Paris Olympics 2024

Yeah new for this Olympics and covers 200m to 1500m and then all hurdles I think. There was a weird situation in one of the hurdles where the commentators were saying one of the runners just sat up early on to just get a clean finish in the knowledge they'd get the repechage or something.

One of the hurdlers who has been nursing an injury jogged his heat in the hope he'd recover in time for the repechage

https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/could-better-socks-have-changed-the-outcome-of-the-100m-final-an-aero-analysis-of-olympic-sprinting/

Some aerodynamic talk regarding the 100m sprint.
The 0.005s margin between gold and silver, gold was in a skintight suit, second place was wearing a loose vest.
Kishane Thompson might have won if he had tucked his vest in.

I'm sure there's a measurable impact so it seems silly to not cater for it. Cathy Freeman wore a full body suit fucking years ago and the fastest marathon was set with a bunch of runners to draft. Faster speeds = bigger aero gainz

Was thinking the same the other day; one of the runners had massive hair and I thought it was mad this wasn’t a consideration for the 100 and 200m runners.

I’d be going fully shaved or full body suit with mitts incorporated. And 100 percent make sure I had a nopinz/similar number holder.

I just can't believe safety pins are still de rigeur at the highest level of sprinting

Maybe Dan Bigham moves from Ineos to the Jamaican sprinting team.
Teach them how to tuck their shirts in and how to use safety pins correctly.

The safety pin thing is probably mandated.

So it should be if the stickiness of the lane numbers being used at this Games is anything to go by. I was watching some of the 200 metre heats last night, and all the athletes had lane numbers that were barely sticking to their shorts.

Mandated, but I think it would be hard to convince me that they're necessary in the olympics 100m final

I can’t believe they’re still a thing in cat 4 cycling.

Don’t like the new individual athlete entrances a la boxing either. Load of nonsense posturing. Just let them out on the track and get on with it.

Yes I’m old.

It's easily fixed by not watching any of it and just watching the odd youtube of an event.

Safety pins and massive flappy A4 race number is just crazy in this day and age. Any reason they can't be issued pre-games and sublimated onto the kit at a prescribed font/size/shape?

The bib number is used for tracking / timing.

Just make kit with number pockets.

Chips clipped to the jersey/vest beforehand.

Or what Andy said.

I'm a bit obsessed with Canoe Cross and I really want to give it a go. Absolute madness and would fill a roller derby-shaped contact sport hole in my life...

Don’t like the new individual athlete entrances a la boxing either. Load of nonsense posturing. Just let them out on the track and get on with it.

Whilst I semi agree, I do like that it gives the commentators time to give you some info about them which can help with routing for them etc.

I can definitely do without them bellowing into the cameras.

lee valley white water center ^^^

the waters fast and you probably should have some experience in a canoe before hand

If they can print my face on a pint of guinness they can figure out numbers on a shirt I reckon

These guys will get you started

https://www.regentscanoeclub.co.uk/

I used to love kayaking until I dislocated my shoulder one too many times

Find a local club that play polo. Quickest way to learn

Bouldering looks good fun. If I wasn't old, fat and inflexible would have a go at that.

Speed climbing, while unfathomably fast, I didn't realise it's the same wall all the time everywhere. Feel that makes it a bit more dull for other than watching for 15mins every 4 years. Kind of expected that each competition would have a new wall.