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Post by yyy on Aug 3, 2021 18:21:43 GMT
Shame about that female weightlifter getting thrown out, she worked her bollocks off to get there
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Post by musik on Aug 3, 2021 18:38:00 GMT
Shame about that female weightlifter getting thrown out, she worked her bollocks off to get there yyy, www, who - when - why I missed that.
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Post by yyy on Aug 3, 2021 19:32:29 GMT
Shame about that female weightlifter getting thrown out, she worked her bollocks off to get there yyy, www, who - when - why I missed that. Didn't mean thrown out, meant didn't qualify. It was a joke, trans woman 'worked her bollocks off'
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Post by musik on Aug 3, 2021 21:10:14 GMT
yyy, www, who - when - why I missed that. Didn't mean thrown out, meant didn't qualify. It was a joke, trans woman 'worked her bollocks off' Aha, a trans woman. They don't show much weight lifting here. Today I've focused on the Athletics, especially the Pole Vault with our Armand Duplantis. Gold and almost improved his own World Record as well. He's only 21. But he started with the sport at 3. And Warholm from Norway, who got the new World Record on 400 m hurdles. Almost 1 second better. Incredible! Doping in disguise? Or just a perfectly proportionally built athlete for the 400 meters hurdles?
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Post by prestwichpotter on Aug 3, 2021 23:02:17 GMT
Didn't mean thrown out, meant didn't qualify. It was a joke, trans woman 'worked her bollocks off' Aha, a trans woman. They don't show much weight lifting here. Today I've focused on the Athletics, especially the Pole Vault with our Armand Duplantis. Gold and almost improved his own World Record as well. He's only 21. But he started with the sport at 3. And Warholm from Norway, who got the new World Record on 400 m hurdles. Almost 1 second better. Incredible! Doping in disguise? Or just a perfectly proportionally built athlete for the 400 meters hurdles?I think the new spikes the athletes are wearing and the running track itself had a big part to play in the time.....
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Aug 4, 2021 10:21:07 GMT
Aha, a trans woman. They don't show much weight lifting here. Today I've focused on the Athletics, especially the Pole Vault with our Armand Duplantis. Gold and almost improved his own World Record as well. He's only 21. But he started with the sport at 3. And Warholm from Norway, who got the new World Record on 400 m hurdles. Almost 1 second better. Incredible! Doping in disguise? Or just a perfectly proportionally built athlete for the 400 meters hurdles?I think the new spikes the athletes are wearing and the running track itself had a big part to play in the time..... I think that Warholm bloke benefited from being chased all the way to the line by the American. Still a great run. One of the minor regrets about Usain Bolt's incredible 9.58 WR was that he was easing down over the last 10m or so because the race was won. I wonder what time he'd have done if he'd gone flat out all the way? Sub 9.5 quite possibly.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Aug 4, 2021 10:27:10 GMT
The Telegraph has been entertaining these last few days - desperately trying to claim that the enormous improvement in British Olympic fortunes since 1996 is nothing to do with the extra cash from lottery funding, just in case people start to think that actually funding things properly might, you know, improve them
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Post by musik on Aug 4, 2021 12:12:46 GMT
1 Maher 🇬🇧 2 Fredricson 🇸🇪 3 Van Vleuten 🇱🇺
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Post by musik on Aug 4, 2021 12:13:09 GMT
Silver 🇸🇪 in 🚣 too.
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Post by thebasfordhedgehog on Aug 4, 2021 12:50:53 GMT
Gabby Logan looks absolutely lovely and is a great presenter.
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Post by musik on Aug 4, 2021 13:35:29 GMT
I think the new spikes the athletes are wearing and the running track itself had a big part to play in the time..... I think that Warholm bloke benefited from being chased all the way to the line by the American. Still a great run. One of the minor regrets about Usain Bolt's incredible 9.58 WR was that he was easing down over the last 10m or so because the race was won. I wonder what time he'd have done if he'd gone flat out all the way? Sub 9.5 quite possibly. Where do you think the human limit is, in 1000 years from now? 7.50?
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Post by partickpotter on Aug 4, 2021 14:00:43 GMT
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Post by foster on Aug 4, 2021 14:01:23 GMT
I think that Warholm bloke benefited from being chased all the way to the line by the American. Still a great run. One of the minor regrets about Usain Bolt's incredible 9.58 WR was that he was easing down over the last 10m or so because the race was won. I wonder what time he'd have done if he'd gone flat out all the way? Sub 9.5 quite possibly. Where do you think the human limit is, in 1000 years from now? 7.50? Humans won't be around in 1000 years mate.
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Post by partickpotter on Aug 4, 2021 14:01:39 GMT
I think that Warholm bloke benefited from being chased all the way to the line by the American. Still a great run. One of the minor regrets about Usain Bolt's incredible 9.58 WR was that he was easing down over the last 10m or so because the race was won. I wonder what time he'd have done if he'd gone flat out all the way? Sub 9.5 quite possibly. Where do you think the human limit is, in 1000 years from now? 7.50? After Eight.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Aug 4, 2021 14:46:05 GMT
Gabby Logan looks absolutely lovely and is a great presenter. But does she deserve a gold though. 🤔
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Post by musik on Aug 4, 2021 14:58:08 GMT
Where do you think the human limit is, in 1000 years from now? 7.50? After Eight. yummie
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Post by musik on Aug 4, 2021 14:58:51 GMT
Where do you think the human limit is, in 1000 years from now? 7.50? Humans won't be around in 1000 years mate. 😩
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Aug 4, 2021 14:59:58 GMT
I think that Warholm bloke benefited from being chased all the way to the line by the American. Still a great run. One of the minor regrets about Usain Bolt's incredible 9.58 WR was that he was easing down over the last 10m or so because the race was won. I wonder what time he'd have done if he'd gone flat out all the way? Sub 9.5 quite possibly. Where do you think the human limit is, in 1000 years from now? 7.50? Great question. It'd be interesting to see the rate of progress so far and extrapolate. You'd imagine the rate of bettering the existing WR has slowed down generally (with the possible exception of Bolt) now that training techniques, clothing and tracks are all so good compared to a century ago, but in another 100 years a time close to 9 or 9.1 seconds would be not unreasonable. 1000 years? Surely we'll be watching robots run it for us or esports!
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Aug 4, 2021 15:02:32 GMT
Gabby Logan looks absolutely lovely and is a great presenter. But does she deserve a gold though. 🤔 Chris Boardman at the cycling is an excellent commentator, very knowledgeable. I get the feeling the other guy (Simon Brotherton is it?) is basically winging it!
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Post by musik on Aug 4, 2021 15:12:10 GMT
Where do you think the human limit is, in 1000 years from now? 7.50? Great question. It'd be interesting to see the rate of progress so far and extrapolate. You'd imagine the rate of bettering the existing WR has slowed down generally (with the possible exception of Bolt) now that training techniques, clothing and tracks are all so good compared to a century ago, but in another 100 years a time close to 9 or 9.1 seconds would be not unreasonable. 1000 years? Surely we'll be watching robots run it for us or esports! My guess, definitely under 9 and I don't think humans are wiped out in a 1000 years. On the contrary, there will be more of us by then thanks to medical research. New problems have arisen though. All people won't be watching robots "doing it for us", some conservative "b@$#@&ds" will run themselves. Not to mention the many of us who are hybrids, both humans and robots, by then. Big Question is: why do we always write about the future in these terms? Has it already happened somewhere else? 🤔 Back to Sports ...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2021 16:27:40 GMT
Where do you think the human limit is, in 1000 years from now? 7.50? Humans won't be around in 1000 years mate. I for one welcome our new insect overlords
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Post by thebasfordhedgehog on Aug 4, 2021 16:42:54 GMT
Gabby Logan looks absolutely lovely and is a great presenter. But does she deserve a gold though. 🤔 I’d give Gabby a gold, Alex Scott a silver and Hazel Irvine a bronze. As for Clare Balding, she’s good, but looks too butch for my liking.
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Aug 4, 2021 18:31:38 GMT
The two high jumpers agreeing to share the gold has probably been my favourite moment so far. I loved the BMX scenes with the silver and gold for the British cyclists. The Swedish pole vaulter going for that world record was fun.
The skateboarding felt like a breath of fresh air today, and it was great to see the young Brit get a Bronze.
Disappointing to see all the injuries to Brits in the athletics but great to see the silver in the women's 800m. I have a short memory at the moment so may have forgotten a few things.
As for who will top the medal table, I still think the US will do it based on gold medals.
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Post by marylandstoke on Aug 4, 2021 18:41:19 GMT
Shame about that female weightlifter getting thrown out, she worked her bollocks off to get there Yes but remember, she failed in the snatch.
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Post by musik on Aug 4, 2021 19:38:57 GMT
The two high jumpers agreeing to share the gold has probably been my favourite moment so far. Who took the initiative, was it the Italian? He looked more happy.
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Post by rickyfullerbeer on Aug 4, 2021 20:37:05 GMT
Some excellent females in the Climbing. The Japanese chick is absolute dynamite.
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Post by musik on Aug 4, 2021 21:00:27 GMT
Some excellent females in the Climbing. The Japanese chick is absolute dynamite. Climbing?? Is that part of the Olympics?
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Post by musik on Aug 5, 2021 8:32:34 GMT
Australia-USA ⚽ bronze medal game.
First half 32 mins, so far 1-2.
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Post by musik on Aug 5, 2021 8:33:14 GMT
Waiting for Angelica Bengtsson to show up in the Pole Vault final at noon.
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Post by wagsastokie on Aug 5, 2021 9:10:42 GMT
Where do you think the human limit is, in 1000 years from now? 7.50? Humans won't be around in 1000 years mate. Then why the hell are we doing all this climate change bollocks If we’ve only got a thousand years left we might as well go out with a bang
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