Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics
 

Just thought I'd start a thread for the Tokyo Olympics even though the Rio one is a year away.

Olympic Games: Bridge, chess & tug of war apply for 2020 inclusion

Lots of debate about the olympic stadium plans at the moment. Originals plans were for a complicated retractable roof system which they now realise will go way over budget. Spending close to a billion does seem a bit much when the country already has huge debts.

http://m.bbc.com/sport/olympics/32780640

As I missed 2012, I'd like to still be here for this. Although that would mean I'd been living here for 12 years by then which is a little scary.

squash should definately be in there

Less swimming, if one chap can win 7 gold medals then the events are too simular.

I'm guessing that's Karate Kid style point fighting rather than full contact Karate? with boxing moving closer to the pro sport there seems like there could be room for something like K-1 style kickboxing that would allow various Karate and Muay Thai fighters to face each other.

Postponed until next year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/52020134

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles...0m/0sp/071000c

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Maybe I'll be able to get tickets.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/...tokyo-olympics

https://japantoday.com/category/toky...no-fans-at-all

Its crazy enough just allowing all the competitors, back up people, sand media in from all over the shop into a country in the midst of a pandemic...

https://japantoday.com/category/toky...lympic-village

Oh boy

The Tokyo Olympics kicked off today, will end up being the strangest Olympics after the St Louis one, I'm sure. If you guys want to have some side interest on the Games, head over to the Olympics Betting Masters comp. https://www.cpfc.org/forums/showthread.php?t=284247

Lovely to see the USA ladies finally put in their place.

Brazil running riot in men's football against Germany! Richarlason hatrick in first half hour!

3-2 now and Germans down to 10! Entertaining game

Wow, you guys are on a big time delay, I guess.

Can't listen to Andrew Cotter now without picturing his dogs :D

Gosh, this is dull!

I thought I was going insane when I recognised final fantasy music in the ceremony. Then I heard chrono trigger, and as it turns out, there’s a whole set list of video game music.

https://apnews.com/article/tokyo-oly...21d1dc0e25c871

I love the athlete's parade but I forget how long it is every time! We will still be here in 2024 at this rate.

Dronetastic!

Brilliant pictograms. Impressive!

Gah whoopsie here comes a typhoon heading right for Tokyo.

https://iili.io/AowOn1.md.jpg

That drone thing!!!

Who's watching the cycling?
Nothing too exciting so far. A break of eight relatively unknown riders got a 20-minute lead but it's coming down slowly but surely. The Slovenia and Belgium teams are riding at the front of the peloton.
Van Avermaet (after a big shift at the front) and Fraille have been dropped. Thomas and TGH have both crashed. It looks like Pog is riding for Rog.

The Italians have accelerated and there are splits in the peloton.
Valverde has been dropped.

Oh, this is the Olympics where the BBC have lost all the coverage. Nice.

Just switched on. Imagine my surprise to hear that G had crashed.

Valverde has got back into the peloton.

HAT Carapaz!

So much for the Tour taking it out of them - 1st and 3rd were 3rd and 1st in the Tour, and separated by the winner of three Tour stages.

Barbra Banda from Zambia is making some money this tournament. She has back to back hat tricks against Holland and China. Maybe we should put in a bid for her, she's a beast.

Yes unfortunately, I think the IOC sold the rights for all Europe to Discovery. I can’t see many people paying £30 to watch it though.

I don't know if you guys can use https://gorin.jp/live/ without a VPN, but they have all the streams. It helps if you know Japanese, but you can probably muddle your way thru.

EDIT: I absolutely jinxed myself as the Japan v GB women's football is nowhere to be found. (Now that I think about it, that game might be an NHK exclusive.)

Not a single channel on my sport channel heavy tv package is showing any Olympics as yet.

8 dedicated channels here.

It's on eurosport which is part of the discovery corporate octopus these days. Can watch absolutely anything, it's a bit oo much.

Why is there a separate women's section for air rifle shooting anyway?

It seems odd considering that weightlifting is now mixed.

https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn...862&height=485

Yes. Ended up watching softball earlier, which won't be happening again.

Enjoyed the archery and shooting though.

Was about to go to bed but then put on the skateboarding. Could watch it for hours.

Second most nailed on gold GB had (after Adam Peaty) loses in R1.

Real shame for Jade Jones

Tracked it down.
4 channels that are not carried by my package but are available live on YouTube

:confused:
Seems to be an awful lot of falling over

Our first medal is coming in Takewando. Watched the semi final and the rules are bonkers.

I am just watching her so must be replay lol

Was skeptical at first (mainly because every skater I've met has been a grade A twat) but skateboarding is an entertaining televised sport. Am looking forward to sports climbing another debut sport as well. Both of them are more of a sport than yachting anyway.

Watching the 3x3 basketball, what a weird version of basketball. I'm also wondering where they found these guys because it looks like a game you'd find in a local church parking lot.

Woke up to the Adam Peaty Gold news which is great. Talking of defending previous Olympic golds currently watching Denmarks second match in the Handball so far, defending theirs. Egypt have actually been pretty good in recent years, have allot of large players and a pretty physical rough house play style but can still mix it up skills wise.

So gold in sitting down, lying down and falling down events :lux:

:lux:

Just watched the Mens Skeet. USA (Gold) DK (Silver) Kuwait (Bronze) - the DK guy member of our local shooting club apparently. USA guy was unreal, set a new Olympic record of 59/60

Anyone seen Adam Peaty’s interview after the race. Absolute legend! The raw emotion he drops 2 f bombs! Brilliant!

I read an article by a guy that was reporting on a previous Olympics. He was wandering around one day and went to check out the Team Handball. He knew nothing about it previously and was shocked to find out the US had not even qualified and then found out that they had lost every match in qualifying. He wrote something like, "How can the USA be so bad at a game that involves running, jumping and throwing?"

Quite an emotional watch.

I don't understand these rugby rules. When a guy gets tackled, what determines whether the defense can grab the ball and when they have to just let it sit there? It seems random.

Alex Yee the silver medalist in the triathlon is a Palace fan :lux:

That was some unreal shooting. My best is 44/60 which is no where near the Olympic standard dare I say :)

Brockey lad didn’t know he was a Palace that silver makes it just that special I think

something to do with butt-flushing. Probably.

All of a sudden, I'm able to watch the NHK streaming site. I decided to watch some basketball and they asked me if I wanted Robot Commentary. Turns out that it is just a computerized text-to-speech that recites the play-by-play text that's entered.

Have to be a veteran to remember that one JRN. Still one of the best threads ever IMHO.

Just watching the ROC (Russian Olympic Committee) win a swimming event. Amusing to see them collect their medal and stand to attention to Tchaikovsky’s piano concerto no.1, instead of the Russian national anthem.

If the U.K. were ever disqualified, I wonder what would be played for the UKOC? Bucks Fizz ‘Making your mind up’?

Chumbawamba - "Tubthumping"

I guess the IOC really showed Russia by banning them from these Olympics. Hold on...

My friends grandson, Matt Richards, just won a gold in the 4 x 200m freestyle relay last night.

This Spain/Argentina match is trash. They can't string 3 passes together, they're flopping around like diseased seagulls and the Spanish forward should switch to Gaelic football as he loves booting it over the goal.

Nice one, they all seem like great lads.

Lauren Price looked absolutely excellent in the boxing.

Well done to your friends grand son.

That was some performance

Nice to see GB had a swimmer called Abbey Wood.

San Marino win their first ever Olympic medal.

BMX Silver winner Kye Whyte’s a Peckham lad, I think I heard. Another possible Palace silver?

Another GOLD!

This time in BMXing.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news....acing-12367664

Blimey, didn’t know it was an Olympic event. Is knock down ginger or penny up the wall in there too? I could’ve been a gold medalist on Steve Redgrave proportions.

Glad its just not me

I watched these Olympics for the first time a couple of days ago when the cricket was rained off

I wasn't aware that thirteen year olds who couldn't stay on skate boards had become an Olympic event

Just watched the BMX on iplayer, lots of fun, but each rider has 3 semi final races so you can skip to the final at the 1hr mark. The men’s final was good, the women’s final even better. Well done to the Kye White and Beth Schriever!

Due to the funding only covering the male riders (presumably based on past performance), Beth Schriever had to crowd fund in order to get the money to travel to competitions. A fantastic effort to now be Olympic champion.

Yee!!

Watching the 9/10 placing match in the women's rugby, and saw this. She started on the other side of the field.

https://i.imgur.com/2FZuO8F.gif

I was in a bar having a sandwich today and they had the Equestrian Dressage on the TV in my line of sight... WTF!

I'm sure there is minutia differences in the rides, but every one looked identical to me, and not very exciting to boot. I guess it takes all sorts, and I appreciate this is an old establish Olympic "sport", but come on!

What's a bar ? been trying to remember.

Look excellent today as well

Hasn’t he heard the Home Secretary speak recently?

https://www.theguardian.com/inequali...ones-elocution

It is a place where people go for a drink. It is not that important now really…

I think I vaguely remember them.

Blimey! I assume she drops her "H's" also... What a dick!

I'd be more upset by his pompous private school accent if he was doing the commentating... not that he would lower himself to such a menial task.

The BMX gold won by Charlotte Worthington, was very good to watch to do a somersault with a bike, that is awesome, I can’t even touch my toes….ffs

:)

Weird seeing an Italian win men’s 100m Gold.

No Jamaicans in the final is weird too


I think if Hughes had not got himself disqualified we would have seen a medal he is fast

Aside from the issues over broadcast rights, the BBC Sport website isn't doing a great job of providing coverage - their whole website seems stuck in 2003.

ESPN website is much better, and has something missing from almost every other sports outlet I've looked at - a full list of what's on and when on 1 page.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/2020/schedule

I'm using the NHK website, since that's where I'm watching the streams as well. https://en.sports.nhk.or.jp/olympic/schedules/day/ Not sure if you guys can watch the live streams without a VPN but they keep the results updated.

Cheers, that's a much better layout. Don't seem to be able to change time zone, though!

Well done to the Indonesian women's doubles. Unseeded but beat the Chinese to take the gold in straight sets.

The wife is now receiving multiple texts, WA, Instagram messages all playing the national anthem.

Enjoying all the Velodrome action, women earlier (new WR from the Germans) and now men's team pursuit qualifiers and Denmark apparently the favourites for the first time after their Berlin world record times last year, but sure GB will be up there as well.

Michael Johnson shutting Denise Lewis down. :D

Enjoyed the men's team pursuit earlier, but that handlebar failure for the Australian crash was nasty though, can just imagine the carnage if he had been up front.

Men's Badminton final now

Laurel Hubbard, the transgender female weightlifter, absolutely flopped.

That was brilliant

Oh dear, how sad.