🗼 :paris_2024: 2024 Paris Olympics :olympic_rings:

And we are old enough to remember the UK coming to a complete standstill in 1973 when Roger Taylor had a shot simply at a final!

Dame Goddess Virginia carrying the flag while we searched for “the 1st since Fred Perry”

And then after Greg & Tim, Andy did it.
Yet he gets “he wasn’t very good” from all types of Armchairs.

Give it a few years and he’ll be fully appreciated

Bit of a dick move if you ask me.

Yep - in about 30 yrs when we have not won fuck all

The biggest issue facing British tennis is that Judy Murray can’t bear children anymore

Yay!
Hoing round in circles aimlessly has started
And think there is some bouncing & splasing going on

Fair point but you can only play what’s in front of you (as per every Saints game).

History isn’t interested in the what-ifs. Nobody will care in 10, 20, 30 or a 100 years from now about him, he’ll be an also-ran, a foot note in the stats.

Unlucky for him that he didn’t play in an era when everyone else was absolutely shite and we could fawn over a British (Scott) champion??

Still, he got his 3 grand slams and gold medals (better than any of us will ever do in our lives), and fair play to him in my opinion.

I still treasure the certificate I got at Junior school for winning the egg and spoon race aged 11, but imho you need to look at the era and players in his time and not look at what might have been.

:man_shrugging:

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Nobody will come close in our lifetimes

Meanwhile we done Silver in splashing fast

Whia another Silver in splashing 4 ways.
Which the Beeb said was not possible at the start of tge show

I’ve not been following the Olympics much tbf - Mrs C_S has it on the telly box and cheers if we win something

This story sort of made me sit up around the whole gender issue

The BBC says this:

The grauniad says this though

The interesting comment is

“… On Thursday Carini broke down in tearsafter she abandoned her bout against Khelif after 46 seconds, saying: “I have never felt a punch like this”

Obviously one comment may be out of context, though I think there’s a lot of work still to be done on the gender front in sport.

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That would have been more impressive if it had been in the boy’s race, but fair play for running in that frock. :+1::+1::shushing_face:

I would definitely watch the hoing.

I don’t think I am part of the team but have definitely been practicing this. :kissing_closed_eyes:

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Incidentally, the Pythons preempted this half a century ago.

Philippines got a gold medal in floor bouncing and the Brit got Bronze.

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I think you’re overreacting, tbh. :frowning:

In other news…

Olympics latest. Paula from Newcastle wins gold for GB in the 2 metre Women’s Diving.

I think I “know” her.

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The wrong uns with long uns :rofl:

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Fixed. :sunglasses:

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Proof if proof was needed that she’s female.