Olympics 2024

[Last Hussar]

Thought we needed a thread for the current games.

Just watching the Judo. Even though the French bloke lost, you had to love the fact that the crown broke out into the
Marseillaise during the Final.

[Techno 3]

Crowd ?

Would you like me to change that, LH ?

I SO hate predictive spelling, and the way it sneaks the wrong word in.

[steve_holmes_11]

A pity our cycling chap suffered a puncture.
He missed a podium by 2 seconds.

I was disappointed that the refs ruined the 3rd place game and final of the Rugby 7s with over officiousness.
The game is supposed to flow, not be interrupted every minute because of imagined technical infringements.

That aside, there were some cracking games.
Congratulations to the organisers for scheduling more than horses and swimming during week 1.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

AGGGGGHHHHH more bloody bloody sport. No please No      

[FierceKitty]

AGGGGGHHHHH more bloody bloody sport. No please No      

Much as I hate to agree with Ian....

[steve_holmes_11]

AGGGGGHHHHH more bloody bloody sport. No please No      

Have a look at your remote, there's an off button.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I know, but I would like choice - not just kissball or athletics...or even worse Blooy Tennis and Damned Gof.

[Last Hussar]

Look, I don't want to come across as rude - this isn't the "Other Place" - but as the thread is titled Olympics, it really isn't the place to come if you don't like the Olympics.

Sorry, I am trying to be polite.

[d_Guy]

I don't watch the Olympics so this thread is my sole source of news on the subject. Keep it up lads.

[Steve J]

We watched the Simone Biles highlights of her 4 routines, which were just incredible ! She really is the GOAT and from what we saw, no-one is close to her in terms of her performances and difficulty scores. Let's see what the finals bring...

[Orcs]

Thought we needed a thread for the current games.

I thought you had more wooden men to paint. Stop wasting your time with the Olympics and get on with them.

[sunjester]

I thought you had more wooden men to paint. Stop wasting your time with the Olympics and get on with them.

And 28mm 7TV....and 10mm (Pendraken be praised!!) ECW.....and more 10mm brens for your WW2 Brits....and (need I go on?)!!!

[Last Hussar]

How can I be a proper wargamer if I paint what I have!

[Orcs]

How can I be a proper wargamer if I paint what I have!

You need to buy more then. Send Leon you bank details and he will post you two random army packs . 

[Raider4]

I (mostly) enjoy the Olympics. It's only every 4 years, and it's a chance to see things that are not normally shown.

Over the last few days I've seen:

• Pistol shooting (very un-televisual. Really doesn't work).
• Slalom canoe (looks exhausting).
• Windsurfing & Sailing (Again, doesn't really work on TV. The competitors are too spread out and even with the computerised labels it's difficult for a non-expert to work out what's going on).
• Trap shooting (Happens so fast. You don't see the clay, you just get to see the cloud of debris for a successful hit, but was compelling watching.)
• Badminton
• Mountain biking
• Triathlon
• Rowing/sculling

There are a few sports that really shouldn't be there though.

To me the Olympics should be the peak, or close to it, of success in that sport. Is that true for football? Or golf? Or tennis? Clearly not. There are probably others like that (Road cycling?)

There are also "sports" that are clearly not sports. Doing tricks is not a sport (at least not to me). So BMX freestyle, skateboarding and "breaking" (break dancing to you & me) hold no interest. I notice they're all fairly new additions, and presumably have been included to try and interest the yoof of today.

And any "sport" that includes judges giving a score for "Artistic Expression" or something similar, and/or requires music is clearly more "Strictly" or "Eurovision" than an actual sport.

Beach volleyball is reprehensible for having a dress code that defines the skimpiness of the costumes.

I also have no interest in any sport that involves animals.

The things I do want to watch are the track cycling, triathlons, marathons and the track athletics. Anything else I see is a bonus.

Clare Balding is surely the most condescending presenter the BBC have ever come up with.

Well done to the Brits who won the mountain biking, trap shooting and the triathlon.

Sorry for the ramble.