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As suggested by Bingoman, here is the new Olympic Games area
I've created it as a sub-forum in "Sport" and will create further sub-categories as needed. I've made the first one a general one, but can add the others either when people start posting or when I get some idea of what's needed. I am no sport expert, so if anyone would like to suggest categories, please do!
I wonder what sports people have discovered by watching the Olympics ....... sports that you'd never normally watch but just get drawn in by for those few weeks
In 2016 it was Hockey ........ particularly the women's hockey. Of course it helped that we won the Gold Medal ! But it was a fairly simple game with not many rules and was fast and non stop action
Back in 2012 I discovered Handball which was a bit like indoor five a side football but obviously you used your hands not your feet ....... well you did use your feet otherwise you'd just have kept falling over
The other one was Volleyball ..... not the beach volleyball but the game on an indoor court with half a dozen people on each team. I think the attraction was partly that it seemed to keep going until past midnight and everyone on the DS sub-forum ended up watching the same thing so there was more of a late night community whereas earlier in the day people were all watching and posting about different events on at the same time
Talking of DS ........ one of my favourite DS memories is following the 'live' coverage of the Olympic Torch Relay around the British Isles. It was on the internet and was brilliant. Just the crowds that came out to every town or village it went though ....... it was a huge celebration which I think caught the organisers on the hop. I don't think they expected that. All the celebs and 'normal' people carrying the torch seemed so full of pride and the crowd cheered them to the hilt
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Talking of DS ........ one of my favourite DS memories is following the 'live' coverage of the Olympic Torch Relay around the British Isles. It was on the internet and was brilliant. Just the crowds that came out to every town or village it went though ....... it was a huge celebration which I think caught the organisers on the hop. I don't think they expected that. All the celebs and 'normal' people carrying the torch seemed so full of pride and the crowd cheered them to the hilt
I'd forgotten, but the torch went past the end of our street!
I don't follow Athletics much between Olympics now but I noticed a story that Norwegian Karsten Warholm broke the 29 year old world record for the 400 metre hurdles yesterday
Coming so close to Tokyo he must a be a gold medal banker
Not sure what happened with Athletics ...... I used to watch it whenever it was on TV...... European and World Championships, that annual Nations League competition, the televised evening meetings from Crystal Palace
I guess that did coincide with GB being a big player in world athletics .......
