Olympics 2024
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Seems to be fairly old news brought a out by a road bridge having been built since 1984, although I didn't know. The change to the tactics that don't occur in rowing will be interesting, but I hope it is temporary. Suspect it will be v. bad for GB rowers l, because it will favour the ultra high rate techniques.
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I really not care, don't give a fig, or even a fig biscuit 'n they're gurt lush. All I care about is "the jet pack", they better have a jet pack.
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Have we passed peak-olympics? Seems to me that the IOC have started to succumb to the temptation to engage the youth audience, which is necessarily fickle, at the expense of more well established sports.
Perhaps it's just me, but I was olympiced out about a week ago, whereas I remember being engrossed in 2008. I can barely remember the last two.
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I get all my news from Roy and hg, so had to check both were actually true.
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Awkward subject for Radcliffe. Same way Kelly always goes quiet on the subject.
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Anyone else think it would be better from a spectacle point of view, to spread the Olympics over a longer period of time than two weeks?
Just simply keep all the events that use the roads fairly close together, to not upset the locals too much.
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So I will only have to set aside one week for the Olympics in 2024.
I can switch off after week one and go somewhere that has a summer. (Yes the forecast hot weather has decided not to turn up here. Instead another drab, sunless morning.)
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Shit sticks, even though she was cleared.
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I do. Three weeks perhaps, and allow the established sports to not have to keep trimming events in favour of things that should stay in the X games. I find the football tournaments too long at a month, and the cricket world cups are absurdly long at 6 weeks.
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13% of 50-64 year olds reckon they could be world class in archery by 2028.
This really demonstrates how tv doesn't show how far away the target is, and how small it is.
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I love how many of the older age groups think they could be world class in rowing in 3 years.
Coxing, I suppose, because anyone with an inflated ego can do that.
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I think there's now a minimum weight of 55kg, or by now they'd just have automated the steering entirely, and just put a recording of some white noise through the speakers in the boat.
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I seem to remember the shit slipping out quite nicely onto the tarmac.
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Well yes, it’s not like you need to either steer or race tactically in a 2km lane race between 8s. 😈
I quit coxing when the only available rowing was a rowing lake 45 mins away - what’s the point?
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When you are coxing, not a lot.
Point you make though is true - there are some quite large rowing deserts in the UK.
Suspect that's the case for a disturbingly high proportion of the sports that feature in the summer olympics.
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Even if you want someone to make a call on a rowing lake, you don’t need a cox to do it.
Bendy courses or ideally bumps - now that’s how you add value
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Not bumps - they are a daft British concoction and suitable only for coxed boats.
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I got blades one year. I don't think we did more than 100 strokes in total. Got wooden spoons another year looong races.
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Always seems odd that it is half the length of football, rugby and cricket?? World Cups.
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I think they failed on the youth audience thing with the new events if my daughter and her friends are anything to go by. Their ridicule of the breaking was worse than anything on here. With them all be performing arts types they didn’t find it very impressive in it’s own right even. I think the IOC maybe guilty that sporty types of all ages generally like traditional sports and they are going after an audience that just don’t really have interest in sport. Even those who like skateboarding etc. probably generally don’t like it in a sporting context.
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Olympic host nation? That's the way forward perhaps.
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Team GB went out with a bit of a whimper. It felt like very few golds in the second week. The track cycling was a bit disappointing- so much for Dame Laura’s 8 golds prediction!
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That really would wreck the buzz.
the athlete content from the village has been easily one of the highlights.
i absolutely love the intensity of it.
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As a skater who was competing when Olympics was first being touted, 1980 IIRC, I can confirm that simply competing went against the grain for most as there was rules* and skateboarding would inevitably become formulaic. Olympics would compound that.
The main draw to skateboarding was freedom and no rules. Particularly so in the early days when everything was new.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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