Oh wow Barty went out? I saw the early part of that match and it did look dicey.As for the women’s road race, yeah that was bizarre to realize! All credit to Kiesenhofer for that remarkable ride.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 July 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
Good swims earlier but women’s skateboarding is awesome right now.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 July 2021 03:48 (two years ago) link
Also I like how for all the weird hullabaloo over Peacock coverage here in the US and whatever else they’re doing on the basic channels, the NBC Sports app just has everything from what I can tell, it’s all Australian coverage like I mentioned earlier, the ads are mostly manageable, and that’s all you need? It’s like they’re not publicizing that as much!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 July 2021 03:55 (two years ago) link
nbcsports app still requires a cable provider tho to get full access? or at least thats what i’m led to believeplease someond help me or i’m gonna just run through the streets screaming & waving an antique samurai sword
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 July 2021 05:08 (two years ago) link
Impressed by how deep the winner of the men's triathlon went on the run leg, absolutely beasted himself. Looked like he was going to explode any second
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Monday, 26 July 2021 05:11 (two years ago) link
xpost Apparently a workaround is to get access via Sling for a month (and take advantage of the promo price).
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 July 2021 05:20 (two years ago) link
[muffled screaming]
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 July 2021 05:27 (two years ago) link
Nishiya Momiji is amazing.
It does somewhat bring into relief that the most recent music I've heard on the tannoy in the skate park was block rocking beats by the chemical brothers, only one of the finalists was alive when that came out - most of the 'young people's music' would have been even older than the 33 year old on the park (Journey, Talking Heads, The smiths)
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Monday, 26 July 2021 05:35 (two years ago) link
13 year old nishiya momiji being the coolest at the olympics i love her 🥺💕pic.twitter.com/QhZOypzSTJ— gabb 💐 (@tegomass) July 26, 2021
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Monday, 26 July 2021 05:44 (two years ago) link
> I’ve never watched competitive skateboarding before, but people fall over a lot more than I would have expected.
this is just Street though, everything they are trying has such a high level of difficulty, even if it all looks the same to me. i think Park will be better, more emphasis on runs than single tricks. and Vert would be better still (skate equiv of snowboard halfpipe) but that's not an event here, strangely.
i taped the uk coverage because it was 1am here. they didn't show nyjah's heat so we only saw him in the final where he spent most of his time failing at the one trick.
― koogs, Monday, 26 July 2021 07:07 (two years ago) link
Been watching the mountain biking for years, so weird to see a brit win it. That course definitely looked way more technical than previous olympics, lad looked so in control though. Hope MvdP is okay, went over like a statue falling out of a wheelbarrow
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Monday, 26 July 2021 07:48 (two years ago) link
whoops totally missed the mountain biking and will have to do catchup
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Monday, 26 July 2021 07:55 (two years ago) link
Update on mvdp's crash. Apparently there was a ramp down one of the big drops on the practice laps but they removed it for the actual race. Somehow van der poel missed that info in the rider briefing and just rolled of the drop instead of lifting the front end
OUCH! 😬A painful crash for Mathieu van der Poel in the opening lap of the men's cross-country mountain biking.A relief to see him managing to get back on his bike 🙏#bbcolympics #Tokyo2020— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) July 26, 2021
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Monday, 26 July 2021 12:18 (two years ago) link
Incredibly horrifying crash by cycling legend Mathieu van der Poel in the #Olympics mountain bike race. Oh, and he got back up and is still riding. pic.twitter.com/yLPxdROweI— Remko Rinkema (@RemkoRinkema) July 26, 2021
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Monday, 26 July 2021 12:22 (two years ago) link
MVDP did get the info, both from his coach and his teammate, but somehow failed to process it correctly or doublecheck. Dutch cycling really on a roll so far.
― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Monday, 26 July 2021 13:20 (two years ago) link
not sure if i'm being incredibly dense but i had blithely assumed that all events would be available on catch up on iplayer, but having a hard time finding the tennis. thought last time out in rio p much everything was available.
― oscar bravo, Monday, 26 July 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
Discovery/eurosport won the broadcast rights for a lot of the events so there are some things that the BBC won't be entitled to show.
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Monday, 26 July 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
thx nick, i had no idea.
― oscar bravo, Monday, 26 July 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
bbc can, aiui, choose what they want to show on bbc1 (or 2) and red button but ONLY that will be available on iplayer later.
so we got all 4 of the women's street skate heats because, i guess, there were no english people beating anyone up that they wanted to show instead. i think some of the qualifiers are literally twice the age of the others (ie 13 and >26)
― koogs, Monday, 26 July 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
I never watch much mountain biking, but this is a great course. Also really love the Z! Vetements style paint job Trek have given their bikes.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 06:11 (two years ago) link
I see they put the ramp back for the women.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 06:13 (two years ago) link
not sure why that would be necessary.
― At Easter I had a fall. I don't know whether to laugh or cry (ledge), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 09:26 (two years ago) link
from what I understood it had been raining, so the grass and the rocks would be slippery, whereas everything was dry the day before
― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 10:31 (two years ago) link
"NBC is reporting that Biles didn’t withdraw due to injury but due to her mental health, according to her coach."
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
One of the Chinese gymnast's floor routine was to an orchestral version of "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
the ROC female gymnast tracksuits are so fire.
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 13:50 (two years ago) link
Was anyone else like, lol taiwan doing well with all these russian ringers
― Only the stong survive (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
One for the Real England thread?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/07/27/nicola-sturgeon-snp-criticised-failing-support-team-gb-olympics/
I always like to see British athletes do well, except when they're dickheads, but there's almost nothing more pleasing in sport than watching overhyped British athletes fall on their arses - sometimes literally.
― Wouldn't disgrace a Michael Jackson (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
so does the russian ban actually affect anything at all beyond 'having a slightly different team name' and 'listening to tchaikovsky'?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
ROC used in much the same way as 'Team GB' come to think of it, except nobody forced british media to stop saying britain or great britain, they just kind of did
― Only the stong survive (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
that guy who won the surfing is my new god
― disraeli grinds my gears (NickB), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
the "olympic channel" (?) cycles the same content too often but i enjoy seeing the athlete interviews
simone mid air on that vault looked like a boxer out on his feet imo, scary
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 01:30 (two years ago) link
Fiji beating the All Blacks is awesome
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 10:22 (two years ago) link
Looks like Argentina and France are both going out in the football, with Egypt and Mexico qualifying.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:51 (two years ago) link
big upset in badminton men's singles, top-seeded mamota kento lost in 2 games to heo kwang-lee. good match! heo had some insane smashes and the net was kind to him
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 28 July 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
canada over brazil on pens in women's qf. been impressed here and in euros how quickly goalies have refined their technique when facing pens to keep one foot on or behind line at impact.
gymnastics was good y'day although beam seems basically impossible to look good on to me. or as one of the commentators put it - 'a horrendous piece of apparatus'
― oscar bravo, Friday, 30 July 2021 11:03 (two years ago) link
gb awarded well dodgy pen in extra time vs aussies. saved.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 30 July 2021 11:09 (two years ago) link
then aus score 30 secs later
aus add their 4th but gb pull it back to 4-3 with 5 mins left. epic.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 30 July 2021 11:27 (two years ago) link
aus have basically stopped attacking the last 10 mins, barely been out of their half.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 30 July 2021 11:29 (two years ago) link
aus see it out. great game.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 30 July 2021 11:32 (two years ago) link
Djokovic lost thank fuck. Shame it was Zverev who inflicted it.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 30 July 2021 11:42 (two years ago) link
novak (w/ stojanovic) also loses in mixed. will hope to settle for two bronzes
havent seen zverev once this tourney but his stats (v minimal double faults + lotsa winners) look like hes playing amazingly
― johnny crunch, Friday, 30 July 2021 12:57 (two years ago) link
Lol I was wondering about this but not caring enough till I saw this piece on ROC
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/30/roc-olympic-successes-mean-absent-russia-more-present-than-ever-tokyo-olympics
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 30 July 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
For a paper that goes on about Russia this was p even
badminton mixed doubles final was great.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 30 July 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
yeah, loved that
― tean mean poleand cheaseang theas means hamseak feasts (breastcrawl), Friday, 30 July 2021 20:09 (two years ago) link
straight up cackled at Djokovic going home without a singles medal for the third Olympics in a row
― Roz, Saturday, 31 July 2021 09:22 (two years ago) link
I'm glad to say I was there on Court no.1 nine years ago when Del Potro beat him for the bronze... and I stayed up until about 4am to watch DP knock him out of Rio too. No mixed medal either - looks like he's pulled out of the 3rd-place match. Excellent (though that sucks for Stojanovic).
First time Novak has lost back-to-back singles matches since... Tour Finals 2019 (Thiem/Federer)?
He'll be back in Paris 2024 though :(
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 31 July 2021 09:51 (two years ago) link
Athing Mu looks phenomenal in the 800m. Won the semi final barely breaking a sweat.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 31 July 2021 12:13 (two years ago) link
needs less sound of music and more kaiju imo.
― koogs, Sunday, 8 August 2021 13:14 (two years ago) link
pretty excited about the us women's volleyball win! i remember them watching them take silver in 1984 with the late flo hyman
― mookieproof, Sunday, 8 August 2021 21:53 (two years ago) link
They dominated. Got hot at the right time
― pure rim rest (Spottie), Sunday, 8 August 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
can't wait for
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― Believe me, grow a lemon tree. (ledge), Monday, 9 August 2021 08:48 (two years ago) link
Ive just seen the horse punch and my god its as well twitter has never had to work on a farm isnt it
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 9 August 2021 12:34 (two years ago) link
it is insane in the horse mane
― "Rocky Top" and "Funky Bitch" are songs I never look forward to (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 9 August 2021 15:28 (two years ago) link
if you consider the horse to be an Olympic athlete, then punching it enters a different light
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Monday, 9 August 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
Guess this was never going to happen anyway what with the pandemic and all, still a shame
https://aramajapan.com/news/tokyo-2020-opening-ceremony-original-plan-leaks-in-full/114631/
― the people of dorchester are marching upon us (Matt #2), Wednesday, 11 August 2021 21:53 (two years ago) link
a friend (and former member of Dweeb) went to cover the archery and wrote this:
http://www.theinfinitecurve.com/archery/tokyo-2020
― koogs, Thursday, 12 August 2021 01:28 (two years ago) link