AmandaJR
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31 years old. Never shirked the work. Great win. Not sure she even knew she'd won as she could have milked the finish.
Olympics - Paris 2024
- Thread starter Arthur Wedge
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31 years old. Never shirked the work. Great win. Not sure she even knew she'd won as she could have milked the finish.
AmandaJR
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Gurning on the start line - new Olympic sport maybe...
Yes Lyles
Got to love the big name doing it when it actually matters
Got to love the big name doing it when it actually matters
Arthur Wedge
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Damn - didn’t really want him to win but heck of run
Bunkermagnet
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That was totally disrespetful of the French, to hold them so long before stting on their blocks.
Tashyboy
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Stonking 100m that.
larmen
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Imagine to run that time to come last
hairball_89
Club Champion
Just a heck of a race. those times for those who missed out were simply mind boggling.
Tashyboy
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Just seen the replay and the Jamaican who came last was easing up with 5 yds to go knowing he wasn’t going to win. The times were astonishing. Am sure the Jamaican was the guy eyeballing the winner of the final in the semi race. To go from first in semi to last in final is unbelievable.
Tashyboy
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Adam Peaty being quite vocal in his thoughts on the Chinese 4 x 100m winners.
Olympic swimming: Adam Peaty questions China's relay win amid doping allegations
Adam Peaty questions China's relay victory on the final night of swimming in Paris, saying "there's no point winning if you're not winning fair".
www.bbc.co.uk
Pin-seeker
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Pin-seeker
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The bbc coverage as been a bit all over the place imo.
upsidedown
Tour Winner
Just seen it now ,that was an appealing descion
Since those days we've thrown millions at certain sports, lottery money, targetted at sports we are likely to win medals in. It's cold, hard business now. If you aren't likely to win medals, you won't get the money. We've been very clever in going for particular sports, rowing and cycling being the obvious ones, where the targeting, skills build up, progression has really paid off.Mr H has reminded me that GB performs way, way better than it used to. Admittedly, there’s more events but 1976 saw 3 Gold, 5 Silver, 5 Bronze. We get genuine chances and podium finishes pretty much every day now.
Actually enjoying it very much… but don’t tell Mrs H.
Lottery money has undoubtedly been the biggest game changer.
PaulMdj
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Get off the forum!!
Neilds
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There was a nutter trying to get on the track just as they were lining up. The security staff got him before he made it so that is why they were held.
larmen
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Turns out that the Jamaican runner Seville who ran 9.91 was faster than Carl Lewis who won Seoul in 9.92 in 1988.
AmandaJR
Money List Winner
So close in the tri relay. Karma for the French for putting them out on such a ridicuous course. Feel sorry for their athletes but the organisers need a good kicking. Or a good dose of e-coli.
Slime
Tour Winner
Apparently, in the 100m final, it was a world record for a 2nd place finish, and a 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th placed finish!
Just shows how good Bolt was.
Just shows how good Bolt was.
Neilds
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Our silver in the Triathlon relay has been reviewed and now it is a bronze! they had another look at the photo finish after originally declaring the result. Been some very dodgy officiating at these games
