The Olympic Trivial Thing Thread.

[Night Train]

The clue's in the video title - it's a paralympic event - sighted pilot and blind stoker. It's on something like September 3rd. There's also tandem road racing.

Do you think the blind stokers would be allowed to chose Chris Hoy as their sighted pilot?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Being part of a corps de ballet or an opera chorus is physically challenging and demands a lot of skill, but I don't see the massed Mozart or the team Tchaikovsky being part of the Olympics any time soon.

Problem is, they are not floating in a swimming pool making it look like they are effortlessly dancing on the bottom when in actual fact the bottom is over 2 meters below their feet.....

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The U.S. have just won Gold in the 4x100 Woman's Relay with a time of 40.82, breaking a world record which was set by EAST GERMANY in '80s!!

 

[Archie_tect]

The clue's in the video title - it's a paralympic event - sighted pilot and blind stoker. It's on something like September 3rd. There's also tandem road racing.

Yes, I appreciate that this clip was from the Paralympics... but wouldn't it be great to have tandem racing at both and tri-dems and quad-dem racing

 

[Night Train]

Yes, I appreciate that this clip was from the Paralympics... but wouldn't it be great to have tandem racing at both and tri-dems and quad-dem racing

And recumbent bike and trike racing and faired HPVs.

Arch and I were also joking about cargo trike and rickshaw racing on the basis enough people in the world use them!

 

[Maz]

In the 200 meters final what a certain Mr Bolt won, the French guy who came sixth is apparently the only white person ever recorded to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds, which is quite scary when you think about it!

White is the new black.

 

[coffeejo]

Have you seen the woOlympics?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

This is not really a fact, but I think I probably had the very best aural experience of Mo Farrah winning the 5000 meters possible.

I was watching the Javelin on the Internet whilst the race was going on in the background and the race itself was on the telly. There was no commentary in the Javelin, JUST THIS WALL OF SOUND!! I was listening on my headphones, so I simply turned the volume up and listened to this solid ROAR lasting several minutes!

People who were there on the telly said that it sounded like a jet. I don't quite know about that, but it was certainly close to it, it was actually quite impressive!!

I hardly need to watch the race now, I feel like I was there by proxy!


Good on you Mo!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

It didn't sound like a jet, It sounded like an express train roaring past at 100+ MPH, only it lasted for over 10 minutes. It must have been deafening in the stadium!

 

[Arch]

And once again, they had cameras on the commentators and pundits as they went bonkers in the last few moments of the race...

Well done Mo.

BTW, did anyone else spot a chap who'd written GO and MO on the soles of his bare feet, and was sitting with feet up on the rail in the front row. I guess no one told him how insulting it is to point your feet at someone in Islam...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I saw that, but I doubt Mo would have bothered about it much.

 

[Arch]

No, but it was a bit unfortunate...

I noticed the flag his wife got out for him said "FLY MO!" on it. Sneaky lawnmower sponsorship deal?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

No, but it was a bit unfortunate...

I noticed the flag his wife got out for him said "FLY MO!" on it. Sneaky lawnmower sponsorship deal?

I hope that he retires before the press start calling him 'Slow Mo'.

 

[Night Train]

Clare Balding talking about leaving Hyde Park after the open water swimming:
"It was so good walking through people having their picnics..."

That's not very nice, she could have just walked around them.

 

[sheddy]

How do the wheelchair players change their wheels so quickly ?
(could the cycle industry learn something ?)