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On 29/07/2024 at 15:01, Sidi Fidi Gold said:

It was a phenomenal ride from Tom, coming back like that after a puncture, it did just seem like a coming together but its the Olympics and if the host nation put in an appeal, you just never know.

Not to mention the fact it's only just over two weeks since he withdrew from the Tour de France with Covid.

Looking forward to seeing how he goes in the road race. 

"I'm from a fishing family. Trawlermen are like pirates with biscuits." - Lucy Beaumont.

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Oh yes, I'm aware of that, I think I was getting that rather than take away events that shouldn't be there (to which I think football is one) they seem to add more and more events. I've always pr

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With the best, thats a good bit of PR, though I would say the Bedford team, theres, like, you know, 13 blokes who can get together at the weekend to have a game together, which doesnt point to expansion of the game. Point, yeah go on!

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With the best, thats a good bit of PR, though I would say the Bedford team, theres, like, you know, 13 blokes who can get together at the weekend to have a game together, which doesnt point to expansion of the game. Point, yeah go on!

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The GB women were just edged out of a medal place by Brazil in the team gymnastics competition.

Meanwhile, a bit of trivia - this will be the first Olympics since 1988 that the gymnast Oksana Chusovitina has not been a competitor.

She first competed in the 1988 Seoul games for the "Commonwealth of Independent States", which was a vague catch-all name for the rapidly disintegrating Soviet Union.

She keeps going mainly to pay for her son’s medical costs, but she kinda loves being the WTF competitor too and at 48 years old she's still competing and is an absolute bloody hero.

She would have been in Paris too, but for an injury.

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Thankfully the Rugby Union Sevens (and its bot-flooding of social media) appears to be over.

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14 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

What a finish to the Mens Triathlon!

Towards the end with the Kiwi 10 seconds ahead with about 400m to go I was going to turn over to the swimming.  Glad I didn’t.  Yee came home like an express train.  Great stuff.

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Towards the end with the Kiwi 10 seconds ahead with about 400m to go I was going to turn over to the swimming.  Glad I didn’t.  Yee came home like an express train.  Great stuff.

Amazing wasn't it! Followed up by the women's rowing!

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Those rowing boats don't change speed very quickly, amazing effort to come back from so far behind in the last few hundred metres - perhaps even more so than Yee or Pidcock.

Alex Yee has been doing parkrun at the age of 12. Obviously he was a member of Crystal Palace from an early age, has effectively been a full-time athlete while at Leeds Becket, benefitted from lottery funding and so on, but I do think we're at the point where British middle-distance running is really reaping the rewards of having so many people running competitively from school age onwards. 

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4 minutes ago, Tommygilf said:

A peculiarity I just noticed, why do Germany have "Germany" and "GER" on their kits not Deutschland* 

*spelling.

There's an official Olympic three letter code for each country. There's some other oddities - Mozambique has MOZ even though Z is not a letter in their official language, Portuguese. Greece is another example.

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Good to see a chinese swimmer has broke the myth that its a slow pool...

With the best, thats a good bit of PR, though I would say the Bedford team, theres, like, you know, 13 blokes who can get together at the weekend to have a game together, which doesnt point to expansion of the game. Point, yeah go on!

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36 minutes ago, nadera78 said:

A man just beat a woman in the boxing ring. 

A woman with enhanced levels of testosterone did.

You can debate the rights and wrongs of the testosterone levels without needing to rely on, apparently, a comment from the “too corrupt for both the IOC and boxing” thrown out boxing association.

Now do Zambian footballers.

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28 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

A woman with enhanced levels of testosterone did.

You can debate the rights and wrongs of the testosterone levels without needing to rely on, apparently, a comment from the “too corrupt for both the IOC and boxing” thrown out boxing association.

Now do Zambian footballers.

Wasn't she beaten by an Irish woman at the last Olympics, in the second round I think.

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19 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

A woman with enhanced levels of testosterone did.

You can debate the rights and wrongs of the testosterone levels without needing to rely on, apparently, a comment from the “too corrupt for both the IOC and boxing” thrown out boxing association.

Now do Zambian footballers.

My understanding is that the test this boxer (and another also competing at this Olympics) took was not just for testosterone levels but also sex. Neither of the boxers contested the outcome at the time but are now included because of the change of organisation. And if we want to talk corruption, maybe take a look at some of the boxing decisions so far in Paris.

As an aside, for years we were told that Caster Semenya was a woman with enhanced levels of testosterone, until it emerged in a court case a year or so back that Caster is a man with natural levels of testosterone for a man and has a DSD that only occurs in men.

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10 minutes ago, Sidi Fidi Gold said:

Wasn't she beaten by an Irish woman at the last Olympics, in the second round I think.

No idea. I gave Olympic boxing a swerve a couple if tournaments back when the corruption just became laughable. The IOC agreed with me and it’s out from the next one on as there doesn’t seem to be a non corrupt body willing to take it on.

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11 minutes ago, nadera78 said:

My understanding is that the test this boxer (and another also competing at this Olympics) took was not just for testosterone levels but also sex. Neither of the boxers contested the outcome at the time but are now included because of the change of organisation. And if we want to talk corruption, maybe take a look at some of the boxing decisions so far in Paris.

As an aside, for years we were told that Caster Semenya was a woman with enhanced levels of testosterone, until it emerged in a court case a year or so back that Caster is a man with natural levels of testosterone for a man and has a DSD that only occurs in men.

Er... What? I can't recall ever reading that Caster was a man. 

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6 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

No idea. I gave Olympic boxing a swerve a couple if tournaments back when the corruption just became laughable. The IOC agreed with me and it’s out from the next one on as there doesn’t seem to be a non corrupt body willing to take it on.

I've just looked it up, she lost to eventual gold medalist Kelly Harrington in the Q/Finals.

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