It's like a night at greyhound racing
. No time to get bored, fast and furious.
Olympics - Paris 2024
- Thread starter Arthur Wedge
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. No time to get bored, fast and furious.RichA
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Biggest day of their lives and most of them enter the pool area looking like it's a contest to see who can look most bored. I'm finding it quite irritating.
Pin-seeker
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Enjoyed the gymnastics.
But I reckon if Simone Biles farted the commentators would be gushing over how good it was.
But I reckon if Simone Biles farted the commentators would be gushing over how good it was.
AmandaJR
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Most look like Mickey or Minnie Mouse with huge headphones on their heads!
larmen
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I am mostly amused about the coats of the Americans. Are they Winter Olympics leftovers?
The Chinese ones are a full duvet
. They will fill their suitcase. Good job their costumes don't take much space.
Arthur Wedge
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Get in there !!!!!!
What an achievement to successfully defend the title
Amazing
And Murray just keeps going
What an achievement to successfully defend the title
Amazing
And Murray just keeps going
Slime
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This really is 'The Greatest Show on Earth'. 
Golfmmad
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The 200 metres relay! What an achievement, and to beat the Aussies and Americans to boot!This really is 'The Greatest Show on Earth'.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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Loving the Olympics…cracking stuff shooting and swimming - with Murray and Evan’s brilliant again.
Arthur Wedge
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Neilds
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We went to the Commonwealth Games swimming and when the qualifying was on the next race was out ready when the first race was just ending. They get out the pool and the next competitors are on the blocks. No announcement just the names on the big screen.
Great effort by the swimming relay team and good to see Murray keep going.
Arthur Wedge
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Christ that Triathlon looked brutal - I have no idea how they can do it
Great bronze
Great bronze
AmandaJR
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The French shoehorning a triathlon course into something less than suitable. Get those antibiotics in fast!
Last night the minute between winning relay gold and tennis delight - unmatched. Love it. Andy and Dan jumping around like big kids.
Last night the minute between winning relay gold and tennis delight - unmatched. Love it. Andy and Dan jumping around like big kids.
One of our consultants has just done an ironman triathlon. That is brutal and you have to wonder where the pleasure comes from
AmandaJR
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I managed a half ironman before injury finally did for me. I'd entered IM Germany but had to withdraw. You train and train and train and there's a perverse pleasure in the suffering. "If it was easy..."
AmandaJR
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James Cracknell just confirming what I kept telling everyone. Falling in when learning to row a single is a good thing. "The sooner you fall in the better". I bloody knew I was good at it!!
Swango1980
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A chap I work with is Iron Man mad, I believe he has done the second most iron man events in the world (or had done a few years ago, when he was interviewed for some magazine).
Got one most weekends somewhere, or just some crazy 100 mile run somewhere. He once did an event which was 10 iron men on 10 consecutive days. He won it, and many have to pull out as a single iron man starts to take them over 24 hours. Another one of his pleasures is a triple iron man, which I think takes around 2 days. 11.4km swim, 540km bike ride, 126.6km run. Usually held on hilly / mountain routes.
Yeah, I don't get the pleasure in it at all. I get the satisfaction of running 5 or 10km, only once you've finished and feel happy you've done it. But, do put yourself through pain for many hours, if not days, doesn't seem enjoyable in the slightest. How he doesn't have knee problems is beyond me. He's in his 50's, so been abusing them for decades
I take my hat off to those that have done it or trained for it. Not something I could do and a marathon when I was younger and fitter was enough
