Olympic Games: Paris 2024

[Futtocks]

4 minutes ago, Maximus Decimus said:

Tonight is the women's 100m and a poignant time to mention the absurdity of the 10.49 Flo-Jo world record, and probably not for the reasons you might think.

Much is made of how she was likely doping, but it should have been discarded regardless of that. Basically, it was an incredibly windy day but the wind reading gave a reading of 0.0.

There have been many studies since effectively proving that it was wind-assisted but still it stands to this day. 

She was such a massive star at the time, blind eyes were almost certainly turned. Few, apart from her husband, whole-heartedly defend her these days.

But she was a technically superb runner, whatever else was going on.

Edited August 3 by Futtocks

[Maximus Decimus]

28 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

She was such a massive star at the time, blind eyes were almost certainly turned. Few, apart from her husband, whole-heartedly defend her these days.

But she was a technically superb runner, whatever else was going on.

Yeh it's not to take away from her being an incredible runner.

I'm pretty sure her actual best was 10.61 not wind-assisted.

[Sidi Fidi Gold]

1 hour ago, Maximus Decimus said:

Tonight is the women's 100m and a poignant time to mention the absurdity of the 10.49 Flo-Jo world record, and probably not for the reasons you might think.

Much is made of how she was likely doping, but it should have been discarded regardless of that. Basically, it was an incredibly windy day but the wind reading gave a reading of 0.0.

There have been many studies since effectively proving that it was wind-assisted but still it stands to this day. 

 

Her husband was Al Joyner who was the brother of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, she still holds the record for the heptathlon with over 7200 points and until recently held the long jump world record.

[Maximus Decimus]

This men's 100m final seems as competitive as I can remember.

I think it'll be a Jamaica 1, 2 with Oblique Seville winning. He looked so calm in the semi-final.

[Spidey]

Enjoyed that 100m final. Very close indeed 

[Spidey]

1 hour ago, Maximus Decimus said:

This men's 100m final seems as competitive as I can remember.

I think it'll be a Jamaica 1, 2 with Oblique Seville winning. He looked so calm in the semi-final.

Note to self. No tips from MD

[Sidi Fidi Gold]

3 minutes ago, Spidey said:

Enjoyed that 100m final. Very close indeed 

9.91 and you finish last.

[Maximus Decimus]

15 hours ago, Spidey said:

Note to self. No tips from MD

Haha that is up there with my greatest predictions ever!

[Maximus Decimus]

15 hours ago, Sidi Fidi Gold said:

9.91 and you finish last.

He ran 9.80 in the semi-final and looked like he was going easy.

It just shows how much of it is being relaxed.

Great final though, and although he's a bit of a tool, Lyles did a PB when it mattered and you can't fault him for that.

[17 stone giant]

Excellent 100m final. Not sure why it took so long to get it underway though.

[JonM]

2 hours ago, 17 stone giant said:

Excellent 100m final. Not sure why it took so long to get it underway though.

Multiple news sources reported that a protester tried to gain access to the track.

[gingerjon]

27 minutes ago, JonM said:

Multiple news sources reported that a protester tried to gain access to the track.

There’s a photo from the stands that seems to show that.

[Futtocks]

The Kayak Cross did not disappoint. In among the racing, there's some seriously underhand deviousness too.

I've got the Track Cycling on now.

Edited August 5 by Futtocks

[JohnM]

Keely Hodgkinson!  As they said on the BBC TV coverage,from Wigan!

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[Futtocks]

1 hour ago, JohnM said:

Keely Hodgkinson!  As they said on the BBC TV coverage,from Wigan!

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She's from Atherton. A two-railway station town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan.

Edited August 5 by Futtocks

[JohnM]

1 hour ago, Futtocks said:

She's from Atherton. A two-railway station town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan.

Howe Bridge, I believe. There must be someone on here who can verify the Wigan claim. 

[Sidi Fidi Gold]

8.7 million watched Keeley Hodgkinson last night.

[JohnM]

A short history of the modern Olympics 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0jg573r

[The Hallucinating Goose]

9 minutes ago, Sidi Fidi Gold said:

8.7 million watched Keeley Hodgkinson last night.

I've always been curious as to how viewing figures are worked out. Is this the number of actual tvs, tablets, phones and other devices that were tuned into the programme or is this an estimate of how many people based on household numbers?

[Farmduck]

55 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I've always been curious as to how viewing figures are worked out. Is this the number of actual tvs, tablets, phones and other devices that were tuned into the programme or is this an estimate of how many people based on household numbers?

With streamed content it's quite easy since they know how many people are logged in to the site during the broadcast. With older free-to-air and satellite TV they use a system of monitors placed in people's homes. They select a large enough sample of a representative cross-section of the public and connect the monitor box to their TV. This box then transmits the data back to HQ at regular intervals. I was one of those ratings guinea pigs for 10 years. In OZ they change their guinea pigs every 10 years possibly because as the group gets older it throws off their representative age demographic.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

2 minutes ago, Farmduck said:

With streamed content it's quite easy since they know how many people are logged in to the site during the broadcast. With older free-to-air and satellite TV they use a system of monitors placed in people's homes. They select a large enough sample of a representative cross-section of the public and connect the monitor box to their TV. This box then transmits the data back to HQ at regular intervals. I was one of those ratings guinea pigs for 10 years. In OZ they change their guinea pigs every 10 years possibly because as the group gets older it throws off their representative age demographic.

Oh right, so it's a case of, say, 7,341 people out of our sample of 15,000 are watching this programme, and then they times that up to the population of the country?

[gingerjon]

5 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Oh right, so it's a case of, say, 7,341 people out of our sample of 15,000 are watching this programme, and then they times that up to the population of the country?

This is a pretty good summary of how it works in the UK: https://www.barb.co.uk/about-us/how-we-do-what-we-do/

[gingerjon]

Thankfully, for most of the crowd, France won, beating Germany 26:23.

[Farmduck]

1 hour ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Oh right, so it's a case of, say, 7,341 people out of our sample of 15,000 are watching this programme, and then they times that up to the population of the country?

More or less. They certainly make an effort to get a representative sample. When they recruited me, I hardly ever watched anything but RL and I told them that I could go a month without watching anything. They were fine with that. They would ring me occasionally just to check that I hadn't been watching and there was nothing wrong with their equipment.

I can't even remember how they found me. This was about 2009 when I started and I lived on a farm where most people couldn't tell from the street that anyone lived there. This is what my place looked like back then:

[Maximus Decimus]

So I found out today that of the sports that they're adding to the next Olympics is Flag Football. I wonder who'll win that one? I suspect if RL was an American sport it'd be long in now.

Why in the modern world do they have to ruin everything? At this rate they'll reduce medals to the point of being worthless.

Old man rant over. Although totally justified.