Mr. P Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 5 minutes ago, sage said: correct The only one of the top ten popular sports in the world not at the olympics. Baseball & Basketball? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Just now, Squid said: Baseball & Basketball? Basketball is in the olympics Baseball is 11th. The IOC are desperate to get India more involved/excited with the Olympics, Easy win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. P Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 8 minutes ago, sage said: Basketball is in the olympics Baseball is 11th. The IOC are desperate to get India more involved/excited with the Olympics, Easy win. Didn't realise basketball was in the Olympics. Surprised baseball isn't in the top 10 with it being so popular in Asia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Just now, Squid said: Didn't realise basketball was in the Olympics. Surprised baseball isn't in the top 10 with it being so popular in Asia. Baseball used to be. They can only have a certain number if sports in it. Recent adutions have seen BMX, Mountain Biking and golf which baseball has gone, cant think of many others to disappear but maybe some events within sports have gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Cricket is played at Test level by countries which total almost a quarter of the world's population. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 3 minutes ago, sage said: Cricket is played at Test level by countries which total almost a quarter of the world's population. It would be aT20 tournament but would the best players go to it. Would the Cricket authorities be as stubborn about a GBR team as the football ones have been? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 BMX crashed out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 2 minutes ago, davenportram said: It would be aT20 tournament but would the best players go to it. Would the Cricket authorities be as stubborn about a GBR team as the football ones have been? In cricket, England and Wales play as England. Northern Irish play for Ireland. Just the sweaties to worry about, I think they would be fine though. Plenty of jocks have played for England, one even captained England. Yes i think the best players would go. It avoids the IPL which is cricket's money bucket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 3 hours ago, Animal is a Ram said: Bronze for Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge in the Men's Doubles Badminton Gold for Ali Brownlee and Silver for brother Johnny in the Triathlon. Incredible from the brownlee brothers. Really incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 28 minutes ago, sage said: In cricket, England and Wales play as England. Northern Irish play for Ireland. Just the sweaties to worry about, I think they would be fine though. Plenty of jocks have played for England, one even captained England. Yes i think the best players would go. It avoids the IPL which is cricket's money bucket Yes, have been a few Scots play cricket for England - David Larter, Peter Such, Mike Denness - I'm sure there are a few others. Then of course, there's Rahul McDravid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Why do we have backwards swimming in the Olympics, but not backwards running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 1 hour ago, reveldevil said: Why do we have backwards swimming in the Olympics, but not backwards running? Nottingham host and win the backwards Olympics every 4 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTedd Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 2 hours ago, Squid said: Didn't realise basketball was in the Olympics. Surprised baseball isn't in the top 10 with it being so popular in Asia. Yeah, and it's not amateurs, it's the full on multi multi millionaire American first team. They're not in the Olympic village, because they hired a luxury cruise liner to sit in the bay. A slightly uneven playing field o feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 2 minutes ago, sage said: Nottingham host and win the backwards Olympics every 4 years. Faster, Higher, Stronger. Yet they give out medals for swimming in 3 different disciplines which are not the quickest way from A to B. Egg and Spoon 100m, anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Sagan Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 With all this talk of swimming, if we removed it from the Medal Table (forwards and backwards) apparently we'd be top! 1 GBR 20 16 13 49 2 CHN 18 10 18 46 3 USA 15 24 22 61 4 GER 13 8 10 31 5 RUS 12 12 14 38 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTedd Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 12 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said: With all this talk of swimming, if we removed it from the Medal Table (forwards and backwards) apparently we'd be top! 1 GBR 20 16 13 49 2 CHN 18 10 18 46 3 USA 15 24 22 61 4 GER 13 8 10 31 5 RUS 12 12 14 38 That's a case, if ever I saw one, to remove swimming from the olympics. Or remove USA. Haven't they had enough drugs cheats in their time to be looking down the business end of a blanket ban yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zag zig Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 Jade Jones defends her title and wins Gold again! Adam Gemeli oh so close to medal in the 200m. The disappointment was clear in his interview, to lose out in exactly the same time as Bronze, real tough luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRam Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 11 hours ago, Carl Sagan said: With all this talk of swimming, if we removed it from the Medal Table (forwards and backwards) apparently we'd be top! 1 GBR 20 16 13 49 2 CHN 18 10 18 46 3 USA 15 24 22 61 4 GER 13 8 10 31 5 RUS 12 12 14 38 If Cycling was removed we'd probably plummet too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 Gold for Nick Skelton in the glue-making - he is the oldest British Olympic gold medallist of all time at 58. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted August 19, 2016 Share Posted August 19, 2016 Fantastic performance by Joe Joyce in the super-heavyweight semi-final to out-point Dychko. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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