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Tokyo Olympics

Callumcafc
Callumcafc Posts: 63,757
in Other Football and Sports
Opening ceremony isn't for a couple more days but a couple of sports have already started, softball and football.

Hoping for an excellent showing from Team GB. :-)
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  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,757
    edited July 2021
    The GB women's football team are in a Group with Chile, Canada and hosts Japan.

    Their first match against Chile kicks off in exactly six hours in Sapporo. Kick off at 8:30am UK time.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,757
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,757
    Japan get things kicked off with an 8-1 win over Australia in softball.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,454
    Be amazed if events don't get cancelled left ,right and centre.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,075
    I was meant to attend it. 🥲
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    England, sorry, GB looking comfortable.

    White totally at fault there for being offside.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,291
    edited July 2021
    Argentina v Australia is tomorrow morning in the Mens Football

    KO is meant to be about 11:30am English time if I remember the time difference correctly
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    AddicksAddict said:
    England, sorry, GB looking comfortable.

    White totally at fault there for being offside.
    White totally at fault for being in the right place to open the scoring.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,033
    The Games haven’t even properly started yet and we’re already winning!!

    🇬🇧
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,291
    In other news... Brisbane has been awarded the 2032 Olympic Games

    Means they'll follow Paris (2024) and Los Angeles (2028)
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  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,945
    Brisbane confirmed as the 2032 host.

    Has been a bit of a muted announcement.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,973
    Must admit I don’t watch a lot of women’s football but was impressed with the technical ability of GB players. Passing was crisp and very good movement off the ball. Very impressed with the Scottish player Little in midfield, like a female Fabregas the way she looks about when receiving the ball. Just once again the goalkeeping standard let down the game, Chile goalie was shocking.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,033
    ForeverAddickted said:
    In other news... Brisbane has been awarded the 2032 Olympic Games

    Means they'll follow Paris (2024) and Los Angeles (2028)
    Christ, I’ll be 47 when those Brisbane games come around (probably too old to make the team!).
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,757
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,291
    se9addick said:
    ForeverAddickted said:
    In other news... Brisbane has been awarded the 2032 Olympic Games

    Means they'll follow Paris (2024) and Los Angeles (2028)
    Christ, I’ll be 47 when those Brisbane games come around (probably too old to make the team!).
    Yeah I'll be 49 come 2032!! 


  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,835

    was the Chile goalie wearing evening gloves ?


    seemed to go halfway up her arms

  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,757
    Sweden lead 2-0 over the US women.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,757
    Now 3-0. US women haven’t lost in two and half years.
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 5,976
    ForeverAddickted said:
    se9addick said:
    ForeverAddickted said:
    In other news... Brisbane has been awarded the 2032 Olympic Games

    Means they'll follow Paris (2024) and Los Angeles (2028)
    Christ, I’ll be 47 when those Brisbane games come around (probably too old to make the team!).
    Yeah I'll be 49 come 2032!! 


    A fellow 1983 baby? What month?
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,291
    CAFCTrev said:
    ForeverAddickted said:
    se9addick said:
    ForeverAddickted said:
    In other news... Brisbane has been awarded the 2032 Olympic Games

    Means they'll follow Paris (2024) and Los Angeles (2028)
    Christ, I’ll be 47 when those Brisbane games come around (probably too old to make the team!).
    Yeah I'll be 49 come 2032!! 


    A fellow 1983 baby? What month?
    October here
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  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix Posts: 2,707
    AddicksAddict said:
    England, sorry, GB looking comfortable.

    White totally at fault there for being offside.
    GB's potm is Scottish...
  • RalphMilnesgut
    RalphMilnesgut Posts: 1,751
    ForeverAddickted said:
    In other news... Brisbane has been awarded the 2032 Olympic Games

    Means they'll follow Paris (2024) and Los Angeles (2028)
    I was out on the Gold Coast for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. What a gorgeous part of the world and a great Games.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    This young lady was well fancied for GOLD .. Tokyo Olympics: British medal hope Amber Hill withdraws after testing positive for Covid-19 - BBC Sport

    I suspect there will be a lot medals being won by competitors who win them through the intervention of covid .. not their fault of course, but still unfortunate for those who miss out
  • Swindon_Addick
    Swindon_Addick Posts: 1,624
    There will always be a few medals won because the world number 1 was injured or absent for some other reason. We're likely to see more of that this time round. Let's hope the isolation protocols they're using for the games hold the line and we don't end up with events wiped out due to large numbers of positive tests.
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    edited July 2021
    The gold ribbon 100 meters final is still two weeks away, at this rate it will be won by an American Somoa weight-lifter who is the only person not isolating.  
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    se9addick said:
    ForeverAddickted said:
    In other news... Brisbane has been awarded the 2032 Olympic Games

    Means they'll follow Paris (2024) and Los Angeles (2028)
    Christ, I’ll be 47 when those Brisbane games come around (probably too old to make the team!).
    I’ll be 62 but still in with a chance to make it in as goalie for team GB’s women team , if I get the op done in time 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    Callumcafc said:
    Now 3-0. US women haven’t lost in two and half years.

    They have now.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,973
    US women’s team getting a lot of stick for kneeling during their anthem and not before the kick off. 3 of their players stood up.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    ValleyGary said:
    US women’s team getting a lot of stick for kneeling during their anthem and not before the kick off. 3 of their players stood up.
    From whom?  There are a lot of right-wingers in the US who hate the USWNT and make up lies about them.  They'd give them stick if they came on the field in Just Say No shirts.

  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    ValleyGary said:
    Must admit I don’t watch a lot of women’s football but was impressed with the technical ability of GB players. Passing was crisp and very good movement off the ball. Very impressed with the Scottish player Little in midfield, like a female Fabregas the way she looks about when receiving the ball. Just once again the goalkeeping standard let down the game, Chile goalie was shocking.

    Pleased you saw that ! First half was good crisp passing with the midfield 3 pulling the strings: Little, Weir and Walsh. 2nd half, in control and Bronze her normal powerhouse display as a right wingback.

    Casey Stoney was not only a top footballer  but she is a top coach and I like her analysis on kim Little when she said she scans  constantly. White has gone from running the flanks to being a central striker in last couple of years.

    The Chile keeper was superb last time I watched her but she was poor today. Mega bags under her eyes, may be allergic to Japanese pine AKA Acers.

    Monty Don for CL, in Japan.

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