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Post by Tomo on Aug 1, 2024 18:36:06 GMT
Biles almost tumbling into orbit. Probably the only person who can jump higher than CR7.
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Post by minimatt on Aug 1, 2024 18:41:57 GMT
is it gymnastics and swimming every evening?
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Post by Duffking on Aug 1, 2024 18:58:17 GMT
Swimming is usually the evening attraction for the first week then athletics for the second.
Happy for Biles, been through a lot of shit and then even more shit from dickhead after Tokyo.
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Post by X201 on Aug 1, 2024 19:08:25 GMT
is it gymnastics and swimming every evening? Usually in the first week. Although for 2028 the athletics will be in the first week. |
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Post by baihu1983 on Aug 1, 2024 19:12:04 GMT
As someone pointed out, being LGBT in Algeria is punishable with a prison sentence. So why would they send a trans woman to officially represent them? Simone Biles my word, she is just a generational talent. More outrage and drama over this than the Netherlands letting a child rapist represent them. |
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Post by Danno on Aug 1, 2024 19:16:25 GMT
Looks like Murray's last match is on the cards again
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Post by Danno on Aug 1, 2024 19:26:20 GMT
Haha, stubborn as ever. Jesus.
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Post by cubby on Aug 1, 2024 19:34:19 GMT
Murray just can't move now, it's hard to watch.
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Post by X201 on Aug 1, 2024 19:35:15 GMT
BMX Racing is on the BBC Red Button
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 1, 2024 19:42:03 GMT
/salutes Andy Murray
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Aug 1, 2024 19:42:15 GMT
I hadn’t bothered to watch a medal ceremony up to now.
The medals look a bit wanky this time round.
Kind of glad I didn’t bother to qualify.
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Post by Danno on Aug 1, 2024 19:43:32 GMT
BMX Racing is on the BBC Red Button Thank God for that Claire Balding doing the Murray career post mortem with two swimming commentators was tooth-pummelling |
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Post by peekconfusion on Aug 1, 2024 19:44:32 GMT
Blimey, Andy's retirement was a bit of an anticlimax.
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Post by muddyfunster on Aug 1, 2024 19:44:40 GMT
Genuinely a bit choked up about Murray. A wonderful sportsman and role model. Right time to call it, but you just know that he will have no idea what to do with himself next such has been his commitment to tennis. Hope he can find something else that makes him happy.
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Post by Ulythium on Aug 1, 2024 19:47:41 GMT
Like a lot of people, I didn't much care for Andy Murray when he first came onto the scene. He was scruffy, dour, and petulant - especially compared to the clean-cut Tim Henman - and something about him rubbed me the wrong way from the start.
Since then, he has done an awful lot of growing up (with the media's gaze trained upon him throughout, which I can only imagine makes things a thousand times harder), and now he seems like a genuinely great dude.
One thing he *did* seem to have in common with Henman was his status as the archetypal British sportsman - a perennial plucky underdog, always the bridesmaid but never the bride.
I figured he'd never win anything. Boy, did he make me eat those words!
What a stellar career he has had. Enjoy retirement, "Muzza" - you've certainly earned it.
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Post by muddyfunster on Aug 1, 2024 19:48:42 GMT
It's not in either of their characters but Murray and Rafa treating the rest of the Olympics as an extended leaving do would be fitting. I want to see footage of the two them drunk in a pedalo on the Seine.
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Post by Danno on Aug 1, 2024 19:49:14 GMT
Genuinely a bit choked up about Murray. A wonderful sportsman and role model. Right time to call it, but you just know that he will have no idea what to do with himself next such has been his commitment to tennis. Hope he can find something else that makes him happy. I think he'll be alright. He's gone through so much rehab in the last what, 8 years? he would have gone mad as balls if he didn't have something to keep him occupied |
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Post by baihu1983 on Aug 1, 2024 19:53:50 GMT
Reckon he will do coaching or maybe buy up more hotels and focus on that?
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Post by muddyfunster on Aug 1, 2024 19:54:06 GMT
Genuinely a bit choked up about Murray. A wonderful sportsman and role model. Right time to call it, but you just know that he will have no idea what to do with himself next such has been his commitment to tennis. Hope he can find something else that makes him happy. I think he'll be alright. He's gone through so much rehab in the last what, 8 years? he would have gone mad as balls if he didn't have something to keep him occupied You say that but if you watch the Amazon doc from just before, during and after his hip op (which is great btw) it seems pretty clear that he loves it so much that he'd do anything to have a chance to keep going. He strikes me as one of those absolute obsessive sports people that are addicted to competing. Not saying I think he'll suddenly be on the whiskey on 11am or anything. I just have a hunch he might be someone that almost immediately gets back involved as a full time coach or tv presenter or something. Davis Cup Captain perhaps. Probably also do a few legends events and take them too seriously. |
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Post by peekconfusion on Aug 1, 2024 19:54:17 GMT
It always felt a case of when, not if with Murray for me. I did manage to completely forget that he won gold in Rio. He's an absolute legend in my book and don't think we'll see Brit like him in my lifetime.
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Post by hicksy on Aug 1, 2024 20:03:26 GMT
Genuinely a bit choked up about Murray… Hope he can find something else that makes him happy. I foresee the new Roy Keane of tennis commentary. Just very dry and unreasonably dour at most things. |
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Post by Resident Knievel on Aug 1, 2024 20:05:26 GMT
Beth Shriever setting a new course record in the heats while taking it easy on the last straight
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Post by hicksy on Aug 1, 2024 20:08:05 GMT
It’s a shame Colin Montgomery isn’t around for Olympics golf. Literally the tits.
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 1, 2024 20:08:27 GMT
I think Beth has afterburners on her bike, she left everyone behind her.
edit : a repeat in run 2!
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Post by Duffking on Aug 1, 2024 20:29:38 GMT
And 3. Crushing it.
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Post by Whizzo on Aug 1, 2024 20:32:32 GMT
She won the last heat by nearly two seconds and she was easing up, unbelievable stuff.
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Post by brokenkey on Aug 1, 2024 20:35:43 GMT
Disappointing that team fencing isn't a team death match arrangement.
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Post by jimnastics on Aug 1, 2024 20:39:00 GMT
Someone found some fight from 2022 featuring the Italian woman from the controversy today, and she pulls some of the funniest Peter Griffin shit I've ever seen in sport. I'm now slightly doubting the motives behind what she did today.
x.com/MCGoldrush/status/1819019169053982875
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Post by Danno on Aug 1, 2024 21:10:38 GMT
Someone found some fight from 2022 featuring the Italian woman from the controversy today, and she pulls some of the funniest Peter Griffin shit I've ever seen in sport. I'm now slightly doubting the motives behind what she did today.
x.com/MCGoldrush/status/1819019169053982875
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Post by Resident Knievel on Aug 1, 2024 21:15:29 GMT
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