Modern Pentathlon at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[Nickyc707 382]

  On 8/7/2021 at 6:45 AM, Grassmarket said:

And the bad news is that the world’s most beloved horse Saint Boy has been sensationally fired from the men’s show jumping round.

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I think he resigned before he was fired.

[Orangehair43 256]

Is the new format 8 or 12 in the laser run? Samantha Murray on the BBC said eight earlier on but the trial used both formats and I can’t find confirmation that it’s been settled yet. 

[Grassmarket 3,619]

I think the central problem MP at the Olympics is this insistance on being a last weekend event.  If they

 

• Kept the existing format
• Switched the stadium events to Day 1 + 2 when not many medals are given out
• Held the Fencing RR on Day -1 or 0 like the Archery RR

 

It would all be a lot more attractive & get more TV attention. But it’s never going to get a huge audience against the big team sport final rounds.

[Orangehair43 256]

  On 8/7/2021 at 3:06 PM, Grassmarket said:

I think the central problem MP at the Olympics is this insistance on being a last weekend event.  If they

 

• Kept the existing format
• Switched the stadium events to Day 1 + 2 when not many medals are given out
• Held the Fencing RR on Day -1 or 0 like the Archery RR

 

It would all be a lot more attractive & get more TV attention. But it’s never going to get a huge audience against the big team sport final rounds.

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And even more so having it on the same day as the show jumping and having one of the laser run’s clash with the start of the evening athletics season. I wonder how many countries showed it live on their main channel outside of the BBC 

[pdr4332 218]

  On 8/7/2021 at 5:45 PM, Orangehair43 said:

And even more so having it on the same day as the show jumping and having one of the laser run’s clash with the start of the evening athletics season. I wonder how many countries showed it live on their main channel outside of the BBC 

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I watched the OG on the Eurosport 90%+ of the time but as I gathered public television kept changing from its main event coverage for a brief time when a Hungarian competitor was coming up somewhere else.

So I can imagine that they have shown live only the 2 brief segments where the were riding/running/shooting etc and then changed back to what they were showing originally. But the whole event, no way of course

[Orangehair43 256]

  On 8/7/2021 at 5:57 PM, pdr4332 said:

I watched the OG on the Eurosport 90%+ of the time but as I gathered public television kept changing from its main event coverage for a brief time when a Hungarian competitor was coming up somewhere else.

So I can imagine that they have shown live only the 2 brief segments where the were riding/running/shooting etc and then changed back to what they were showing originally. But the whole event, no way of course

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Here in the Uk yesterday the jumping was on the secondary feed of the BBC live with extended highlights shown on the main channel before the entire laser run was shown live while today the British pair swimming heat was shown I think live but the jumping was not (at least not in it’s entirely) live on any channel other than Discovery + but extended highlights were shown before the Laser run was entirely live. 

[Bearas 542]

  On 8/7/2021 at 1:55 PM, Orangehair43 said:

Is the new format 8 or 12 in the laser run? Samantha Murray on the BBC said eight earlier on but the trial used both formats and I can’t find confirmation that it’s been settled yet. 

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Budapet trial in April had 12 for women and 18 for men, so there's no consistency so far.. 

[Agger 1,664]

  On 8/7/2021 at 5:45 PM, Orangehair43 said:

And even more so having it on the same day as the show jumping and having one of the laser run’s clash with the start of the evening athletics season. I wonder how many countries showed it live on their main channel outside of the BBC 

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The women's laser run was on one of the main channels here in Denmark. Didn't notice if the men's was.

[intoronto 5,884]

They really need to find a better way to have the jumping competition.  At this point it's a lot of luck involved.

[Quasit 865]

Fencing

 

1st  Joe Choong - 25+1 (252 points) /  Annika Schleu - 29+0 (274 points)

36th  Alexander Savkin - 7+0 (142 points) /  Marcela Cuaspud - 4+0 (124 points)

 

Swimming

 

1st  Amro El Geziry - 1:52.96 (325 points) /  Gulnaz Gubaydullina - 2:07.31 (296 points)

36th  Ed Fernon - 2:10.85 (289 points) /  Maria Iêda Guimarães - 2:32.16 (246 points)

 

 

Feels like fencing is way too important while swimming doesn't really matter too much.