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2016 Rio Olympics

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#1 ·
Starts on Wednesday with the women's soccer competition. Opening ceremonies are on Friday.

Hopes? Thoughts? Expectations?
 
#12 ·
London will never be topped for me. 24 channels to choose from, 9am to 10pm, great home display :moore

This time it runs until 3am and back to the regular TV scheduling where I can't choose what to view. So I'll never get to see some of the lesser sports like handball because they'll favour the British hopes like horse dancing. But it's still the Olympics and I hope to watch a lot.
 
#316 ·
Okay so there's a few things I want to share real quick.

First off, has been such a riot. What a personality. :sodone


Secondly, and maybe my favorite personal moment of the tournament thusfar, you have this NBC commentator mistaking the Dutch Royal Family for the athlete's family and friends, referring to the queen as the athlete's wife :bosque

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archiv...ing-gold-and-queen-maxima-gets-a-new-husband/


Our swimmers underperformed. Schippers got injured to the point where she couldn't go full strength. One of our male gymnists got on a bender and skipped a training against his trainer's expressed wishes, so the union sent him home. He sued them. The right to return to rio to compete in the finals was put on civil trial live on stream. He didn't get the nod. One of our bicyclists had the gold in reach but tumbled and damn near lost more than just some medal. Lows there definitely were. But then I just watch Sanne Wevers perform the best personal crossbeam performance of her lifetime and it's all forgotten! :postivity
 
#329 ·
Took me about a week to get sucked in but now I'm well and truly whoring myself out on the Olympics again. Was probably inevitable once the Athletics and Cycling started.

Bolt will already be remembered as one of the all time great athletes of any sport but if he does complete the triple triple then he's completely and utterly immortalised for eternity. I mean after 2012 repeating the treble he was locked down in the class of the greatest sportsmen ever but now he's just pushing his way further and further to the very top of even that class. Seb compared him to being remembered like Ali is a few pages back and that's spot on. You can argue other Athletes and Olympians being "better" than him and having more impressive accomplishments but like Ali, he rises above all basically all of them with his personality. 9/9 would be insane. Nobody's even close to messing with him on that. 200m should be his barring an error during the Final. 4x100 is the test but only because he's reliant on team mates and not just himself, but even then it'll take a couplet of monster races from the US runners. Blake looking in good form at least is reassuring on that front. Class, flair and once in a lifetime talent.

Shelly Ann and Schippers both losing the 100m :mj2

Team GB bossing the Cycling again :moore. Arguably would have been another Gold too for Cavendish had he not messed up in the Devil, although that point is kinda moot because the same would have to apply for Hansen who would have made up massive points going from the first out to one of the last out. The Cycling events are generally always good watches too, should make it a longer schedule, not like the events aren't there to be added. And not just because we boss it. Also a pleasant change to have really great coverage of the Cycling with Balding and Hoy :sherwood

Speaking of always great to see Inverdale making a tit of himself.

Super to see Del Po back in the Tennis. It's pretty amazing how quickly he's got back to competing and beating the very best.

That Long Jump Final was pretty great, especially the last Jump :done

The end to the Womens 400m last night. Fantastic. The end to the Pole Vault last night was magnificent too. One of my favourite part of the Olympics is stuff like the Pole Vault last night when an event you don't have an interest in takes on a super story and has you cheering harder for it than you do your favourite sport.

Phelps frankly just takes the piss. That Countries all time Gold Medals table with Phelps just slotted in there. Amazing.

10km races should not be that entertaining to watch.

Van Niekerk's 400m run was just outstanding.

I'm probably forgetting loads of great stuff too. I was originally put off by the time zone but the two Cycling sessions are at perfect times here and Sky +ing the evening session of the Athletics and then being able to skip through them the next day has really helped me get sucked in again this year.
 
#342 ·
I normally enjoy the defensive side of play, but christ Sweden is playing a more cynical and ugly game than Portugal from this year or Greece from 12 years ago. It was one thing that had not stained the woman's side of the game to the extent that it has on the men's, but unless we get a rule change to somehow combat this extreme style of play it will only get worse.

Saying that, so glad the primadonna's of the woman's side (with no meaningful trophies either) was knocked out of the contention for gold with that. Only question, will Sweden do it again against Germany or will they knock that bus over and gleefully blow it up?
 
#414 ·
Can we go back two weeks and enjoy it all again :mj2

Make it 3 weeks long and add a bunch more sports in future, not just the 5 for Tokyo.

I watched far more than I expected thanks to BBC having 8 extra channels on the red button, the beach/volleyball tournaments being a highlight as well as track cycling (because of GB dominance). It's a shame most of these sports get zero coverage outside of the Olympics. A fantastic performance from the Brits, never would I have expected more gold medals than China :moore
 
#57 ·
It will definitely be his most impressive victory if he does manage to pull it off. A grade 1 tear of the hamstring can sometimes take months to fully recover from although he did run freely in London a couple of weeks ago. If Bolt does not win i hope that Gatlin is not the one to benefit. His shady past will never go away for me. Yohan Blake, Trayvon Bromell and Jimmy Vicaut all have decent chances but Bolt is definitely the favourite

It is the 200m that i think he might come unstuck. Lashawn Merritt has been by far the best 200m runner this year and i fancy him to take the gold although you can never ignore Bolts experience and ability to perform when it really matters
 
#58 ·
I missed half of the opening ceremony but I liked what I saw. Not the most impressive opening ever, but still pretty good (Y)

Am I the only person who likes watching the countries come out during it? :lol I don't even know why but I do. I love seeing who gets the biggest cheers!
 
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