Paris Olympics 2024

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Is it for aero gains? I always figured it was a comfort thing as you see it loads of wide gravel bars.

My understand is that it all started with this sort of nonsense (see pic) and has trickled down into every aspect of road cycling.

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Ridiculous finish in the men's triathlon. Clawed back 14 seconds in just under 2km. Serious guts.

absolute larceny from GBR over Netherlands in the rowing.

Always reassuring to see the Royal Family freeloading at Big Sports Day.

totally smashed it. Along with Alex Yee

I can confirm that the bmx does barspin.

BMXrs are a bit shit.

(lol)

I think some of the terminology in the sport may point to French interest. En-garde!!

This isn’t nonsense. Jwvs is a king

Luke Plapp has been released from hospital today @hippy

I attended womens football on sunday afternoon, badminton on monday morning and womens rugby 7s on monday afternoon and was shocked at how full the stadiums were! I think the football outside paris might have more trouble selling tickets at times but in general it was very positive.

The tennis on tv does look a bit empty, but the seats inside the camera angle will all be €300+ or corporates so possibly priced too prohibitively for non-medal sessions.

French TV is doing a shit job with lots of the sports. It seems they don't have a lens which can show the clay pigeon targets. Perhaps the Olympics took them by surprise.

Its all done by Olympic Broadcasting now. Little or no input from national broadcaster anymore afaik

So was I.

I made the mistake of looking at his IG post before my op. Eeew

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/31/the-horses-dont-choose-to-take-part-should-equestrian-sports-be-removed-from-the-olympics

I've ridden some of that mountain bike track.

I know jack shit about gymnastics but I've been hugely impressed by the Ukrainian and the British men on the high bar.

That final was brilliant

That 200m men's fly was brilliant, look forward to see if he can do the double later, arena will explode if he does

struggling to follow this olympics. Get home each night and just getting swim chat.

Is there not like a 1 hour evening roundup of the day's key events??

iplayer seems a bit painful finding what you want, but ideally just want a summary covering some different sports.

If you go on iPlayer and then on the Olympic page there is a must see section and shows you 3-5 minute highlights of all the key events that autoplay one after the other

Iplayer has been really poor in my experience. I couldn’t watch the hockey live the other day despite it being trailed on the homepage because it kept taking me to BMX.

"Tonight at the Games" on iplayer is 80 minutes and comes on 10:40pm every night. Its like a magazine show but all the main highlights (from a GB perspective) are there.

Leon Marchand Pt 1 was incredible, hope he comes through with Pt 2.

Does anyone else think he has a Mbappe look to him? It’s been bugging me all week.