mecheng89 Posted June 16, 2021 Posted June 16, 2021 On 6/2/2021 at 11:01 AM, Shebeen said: yes. dunno who the golf champ even is. Tennis same vibe. Football i think is done fine with the u23 requirement, BUT we all know why it's there - TV time and revenue. As a sailor, the olympics is a very debated topic - it is a huge income earner but the program is not really reflective of sailing in general. there's currently a big whoo haa about the classes being used for paris (well it always comes up) - as the move to a mixed gender 2person keelboat has been kicked out by IOC (for now). wanna see these ingebritsen laaitie on the biggest stage of all. Wayde dreamer hasn't even run the 400m yet this year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2016_Summer_Olympics_medal_winners Englishman Justin Rose.
Stretch Posted June 16, 2021 Posted June 16, 2021 1 hour ago, mecheng89 said: These few are all world class. Simbine most def belongs there, winning stuff left, right and centre. And who doesn't love Gerda?! not denying those going are world class...but look how few are going to represent SA in Athletics is what I am meaning. We should have double the number athletes going at least! Rocket-Boy 1
Shebeen Posted June 17, 2021 Author Posted June 17, 2021 18 hours ago, mecheng89 said: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2016_Summer_Olympics_medal_winners Englishman Justin Rose. ja I could have googled that. Point being, only 9 of the world's top30 players bothered to pitch up and play. A gold medal is just meh, not worth the effort for them - i don't see golf staying if this is the case again.
Shebeen Posted July 20, 2021 Author Posted July 20, 2021 Men's Rugby Sevens Kurt-Lee Arendse, Angelo Davids, Zain Davids, Selvyn Davids, Chris Dry, Branco du Preez, Ronald Brown, Stedman Gans, Justin Geduld, Sakoyisa Makata, JC Pretorius, Siviwe Soyizwapi (captain), Impi Visser Disappointed to see so many of our REALLY good players not there, with just 1 player from Rio in the squad we have guys who have never even played a 7s world series tournament yet! some of them playing 15s well (kwagga/cheslin) some of them playing 15s average, werner kok, senatla oh. and coach neil has covid.
J Wakefield Posted July 22, 2021 Posted July 22, 2021 Upsets me no one is as pumped as I am there is skateboarding at the Olympics... TNT1, TheoG, Sid the Sloth and 1 other 4
Jewbacca Posted July 22, 2021 Posted July 22, 2021 Just now, J Wakefield said: Upsets me no one is as pumped as I am there is skateboarding at the Olympics... Surfing too! DieselnDust 1
J Wakefield Posted July 22, 2021 Posted July 22, 2021 2 minutes ago, Jewbacca said: Surfing too! Life is good! Jewbacca 1
dsw Posted July 22, 2021 Posted July 22, 2021 46 minutes ago, Jewbacca said: Surfing too! Pity that Jordi is missing out due to injury. Would have been one of SA's better hopes for at least a medal. DJuice and Jewbacca 2
Shebeen Posted July 22, 2021 Author Posted July 22, 2021 5 hours ago, dsw said: Pity that Jordi is missing out due to injury. Would have been one of SA's better hopes for at least a medal. i guess a lot of the top surfers are missing out as they all come from usa+hawaai and australia. didn't realise Jordy was only 33, he's been at the top of our pile for 14/15 years now. clearly the next guy in line (whoever that is) wasn't worth sending here' how he got injured. looks legit https://www.instagram.com/p/CRGK0ghJ-1u/
Shebeen Posted July 22, 2021 Author Posted July 22, 2021 talk of kit on the cycling thread. https://sasportstrader.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/sa-olympic-kit-vs-their-competitors-rio-kit/ as you can see it is all about the $$$$, clearly some backhanders going, and not even pretending to care. Sedgars got this kit deal, and sent mbalula (sports minister at the time) on holiday https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2018-12-21-fikile-mbalula-says-he-paid-back--r700000-family-holiday-loan/ https://www.georgeherald.com/news/Sport/Other/171157/Sascoc-boss-defends-Team-SAs-Rio-kit The contract with 361-Degrees runs until the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. didn't extend to 2021! I was happy to see MrP involved, at least it is local, and i really hoped that they had enough experience with local sportsteams not to stuff it up - maybe it was last minute, but who knows. oh well. uh mean, ooo velskoen
dsw Posted July 22, 2021 Posted July 22, 2021 24 minutes ago, Shebeen said: i guess a lot of the top surfers are missing out as they all come from usa+hawaai and australia. didn't realise Jordy was only 33, he's been at the top of our pile for 14/15 years now. clearly the next guy in line (whoever that is) wasn't worth sending here' how he got injured. looks legit https://www.instagram.com/p/CRGK0ghJ-1u/ Jip, he went for it and came up short . From what I have read he really wanted badly to go to the Olimpics... hopefully he will get another opportunity Fantastic surfer who can pull off the most spectacular moves.
Jewbacca Posted July 22, 2021 Posted July 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Shebeen said: i guess a lot of the top surfers are missing out as they all come from usa+hawaai and australia. didn't realise Jordy was only 33, he's been at the top of our pile for 14/15 years now. clearly the next guy in line (whoever that is) wasn't worth sending here' how he got injured. looks legit https://www.instagram.com/p/CRGK0ghJ-1u/ Matt MacGillivray is currently ranked 21st on the CT and was our next in line BUT the Olympics qualification was based on individual results from qualification events in 2019 and I believe Fioravanti qualified by being in the top 40 and by placing top 20 at the latest World Surfing games, so the spot was Jordy's, not South Africas. Matt was definitely worth sending, but he didn't qualify, the Italian did
Duane_Bosch Posted July 23, 2021 Posted July 23, 2021 15 hours ago, Jewbacca said: Matt MacGillivray is currently ranked 21st on the CT and was our next in line BUT the Olympics qualification was based on individual results from qualification events in 2019 and I believe Fioravanti qualified by being in the top 40 and by placing top 20 at the latest World Surfing games, so the spot was Jordy's, not South Africas. Matt was definitely worth sending, but he didn't qualify, the Italian did I know I'm going to get slated for this but I reckon Surfing at the Olympics should be a wavepool event. Those pools are popping up everywhere and making it a pool event means taking it inland. The Olympics isn't exactly in the "spirit" of surfing anyway so may as well go full hog and have it in a pool. You could even have a best of 3 format. Day 1 tubes. Day 2 Shredding (no airs) Day 3 Airshow. DieselnDust, Jewbacca, Wayne pudding Mol and 1 other 4
Jewbacca Posted July 23, 2021 Posted July 23, 2021 1 hour ago, Duane_Bosch said: I know I'm going to get slated for this but I reckon Surfing at the Olympics should be a wavepool event. Those pools are popping up everywhere and making it a pool event means taking it inland. The Olympics isn't exactly in the "spirit" of surfing anyway so may as well go full hog and have it in a pool. You could even have a best of 3 format. Day 1 tubes. Day 2 Shredding (no airs) Day 3 Airshow. I actually FULLY agree with you. Had this discussion the other day while out in the water. Absolutely no slating from me! DieselnDust, Duane_Bosch and Wayne pudding Mol 3
'Dale Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 Japan's Yuto Horigome is the new king of skateboarding after winning the sport's first Olympic gold medal https:// ti.me/3zAgRPe
Eddy Gordo Posted July 25, 2021 Posted July 25, 2021 13 minutes ago, 'Dale said: Japan's Yuto Horigome is the new king of skateboarding after winning the sport's first Olympic gold medal https:// ti.me/3zAgRPe I was hoping to see our Jean-marc Johannes representing at the games.
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