen it before. And I couldn't take my eyes off it. I'd already got a bit of a hook in me from the speed climbing. But them hanging off that wall was something else entirely.
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 11, 2024 9:57:10 GMT
If there was a gold medal for 'Over Confident Commentator's Cursing' then Laura Kenny would definitely have a handful of them.
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Post by Count de Stockport on Aug 11, 2024 9:57:23 GMT
Jokes aside, that zero-contact dyno on the bouldering was outrageous If this is the climbing I watched late on last night then yes, absolutely amazing to watch. Really love sports like that. I've never EVER seen it before. And I couldn't take my eyes off it. I'd already got a bit of a hook in me from the speed climbing. But them hanging off that wall was something else entirely. meh, speed climbing is boring Sport climbing for me đ sounds weird but bouldering scares me - very technical and things can go wrong very quickly, and even with those big crash mats you can land funny and hurt yourself in your late 30s
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 11, 2024 9:58:31 GMT
If this is the climbing I watched late on last night then yes, absolutely amazing to watch. Really love sports like that. I've never EVER seen it before. And I couldn't take my eyes off it. I'd already got a bit of a hook in me from the speed climbing. But them hanging off that wall was something else entirely. meh, speed climbing is boring Sport climbing for me đ sounds weird but bouldering scares me - very technical and things can go wrong very quickly, and even with those big crash mats you can land funny and hurt yourself in your late 30s I'd put my back out trying to get off the floor
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Post by Count de Stockport on Aug 11, 2024 10:11:18 GMT
meh, speed climbing is boring Sport climbing for me đ sounds weird but bouldering scares me - very technical and things can go wrong very quickly, and even with those big crash mats you can land funny and hurt yourself in your late 30s I'd put my back out trying to get off the floor Itâs your fingers youâd need to worry about. Most common injury is pulley tendon ruptured in fingers. Painful and annoying because the rest of you is fine but youâre out for months!
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Post by vicar on Aug 11, 2024 12:00:55 GMT
I think the Olympic table should be points based, 3 for gold, 2 for silver and 1 for bronze, the current system means that 1 gold is better than 20 silvers, it makes the silver and bronze nean nothing more than goal difference.
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 11, 2024 12:20:20 GMT
I think the Olympic table should be points based, 3 for gold, 2 for silver and 1 for bronze, the current system means that 1 gold is better than 20 silvers, it makes the silver and bronze nean nothing more than goal difference. If you're American the rule is that the rule will be decided upon, and amended when necessary, at various points throughout the Games
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Post by herbiedumplings on Aug 11, 2024 12:24:25 GMT
After yesterdayâs man-baby show from USA in the menâs basketball final, watching the face of the US volleyball coach in the womenâs volleyball final was tremendous!
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Post by herbiedumplings on Aug 11, 2024 12:27:13 GMT
I think the Olympic table should be points based, 3 for gold, 2 for silver and 1 for bronze, the current system means that 1 gold is better than 20 silvers, it makes the silver and bronze nean nothing more than goal difference. Laura Kennyâs blushes might have been saved by all those 0.5 points from our haul of 4th places in the menâs cycling! [edit:] Itâs âhigher, faster, strongerâ not âconsistently middling in height, speed and strengthâ, so I couldnât disagree more!
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Post by vicar on Aug 11, 2024 13:43:40 GMT
I think the Olympic table should be points based, 3 for gold, 2 for silver and 1 for bronze, the current system means that 1 gold is better than 20 silvers, it makes the silver and bronze nean nothing more than goal difference. Laura Kennyâs blushes might have been saved by all those 0.5 points from our haul of 4th places in the menâs cycling! [edit:] Itâs âhigher, faster, strongerâ not âconsistently middling in height, speed and strengthâ, so I couldnât disagree more! 2nd in the world isn't middling.
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Post by herbiedumplings on Aug 11, 2024 13:55:01 GMT
Laura Kennyâs blushes might have been saved by all those 0.5 points from our haul of 4th places in the menâs cycling! [edit:] Itâs âhigher, faster, strongerâ not âconsistently middling in height, speed and strengthâ, so I couldnât disagree more! 2nd in the world isn't middling. OK, itâs the first loserâs position. [edit:] And with reference to the âability to disagree internally within the Leftâ point over in the politics thread, saying two seconds is better than one first is barely a step away from giving medals to everyone just for taking part IMO, which I know is a favourite lump of red meat for the RightâŚ
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Post by timberwolf on Aug 12, 2024 7:51:33 GMT
I think the Olympic table should be points based, 3 for gold, 2 for silver and 1 for bronze, the current system means that 1 gold is better than 20 silvers, it makes the silver and bronze nean nothing more than goal difference. Yes. Being 3rd in the world isn,t something to sniff about when you look at sprint finals a point of a second can separate 3 runners. I,d be quite happy being 3rd best in the world at anything.
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 12, 2024 13:12:18 GMT
I think the Olympic table should be points based, 3 for gold, 2 for silver and 1 for bronze, the current system means that 1 gold is better than 20 silvers, it makes the silver and bronze nean nothing more than goal difference. Yes. Being 3rd in the world isn,t something to sniff about when you look at sprint finals a point of a second can separate 3 runners. I,d be quite happy being 3rd best in the world at anything. I don't think medalling of any colour is to be sneered at (although I guess I have above a little bit but that was mainly because I don't like British arrogance as much as anything). Not medalling though in extremely highly funded sports I don't think is particularly acceptable. The BBC reporting that our medals in the fighting sports cost ÂŁ12m per gong this time around and that they'll face some defunding. Seems fair enough to me.
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Post by desmond on Aug 12, 2024 13:15:49 GMT
Yes. Being 3rd in the world isn,t something to sniff about when you look at sprint finals a point of a second can separate 3 runners. I,d be quite happy being 3rd best in the world at anything. I don't think medalling of any colour is to be sneered at (although I guess I have above a little bit but that was mainly because I don't like British arrogance as much as anything). Not medalling though in extremely highly funded sports I don't think is particularly acceptable. The BBC reporting that our medals in the fighting sports cost ÂŁ12m per gong this time around and that they'll face some defunding. Seems fair enough to me. Our funding model seems very medal oriented so Iâm sure youâre correct that some will see their money reduced, be even tighter as more and more events seem to be being added to the games.
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