2024 Paris Paralympics

[Bobfoc]

As much as I greatly respect the skills of the competitors, I find it hard to watch the gymnastics events for any great length of time. It all blurs together in my mind after a while, once the initial "wow" factor dies down. I feel the same way about figure skating in the Winter Olympics.

[lanky316]

I don't dislike it as one of my regular "once every four years" things but it can go into a bit of a blur not fully understanding the intricacies they're judging on. You'll see things that look pretty impressive scoring less than things that look less impressive for example. 

[Colly]

This is EWB, if a cartwheely triple backflip doesn't end in an Asai moonsault was there any point?

[lanky316]

I saw one of those. The girl barely earned a 12 from the judges, all down to the flag they're competing under innit?

[Chris2K]

Would have been full marks in the Tokyo Dome Games.

[METALMAN]

2 hours ago, Colly said:

 

 

once he's out the Seine he can just inject himself with bleach and he'll be fine

[Bobfoc]

Gold for Ireland in the swimming. They hadn't won a medal in the pool since 1996, and now they have two in these games.

[Krabby]

1 hour ago, Bobfoc said:

Gold for Ireland in the swimming. They hadn't won a medal in the pool since 1996, and now they have two in these games.

How are the Irish that bad at swimming - they're a big island!

[Bobfoc]

1 minute ago, Krabby said:

How are the Irish that bad at swimming - they're a big island!

Because they have to compete against Australia, which is a much bigger island.

[Chris2K]

Andy Murray WILL. NOT. DIE. Another two match points saved in the win.

[Bobfoc]

Brilliant few minutes for Britain, with gold in the 4x200m freestyle relay and Murray and Evans once again saving match points to go through in the tennis.

[Maxx]

Jimmer Time!  

[Hobo]

21 minutes ago, Krabby said:

How are the Irish that bad at swimming - they're a big island!

cause the sea is cold

[Colly]

Ask a silly question, but why is the tennis so empty? Ticket prices?

[Maxx]

17 minutes ago, Maxx said:

Jimmer Time!  

Well that went as well as his NBA career.

[Lineker]

 

[lanky316]

I honestly haven't had a problem with Discovery+ when it comes to keeping up with things. I don't know if it's really "soulless" either. I think the writer means "there's not always commentary" which when you get over the top cheerleading squads - a bit better on that than on other services in fairness - is infuriating. There are some sports with intricacies it'd be useful to have, but most of the time it's not needed - in archery I know that man getting three arrows in the middle part of the target is good, in judo girl throws other girl over her head and leaves her flat on her back is good I don't really need my hand held.

Some of the sports could be streamlined, do I need to come out and back into the next game in the 7s for example? Not really, although for simplicity sake I get as well in that if I just want to watch every event by X country they're separated out rather than making me sit through hours of the thing scrolling to try and find the match I want to watch. It's not perfect but being able to have a couple of tabs up and saying "I think I'll see how the British girl does in the badminton, while keeping an eye on how things are going in the archery for example isn't a problem for me.

[Lineker]

Pairing it with the official Olympics app does help.

[Baddar]

I've navigated the Discovery+ app quite easily. I've found that most of the time, the BBC and Eurosport haven't had coverage of what I want to watch though.

I did enjoy the mountain bike races the other day though, never watched it before but is different to regular cycling which I've never been arsed to properly understand.

[Colly]

My nerves couldn't handle the part where they went down the rocky bit.