Olympics 2024
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If it makes you feel better, I’ve been watching some RAI and NOS and it makes the BBC seem comprehensive
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The format for the pistol shooting is good but why don’t they use a Picture in Picture to show the target like in biathlon? French girl choked when she had the gold in her grasp.
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I was watching the women's archery earlier. They actually show the competitor's heart rates. I know there is a fair bit of tension, but even so, they appeared surprisingly high. Both were hovering around 100bpm.
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I'd imagine that pulling the tension takes some effort. Add in the mental pressure and 100 bpm seems low to me.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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Impressive win by the men’s eight beating Rick’s boys. Interesting how the Romanian stroke rate was so much higher than everyone else’s throughout
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Lighter boats with superior technique can compensate for a lack of power with higher ratings.
used to do that a lot with our junior boat when competing against lower level men’s boats
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Unless you're using a hydrofoil on water, you might as well just swim.
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That's not what you are seeing, Romania, NZ have a fundamentally different philosophy.
There has been a general tendency towards higher rates and slightly shorter strokes for some time, with the UK being a slight outlier now.
Theory is when the oar is in the water, the boat is going it's fastest. There is also an argument that a higher percentage of the time the oar is in the water is whilst the leverage is at its highest - and that's not the catch or finish, it's the middle of the drive when the back starts to open out and the oar sweeps through 90 degrees. So why not do that more often and spend less time crunched up or leaning back?
The UK focusses on length and power. That correlates well to a rowing machine, but not sure it is getting the best put of the deep talent pool we have, on the water.
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I know bugger all about rowing but even I noticed the GB crews all consistently row at around 38-40 strokes. It was particularly noticeable in the womens quad and mens pair that in the last 200m, neither boat could seem to get beyond 40, when the crews that closed them down were at around 44-45 strokes.
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Ireland having a great Olympics
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We didn't vote brexit for our gold medals to go to the EU. Is it a single market thing?
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GB crews generally slow at starts as well. Undoubtedly they are fast for the "middle 100", but the notion that they have more speed to come if they under rate the majority of the time seems to be a bit of a myth, because 42-44 for a crew that is most efficient at 38 is less efficient than 44-46 for a crew that is most efficient at 42.
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Hadn’t realised Team GB have the person that Steve Buscemi meme is based on taking part in the men’s skateboarding. Same age as me and still playing on a skateboard feels weird.
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Incidentally, unpopular as this may be, the decision to give national treasure Helen Glover a seat has probably cost three younger rowers a gold, because she can't sprint at the start or finish as well as she needed to.
If you have been watching the world cup events for the last couple of seasons it's been obvious that UK crew could only time trial with her in it. Sentimental pick, shouldn't happen.
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Haven’t seen that meme. Linky?
Heard him on the radio this morning, talks well Probably fed up fielding questions about his age but all good publicity I guess.
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Fraser-Pryce out of the women’s 100m
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Haven't GB's rowing squad had their best games ever?
However, was it 2 golds missed by less than a metre?
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So is the UK’s ex golden girl, Dina Asher Smith.
Her individual medal winning days are over.
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
I thought 200m was her stronger distance these days. Johnson pointed out she hasn’t run a PB since 2019. Would love to see her make a comeback but fear you are right.
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The cynical part of me is slightly suspicious.
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Whoah. What are the Italian male swimmers wearing!
Edit : Hungarian, I mean 😂
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You must have been feeling positively watergate watching the blokes road race then.
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Was it them in the shorts that when I glanced up looked like a posing pouch?
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Adverse finding in sample, too damaging for athletics to go public, told to retire immediately 🤔
its happened before.
Or she might have just tweaked a hammy 😂
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I am still suprised how little knowledge casual sports watchers have of what really goes on within all sports. It is usually followed by complete denial that their particular sporting favourites could ever be involved in any dodgy practices.
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Yes, that’s the one.
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Not quite, London better. It's a misleading statoid though, because post Nat Lottery funding means Beijing (just about), London, Rio, Tokyo, Paris need to be treated differently from anything before, where rowers basically couldn't be full time professional athletes.
So Paris was second best out of 5 regattas. Really 4, because the 2004-2008 Olympiad didn't benefit to the same extent from lottery funding g as the later ones. So good performance, but about par.
Given overall participation levels and funding, the US should dominate. (I've never understood why they are so bad even at sweep.) Followed by the UK, possibly Germany. In recent years we've been out punched by the Netherlands, Romania and New Zealand.
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Some leg by Femke Bol in the mixed relay. Thought she’d left it too late to take second at one point but then overhauled the Yank for first. The British girl looked good in the finish straight but just needed another 20m to overhaul the American.
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