Olympics

[Fade and Die]

It's a tough one for sure as she must also be taking medication to suppress testosterone levels BUT to compete in a strength event, having had the advantage of many years of testosterone levels that would have her fellow competitors banned is plain wrong and unfair on the rest of the field.

See this is when it annoys me, (s)he is stealing medals off women who have trained all their lives just to lose out to someone who was a man until he was 35 and already a weightlifter. I don’t know if she is post-op or just identifying as a woman (which is worse) but it’s unfair to women.



As a man.



As a woman. Not much difference really except the beard has gone!

 

[Orikoru]

Just an honest question - do all female weightlifters look sort of tubby with no visible muscle definition like that??

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Didn't record a successful lift and is out of the competition

 

[Orikoru]

Didn't record a successful lift and is out of the competition

Oh well, this debate will be swept under the carpet again now then.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Just an honest question - do all female weightlifters look sort of tubby with no visible muscle definition like that??

Not all, it depends on the weight category.
A lot of the heavy weight men just look fat, despite being massively strong.

Lighter weight categories look better built, muscle definition wise

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Didn't record a successful lift and is out of the competition

The organisers will be breathing a huge sigh of relief. They will now be looking at other sports and watching to see how they deal with this as an issue. It will only become more of a problem but for the Olympics it is someone elses problem now.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Do GB have any medal prospects in the Track and Field. So out of touch with athletics that I am not sure if there any events this time to keep an eye on.

also KJT in the heptathlon

 

[Dando]

Well she certainly put her cv out there last night when she started the show in those skin tight leather trousers ?
Next shot she was sat down, I think the producers may have had a word ?

i will need to find the highlights of alex scott in leather trousers. no doubt my eldest daughter has already downloaded them

 

[Deleted member 1147]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/olympics/58056117

Amazing play, she changed racket mid-point

 

[Kellfire]

Astonishing 400m men’s hurdles final with the top three all under the previous WR time.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

excellent in the bay this morning - 2 golds and a silver

Then a bronze in the diving

GB looking strong in the team sprint and also ladies pursuit

Bit mental in the Mens team pursuit

 

[KenL]

I thought "ladies" was a word only used in golf clubs these days?

 

[GB72]

Have these Games been condensed or switched around. I am sure that the Track and Field normally has the stage to itself a bit more but it seems crammed in amongst a mellee of other events still going on. Part of that may be the fact that GB do not have many medal hopes but I am sure that the events in the pool and the velodrome are normally long fnished by the time the blue ribbon athletics events come around.

 

[larmen]

Have these Games been condensed or switched around. I am sure that the Track and Field normally has the stage to itself a bit more but it seems crammed in amongst a mellee of other events still going on. Part of that may be the fact that GB do not have many medal hopes but I am sure that the events in the pool and the velodrome are normally long fnished by the time the blue ribbon athletics events come around.

Athletics is always towards the end, but I think swimming and cycling started later.

I GUESS they want to keep the people in the village at a low number. By starting some events when the larger football teams have been eliminated they keep that low?

 

[larmen]

Oh well, this debate will be swept under the carpet again now then.

I think the governing bodies have to use this and discuss it properly to get it ‘right’ (whatever right might be) for the next Olympic cycle.


My solution, get rid of all classification. One gold medal per event, everybody is in the same class.
No boxing at 62, 65, … just boxing. Best boxer wins. Fastest runner wins, … sport can’t get any fairer that that.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Have these Games been condensed or switched around. I am sure that the Track and Field normally has the stage to itself a bit more but it seems crammed in amongst a mellee of other events still going on. Part of that may be the fact that GB do not have many medal hopes but I am sure that the events in the pool and the velodrome are normally long fnished by the time the blue ribbon athletics events come around.

I believe it’s about 5/6 days shorter

 

[Jimaroid]

I've enjoyed having the sport climbing on in the background today. It's great to see it feature for the first time with some of the world's best present. I don't think much of the combined format though, it's not adding anything to the competition at all and just rewarding a strategy of doing enough rather than the best. Maybe that will change in the final 8.

Shame that the commentary was so bad though. BBC highlights might be better, I think they do at least have one commentator who knows anything at all about Climbing which would be a vast improvement on Eurosport who had nothing except a lot of mistakes and constantly incorrectly used words like crimp and belay.

Looking forward to the women climbing next, GB have a good chance of a medal in Shauna Coxsey too. Although she could fall victim of the combined format as historically she's been more of a specialist.

 

[KenL]

Awesome performance and bronze medal for 13 year old Sky Brown in the skateboarding. ???

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Awesome performance and bronze medal for 13 year old Sky Brown in the skateboarding. ???

I think you will find it was not awesome but sick ? ?‍

She was interviewed yesterday, didn't see today, and she spoke pure Californian surfer, skater etc. No idea what she was saying ?

 

[ColchesterFC]

Awesome performance and bronze medal for 13 year old Sky Brown in the skateboarding. ???

Dan Walker pointed out on Twitter that the average age on that podium was 14.6 years. If you add the ages of the three women that won the street skateboarding event the total combined age of all 6 women is 86. I guess skateboarding is a young persons sport.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Dan Walker pointed out on Twitter that the average age on that podium was 14.6 years. If you add the ages of the three women that won the street skateboarding event the total combined age of all 6 women is 86. I guess skateboarding is a young persons sport.

Wait until the next Olympics when Hop Scotch comes in. Average age 9.4 for that event