The 2016 Olympic Games

[Eugene Wrayburn]

That's the bit I've a problem with in that I'd rank all the big slam events ahead of the Olympics, and at least for the men I'd add in that the slams are best of 5 whereas bar the final the men drop down to the normal best of 3 in the Olympics. I'd probably have the Olympics on a par with the end of year tour championship.

It looks like the tennis players don't agree with you, which rather resolves the argument.

So any sport which has participants which consider they should be an Olympic sport gets to partake?

How on earth could you read that into what I wrote?

[Lizard]

I don't know what you are all getting so excited about. GB is only 16th on the real medal table (total medals per capita). NZ, Slovenia and Fiji are leading the way here.

[rowan]

The medal table as it stands :

1 Fiji 1 892,145 892,145
2 Kosovo 1 1,859,203 1,859,203
3 Hungary 5 9,844,686 1,968,937
4 Slovenia 1 2,063,768 2,063,768
5 Croatia 2 4,224,404 2,112,202
6 New Zealand 2 4,595,700 2,297,850
7 Jamaica 1 2,725,941 2,725,941
8 Puerto Rico 1 3,474,182 3,474,182
9 Australia 6 23,781,169 3,963,528
10 Switzerland 2 8,286,976 4,143,488

http://www.medalspercapita.com/#golds-per-capita:2016

[Donny osmond]

As if Steve Redgrave couldn't ve anymore of a hero, just reading that he's had an on air falling out with Invertwat. Some are born great.

[Galfon]

Invers called Sir 'oddjob' & made some jibe about him holding a brolly for a while.Sir wet Inv. with the brolly and disappeared for a while complaining he couldn't get a word in.
Egos eh..
Meanwhile Murray 2-1 up (sets) and looking less knackered than the giant RG.
Well placed.

[Galfon]

Cavendish has brain f@rt in Omnium race but still chance of a medal.

[Eugene Wrayburn]

The medal table as it stands :

1 Fiji 1 892,145 892,145
2 Kosovo 1 1,859,203 1,859,203
3 Hungary 5 9,844,686 1,968,937
4 Slovenia 1 2,063,768 2,063,768
5 Croatia 2 4,224,404 2,112,202
6 New Zealand 2 4,595,700 2,297,850
7 Jamaica 1 2,725,941 2,725,941
8 Puerto Rico 1 3,474,182 3,474,182
9 Australia 6 23,781,169 3,963,528
10 Switzerland 2 8,286,976 4,143,488

http://www.medalspercapita.com/#golds-per-capita:2016

That's very old news. We have 4 more golds since then.

[Galfon]

Now Murray goes off boil..

[Galfon]

GOLD GB!!...Muzzah !!!

[Galfon]

'Kinell !..new WR in 400m..43.03 by Van Niekerk of SA..from lane 8 ffs..MJ record blown away.
It's a fast track..Bolt's gonna fly.

[Galfon]

Bolt gets it..had to work a bit, solid 9.80.
(9.63 in london..) 3rd.successive Olympic 100m title..bravo, true showman.

[canta_brian]

'Kinell !..new WR in 400m..43.03 by Van Niekerk of SA..from lane 8 ffs..MJ record blown away.
It's a fast track..Bolt's gonna fly.

I had missed that. Blimey, that was huge.

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[Big D]

Having 3 of the world top 20 scoop the medals is probably the best golf could have hoped for against the negativity around it pre Olympics.

[OptimisticJock]

That's the bit I've a problem with in that I'd rank all the big slam events ahead of the Olympics, and at least for the men I'd add in that the slams are best of 5 whereas bar the final the men drop down to the normal best of 3 in the Olympics. I'd probably have the Olympics on a par with the end of year tour championship.

It looks like the tennis players don't agree with you, which rather resolves the argument.

So any sport which has participants which consider they should be an Olympic sport gets to partake?

Next you'll be trying to say horse dancing isn't an Olympic sport.

[OptimisticJock]

As if Steve Redgrave couldn't ve anymore of a hero, just reading that he's had an on air falling out with Invertwat. Some are born great.

I was about to launch into a rant about sportsmen being "heroes" but if he's ripping the pish out of Invertwat that's fine.

[OptimisticJock]

Some top notch commentary/trolling from the BBC last night as these "English supporters" celebrated Murray's gold.

[Sandydragon]

As if Steve Redgrave couldn't ve anymore of a hero, just reading that he's had an on air falling out with Invertwat. Some are born great.

I was about to launch into a rant about sportsmen being "heroes" but if he's ripping the pish out of Invertwat that's fine.

If Redgrave chucks Invertwat into the dirtiest part of the river it will only cement Redgrave's status as a true sporting icon.

[OptimisticJock]

Whilst we're on the anti-Invertwat (we're never really off it tbf) bandwagon....

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/ ... c-williams

[Lizard]

Grenada's silver in the men's 400m screws NZ in the per capita table. To match their 1 medal per 107,000 people, we need another 35 medals. Pretty sure that ain't going to happen.

[Which Tyler]

Not only did he beat his rivals, he did it while wearing the smuggest look of the Games.

Deciding to pose for a photograph halfway through the race, while the rest of the sprinters strained every vein in their body to find more power, Bolt not only won, but he did so in a comfortable style.

[Numbers]

Grenada's silver in the men's 400m screws NZ in the per capita table. To match their 1 medal per 107,000 people, we need another 35 medals. Pretty sure that ain't going to happen.

Of course a more accurate way to record it would be via participation numbers rather than population.

[Sandydragon]

Not only did he beat his rivals, he did it while wearing the smuggest look of the Games.

Deciding to pose for a photograph halfway through the race, while the rest of the sprinters strained every vein in their body to find more power, Bolt not only won, but he did so in a comfortable style.

I seem to recall that he won his first Olympic gold with his shoe laces undone. i think it will be a long time before we see another sprinter, or indeed sporting character, quite like him.

[Donny osmond]

As if Steve Redgrave couldn't ve anymore of a hero, just reading that he's had an on air falling out with Invertwat. Some are born great.

I was about to launch into a rant about sportsmen being "heroes" but if he's ripping the pish out of Invertwat that's fine.

Good point, well made. Replace "hero" with "legend"?

[Digby]

It looks like the tennis players don't agree with you, which rather resolves the argument.

So any sport which has participants which consider they should be an Olympic sport gets to partake?

Next you'll be trying to say horse dancing isn't an Olympic sport.

The dressage strikes me as an odd event, I guess it's hardly as key given the time we live in that horses perform to commands as once was the case. But just because I like tennis and consider tennis makes a brilliant TV sport, and have little interest in any equestrian event, doesn't alter my view that the Olympics is the pinnacle for the horse people in a way that the Slams and perhaps the Davis and Fed Cup are for tennis.

[Lizard]

Women's Black Sticks through to the semi final. An excellent opportunity for Team NZ to continue its run of 4th placings.