Tokyo Olympics 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm-g0NGE9W8

At about 2 mins

You could be the BBC’s rob warner
Look at the time

Would listen… can you do phone in commentary?

During lockdown we had some kind of work quiz, 2 truths 1 lie for everyone.

"What was the colour of the boathouse at Hereford?" was my stock question.

#csb

I do like a Warner commentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KZV7zfMGTg

I don't think I've ever been that excited about anything though.

He went in super slow

Even with the ramp being there, why would you do that? Ragging it over is the faster and arguably less risky approach.

Reckon he messed up his approach and was like 'oh the ramp is there it's ok' but then it wasn't ok.

or like track cycling having the Keirin and the sprint, and the team sprint...oh wait

Once again missing the point that they're team events and individual events and they're not events done with one-armed tied behind a back or a match sprint ridden backwards.

Why have 3 swimming strokes that are slower than the Aussie Crawl? Having solo and team versions and different lengths of of Freestyle swimming is fine. Having some random different version of arm flailing x all those all over again is dumb.

why not just ride the road race on a tt bike as they're clearly faster? why not have gears on the track as it's clearly faster? Sports are just a collection of arbitrary rules really

(clearly just being devils advocate here. I agree with you entirely, swimming is nonsense)

That moment when you discover that you're the same height and weight as Adam Peaty, feel momentarily pleased with yourself, and then look in the mirror and realise that you might have marginally different body fat percentages 😂

Spinacci bars already had riders doing that until they were banned for safety.

But you're still basically proving my point - if swimming has breaststroke and butterfly and backstroke, all inferior to freestyle, why not have a whole separate "road bikes" category on the track? Why not race HPVs around the track and ditch those slow track bikes? We don't have 4000 categories of "riding around a track" because it's dumb.

Why did track lose the IP and yet swimming continues to have stupid events? It's not like they need the velodrome for other events during the games.

Why did track lose the IP?

To save top ganna the journey to collect the gold

Lucky he's not on Team NL. He might've flown out there anyway and then wondered why the IP has 4 riders in it...

I want both the Japanese and Chinese table tennis kit.

Thrilling game too, good comeback from the Japanese team.

Much like the field events, it's the fastest at those defined strokes.

Otherwise why do we need to know who is best at throwing a flat round weight, a ball, a ball on a bit of chain and a long stick. Just make it a beanbag and be done with it.

Also you can blame an Australian for butterfly stroke (trying to swim breaststroke faster by lessening drag), and Melbourne was first time it was in Olympics apparently.

Much like the field events, it's the fastest at those defined strokes.

Again, huh? All quite different throwing events.

Actually, how many shotputters have also won javelin or discus?

Swimming is

Swim 50m as fast as you can
Swim 50m on your back as fast as you can
Swim 50m while looking ridiculous as fast as you can
Swim 50m in the same way that your Nan might swim it so she doesn't get her hair wait as fast as you can

and then repeat for x distances and then add some team shit.

You wouldn't be faster with gears on the track, but I know what you mean.

There are 16 swimming events and 11 cycling events at the Olympics, which is a lot for both to be fair.

Maybe hippy is onto something though. Only one event in each sport. It would save a lot of time and we could actually find out who is the best runner, swimmer, cyclist, lifter, jumper, sailor, shooter, gymnast etc. And of course, get rid of triathlon.

Huh, where'd you get those numbers from? Swimming has something like 30+ events

Ok, maybe not, but still 18x2
50m Freestyle (Men/Women)
100m Freestyle (Men/Women)
200m Freestyle (Men/Women)
400m Freestyle (Men/Women)
800m Freestyle (Men/Women)
1500m Freestyle (Men/Women)
100m Backstroke (Men/Women)
200m Backstroke (Men/Women)
100m Breaststroke (Men/Women)
200m Breaststroke (Men/Women)
100m Butterfly (Men/Women)
200m Butterfly (Men/Women)
200m Individual Medley (Men/Women)
400m Individual Medley (Men/Women)
4 x 100m Freestyle Relay (Men/Women)
4 x 200m Freestyle Relay (Men/Women)
4 x 100m Medley Relay (Men/Women)
4 x 100m Mixed Medley Relay

get rid of triathlon.

Where would we get our LOLs from then?

17 events per gender by the looks of things.. .- ah plus mixed relay so 35!

Yeah, over 30. #hippyisalwaysright

So, backstroke, breastroke and butterfuckoff would all be banned under my rules.

If I was feeling generous you could have one medley event for the LOLs, that way you can keep doing your stupid swimming styles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_2020_Summer_Olympics

It is 18 events for men, 18 for women, and one mixed, total 37.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_at_the_Summer_Olympics

Cycling is 11 events for men, 11 for women, total 22.