Triplecast

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

At least in past years when we didn’t take these Games seriously, we still sent athletes 

Those being the years when the USOC took the US Olympic Festival seriously?

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

First man ever under 10:00 seconds, a big barrier in the day  Like Dick Fosbury & Bob Beamon, benefitting from the technical advances in stadium construction - the "tartan" plastic track of Mexico 68 replacing the cinders of Tokyo 64.  And of course the altitude of Mexico meant that record stood for 15 years.  

And as I learned today, because of the improvements that came after Bob Hayes finished his track career, Jim Hines was the only man to break 10 seconds and play in the NFL.  

RIP Jim Hines, 1946-2023, 1968 100m and 4x100m gold medalist.

Jim Hines, 1968 Olympic 100m champion and world record-holder, dies - AW (athleticsweekly.com)

According to this story, his two gold medals were stolen shortly after the 1968 Games but were returned to him after he placed an advert in a local newspaper. (I had never known that.)  But his 100m race was like the second Olympic athletics event (the day after men's 10K) I ever watched on TV. 

Ralph Boston,  Long Jump, gold 1960, silver 1964, bronze 1968 and broke Jesse Owen’s world record in 1960.

https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2023/04/30/ralph-boston-dead/

Alexander Gorshkov 1976 gold medal in Ice Dancing.  He was the head of the Russian Figure Skating Federation.  The article suggests the stress of Valieva case might have been a factor.  

Russian Figure Skating Federation President Gorshkov dead at 76 (insidethegames.biz)

4 hours ago, rybak said:

 Karol Hoffmann (triple jump) and Łukasz Krawczuk (400m) announced their retirements today during athletics gala called "Złote Kolce" during which the best Polish athlete of the year is choosen.

His father was once Polish athlete of the year?

On 8/29/2022 at 2:20 PM, hckošice said:

Is a chance to find who was the tallest and who was the shortest Olympic champion between men and women in all modern-Olympic era history ? Likewise, who was also the heaviest and who was the lightest in both men and women in the history?

 

I can not find the answer anywhere.

I'll take a stab at this.  For men, the shortest gold medalist I'm sure is Joseph DePietro   WL 1948 gold medal in bantamweight.  He was 1.40 metes tall.  The tallest is Arvydas Sabonis   BB 1988 then bronze 1992 for   listed at 2.21 m.  

For Women, the tallest I'm sure is Uljana Semjonova  (    nationality) BB 1976 and 1980 listed between 2.10 and 2.16.  The shortest is Mariya Filatova  Gymnastics 1976 and 1980, 1.36 meters tall.  Filatova is also likely the lightest listed at 30 kg.  

For men, the heaviest gold medalist is probably Leonid Zhabotynsky   1964 and 1968 WL listed at 163 kg.  The heaviest woman is Zhou Lulu    2012 WL at 133 kg.

Actually, the shortest and lightest men's gold medalist may be the unknow cox of the 1900 pairs event, thought to be around 11 years old. 

24 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I have multiple VPNs. CBC stream wouldn’t play on any of them.

Can't explain that.  I'm sitting in the middle of the US and watching CBC.ca without any problems.

11 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I can’t find it live anywhere. CBC won’t work for me, and BBC, 7Plus, and MeWatch all have additional requirements. 

With a VPN, you can watch on CBC.ca Don't even have to register.  And Express VPN offers a one month free trial that you can cancel at anytime.

6 hours ago, OlympicIRL said:

No boxing finals on the last day of the Games.... last time that happened was LA 1984 Olympics.

 

Time to read through the schedule in detail to see what day Ireland might win their first medal..... as always, not an easy task.... like finding a needle in a haystack

Were you around for the W 400 IM in 1996?

52 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Michael Johnson thinks USA are DQF on last change.

I watched the replay of the pass it looked in the zone, but close.  Hall came close to the Jamaican anchor but didn’t appear to interfere.
 

Anyway, they’re getting the medals now.

17 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Three good changes often beat four fast guys.

Or four fast gals.

Probably close to the same number of athletes.  Men’s Football partially  offsets the loss of baseball/softball.  Hope  W hockey will qualify this time.   

Garrett Scantling    4th in Tokyo, US Decathlon champion in 2022 with 8867 accepts provisional suspension for whereabouts violation.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/trackandfield/story/_/id/34278063/garrett-scantling-not-world-championships-due-suspension-missed-doping-tests

7 hours ago, Monzanator said:

And now the reports are he's out of 4x100 relay. Guess it was more than a cramp

Yes, the news wires said he told reporters it was a cramp, but his agent tells the real truth the next day.  Slight injury to his quad.

58 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

Kerley down & out in SF1. Injury?

57 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Nah, he just haven't energy

He said it was a cramp, and says he's good for the relay.

Andre De Grasse has withdrawn from the 200.

Andre De Grasse withdraws from men's 200m at world championships | CBC Sports

49 minutes ago, intoronto said:

First women* to medal in a field event.

Canada does have two female OG medalists in the high jump. 

Marcel Jacobs doubtful tonight. 

2 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

 

Randolph Ross  400m runner - interfering with doping control

 

Following in his father's footsteps.

31 minutes ago, rafalgorka said:

Anyone knows when the detailed Paris 2024 schedule - event by event, session by session - may be published? I don’t remember how it was for previous Games.

Tokyo's was released in April, 2019.

https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2019/04/16/tokyo-2020-olympic-master-competition-schedule/

10 minutes ago, NearPup said:

That ref did not want to stay there one second more than he was contractually obligated to be.

Just after I explained to my wife there will probably be 4-5 minutes of stoppage time.

1 hour ago, Dragon said:

Nah, just talked to somebody who works with the Olympic Channel.

It's US/NBC that's closing their version of the channel down - not the IOC

I can only guess that now Peacock will be the only outlet to watch Olympic sports in the US.

At US Championships, Sydney McLaughlin  51.41 WR

And a few other performances of note today

Keni Harrison 12.34 Alaysha Johnson 12.35 in 100H 

Michael Norman 43.56 

Daniel Haugh, Hammer 80.18 

57 minutes ago, Vic Liu said:

Anyone knows why Dressel quit 100m free semi final?

Medical Reasons per US Swimming.