2024 Paris Olympics

[Mantis]

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Agree.

But the 1500m is often tactial. She was in a race where the world record was set. She went all in to committ to whatever pace Kipyegon went with. When you have a lead like that, it is much easier to run faster times.

Also, she did her first ever "block" at altitude prior to that race in St Moritz. It obviously worked well for her. Also, the progression in the last year is good, but she has been progressing over many years.

p.s. in the running community there has been lots of allegations, just visit the Let's Run forums i.e. https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_r...2842898&page=3

Across 2019 to 2023 she went from running a 4.01 1500m to 3.57... this year she has thrown in a 3.50, and yeah, the race was set up to run fast given Faith's ability, but being willing to commit to chasing and then actually doing it is a different proposition.

I wish suspicions weren't raised, but when you get this type of rapid improvement from mature athletes it's hard not to think the worst.

[SonofScray]

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Which of all the sports are you most interested in? It's the swimming and cycling for me.

Track Cycling, Boxing, Water Polo, Climbing and of course the swimming/ athletics

[Sedat]

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Do we all now have permission to be patriotic and wave our pom-poms again for the next couple of weeks before hating everything about this country again straight after?

[mighty_west]

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What events do people enjoy?

I usually watch the Swimming, athletics, Canoeing, Cycling especially indoor track.

Pretty similar, Swimming, athletics. indoor cycling, but most of all gotta go the Breakdancing!!! Electric Boogaloo, break out the Adidas traccy pants and breakdance to Rock Steady Crew, Grandmaster Flash and Break Machine - good times.

[Eastdog]

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What events do people enjoy?

I usually watch the Swimming, athletics, Canoeing, Cycling especially indoor track.

Looking forward to it seeing the opening ceremony parade of nations.

Swimming week 1 should be good and hopefully we do well there. The Athletics as well week 2.

Football (Soccer) see how the Matildas go. Basketball and how the Boomers and Opals go.

The weightlifting is great.

[Axe Man]

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Great effort by the Men's Rugby 7s to make the semi finals and be in with a real medal chance.

I didn't expect the Matildas to be in medal contention but didn't expect them to be that bad.

[angelopetraglia]

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The basketball is at a decent time. Look forward to watching the Boomers and Opals.


BOOMERS SCHEDULE (All times AEST)

Saturday, July 27: Australia vs Spain @ 7pm

Tuesday, July 30: Australia vs Canada @ 9.30pm

Friday, August 2: Australia vs Greece @ 9.30pm

OPALS SCHEDULE (All times AEST)

Monday, July 29: Australia vs Nigeria @ 7pm

Thursday, August 1: Australia vs Canada @ 9.30pm

Monday, August 5: Australia vs France @ 5am

[SonofScray]

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Did you want a PDF of all events in order in AEST?

Yeah you do:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u8-peU3B51aIv-vO5-2FR26pgsWQWaZ1/view?fbclid=IwY2xjawEQNGVleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQZWoqZsGb-5z5vg_U8ki5aGeZAjyn_33Uhms1Bo2bnai6QCzHrc83BjOg_aem_TLKaHskDR59HlZsNLwnN-Q

[SonofScray]

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DAY 1 Preview

ALLEZ AUSTRALIA here we go, a breakdown of Day 1 (July 27-28) for us. Let’s start with the Australian athletes competing.

Basketball: BOOMERS V Spain at 7pm. Our Bronze medalists from Tokyo go again, tough competition this time around.

Diving at 7pm: Women’s synchronised 3m springboard final, a medal up for grabs for Maddison Keeney, Anabelle Smith. ⭐️

Swimming at 7pm and a huge program, suggest you have this on telly and the rest PiP or on another device. Revisit at 4:30AM for finals ⭐️

- Women’s 100m butterfly heats will feature Emma McKeon, Alexandria Perkins.

- Women’s 400m freestyle heats: Jamie Perkins, Ariarne Titmus

- Men’s 100m breaststroke heats: Sam Williamson, Josh Yong

- Men’s 400m freestyle heats: Sam Short. Get around Sam, getting no love from the coaches. Deserves ours.

Field Hockey at 9:15pm: Kookaburra’s kick off tournament v Argentina. EDDIE O the flag bearer deserves a bit of love.

Cycling: 10:30PM we have GRACE BROWN up in the women’s individual time trial and a medal up for grabs. She’s a terrific competitor, pit in a strong showing at Tokyo and has only got stronger since.⭐️

Canoe Slalom: JESS FOX kayak heats at 11:50pm. Our favourite golden girl, let’s get around her.

EDIT:

ROWING: single Sculls heats and double sculls heats featuring Australians Rigney, Hudson and Bateman at 6:12PM and 8:10PM

Deep breath.

Beyond the green and gold, it’s a charcuterie of sport. Jeres the full list via ABC

4.30pm: Badminton, men's, women's and mixed group stage

5pm: Rowing, men's and women's heats

5pm: Handball, men's preliminaries

5pm: Shooting, men’s and women’s 10m [air pistol qualification]

5pm: Volleyball, men's preliminary round

5.30pm: Equestrian, eventing dressage

6pm: Judo, women’s -48kg and men’s -60kg

6pm: Hockey, men's and women's pool stage

6pm: Fencing, women’s ?p?e and men’s sabre through quarter-finals

6.30pm: Hockey, men's and women's pool stage

6.30pm: Shooting, mixed team 10m air rifle qualification and final

7pm: Artistic Gymnastics, men's qualifications

7pm: Basketball, men's group phase

7pm: Basketball, men’s: AUSTRALIA vs Spain

7pm: Diving, women’s synchronised 3m springboard final [medal event]

7pm: Swimming, women's 100m fly, 400m free, 4x100m free relay and men's 100m breast, 400m free, 4x100m free relay heats

8pm: Tennis, men's and women's singles and doubles

8pm: Skateboard, men's street preliminaries

9pm: Volleyball, men's preliminary round — men's

9.15pm: Hockey, AUSTRALIA vs Argentina

10pm: Badminton, Group Stage (M/W/Mixed)

10pm: Handball, men's preliminaries

10pm: Water polo, women's preliminary round (2 matches)

10pm: Beach volleyball, preliminary phase (M/W)

10.30pm: Rugby sevens, men's placement matches, semis, finals

10.30pm: Road cycling, (time trial) men’s and women’s individual time trial finals

10.30pm: Road cycling, Women’s Individual Time Trial [medal event]:

11pm: Canoe slalom, Heats (M/W)

11pm: Table tennis, M/W singles preliminary round, Mixed doubles round of 16

11pm: Football, men's group stage

11.50pm: Canoe Slalom, women’s kayak single heats, first run

11.30pm: Boxing, round of 32 or 16 (W/M)

11.30pm: Artistic gymnastics, men's qualifications

12am: Judo, women's -48kg, men's -60kg

1am: Hockey, men's and women's pool stage

1am: Skateboard, men's street final

1am: Volleyball, men's preliminary round

1.15am: Basketball, men's group phase

1.30am: Hockey, pool stage

2am: Canoe Slalom, women's kayak single heats, second run: Jessica Fox

2am: Beach volleyball, men's and women's preliminary phase

2.30am: Water polo, women's preliminary round (2 matches)

3am: Handball, men's preliminaries

3am: Tennis, men's and women's singles

3am: Surfing, men's and women's round 1

3am: Fencing, women's ?p?e, men's sabre semi-finals and finals

3.30am: Badminton, men's, women's and mixed group stage

4am: Boxing, men's and women's round of 32 or 16

4am: Table tennis, men's and women's singles round 1

4am: Artistic gymnastics, men's qualifications

4.05am: Water polo, women's: Australia vs China

4.30am: Swimming, women's 100m fly, men's 100m breast semi-finals, women's 400m free, 4x100m free, men's 400m free and 4x100m free relay finals

5am: Volleyball, men's preliminary round

5am: Basketball, men's group phase

6am: Beach volleyball, men's and women's preliminary phase

[westdog54]

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https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/peak-olympic-spirit-shelly-ann-fraser-pryce-meets-huge-fan-nz-rugby-star-michaela-blyde

If you have a spare couple of minutes, check out this video of New Zealand Rugby 7s star Michaela Blyde, that starts with her fangirling over Jamaican sprinter Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce and ends with her meeting her idol

It's peak Olympics and one of the cutest ****ing things I've ever seen.

[westdog54]

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France have won gold in the Rugby 7s, led by test Half Back Antoine Dupont. There's nothing that man can't do. He's a freak

[Bornadog]

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Great to see Jessica Fox take the K1 slalom gold.

Matilda's game - WTF, lucky to scrape in for a win.

[SonofScray]

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Day 3 (29-30th July)

Day two Review

Overnight we saw Chloe Covell storm into the street skateboard final, but the Japanese girls were far too good on the day. Was actually brutal seeing a young kid just struggle to hit their level when it mattered. Enormous pressure for kids.
Canoe Slalom saw Jess Fox fight through a nightmare semi to go into the final in 8th place and post a GOLD MEDAL run hanging on as wave after wave came at her to try kick her off the Dias. She’s the most successful canoe slalom athlete and an absolute gem. GOAT areas.

Our Womens Rugby Sevens flogged Sth Africa and Hockeyroos knocked over RSA too to rub it in. TILLIES back to winning ways albeit in absolutely ludicrous circumstances. Sharks done in by ESP

In the pool we had a quiet night. I fell asleep and might have missed something.

Mixed bag in the regatta. OARSOME foursome men looked strong, women not so much. Defending champions in both so somewhat surprising. See where they go come finals.

Pretty sure a French woman died in the rock garden on the XC Cycling track hope they are OK.


Day Three Preview


Badminton : 16:30 Shuttlecockatoos Mapasa and Yu take on Korea in group play. They need a win here. 03:30AM TIFFANY HO gets cracking in Singles group play against Vietnam . Do Ma!

Basketball 19:00 OPALS take on Liz Cambage’s Nigerian Nightmares

Beach Volleyball 17:00 AUS v Italy in the men’s tournament. 06:00 Maria Fe and Clancy v USA - MUST WATCH

Boxing: The Clobber Cobbers are off and running with 19:32 Tyla McDonald gets cracking 20:20 HARRY GARSIDE back for another crack, 00:20 Teremoana TEREMOANA looking for solid shots in the 92kg and up division

Canoe Slalom 23:30 Men’s C1 semi and finals, Aussie long odds but a chance nonetheless

Diving 19:00 Aussie Men’s Synchronised 10m Platform. Get around the Cormorants

Hockey 18:00 KOOKAS v IRELAND Eddie O and the boys v The Bhoys and O’Eddie in a fun clash of kin. 01:00 Hockeyroos v GB in a nasty clash against the soap dodgers.

Rowing: The Rosellas are in everything at the regatta from 17:30 through to 20:30

Rugby Sevens: 22:30 Aus v EIRE hopefully the girls end up Dublin the results against Irish opponents.

Shooting: men’s Trap day at 17:30

Skateboarding 20:00/01:00 Men’s street ollifiers and final

Swimming: 19:00/04:30 whole bunch of heats and finals we will feature in. 800m free and 100m backstroke of note.

Table Tennis 19:00/20:00 Men’s and women’s singles AUS V KOREA AND BRAZIL. Table tennis the only palatable tennis.

Bunch of other stuff we aren’t in - maybe check out Volleyball, the superior version to Beach Volleyball. Surfing, Judo and Mtn Bikes

[angelopetraglia]

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Interesting story for anyone who is remotely interested in surfing. Teahupo'o looks so pretty when it is breaking like it was today. But it is a scary wave. How scary? A two time world champ, Toledo, was bascially too scared to paddle into any waves. Yep that scary. Read more here https://www.swellnet.com/news/form-g...2024-day-three

[Bornadog]

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Jessica Fox takes another gold medal. First Canoeist ever, to take the K1 and C1 Gold.