Brilliancy in Sport, Your favourite moments

Me I liked Kayak and Teddy gold medal. Btw what a great figther the japanese was in the final. Much better global atmosphere that what happened in semi-final with the guy that deshonored the Judo and Martial Art spirit.

Great illustration of what sport is at high olympic level ! Thanks Japan and of course thanks Teddy for the ippon ! 🙂
 
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Korean fighter not Japanese Iggy! 😉

Yes Riner is a beast: 3x Olympic titles, 1x bronze medals, 11x(!) World title... and the guy doesn't seems to want to stop, thinking about LA in 4 years ( he'll be 39). Crazy.

Manaudou ( 1x Olympic title, 2x Silver, 1x Bronze over 4 games, for a sprinter it's incredible too) and Marchand... what to say? Just look at M.Phelps during his race! MP is known to not be expressive/exuberant.
Katie Ledecky... Legendary... but i don't want to talk too much about my own sport. 😉

Pauline Ferrand-Prevot ( she won everything in mountain bike, now thinking about 'Tour de France'), Cassandre Beaugrand,... such goddess!
Kauli Vaast perform to ( i cried when Vahine Fierro lost her heat, such an amazing surfer!). I hope there will be a Medina/Vaast final with a solid swell (12/15ft)! I have great hope for Johanne Defay too. Time will tell.

Kuddos to all the athletes from all country! Great games till now!

I really like the atmosphere too, athletes seems to have a lot of joy and pleasure performing. Great generation.
 
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Oups ! Sorry for the Koreans (my applogizes) . I have to ippon my glasses ! Scratch.....

You swimm 🙂 Ihave made underwater fish hunting younger, now my body is too weak as well as my eyes ! (So now I hunt that miserable sound I can't catch!)
 
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Simone Biles is no clumsy either.

Katie Ledecky now have more titles than anyone in history. A titan she is.

Mixed French judo team beat Japanese team and keep title earned in Tokyo. Great win as Japan was so strong opponent.


@Simon1972, you already posted it in the past. Crazy run.
 
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Speaking of brlliancy in sport, we Belgians had a wonderfull day yesterday. Cycling is our national sport and the most talented young cyclist of our country Remco Evenepoel won after the Olympic time trial last week saturday, the Olympic road trial with ease and totally dominated the trial. And he is only 24, what is very young for this sport to be top level.

He won this year also the world championship time trial, was 3th in the Tour de France in his debut in that competition this year, and is the 2022 world champion in the road trial, won the Vuelta (Tour of Spain) and nummerous smaller competitions in the past. But yesterday was really the icing on the cake, he is now double Olympic champion cycling, dominating both most important diciplines in cycling with big reserve. It's only in a heavy endurance race like the Tour the France where he still lacks experience that he can't beat everybody.

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Here he is winning the road trial, with so much advance on number two that he had some time to do a victory show on the finish line.

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Remco Evenepoel with his wife Oumaima "Oumi" Rayane showing his two cycling gold medals of the Olympics 2024
 
I read with interest @krivium 's comment with respect to swimming! 10km/day is a WOW. My mother will be 101 this coming spring...she would swim 50 miles per summer in the community pool when she was in her 60's and 70's. My doc said it's one of the best things you can do for your heart!

Hi Jackinnj,
7/10 km a day was my daily menu when i was teen... Now 30 years later it's by week and it's way enough for me.
I can still follow triathletes in thier 30ies at training but i can't follow competitors swimmers more than 30mn anymore. I like to see face of triathletes when they see the old big wale i am 'lick their feet' ( i have 20kg to loose... it help in cold water though! 😉 ).
Swimming is ungrateful sport and training is a real pita. I stopped contest because of that, counting tiles in pools and giving them a name is an indicator it's time to stop.

@waxx,
Remco's performance this year will become legendary, as the first picture you posted: such iconic of those game with tour Eiffel in background! (As the one from Gabriel Medina leaving it's 9.9 wave at Teahupoo).

I would have liked to see Van Aert win, it deserve it imo, such a monster biker! But i'm so happy Madouas and Laporte being 2nd and third following Evenpoel.
Laporte didn't know he won bronze medal! They said once in Montmartre they didn't heard themself breathing because of crowd's noise and even 'Tour de France' had never seen so much supporters( heard there was 500000 people to follow road cycling along the road, it's marvelous)!

Summer McIntosh have been very impressive i agree. The next gen swimmers are gonna be something to watch after! And the previous one won't leave anytime soon: Manaudou got so touched by public reaction he decided to go for next European Championship in Paris in two years! ❤

Julien Alfred won 100m with brilliancy and bring it's first title to Sainte Lucia, so refreshing to see small country being on top of the world! 🤘
 
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@waxx,
Remco's performance this year will become legendary, as the first picture you posted: such iconic of those game with tour Eiffel in background! (As the one from Gabriel Medina leaving it's 9.9 wave at Teahupoo).

I would have liked to see Van Aert win, it deserve it imo, such a monster biker! But i'm so happy Madouas and Laporte being 2nd and third following Evenpoel.
Laporte didn't know he won bronze medal! They said once in Montmartre they didn't heard themself breathing because of crowd's noise and even 'Tour de France' had never seen so much supporters( heard there was 500000 people to follow road cycling along the road, it's marvelous)!
I like Wout Van Aert, and am a supporter for him since longtime. But he is not on the level of Remco Evenepoel. Remco is 5 years younger but his victory list is already more impressive than Wout ever will have. An he is not on the top of his possibilities yet, for cyclists that is mostly between 25 and 35 years old. You see that he still lacks experience to deal with the real tuff stuff like big tours. He is of the level of Tadey Pogacar or Eddy Merckx say a lot of specialists here. He often already is and will be the main competitor for Pogacar in the coming years, because he is the only one that can reach that level of that other (Slovenian) supertalent in Cycling. Remco is a more versatile cyclist than Pogacar altough.

Van Aert is a good cyclist, but not that level. But good enough to be in top level competitions and play a role, and good enough to be a worthy first helper in a team around such a talent as Remco. But he can't win the real big games like the Tour de France, Remco can do that almost all think. He was 3th in his first tour, at the age of 24 and he did already win the Vuelta when he was even younger. Not many can do that. He won all big championships (national, European, World and Olympic) in time trial and in a general road race in cycling now at least once, before he was 25, very very few can do that. So we wonder what we will witness when he get in his real prime (where he is not yet we think).
 
Severe lack of Horseracin' in this thread lately. The Sport of Kings. Just sayin' ... 😡

Not many people know that Castle Carey C.C. in Somerset, England are the longest reigning Olympic Champions of all time.

They and a few amateur Devonian club cricketers won the inaugural Olympic Cricket Final against a French side in 1904 with 5 minutes to go.

In fact the French side had 10 Englishmen from the British Embassy in Paris rustled up at short nottce, along with one Frenchman too. So it was close as to who won anyway.

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The audience was apparently just 12 bemused Gendarmes around a cycling track for a game that few had heard of.

I hear that Cricket is to be reinstated in Los Angeles, 2028. My view is we should just send the mighty and nigh-on unbeatable Somerset C.C.C. to face India, Australia and whatnot, and be done with it.

I say this as a Somerset supporter. We will not relinquish this unique sporting honour outside our fair county. 🤣
 
Aw, mate, we feel your pain. Let's hope her progeny continue the legend. 🙁

But it looks like it barely scraped it at Ascot in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes to me... 🙄

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Actually, turns out the poor little thing had endured a 30 hour flight from Oz and had torn a couple of muscles early in the race. I think you can see she's putting no weight on her left front leg in the close.

I have to admit that a peak rating of 136 is very impressive. Means it would beat our current very average crop of speedballs by about 4 seconds!

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Next week is the Nunthorpe Stakes 5f (1006m) sprint at York, which will be essential viewing. Second fastest time ever was by the wonderful Battaash (aka The Batmobile...) which peaked at 127.

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Sadly Battaash had such a lively nature in the stalls as a 2-y-o that no sane jockey would ride it. It therefore had the operation, which of course meant no progeny.

Can't wait! Especially since my fancy today "Attila The Honey" not only finished last, but by a spectacular 83 Lengths behind the winner. I am therefore due a huge win! Law of averages, innit? 😛
 
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In order to bother our dear System7 i will talk about something else than 'the sport of kings' although... there is horses planned too... 🤣

The Paralympics.
Stunned by those athletes. Performances are now incredible and the new generation kick .ss imho.

Some of those athletes touched my heart. Deeply. I mean, my own sport(s) are not this popular but at least they have some media coverage from time to time.

When you don't have this, neither money invested it ask for serious commitment to reach high level like seen in those games.

Some sports are worst than others regarding that.

Triathlon is one of them and we have a real warrior coming soon representing France, Alexis Hanquinquan.

Zakia Khudadadi in Taekwendo in bronze for Refugees ( Afghanistan) , training in France, dedicated his medal for Afghani Womens threatned in their home country. So glad and proud she decided to ask to be a French citizen.

Brazilian swimmer Gabriel Dos Santos Araujo is incredible too. As are BeBe Vio or Oksanna Masters. ❤

I don't know if it is availlable to other country but there is a documentary called 'A corps perdu' broadcasted on France2 atm which is just an example of commitment, force requested and resilience these athletes display.
If this is not brillancy in sport...?

London Paralympics were great, (sadly Tokyo lacked crowds obviously), Paris seems even better. 👍