Paris Olympics SPOILER Thread
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TP match-racing isn't a time trial. It's a race.
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Sure but you can’t affect the other team in reality.
its not like road racing where you can wheel suck your way and sprint ahead with fresh legs. That’s why it’s not a big sport.
This Dutch runner gets it:
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I'd be weeping if my tattoo had that spacing weirdness.
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tactic (noun) - an action or strategy carefully planned to achieve a specific end.
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Sarcasm fail. 🤪
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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Doesn't this statement completely undermine your own argument?
If you have raced differently and finished ahead of your rival you have won, using tactics.
Covering the distance as fast as possible is just covering the distance as fast as possible it does not guarantee victory.
Therefore by your own logic a tactic is better than racing fast.
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lol no. Jasper Philipsen is not riding the 180km as fast as possible to win his tour sprints, nor are Alpecin
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Thought we were just talking about multi-lane racing in respect of the value of tactics.
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We were, Rick now seems to have changed sports to prove his point!
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Commendable versatility. Not many can handle tarmac and the boards at an elite level.
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On the one had, if Hall didn't have Hudson-Smith there, he wouldn't have been capable of running that fast.
Team Pursuit is definitely different and in the semi/final, no team should be adjusting how fast they start because of what the other team is doing. Who cares if you are behind after 1km unless it's by at least 2 seconds?
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If you're racing a faster team then you roll the dice and try and force them to make a mistake. Just riding to your own pace guarantees finishing second.
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I suspect "tactics" in this particular context are indeed substantially pre race, but that the effect of knowing if you are up or down (and if those "tactics" are working) is not insignificant. It pushed the GB riders just beyond the limit didn't it? Probably it's more or less the same with track sprinting, that the athletes have a pre race plan and do their best to execute it without losing form because of the external pressures of the actual race.
What you said about there being no tactics in lane racing in a 7 min sprint endurance sport is total horse shit though. Just shows you didnt ever row yourself and have little experience of smaller boats. Being able to steer, call a rate or spot flaws in bladework is fine, but if you sat in a rowing boat you'd either suffer an ejector crab or you would flip it. I'm sorry you don't understand the distinction.
I also find it odd that you cited a head race for your experience of rowing. Those genuinely are time trials and the tactics there are limited to whether you have to change course to pass or be passed, and that's about it. That aside the only noise I every heard through the cox box was telling me to concentrate on our boat and not be distracted by the thing the little person was drawing my attention to.
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Jade Jones not looking sharp in her first taekwondo fight, deadlocked after three scrappy rounds and losses on aggression in third round.
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How dare you post something relevant to the Olympics on one of Rick’s threads!
The USA women got very lucky in the 100 relay.
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I don't think the rowing argument needs to rehashed in this section of the forum.
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Why are you bringing drugs into it?
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What’s this now?
Flying a flipping kite is an Olympic sport?
Ah, I see it’s another of those having a lark on the sea, “sports”.
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Have they got hydrofoils?
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I think you need to keep an open mind on these new sports. I was very cynical about BMX aerials, skateboarding and kayak cross but they are all superb TV sports. Not sure "breaking" and kite flying would do it for me either, but I'm sure they've been included because there's a large TV audience who'll lap them up.
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Sliding down a frozen water slide is a winger olympic event, as is snowboarding more or less in a straight line over some big bumps. There's also some going down lots of little bumps skiing events.
Let's face it, Olympic medals are a bit like undergrad degrees. Some are worth more than others.
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That's radical though dude. Personally I'm stoked if they win a gold.
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I’d get rid of any sport that you can’t time or measure with a ruler/tape.
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With an honourable exception for the horse stuff and gymnastics that have been in the OGs for decades.
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Beach volleyball?
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I'll make an exception for Women's
Those are first on my cut list.
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They are superb in the same way as a lot of the Red Bull sponsored events. After a while though, the novelty would diminish.
Some of these will come and go quite fast, I think, and be consigned to history like distance diving, swimming obstacle course races and solo synchronised swimming*.
*I mean you have to be pretty fucking dyspraxic to be out of time with yourself, but this was a real event.
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That would be wildly in contrast to the original, Greek, Olympics, where they had artistic events. There's a champion trumpeter that was pretty famous.
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Brian?
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