Olympic Games 2020 (2021)

[Sniffer]

Everything in 96 was on at unsociable times for us as the games were in Atlanta. Whatever the TV coverage was like in 1972, it would have been easier to watch as it was from Munich.

So was the swimming at these games due to the Americans being able to decide what should be in their prime time slots.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I can just about remember Alan Wells at Moscow 1980. Reasonable recollections of LA 1984, although it was all bloody late at night. Seoul 1988 I watched loads of as I had done my GCSEs to go with my 1987 O levels so could watch whatever I liked really.

 

[Tony Towner]

I remember Wells and Goodhew pretty well from Moscow. Winning anything then was some achievement, even with the American Afghanistan boycott. All the Eastern Europeans were so drugged up they were rattling

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

David Hemery in '68 and Mary Peters in '72. Then it gets more difficult. Alan Wells won a medal but no idea at which games, Coe and Ovett but no idea if it was 80's or 90's, Daley Thompson in 80 or 84.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Wells 1980.

Coe and Ovett was 1984

Daley was 84 and 88

 

[Tony Towner]

Wells 1980.

Coe and Ovett was 1984

Daley was 84 and 88

Daley was 80 and 84, Coe Vs Ovett was 80

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Cram was 84 wasn’t he? Looked about 13.

 

[Sniffer]

Co

Cram was 84 wasn’t he? Looked about 13.

...but didn’t win the 1500m, Coe did and pointed up to a Chelsea Union Jack.

 

[Tony Towner]

One of the things you look back on from your childhood is some of the narratives we're fed by the media. Miners bad, police good, was one the same could be said in Coe vs Ovett. When you get older you realise it's not as advertised

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Budd v Decker. That was feisty.

 

[lemonjelly]

tessa sanderson and fatima whitbread was 84 wasn't it? would've thought a load of wulfrunians would've remembered?

wasn't there also a steve crabb in the 80's too?

 

[Sniffer]

Galal Yafai - what a fighter - deserved gold

 

[WolfmanOz]

My earliest memory of the Olympics was watching David Hemery’s terrific gold medal run in the 400m hurdles - Mexico‘68.

The first Olympics as a whole was Munich’72, with Mary Peters, Olga Korbut and Lasse Viren.

However, the whole experience was sullied for ever by the infamous murder of 11 Israelis by the PLO - unbelievably they continued on with the games less than 2 days after the memorial ceremony.

 

[Paul]

If you didn’t like seeing the German girl crying at Wembley don’t watch the horse riding in the modern pentathlon. They draw horses and from being in a commanding lead it all fell apart due to the horse deciding that it didn’t want to take part.

Missed this originally but saw the highlights, actually heart breaking

 

[Sniffer]

Missed this originally but saw the highlights, actually heart breaking

I thought I spotted it at the time but didn’t comment but the German coach has been sent home in disgrace after hitting the horse whilst the rider was trying to get it to go forward.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Boxing so corrupt. Yafai Got a knockdown and literally Annihilated the opponent yet one judge said he didn’t win the round…

 

[jlo]

I thought I spotted it at the time but didn’t comment but the German coach has been sent home in disgrace after hitting the horse whilst the rider was trying to get it to go forward.

Just seen this, it makes a great headline but there was no malice in the hit and people seem to forget the size of horses does mean it will have barely felt it. Would I have hit a horse like that, no, but I have grown up around horses in competitions not far off that scale. I suspect the sending home is more for interference, and would have been a similar result if it was even just a touch of a finger.

 

[sycophantia]

My earliest memory of the Olympics was watching David Hemery’s terrific gold medal run in the 400m hurdles - Mexico‘68.

The first Olympics as a whole was Munich’72, with Mary Peters, Olga Korbut and Lasse Viren.

However, the whole experience was sullied for ever by the infamous murder of 11 Israelis by the PLO - unbelievably they continued on with the games less than 2 days after the memorial ceremony.

Same here

 

[Tony Towner]

So ended with 65 medals, 22 golds and 4th in the medal table. It's been a good Olympics, although I don't think there's a new crossing into the mainstream star, partly due to the timings of the events and partly due to not getting an Athletics gold.

I thought this was quite interesting. Not getting value for money from Rowing or Canoeing at the moment, although obviously have from previous Olympics. Taekwondo probably needed a gold as well, not as plucky as it looks when you see the numbers. Shooting seems over funded for something so niche, not delivering golds or really providing facilities for the wider community

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[Donegal Wolf]

Some top class shithousery in the marathon

French Marathon Runner Denies Deliberately Knocking Water Bottles | Balls.ie

Morhad Amdouni has denied deliberately knocking water bottles from a table during the men's marathon at the Olympic Games on Sunday.

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