Official Tokyo 2021 Olympics thread

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

WTF happened to Wayde Van Niekerk??
injury proned?

 

[jj23]

Elitist ass post.
Whole games gotta be investigated cause 'murica aint win like they normally do?
So nobody can get better or be better than the good ole US of A huh?

Your post is so America

You are trying to hard. I am not even American. But the athletes haven't even been getting personal bests. That means that something went wrong somewhere.

 

[Liu Kang]

Want to know why athletes are faster on the track.

Super shoes: Explaining athletics’ new technological arms race

Yeah there were talks about how the new Nike shoes was technological doping when Kipchoge broke 2hr in that tailor made Nike marathon event. There will always be talks like this regarding gear so I'm fine with it myself. Still remember those silly Cathy Freeman suits in Sydney 2000 or the swimsuits in 2008

 

[MenacingMonk]

Want to know why athletes are faster on the track.

Super shoes: Explaining athletics’ new technological arms race

The commentators mentioned the track being altered over the years to help out runners.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

WTF happened to Wayde Van Niekerk??
injury proned?

Popped his knee playing rugby a few years back. Split up with his coach and his preparation pre Olympics wasn't the best.

 

[Piff Huxtable]

Holloway may run 12.75

who am I kidding? The way this olympics been going, he will trip like Lolo Jones and some US born mulatto from Denmark named Darrel Jenkins will win the gold

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

The commentators mentioned the track being altered over the years to help out runners.

That helps too. Want to get rid of those old Eastern bloc records. Also making the tracks more runner friendly with the impact.

Tokyo has always had a fast track. 91 World Champs had fast times as well.

Eugene Monaco and now this Tokyo track are the quickest on the circuit.

 

[MenacingMonk]

It's not the not winning. It's the actual performances of the athletes. Many of them look under cooked. And every country that pumps a shyt load of money into the Olympics teams always hold investigations into why did they fail to hit their medal targets. And the knock on effect is sports get their funding cut for failure.

You know we’re living in a Covid World, right? Everyone’s life has changed. Athletes had to wait another year to do this. Training put on hold, then back on; plus some caught the Rona.

There’s still another week and change before the Olympics are over. US still leads the medal count.

 

[The_Sheff]

Holloway may run 12.75

who am I kidding? The way this olympics been going, he will trip like Lolo Jones and some US born mulatto from Denmark named Darrel Jenkins will win the gold

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Yeah there were talks about how the new Nike shoes was technological doping when Kipchoge broke 2hr in that tailor made Nike marathon event. There will always be talks like this regarding gear so I'm fine with it myself. Still remember those silly Cathy Freeman suits in Sydney 2000 or the swimsuits in 2008

It's stupid not to use the technology.

So you're coming around to marginal gains then.

 

[Nero Christ]

the US should use any money that would go into an investigation into this Olympics to fix this fukked up educational system instead

 

[Piff Huxtable]

That helps too. Want to get rid of those old Eastern bloc records. Also making the tracks more runner friendly with the impact.

Tokyo has always had a fast track. 91 World Champs had fast times as well.

Eugene Monaco and now this Tokyo track are the quickest on the circuit.

fukk that, I love me some cold war track records

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

You know we’re living in a Covid World, right? Everyone’s life has changed. Athletes had to wait another year to do this. Training put on hold, then back on; plus some caught the Rona.

There’s still another week and change before the Olympics are over. US still leads the medal count.

Boring.

 

[jj23]

Holloway may run 12.75

who am I kidding? The way this olympics been going, he will trip like Lolo Jones and some US born mulatto from Denmark named Darrel Jenkins will win the gold

Gotta read that with the European commentator's voice.

"And in lane 6 , we have DAHHH-RELL JENKINS from.....Denmark...

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

Any notable events this morning?