Rio 2016 Olympics

Anyway, Cav.
I'm sure everyone has discussed why or why not some events are in the 'Lymps. Here's my opinion what should be in/out and it's correct.

Running, jumping and stuff - yes
Anything with horses - no, thats for horsalympics
Golf - fuck no
Bikes - yes, i like bikes
Handball - yes, awesome
Swimming, diving - yes
Gym - yes but remove twiddly dancing bits
Water polo - no
Fencing - go on then
Tennis, basketball, football - not sure about these TBH
Rugby - seems to make more sense than football
Wrestling, punching - go on then
Badminton, volleyball - sure
Beach volleyball - body says yes, head say no
Lifting heavy things/do you even - yes
Sailing/rowing - yes

Sand volleyball looks like a mad sport. But its popular for all the wrong reasons. Theres indoor volleyball why not leave it at that.

Its not like theres Beach football/ rugby. Although With the lympics being in Rio. It might have been cool to add a load of Beach sports. I'm a dab hand at that Beach tennis With the wooden paddle and little rubber ball. I'd even do that in a bikini if someone sponsered my ticket.....

A mate of mine works for the ITF and used to be on the beach tennis task force. Best job ever.

I'd even do that in a bikini if someone sponsered my ticket.....

#awkwardboner

You missed the shooting stuff category.

My vibe on the 'Lympets is that if a sport has other global, blue-ribbon events then there's no need for them to be in the Olympics so football and golf I'm looking at you, and tennis too. Rugby sevens yes but normal egg-chasing no. Seems to me it works best when you are watching sports that you would rarely watch or get to see on the tellybox at other times (kayaking, you are awesome, don't let anyone put you down). Also track cycling is a much better fit that road racing, and in fact there should be more events in track, esp the Madison and the IP.

But for me Y NO DH MTB??? Downhill would be a brilliant addition to the Limpets and if you have XC seems odd you don't bother with the full-face helmet brigade. Peaty would have a won a few golds for sure.

Mixed discipline ballgames.

A team plays rugby, the other football, for example.

And maybe five-a-side football, instead of 11-a-side, like rugby 7s, where you can also fit an entire tournament into a couple of days.

Skinner DQ'd from the Keirin for coming onto sprinters line too early :(

My vibe on the 'Lympets is that if a sport has other global, blue-ribbon events then there's no need for them to be in the Olympics

But then surely you'd take out road cycling because TdF is arguably more prestigious. Also wrestling has Wrestlemania and boxing has the jazzy kind of boxing in Las Vegas where they don't wear vests and are corrupt.

Not sure you can compare olympic wrestling to wrestlemania..

It is literally the same thing. I went to the wrestling at the Excel in 2012. Some bloke borrowed my STEEL CHAIR to deliver an illegal shot to an opponent while his manager was distracting the ref.

I dunno, road cycling has such a complex calendar and different riders have different goals. 3 GTs, monuments and the Worlds. If anything the Worlds are the closest to the Olyms, as in it's a winner-takes-all one day race, but the Olympics are more prestigious because they are only every 4 years. Would a pro swap the rainbow hoops or the yellow jersey for an Olympic gold? Hard to say.

I did forget about Wrestlemania though, that's more that enough hairy men in spandex for anyone.

And this from Cav:

“I had a message off him now. It’s alright, everything is fine. It was blown way out of proportion,” Cavendish told Sky News. “It was something said tongue in cheek but I’ve learned my lesson for other interviews now.” Unlikely, I would suggest. Further to Barry’s update, Cavendish also addressed those who suggested he caused the crash that left the Korean Sang-hoon Park in hospital deliberately. “It was my fault. I messaged him this morning, the Korean lad. I felt terrible and really sorry for causing him hurt there. It was a racing accident. To suggest something was done on purpose and deliberate, it’s not a very nice thing to say.”

Because the media have again been stoking the rumours him and Brad don't get on after he joked to the BBC that if he were Wiggins they wouldn't have kept him waiting to interview him. #topbantz

The cyclenews forums made for funny reading today. RaceRadio on twitter summed it up: trackies thought it was racing, roadies thought he should be DQed, couchies thought it some sort of conspiracy that has to do with Cookson., Murdoch, lizard men and some ancient Mayan prophecy.

Some bloke borrowed my STEEL CHAIR to deliver an illegal shot to an opponent while his manager was distracting the ref.

Was it Cav?

*trollface.jpg*

That's why the seats are bolted in the velodrome.

I don't really follow pro cycling. Or any sport. So only know of Cav's reputation in a vague sense, it's as much as I can do to recognise who's who out there. Watching the Olympics is something that happens when I come home and it's on TV and I get kinda caught up in it, but it's hella entertaining, and the interviews are great, and Cav's post-race interviewing is great in a bonkers way. He's basically a human racehorse.
It's not up to him to say whether or not he should've been DQ'd, presumably if he wasn't, and only the 4th placed rider is saying he should've been, it's just one of those things. Part of the game of bike. He doesn't 'need' to apologise, and certainly not in public. It's nice if he does to his fellow cyclists, but it doesn't change any injuries. It's not the Olympics of good manners.

Golf's a funny one, it takes so bloody long, and if you have no idea what's going on it's just not that enthralling. Everything else I've come across has been pretty good to great.

Agree with this, but the games does give great exposure and rare opportunity of equal coverage and standing for the women's sports you mention.

Was trying to find a video to rewatch Simone Biles floor routine from the all-round, it's from about halfway through in the first video here. Amazing amazing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37021270

Very true. When I said football I certainly meant men's football, not women's. I think the Olympics are very important for women's football, but not as much for women's tennis.

Oh and Vogel follows the French and moans about how good the Brits are now compared to the Worlds. Despite the fact she is riding slower thatn the worlds. Is it a case of athletes used to peaking for the winter having to do it in August and just not managing it? A lot of the top performers from the worlds are slower now, while we have gone the other way. She always describes the British sprinters as cannon fodder, which is a hell of a way to describe someone with the palmares of Becky James.

Vogel, you're on the list.

Is there a women's gold tournament? I bloody hope so

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/olympics/rio-2016/olympics-cycling/rio-olympics--2016-track-cyclists-coach-ask-awesome-team-gb-whats-your-secret-20160816-gqtlbh.html

Surprised by Meares' sour grapes, I mean she came 10th in the sprint competition and had to go through the repachage to get to the Keirin final, clearly no where near the level she has been at previously.

Trott is good

Tell me I'm not the only one who deeply hates that shaky rear of saddle cam?

malice aforethought

Whoah. Is that what this phrase is? I always thought is was malice "of" forethought.

I suppose the fact that i'm asking Schick means that I already know the answer.

BONE APPLE TEA!

Is it just me that thinks it's odd the Australian press are bitter about losing to GB at sport? They seem to feel there's some sort of rivalry that just isn't a thing our end.

It wouldn't occur to me to be grumpy if an Australian person won a thing. I may have even felt a bit pleased when @hippy rode all that way a couple of years ago.

Ok so Vogel smashes Katy Marchant in two sprints, a day later than when she described British performances as very questionable in the Lym Pics. So what does it make her performance, since she just won?