Paris Olympics 2024

The routes were pretty challenging in the qualifiers as well. It's always a bit of a bad look if nobody tops a boulder.

Is the 800m gold really this big of a deal or an interesting story? The BBC are really sticking on it at the moment. I want sports not chat.

It was the last track event of the evening. They've time to fill.

Hope you waited for the pole vault finish

6.25 meters is just mind numbing, his 9th world record lol

It also is a big deal, it's a big race and we've got the best athlete and a long history in the event, I'd rather this than more Peaty for example, who's fallen into the accusing other athletes camp.

This! So much cutting to the booth all day when I could be watching people launch a metal ball into the statosphere or jump higher than my head.

With Bamboo poles that would snap.

I can now name two Swedish pole vaulters:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjell_Isaksson

Stolen from Instagram, but this is very cool.

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Paula Radcliffe's ripped biceps

Well, she doesn't have to worry about being caught by the testers anymore...

It's very big , last gold was 20 years ago.

Duplantis!

Holy fucking shit.

Edit : I am not watching it live, it would seem

Looks like the Jamaican in lane 4

Peaty for example, who's fallen into the accusing other athletes camp.

His Jesus stuff shows he's potentially slightly credulous, but his belief that a nation with a massive proven history and current record of doping might actually be doping - that's a little more plausible.

Persuaded the other half to forgo the BBC talk show and switch to Eurosport tonight, it’s so much better it’s untrue. That Radzi guy is very entertaining too.

I think tbf it's plausible that every athlete from every country has the potential to dope, as sporting history is littered with athletes from all nations, but I don't think you should accuse them publicly at the Olympics like that having just lost to them. Just sounds like sour grapes.

3x3 final was an insane thriller. I guess you brits are not big basketball fans, but you're missing out on some good stuff.

Nah - China were caught en masse doping just before the Olympics and allowed by WADA to argue that their hotel’s plat du jour was angina medicine and chips, before they hushed it up. Same way they let Russia away with it until they were pretty much shooting yup in the starting blocks.

Glad some athletes are strong enough to speak up, even if it’s just the ones at the fag end of their careers.

Yeah, it’s torso, not limbs. So throwing yourself across the line doesn’t necessarily help.

Though the 100m final was so close that someone falling forwards with their last step might have won it.
The track version of the bike throw.

Re pole vault. Did we have the French fella who knocked the bar off with his cock already?
https://metro.co.uk/2024/08/03/pole-vaulters-olympic-dream-shattered-penis-21355235/

Stolen from Instagram, but this is very cool.

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more here, excellent set of photos

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2024/aug/05/paris-2024-olympics-layers-images-photography-gallery

Given they'd recently quietly tested positive but it had been declared fine you can see why he may have had some complaints.

Thanks, all excellent!

Interesting they’ve put in a repechage for some (shorter?) athletics track events this time around. I’m pretty sure this is new for the Olympics and can’t remember it for the world champs.

Added - it is new, but not wholly successful. In one race 8 runners failed to turn up and in another someone was deliberately last.