Wonder if Kenny will compete in Paris, still looking very strong. One of my favourite Olympians as she is such a sweet person too. One of the interesting things about cycling is how it's more about pound for pound strength rather than pure strength. Kenny weighs about as much as one of Chris Hoy's thighs but is arguably the greatest women's track cyclist of all time.
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Women's Boulder starting, hopefully some better route setting than yesterday.
Meanwhile, German television showing horse riding
there's just way too much horse stuff at the Olympics, I mean it's nice to identify which nations are full of posh idiots and entertaining to watch the riders fume when the horse just refuses to jump but surely it's time to bin this outdated garbage.
Meanwhile, German television showing horse riding
there's just way too much horse stuff at the Olympics, I mean it's nice to identify which nations are full of posh idiots and entertaining to watch the riders fume when the horse just refuses to jump but surely it's time to bin this outdated garbage.Isn't Germany one of the top horsey nations historically?Women's Boulder starting, hopefully some better route setting than yesterday.
Meanwhile, German television showing horse riding
WR in the speed. Which all went much more predictably than the mens.
B1 looks tricky enough so far.
Well yes, just proves my point doesn't it.
I was just thinking that's why it's on German coverage a lot.
Agree horse riding can feck off. And that’s one of the few events Ireland usually has a good chance of medals.
Harrie Lavreysen!
Interesting the way the two speedsters both went with the right beta straight away but the boulderers/lead specialists keep getting it wrong.
She's from my hometown. We have a gold postbox there still from 2012.
EDIT: Wait my bad. She's from near it and there's a Leisure Centre renamed after her but the one in my hometown is for Charlotte Dujardin.
Can the UK win ny of this bouldering stuff?
Apparently it's also possible to do it this way as Noguchi just showed, looks a good boulder so far!
Nope. Shauna Coxy was your best chance. She’s a real legend but competed while quite badly injured and didn’t qualify for the final round. She’s retired from competitive climbing now. Pity. She’s one of the most popular climbers around.
Yeah, I actually think that might be the intended beta. It’s much cooler looking!
Falling on a slab is so scary. You can wreck yourself on the wall/holds on the way down. In Italy they call it “striking the match”
Cheers.
Much better set of boulders today.
Just seeing the German girl on the horse and it doing feck all for her, her in tears and everything 
Just lost the gold medal
One thing I hate about modern Olympics coverage is how in most places its so completely centered about one's own athletes, that so much sports coverage gets buried and one has to go to try to find it online. I'm fine with national media covering the countries own events, but I throw my arms up in despair when they use 40 minutes to interview the athetes family, coaches, colleagues and even people in the streets to talk about it when one could be watching something else.
What I most enjoy about the Olympics is watching irrelevant sports that I don't care about and see people from far away countries go completely bananas about them. And the Athletics of course
What I most enjoy about the Olympics is watching irrelevant sports that I don't care about and see people from far away countries go completely bananas about them. And the Athletics of course
Rabatou with an excellent exhibition on how to *almost* finish the boulders.
Feel a bit for her but entertaining nonetheless.
Feel a bit for her but entertaining nonetheless.
She’s absolutely battered herself falling off that slab too. Covered in plasters.
In other news, Janja is a machine. Nailed on for gold IMO.
It was a brutal watch, really felt for her.Just seeing the German girl on the horse and it doing feck all for her, her in tears and everything
Never seen this laser run before. So strange but can’t stop watching.
Garnbrett has won bouldering before boulder nr 3. If I'm here I'm not even attempting it to save energy for the lead later. However she's been in the same situation in various bouldering semi finals in her career and she always goes for it no matter what, so let's see what she does here.
Dake knocked off the greatest Italian (by way of Cuba) wrestler of all time for Bronze!
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yeah agree, it was awful. It must be terrible knowing that your gold medal chances are going after all the work to that point and there's nothing you can do about it.
Me too! I've never really watched this event but it's so bizarre it makes great entertainment. Also had no idea we were a medal chance in this but Kate French has absolutely bossed this laser run.
Gold for GB, what an intriguing event
That was a good event with the lazer guns and another gold for teamGB..
Yeah I was thinking 5 years down the drain..
What grinds my gears is when they don't even mention or list the name of the winner when reporting the result of their own athlete.
I thought modern pentathlon was quite fencing skewed but it ended up being the jumping that really changed things. You just get assigned a random horse and if they decide they're not riding for you then that's that.
Laser run was great, could be an event in itself.
Laser run was great, could be an event in itself.
Modern Pentathlon has horses? Maybe they need a 'Very Modern Pentathlon' with skateboard and BMX and taekwando instead of horses, shooting and fencing'. Lets face it, that would be an awesome comp that everyone would watch.
I have quite the crush on Nonaka.
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What’s also great is how many people are mad at the riders for how they rode the horses
I think if another sentient creature is required to do the sport, it shouldn't be in the Olympics. Who's actually won - the rider or the horse?
This is similar to why I call auto racing an expensive, competitive hobby instead of a sport.
9 golds. Germany we are coming for you!
New Zealand's medal haul is so impressive for their size. Are they always this good?