Paris 2024 Olympics

[ams4crows]

God Athletics as an Australian is a hard watch after that epic 1st week of medals, we are no where close in any of these track and field events.

You can only marvel at other Athletes peak physical form

 

[Eagleboy2011]

One of our boxing girls, Caitlan Parker through to the semi's in boxing. Bronze minimum.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

God Athletics as an Australian is a hard watch after that epic 1st week of medals, we are no where close in any of these track and field events.

You can only marvel at other Athletes peak physical form

Yeah, there's no Pearson, Hooker or Freeman for us these days.

Nina Kennedy and Olyslagers are a decent chance at medalling in their events however.

 

[ams4crows]

One of our boxing girls, Caitlan Parker through to the semi's in boxing. Bronze minimum.

I'm confused how that works? Wouldn't there be 4 people in the semi final? Hence minimum can't be bronze??

 

[Scorpus]

I'm confused how that works? Wouldn't there be 4 people in the semi final? Hence minimum can't be bronze??

Combat sports award two bronzes and don't have a bronze playoff

 

[dogs105]

Combat sports award two bronzes and don't have a bronze playoff

Isn't it that, for boxing, there's a rule than you can't fight again within some number of days of a loss?

 

[dogs105]

Isn't it that, for boxing, there's a rule than you can't fight again within some number of days of a loss?

Other sports, like wrestling, judo and tae kwon do have a repechage system with two brackets, and so 2 bronze medal fights.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

God Athletics as an Australian is a hard watch after that epic 1st week of medals, we are no where close in any of these track and field events.

You can only marvel at other Athletes peak physical form

We are a good chance in some field events.

Not so much the athletics.

 

[Scorpus]

Other sports, like wrestling, judo and tae kwon do have a repechage system with two brackets, and so 2 bronze medal fights.

Yeah there's a difference in reasoning and the system to get there but I believe all end up awarding two bronzes

 

[spenze]

Terrible luck for the female pole vaulter last night knocking the bar off with her penis

 

[spenze]

Personally I don't mind the two bronze medals scenario in boxing, one less fight

 

[Velvet George]

One of our boxing girls, Caitlan Parker through to the semi's in boxing. Bronze minimum.

I don’t get how she’s guaranteed a bronze.

2 semis, winners go through for gold medal fight, gold and silver.

2 losers fight off I assume, so winner gets bronze.

What am I missing?

 

[Velvet George]

Personally I don't mind the two bronze medals scenario in boxing, one less fight

Oh I should have read this before I posted, so they both get bronze? wtf?

 

[Scorpus]

I don’t get how she’s guaranteed a bronze.

2 semis, winners go through for gold medal fight, gold and silver.

2 losers fight off I assume, so winner gets bronze.

What am I missing?

There's no bronze medal match. The losers of each semi are both awarded bronze. Has something to do with not enough recovery time between matches to schedule in the bronze match.

 

[dogs105]

Terrible luck for the female pole vaulter last night knocking the bar off with her penis

Were they female? I thought that was in the men's pole vault?

 

[Velvet George]

There's no bronze medal match. The losers of each semi are both awarded bronze. Has something to do with not enough recovery time between matches to schedule in the bronze match.

What crap

 

[MarcusP2]

What crap

Must've been millenial soft ***** who introduced this system in 1952.

 

[Eagleboy2011]

There's no bronze medal match. The losers of each semi are both awarded bronze. Has something to do with not enough recovery time between matches to schedule in the bronze match.

It's like that I think in other sports like wrestling.

 

[MarcusP2]

It's like that I think in other sports like wrestling.

All the combat sports at the Olympics (boxing and judo for decades, all the others since 2008).

 

[Scorpus]

Penalty shootout in the women's water polo. 9-9 against Hungary who are a gun side. But our keeper has been BOG for us this match so far

 

[Eagleboy2011]

Penalty shootout in the women's water polo. 9-9 against Hungary who are a gun side. But our keeper has been BOG for us this match so far

 

[Scorpus]

Australia win the penalty shootout!

Undefeated and top of the group going into the quarters

 

[DJ75]

God Athletics as an Australian is a hard watch after that epic 1st week of medals, we are no where close in any of these track and field events.

You can only marvel at other Athletes peak physical form

It's a real shame we haven't been able to embrace our indigenous population. I suspect there would have been many outstanding athletes that we never saw.

 

[ams4crows]

It's a real shame we haven't been able to embrace our indigenous population. I suspect there would have been many outstanding athletes that we never saw.

I had the same thought.

Cathy Freeman did amazing things for unity in 2000, Ash Barty more recently as well.

Definitely in need of a new superstar on the international level

 

[Eagleboy2011]

Jezz Fox eliminated in Women's Kayak race, but her sister is through.