Paris Olympics 2024 (spoilers)

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Who is watching?

I figure it’s bigger than ‘just’ cycling so it’s own thread?

Can can dancing on the Seine yesterday and road cycling today :smiley:

A special good luck to Tiffany Keep as she works for TR :scream: the women’s road race in 2020 being quite a dramatic affair

Mens and Women’s road time trial is this afternoon (Paris time)

Lots of swimming on, I’ll have my eye on Adam Peaty hopefully heading towards his third breast stroke gold.

Artistic gymnastics may interest my girls I hope, and we had tickets to the Beach Volley in 2012 so may watch some of those too. :slight_smile:

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Won the first heat, semi in about 8hrs I think

Britain got Bronze on the women’s synchro diving behind China and USA. :slight_smile: A tiny error on the last dive by Aus blew up their run of form. Tough sport.

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Horrible conditions for the time trial.

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Taylor Knibb down twice (!)

One of two riders down at the same spot.

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Unbelievable!

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Team guy going flying with the spare bike too. Crazy.

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Network TV
Way too many commercials in the women’s TT. The split screen commercial / TT has the commercials 2x the size of the race.
Tough in the rain for sure

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Upset winner for the women’s ITT

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Well that was a bit of a drama, great to see UK get Silver :slight_smile: Henderson did a great job :2nd_place_medal:

Looks like the men’s will have the same conditions, and as it’s in the same course I’m expecting similar drama…! Tarling and Ganna may be favourites but one wheel slip or more evens things up from evenepoel, wva etc

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Really strong performance from Grace Brown, well deserved :australia:

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Great to see a nice upset result in the Women’s race, really happy for the top 2.

Good to see Wout running the dual disc setup, hopefully close between the favorites for the men’s race.

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Pretty tight right now…

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That save from Ganna is insane.

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Blimey,real edge of the seat stuff!

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Remco has it barring disaster. Great performance. Wonder how much Tarlings puncture cost him.

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Amazing strength to come back to two seconds behind wva

Remco has to stay upright, Ganna dicing with disaster

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Yep. Lost a good chunk of time there, sucks to have a puncture on such an important day.

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The heck with the results (just kidding, thrilled for brown and remco), what’s going on with these Belgium kits? Usually love their colors but this is a disaster

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I think Tarling might have won if not for that puncture. Would have been very close with Remco there.

Happy for wout, sure it’s bronze but after his crash I think he should be pretty happy with this form.

Ganna closed a massive gap from T2 onwards and that save!

Great ITT overall.

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Does anyone know how the start order was established?

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How are you all watching the Olympics (without commercials)?

I don’t have cable. I’m thinking that I could either do a YoutubeTV free trial or just sign up for a month of Peacock. I’m leaning towards Peacock. Any thoughts?