Nickyc707

Ironically they were born within 60 miles of each other as Noakes is from south-east England like Coombs.

How does that make the Iranian archers "cheats"? The officials make these decisions not the competitors.

Ironically they were born within 60 miles of each other as Noakes is from south-east England like Coombs.

You seem to be very confused. The scores are determined by the independent officials not the competitors or those associated with them. You've accused the Iranians of cheating but haven't explained exactly how they did this. The officials may have got it wrong but that's not the fault of the Iranians.

How does that make the Iranian archers "cheats"? The officials make these decisions not the competitors.

Should say thanks btw for creating all these threads.  Big help.

Day 5 - 2nd September 2024
 
07:20 - Triathlon - Women's PTWC - Final - Melissa Nichols (8th)
08:25 - Triathlon - Men's PTS3 - Final - Henry Urand
09:23 - Swimming - Women's 50m Backstroke S3 - Heats - Ellie Challis (Q1)
09:24 - Table Tennis - Men's Singles MS7 - Round of 16 -   Bayley vs  Messi
09:33 - Swimming - Men's 100m Breaststroke SB14 - Heats - Harry Stewart
09:41 - Swimming - Women's 100m Breaststroke SB14 - Heats - Louise Fiddes, Olivia Newman-Baronius
10:35 - Athletics - Women's 1500m T54 - Round 1 - Kinghorn, Woods, Rainbow-Cooper
11:00 - Tennis - Men's Singles - Round 3 -  Hewett vs  Arai
11:00 - Tennis - Quad Singles - Quarterfinal -  Kaplan vs  Lapthorne
11:00 - Tennis - Quad Singles - Quarterfinal -  Sasoon vs  Slade
11:00 - Tennis - Women's Singles - Round 2 -  Li vs  Shuker
11:00 - Tennis - Men's Singles - Round 3 -  Reid vs  Miki
11:00 - Triathlon - Men's PTVI - Final - Dave Ellis, Oscar Kelly
11:05 - Triathlon - Women's PTVI - Final - Alison Peasgood
11:15 - Table Tennis - Men's Singles MS6 - Round of 16 -  Rosenmeier vs  Karabardak
11:25 - Triathlon - Men's PTS4 - Final - Finley Jakes, Michael Taylor
11:35 - Triathlon - Women's PTS5 - Final - Claire Cashmore, Lauren Steadman
11:40 - Triathlon - Women's PTS4 - Final - Megan Richter, Hannah Moore
12:00 - Table Tennis - Men's Singles MS6 - Round of 16 -  Seidenfeld vs  Perry
12:00 - Badminton - Men's Singles SL3 - Final -   Nitesh vs  Bethell
12:30 - Rugby - Open Tournament - Bronze Final -  vs 
16:00 - Boccia - Men's Individual BC4 - Final -  Chica Chica vs  McGuire
16:50 - Archery - Mixed Team Compound - Quarterfinal - 
17:05 - Swimming - Women's 50m Backstroke S3 - Final - Ellie Challis 
17:13 - Swimming - Men's 100m Breaststroke SB14 - Final - Harry Stewart (P)
17:19 - Swimming - Women's 100m Breaststroke SB14 - Final - Louise Fiddes, Olivia Newman-Baronius (P)
17:30 - Archery - Mixed Team Compound - Semifinal - GB (P)
18:05 - Archery - Mixed Team Compound - Bronze Final - GB (P)
18:15 - Table Tennis - Men's Singles MS8 - Round of 16 - Billy Shilton
18:15 - Basketball - Men's Tournament - Group Stage -  vs 
18:25 - Archery - Mixed Team Compound - Gold Final - GB (P)
18:50 - Athletics - Men's 100m T64 - Final - Jonnie Peacock
19:45 - Table Tennis - Men's Singles MS8 - Round of 16 - Aaron McKibbin
20:25 - Athletics - Men's 1500m T54 - Final - Maguire, Sidbury, Weir
21:10 - Badminton - Men's Singles SH6 - Final -  Coombs vs  Noakes
 
 
Summary
 
Daily Medals - 0G 0S 0B - 0
Total Medals - 23G 12S 8B - 43
 
Tokyo Daily Medals - 7G 7S 3B - 17
Tokyo Total Medals - 23G 19S 18B - 60
 
GB Gold Medal events - 14
 
Quieter day after yesterday, but I predict 4 golds.
 

So you did have time but you chose to use it for a different purpose! 

Day 1 - 29th August 2024 
 
All times BST
 
08:00 - Archery - Women's Individual W1 - Ranking Round - Victoria Kingstone (6th)
08:10 - Badminton - Mixed Doubles SH6 - Group Stage -  Shephard/Choong (L 14-21, 12-21) vs  Subhan/Marlina 
08:44 - Swimming - Women's 400m Freestyle S9 - Heats - Toni Shaw (Q6)
09:28 - Swimming Men's 100m Butterfly S14 - Heats - William Ellard (Q1), Cameron Vearncombe (Q7)
09:30 - Boccia - Men's Individual BC1 - Group Stage -  Smith (W 5-2) vs Oliveira 
09:30 - Basketball - Men's Tournament - Group Stage -  (W 76-55) vs 
09:35 - Swimming - Women's 100m Butterfly S14 - Heats - Louise Fiddes (Q7), Poppy Maskill (Q1), Olivia Newman-Baronius (Q3)
09:45 - Table Tennis - Women's Doubles WD14 - Quarterfinal -  Korneliuss/Slettum vs  Pickard/Twomey (W 3-0)
10:30 - Table Tennis - Men's Doubles MD18 - Round of 16 -  Chudzicki/Misztal vs  McKibbin/Stacey (L 2-3)
10:30 - Rugby - Open Tournament - Group Stage -  vs  (W 58-55)
10:31 - Swimming - Women's 200m Freestyle S5 - Heats - Tully Kearney (Q1)
11:00 - Track Cycling - Women's C4-5 500m Time Trial - Qualifying - Kadeena Cox (Q2)
11:30 - Badminton - Men's Singles SL3 - Group Stage -  Bethell (W 2-0) vs  Czyz 
11:45 - Basketball - Women's Tournament - Group Stage -  vs  (W 69-34)
11:55 - Track Cycling - Women's C1-3 3000m Individual Pursuit - Qualifying - Dafne Schrager (Q2)
12:00 - Archery - Women's Individual Compound Open - Ranking Round - Jodie Grinham (4th), Phoebe Patterson-Pine (7th)
12:00 - Table Tennis - Men's Doubles MD14 - Round of 16 -  Karabardak/Shilton (W 3-0) vs  Dourbecker/Messi
12:41 - Track Cycling - Men's B 4000m Individual Pursuit - Qualifying - James Ball, Stephen Bate (Q2) Neil Fachie
12:45 - Table Tennis - Men's Doubles MD14 - Round of 16 -  Bayley/Perry (W 3-0) vs  Rau/Schnake 
12:45 - Table Tennis - Men's Doubles MD4 - Quarterfinals -  Jang/Park vs  Davies/Matthews (L 0-3)
13:00 - Boccia - Men's Individual BC3 - Group Stage -  Arnott vs  Wilson (W 5-3)
13:30 - Table Tennis - Mixed Doubles XD17 - Round of 32  Stacey/Twomey (W 3-1) vs  Alabi/Obazuaye 
14:45 - Track Cycling - Women's C4-5 500m Time Trial - Final - Kadeena Cox (DNF)
15:40 - Badminton - Men's Singles SH6 - Group Stage -  Shephard (L 2-0) vs  Lin
15:41 - Track Cycling - Women's C1-3 3000m Individual Pursuit - Gold Final -   Dafne Schrager (L) - SILVER vs  Wang  Xiaomei  
16:00 - Boccia - Men's Individual BC4 - Group Stage -  McGuire (W 8-0) vs  Abdul Rahman
16:00 - Archery - Men's Individual Compound Open - Ranking Round - Nathan MacQueen 6th)
16:00 - Table Tennis - Mixed Doubles XD7 - Round of 32 -  Matthews/Shackleton (W 3-1) vs  Chen/di Toro
16:13 - Track Cycling - Men's B 4000m Individual Pursuit - Gold Final -   Stephen Bate (L) - SILVER vs  Bangma 
16:40 - Swimming - Women's 400m Freestyle S9 - Final - Toni Shaw (5th)
17:00 - Badminton - Men's Singles SH6 - Group Stage -  Chu vs  Coombs (L 1-2)
17:10 - Boccia - Women's Individual BC2 - Group Stage -  Taggart (W 10-1) vs  Leon 
17:10 - Boccia - Women's Individual BC2 - Group Stage -  Jeong vs  Haggo (L 1-3)
17:30 - Table Tennis - Women's Doubles WD14 - Semifinal -  Pickard/Twomey (L 1-3 - BRONZE)vs  Huang/Jin
17:36 - Swimming - Men's 100m Butterfly S14 - Final - William Ellard (SILVER), Cameron Vearncombe (8th)
17:42 - Swimming - Women's 100m Butterfly S14 - Final - Louise Fiddes (6th), Poppy Maskill (GOLD), Olivia Newman-Baronius (4th)
18:15 - Table Tennis - Mixed Doubles XD7 - Round of 16 -  Matthews/Shackleton (L 0-3) vs  Bruechle/Mikolasche
19:30 - Boccia - Women's Singles BC3 - Group Stage -  Oliveira vs  Kidson (W 5-1)
19:45 - Table Tennis - Mixed Doubles XD17 - Round of 16 -  Stacey/Twomey (W 3-0) vs  Chojnowski/Marszal
19:46 - Swimming - Women's 200m Freestyle S5 - Final - Tully Kearney (GOLD)
 
Summary
Daily Medals - 2G 3S 1B - 6
Total Medals - 2G 3S 1B - 6
 
Tokyo Daily Medals - 1G 4S 1B - 6
Tokyo Total Medals - 1G 4S 1B - 6
 
GB Gold Medal events - 7
 
 
Day 1 of the 2024 Paralympics starts with a bang, with lots of GB competitors across a range of different sports. 
The first watchable action will see Jack Shephard and Rachel Choong face the Indonesian reigning world champions of Subhan Subhan and Rina Marlina at 08:10 in the badminton mixed doubles SH6. The first guaranteed medal could come after the women's doubles WD14 quarterfinals at 09:45 which features 14 year old Bly Twomey and Felicity Pickard. Twomey faces a Paralympics baptism of fire with a potential 4 matches on the cards. 7 swimmers are in action from 8:30 in the heats, all of whom will be hoping to make it through to the evening finals session. GB are in action in 3 track cycling events, and have 2 reigning world champions hoping to add Paralympic titles to their CVs. Kadeena Cox could win the first finite medal at 14:45 in the women's C4-5 500m Time Trial, where she is the 2 time defending world champion. Boccia, badminton and table tennis matches keep the GB interest up through the day, and all 3 teams will begin their medal campaigns as well. Day 1 is rounded out by the swimming programme, where GB boast 2 world number 1's and World record holders as well as global medalists in all 4 events with GB entrants in the session.

Less than 24 hours to go before the Paralympics begin!  (and 7 until the opening ceremony)

Results system is available now: https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/paralympic-games/schedule/grid

I actually got a 9 in French GCSE, but my entire french vocab knowledge disappeared from my head

Para Swimming
 
27 athletes in 52 events
 
World Rankings based off entry times
 
Stephen Clegg - Men's 100m Freestyle S12 - WR 4
                          - Men's 100m Backstroke S12 - WR 1
                          - Men's 100m Butterfly S12 - WR 1
Rhys Darbey - Men's 200m IM SM14 - WR 4
Bruce Dee - Men's 100m Breaststroke SB6 - WR 9
                  - Men's 200m IM SM6 - WR 6
William Ellard - Men's 200 m freestyle S14 - WR 1
                       - Men's 100 m backstroke S14 - WR 4
                       - Men's 100 m butterfly S14 - WR 2
                       - Men's 200 m individual medley SM14 - WR 7
Louis Lawlor - Men's 100m backstroke S14 - WR 10
Matthew Redfern - Men's 100m breaststroke SB13 - WR 15
Harry Stewart - Men's 100m breaststroke SB14 - WR 5
Mark Thompsett - Men's 100m backstroke S14 - WR 3 
Cameron Vearncombe - Men's 100m butterfly S14 -  WR 8
                                       - Men's 200m IM SM14 - WR 8
 
Ellie Challis - Women's 100m Freestyle S3 - WR 4
                     - Women's 50m Backstroke S3 - WR 1
Louise Fiddes - Women's 200m Freestyle S14 - WR 4
                         - Women's 100m breaststroke SB14 - WR 3
                        - Women's 100m Butterfly S14 - WR 5
                        - Women's 200m IM SM14 - WR 7
Grace Harvey - Women's 100m Breaststroke SB5 - WR 1
                        - Women's 50m Butterfly S6 - WR 9
                        - Women's 200m IM SM6 - WR 4
Susannah Hext - Women's 100m Freestyle S5 - WR 3
Eliza Humphrey - Women's 400m Freestyle S11 - WR 7
                           - Women's 200m IM SM11 - WR 7
Scarlett Humphrey - Women's 50m Freestyle S11 - WR 8
                                - Women's 400m Freestyle S11 - WR 6
                                - Women's 100m Breaststroke SB11 - WR 5
                                - Women's 200m IM SM11 - WR 6
Tully Kearney - Women's 100m Freestyle S5 - WR 1
                       - Women's 200m Freestyle S5 - WR 1
                        - Women's 50m backstroke S5 - WR 3
Poppy Maskill - Women's 200m freestyle S14 - WR 2
                        - Women's 100m backstroke S14 - WR 1
                        - Women's 100m butterfly S14 - WR 3
                        - Women's 200m IM SM14 - WR 2
Megan Neave - Women's 100m backstroke S14 - WR 4
Olivia Newman Baronius - Women's 200m Freestyle S14 - WR 3
                                          - Women's 100m backstroke S14 - WR 2
                                          - Women's 100m breaststroke SB14 - WR 6
                                          - Women's 100m butterfly SM14 - WR 1
                                          - Women's 200m IM SM14 - WR 4
Rebecca Redfern - Women's 100m breaststroke SB13 - WR 1
Faye Rogers - Women's 100m freestyle S10 - WR 10
                      - Women's 400m freestyle S10 - WR 5
                     - Women's 100m Butterfly S10 - WR 1
                    - Women's 200m IM SM10 - WR 3
Toni Shaw - Women's 100m freestyle S9 - WR 8
                    - Women's 400m freestyle S9 - WR 4
                   - Women's 200m IM SM9 - WR 8
Maisie Summers Newton - Women's 400m freestyle S6 - WR 3
                                          - Women's 100m breaststroke SB6 - WR 1
                                          - Women's 200m IM SM6 - WR 1
Alice Tai - Women's 50m freestyle S8 - WR 4
               - Women's 400m freestyle S8 - WR 2
               - Women's 100m Backstroke S8 - WR 1
               - Women's 100m butterfly S8 - WR 1
               - Women's 200m IM SM8 - WR 6
Callie-Ann Warrington - Women's 100m Freestyle S10 - WR 7
                                      - Women's 100m Butterfly S10 - WR 3
Brock Whiston - Women's 400m freestyle S8 - WR 4
                         - Women's 100m Breaststroke SB8 - WR 1
                         - Women's 100m Butterfly S8 - WR 4
                          - Women's 200m IM SM8 - WR 1
Iona Winnifreth (13 years old!) - Women's 100m breaststroke SB7 - WR 2
                                                   - Women's 50m Butterfly S7 - WR 12
                                                    - Women's 200m IM SM7 - WR 6
 
S14 relay - WR 1
 
In Tokyo, the team won 8 golds an I think they are at that level based on guaranteed golds alone, mainly thanks to the return of Alice Tai and Brock Whiston, who both missed Tokyo. In terms of depth, GB's strongest classification is S14, with a strong group of up and coming teenagers. However, this class is very strong internationally, so there aren't any guaranteed golds apart from the men's 200m free and women's 100m backstroke. The big unknown is neutral athlete Valeriia Shabalina, who on paper is faster or equal to the GB swimmers in 3 events, but many of her times are from a 2022 Russian event, as she was banned from the 2023 worlds.  This squad has a very large gold medal potential, but there are a lot of tight margins (which we saw in the olympics don't always favour GB). Despite this, I expect the squad to easily outperform Tokyo in terms of golds and medals. 
 
My prediction - 15 golds, and 35 medals. 
 

Fun fact, I've met Cassandre when she was competing at a minor triathlon earlier this year.

I think you meant Dave Ellis rather than Oscar Kelly!

The entries for the swimming events have now been released.
 
https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024-paralympics/entries/para-swimming/all-npc/men-s-50m-freestyle---s9
 
I've entered the details onto the wiki page where it is easier to see the overall picture. Unfortunately I don't know which of the relay events GB will be competing in yet.
 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_at_the_2024_Summer_Paralympics

If you can access any of their platforms Channel 4 are covering it daily continuously from 8am to 1130pm UK time. Full details are provided here.
 
https://paralympics.org.uk/articles/where-to-watch-the-paris-2024-paralympic-games

A lot of young people start rowing while at university so they do provide many of the rowers we see on the international stage. However, there are lots of rowing clubs that are happy to take in members of all ages and backgrounds and most if not all make their equipment available to them. They don't expect you provide your own boat although I'm sure you can if you want. My local club are content whether you want to be a recreational or competitive rower, whether you're a junior or a veteran. 
 
Most of the costs are associated with international rowing teams but that applies across many of the Olympic sports. You mention the issue of venues but presumably this also applies to sprint Canoeing which invariably use the same courses.

Not really sure where else to put this but Matthew Richardson has switched nationalities from  to  
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-2KNF5ONxw/?igsh=MTIxdTRrMTRiZTN1

Baseball/softball is safe for Brisbane but outside of Australia, Japan and North America most hosts don't seem interested in including it in the Olympic programme so that will potentially be vulnerable in 2036. If the best players turn up cricket may have the chance to embed itself if you're correct about India. Mind you my own hunch is that Istanbul will finally succeed with its atrempts to host the Games. We shall see!
 
Ultimately squash may have the best chance of survival of the new sports as it is relatively cheap to put on with portable courts available to locate on any site the host chooses. Sorry Egypt but watch out for the coming Chinese domination of the sport. 

Rating: 8.5/10
 
The team maintained the London levels of success in terms of medals and range of sports in which they were won.
 
2012 - 65 in 17 sports
2016 - 67 in 19
2020 - 64 in 18
2024 - 65 in 18
 
To keep performing at this level is very satisfying but was offset by a fall in the number of gold medals won, although in fairness in many cases there were tiny margins between gold and silver. Still first is first and second is second.
 
Surprises and heartaches:
 
The biggest surprise was the performance of the women's gymnastics team who finished fourth. Although they had medalled at the last two WC they had been decimated by injuries prior to the Games and yet somehow managed to get within 2/100ths of a medal.
 
The heartaches were seeing two distinguished Olympians in Jade Jones (taekwondo) and Max Whitlock (gymnastics) go home without medals in their final Games. Issues beyond the power of the athletes such as the wind or lack of it in Marseilles and tyre punctures in the men's time trial also cost medals that would otherwise have been won.
 
Goals achieved:
 
UK Sports' target of 50-70 medals was achieved but not their aim of a top five finish due to the fall off in golds. They can make themselves feel better by looking at the American version of the medal table which has them in third place on total medals won. 
 
Future investment:
 
Wealthy sports like cricket, football, golf, rugby and tennis are self-funding. For the others it will be a matter of reviewing their performances and adjusting funding accordingly. They'll also have to take into account the changes to the programme with baseball/softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse and squash coming in.
 
Of the 2024 sports my guess is that sport climbing will do particularly well while judo may be one of the sports that sees a reduction in funding.
 
Stars of 2028:
 
Who knows at this stage! Four years is a long time in sport. I'm sure Keely Hodgkinson (athletics) will be a poster girl for GB while guys like Tom Pidcock (cycling) and Alex Yee (triathlon) will feature. If some of the big names in English cricket are there they'll also feature prominently.

Rating: 8.5/10
 
The team maintained the London levels of success in terms of medals and range of sports in which they were won.
 
2012 - 65 in 17 sports
2016 - 67 in 19
2020 - 64 in 18
2024 - 65 in 18
 
To keep performing at this level is very satisfying but was offset by a fall in the number of gold medals won, although in fairness in many cases there were tiny margins between gold and silver. Still first is first and second is second.
 
Surprises and heartaches:
 
The biggest surprise was the performance of the women's gymnastics team who finished fourth. Although they had medalled at the last two WC they had been decimated by injuries prior to the Games and yet somehow managed to get within 2/100ths of a medal.
 
The heartaches were seeing two distinguished Olympians in Jade Jones (taekwondo) and Max Whitlock (gymnastics) go home without medals in their final Games. Issues beyond the power of the athletes such as the wind or lack of it in Marseilles and tyre punctures in the men's time trial also cost medals that would otherwise have been won.
 
Goals achieved:
 
UK Sports' target of 50-70 medals was achieved but not their aim of a top five finish due to the fall off in golds. They can make themselves feel better by looking at the American version of the medal table which has them in third place on total medals won. 
 
Future investment:
 
Wealthy sports like cricket, football, golf, rugby and tennis are self-funding. For the others it will be a matter of reviewing their performances and adjusting funding accordingly. They'll also have to take into account the changes to the programme with baseball/softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse and squash coming in.
 
Of the 2024 sports my guess is that sport climbing will do particularly well while judo may be one of the sports that sees a reduction in funding.
 
Stars of 2028:
 
Who knows at this stage! Four years is a long time in sport. I'm sure Keely Hodgkinson (athletics) will be a poster girl for GB while guys like Tom Pidcock (cycling) and Alex Yee (triathlon) will feature. If some of the big names in English cricket are there they'll also feature prominently.

I agree eight teams are warranted in the cricket competitions. Assuming, pretty reasonably I think, that flag football and lacrosse won't survive beyond LA hopefully that'll be the case in Brisbane. 

I believe he was a character in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Rating: 8.5/10
 
The team maintained the London levels of success in terms of medals and range of sports in which they were won.
 
2012 - 65 in 17 sports
2016 - 67 in 19
2020 - 64 in 18
2024 - 65 in 18
 
To keep performing at this level is very satisfying but was offset by a fall in the number of gold medals won, although in fairness in many cases there were tiny margins between gold and silver. Still first is first and second is second.
 
Surprises and heartaches:
 
The biggest surprise was the performance of the women's gymnastics team who finished fourth. Although they had medalled at the last two WC they had been decimated by injuries prior to the Games and yet somehow managed to get within 2/100ths of a medal.
 
The heartaches were seeing two distinguished Olympians in Jade Jones (taekwondo) and Max Whitlock (gymnastics) go home without medals in their final Games. Issues beyond the power of the athletes such as the wind or lack of it in Marseilles and tyre punctures in the men's time trial also cost medals that would otherwise have been won.
 
Goals achieved:
 
UK Sports' target of 50-70 medals was achieved but not their aim of a top five finish due to the fall off in golds. They can make themselves feel better by looking at the American version of the medal table which has them in third place on total medals won. 
 
Future investment:
 
Wealthy sports like cricket, football, golf, rugby and tennis are self-funding. For the others it will be a matter of reviewing their performances and adjusting funding accordingly. They'll also have to take into account the changes to the programme with baseball/softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse and squash coming in.
 
Of the 2024 sports my guess is that sport climbing will do particularly well while judo may be one of the sports that sees a reduction in funding.
 
Stars of 2028:
 
Who knows at this stage! Four years is a long time in sport. I'm sure Keely Hodgkinson (athletics) will be a poster girl for GB while guys like Tom Pidcock (cycling) and Alex Yee (triathlon) will feature. If some of the big names in English cricket are there they'll also feature prominently.