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Post by wirralstokie1 on Jul 24, 2024 9:55:45 GMT
Not even started yet but already some amazing stories.
Charlotte Dujardin kicked out because she was caught whipping her horse to make it dance. I'm sure she'd never done it before....
Steven van der Velde, Dutch beach volleyball player - convicted of raping a 12 year old British girl is being allowed to compete.
Shoko Miyata, captain of the Japanese gymnastics team sent home because she was caught smoking.
I'm sure there are plenty of other bonkers stories.
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Post by salopstick on Jul 24, 2024 10:52:40 GMT
Not even started yet but already some amazing stories. Charlotte Dujardin kicked out because she was caught whipping her horse to make it dance. I'm sure she'd never done it before.... Steven van der Velde, Dutch beach volleyball player - convicted of raping a 12 year old British girl is being allowed to compete. Shoko Miyata, captain of the Japanese gymnastics team sent home because she was caught smoking. I'm sure there are plenty of other bonkers stories. what a cunt en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_van_de_Velde |
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Post by str8outtahampton on Jul 24, 2024 11:50:05 GMT
And the triathlon should be fun. As any fule no, the Seine is full of sharks.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Jul 24, 2024 12:20:49 GMT
Not even started yet but already some amazing stories. Charlotte Dujardin kicked out because she was caught whipping her horse to make it dance. I'm sure she'd never done it before.... Steven van der Velde, Dutch beach volleyball player - convicted of raping a 12 year old British girl is being allowed to compete. Shoko Miyata, captain of the Japanese gymnastics team sent home because she was caught smoking. I'm sure there are plenty of other bonkers stories. The timing of the Dujardin story is odd. The incident happened four years ago, apparently. Methinks ze Germans haff been stirring ze Scheisse.... Of course horses are mistreated. They'd prefer not to run miles and jump fences carrying a human and they don't want to prance around a ring either, if they weren't coerced into doing so one way or another. Just another example of the kind of human arrogance that assumes that animals and the environment are on Earth for us to exploit however we like. |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Jul 24, 2024 12:47:43 GMT
Not even started yet but already some amazing stories. Charlotte Dujardin kicked out because she was caught whipping her horse to make it dance. I'm sure she'd never done it before.... Steven van der Velde, Dutch beach volleyball player - convicted of raping a 12 year old British girl is being allowed to compete. Shoko Miyata, captain of the Japanese gymnastics team sent home because she was caught smoking. I'm sure there are plenty of other bonkers stories. The timing of the Dujardin story is odd. The incident happened four years ago, apparently. Methinks ze Germans haff been stirring ze Scheisse.... Of course horses are mistreated. They'd prefer not to run miles and jump fences carrying a human and they don't want to prance around a ring either, if they weren't coerced into doing so one way or another. Just another example of the kind of human arrogance that assumes that animals and the environment are on Earth for us to exploit however we like. Speak horse do you mate?😉 |
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Jul 24, 2024 14:45:13 GMT
The timing of the Dujardin story is odd. The incident happened four years ago, apparently. Methinks ze Germans haff been stirring ze Scheisse.... Of course horses are mistreated. They'd prefer not to run miles and jump fences carrying a human and they don't want to prance around a ring either, if they weren't coerced into doing so one way or another. Just another example of the kind of human arrogance that assumes that animals and the environment are on Earth for us to exploit however we like. Speak horse do you mate?😉 No, but you're fluent in bull 😂 |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Jul 24, 2024 14:47:22 GMT
Speak horse do you mate?😉 No, but you're fluent in bull 😂 Guffaw |
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Jul 24, 2024 16:12:55 GMT
No, but you're fluent in bull 😂 Guffaw I own you 😄 |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Jul 24, 2024 16:18:37 GMT
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Post by GrahamHyde on Jul 24, 2024 17:49:00 GMT
Looking forward to the 100m after watching 'Sprint' on Netflix. Decent documentary albeit a bit of a circle jerk for the American contingent. They sure do love themselves.
Men's should be between Noah Lyles and Kishane Thompson, although don't rule out Letsile Tebogo, the smiling Botswanan. Only 21 years old but already shown massive promise and feel like he's been holding something back.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Jul 24, 2024 17:54:31 GMT
Hockey always worth a watch, shame broadcasters don't give it much airtime. Bronze for GB men I reckon, girls hopefully get to the last 4.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Jul 24, 2024 17:57:32 GMT
Hockey always worth a watch, shame broadcasters don't give it much airtime. Bronze for GB men I reckon, girls hopefully get to the last 4. There’s loads of hockey on Eurosport I think it is, do you ever watch it? |
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Jul 24, 2024 18:04:39 GMT
I'd call two of those sick rather than amazing. I can't believe that Australian/Dutch guy has been selected.
It's sad how many Ukrainian champions are missing because they've died thanks to Russia's invasion.
One amazing story is the British archer (Penny Healey), still in her teens, who took up archery because she saw the film Brave and thought it'd be cool to shoot arrows from a horse. She had to give up horseriding due to the cost but carried on with archery.
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Post by LL Cool Dave on Jul 24, 2024 18:21:17 GMT
Daley Thompson documentary is well worth a watch. Footage of '84 looks amazing.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Jul 24, 2024 18:25:55 GMT
Hockey always worth a watch, shame broadcasters don't give it much airtime. Bronze for GB men I reckon, girls hopefully get to the last 4. There’s loads of hockey on Eurosport I think it is, do you ever watch it? Wasn't aware of that, haven't got Eurosport sadly. |
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Post by JoeinOz on Jul 24, 2024 18:26:29 GMT
Ukraine equalised v Iraq in football
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2024 18:47:02 GMT
all i'm interested in is,
the 100m
breakdancing
waterpolo
canoe sprint
fencing
skate boarding
squash
the other stuff gets. a bit 'samey' after a while
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Jul 24, 2024 18:52:00 GMT
all i'm interested in is, the 100m breakdancing waterpolo canoe sprint fencing skate boarding squash the other stuff gets. a bit 'samey' after a while I like quite a lot of it thinking about it. Off the top of my head Most athletics apart from 3000m steeplechase and the fat throwing ones Swimming BMX Skateboard Velodrome cycling Beach volleyball (women’s 😉) Kayak and Canoe The dead heavy weight lifting Basically all the ones that don’t take up too much time |
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Post by FbrgVaStkFan on Jul 24, 2024 18:52:47 GMT
I've no interest this time around. Not sure why. Might be I just need to sit down and watch a few events.
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Post by Marc01 on Jul 24, 2024 18:56:43 GMT
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Post by essexstokey on Jul 24, 2024 19:00:35 GMT
In football Argentina equalise in 17th minutes of extra time then massive crowd trouble they come back 4 hrs later when var rule it out they then play 3 more min of extra time and Argentina lose 2 1
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Post by essexstokey on Jul 24, 2024 21:53:39 GMT
I was saying to an olympiad I thought that our selection policy was wrong and that if we had a young up and coming athlet in an event we had no competitor in and had a basic quotation time then we should have taken them for experience S they are out potentially champions of the future they agreed
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Post by musik on Jul 24, 2024 22:17:54 GMT
Not even started yet but already some amazing stories. Charlotte Dujardin kicked out because she was caught whipping her horse to make it dance. I'm sure she'd never done it before.... Steven van der Velde, Dutch beach volleyball player - convicted of raping a 12 year old British girl is being allowed to compete. Shoko Miyata, captain of the Japanese gymnastics team sent home because she was caught smoking. I'm sure there are plenty of other bonkers stories. I've heard of the number 1 and 3 there. |
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Post by musik on Jul 24, 2024 22:20:05 GMT
Hockey always worth a watch, shame broadcasters don't give it much airtime. Bronze for GB men I reckon, girls hopefully get to the last 4. Hockey, as in ice hockey? As part of summer Olympics? 🤔☀️📺 |
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Post by musik on Jul 24, 2024 22:28:22 GMT
I will probable follow
Handball Ladies 🇸🇪
Handball Men 🇸🇪
Pole vault Men 🇸🇪 (Armand Duplantis)
Swimming Ladies 🇸🇪 (Sara Sjöström)
Table tennis 🇸🇪
Wrestling Ladies 🇸🇪
Cross Country
IF they show it. This year Max have bought everything (I won't subscribe), but a limited amount will be shown at Eurosport and Kanal 5 here. Our National tv SVT only show a short 10-11 p.m Olympic program, but there's always the radio.
Sweden don't have a Swedish Men team in Basket, Football or Volleyball - but that's not strange, they have sunk on the ranking lists.
But. We don't have the great Swedish Volleyball Ladies, Basketball Ladies or Football Ladies there either!! They should be there competing. This is only due to poooor National sports associations in Sweden, they don't offer a shit. I think Sweden have the poorest National Sports Associations in Europe. They don't get anything from the sky high taxes. All is very much amateur level. After all I'm amazed we can compete at all in some sports at least.
Many of our Highest division football clubs are poorer than your League Two or National league clubs.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2024 22:46:57 GMT
Not even started yet but already some amazing stories. Charlotte Dujardin kicked out because she was caught whipping her horse to make it dance. I'm sure she'd never done it before.... Steven van der Velde, Dutch beach volleyball player - convicted of raping a 12 year old British girl is being allowed to compete. Shoko Miyata, captain of the Japanese gymnastics team sent home because she was caught smoking. I'm sure there are plenty of other bonkers stories. what a cunt en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_van_de_VeldeOne year in prison for raping a child is exceptionally wrong. Worse still he's somehow back playing! |
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Post by Gods on Jul 24, 2024 23:08:58 GMT
all i'm interested in is, the 100m breakdancing waterpolo canoe sprint fencing skate boarding squash the other stuff gets. a bit 'samey' after a while Sadly no squash in this Olympics, its the next one. |
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Post by chuffedstokie on Jul 25, 2024 4:44:58 GMT
Hockey always worth a watch, shame broadcasters don't give it much airtime. Bronze for GB men I reckon, girls hopefully get to the last 4. Hockey, as in ice hockey? As part of summer Olympics? 🤔☀️📺 Just hockey musik, ice hockey is played on the ice. |
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Post by essexstokey on Jul 25, 2024 10:50:13 GMT
Goodluck to all stokies competing at the Olympics
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Post by salopstick on Jul 25, 2024 11:46:28 GMT
if only there was a weekly sports how on BBC1 where they show highlights of all these minority sports on a weekly basis so that you get invested in the swimming, biking, kayaking, rowing, ameuter boxing, triathlon, pentathlon etc etc. for the olympic cycle
you could put it on just after football focus sandwichwed between final score, you could even have a vidi printer type on the screen for the football scores through out. the rights wouldnt cost too much and would give these sports much needed exposure.
get a veteran sports presenter to host it, id say frank bough or david vine but i think they are passed. gaby Yorath would be perfect.
You could call it grandstand
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