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Re: Paris Olympics - swipes, gripes, controversies and triumphs - ElwoodBlues1 - 08-04-2024
https://au.yahoo.com/sports/gold-silver-medals-not-olympic-193028940.html
A bizarre situation imo....a country is either eligible or not and if Belarus are out then so are their athletes imho, regardless of their political status as neutrals or good guy Belaruskies.
Russia are banned and Belarus and their Dictator Putin Puppet president Lukashenko and citizens should be treated the same as an entirety.
Re: Paris Olympics - swipes, gripes, controversies and triumphs - Thryleon - 08-04-2024
(08-04-2024, 10:55 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:https://au.yahoo.com/sports/gold-silver-medals-not-olympic-193028940.htmlNot sure why they aren't allowed to compete really. It's a farcical situation to politicise the games that are supposed to be about the international community coming together.
A bizarre situation imo....a country is either eligible or not and if Belarus are out then so are their athletes imho, regardless of their political status as neutrals or good guy Belaruskies.
Russia are banned and Belarus and their Dictator Putin Puppet president Lukashenko and citizens should be treated the same as an entirety.
Eanwhile Israel are competing...
Re: Paris Olympics - swipes, gripes, controversies and triumphs - kruddler - 08-04-2024
(08-04-2024, 10:55 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:https://au.yahoo.com/sports/gold-silver-medals-not-olympic-193028940.html
A bizarre situation imo....a country is either eligible or not and if Belarus are out then so are their athletes imho, regardless of their political status as neutrals or good guy Belaruskies.
Russia are banned and Belarus and their Dictator Putin Puppet president Lukashenko and citizens should be treated the same as an entirety.
Previously they've had athletes competing under the olympics flag. Not sure why they don't do the same.
Re: Paris Olympics - swipes, gripes, controversies and triumphs - ElwoodBlues1 - 08-04-2024
(08-04-2024, 11:11 AM)Thryleon link Wrote:Not sure why they aren't allowed to compete really. It's a farcical situation to politicise the games that are supposed to be about the international community coming together.You are either in or out imho not half way and as Krud suggested if special exemptions have been allowed previously then fine let them compete under the Olympic flag ie athletes who maybe from a banned country but have sought political refuge in another country but dont qualify for their new country.
Eanwhile Israel are competing...
Re: Paris Olympics - swipes, gripes, controversies and triumphs - ElwoodBlues1 - 08-05-2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDzJC9k6qjQ
Re: Paris Olympics - swipes, gripes, controversies and triumphs - LP - 08-05-2024
Stingers were good last night.
I can't say I'm a fan of water polo, but in the end the game became very interesting. Bizarrely, to me at least, the first 3 Qtrs were almost procedural like a warm up, then in the last it all came alive.
One thing that I can't get my head around, they can pinpoint each other with passes, and do so routinely to hit a raised hand, but then miss the 2m wide goal completely! :o
Re: Paris Olympics - swipes, gripes, controversies and triumphs - Lods - 08-05-2024
Repechage in track events....stupidest idea ever. :
Re: Paris Olympics - swipes, gripes, controversies and triumphs - LP - 08-16-2024
I've watched the video today of the Breaker girl who lost in the Olympic qualifiers to Raygun.
I've got to say there wasn't a lot of difference between them, and it sounds like much of the social media and media vitriol is baseless.
I'll say this, the Aussie girls are quite different in moves to most of the international competitors and that seems to be the big issue, most of the international competitors are the same same but different, almost clones, while the Aussie moves and style is drastically different.
Also no doubt also that Breaking is physical enough to be a sport, it's probably as deserving if not more deserving than some of the gymnastic or skating events at various Olympics.
Re: Paris Olympics - swipes, gripes, controversies and triumphs - Lods - 08-16-2024
One of the problems with events that rely on an independent observer rather than a 'first past the post in the quickest time' is that they will always have this 'eye of the beholder' criteria.
Things like Gymnastics, synchronised swimming, diving, breaking, skateboarding...even boxing (other than knockout) etc...these all rather depend on a judges perceptions and bias.
It's usually where the biggest controversies arise.
Re: Paris Olympics - swipes, gripes, controversies and triumphs - kruddler - 08-16-2024
(08-16-2024, 04:32 AM)Lods link Wrote:One of the problems with events that rely on an independent observer rather than a 'first past the post in the quickest time' is that they will always have this 'eye of the beholder' criteria.
Things like Gymnastics, synchronised swimming, diving, breaking, skateboarding...even boxing (other than knockout) etc...these all rather depend on a judges perceptions and bias.
It's usually where the biggest controversies arise.
Yep.
Keep it simple.
"Citius. Altius. Fortius."
Swifter (Faster). Higher. Stronger.