Olympics Spoilers and chat.

[cookiemonster]

Yaay!! Hong Kong won Gold in the fencing. Edgar Cheung.

The first since 1996 and only the second ever gold medal.

Now ruined by trolls on social media because his Father's a retired copper.

 

[vickster]

Those archery bows aren’t exactly Robin Hood stylee!

 

[Stephenite]

Norway’s gold medal in the triathlon is their first gold medal in the summer Olympics since 2010.

In the Winter Olympics, on the other hand, they have won 25 golds in the same period.

 

[gbb]

Watched the womens street skateboarding this morning for maybe 3/4 hour.
Sorry, it didnt do it for me. (And i tried , gave it a chance).
My boss agreed. But then we're not 15

 

[Beebo]

Watched the womens street skateboarding this morning for maybe 3/4 hour.
Sorry, it didnt do it for me. (And i tried , gave it a chance).
My boss agreed. But then we're not 15

As you say you aren’t the target audience.
I do worry about some fringe sports.
The X games already caters for this sort of stuff, or am I being boring?

 

[Chromatic]

No, you're not being boring, I feel the same. Including all these kids arseing about 'sports' gets on my wick.

 

[vickster]

Oh goodie…another hijacked grumpy old bloke thread on CycleChat

 

[gavgav]

Tom Pidcock was terrific today and really pleased for Tom Daley, getting his gold medal.

 

[MontyVeda]

Oh goodie…another hijacked grumpy old bloke thread on CycleChat

at 52, I'm not that old... I don't really care for sport and don't ever watch t'th'olympics

...but i thoroughly enjoyed the street skateboarding final. It's more art then sport yet is a lot more sport than synchronised swimming.

 

[Beebo]

Another Gold and Silver in the swimming for Dean and Scott.

Plus another silver in the triathlon for Taylor-Brown. And she punctured in the bike leg.

 

[matticus]

Rugby 7s ; how come GBR scored no conversions? (and they didn't even show the attempts on BBC)

 

[Beebo]

Rugby 7s ; how come GBR scored no conversions? (and they didn't even show the attempts on BBC)

It’s a drop goal conversion in 7s. It’s quicker but harder to score unless right under the posts.

 

[matticus]

It’s a drop goal conversion in 7s. It’s quicker but harder to score unless right under the posts.

Ah - thanks. Although I'm sure we scored 1 try under the posts, so perhaps the kicker just had a 'mare with that one

 

[jowwy]

Rugby 7s ; how come GBR scored no conversions? (and they didn't even show the attempts on BBC)

they did drop one conversion at 15 nil.....but remember in 7s its drop kick conversions and not place kicks

 

[Beebo]

Just watched a crazy 7s match against USA. 21 nil down to win 21-26