Paris 2024 - Day 15 (Sat 10th August)

[Eddie]

We're out! Just as well really.

 

[Madison]

Fuck’s sake.

 

[Madison]

Don’t bother getting up.

 

[Finn]

I did NOT have "hating the Netherlands" on my 2024 bingo card, but we're really getting there

 

[Eddie]

Oh we're still in.

 

[dmlaw]

I didn’t know that Joost Klein was riding in the Madison.

 

[Eddie]

Don’t bother getting up.

IKR. Not like they were doing much.

 

[Madison]

Just gain a lap.

 

[Eddie]

We've been overlapped! Lols.

 

[Finn]

This is getting jolly exciting

 

[Madison]

Just put this GB track cycling team into a mincer and feed them to our horses.

 

[Finn]

MORE CRASHES PLEASE

 

[Finn]

Just put this GB track cycling team into a mincer and feed them to our horses.

*This* mincer would welcome the majority of them into me tbh

 

[Eddie]

Are we in negative points now?

 

[Madison]

*This* mincer would welcome the majority of them into me tbh

You can do better. Hold out for a Dutch cyclist.

 

[Eddie]

*This* mincer would welcome the majority of them into me tbh

First up: the useless Carlin

 

[Eddie]

Well done Portugal. Perfectly raced!

 

[dmlaw]

I mean, that was quite exciting, even if the Brits fucked it.

 

[Eddie]

I mean, that was quite exciting, even if the Brits fucked it.

They were never even remotely in contention!

 

[Madison]

Stupid race. Cancel the Madison (again).

 

[Eddie]

First up: the useless Carlin

I do of course reserve the right to change my opinion if he wins Gold in the Keiran.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Stupid race. Cancel the Madison (again).

Would you prefer a thread ban or site wide ban?

 

[Madison]

Choong’s handicap in the laser run is 50 seconds. Starts in about 10 mins.

 

[Finn]

I do love how Dame Laura Kenny sounds surprisingly common

 

[rhythmbandit]

Choong’s handicap in the laser run is 50 seconds. Starts in about 10 mins.

Is that the final event?

 

[Eddie]

Choong’s handicap in the laser run is 50 seconds. Starts in about 10 mins.

Balding just said 33 seconds.

 

[dmlaw]

Balding just said 33 seconds.

Balding says a lot of things. According to the on screen caption, 50 seconds is correct.

 

[Finn]

Big fan of the Egyptian pentathlon man doing it in glasses

 

[Kratz]

If we put Gabby Logan and Claire Balding in a studio together perhaps they would destroy each other and save us all.

 

[Madison]

Time to put Choong in the bin, never to be heard of again unless he eventually becomes a Tory PPC.

 

[Eddie]

Time to put Choong in the bin, never to be heard of again unless he eventually becomes a Tory PPC.

Did he botch it then? I'm watching pleasantries on the BBC 1 coverage.

 

[dmlaw]

Did he botch it then? I'm watching pleasantries on the BBC 1 coverage.

He was fine in the run. He was much lower than any other contender in the fencing, which left him with far too much to make up.

 

[ILL ADVISED]

Did the British team make any field event finals?

 

[FetchFugly]

Did the British team make any field event finals?

Jacob Fincham-Dukes made a creditable fifth in the long jump, but otherwise no.

 

[ILL ADVISED]

Jacob Fincham-Dukes made a creditable fifth in the long jump, but otherwise no.

That seems a lot worse than we normally do then

 

[FetchFugly]

That seems a lot worse than we normally do then

Obviously Molly was an expected finalist, and Morgan Lake underperformed in high jump too. We didn't take very many in the field - others made up a few of those who had rankings invites turned down by UK Athletics.

We usually have a female long jumper or two, but Jaz Sawyers is injured and on commentary.

 

[Finn]

Loved that sneaky women's 1500 bronze from Bell!

 

[dmlaw]

GB Bronze in women’s 1500m!

 

[ILL ADVISED]

That was a great race to watch. Right on the line for Bell

 

[FetchFugly]

YAY for Georgia Bell's bronze and national record.

Laura Muir's race was ODD