Tokyo Olympics

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

Elthamaddick said:

for how much longer will certain World Records continue to be broken.....at some point they will just never be beaten

Bolt's 100 and 200m records will probably stand for quite a while. Certainly i think the 200 will. Flo-Jo's records over the same distance have stood since 1988!

The womens 400m WR has stood since 1985, and only 3 women have got within a second of that time since, so she must've been on something.

People said it at the time and since. She died very young, had a strong jaw line and was a bit spotty. Also she had an outrageous improvement in times after changing coaches. 
The old communist countries loved drugs to the point that some of there athletes were becoming mutants and what they did with girl gymnastics was disgusting to say the least. I don’t think the Americans were beyond doing a bit rule breaking, they were at times a little difficult with testing. 
I don’t trust the Chinese, they have history at cheating just like  Russia but I doubt the powers to be haven’t caught with their technology yet. 

soapboxsam said:

No problem with rock climbing as we need to keep the interest of the younger viewer and its new and fresh.

Football, Tennis and Golf are more problematical for me in the Olympics.

Football should follow the lead of Rugby 7's and play a different version in a smaller arena with say six a side. Maybe national League down ?

Tug of war should make a comeback. There should be one sport where you train by eating big breakfasts and pie and chips. No doubt even in this people would cheap by taking steroids.

Rope a dope ?

Agree football should be like futsal or something different really, give different players an opportunity and also get youngsters interested in them 

Bournemouth Addick said:

...I think they must have given up on it.

Fat fingers typing error?

China is probably going to win the gold medal count and might win the overall medal count. That’s pretty amazing.

soapboxsam said:

No problem with rock climbing as we need to keep the interest of the younger viewer and its new and fresh.

Climbing is relatively cheap to hold as well, when compared with more specialised sports, such as a host city having to create a canoe slalom course, and many sports centres have basic climbing walls you anyone watching who wants to get into it

NapaAddick said:

China is probably going to win the gold medal count and might win the overall medal count. That’s pretty amazing.

Not so amazing when they have a population of over 1.4 billion on which to draw their talent.

I can just imagine the whining from the Premier League managers if GB/England entered a team in the men's football! 

After all a team of Under 23s would still take an awful lot of England's best players, when you look at the age profile of our side in the Euros

soapboxsam said:

Rothko said:

the football debate is a very British one as we don’t put teams in, most countries see it as the only global U23 event and use it to give players experience at a global level.

likewise for women as it’s global event and we’ve not had that experience for our players since 2012

The female game does still need the global publicity and the players gain even more experience of top football tournaments.
So 11 aside for the woman's game. 

For the men, another tournament in an all ready busy fixture list shouldn't be in the Olympics. As mentioned futsal or some sort of six a side with 17 to 19 age group. 
Good to see a GB team compete in this.

If you need to age limit it it obviously shouldn't be in the Olympics.  If it was still amateur fine. It's not the u23s show jumping, the u26 100 meters or anything else. 

stoneroses19 said:

3 Olympics in a row, Team GB have won 8 medals on day 11.

I remember when we were lucky to win 8 medals in the whole thing

Rothko said:

killerandflash said:

MrWalker said:

Funding for GB Olympics by sport.
Rowing £24.6m
Cycling £24.5m
Athletics £23m
Sailing £22m
https://www.uksport.gov.uk/our-work/investing-in-sport/current-funding-figures

Athletics is too important to not fund, but the returns at most games haven't been that great either

But then it depends on whether you consider funding to be there to support sport, health, exercise, "social wellbeing" etc  or is it there to win medals.

Different funding agencies and delivery bodies for the health and exercise part of Athletics/Running. The money comes from Sport England and delivered by everyone from England Athletics, ParkRun and others in the running sector.

UK Athletics deals with the elite end, and gets the UK sport funding. I would say, thar Athletics is the only global sport of that list.

Athletics is very accessible though. Someone who is inspired by a Mo Farah or Dina Asher-Smith can take up running very cheaply, whereas the same can't be said about rowing or even cycling, which makes athletics success potentially more inspiring for future generations, especially those from poor homes

More generally a sport like basketball gets minimal funding from UK Sport in comparison to those previously mentioned sports, despite being massively popular, especially in inner city areas. The money goes instead to sports where we can win medals, which are often very specialised and expensive, and inaccessible for the vast majority of the young people watching.

killerandflash said:

Rothko said:

killerandflash said:

MrWalker said:

Funding for GB Olympics by sport.
Rowing £24.6m
Cycling £24.5m
Athletics £23m
Sailing £22m
https://www.uksport.gov.uk/our-work/investing-in-sport/current-funding-figures

Athletics is too important to not fund, but the returns at most games haven't been that great either

But then it depends on whether you consider funding to be there to support sport, health, exercise, "social wellbeing" etc  or is it there to win medals.

Different funding agencies and delivery bodies for the health and exercise part of Athletics/Running. The money comes from Sport England and delivered by everyone from England Athletics, ParkRun and others in the running sector.

UK Athletics deals with the elite end, and gets the UK sport funding. I would say, thar Athletics is the only global sport of that list.

Athletics is very accessible though. Someone who is inspired by a Mo Farah or Dina Asher-Smith can take up running very cheaply, whereas the same can't be said about rowing or even cycling, which makes athletics success potentially more inspiring for future generations, especially those from poor homes

More generally a sport like basketball gets minimal funding from UK Sport in comparison to those previously mentioned sports, despite being massively popular, especially in inner city areas. The money goes instead to sports where we can win medals, which are often very specialised and expensive, and inaccessible for the vast majority of the young people watching.

Basketball still gets a load of Sport England money for participation so the inner city is covered, but no UK Sport money as it’s not an Olympic sport we’re going to win at.

The sport I always feel sorry for in the funding debate is Netball, massive sport for participation and we’ve got an elite team that competes at the top of the sport, yet no chance of UK Sport money, so they have to hope Sport England can find money to help fund the elite end of the sport.

Amazing from Sky Brown!

Cuban looked a class fighter.