Paris Olympics 2024

[Mr Anon]

"one week to go, looking forward to some sporting good news and forget about football for a bit. Hopefully UK can maintain our impressive medal tally from last few Olympics"

[Side of Ham]

I bet McSvender hides his Scottish/English & Dame Edna mongrel accent and puts on another one......the fuck up that he is.....with Scottish & English DNA......fuck all Australian.....none of of his type have.....

[El Scorchio]

"Fauxstralian 6:33 it's largely an editorial decision. The BBC have always done it this way even when they were the sole rights holder for the UK and were themselves the ones streaming every event live . It just becomes noticeable in an age (from 2012 onward) where every single event is broadcast in real time and the Olympic website updates every single score, goal, mark or result in real time as well."

[Fauxstralian]

Cum On Your Auntie You really are a dull eyed fish to shoot in a barrell So easily wound up Scorchio I am sure the bbc would want to show every GB event live but understand they were behind Discovery Plus who had the major rights package at enormous cost Not sure what the details of what the bbc had but imagine they did what they could Every nations coverage will be home biased even if more interesting things are happening for other nations

[Come On You Irons]

"Fauxstralian 5:03 Mon Aug 12 Re: Paris Olympics 2024 No pretensions whatsoever = Essex accent that stripped the paint off the pool complex walls __ Yet another snidey comment from the resident site snide. So you have a problem with a working class Essex accent now, do you Sven? What a fucking melt you are."

[El Scorchio]

Oops. Apologies for double post. Fucking slow website...

[El Scorchio]

"They do a great job at bringing in credible figures who have been there and done that for all the major sports, which is great. TBH I think they could up the game with Athletics a little bit with no British male in the studio as a mainstay and Ennis and Lewis probably pre-empt and react a bit too emotionally to events rather than objectively but they are still good. Michael Johnson is simply brilliant as is Gabby Logan. Jaz Sawyers I think is there just because she's a woman if I'm being totally honest. Swimming great, cycling, great. I think the gymnastics trio do a good job and Leon Taylor on the diving is a brilliant commentator. With a sport that can be hard to understand what's 'good' or 'bad' with an untrained eye, his reactions instantly tell you, and I love how excited he gets when British divers do well, without going OTT. He then follows up with a good technical breakdown of what was good and bad with what's just been seen. It does make you realise the expertise people have in sports that most people know nothing about. Maybe that's why it's different to football as we all have our own strong opinions before anyone has said a word. BBC's presentation as ever is just a cut above anything else. They absolutely nail these big events and make that licence fee worthwhile. However, my one big criticism is that they don't show enough GB critical things live. You really notice this when every event is available to watch live elsewhere. They are often behind real time sometimes quite substantially while presenting things as if they are live. Swimming and athletics being the big exceptions. Lots of the track cycling was a long way past live which irks me as someone who follows a lot of the sports closely and wants to see it all live rather than accidentally seeing the result first. I know it's really hard when so much is going on and they have to do their best and I believe they are only allowed to show one channel of it at any one time now, but you realise so much just isn't 'as it happens' any longer. It wouldn't be so bad but if you're really looking at the schedule and wanting to see things live, it's really frustrating to know it's going on but not being shown because the beeb are showing a replay (not even live coverage sometimes) of some hockey or water polo match that GB aren't even involved in instead."

[El Scorchio]

"They do a great job at bringing in credible figures who have been there and done that for all the major sports, which is great. TBH I think they could up the game with Athletics a little bit with no British male in the studio as a mainstay and Ennis and Lewis probably pre-empt and react a bit too emotionally to events rather than objectively but they are still good. Michael Johnson is simply brilliant as is Gabby Logan. Jaz Sawyers I think is there just because she's a woman if I'm being totally honest. Swimming great, cycling, great. I think the gymnastics trio do a good job and Leon Taylor on the diving is a brilliant commentator. With a sport that can be hard to understand what's 'good' or 'bad' with an untrained eye, his reactions instantly tell you, and I love how excited he gets when British divers do well, without going OTT. He then follows up with a good technical breakdown of what was good and bad with what's just been seen. It does make you realise the expertise people have in sports that most people know nothing about. Maybe that's why it's different to football as we all have our own strong opinions before anyone has said a word. BBC's presentation as ever is just a cut above anything else. They absolutely nail these big events and make that licence fee worthwhile. However, my one big criticism is that they don't show enough GB critical things live. You really notice this when every event is available to watch live elsewhere. They are often behind real time sometimes quite substantially while presenting things as if they are live. Swimming and athletics being the big exceptions. Lots of the track cycling was a long way past live which irks me as someone who follows a lot of the sports closely and wants to see it all live rather than accidentally seeing the result first. I know it's really hard when so much is going on and they have to do their best and I believe they are only allowed to show one channel of it at any one time now, but you realise so much just isn't 'as it happens' any longer. It wouldn't be so bad but if you're really looking at the schedule and wanting to see things live, it's really frustrating to know it's going on but not being shown because the beeb are showing a replay (not even live coverage sometimes) of some hockey or water polo match that GB aren't even involved in instead."

[Fauxstralian]

No pretensions whatsoever = Essex accent that stripped the paint off the pool complex walls

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"For some reason the punditry, on the BBC, for the swimming and athletics was a refreshing contrast to what is served up to us when the channels are broadcasting football."

[WHU(Exeter)]

"At the risk of sounding controversial... I really like listening to Laura Kenny sum up the cycling. No pretensions whatsoever, which is refreshing and good to listen to."

[Fauxstralian]

"Comma Yes, the Netherlands performance is outstanding with a population of approx 18m Understand India racked up 1 silver and 5 bronze which is particularly poor"

[El Scorchio]

", 12:59 It also shows you how much of a difference maker (along with Marchand for France) it is to any nation aside from the USA to have a top athlete in a sport where they can collect multiple gold medals for their talents rather than just one (Marchand with four for France and Laverysen with three for NL) Big impact on both the respective medal counts. Marchand won a quarter of France's golds."

[Lee Trundle]

"My highlights: - watching highlights of the opening ceremony, laughing my head off - observing tranny supporters squirm uncomfortably as they had to support a bloke beating up a woman - RayGun in the breakdancing"

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Great games and ranks alongside Sydney and London. As Faux pointed out it is interesting to note how some countries appear to punch above or below their weights in terms of population. Looking at the medal table the clear winner is Holland. The French did two things which are likely to catch on in firstly having a fan zone where at the end of a day some of the medal winners came to greet people. Secondly the emblematic Olympic flame was nearby this zone rather than being in the athletics stadium.

[Mike Oxsaw]

goose 11:59 Sun Aug 11 Don't worry - he'll be all over the para-Olympics thread.

[only1billybonds]

Fauxstralian 5:28 Sat Aug 10 Re: Paris Olympics 2024 Meanwhile by LA 2028 my confident prediction is that the ginger rapist will be dead in his cell. Didn't know Biden was redhead.

[goose]

Fauxstralian 5:28 Sat Aug 10 Re: Paris Olympics 2024 Meanwhile by LA 2028 my confident prediction is that the ginger rapist will be dead in his cell. What’s joyo got to do with the Olympics??

[Fauxstralian]

Paris has done a great job Have tried to be innovative & have shown off the city beautifully As with London all the prophets of doom have been shown to be wrong Great crowd support throughout too

[Come On You Irons]

Looking forward to the closing ceremony this evening. Then it's a four year wait until LA 2028.

[Too Much Too Young]

Good job there isn't a species olympics. Can't think of much humans would win in track and field and the pool.

[El Scorchio]

"Well that's that. GB has finished up now. Third most medals won, but the story is basically nothing gong our way in situations where a gold was up for grabs. Shame. Bit more luck and different circumstances and we easily walk away with 20+ as usual. Same time in four years lads"

[El Scorchio]

"Well that's that. GB has finished up now. Third most medals won, but the story is basically nothing gong our way in situations where a gold was up for grabs. Shame. Bit more luck and different circumstances and we easily walk away with 20+ as usual. Same time in four years lads"

[Far Cough]

No worse than Aussie YMCA Rules

[Nutsin]

"Faux Exposing his fake masculinity trying to cover up his gay tendancies. Yeah that’s right Faux, Aussie rules football and Rugby are true men’s sports. You’re so tough! What a wanker!"

[Manuel]

"Faux - You can't stop can you, using a football forum to get out all your hate and bitterness. You're a true cսnt."