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

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Early days, I know, but which events have you enjoyed watching so far (apart from the eventing dressage)?

I'm really enjoying the woman's rugby sevens. I haven't watched much woman's rugby before, but I love the sevens and think it's a great format for something like the Olympics. Fingers crossed for the quarter finals later tonight!

Also have the fencing on at the moment, which I'd like a go at (but fear I'd probably trip over the sword or summat) :biggrin3:
 
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Really? I'd have thought you need the ability not to impale yourself on your own sword! I also think I'd probably struggle with resisting the urge to loudly and frequently quote from the Princess Bride :tongue3: (unless that's totally ok, in which case, I have some googling to do....)
 
I always become an avid swimming fan during the Olympics. I think it's coz the races are quite quick so I don't need to pay attention for long lol
 
As hubby played indoor and beach volleyball for his home country I am quite enjoying watching the men's beach VB.

Fencing annoys me as they spend too much time dancing around with no action. The woman's synchronised diving was good, and the gymnastics until the French bloke snapped his leg yesterday :-(
 
Sevens is incredible. Never really seen women play it before, I want to give it a try now.

Switched from the Eventing to the cycling road race and saw a horrific crash. Did anyone else see it? It's incredible the woman is still alive. I can watch rowing all day too, and caught a fantastic women's tennis match last night. Basically I bloody love all of it for the most part.
 
Love the cycling.
The lady's road race is even more exciting than the men's.
I love the sprint finishes they pull out after cycling for hours and hours !
Apparently the lady from the crash is ok , it looked horrific
 
numptynoelle said:
Really? I'd have thought you need the ability not to impale yourself on your own sword! I also think I'd probably struggle with resisting the urge to loudly and frequently quote from the Princess Bride :tongue3: (unless that's totally ok, in which case, I have some googling to do....)
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Quoting from the Princess Bride is not unusual - and if unusual and despite being unable to make it through a door without hitting the handle with my arm I was pretty good when I was younger.
 
It doesn't sound like it's much of a spectator sport, but I love watching the archery. I think it's such a beautiful movement when they pull on the bow (don't know the technical term) - you can just feel the ribcage expanding and the lungs filling and the shoulders pulling back.
 
Everything! All the sports! I love the Olympics.

I find handball absolutely fascinating - we watched hours of it during the last Olympics. Gymnastics is always brilliant. I can get very worked up about any British involvement in any sport though. No prior knowledge or interest required :D

ETA - I have zero interest in rugby usually but the 7s is great fun to watch. For the purists, is it like the 20/20 form of rugby?
 
I also love the Olympics!! I try to catch everything I can :D I am liking the rugby - don't normally take an interest but our girls are doing amazingly! Watched some of the canoeing yesterday too which was quite interesting - fast runs keeps the tension up. Also watched the womens synchronised diving which was great, such a tight result!

Also watched the cycling but was disappointed our guys didn't do better :(
 
teapot said:
Sevens is incredible. Never really seen women play it before, I want to give it a try now.

Switched from the Eventing to the cycling road race and saw a horrific crash. Did anyone else see it? It's incredible the woman is still alive. I can watch rowing all day too, and caught a fantastic women's tennis match last night. Basically I bloody love all of it for the most part.
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I saw the crash, i don't normally react to things on TV but i said a few times 'she's not moving!!' to OH.
She's out of ICU and tweeting this morning so atleast it's only broken bones and nothing more serious as she took a flyer!


I love the swimming and diving, and all the track stuff :D
 
I love it all to be honest. Always have. I'll watch any of it! I have vague memories of LA in 84 (mainly Daley Thompson, Tessa Sanderson and Carl Lewis) when I was 6, but the first one I remember properly was 88. So far I've enjoyed the gymnastics and the diving in particular (I like the technical things when I can be a judge too, even though I know very little about most of them!) spent hours supporting Geraint Thomas in the road race (as a fellow Welshy) and was gutted when he crashed out (really hope he gets given a slot in the time trial, he so deserves it) and watched a few of the swimming heats but finals are on too late. None compare to the Eventing of course!
 
I like the relays in the athletics too. The changeovers somehow make it so much more interesting than just individuals running!
 
Lexi_ said:
ETA - I have zero interest in rugby usually but the 7s is great fun to watch. For the purists, is it like the 20/20 form of rugby?
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That's a good way of describing it. It's the best of both union and league. The men's will be even faster!

I stayed up to watch the tennis, poor Novak was beside himself and the swimming!
 
Fingers crossed for the womans sevens bronze medal match! Can't wait for the mens to get going - someone I was at uni with is in the team! :smile3:

I enjoyed watching the shooting earlier - and now I have the diving on. I'd get serious vertigo on top of that board!
 
I love the gymnastics and watched a bit of the indoor women volley ball today and some shooting. i really enjoy the diving - anyone know when more of that is on?
 
China are incredible it's like it's one person USA are doing well too so looks like the competition is mainly for bronze.

There's no way I'd go near that diving board let alone come off it doing all those twists etc. And the ones where they do the reverse handstands on it 😨😨😨😨
 
I love all of it, I'm obsessed with all things Olympic ha. Not keen on boxing though.

I'm seriously disappointed about the swimming timetable though as swimming is my own personal sport of choice but I'm not prepared to stay up until stupid o'clock in the morning to watch it.

Loving the synchronised 'who has the best abdominals' diving currently on beeb one.
 
LOVING the men's diving (although I also watched the women's yesterday)

How do they fit in those shorts? :eek3: and I think those Russian boys need some feeding up.
 
deb_l222 said:
I love all of it, I'm obsessed with all things Olympic ha. Not keen on boxing though.

I'm seriously disappointed about the swimming timetable though as swimming is my own personal sport of choice but I'm not prepared to stay up until stupid o'clock in the morning to watch it.

Loving the synchronised 'who has the best abdominals' diving currently on beeb one.
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Blame NBC for the swimming times.
 
Watching the men's gymnastics then I'll go to bed. Really don't get how this works I'd have thought they all do each bit of apparatus but sounded like some have only qualified for some events unless that's the individual?
 
stencilface said:
LOVING the men's diving (although I also watched the women's yesterday)

How do they fit in those shorts? :eek3: and I think those Russian boys need some feeding up.
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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!

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Watching the men's gymnastics then I'll go to bed. Really don't get how this works I'd have thought they all do each bit of apparatus but sounded like some have only qualified for some events unless that's the individual?
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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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