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Title of your Dying Sad and Alone Tape.


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I seem to have overstepped the mark in the name of trying to be funny. Apologies.

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I seem to have overstepped the mark in the name of trying to be funny. Apologies.


Timing!

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I seem to have overstepped the mark in the name of trying to be funny. Apologies.

That's ok bud. Took me by surprise is all


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I seem to have overstepped the mark in the name of trying to be funny. Apologies.

That's ok bud. Took me by surprise is all

It was nothing personal at you, it was just trying to be the worst opposite of a sex tape. I dunno, I didn't want to offend.

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I feel terrible.

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I feel terrible.

Don't mate. It's all fine.

Here's a sexist gif to cheer you up

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Gold in the women's Taekwon-do.

And yet oddly, watching the Taekwon-do (which is apparently based on the World Taekwon-do Federation style, and not the International Taekwon-do Federation style that Jem and I are learning) it looks completely and utterly different to anything we're doing.


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I seem to have overstepped the mark in the name of trying to be funny. Apologies.

That's ok bud. Took me by surprise is all


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That's ok bud. Took me by surprise is all


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And here's your gif.

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Gold in the women's Taekwon-do.

And yet oddly, watching the Taekwon-do (which is apparently based on the World Taekwon-do Federation style, and not the International Taekwon-do Federation style that Jem and I are learning) it looks completely and utterly different to anything we're doing.


You mean that they're doing it properly?


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It was just a joke. Why is everyone so sensitive? :roll:

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It was just a joke. Why is everyone so sensitive? :roll:

You don't get a gif.


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Regarding whether the leotards of gymnasts have actually changed in recent years to become more sequinned and adorned rather than practical/functional.

'In the last century, Olympic leotards didn't differ much from the outfit your sister would wear to ballet class. Then the sparkling fad began.
In 2008, Nastia Liukin's leotard for the Beijing games had 184 crystals on it. By 2012, Gabby Douglas had 1,188 on hers. Now that figure has nearly quadrupled. "We're in a crystal arms race," Swarovski's Alexander Wellhoefer has said.
The cost of those dazzling Team USA outfits?
About $1,200 (£912) each.'

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We are watching the women's team Synchronised Swimming. Whether you think the sport is snack g or ridiculous (wrong, it is both) the synchronised walking routine and random Synchro-poses before the competitors get to the pool is both the most amazing and worst thing in the universe.

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It is well snack g

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It's the snackiest of all the Gs

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Mimi wrote:
We are watching the women's team Synchronised Swimming. Whether you think the sport is snack g or ridiculous (wrong, it is both) the synchronised walking routine and random Synchro-poses before the competitors get to the pool is both the most amazing and worst thing in the universe.


The ladies I was hanging with this morning have said exactky the same!

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Hockey: longest medal ceremony, ever


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Hockey: longest medal ceremony, ever


:this:

Also - what a fantastic bloody match, and such drama and tension in the penalties. Our goalie was quite brilliant.

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:this:

Also - what a fantastic bloody match, and such drama and tension in the penalties. Our goalie was quite brilliant.


And on a waterlogged pitch, too.


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Don't mate. It's all fine.

Here's a sexist gif to cheer you up

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Never gets boring, does it? You could meditate watching this. I know I always seem to go into a trance.

Although the girl behind doesn't look very impressed.


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Am enjoying these limpics muchly. Watched the women's hockey finals on my phone last night whilst CBB played in the background. What a win ! woooot !

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:this:

Also - what a fantastic bloody match, and such drama and tension in the penalties. Our goalie was quite brilliant.


And on a waterlogged pitch, too.


Water - rather than sand - based astroturf, they (the men's team members interviewed) said. Still burns, apparently.


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She is a triathlete but she is not me


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I am sugar :kiss:

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Amazing by Mo, as ever.

What I don't fully understand is how he keeps on destroying everyone despite running objectively slow times. I mean, he's being feted as an all time great, but he isn't even in the top 25 people in the all time record for the 5k. He won gold tonight with a time about half a lap slower than the world record. I don't want to shit on what is an insane record of being amazing. Is he just dominant in a weaker era or is it about the styles? Were most of the records set with pacemakers to follow? Is that how distance running works; that big races are generally slower?

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That's it. There would usually be a 1500m runner, then a mile runner to go flat out to set the pace. When all the competitors are 5k runners, Mo or his front running rivals set the pace and they would naturally run slower, hoping to out sprint each other at the end. Mo just has an amazing sprint finish that noone else can touch. If he's in contention with 400 to go, he'll win.


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That's it. There would usually be a 1500m runner, then a mile runner to go flat out to set the pace. When all the competitors are 5k runners, Mo or his front running rivals set the pace and they would naturally run slower, hoping to out sprint each other at the end. Mo just has an amazing sprint finish that noone else can touch. If he's in contention with 400 to go, he'll win.

Plus championships are different to other meetings. In a championship, people are thinking about their own placing, and its all about the front three. In other meetings there will be pace makers to keep it to a certain time, and prize money. So in the latter, they might aim for world record pace and see who can hang on, the pace makers are paid to do some of the race at a pace, then they drop out - that's all they're there for. The others can to some extent team up, one might say to a compatriot - get me to 9k in 23 mins, I'll run behind you while you pace, then if I win we'll split the money. Whereas in championships, what's my incentive to pace you to get a medal while I get nothing? So team tactics are theoretically possible, but less likely. So it becomes cagey, and it so happens that plays into Mo's hands, as he has the best final lap around. Which isn't to say he isn't capable of a world record, but he doesn't chase them.


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Triathletes - I know they run along a big carpet after the swimmy bit, but doesn't some sand end up in the cycling shoes and get all annoying?

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I seem to have overstepped the mark in the name of trying to be funny. Apologies.

That's ok bud. Took me by surprise is all

It was nothing personal at you, it was just trying to be the worst opposite of a sex tape. I dunno, I didn't want to offend.


I thought it was quite funny - didn't seem directly offensive.

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Triathletes - I know they run along a big carpet after the swimmy bit, but doesn't some sand end up in the cycling shoes and get all annoying?

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I seem to have overstepped the mark in the name of trying to be funny. Apologies.

That's ok bud. Took me by surprise is all

It was nothing personal at you, it was just trying to be the worst opposite of a sex tape. I dunno, I didn't want to offend.


I thought it was quite funny - didn't seem directly offensive.


A little bit of grit gets in, but the transition area is quite long, so most of it comes off

I puts lots of talc in my cycling and running shoes.

I am not as skilled as them, I quickly wipe my feet and put my cycle shoes on. Then run in them till I mount.

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I'm wondering which bits - seems like there are quite a few Titles in there.

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Seriously?


yes *confused face*

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Oh my. Well, it's not the foot wiping or long transition area. Although now I mention them...


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Oh my. Well, it's not the foot wiping or long transition area. Although now I mention them...

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Kiwi weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has dominated her first major competition, taking out the Australian International in Melbourne on a night she made history as the first transgender athlete to represent New Zealand.

I think this is going to become a really thorny issue in years to come. Given a level playing field, I think the only events that women and men are remotely close performance wise are endurance ones,like ultra marathons and huge swims. The IoC's guidelines allow FtM to compete rightbaway, but require 12 months hormone (testosterone) tests below a set level for MtF. I'm a bit conflicted on this, it's right it is possible, but from a level playing field point of view, it could be a minefield.

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I've always hated the Olympics as the waste-of-public-money-sports-jamboree that (IMO) it is, and for years proudly displayed an old post by Sinister Agent (much missed) as my sig at WoS, along the lines of '... Londoners would rather have 15 billion quid spent on infrastructural and social improvements than watch people chuck stuff around for a while' ( :DD )

But, even I could not have conceived of how much of an utterly bent, pointless cheating-drugfest it's turned out to be; even 'sports jamboree' is too generous a title, as it turns out. I mean seriously, the stuff that's starting to come out now would make FIFA directors blush with embarrassment; I just can't get my head around why anyone could seriously give a fig about this discredited beyond all redemption shameful gravy-train?

In retrospect, no-one could seriously argue that those billions upon billions could not have been far better spent on boring old schools, hospitals, new roads and rail, minus the fanfare bullshit.

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The London Olympics were “sabotaged” by Russian athletes who doped and the inaction of authorities to prevent them competing, according to a remarkable report which casts a significant shadow over the 2012 Games.


https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/ ... ing-report

...So, yeah, that's tens of billions well spent, then.
Oh no, that's right, it's very much not. Who would have thought it, eh? Another "unforeseeable" fiasco... :roll:

(I should add, of course, that as I have always said, I have no objection to the Olympics per se, but in that case let the people who want it bloody well pay for it).

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How much did it make back, though? Those tickets weren't cheap.

I should add that I broadly agree - if the Olympics (or any sporting event) is subsidised, then why not rock concerts or any other forms of entertainment?

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How much did it make back, though? Those tickets weren't cheap.

I should add that I broadly agree - if the Olympics (or any sporting event) is subsidised, then why not rock concerts or any other forms of entertainment?


Arts Council Funding?

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How much did it make back, though? Those tickets weren't cheap.

I should add that I broadly agree - if the Olympics (or any sporting event) is subsidised, then why not rock concerts or any other forms of entertainment?
I don't know if that's included in the direct costs or not. Either way I agree with cavey on the Olympics and spending obscene sums on elite sport.

Encouraging people to take up sport has a very direct benefit on the country in economic and other terms, I think it's a good idea to do that. But spending billions of a sporting jamboree and then countless tens of millions on ongoing projects for just a few cyclists or tennis players is a really shitty and ineffective way to go about it.


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Loads of other forms of entertainment are subsidised.

Sport more so overall, though our actual participation is largely via lottery funding. Sport is seen as being useful as a social tool to encourage higher levels of fitness amongst the populace, thus reducing healthcare costs overall. An investment of sorts.

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I agree with a suggestion that the Olympics should only be awarded to cities that already have sufficient facilities, or preexisting plans to build suitable venues. London has done well with recycling the facilities, but Rio has been left with some awful white elephants. Was it London that had basically flat pack venues built with scaffolding and tarps? The Basketball arena springs to mind

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_Arena_(London) Aye. It was. Good idea, that.


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