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Post by lynette on Aug 15, 2016 17:39:00 GMT
I seem to remember the basic tix were £20 each which was fine. What I saw was ok. The synchronised swimming I saw was more expensive. I would have paid more if I could have got tix. I'm really surprised there are so many empty seats in Rio. Let's see what the paras bring. The para olympics was London's triumph. People bought tix to see the sport and to get into the venues, get the vibe as it was so well presented on the telly.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 18:29:23 GMT
The Opening Ceremony was more expensive! So it didn't sell out.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 19:17:43 GMT
^ I can't stand the tension of watching that. Keep worrying that if one of the team drowns, the whole lot have to... In the synchronised swimming commentary they said that one of the competitors nearly drowned when she was six (IIRC), so her parents made sure she could swim and now she's at the Olympics. That's one effective way of conquering a fear of water. Currently hoping that Sanne Wevers gets gold in the artistic gymnastics beam final. ... Yes! First female artistic gymnast to get a medal for the Netherlands, and it's a gold one. |
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 15, 2016 20:31:12 GMT
Wasn't nice and very romantic, to see Qin Kai propose to his girlfriend He Zi. Both are in the Chinesse diving team.
Now that she has said yes, I wonder if he will now take up a different style of diving?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 20:42:56 GMT
The Omnium, aka "How to make a hexathlon out of six different ways of cycling in circles".
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Post by stefy69 on Aug 16, 2016 6:21:31 GMT
I am so pleased for Charlotte Dujardin, what a stunning performance 
.. and what an excellent diversity of sports our medals are coming from yesterday : Dressage, Track cycling and Women's Hammer |
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 16, 2016 12:10:31 GMT
I cannot see why we are getting all excited over Hitchon bronze in the hammer, if Ms Trunchball we surely would've got gold?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Aug 16, 2016 19:49:51 GMT
Laura Trott wins gold tonight and she becomes the greatest British female athlete ever. Well at least second best behind Jayne Torville
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Post by lynette on Aug 16, 2016 20:04:28 GMT
Credit due to that teenager Amy Tinkler, not fazed by the elite company. Roll on Tokyo.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2016 20:29:03 GMT
Laura Trott's doing very well in the points race.
Overall Britain is second in the medal table. I remember when we were pleased to pick up enough medals to justify putting an s on the end of it. (Yes, that's an exaggeration, but not much of one.)
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Post by theatremadness on Aug 16, 2016 20:37:27 GMT
I cannot see why we are getting all excited over Hitchon bronze in the hammer, if Ms Trunchball we surely would've got gold? Well Ms Trunchball was English Hammer Throwing Champion 1969, so who's to say that she would hold up against the rest of the world! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2016 20:43:00 GMT
I'm confused by the points race. When some of the bikes have lapped the others and the cyclists are spread out round the entire track how do they define the head of the race? It's not the rider who's been fastest, because when someone laps the pack they're now at the back. Time to do some searching...
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Aug 16, 2016 20:44:21 GMT
I'm confused by the points race. When some of the bikes have lapped the others and the cyclists are spread out round the entire track how do they define the head of the race? It's not the rider who's been fastest, because when someone laps the pack they're now at the back. Time to do some searching... Answered your own question fella |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Aug 16, 2016 20:45:20 GMT
Laura Trott wins gold tonight and she becomes the greatest British female athlete ever. Well at least second best behind Jayne Torville Wow, 24 years old. Yep she's the greatest |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2016 21:14:02 GMT
I'm confused by the points race. When some of the bikes have lapped the others and the cyclists are spread out round the entire track how do they define the head of the race? It's not the rider who's been fastest, because when someone laps the pack they're now at the back. Time to do some searching... Answered your own question fella Not quite. When the lappers have just caught up and are at the back of a single group it's easy, but when some riders have gone through the pack and are ahead of the rest where is the start then? What about when they're ⅔ of the way round on their second lap? What if the cyclists are split into several groups? I tracked down some official rules ( here, if anyone wants to read them) and I get the impression that the race officials decide on the fly by indicating the "front" at the start of what they consider to be the largest pack, but I'd rather see it written down as an explicit rule. Only another four years until I can check my guess. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2016 21:55:25 GMT
The men's keirin is turning out to be even more exciting than expected for the final cycling event of the Games. The race was halted when multiple riders passed the derny before it had left the track and it looked as though two riders might be disqualified, but then they took the decision to override the decision to halt the race so all the riders were able to compete.
And as I type this it happens again. The race stopped for a second time. This really is unprecedented.
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Post by d'James on Aug 16, 2016 22:00:41 GMT
As the commentator says it's becoming a bit of a farce.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2016 22:03:20 GMT
It is remarkable that they don't have the technology to enforce the rules. I suspect that they'll change the rules to have the derny leave at a fixed point so they can put a camera there looking precisely perpendicular to the track.
Third time lucky. The race started about 25 minutes ago.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2016 22:04:14 GMT
And they finished! At last!
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Post by d'James on Aug 16, 2016 22:05:08 GMT
The 10 O'Clock News at 2310. Haha.
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Post by Flim Flam on Aug 16, 2016 22:05:22 GMT
And they even mentioned musical theatre. #groundhogday
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Post by d'James on Aug 16, 2016 22:05:57 GMT
And they even mentioned musical theatre. #groundhogday Slightly clutching at straws haha ;-) |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Aug 16, 2016 22:53:41 GMT
Answered your own question fella Not quite. When the lappers have just caught up and are at the back of a single group it's easy, but when some riders have gone through the pack and are ahead of the rest where is the start then? What about when they're ⅔ of the way round on their second lap? What if the cyclists are split into several groups? I tracked down some official rules ( here, if anyone wants to read them) and I get the impression that the race officials decide on the fly by indicating the "front" at the start of what they consider to be the largest pack, but I'd rather see it written down as an explicit rule. Only another four years until I can check my guess. Normally pretty easy to see where everyone is on the track. Not quite a decide on the fly. Can't ever remember thinking the judge has got the wrong leader here. |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Aug 16, 2016 22:59:36 GMT
As the commentator says it's becoming a bit of a farce. Only a bit of a farce because the judges lost their bottle. Still, it would only have made Laura cry so good job they did. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2016 4:53:55 GMT
As the commentator says it's becoming a bit of a farce. Only a bit of a farce because the judges lost their bottle. Still, it would only have made Laura cry so good job they did. It happened because the rules are a bit vague and can't be applied in critical situations. The problem is that the rules say the riders must stay behind the derny until it leaves the track, and the intention is clear enough: it's to allow the race to start from 50 km/h instead of from stationary. But races can be won or lost by milliseconds, so how do you define "leaves the track" when dealing with the width of a rounded tyre crossing a thick line at a shallow angle? How do you tell which riders have started to overlap the derny when you don't have a view precisely perpendicular to that point? I think they did the right thing. If they'd tried to follow the rules and have disqualifications then the only fair way to do it would be to disqualify all the offenders and only the offenders, but they didn't have the precision needed to identify the offenders. The only other fair thing to do was to rerun the race. One of my criticisms of the Olympics is that judges sometimes make questionable decisions that are then upheld because fairness takes second place to the pretence that judges are infallible, so on this occasion I was pleased that the judges had the courage to refuse to adopt a "because we say so" approach and accepted that the rules and equipment weren't up to the task. I'll be interested to see how they deal with this in future. I can't see any technical solution that doesn't involve expensive equipment to precisely track the derny, so I think they'll probably just remove or relax the disqualification rule so if it isn't immediately obvious which riders are at fault the race continues or restarts at the discretion of the officials. |
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