It seems that hugging and fist bumping is de rigeur these days in all walks of life. Maybe we need to move on. Not everyone is creepy. Sometimes it's actually quite a nice thing to do.
I am finding it hard to keep up with proceedings. French telly and thrnfan zones are understandably biased towards French hopefuls. Player works on my phone. Also have discovery plus - again works on phone. But despite a vpn still can't get it to cast to telly in airbnb.
Hey ho! More beer. More chatting.
What does a horse drink on a night out in Paris these days?
What does a horse drink on a night out in Paris these days?
Obvious.
https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/olympic-dressage-grand-prix-becky-moody-866413
"Ooh me wet cobbles"
So looking forward to the rowing. It's a favourite in the bunnyhop household (11.25am).
What happens is the dirty water flows downstream and the fresh water coming down is cleaner (hopefully).
The Seine is basically swimmable in summer nowaways, it’s just heavy rain that occasionally overwhelms their systems.
The women's triathlon just need the Benny Hill music on it, if the E. Coli didn't get them, the slippery cobbles will...
Don't think the BBC could be doing a worse job of coverage today;
Day 4: Women's Triathlon, put it on rewind from iPlayer - table tennis, archery, and MEN'S triathlon.
What happens is the dirty water flows downstream and the fresh water coming down is cleaner (hopefully).
I thought that the recent pollution was caused by the rainfall on the opening ceremony day? (or at least that's what they said)
Don’t think the BBC could be doing a worse job of coverage today
The coverage last night was quite bad and I can’t abide Claire Balding - she adds very little other than a smug middle class attitude and no subject knowledge to proceedings.
Thankfully the Discovery app has better coverage.
Go Alex Yee and what a job by Sam Dickinson, loved him encouraging the crowd to get behind Alex.
The coverage last night was quite bad and I can’t abide Claire Balding
The constant digging up of vox pops and athlete profiles with literally every person the athlete has ever met wishing them luck / recounting stories of their youth etc is also massively cringey and annoying.
If anyone's in Paris watching the Triathlon today, my sister is doing the live onsite commentary (she's a two time Olympic triathlete for reference 🙂 ).
Also, her wife is doing the commentary on FrTV.
Annoyingly in the UK I can't actually listen to either of them!
What a finish in the men's triathlon!
Crazy BMX freestyle action!
Massive shouts of NOOOOOO in the NBT household as the BBC live feed flips to a basketball timeout in the middle of Keiran Reilly's run
Anthony JeanJean's run in the BMX just now, utterly ridiculous. I was literally laughing out loud (lol!)
I'm flippin' knackered now!
Keiran Reilly’s second run was awesome. Hope you caught it nbt! 😀
nickjb
Jeanjean’s run was the best for me as pure entertainment but I guess it wasn’t that clean so gets marked down at this level
Yup - it was the recovery from the wobble and straight into the next huge trick. That's entertainment!
Hope you caught it nbt! 😀
Yeah cheers, they realised within a second or two and flipped back but it was a complete WTAF moment when it happened
Wow, just wow. The tricks have gone up a whole level since 2021. My heart was in my mouth. Ed and Tim are great commentators, always entertaining and they absolutely love their sports.
Some nice camaraderie in these games so far.
I can't help but think that the scoring got stricter in that BMX final. Had Reilly done his second run in the first round, he'd have received a much higher score and possibly Gold. Ahh well, still a mammoth achievement.
I can’t help but think that the scoring got stricter in that BMX final.
Yes, I think they realised they'd gone too big on the Argentine rider's score and got a bit stricter
I'm only really showing a wee bit interest in the Olympics, but from what I can lazily gather, Team GB seem to be doing a rather fine job so far...
Kieran Reilly did really well but I thought his run wasn't half as spectacular as a few of the others so I don't feel aggrieved that he didn't win. I don't know how all the scoring works but Jeanjean's run was way more spectacular in my opinion
It's not just about the BMX tricks, but height and smoothness seemed to be a big part of the marking process.
Jeanjean had a couple of sketchy landings at the beginning of his 2nd run, they were off huge hits which made it less obvious but that was also going to drop him points. With the crowd roaring him on it was certainly the most impressive run as an experience.
Has anyone found any coverage of the surfing on the BBC? I thought I'd found it on "Day 4: Extra: Afternoon" - it said surfing in the programme description, but there wasn't actually any in the programme... 🙁
