Olympics Spoilers and chat.

[matticus]

The 27% is for at least one sport

Imagine there are 25 sports and 100 people are surveyed. 25 people think they could qualify in a sport and they all nominate different sports, so each sport gets one person.

In that case the "at least one" bar at the top would show 25% and each individual sport bar would show 1%

I love the idea that some people thought their ability across 2-4 sports would boost their chances

 

[Dogtrousers]

I love the idea that some people thought their ability across 2-4 sports would boost their chances

If course in reality it's the other way round. Instead of there being 25 separate 1% cohorts each of which is the best at a sport, there is really a single tiny cohort of annoyingly gifted bastards who can turn their hand to anything, and the rest of us are rubbish.

 

[Reynard]

Doesn’t matter to me. Worried are we?

Liking the confidence here folks @figbat and @Reynard, but you haven't reckoned with my skills in these Catlympics.

Not worried in the slightest. I got taught by a very experienced CP fosterer, and have had to pill and metacam a grumpy arthritic cat daily. So yeah, I think I have reached an acceptable standard

Any takers for a YS Tag team?

 

[lazybloke]

SO: it turns out that qualification is quite complicated. I think if you pick an unpopular sport, you can scrape in with quite mediocre ability

Rachael Gunn is a lecturer when not breaking

 

[Mike_P]

Marathon runner carried on with broken leg
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c990yd94j7eo