Olympics

Keep the faith, Jess won't let us down. ( I hope )

Busy doing points calculations for javelin distances and 800m times. On my predicted outcomes in both events the points difference is ridiculously small .

I need a lie down.
It's all too much .

Murray into his 2nd successive singles final.
So he's at least going to get a silver

what is that stupid (ashtray?) thing they give the medal winners???

what was the two plastic strips hanging down from katarina johnson-thompson tiny shorts in the 200m ??

(13-08-2016 18:51 )cwpussylover Wrote:  what is that stupid (ashtray?) thing they give the medal winners???

It's a model of the Rio logo


which is meant to be shaped like the Sugarloaf mountain

The O'Donovan Brothers, are they Irish?
What are "podium pants" ?

(13-08-2016 18:53 )cwpussylover Wrote:  what was the two plastic strips hanging down from katarina johnson-thompson tiny shorts in the 200m ??

they represent the number of Olympics that an athlete has been to

Great Britain Olympic Champions 2016 List:
(To be updated as the Games progresses)

1. ADAM PEATY - Swimming (100m breaststroke) WORLD RECORD: 57.13 seconds
2. JOE CLARKE - Canoeing (K1 slalom)
3. JACK LAUGHER/CHRIS MEARS - Diving (3m Synchronised Springboard)
4. PHILIP HINDES/JASON KENNY/CALLUM SKINNER - Cycling (Mens Team Sprint)
5. HELEN GLOVER/HEATHER STANNING - Rowing (Womens Pair)
6. CONSTANTINE LOULOUDIS/GEORGE NASH/MOE SBIHI/ALEX GREGORY - Rowing (Mens Four)
7. ED CLANCY/STEVEN BURKE/OWAIN DOULL/SIR BRADLEY WIGGINS - Cycling (Mens Team Pursuit)
8. SCOTT DURANT/TOM RANSLEY/ANDREW HODGE/MATT GOTREL/PHELAN HILL/PETE REED/PAUL BENNETT/MATT LANGRIDGE/WILLIAM SATCH - Rowing (Mens Eight)
9. LAURA TROTT/JOANNA ROWSELL SHAND/ELINOR BARKER/KATIE ARCHIBALD - Cycling (Womens Team Pursuit)

Congrats Laura Trott.
3 Olympic gold medals.

And to the quartet on a new World Record.