Tokyo Olympics 2020 (21)

[YorkshireRed]

Opening Ceremony on as I write. I do love the Olympics but it’s hard to get excited about this one, for obvious reasons.

 

Sport does have a way of luring you in though, so I’m hoping for some great stories to be made in the coming weeks. 

[Bjornebye]

5 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

Opening Ceremony on as I write. I do love the Olympics but it’s hard to get excited about this one, for obvious reasons.

 

Sport does have a way of luring you in though, so I’m hoping for some great stories to be made in the coming weeks. 

Imagine this with a crowd in the stadium though. 

[KMD7]

On 21/07/2021 at 21:21, Champ said:

I was 9. Cut me some slack

Year i was born. First Olympics I remember was in 1980. Hugh Russell winning bronze for Ireland in the boxing and Alan Wells winning the 100m for UK 

[YorkshireRed]

1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

Imagine this with a crowd in the stadium though. 

Yes - it’s a real shame for all involved in putting it together, for those who might be participating in their one and only Olympics and for the spectators unable to be there. 

[Bjornebye]

I always love seeing the athletes lead out. Fair fucking play to every single one of them.

 

Living their dream while I'm heating up a microwave tagliatelli while sat in my boxies sweating like a pig. 

[YorkshireRed]

6 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I'm heating up a microwave tagliatelli while sat in my boxies sweating like a pig.

Don’t give up your dream. I’m sure this will become a full Olympic sport one day. 

[Champ]

7 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I always love seeing the athletes lead out. Fair fucking play to every single one of them.

 

Living their dream while I'm heating up a microwave tagliatelli while sat in my boxies sweating like a pig. 

I did not need to know that

[Bjornebye]

8 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

Don’t give up your dream. I’m sure this will become a full Olympic sport one day. 

 

7 minutes ago, Champ said:

I did not need to know that

Don't you mock my dreams Champ. 

[lifetime fan]

16 minutes ago, Champ said:

I did not need to know that

Wait until he tells you what he’s gonna do after he’s finished the ready meal…

[Bjornebye]

8 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

Wait until he tells you what he’s gonna do after he’s finished the ready meal…

 

 

Although some of that Russian contingent....... phwoar 

 

 

[lifetime fan]

9 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

 

 

Although some of that Russian contingent....... phwoar 

 

 

As soon as I knew you were sat in a pair of budgie smugglers I was cock in hand! X

[Baltar]

Haha I love that the athletes are coming out to music from Japanese video games. Crazy Japs, gotta love them.

[Remmie]

Ace, I love the olympics. Sport on most of the day, each event is usually short and sweet enough to stay interesting before it gets too tedious. They can bin all the horse shit and shooting though. I'll think of some more shit sports they could also do with getting rid of in time, don't worry. I sometimes even get into the gymnastics. 

[lifetime fan]

1 minute ago, Remmie said:

Ace, I love the olympics. Sport on most of the day, each event is usually short and sweet enough to stay interesting before it gets too tedious. They can bin all the horse shit and shooting though. I'll think of some more shit sports they could also do with getting rid of in time, don't worry. I sometimes even get into the gymnastics. 

The walking race. 

[Champ]

45 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

 

Don't you mock my dreams Champ. 

…I meant about you not being able to spell ‘tagliatelle’

[Remmie]

He probably pronounces the G and everything

[Remmie]

Softball is being contested apparently, what the flying fuck is that about, I thought it was just a kids version of rounders/baseball? 

 

I guess I won't shit on it until I've watched it but it does sound like amatuer bollocks.

[Harry's Lad]

1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

I always love seeing the athletes lead out. Fair fucking play to every single one of them.

 

Living their dream while I'm heating up a microwave tagliatelli while sat in my boxies sweating like a pig. 

No scratch and sniff now....

[Champ]

58 minutes ago, Remmie said:

He probably pronounces the G and everything

And in Bolognese too

[lifetime fan]

1 hour ago, Remmie said:

He probably pronounces the G and everything

Hahahahahahaha

[Bobby Hundreds]

Olympics is my favourite sports event. Can't wait for this my missus is pissed off already. 

[Strontium]

Humbling seeing the refugee team and reading their stories. Example:

 

Quote

Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed (born 25 August 1993) is a Sudanese-born runner competing internationally over 5,000 and 10,000 metres.

In 2003, when he was 10 years old, members of the Janjaweed militia burned down his village and killed 97 people, including his father.

 

To find the motivation after that to not just go on, but compete at an Olympic games, is awesome.

[lifetime fan]

3 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Humbling seeing the refugee team and reading their stories. Example:

 

 

To find the motivation after that to not just go on, but compete at an Olympic games, is awesome.

Truly heart moving stuff.

[Edward.]

On 21/07/2021 at 15:42, Harry's Lad said:

I feel sorry for the athletes.

 

They've trained so hard to compete at these Olympics, the pinnacle of their sport and it's behind closed doors, so they don't get the crowds cheering them and the applause.

 

Many of them will never compete at the Olympics again and they are being denied that.They must be gutted.

 

Really sad.

 

I heard Chris Boardman on the radio say it was the Olympics it doesn't matter about crowds.

[Harry's Lad]

7 minutes ago, Edward. said:

I heard Chris Boardman on the radio say it was the Olympics it doesn't matter about crowds.

He's entitled to his opinion of course, but personally I beg to differ.

The encouragement of tens of thousands of spectators in the stadium would likely raise performance levels in my view.

But who am I.