Olympics

[Lord Tyrion]

The Games really are different, the Tae Kwon Do team are already back in the UK. Guess it is turn up, compete, head home. No staying around until the closing ceremony.

The condom suppliers will be gutted. The village is usually very 'active' after people have finished their events .

Joking apart, it is a real shame that the experience is not the same. Such are the times.

 

[larmen]

The condom suppliers will be gutted. The village is usually very 'active' after people have finished their events

Haven’t you heard about the special anti mingling beds they use this time? They are supposed to break if more than one athlete is bouncing on them.

Of course, 2 gymnast are possibly lighter than 1 weight lifter, but in principle they are supposed to stop the spread of Corona by stopping athletes to ‘mingle’

 

[AmandaJR]

The Games really are different, the Tae Kwon Do team are already back in the UK. Guess it is turn up, compete, head home. No staying around until the closing ceremony.

Flight home within 48 hours of competition involvement ending..

 

[Rooter]

Haven’t you heard about the special anti mingling beds they use this time? They are supposed to break if more than one athlete is bouncing on them.

Of course, 2 gymnast are possibly lighter than 1 weight lifter, but in principle they are supposed to stop the spread of Corona by stopping athletes to ‘mingle’

What about Jason and Laura Kenny who are married and both competing? poor them!

 

[GB72]

Flight home within 48 hours of competition involvement ending..

Out of interest, I wonder whether anyone actually asked the athletes whether they would rather have the Olympics this year in empty stadiums with bubbles and straight home after or postpone it again to allow the full experience next year. Assume that their opinions do not matter but would be interested to hear the real thoughts as opposed to the media safe replies that will be given out.

 

[larmen]

What about Jason and Laura Kenny who are married and both competing? poor them!

Personally I would not take any cyclists to the Olympics. In previous years it turned out they all had so severe asthma that they needed to take medication (TUE), in times of COVID it’s just to dangerous to leave the house for them. After all, it’s the lungs which are mostly affected.

 

[KenL]

It’s a good sport to watch for a viewer who isn’t a follower of that sport.

The British woman won Silver. ???

 

[KenL]

Flight home within 48 hours of competition involvement ending..

Yes, I think I heard the canoeist saying she was heading home then back for the kayak event.
Nuts forcing them on an aircraft when they could be cautious at the village.

 

[Orikoru]

Haven’t you heard about the special anti mingling beds they use this time? They are supposed to break if more than one athlete is bouncing on them.

Of course, 2 gymnast are possibly lighter than 1 weight lifter, but in principle they are supposed to stop the spread of Corona by stopping athletes to ‘mingle’

That was a total myth apparently. Some athletes made videos debunking it. Apparently it took 9 people jumping up and down to break one.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Haven’t you heard about the special anti mingling beds they use this time? They are supposed to break if more than one athlete is bouncing on them.

Of course, 2 gymnast are possibly lighter than 1 weight lifter, but in principle they are supposed to stop the spread of Corona by stopping athletes to ‘mingle’

That's plain mean

 

[Deleted member 15344]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1420690519882076160

opens up a question

If they see themselves as Non Binary as is their wish - what category do they compete in ?‍

 

[KenL]

Perhaps there needs to be an Olympics for all those extra genders? ?

 

[Slab]

I watched the skateboarding event live… gender didn’t occur to me. What struck me was how rubbish they were (they as in all of them, not they as in the one they).
Honestly dreadful, even with multiple attempts to ‘stick’ their chosen trick, they almost all ended up on the deck

Maybe things like youtube etc where you only ever see the huge successes or the massive fails from niche sports like this have clouded my expectation but it was a miserable spectacle

 

[larmen]

I watched the skateboarding event live… gender didn’t occur to me. What struck me was how rubbish they were (they as in all of them, not they as in the one they).
Honestly dreadful, even with multiple attempts to ‘stick’ their chosen trick, they almost all ended up on the deck

Maybe things like youtube etc where you only ever see the huge successes or the massive fails from niche sports like this have clouded my expectation but it was a miserable spectacle

Did you watch both competitions? Is there much difference between them? Is strength important? Or could they just lob them together into one?

 

[GB72]

I watched the skateboarding event live… gender didn’t occur to me. What struck me was how rubbish they were (they as in all of them, not they as in the one they).
Honestly dreadful, even with multiple attempts to ‘stick’ their chosen trick, they almost all ended up on the deck

Maybe things like youtube etc where you only ever see the huge successes or the massive fails from niche sports like this have clouded my expectation but it was a miserable spectacle

I felt the same way about the bit of surfing I watched the other night, nowhere near as exciting as TV and Film had led me to believe.

 

[Slab]

Did you watch both competitions? Is there much difference between them? Is strength important? Or could they just lob them together into one?

Just the first comp (luckily there's about 8 Olympic channels on our broadcaster out here so if you dont fancy something its easy to channel hop) Really thought it would be a better standard though. Some of the other sports have been great viewing

 

[pokerjoke]

Yeh, I'm staying up! starts at 11:30PM Friday night. (Don't laugh at me! I am usually in bed by 10pm!)

Definitely a chance of gold I will be watching too.

 

[larmen]

Just the first comp (luckily there's about 8 Olympic channels on our broadcaster out here so if you dont fancy something its easy to channel hop) Really thought it would be a better standard though. Some of the other sports have been great viewing

In the gymnastic I have seen 2 falls. One GB athlete on the pommel horse and the Japanese older guy who did his last Olympics on the bar. In skateboarding I have seen one guy who didn't fall off, he won silver.

Maybe it's just that these modern sports have a judging system us old people are not familiar/happy with.
It's the Olympics, you have one shot, every jump counts, ... . That's what we know. Oh the outcry when the 1st false start led to DQs a few years back.
These modern sports are very inclusive. You have a go, ... . Fell off, try again. And people from 4th place down get a sticker.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I watched the skateboarding event live… gender didn’t occur to me. What struck me was how rubbish they were (they as in all of them, not they as in the one they).
Honestly dreadful, even with multiple attempts to ‘stick’ their chosen trick, they almost all ended up on the deck

Maybe things like youtube etc where you only ever see the huge successes or the massive fails from niche sports like this have clouded my expectation but it was a miserable spectacle

I saw one round of the mens comp the other day and it was very much the same. They pretty much all did the same routine and all bar 1, I think, fell off at some point. Not that great is it? I suspect on youtube and the like we see take 37 or an edited version that is perfect and that is how we think. Reality is clearly very different. Disappointing.

 

[BiMGuy]

In the gymnastic I have seen 2 falls. One GB athlete on the pommel horse and the Japanese older guy who did his last Olympics on the bar. In skateboarding I have seen one guy who didn't fall off, he won silver.

Maybe it's just that these modern sports have a judging system us old people are not familiar/happy with.
It's the Olympics, you have one shot, every jump counts, ... . That's what we know. Oh the outcry when the 1st false start led to DQs a few years back.
These modern sports are very inclusive. You have a go, ... . Fell off, try again. And people from 4th place down get a sticker.

Presumably you'll be entering the next skateboarding event to show us all how easy it is?