2024 Paris Paralympics

[The Buscher]

Always fascinates me to see a runner just summoning that kick at the end - Hodgkinson hits that next gear and nobody's even close.  Great run.

[Bobfoc]

Kelly Holmes' two Olympic golds being twenty years ago doesn't feel right.

[The Buscher]

Mondo Duplantis setting a world record (again) with the entire stadium staying just to watch him.  Incredible.

[Lineker]

 

[Colly]

Ask a very silly question, but is the speed climbing layout always the same across Olympics? Feels like it would have to be for records to be valid but also a bit boring...

[K]

10 hours ago, Colly said:

Ask a very silly question, but is the speed climbing layout always the same across Olympics? Feels like it would have to be for records to be valid but also a bit boring...

Yes. The speed climbing wall is exactly the same configuration all over the world, in every gym. There are specific techniques and moves just for this wall.

[Gazz]

I feel like this games is missing it's 'Eric the Eel'. Where's the 19 stone Polynesian lad running the 110m Hurdles or the 46 year old woman from Eritrea doing the shot put?

[gunnar hendershow]

33 minutes ago, Gazz said:

I feel like this games is missing it's 'Eric the Eel'. Where's the 19 stone Polynesian lad running the 110m Hurdles or the 46 year old woman from Eritrea doing the shot put?

We did have Table Tennis Grandma.

[Bobfoc]

Sky Brown has won a bronze medal in the skateboarding with a dislocated shoulder. She even fell on it and kept going. That's fearlessness.

[lanky316]

It was one hell of a run, I'm not sure how much more she could have done as the Aussie and Japanese girls put on very good runs themselves. The biggest what-if  for me will be the other Japanese lass who couldn't complete her run, it was shaping up to be right up there as well and could have made it an even more packed battle at the top. A bronze with that shoulder is an incredible achievement.

[Chris2K]

She's a monster. Normal people wouldn't even have competed with a recently dislocated shoulder, let alone carry on after falling on it again, let alone still get bronze.

[Bobfoc]

The Dutch sprint team in the cycling is on a different level.

[Colly]

I'd quite like both these knobs to not medal in the men's 1500.

[Bobfoc]

3 minutes ago, Colly said:

I'd quite like both these knobs to not medal in the men's 1500.

They way they've built it up as a two-way battle seems rather dismissive of the rest of the field. Kerr is only ranked ninth in the world this year. Ingebritsen has gone two seconds faster than anyone else this season so far, so he ought to win as long as he doesn't misjudge the pace.

[The Buscher]

Chaos in the 1500M!  Ingebritsen goes from gold to off the podium in a matter of seconds.

[Bobfoc]

That's three global championships in a row that Ingebritsen has lost the 1500m on the final straight.

[Colly]

That'll do.

[lanky316]

That makes your "hoping for failure" rate almost as good as the BBC's brilliant strategy of "do a feature on an athlete to ensure failure" move.

[DFF]

https://www.mmafighting.com/2024/8/6/24214760/cuban-mijain-lopez-retires-after-winning-record-breaking-5th-olympic-gold-medal-in-wrestling

 

Absolute legend. 

[Bobfoc]

The Steve Redgrave of wrestling.