Oof, Barshim with an apparent leg injury in the high jump 
2024 Summer Olympics (Paris)
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Barshim injured and it's his competitors taking care of him.
Ah ok, makes more sense on the normal climbing event. The speed climbing was pretty bizarre, particularly given it took c4.8 secs.
That would be great if they had to neck a pint of Stella between each round.
Almost a disaster in the 5000m heats, that cameraman did not realise there was a race going on.
Maybe I'm an old fart, but the skateboarding felt more like a TV show being filmed at a kid's skate park, with 11, 14 and 16 year olds competing.
I felt the same. On the plus side GB’s only male contestant will make us feel young. He’s 53 years old.
Two Belgians! Unheard of, that.Wow, we got a Belgian in the 5.000m final, crazy. And it's a guy who asked AI a few years ago on how to reach this Olympics and to make him a training schedule
They've just compared the 5000m heats to the Kayak Cross. We need more violence before we can make that comparison, though there has been more than expected.
Does anyone have any insights on the relative difficulty between 3m and 10m diving? The instinctive thought would be the 3m is somewhat easier, but I'm wondering if it's the opposite? The 10m you have a perfect launch every time and will generally be travelling more vertically on entry. I've noticed in the 3m qualifying the quality of entry is significantly worse than the 10m.
George Mills is an absolute arsehole
Considering his Dad, I'm not surprised at all.
Comes across as an entitled prick
When he qualified for the Olympics by winning the lead climb in Laval 2023, Shauna Coxsey was talking about how much he'd been working on nerves etc. He really has been putting a lot of effort in over the last few years. He even mentioned that starting a YouTube channel was helping him get used to dealing with cameras and interviews.
I wish him all the best for this one.
Tbf he did get shoved.
He must feel like a right creep hanging out with all those youngsters.
They say that no matter how good you are at something, there’s an Asian person who’s even better. Not true with diving. With diving, there are two Asian people who are better than you.
Basically me at the climbing gym, twice a week, every week. At least skateboarders don’t wear skimpy clothes
I thought he initiated it coming off the top bend to be fair. He was in lane 2 and massively leaned into Hay coming into the straight about 4 seconds before the fall.
Pissheads climbing scaffolding and lampposts would produce so many viral moments.
Basically me at the climbing gym, twice a week, every week. At least skateboarders don’t wear skimpy clothes
I guess you're naturally staring up at their arse when they're climbing too. They have a massive climbing wall in the middle of one of the shopping malls in Singapore, so you can sit and have a cup of tea watching them.
Exactly! In a way it’s torture. Yet also marvellous. Life can be so confusing…
Jippy, you are not supposed to tell everyone that you are creep and where you exercise your hobby.
Mills and a couple of the other fallers advanced currently - did look to be the French guy’s fault in the replays.
Surprised Nur hasn't been advanced from the fall just before that.
Looks like it's gonna be a chaotically busy 5000...without any photographers
Shame no one shoved that cnut to the ground
Shame no one shoved that cnut to the ground
Looks like someone was about to take him out with a javelin, mind you.
They're appealing but I doubt anything will come out of it. At least they're trying. Replays clearly show she didn't go out of bounds. No one's saying anything and it'll probably be swept under the rug. Watching that "competition" and the judo a few days earlier really soured me on the Olympics. 0 morals, full blown politics and hypocrisy.
Cheers. The BBC don't even seem to have anything on their YouTube site. Really lame that…. It’s all horses and joggers. I don’t have any subscription TV so I’m a bit stuck. I’ll wait for something to come up online.
That’s annoying. The discovery plus app might be worth a go if you’re very keen? Think it’s only a few quid per month and you can cancel immediately. They have all of the climbing (and every other event in the Olympics) available to stream or watch live in full.
(I don’t work for Discovery Plus!)
I think they know already.
speed climbing final in a minute, c'mon Aleksandra!
Bronze for Kalucka, now time for Aleksandra Miroslaw to show her class
She made it! The Chinese girl was so fast though, what a final
When they setup the climbs for boulder I know they don't reveal them to the climbers until they're ready to climb. So how do the people setting up know that the course is climable?
Do they test lots of courses in advance, at events, in private? Is there a team somewhere doing the tests to create some kind of playbook of favourites?
Do they test lots of courses in advance, at events, in private? Is there a team somewhere doing the tests to create some kind of playbook of favourites?
Oh wow. Devastating for India.
One woman injured while winning in the semis, one misses weight for the finals.
Incredibly tight race, but when an event comes and goes that fast it couldn't really be otherwise.
First gold for Poland!!! Left me teary-eyed
Yeah, I find it a bit weird they only have one run and that it goes so fast - one small mistake and you're completely fecked. So tight.
breathe of fresh air considering we've been absolutely terrible this Olympics, beautiful moment. now onto volleyball, this will be so tough today
Each set of climbs (called a problem in bouldering, or route in lead) is bespoke to the event they are climbed at. After the event they’re taken down, never to be seen again. With the exception of speed, where the route is identical at every contest.
It’s a real art getting the difficulty right. The best route setters in the world are seen as masters of their art. They also tend to be strong climbers and test each problem/route constantly when it’s being developed. The problems/routes at these Olympics took two months to set. All in extreme secrecy!