Rio 2016 - which events are grabbing your attention so far?

LeannePip said:
How do the shorts not come off, plenty of times i've attempted to dive in the pool wearing a bikini and had to rescue the bottoms from my knees on entering the pool!



There was a preliminary round earlier in the week and from what i've gathered the 5 or 6 of them all walk round the equipment together and the teams nominate 4 people on each piece of equipment of which 3 scores count towards the teams total the individuals score also qualifies them for the final of that piece of apparatus as well. Last night was the team final as far as i'm aware they have to have competed on that piece of equipment in the preliminary round to be able to do it in the final and i think its 3 compete without a drop score this time.

looking forward to the individuals!
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Yes, the qualifying round also qualified them for individual apparatus finals - the top 12 (I think?) from qualifying go through to the individual apparatus finals. There's also the all-around where your total from all 6 apparatus give an overall champion, which again they qualify for by doing all 6 apparatus in the qualifier.
 
apart from the equestrian, I have been really enjoying the 7s and want to start playing.

Gymnastics I'm also enjoying, not fussed on swimming at all but the diving was really good!
 
I find it quite interesting watching any of the sports. Also proud of the fact a relative of mine is competing at the olympics(or should say competed) He won bronze in the mens trap shooting :)

Is it bad that i'm wanting to watch the jumping part of the pentathlon, interested to see what horses they've got this time :D
 
Oh my life, the American ladies gymnastic team are just phenomenal. How much dedication does it take to perform like that???? Don't really want to think about it while I'm flopped out in my Holiday Inn hotel room, eating rubbish ha ha.
 
deb_l222 said:
Oh my life, the American ladies gymnastic team are just phenomenal. How much dedication does it take to perform like that???? Don't really want to think about it while I'm flopped out in my Holiday Inn hotel room, eating rubbish ha ha.
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When we were watching the gymnastics, my OH said 'It shouldn't be possible to do that!' Some of those tumbles, and the asymmetric bars, were just amazing.
 
I'm loving the rugby sevens - never watched it before but it's great viewing, though gutted for our ladies team missing out on the bronze though particularly as they'd already beaten Canada once.

Also enjoying the swimming, diving and gymnastics, the floor routines from the American girls last night were brilliant. Looking forward to when the athletics starts.
 
Sevens was good and GB did well to beat Canada the first time, they were expected to win bronze and they did. Team GB didn't look the same after playing New Zealand sadly.

I want to the cycling to start and the weather to improve so the rowing can get going, we might get some medals then.
 
Oooh how tense was the last round of diving???? Loved the commentary "re-dives, failed dives and a green pool. I can't cope".

Bagged the gold though, how brilliant is that. I just lurve the Olympics, will be so sad when it's over.
 
deb_l222 said:
Oooh how tense was the last round of diving???? Loved the commentary "re-dives, failed dives and a green pool. I can't cope".

Bagged the gold though, how brilliant is that. I just lurve the Olympics, will be so sad when it's over.
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I love Leon's commentary for the diving - he's so exuberant and clearly loves it to bits! Fantastic medal - didn't realise Chris Mears has been so ill. I've just had a look at his Wikipedia page, it's extraordinary - although someone has been very quick to take the mick out of Tom Daley :biggrin3:
"Despite being told that he would never dive again, Mears made a slow introduction back into diving, and went on to compete eighteen months later at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in India. He does however still to this day have a trademark 12-inch scar down the middle of his abdomen, curtailing his abdominal movement,[4] and an Olympic gold medal #TakeThatTomDaley.
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What a good night for medals. So far we seem to be doing well in the sports we haven't been so "expected " to eg the diving.
The diving gold and gymnastics bronze are especially good as usually they have such a strong Chinese / Russian stronghold. Usually diving you think China gold then the other 2 medals are up for grabs.
I also love how Leon gets so excited when he's commentating really adds to the excitement unfortunately missed the last couple of dives today as was at the cinema but with Tom and Dan on Monday he was making it even more exciting than it already was and he's so knowledgeable.
 
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