Paris Olympics

I did apologise to be fair. A Sun reader would never do that

As clear as mud, which was probably the whole point:

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cq5dd2lz8y8o

Wtf is that interview at the end of the article?

I imagine putin has slipped him a bit extra "for the wife".

I've been enjoying the absence of Russia from these Olympics, but frustratingly they've still managed to fuck things up with their disruptive methods.

Saw a little of the jumping horses and I really do wonder what the fuck the riders actually do, besides keeping balance. The horse seems to be doing all the work and should be the ones getting the medals.

Dislike watching it (both as it is boring and because of the welfare of the horses), but also acknowledge I'm a hypocrite who recently very much enjoyed the War of the Roses show at Warwick Castle a few weeks ago, which featured quite a few horse stunts.

I don't want to proscribe which events should be in, as different people have different tastes. (except tennis, football, golf which are right out!)
But I do feel like there are some events that could do with *less* versions. Some things like Judo, diving, equestrian, etc.. seem like they go on for weeks.
Reduce things a little and make space for some other events.

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Am I the only one who doesn't like the instant disqualification for false starts in things like the 100m? I'm sure they used to give yellow cards, and a second offence was disqualification.
It seems ridiculously harsh to disqualify someone from an event they might have been training for 4 years for, just for one half millisecond mistake.
It can't even save that much time.

My sister's ex is/was a dressage horse trainer, wannabe horse investor/broker, and a fat cunt. I spent some time in the early days of their relationship helping take photos for his website etc., hated every minute of it, horse people are the absolute worst. Funny thing was he loved to think he was part of the whole scene and very much Walter Mitty-ed his way through it, when in fact he barely made any profit on any horses, drank away any profit he made, became a fat old cunt that nobody wanted training their expensive horses, and now he looks after pub gardens and mows lawns.

Just get rid of the horses but keep the riders, it would be amazing... all going round like Tina and Jericho from Bobs Burgers!! ;-)

The only horse event should be jousting. Now you couldn't use proper lances because of the woke horse agenda but they could easily be substituted for giant foam/rubber lances.

I broadly agree with this - although it has been interesting seeing the women’s world cup only just over take the Olympics in the last tournament or two.

But for the big billion dollar sports it doesn’t make much sense, especially as they aren’t even enormous crowd draws the way athletics, swimming, gymnastics etc are

What are huge draws can vary a lot by country though, which can affect your perception. 

I always thought the football was totally irrelevant and mostly ignored it. And I seem to remember half the football games in the UK Olympics being empty, when other events were hard to get tickets for. 

But being in Japan, the football was one of the events they were most interested in (after the ones they were best at, like Judo, Wrestling, Swimming, etc..). There was very little interest in Athletics. 

It's weird, cos for me the olympics basically *is* athletics, but that doesn't seem to be universal. 

eleven year old in the Olympics skateboarding

THERE'S AN 11 YEAR OLD IN THE SKATEBOARDING