The Paris Olympics

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  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    MrsGrey said:

    lol

    So I was watching the Men's 100m semi finals. A bit distracted, while multi-tasking, so not really doing the talking heads, just stopping to watch the actual race.

    Totally baffled why Hinchliffe's 3rd wasn't good enough for automatic qualification.


    Turns out there are 3 semi-finals ;doh

    Yeah, it seems to be standard these days, but I don't like it tbh. I'd rather they make it stricter in the early rounds (eg only top 2 go through from the heats, which are much easier) to make it only 2 semi-finals.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    That hype piece by Johnson pre 100m is filmed in the Musee d'Orsay.
    Wonder how much they had to pay for filming in that venue.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    Trying to understand the facts as the reporting is a bit confusing. But did every single person in the race run faster than the previous world record?
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    MrsGrey said:

    Trying to understand the facts as the reporting is a bit confusing. But did every single person in the race run faster than the previous world record?

    They ran faster than a previous world record, but if you go back 50 years that was probably slower than 10 seconds. I missed whatever it is you're referring to, but it was an exceptionally quick race. Obviously they weren't all quicker than the current WR, or a good few WRs before that. You'd have to go back to Carl Lewis in 1988 when he set a new WR of 9.92 for them all to be quicker, and it's been broken (legally) 10 times since then.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    edited August 4
    buffybegood said:

    MrsGrey said:

    Trying to understand the facts as the reporting is a bit confusing. But did every single person in the race run faster than the previous world record?

    They ran faster than a previous world record
    Ah, that's makes more sense!

    I knew it couldn't have been what they meant when they said "That was a world record for a fourth-placed finish, a world record for fifth, a world record for sixth, a world record for seventh and a world record for for eighth."

    Hence my baffled query.

  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Each one of the eight ran under 10 seconds which I think is a record.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    I think it was the fastest 100m when all 8 sprinters, covered by 0.12 seconds, are taken into account.
  • DeanscaleshammerDeanscaleshammer
    I think they were saying that most of the athletes broke the record for that position in the race? I might be wrong but that’s how I understood it.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited August 5
    A slightly disappointing silver in the Triathlon mixed relay. We were leading most of the way, with favourites France taken out of the running by a crash on the first bike leg, but on the final leg Beth Potter lost her lead on the bike and then got run out of gold by Germany. We just pipped USA in a photo finish for silver, a couple of yards behind Germany.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    buffybegood said:

    A slightly disappointing silver in the Triathlon mixed relay. We were leading most of the way, with favourites France taken out of the running by a crash on the first bike leg, but on the final leg Beth Potter lost her lead on the bike and then got run out of gold by Germany. We just pipped USA in a photo finish for silver, a couple of yards behind Germany.

    It seems the result has been revised, an even more disappointing bronze rather than silver.

  • WHU_Champo_league_in_7_yearsWHU_Champo_league_in_7_years
    buffybegood said:

    MrsGrey said:

    Trying to understand the facts as the reporting is a bit confusing. But did every single person in the race run faster than the previous world record?

    They ran faster than a previous world record, but if you go back 50 years that was probably slower than 10 seconds. I missed whatever it is you're referring to, but it was an exceptionally quick race. Obviously they weren't all quicker than the current WR, or a good few WRs before that. You'd have to go back to Carl Lewis in 1988 when he set a new WR of 9.92 for them all to be quicker, and it's been broken (legally) 10 times since then.
    I didn't interpret it like that

    I may be wrong, but I think Dean is right

    So if you had a excel spreadsheet where you had all of the Olympics and the times of each position, I.e. a row of every 1st place first, a row of 3rd place finishes and so on, if you went down the list and highlighted the fastest for each position, you'd spot that the "fastest 4th/5th/6th/7th/8th place finish" recorded was in this year's

    That's how they made it seem.

    Like Seville got 9.91 in 8th. You look at all the 8th place finishes, nobody had ever ran 9.91.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Fair enough, I missed the original comment, was just trying to make sense of what MrsG posted (shoulda known better 😂🤣😂).
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    We are all trying to make sense of what Steve Cram said!

    I'm glad it wasn't just me who was confused:-)
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited August 5
    Disaster for Molly Caudery who was fancied for a medal in the pole vault. She came in at a height of 4.55m in qualifying, and had 3 fails at the height. She doesn't make the final.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    All sorts of chaos at the gymnastics. Falling off the beam, falling over on landing, dropping off the bars...
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Dropping of the bar is something I can identify with 🥳
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited August 5
    Another canoeing medal, a bronze in the women's kayak cross.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Quickly followed by a silver in the men's kayak cross.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Goodness me, what's happened in the Women's Team Sprint in the velodrome? The WR has been broken 4 times this afternoon, first by GB in the qualifying, then twice in the heats before GB broke it again in the last heat. Guaranteed at least a silver as the 2 quickest in the heats race for gold and silver, the remaining 2 heat winners go for the bronze.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited August 5
    GB win gold in the women's team sprint in yet another WR.

    A great start to the cycling.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    The pole vault is terrifying isn't it.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    MrsGrey said:

    The pole vault is terrifying isn't it.

    The top guys seem to be clearing the bar by huge margins. Could go high.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Yay, gold for Keely Hodgkinson in the 800m.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Brilliant
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    IronHerb said:

    MrsGrey said:

    The pole vault is terrifying isn't it.

    The top guys seem to be clearing the bar by huge margins. Could go high.
    You called it :+1:

    New OR.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited August 5
    MrsGrey said:

    IronHerb said:

    MrsGrey said:

    The pole vault is terrifying isn't it.

    The top guys seem to be clearing the bar by huge margins. Could go high.
    You called it :+1:

    New OR.
    Even higher, a new WR (and another OR).
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    That's 20 feet 6 inches in old money. It was 15 feet 7 inches when I was born. Hate to think where it will be in another 70 years. 😱
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    I didn't see any of the velodrome stuff earlier.

    Just catching up , and watching the medal ceremony. The cyclist in the middle of the three singing God Save the Queen 😂
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    MrsGrey said:

    I didn't see any of the velodrome stuff earlier.

    Just catching up , and watching the medal ceremony. The cyclist in the middle of the three singing God Save the Queen 😂

    Sorry for the spoilers.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    No worries. If I was that bovvered I wouldn't be on the thread :-)

    I watched a lot of cycling in the Tokyo Olympics, and got my head around the different events, rules etc.

    But that was years ago, and now I'm totally baffled. Teams going in opposite directions.. or is it just the filming?

    Gonna have to up my game!

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