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I think its down to the TV coverage, i have barely seen it on live on BBC. I haven't searched it via any other channel but have seen the odd thing flick up on betting or social media. Although i am missing footy at the moment just haven't even bothered here.Swindon_Addick said:I know we tend to ignore the men's football because it's not the proper national teams, but the under-24 format is proving quite a leveller and producing some unpredictable results. New Zealand through to the quarters this morning, and France currently losing a game they need to win by a couple of goals which may see Japan and Mexico qualify at their expense. Argentina also in trouble and may be out-qualified by Egypt or Australia.
Not that I wouldn't rather be seeing proper teams, like the women's tournament, of course.0 -
Poor Pedri must’ve played around 600 games the past calendar year…0
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Incredible effort by Hashimoto, knowing that a decent score on the high bar would win him the gold AND make him a national hero1
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Eurosport have been showing a proportion of the games. BBC have only been showing the GB Women games, and even then the third game was only on the radio. As the BBC can only show 2 sports at any one time, under their contract, I guess it's fair enough that they drop the football when there's a GB athlete competing in some minority sport who won't get a chance to be on TV until the next Olympics.johnnybev1987 said:
I think its down to the TV coverage, i have barely seen it on live on BBC. I haven't searched it via any other channel but have seen the odd thing flick up on betting or social media. Although i am missing footy at the moment just haven't even bothered here.Swindon_Addick said:I know we tend to ignore the men's football because it's not the proper national teams, but the under-24 format is proving quite a leveller and producing some unpredictable results. New Zealand through to the quarters this morning, and France currently losing a game they need to win by a couple of goals which may see Japan and Mexico qualify at their expense. Argentina also in trouble and may be out-qualified by Egypt or Australia.
Not that I wouldn't rather be seeing proper teams, like the women's tournament, of course.1 -
The previous round, I think, was his 67th game of the season and 45th of the year.Callumcafc said:Poor Pedri must’ve played around 600 games the past calendar year…0 -
Thank you , i didn't know they can only show 2 sports at one time. In fairness i haven't been looking on eurosport, kind of forget its on there and only this morning tried as couldn't find the 7's, maybe i need to keep an eye out as i have been moaning already i am missing footy (a week after Euros, i must be mental)Swindon_Addick said:
Eurosport have been showing a proportion of the games. BBC have only been showing the GB Women games, and even then the third game was only on the radio. As the BBC can only show 2 sports at any one time, under their contract, I guess it's fair enough that they drop the football when there's a GB athlete competing in some minority sport who won't get a chance to be on TV until the next Olympics.johnnybev1987 said:
I think its down to the TV coverage, i have barely seen it on live on BBC. I haven't searched it via any other channel but have seen the odd thing flick up on betting or social media. Although i am missing footy at the moment just haven't even bothered here.Swindon_Addick said:I know we tend to ignore the men's football because it's not the proper national teams, but the under-24 format is proving quite a leveller and producing some unpredictable results. New Zealand through to the quarters this morning, and France currently losing a game they need to win by a couple of goals which may see Japan and Mexico qualify at their expense. Argentina also in trouble and may be out-qualified by Egypt or Australia.
Not that I wouldn't rather be seeing proper teams, like the women's tournament, of course.0 -
"season" almost doesn't seem long enough to describe someone who played in the Euros and the Olympics, as he will have had no down time at all before the next season startsCafc43v3r said:
The previous round, I think, was his 67th game of the season and 45th of the year.Callumcafc said:Poor Pedri must’ve played around 600 games the past calendar year…
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9 channels of Eurosport showing on virgin. Don’t know about sky0
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That’s insane for a 17 year old.Cafc43v3r said:
The previous round, I think, was his 67th game of the season and 45th of the year.Callumcafc said:Poor Pedri must’ve played around 600 games the past calendar year…2 -
nope we get 2, never heard Virgin gets that manyMrOneLung said:9 channels of Eurosport showing on virgin. Don’t know about sky0 - Sponsored links:
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Can't say I was over excited by that 3x3 Basketball1
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Another example of 'if you're good enough, you're old enough'ValleyGary said:
That’s insane for a 17 year old.Cafc43v3r said:
The previous round, I think, was his 67th game of the season and 45th of the year.Callumcafc said:Poor Pedri must’ve played around 600 games the past calendar year…0 -
At the current rate he will over take Ryan Inniss by Christmas.ValleyGary said:
That’s insane for a 17 year old.Cafc43v3r said:
The previous round, I think, was his 67th game of the season and 45th of the year.Callumcafc said:Poor Pedri must’ve played around 600 games the past calendar year…0 -
It took me a while to realise that if you, like me, want to pick their preferred sport to watch, Eurosport is the channel. They have 9 channels, all showing a different Olympic sport. Goodbye BBC. Special thanks to the Dressage for persuading me to investigate what else I could watch.1
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Although the South African TMO on Saturday who I think may have over compensated!Jessie said:
The Japanese have been getting a lot of favourable referee bias, especially in gymnastics. Having watched various kinds of sports in the past few days, I think some sports simply aren't judged as objectively as the others, especially those that involve a group of referees giving scoreskillerandflash said:Incredible effort by Hashimoto, knowing that a decent score on the high bar would win him the gold AND make him a national hero
The most fair and equal sports are shooting, track and field, swimming, rowing etc. which obviously are simpler and where you rarely see controversial refereeing decisions...2 -
Me too ffs, they are pretty hidden. I bet i might have been able to watch the 7s after all that drama this morningCafc43v3r said:
Bugger I missed those ones after the standard and HD channels. Starts on 537.MrOneLung said:9 channels of Eurosport showing on virgin. Don’t know about sky
well at least i know now, never realised there was more than 2 Eurosport channels lol 0 -
You probably wouldn't have that opinion if you weren't absorbing Chinese media.Jessie said:
The Japanese have been getting a lot of favourable referee bias, especially in gymnastics. Having watched various kinds of sports in the past few days, I think some sports simply aren't judged as objectively as the others, especially those that involve a group of referees giving scoreskillerandflash said:Incredible effort by Hashimoto, knowing that a decent score on the high bar would win him the gold AND make him a national hero The most fair and equal sports are shooting, track and field, swimming, rowing etc. which obviously are simpler and where you rarely see controversial refereeing decisions...2 -
First item on look North tonight....
No medals for Yorkshire today but some others did OK 😂😂5 -
"Some posh southern lass won a bronze after she and her horse ponced about to some music"Cafc43v3r said:First item on look North tonight....
No medals for Yorkshire today but some others did OK 😂😂3 - Sponsored links:
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You did alreet lass but thee is not Harvey Smith are thee lass?killerandflash said:
"Some posh southern lass won a bronze after she and her horse ponced about to some music"Cafc43v3r said:First item on look North tonight....
No medals for Yorkshire today but some others did OK 😂😂4 -
It's not the BBC's fault, the IOC (or their media rights arm) sold the UK TV rights to The Discovery Channel and they sold on a package to the BBC with the proviso that the BBC is limited to two live sports at any one time. Next time, even those two might be on, say, C4, so you'll get them with adverts. Oh, yippee.MuttleyCAFC said:It took me a while to realise that if you, like me, want to pick their preferred sport to watch, Eurosport is the channel. They have 9 channels, all showing a different Olympic sport. Goodbye BBC. Special thanks to the Dressage for persuading me to investigate what else I could watch.1 -
Or maybe Jessie knows enough about gymnastics to make her own mind up? The Chinese in the diving that Tom Daley and his mate one has some judgements that weren't influenced in any way whatsoever by them being the world No. 1 pair, oh nor, siree, not at all.MrWalker said:
You probably wouldn't have that opinion if you weren't absorbing the horribly biased Chinese media and social media and their vehement hatred of the Japanese.Jessie said:
The Japanese have been getting a lot of favourable referee bias, especially in gymnastics. Having watched various kinds of sports in the past few days, I think some sports simply aren't judged as objectively as the others, especially those that involve a group of referees giving scoreskillerandflash said:Incredible effort by Hashimoto, knowing that a decent score on the high bar would win him the gold AND make him a national hero The most fair and equal sports are shooting, track and field, swimming, rowing etc. which obviously are simpler and where you rarely see controversial refereeing decisions...4 -
OK. What you wrote was
'"The Japanese have been getting a lot of favourable referee bias'"
Heve you seen other reports of bias towards Japan?
Would you say that Chinese State media is:
A Neutral towards Japan's Olympics
B Positive or
C Negative?
Would you say Chinese social media is A B or C?1 -
Every host nation, IMHO, benefits from officials, being fed, housed and looked after by the host nation, looking more kindly upon it. It's basic human nature, and likely to (I'd like to think) unconsciously influence judges and other officials in making calls or awarding points.MrWalker said:OK. What you wrote was
'"The Japanese have been getting a lot of favourable referee bias'"
Heve you seen other reports of bias towards Japan?
Would you say that Chinese State media is:
A Neutral towards Japan's Olympics
B Positive or
C Negative?
Would you say Chinese social media is A B or C?
It's partly why, along with increased investment in athletes, Olympic host nations do appreciably better in terms of medals for those Olympics than in others.5 -
@KBslittlesis I assume you'll be celebrating the Irish rowing lads from Skibereen getting gold in the lightweight double skulls? I'm looking forward to seeing the post race interview, as if I remember rightly their one at the last Olympics was pretty epic.
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The brothers have split, it was Paul that won 🥇aliwibble said:@KBslittlesis I assume you'll be celebrating the Irish rowing lads from Skibereen getting gold in the lightweight double skulls? I'm looking forward to seeing the post race interview, as if I remember rightly their one at the last Olympics was pretty epic.
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He's 19 in November but completely agree it's too much.ValleyGary said:
That’s insane for a 17 year old.Cafc43v3r said:
The previous round, I think, was his 67th game of the season and 45th of the year.Callumcafc said:Poor Pedri must’ve played around 600 games the past calendar year…
Koeman was furious that he was called up for this so soon after the Euro's.0 -
"This could potentially be catastrophic news for the Australian team, with all 63 track and field athletes being tested and nervously awaiting results. To recap, the athletics starts in less than 24 hours so there is not much time"
The whole Australian athletics team........
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So their entire team is in lockdown because of a close contact with an American who has tested positive. But what about the US team?Cafc43v3r said:"This could potentially be catastrophic news for the Australian team, with all 63 track and field athletes being tested and nervously awaiting results. To recap, the athletics starts in less than 24 hours so there is not much time"
The whole Australian athletics team........
Seems a bit of an overkill. I can't believe all 63 Aussie athletes were that close to 1 American?0
