2016 Summer Olympics - Rio

CunningLinguist · 8 August 2016 15:29

I’d love 100m walking with hurdles.

Luca_from_Italy · 8 August 2016 15:55

Wow wow wow! Italy is running riot in Rio! Another gold medal for us in men’s shooting with Niccolò Campriani

Bl1nk · 8 August 2016 16:31

Congratulations man! Great Olympics for Italy so far.

Mysty · 8 August 2016 17:43

Rugby 7 semis on now. The GB girls in action at 7 against the Kiwis.

morrisc311 · 8 August 2016 17:51

USA! USA! USA! Do we have 100 medals yet?

Luca_from_Italy · 8 August 2016 19:50

Yeah! Another one 1 hour ago in men’s skeet. It’s a silver.

Mysty · 8 August 2016 20:15

[quote=“Luca_from_Italy, post:126, topic:449, full:true”]
Yeah! Another one 1 hour ago in men’s skeet. It’s a silver.
[/quote]We just got another bronze in the diving.

I watched that after seeing our guy get bronze. Was heck of a close battle! Hopefully we’ll get our 5th medal soon in the women’s Rugby 7s 3rd place match against Canada.

New Zealand were just too strong in the earlier match.

Luca_from_Italy · 8 August 2016 21:17

We also beat France 11-8 in water polo. 2 wins in two games so far.

shamrockgooner · 8 August 2016 21:26

CunningLinguist:

No, because the different distances and relays are there in swimming, too. In addition, there are the different styles: backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, freestyle and even medleys of those. That’s why I said it’s like running sideways, backwards, and so on.
Phelps has competed in 2 butterfly events, 2 medley events, 1 backstroke and 1 freestyle event. That’s 6 events even without relays. Theoretically, you could even add one more backstroke and freestyle distance each, and 2 breaststroke for a total of 10 individual events over 100 and 200m. As a sprinter, you can do 100m and 200m realistically, everything else requires a different muscle setup. Maybe 400m as well, but that is still not one third of the events you could participate in as a swimmer.
This is not to diminish Phelps achievements in any way, just saying swimmers have by far the most opportunities to win medals.

I cant swim, at all, so its not like I know this as fact but I’d imagine being a specialist in two disciplines of swimming (three is Phelps case) is extremely rare. Sure you can enter as many events as you like but you still have to qualify for them and then be better than everyone else to win the medals.

In all honestly Phelps is a freak. History is in no way littered with swimmers who have ten+ Olympic golds, never mind almost twenty.

Mysty · 8 August 2016 21:30

Go on girls, let’s turn over a new leaf and beat those Canadians! :ramsey:

Mysty · 8 August 2016 21:57

Well, that was rather one sided What a shame.

Aussiegooner · 8 August 2016 22:24

The Australian Boomers have beaten France & Serbia in our 1st 2 group games Im stoked, all 5 of our starters are in the NBA though so we should be reasonable.

Gunnerpr · 8 August 2016 23:09

Why do Aussie teams insist of giving themselves God awful names.

CunningLinguist · 9 August 2016 04:06

Let me guess, Spain won silver and Italy gold?

Aussiegooner · 9 August 2016 05:56

Hahahahaha fuck knows.

Luca_from_Italy · 9 August 2016 08:50

Still no medal for Germany

morrisc311 · 9 August 2016 16:53

USA! USA! USA! How many medals do we have so far? As many as every other country combined?

Luca_from_Italy · 9 August 2016 17:26

Not a good day for us. We can only hope to win a medal with Federica Pellegrini in women’s 200m freestyle.

Stroller · 9 August 2016 18:44

The tall blacks for the New Zealand basketball teams one of them.

CunningLinguist · 9 August 2016 19:12

Got two in eventing and one in pistol, playing to our traditional strengths of using deadly weapons and subduing other lifeforms. Want to say something funny, mate?:jakey: