Olympics 2020

Andeh Murray and Joe Salisbury showed them Frenchies, men’s doubles first round👍
The French pair of Mahut and Herbert not living up to expectations.

Classic tennis comedy: Les Vacances de monsieur Hulot

Herbert went to the Hulot serve school too😂

Heather Watson out (as usual) :cry:

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British badminton pair Ellis & Smith beat French pair at mixed dubbs :+1::badminton::badminton::badminton:

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Mrs and the kids went out earlier so had a flick through to see what was on in Tokyo.

Landed on volleyball. Poland (world champions apparently) playing Iran. Who knew, as edge of seat as any sporting spectacle I’ve seen. The only reason I stopped was I noted it was 2 sets all going into the decider. Boom, they hit that serve at 130kmph and get it back! In the end there were a dozen or so match points, could have gone either way but the Iranians won out.

Volleyball was nothing like that last time I looked some decades back

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Olympic skateboarding looks totally impossible, I remember being able to stand on one and travel along the road at a fair wack, but sliding along rails and stuff…

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Can’t believe Jade Jones is out either :sleepy:

men’s street skateboarding on iplayer

luvvin the Nollie backside 180 nosegrind

wow amazing kickflip frontside tailslide fakie

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2 phat empty headed nollie tailgrind

Innit

I’ve just realised that the Eurosport Olympics coverage is much broader than the BBC’s. The BBC has a fairly small subset of the sports that Eurosport (which has the main broadcast contract) has access to.

So I’m now watching the 3x3 basketball…

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Taekwondo.

What the fuck is all that about?

Even the bonkers cycling with the guy on the moped is easier to understand :face_with_monocle:

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Hopping about on one leg mainly.

Beats me why the kick in the bollocks isn’t a tactic of choice? Presumably you wouldn’t get points for it but surely it would render the opponent helpless?

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Sevens have been sensational this morning. England coming back after being 21-0 down and Argentina beating South Africa, despite being down to 6 men after a minute.

Crazy stuff.

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Women’s 3x3 basketball was on the beeb yesterday.

Both were great games