Olympics 2024 - General Discussion

[Petcha]

Watching this (6 and a half hour bike ride here), the guys sometimes pull off the road and have a 'nature stop', ie pissing in the bushes. The cameras obvs turn away - how does it work with the women's version?

 

[Boo Radley75]

Ooh goody, some dancing

 

[Aaronf]

Watching this (6 and a half hour bike ride here), the guys sometimes pull off the road and have a 'nature stop', ie pissing in the bushes. The cameras obvs turn away - how does it work with the women's version?

You'd have to ask Paula Radcliffe, although she wasn't riding a bike at the time

 

[Aaronf]

Ooh goody, some dancing

I've not watched a second of anything horse related after the controversy with you know what (like I've refused to watch the convicted so and so in the other sport).

It's like how do we know the riders aren't going "right Dobbin, you've done your bit, follow me to the back of the stables so I can give you a good whipping".

 

[Jimmy Don't]

Carini has, incidentally, issued an apology to Khelif. So anyone arguing should be aware they're not doing it on her behalf:

Olympic boxing: Angela Carini says she wants to apologise to Imane Khelif

Angela Carini says she "wants to apologise" to Algerian boxer Imane Khelif after there was no handshake at the end of their Olympic fight.

www.bbc.com

Yup, and I was the one who raised it in this thread I should also raise that I've since read that the IBA guy is Russian and only raised the issue after the fighter in question beat a Russian fighter

 

[Petcha]

Just tuned back into the road race. A shame the Rwandan guy who was leading for about half of it seems to have dropped back somewhere. Apparently he left school at 12 to become a bike taxi rider in his local town, realised he was quite good at it and then found himself caning it around the French countryside leading the elite of the elite. Love it.

Eric Manizabayo - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[baldrick]

Just tuned back into the road race. A shame the Rwandan guy who was leading for about half of it seems to have dropped back somewhere. Apparently he left school at 12 to become a bike taxi rider in his local town, realised he was quite good at it and then found himself caning it around the French countryside leading the elite of the elite. Love it.

Eric Manizabayo - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

There's very few black African road cyclists isn't there. Given how so many are absolute endurance monsters on the athletics track it seems like a real missed opportunity. I guess the barriers to entry are much steeper as the running infrastructure in many African countries but especially Kenya & Ethiopia is well established and lucrative at sub-elite level.

 

[souljacker]

There's very few black African road cyclists isn't there. Given how so many are absolute endurance monsters on the athletics track it seems like a real missed opportunity. I guess the barriers to entry are much steeper as the running infrastructure in many African countries but especially Kenya & Ethiopia is well established and lucrative at sub-elite level.

Hopefully things will change after Biniam Girmay's stunning green jersey win at the tour.

 

[Elpenor]

Safety pins! You'd think with how high-tech everything else is in sports these days that they'd come up with a better way to attach names and numbers to a vest then safety pins. Especially when some of the athletes don't seem to be able to manage them that well.

I used to use a number belt which had little poppers like in a duvet cover that attached the number

 

[Elpenor]

Hopefully things will change after Biniam Girmay's stunning green jersey win at the tour.

Cycling is the national sport of Eritrea isn’t it, possibly due to Italian influences?

 

[Lord Camomile]

I'm behind on a lot of events, but just read that (according to someone on Reddit ), the weight difference between these two is roughly 62kg.

Or, put another way, one entire me

 

[Lord Camomile]

Oh, since I'm catching up - the fuck is going on between the French and the Argentinians, apparently across multiple sports??

 

[Petcha]

Oh, since I'm catching up - the fuck is going on between the French and the Argentinians, apparently across multiple sports??

The Argentines are racist fucks - they were chanting racist shit on their team bus about the French team after a couple of games reently. Unfortunately the guy who posted it plays for Chelsea. And shares a dressing room with French black players.

 

[Lord Camomile]

The Argentines are racist fucks - they were chanting racist shit on their team bus about the French team after a couple of games reently. Unfortunately the guy who posted it plays for Chelsea. And shares a dressing room with French black players.

Ah, yes, I do remember something about that, now. Ugh, wish I could be surprised.

Interesting, though understandable, that is seems to have spilled over into other sports. A product of the rather unique situation created by the Olympics, I guess.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

The first half of the road race was pretty dull, but holy shit, the last 100km made up for it. Amazing stuff.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Just tuned back into the road race. A shame the Rwandan guy who was leading for about half of it seems to have dropped back somewhere.

That initial breakaway group was never going to do anything. They’re let up the road precisely because they pose no threat to the leading riders whatsoever.

 

[blairsh]

Rhys McClenaghan

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Whitlock’s nemesis finally gets the better of him!

 

[Petcha]

Whitlock's face

I think Mr Vegas just blew his load there

 

[blairsh]

Poor old Whitters.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Has super gym nerd been yet

 

[Petcha]

Johnny Vegas was just trending on X

Althought this is apparently him

edit: wrong thread. see the best commentator one for context

 

[Boo Radley75]

And the award for the unluckiest Olympian goes to this French pole vaulter who failed to qualify because he knocked the bar off with his penis...

 

[Lord Camomile]

Sacre bleu!

 

[maomao]

And the award for the unluckiest Olympian goes to this French pole vaulter who failed to qualify because he knocked the bar off with his penis...

That's what happens when you bring your own pole.

 

[Ted Striker]

That initial breakaway group was never going to do anything. They’re let up the road precisely because they pose no threat to the leading riders whatsoever.

That's what they said about the Women's race in Tokyo

 

[Richard46]

That's what they said about the Women's race in Tokyo

Very true but that victory has been described as one of the biggest upsets in Olympics history. I suspect that not having radios meant that at least one rider; if not the whole peloton; did not chase Anna Kiesenhofer down because they did not even know she was ahead of them.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Unfortunate choice of thumbnail by discovery+, given Marta is suspended for this game, meaning unless Brazil defeat the hosts without her, she's played her last game for them

 

[Petcha]

Jesus christ. Just got in and saw this. I don't think I've ever seen a final leg like it.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Katie Ledecky is a legend now if she wasn't already