The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Thread
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The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Thread
Postby AUbicycles » Wed Jul 21, 2021 5:01 am
For the women’s Road Race, my guess is that we will see one of the dominent women… probably drawing out the bunch and wearing them out with pace.
For the men’s it is hard to judge and because it can be an all out it could be similar with Tempo to finish but a high pace pushing fatigue and exhaustion but still a healthy finish libe spint of the top 10 who draw the bunch out. Could be different but I feel these will maintain ha high pace and no time to relaxe,
Looking forward to the track, but gave to see where In can watch it. And BMX is enjoyable.
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Postby g-boaf » Wed Jul 21, 2021 9:35 am
Swimming is a traditional proper sport for Australia so naturally they will do a lot of coverage of it.
However the whole Olympics could be cancelled - they are considering it now.
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Postby caneye » Wed Jul 21, 2021 12:18 pm
Hope to catch the road event. The course goes halfway up Mt Fuji and lap around the Fuji International Speedway. I thought it would reach Hakone, guess not.
https://cyclingtips.com/2021/07/your-gu ... -olympics/
Still lots of uncertainty over the event going ahead. Real shame, but not surprised. The Aussie team has its own "bubble" in addition to that created by the event organisers.
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Re: The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Thread
Postby MichaelB » Wed Jul 21, 2021 1:11 pm
It's probably the only event in the 202caneye wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 12:18 pmCyclingTips has a good guide to the road courses.
Hope to catch the road event. The course goes halfway up Mt Fuji and lap around the Fuji International Speedway. I thought it would reach Hakone, guess not.
https://cyclingtips.com/2021/07/your-gu ... -olympics/
Still lots of uncertainty over the event going ahead. Real shame, but not surprised. The Aussie team has its own "bubble" in addition to that created by the event organisers.
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Postby RobertL » Wed Jul 21, 2021 3:38 pm
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Re: The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Thread
Postby DavidS » Wed Jul 21, 2021 9:46 pm
More like hours and hours of talking heads, puff pieces on the host country, replays of Aussie glory etc ad nauseum.
I just want them to show sport. They have half a dozen channels and you can barely find any sport even with 20 events happening at once.
I just don't understand why they do this, it is a sporting event, if I want to watch a talk show I'll watch a talk show.
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Re: The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Thread
Postby piledhigher » Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:46 pm
Catch up has by sport placeholders, hopefully they will use this to show entire events...DavidS wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 9:46 pmMore like hours and hours of talking heads, puff pieces on the host country, replays of Aussie glory etc ad nauseum.
I just want them to show sport. They have half a dozen channels and you can barely find any sport even with 20 events happening at once.
I just don't understand why they do this, it is a sporting event, if I want to watch a talk show I'll watch a talk show.
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Re: The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Thread
Postby RobertL » Thu Jul 22, 2021 12:35 pm
I attended the Sydney Olympics as a (badminton) official. We stayed in one of the Uni accommodation colleges. In the main lounge room area they had a dozen or so big screens showing the live feed from each of the sports. Just the TV feed from the site, no commentary, no breaks, but with all the action replays etc.DavidS wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 9:46 pmMore like hours and hours of talking heads, puff pieces on the host country, replays of Aussie glory etc ad nauseum.
I just want them to show sport. They have half a dozen channels and you can barely find any sport even with 20 events happening at once.
I just don't understand why they do this, it is a sporting event, if I want to watch a talk show I'll watch a talk show.
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Re: The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Thread
Postby vosadrian » Fri Jul 23, 2021 3:34 pm
The cooking garbage is like 5 minutes out of several hours! My wife enjoys that part and it means we get to watch the TDF together. So it may not be for everyone, but I don't mind it. I also like the Mat/Robbie/Bridie commentary though and I know some don't like that. I really hated the British based commentary on the Giro and the F1!!
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Re: The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Thread
Postby Derny Driver » Fri Jul 23, 2021 9:07 pm
They have trained specifically for this event for 5 years and can match anything that Denmark or the Poms throw at them. Kell O'Brien is the best track rider in the world right now.
Lets hope Im right.
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Re: The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Thread
Postby Retrobyte » Sat Jul 24, 2021 9:51 am
As others have mentioned, 7 Plus allows you to watch individual sports on demand - they is a category for each sportmarch83 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 9:38 pmSo is there any sort of reliable schedule or source for watching the road races this weekend? I've signed up to the seven website so I can stream (we don't have coax to the TV because we never watch FTA), but there's no indicator at all of what they'll show, or if they'll have separate streams per sport (which the could do easily if they wanted to...).
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Re: The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Thread
Postby foo on patrol » Sat Jul 24, 2021 1:21 pm
But I've been watching the Road Race on Plus since they started the roll out. You have to go down to the sports and keep scrolling across to the right, till you see cycling and then click on that.
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Re: The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Thread
Postby warthog1 » Sat Jul 24, 2021 1:31 pm
They got destroyed by the Germans and US too
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Re: The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Thread
Postby foo on patrol » Sat Jul 24, 2021 1:47 pm
I'm watching via 7Plus and it is excellent quality.
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Postby gsxrboy » Sat Jul 24, 2021 2:05 pm
(and what we're watching on)
Oddly, the 7+ app on aTV (just started watching on this and it's not really much different than mirrored from pooter to aTV) has different commentary to the website.
Edit - more ads on the aTV app and seem lower quality overall.
Edit 2 - Now the www version (which was NZ commentators) reflects the aTV app stream (commentators etc), they must have swapped it over during an ad break. It must change depending on which tab/icon you access it from, a different one back to NZ. *shrugs*
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Re: The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Thread
Postby Arbuckle23 » Sat Jul 24, 2021 4:26 pm
Struggling to watch, might have to mute the sound.
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Re: The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Thread
Postby AndrewCowley » Sat Jul 24, 2021 4:51 pm
But yeah not the best.
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