Modern Pentathlon at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[heywoodu 13,540]

Who are supposed to be the good swimmers? Because I dare bet Eurosport will simply call the fastest times great, even if they're actually disappointing for the athletes since they're supposed to do better  

[thepharoah 2,284]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Who are supposed to be the good swimmers? Because I dare bet Eurosport will simply call the fastest times great, even if they're actually disappointing for the athletes since they're supposed to do better  

 

the last group are the best :D

[heywoodu 13,540]

11 minutes ago, dcro said:

What is this? They put modern pentathlon in the stadium for about 100k people?

Yeah, why choose a small one? At least 200k people will want to see who would be the very best modern soldier (in 1896)  

[Grassmarket 2,748]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Who are supposed to be the good swimmers? Because I dare bet Eurosport will simply call the fastest times great, even if they're actually disappointing for the athletes since they're supposed to do better  

Bit difficult to compare because we have a short track pool here & most historic PBs are set in 50m pools.

[dcro 10,179]

Interesting, there are two OBS commentators. One usually does fencing, and there is this woman who sounds familiar but I can't remember her specialist sport.

[Grassmarket 2,748]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Yeah, why choose a small one? At least 200k people will want to see who would be the very best modern soldier (in 1896)  

Tragically, the Gatling Gun killed a beautiful sport.

[Grassmarket 2,748]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

Interesting, there are two OBS commentators. One usually does fencing, and there is this woman who sounds familiar but I can't remember her specialist sport.

She is Heather Fell, modern pentathlon silver medallist Beijing 2008!

[heywoodu 13,540]

2 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Bit difficult to compare because we have a short track pool here & most historic PBs are set in 50m pools.

Sure, but that doesn't really change the general strengths (like a weak swimmer suddenly becoming one of the better ones because of this)  

[heywoodu 13,540]

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

Interesting, there are two OBS commentators. One usually does fencing, and there is this woman who sounds familiar but I can't remember her specialist sport.

I have this same feeling and it's bugging me to no end  

[dcro 10,179]

Modern pentathlon staying modern with 2003 Beyonce playing in the background during swims.