Olympics

[Ello Sailor]

It really was. NA straight back to dominating the 200m.

[Monkey_Driven]

The shot put was great!

[Higgs]

It's never good when you're half napping half watching the diving and you get woken up by a huge SPLASH...

[Ello Sailor]

Waking Higgs should be a DQ fer sherr.

[E.H. Ruddock]

The shot put was great!

Yeah that was amazing to watch

[Ello Sailor]

The shot put was great!

Yeah that was amazing to watch

It's pretty insane how far those cunts can push a stone.

[Higgs]

Some rather large lads for sure.

[bada]

Turned on the TV saw wall climbing immediately thought this is the dumbest event I've ever seen 5 mins later its my favorite thing.

[Ello Sailor]

Speed climbing is insane. Such a cool sport.

[washing machine]

Mad props to the speedwalkers out there grinding that 50k.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Mad props to the speedwalkers out there grinding that 50k.

Crazy

[Ello Sailor]

Nelly Korda, the American golfer, is a total babe.

[Higgs]

Yesterday was a pretty rooted day for Australia. Boomers lost to US in the hoops semi's, men's Hockey team lost to Belgium in the gold medal game and Women's soccer lost to US in the bronze medal game. Kinda deflating to be honest.

But then again this also happened:

- Ashley Moloney is a 21 year old decathlete from Oz who was sitting in 3rd spot going into the last event the 1500m, 64 points ahead of 4th place Garret Scantling of the US and only a few more points ahead of 5th place Canadian Pierce Le Page;
- To stay in 3rd he had to finish within 10 seconds of both but was struggling and fading hard with 800m to go;
- His Aussie teammate (and my now personal favourite olympian) Cedric Dubler was not in medal contention and was running well ahead of Moloney but realised he was struggling. In an act of amazing selflessness Dubler dropped back through the pack to run alongside Moloney, pacing him to get to the end, screaming at him the whole way to keep on going.

In the end Dubler got Moloney over the line in a PB and within the 10 second margin that he had available and Moloney held onto the Bronze.

And THAT is what I'm talking about.





I'm tearing up a little here...

[E.H. Ruddock]

Yeah that's awesome. I love shit like that and the double gold medal story in the high jump

[Ello Sailor]

Yeah the boys! That's awesome, Higgs. Thanks for sharing.

[Monkey_Driven]

Yeah that's awesome. I love shit like that and the double gold medal story in the high jump

Absolutely.

[elliseamos]

How many times did he yell, "rattle your dags" at him?

I'm asking for a friend.

[Ello Sailor]

I think he's saying "Don't be a shit cunt or they'll cut our funding. Once you're done there's an ice cold VB loong neck waiting for ya. Kick on ya dog."

[Ello Sailor]

The women's golf is close. Only a few shots separating the top 4 as they enter the back 9.

[Ello Sailor]

Back to back bogeys for NZL's Lydia Ko.