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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2021 13:08:14 GMT
No it's never been in to the best of my knowledge, but could be wrong. It's in the commonwealth games. I actually sub annually to squash TV and play a bit myself (when my hamstring isn't deciding it's as strong as tissue paper) so I get a glimpse of how challenging it is physically/mentally/technically, and as a spectacle it's amazing these days. Maybe suffered in the past from inferior TV technology making it hard to see the ball, but there's no good reason it shouldn't be in these days. I agree. Similarly, hockey used to be difficult to follow on tv with such a small, fast-moving ball, but that's been sorted so no reason why squash shouldn't be in these days. Plus cricket to be honest, T20 or The Hundred would probably work. Japan beat the US at baseball japan is huge on baseball. Nice to see though.
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Post by musik on Aug 7, 2021 14:19:12 GMT
It seems that way. I googled and couldn't find any articles bashing horse riding. I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't juxtaposed with the exclusion of other sports. I used to date a girl within horse riding and she showed me some amazing facts. If you count all people involved with horses, all the different type of sports involving horses, you'll find there's even more people occupied with horse sports in total than footballers. When they said it on tv in a report about horses two years later I rested my case.
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Post by AlliG on Aug 7, 2021 20:13:02 GMT
I must admit to being a bit of an old fogey when it comes to "new" sports at The Olympics, but I must admit that one of my favourite sports to watch at this Olympics has been the climbing.
It has been amazing to watch and I can't wait to see more in years to come.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Aug 7, 2021 20:27:12 GMT
I must admit to being a bit of an old fogey when it comes to "new" sports at The Olympics, but I must admit that one of my favourite sports to watch at this Olympics has been the climbing. It has been amazing to watch and I can't wait to see more in years to come. Climbing is great to watch at the Olympics, unlike fucking golf 🙄 I don’t mind golf but as an Olympic “sport” it’s absurd!
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Aug 7, 2021 20:57:31 GMT
I can't believe the Olympics is nearly over already. Despite loving most of what I've seen, I haven't got into it as much as I hoped, I think partly due to the disjointed coverage (maybe due to Discovery taking most of the live rights from the BBC) and times of the events. The evening highlights programmes haven't had enough build-up to the events including info about the athletes, though I suppose there's a lot to fit in in 90 minutes, and after a shaky start I thought Claire Balding and Alex Scott ended up being quite the pair, so it was generally a fun watch.
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Post by swampmongrel on Aug 7, 2021 21:13:02 GMT
I’m hoping that Hungry Hippos gets included next time around.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Aug 7, 2021 21:13:45 GMT
I’m hoping that Hungry Hippos gets included next time around. And Screwball Scramble
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Post by chuffedstokie on Aug 7, 2021 21:26:39 GMT
No it's never been in to the best of my knowledge, but could be wrong. It's in the commonwealth games. I actually sub annually to squash TV and play a bit myself (when my hamstring isn't deciding it's as strong as tissue paper) so I get a glimpse of how challenging it is physically/mentally/technically, and as a spectacle it's amazing these days. Maybe suffered in the past from inferior TV technology making it hard to see the ball, but there's no good reason it shouldn't be in these days. I agree. Similarly, hockey used to be difficult to follow on tv with such a small, fast-moving ball, but that's been sorted so no reason why squash shouldn't be in these days. Plus cricket to be honest, T20 or The Hundred would probably work. Japan beat the US at baseball I think settling on the blue AstroTurf for contrast helps with the hockey, I used to like playing squash would love to see it included at the Olympics.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Aug 7, 2021 21:30:56 GMT
I agree. Similarly, hockey used to be difficult to follow on tv with such a small, fast-moving ball, but that's been sorted so no reason why squash shouldn't be in these days. Plus cricket to be honest, T20 or The Hundred would probably work. Japan beat the US at baseball I think settling on the blue AstroTurf for contrast helps with the hockey, I used to like playing squash would love to see it included at the Olympics. Cannot believe it isn’t, i “play” myself. Great sport!
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Post by chuffedstokie on Aug 7, 2021 22:19:35 GMT
I think settling on the blue AstroTurf for contrast helps with the hockey, I used to like playing squash would love to see it included at the Olympics. Cannot believe it isn’t, i “play” myself. Great sport! Don't think the new hips would let me somehow, shame, also I don't think they've heard of Squash in this part of the principality.
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Post by musik on Aug 7, 2021 22:43:12 GMT
I'm most impressed by how the athletes could be so alert and even take new world records, considering they do this during the night.
Do they never sleep?
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Post by partickpotter on Aug 8, 2021 4:59:46 GMT
I must admit to being a bit of an old fogey when it comes to "new" sports at The Olympics, but I must admit that one of my favourite sports to watch at this Olympics has been the climbing. It has been amazing to watch and I can't wait to see more in years to come. Climbing is great to watch at the Olympics, unlike fucking golf 🙄 I don’t mind golf but as an Olympic “sport” it’s absurd! Same with Tennis. Same reason too. The Olympics seems to me to be the pinnacle for the sports involved whether that is big stuff like Athletics, swimming or cycling or more specialist stuff like taekwando, fencing, and now skateboarding and climbing. That ain’t the case for golf, tennis or football. It used to be that Olympics was for amateur sportsmen, but when that line got blurred in athletics it opened the door for the professional sports to enter. They should revert back to something close to the earlier ethos. Boxing is a good example to use. The Olympics is for amateur boxers and provides the peak of an amateur’s career. If they want to retain those other sports they should do something similar. Personally I’d dump them and replace with other minority sports noting the success of recently introduced events in bmx and skateboarding. Or, indeed, squash. Edit… interestingly the BBC were just discussing whether professionals should be allowed to compete in the Olympics noting they are different to golf and tennis. Glad to say Nicola Adams said no.
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Post by partickpotter on Aug 8, 2021 5:00:27 GMT
I'm most impressed by how the athletes could be so alert and even take new world records, considering they do this during the night. Do they never sleep? Do you work for Viz?
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Post by andystokey on Aug 8, 2021 7:47:41 GMT
Jason Kenny - just wow!
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Post by musik on Aug 8, 2021 7:48:31 GMT
France beat Russia in the women's handball final.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Aug 8, 2021 8:08:33 GMT
Brilliant. Watching their interviews just now, what a refreshing down to earth pair, Laura just tells it like it is, "I don't see myself retiring anytime soon". Picking herself up (and the others) after that crash and going again was a mountain to climb.
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Post by andystokey on Aug 8, 2021 8:22:03 GMT
Brilliant. Watching their interviews just now, what a refreshing down to earth pair, Laura just tells it like it is, "I don't see myself retiring anytime soon". Picking herself up (and the others) after that crash and going again was a mountain to climb. They are both just great, I'm so pleased for them. British cycling is in transition. They are inspirational to the next generation Jack Carlin must watch that and imagine "that could be me in Paris"
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Post by musik on Aug 8, 2021 8:26:54 GMT
I'm most impressed by how the athletes could be so alert and even take new world records, considering they do this during the night. Do they never sleep? Do you work for Viz? No, I don't know her.
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Post by salopstick on Aug 8, 2021 8:52:00 GMT
Interesting on five live yesterday saying the IOC has got tough on Russia and other dopers so it’s opened the door to so many medals for other countries. They said the athletics was as clean as it could be
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Post by musik on Aug 8, 2021 8:54:46 GMT
Swedish Report Tokyo 2020 in 2021
Sweden women outplayed by Norway in the handball bronze game.
Sweden women were physically but mostly mentally worn out, after achieving much more than expected in this tournament.
Three sensational wins and a draw (versus the Olympic Champions France), plus a pointless game vs Hungary in the group stage, where most experts said in advance we might win one game, the one against Hungary.
A good clear win against South Korea in the quarter final.
A close game vs France in the semi final, ended by two dreadful referee decisions.
When fighting about the first olympic medals ever in an Olympic game they had no energy left (when they faced Norway).
Even if Duplantis won the gold 🥇 in the Pole Vault and Daniel Ståhl 🥇 and Simon Pettersson 🥈 took gold and silver respectively in discus and the Horse team 🥇 Fredricson, Baryard Jonsson and van Eckermann took gold in Horse jumping after fighting for it for thirty years - my best memory from this tournament is the handball ladies achievement, especially when noone thought they could do anything, it was a question about avoiding to be last in the group.
Other medalist silver to Sarah Sjöström 🥈 in swimming, who broke her elbow in February!
Louise Stensils 🥈, who took silver in canoe
Josefin Olsson 🥈, silver in sailing, laser radial
Sailing Team 🥈 Anton Dahlberg and Fredrik Bergström got silver in sailing, 470 class.
Football women 🥈, silver, who were in the lead during the penalties when the old captain put it over the bar. But it wasn't her fault, all penalties count.
9 Summer Olympic medals, 3 gold, 6 silver from Tokyo 2021 (2020).
In 2016 we got 11 Summer Olympic medals, 2 gold, 6 silver and 3 bronze.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2021 10:48:49 GMT
Climbing is great to watch at the Olympics, unlike fucking golf 🙄 I don’t mind golf but as an Olympic “sport” it’s absurd! Same with Tennis. Same reason too. The Olympics seems to me to be the pinnacle for the sports involved whether that is big stuff like Athletics, swimming or cycling or more specialist stuff like taekwando, fencing, and now skateboarding and climbing. That ain’t the case for golf, tennis or football. It used to be that Olympics was for amateur sportsmen, but when that line got blurred in athletics it opened the door for the professional sports to enter. They should revert back to something close to the earlier ethos. Boxing is a good example to use. The Olympics is for amateur boxers and provides the peak of an amateur’s career. If they want to retain those other sports they should do something similar. Personally I’d dump them and replace with other minority sports noting the success of recently introduced events in bmx and skateboarding. Or, indeed, squash. Edit… interestingly the BBC were just discussing whether professionals should be allowed to compete in the Olympics noting they are different to golf and tennis. Glad to say Nicola Adams said no. Agree with all that 100%.
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Post by thebasfordhedgehog on Aug 8, 2021 11:45:56 GMT
The Olympic closing ceremony music is insane, the dog just got up and left the room.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Aug 8, 2021 12:00:14 GMT
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Aug 8, 2021 12:03:26 GMT
Interesting on five live yesterday saying the IOC has got tough on Russia and other dopers so it’s opened the door to so many medals for other countries. They said the athletics was as clean as it could be It "got tough" on them by allowing their athletes to continue to compete as "Russia" in one form or another when they should have been nowhere near competitive sport for several years. It's true that this time around we haven't had the usual run of stories about so-and-so having failed a drugs test and being disqualified, so let's hope that sport is heading in a cleaner, drug-free direction at last.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Aug 8, 2021 12:05:54 GMT
Delighted for him and love the way he won that. I reckon the rest had written him off and were more concerned about the Dutch rider, Lavreyson. To some extent that's fair enough given their relative performances to that point. So Kenny just took off and issued a big fuck you to everyone else! Bravo.
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Post by noustie on Aug 8, 2021 12:51:31 GMT
Interesting on five live yesterday saying the IOC has got tough on Russia and other dopers so it’s opened the door to so many medals for other countries. They said the athletics was as clean as it could be It "got tough" on them by allowing their athletes to continue to compete as "Russia" in one form or another when they should have been nowhere near competitive sport for several years. It's true that this time around we haven't had the usual run of stories about so-and-so having failed a drugs test and being disqualified, so let's hope that sport is heading in a cleaner, drug-free direction at last. Probably me just being a cynical bastard but it’s supposed to be as clean as possible yet national and Olympic records were falling all over the place due to a quick track and big spikes.
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Post by noustie on Aug 8, 2021 12:57:49 GMT
I can't believe the Olympics is nearly over already. Despite loving most of what I've seen, I haven't got into it as much as I hoped, I think partly due to the disjointed coverage (maybe due to Discovery taking most of the live rights from the BBC) and times of the events. The evening highlights programmes haven't had enough build-up to the events including info about the athletes, though I suppose there's a lot to fit in in 90 minutes, and after a shaky start I thought Claire Balding and Alex Scott ended up being quite the pair, so it was generally a fun watch. Was surprised how much Scott seemed to struggle at the start but the chemistry was decent between them at the end. I struggled to watch when Sam Quek was on - regularly doesn’t know what camera look down and just seemed a complete fish out of water.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Aug 8, 2021 13:06:57 GMT
Delighted for him and love the way he won that. I reckon the rest had written him off and were more concerned about the Dutch rider, Lavreyson. To some extent that's fair enough given their relative performances to that point. So Kenny just took off and issued a big fuck you to everyone else! Bravo. I liked it in his interview when he said up until that point he was counting down his career in hours but now he's looking forward again to the next competition!. Got to love his approach.
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Post by wagsastokie on Aug 8, 2021 13:16:05 GMT
Climbing is great to watch at the Olympics, unlike fucking golf 🙄 I don’t mind golf but as an Olympic “sport” it’s absurd! Same with Tennis. Same reason too. The Olympics seems to me to be the pinnacle for the sports involved whether that is big stuff like Athletics, swimming or cycling or more specialist stuff like taekwando, fencing, and now skateboarding and climbing. That ain’t the case for golf, tennis or football. It used to be that Olympics was for amateur sportsmen, but when that line got blurred in athletics it opened the door for the professional sports to enter. They should revert back to something close to the earlier ethos. Boxing is a good example to use. The Olympics is for amateur boxers and provides the peak of an amateur’s career. If they want to retain those other sports they should do something similar. Personally I’d dump them and replace with other minority sports noting the success of recently introduced events in bmx and skateboarding. Or, indeed, squash. Edit… interestingly the BBC were just discussing whether professionals should be allowed to compete in the Olympics noting they are different to golf and tennis. Glad to say Nicola Adams said no. In what part did she say no The bit I watched she said they should in certain circumstances She could hardly say no professional boxers should be allowed After she fought as a professional in Rio in 2016
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Post by thebasfordhedgehog on Aug 8, 2021 13:58:44 GMT
Just loved the three montages the BBC put on after the closing ceremony. Excellent coverage, as per usual, and quite emotional at times.
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