sne Posted August 6 Author Share Posted August 6 1 minute ago, bobzy said: I reckon he cleared 6.35m last night with at least one of his jumps. Can easily push higher right now. At the highest point sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 6 VT Supporter Share Posted August 6 Womens 10m dive a procession for the Chinese. Like, silly better than the rest standards. First dive got straight 10s. Others are doing dives that look like they've chucked a boulder in the pool and the Chinese are barely rippling the surface on entry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 Climbing was fun, how fast do they move it’s mental. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veloman Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 18 hours ago, Bizzzle said: Yeh my dad went to school with her dad I raced against Nigel; very strong rider and got some decent results in "open " races but did REALLY well in "para" events. Her Mom, Debbie was no slouch either.. The second Olyimpic Gold medalist from the Lichfield area. - Must be in the water. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 To be fair to the skateboarding, the final couple of runs have been great. With all the depressing events going on over here at the moment, just watching a load of teenagers having so much fun together and against each other is refreshing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 6 VT Supporter Share Posted August 6 I think the park skateboarding is pretty decent. It would probably benefit from extending the number of events, because the street is crap and the park format makes errors more common, but when it's good park is a decent watch. It also has a good vibe, all the competitors seem to get on and just enjoy watching and competing with each other. It'd be interesting to see what the top level skaters would make of it. Tony Hawk was there supporting the American girl, I wonder how he in his prime would have done on that course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted August 6 VT Supporter Share Posted August 6 19 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said: To be fair to the skateboarding, the final couple of runs have been great. With all the depressing events going on over here at the moment, just watching a load of teenagers having so much fun together and against each other is refreshing. That’s the lovely thing about it. A bunch of kids from different countries all loving and supporting each other. It genuinely looks like a bunch of young girls hanging out with their mates, encouraging each other and living their best lives, medals or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted August 6 Author Share Posted August 6 Mondo getting the gold medal from Bubka. Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 6 VT Supporter Share Posted August 6 I do want someone to Photoshop one of these guys starting the bike sprint into someone opening some crisps or pulling the skin off a rice pudding. China's lead guy looked they'd asked him to pull a house over with a chain attached to his bollocks as he set off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 Nearly put this in the wonder thread...why do GB seemingly punch above their weight at the Olympics? To me we seem regular top 5 on the medal table but not a clue how long that's been the case for, we also seem to have a decent spread across events while also being excellent at a few Is it sport England? The 2012 legacy? The lack of focus on the winter Olympics? Or just as simple as we're generally a sportier country? Obvious comparison for me is with Germany and we've got 2.5x as many medals as them but we've got more than bigger population countries like japan, brazil, Mexico, then like Spain have 9 medals we have 5x as many as them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 6 VT Supporter Share Posted August 6 1 minute ago, villa4europe said: Nearly put this in the wonder thread...why do GB seemingly punch above their weight at the Olympics? To me we seem regular top 5 on the medal table but not a clue how long that's been the case for, we also seem to have a decent spread across events while also being excellent at a few Is it sport England? The 2012 legacy? The lack of focus on the winter Olympics? Or just as simple as we're generally a sportier country? Obvious comparison for me is with Germany and we've got 2.5x as many medals as them but we've got more than bigger population countries like japan, brazil, Mexico, then like Spain have 9 medals we have 5x as many as them It's not long ago that we were bollocks. We won a gold in 1996. I suspect the answer will be a push in investment in sports probably coinciding with Blair, which then became a self fulfilling prophecy when success has lead to investment - the reason we've become so good at track cycling is the investment it's got off the back of it delivering golds for example. Couple that with expansion of the Olympics probably meaning more opportunities to create new legacies and new dominations - again with cycling they kept adding events, turns out if you're quite good at one version track cycling is fairly simple adapt to other disciplines, letting you keep the fundamentals but specialise where you need to, and then a very successful hosting right at the peak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 6 VT Supporter Share Posted August 6 Yep a combination of funding/investment, and the legacy of 2012. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy54 Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 Yep the national lottery certainly helps funding for GB sports, probably the only thing John Major and the Tories implemented that was any good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 6 VT Supporter Share Posted August 6 1500m, here we go... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 6 VT Supporter Share Posted August 6 Oof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted August 6 VT Supporter Share Posted August 6 WTF, no medal for Ingebrigtsen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted August 6 Author Share Posted August 6 What a run! I will forever be suspicious against US/NIKE/Oregon runners but hope he's clean. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 6 VT Supporter Share Posted August 6 Just now, Tegis said: WTF, no medal for Ingebrigtsen? He blew it going too hard from the gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted August 6 VT Supporter Share Posted August 6 Too much focussing on each other and both took their eyes off the actual race. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted August 6 VT Supporter Share Posted August 6 The brief clip of the long jump made me realise that I'd never seen anyone come anywhere near a record in my memory. And it's true, the record is over 30 years old. And the triple jump I actually remember being set by Jonathan Edwards, but that's nearly 30 years ago. And high jump has stood for 30 years as well. We may have peaked in respect of jumping. Other long standing records, women's 800m, which I believe everyone thinks is probably drug assisted, has stood for 40 years and even Semenya couldn't beat it, hammer throw has stood since the mid 80s and nobody has come near it and again questions over drugs, javelin since 96... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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