Thought we needed a thread for the current games.
Just watching the Judo. Even though the French bloke lost, you had to love the fact that the crown broke out into the
Marseillaise during the Final.
Crowd ?
Would you like me to change that, LH ? ;)
I SO hate predictive spelling, and the way it sneaks the wrong word in. >:(
A pity our cycling chap suffered a puncture.
He missed a podium by 2 seconds.
I was disappointed that the refs ruined the 3rd place game and final of the Rugby 7s with over officiousness.
The game is supposed to flow, not be interrupted every minute because of imagined technical infringements.
That aside, there were some cracking games.
Congratulations to the organisers for scheduling more than horses and swimming during week 1.
AGGGGGHHHHH more bloody bloody sport. No please No :'( :'( :'( :'(
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 28 July 2024, 06:30:52 AMAGGGGGHHHHH more bloody bloody sport. No please No :'( :'( :'( :'(
Much as I hate to agree with Ian....
QuoteAGGGGGHHHHH more bloody bloody sport. No please No :'( :'( :'( :'(
Have a look at your remote, there's an off button.
I know, but I would like choice - not just kissball or athletics...or even worse Blooy Tennis and Damned Gof.
Look, I don't want to come across as rude - this isn't the "Other Place" - but as the thread is titled Olympics, it really isn't the place to come if you don't like the Olympics.
Sorry, I am trying to be polite.
I don't watch the Olympics so this thread is my sole source of news on the subject. Keep it up lads.
We watched the Simone Biles highlights of her 4 routines, which were just incredible :o ! She really is the GOAT and from what we saw, no-one is close to her in terms of her performances and difficulty scores. Let's see what the finals bring...
Quote from: Last Hussar on 27 July 2024, 04:36:41 PMThought we needed a thread for the current games.
I thought you had more wooden men to paint. Stop wasting your time with the Olympics and get on with them.
Quote from: Orcs on 29 July 2024, 01:49:14 PMI thought you had more wooden men to paint. Stop wasting your time with the Olympics and get on with them.
And 28mm 7TV....and 10mm (Pendraken be praised!!) ECW.....and more 10mm brens for your WW2 Brits....and (need I go on?)!!! :d
How can I be a proper wargamer if I paint what I have!
Quote from: Last Hussar on 30 July 2024, 08:51:57 AMHow can I be a proper wargamer if I paint what I have!
You need to buy more then. Send Leon you bank details and he will post you two random army packs . :)
I (mostly) enjoy the Olympics. It's only every 4 years, and it's a chance to see things that are not normally shown.
Over the last few days I've seen:
- Pistol shooting (very un-televisual. Really doesn't work).
- Slalom canoe (looks exhausting).
- Windsurfing & Sailing (Again, doesn't really work on TV. The competitors are too spread out and even with the computerised labels it's difficult for a non-expert to work out what's going on).
- Trap shooting (Happens so fast. You don't see the clay, you just get to see the cloud of debris for a successful hit, but was compelling watching.)
- Badminton
- Mountain biking
- Triathlon
- Rowing/sculling
There are a few sports that really shouldn't be there though.
To me the Olympics should be the peak, or close to it, of success in that sport. Is that true for football? Or golf? Or tennis? Clearly not. There are probably others like that (Road cycling?)
There are also "sports" that are clearly not sports. Doing tricks is not a sport (at least not to me). So BMX freestyle, skateboarding and "breaking" (break dancing to you & me) hold no interest. I notice they're all fairly new additions, and presumably have been included to try and interest the yoof of today.
And any "sport" that includes judges giving a score for "Artistic Expression" or something similar, and/or requires music is clearly more "Strictly" or "Eurovision" than an actual sport.
Beach volleyball is reprehensible for having a dress code that defines the skimpiness of the costumes.
I also have no interest in any sport that involves animals.
The things I do want to watch are the track cycling, triathlons, marathons and the track athletics. Anything else I see is a bonus.
Clare Balding is surely the most condescending presenter the BBC have ever come up with.
Well done to the Brits who won the mountain biking, trap shooting and the triathlon.
Sorry for the ramble.
I agree with Raider that many of the so called "Sports" are not. I also do not like to see women knocking 7 bells out of each other in the various forms of "Boxing"
The other thing that irritated me is that in the archery, a proper Olympic sport, the bows have all sorts of counter weights, pulley systems etc. We need to get rid of this.
QuoteThe other thing that irritated me is that in the archery, a proper Olympic sport, the bows have all sorts of counter weights, pulley systems etc. We need to get rid of this.
Aye, needs to be replaced with a simple bow, and the target is replaced by a shieldwall of hairy men wielding swords, spears & axes advancing rapidly towards the shooter.
Pistol shooting should be a Dirty Harry/Magnum Force-style shooting range, with .44 Magnums. Much more impressive.
QuoteAye, needs to be replaced with a simple bow, and the target is replaced by a shieldwall of hairy men wielding swords, spears & axes advancing rapidly towards the shooter.
Pistol shooting should be a Dirty Harry/Magnum Force-style shooting range, with .44 Magnums. Much more impressive.
A simple bow?!!
Pah! A throwing stick was good enough for our
Homo heidelbergensis ancestors, who needs all this new-fangled technology.
;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Raider4 on 31 July 2024, 02:35:36 PMPistol shooting should be a Dirty Harry/Magnum Force-style shooting range, with .44 Magnums. Much more impressive.
Sadly the UK would not be able to enter this due to the Firearms restrictions.
QuoteI agree with Raider that many of the so called "Sports" are not. I also do not like to see women knocking 7 bells out of each other in the various forms of "Boxing"
The other thing that irritated me is that in the archery, a proper Olympic sport, the bows have all sorts of counter weights, pulley systems etc. We need to get rid of this.
On the positive side, no shortage of Frenchmen to provide targets for Orcs' "Proper archery".
QuoteOn the positive side, no shortage of Frenchmen to provide targets for Orcs' "Proper archery".
LOL. Yes, recreate Crécy and Agincourt. Why would that not be appreciated at the Paris Olympics?
I enjoyed the BMX, like how the he'll do you learn to do that?!
Quote from: Last Hussar on 31 July 2024, 11:00:15 PMI enjoyed the BMX, like how the he'll do you learn to do that?!
True but its not a proper Olympic sport.
QuotePistol shooting should be a Dirty Harry/Magnum Force-style shooting range, with .44 Magnums. Much more impressive.
Wot? Not "gentlemen, stand back to back, at the word of command take ten paces forward, turn and fire." ;D
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 31 July 2024, 06:31:13 PMOn the positive side, no shortage of Frenchmen to provide targets for Orcs' "Proper archery".
That is so appealing on many levels (but so wrong) ;D
We could have an mounted archery competition with a recurve bow, and use the Chinese as targets. no doubt the Mongolian team would win.
Quote from: Raider4 on 31 July 2024, 02:35:36 PMAye, needs to be replaced with a simple bow, and the target is replaced by a shieldwall of hairy men wielding swords, spears & axes advancing rapidly towards the shooter.
Pistol shooting should be a Dirty Harry/Magnum Force-style shooting range, with .44 Magnums. Much more impressive.
No,no, no; the target should be the cream of French Nobility...
Quote from: Ben Waterhouse on 01 August 2024, 12:04:30 PMNo,no, no; the target should be the cream of French Nobility...
Didna Robspire get rid o dem ? :d
I know threads get derailed on this forum with the regularity of a bullet train but how did a posting about the Olympics that were founded on a love of sport, unity, and competition, get here?
QuoteI know threads get derailed on this forum with the regularity of a bullet train but how did a posting about the Olympics that were founded on a love of sport, unity, and competition, get here?
Toxic soshul meeja - innit!
Sensibilities may have changed over the century or so since the 1900 Paris games when live pigeon shooting figured.
There was also a running game event, but I don't know what the targets were there!
Quote from: Orcs on 01 August 2024, 08:22:19 AMTrue but its not a proper Olympic sport.
Why not?
QuoteSensibilities may have changed over the century or so since the 1900 Paris games when live pigeon shooting figured.
There was also a running game event, but I don't know what the targets were there!
But perhaps their passports said they were clay pigeons...?
;)
Quote from: Last Hussar on 01 August 2024, 08:55:46 PMWhy not?
Adults on bicycles that are about the size of a 7 year old doing tricks. Its not a sport. its trick cycling.
Orcs, as pointed out earlier on the thread you don't have to watch it.
Watch the bits you like, ignore the rest.
It's what I do.
To be fair I don't like any of it and so watch none of it. :)
Well the women's gymnastics has been great and you just have to be in awe of what Simone Biles can do on the floor, ditto the vault. SWMBO has got into the boxing and judo, with the women's volleyball producing some great matches. Having played volleyball many moons ago, I can really appreciate what is going on.
The dad of a British silver medalist cyclist was in the shop.yesterday, beaming with pride.
Velodrome starts Monday. That's my TV on for 2 days, at least.
Quote from: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 02 August 2024, 06:48:24 AMThe dad of a British silver medalist cyclist was in the shop.yesterday, beaming with pride.
:-bd :-bd
We like the velodrome stuff too :) .
Enjoyed the BMX racing last night, despite the BBC. Fast & furious.
The in-studio former Olympiad.
"[Practice] was really hard, she was in Leeds, I was in Plymouth. "
Well yes, you were synchronised divers, I expect practising was a bit tricky!
The worrying thing is the US didn't win any shooting medals... @-)
Need an 'Urban Freestyle' event for them.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 02 August 2024, 01:38:03 PMThe worrying thing is the US didn't win any shooting medals... @-)
I would suggest the following reasons:
1 None of the events used full bore weapons. Americans consider air pistols and rifles and .22 rimfire rifles as kids toys.
2 Just because you own several does not necessarily mean you know how to handle them properly.
3 Having been a shooter for 40 years there is a big difference between shooting things that react, eg Tin cans, bottles, live targets when hunting etc, and a paper target in a competition.
Quote from: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 02 August 2024, 06:48:24 AMThe dad of a British silver medalist cyclist was in the shop.yesterday, beaming with pride.
:-bd :-bd
Maybe the Yanks are just rubbish at shooting.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 03 August 2024, 10:54:45 AMMaybe the Yanks are just rubbish at shooting.
Shouldn't be; they get plenty of practice
Just watching the windsurfing. This year they are using new (to me at least) style boards which have a hydrofoil on them - looks very impressive as they literally fly along at up to 25 knots.
'They' have a number of sports that go back to 'ancient times'...archery, catching the javelin, the discus, etc, etc..
I'd like to see a new category...the slingshot.
It looks a particularly difficult skill to master.
Would it be possible to modernise a piece of string, and a stone ?..
Probably ! ;)
QuoteWould it be possible to modernise a piece of string, and a stone ?..
Hi-tech carbon fibre sling with built in motion detector to signal the exact moment to release the shot via a Bluetooth link to the boar's tusk* helmet.
Firing perfectly balanced, aerodynamically perfect, nano-material bullets.
*100% synthetic tusks. No animals were harmed in the making of these helmets. PETA approved. :)
Watching the bicycling round and round. I told the British women to cycle faster, and they did. Maybe I should be a coach!
Just settled down to watch the cycling and the BBC switched to hockey. Ho hum.
The team triathlon this morning was a terrific race. Don't think I've ever seen one that close before.
I find myself wanting to punch someone ever time I hear the word 'medal' used as a verb.
I hate that too. >:(
Words change.
150 years ago 'obnoxious' meant something completely different (dangerous, I think).