Paris Olympics 2024

EnglishEdward said:
Not so sure, I think the kangaroos have hopped over the horizon.



Blimey, now that is Internet Lag for me.




I doubt that is how the Chinese see it.
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Roos not very reliable at running but we are still picking up miscellaneous medals like sailing and surfing.
 
Wow. Kyle Dake bronze medal match was crazy and exciting. I saw all 4 of his NCAA college wrestling championships. Wrestling should be far more popular here and in the Olympics. Lol My Olympic wrestling dreams were dashed in high school.

And yes @EgonSpengler Peacock is a nightmare! So hard to find the sports I want to watch and I tend to watch more of the less popular sports.
 
Kyriakos said:
There are a great many sports which imo shouldn't be in the olympics. And although I never watched, nor did I ever plan to watch, wrestling, taking it out was a terrible decision since it was one of the sports in the original games.
But whatever :)
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It was a terrible decision but the format did need changing because it was horrible. There are a couple of things I don’t like about the new format/rules but it is mich more exciting and the rules easier to understand. It is a bit closer to greco roman than normal freestyle.

Wrestling is an awesome sport and really worth getting into. Simply the purest sport on the planet.
 
Quintillus said:
That decision was reversed before it took effect, and wrestling has never left the Olympics. It's there this year too.
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You are right. It was removed by vote but was reversed later in time for the next olympics with understanding that the org would improve the format.
 
Caught the men's 5000 over lunch. +1 gold medal for Norway. :trophy:

An interesting race to watch, long enough that there is positioning and that the lead changes a lot, short enough that it's not a marathon. The commentators said the Norwegian was the one to watch for, and they were right. He bided his time but when he made his move, no one could keep up with him.

Silver to Kenya, Bronze to USA by a sliver.
 
Watching the US Mens basketball team over the last two games was epic. That come from behind win vs Serbia then the final vs France with Steph Curry hitting unreal shot after unreal shot.
 
Two intense basketball finals, tense till the fourth quarter. Sad both went the other way :(
 
I watched a ton of Olympics. Don't have peacock so just got to see what nbc broadcast and sometimes they bounced around a little too much, but the time difference made it nice as a lot of the 'best' events were held in the evening which was just as I was getting up in the US. idk why it didn't occur to me to check here earlier, would have been nice to have more ppls to talk to as the events were ongoing ; p
 
AdrienIer said:
In the olympics England Scotland and Wales are not separated. More strangely, it's a team GB that includes Northern Ireland, but they refused to call it team UK...
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When England and Scotland played their first football game in 1872, there were no real intent to expand international events beyond these 2 countries. IFAB was founded in 1886, mainly to organize the British Home Championship that started out in 1884, but still with no ambition to expand beyond the British Isles. In rugby, the "Home Nations" which is the ancestor of today's "6 Nations", appeared at the same time, a bit earlier in 1882. On the other hand, the IOC always had the ambition to make of the modern Olympic games a truly international event, in which all recognized countries in the world should participate. Hence why it is "Great Britain" which joined, and not its constituent countries.

In the early 1900's, football was developing fast in continental Europe but in a totally disorganized way. Dutch banker Carl Anton Hirschman tried first to join new European federations to IFAB, but IFAB wasn't interested. Therefore he proposed to found FIFA between continental countries in Paris in 1904. For its own credibility, FIFA needed British nations to participate considering the sport was already well developped there, so they accepted constituent countries, already members of IFAB, to join as their own entities. England will eventually join FIFA in 1905, negociating that the English FA President would lead it, but more as a way to control it than to really develop it. England will leave FIFA as a pretty ghost entity in 1920, and Jules Rimet will get it back in 1924 with the objective to create a world cup that will give it a real purpose, which will be done in 1930. Yet England will only recognize it later in 1946 when it will rejoin.

As for the name of the country, it is officially "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", shortened as "Great Britain". It's only after the end of the British Empire that it started being shortened as "the UK", mirroring "the US" to designate "the United States of America". For what it's worth, "England" was still using the Union Jack as its flag in football in the 1980's, the Saint George's cross flag only replacing it during the 1990's.
 
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