Paris Olympics 2024

[dublinbluenose]

Team GB narrowly miss out on gold in the 2000m men's pair

Made a balls of the last 5 or 6 stokes.

 

[cronullasharks]

British commentators with the early crow

 

[Rich1878]

Team GB narrowly miss out on gold in the 2000m men's pair. The Croatian brothers win it again.

Was knackering me out just watching that. Was a good race, unlucky team GB

 

[davek]

IOC Statement on yesterday's "controversy"

https://olympics.com/ioc/news/joint-paris-2024-boxing-unit-ioc-statement

The IBA decision was made unilaterally by the CEO. Not best practice but then again when has the IBA ever acted with good governance?

Oh no, that'll set the hobgoblin queen off again.

 

[davek]

GB Rowing teams need to hand the lottery cash back.

What a waste of the lion's share of the funding of GB's olympic team.

Take it off those toffee-nosed gets and hand it to the kids who do the BMX and skate boarding.

 

[stipe]

Was knackering me out just watching that. Was a good race, unlucky team GB

Two Sinkovic bros are pretty good, i don't really follow rowing outside Olympics but from what i understand they are dominant for years now in their class, won gold in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2021 too.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Getting into pointless debates with dave is part of the fun.
Track & field starts now so chatting to daley thompson for the week gives it some amusement.

They broke the mold with Daley - Did you catch the recent documentary on him? Really good watch, think it was a BBC production.

Hard life behind the twinkly eyed charisma. Relentless, merciless competitor - easy to see why guys at his level don't take to coaching after they retire.

 

[Billy Dean]

 

[daza_1973]

China getting a favour on the diving there.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Bronze for the men's synchronised springboard - already Team GB's best medal return in the diving.

 

[Gilbert..]

They broke the mold with Daley - Did you catch the recent documentary on him? Really good watch, think it was a BBC production.

Hard life behind the twinkly eyed charisma. Relentless, merciless competitor - easy to see why guys at his level don't take to coaching after they retire.

Yes saw it. Very insightful to his early life and his mother. Not even having trainers to train in. The whole competing against bruce jenner thing in 76.
Really interesting programme.

 

[davek]

Shock that Lake is out of the High Jump.

 

[dublinbluenose]

Outstanding row my McCarthy and O'Donovan. Such a shame this event is being dropped for LA

Outstanding performance

Fantastic Friday begins

 

[Bluerover]

Another Gold for Ireland - McCarthy and O'Donovan. Brilliant rowing and tactics. Delighted

 

[davek]

Well done Ireland.

The GB team get £24M per year off the lottery cash; these two Irish lads have probably won gold with funding a fraction of their GB rivals.