[GT] Day 14 - August 9

[browna]

Originally Posted by looooob

Oh if you are Canadian you have to love Saturday Nights in Georgia! Don Wittman is looking down smiling right now

Yeah that's going to be the best call in the history of Canadian track by the late Don Whitman.

A relay is really hard to call, Whitman did it flawlessly, and MarkLee was fumbling by the second or third handoff today, but yeah the clapping in the booth and the ferocity of the ripping into the Americans is great.

For the Beach volleyball, would really like to know what trash talk was going on.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Just catching up on replays, so happy for the women's beach volleyball, I know they didn't win the gold but man they were so resilient throughout, they should be really proud of themselves, they played awesome.

And the 4x100??????? Where did that come from? Amazing stuff, I'm still stunned.

[bigtmac19]

Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja

The women's breaking competition was great. I hope we can see other street dance styles at the olympics in the future

I don't really understand the scoring, but was that Australian breaker really as bad as she looked? Her routine is the talk of this even so far, and it didn't look good to me, but I also have no way to fairly judge.

[browna]

The time splits in the 4x100 are nuts.

https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/r...y/fnl-000100--

Canada was 6th after the first handoff. The next Canadian has the 3rd best time in his leg and Canada was 4th overall. The third Canadian was then 3rd best in his leg for time and Canada was 3rd overall at that point..Degrasse was 4th best time is his leg but Canada was first at the end.

Japan and Italy were 1 and 2 through the first 3 legs for splits and positions, but their anchor runners were 7th and 8th best in the final leg. Aren't the anchor runners supposed to be the fastest? What a dual choke job.

Basically those teams lost it becuase of that wild discrepancy on the final leg and Canada with 4 more or less steady runners, with average times, won it.

Basically average and consistent speed wins the race!

The British and SA anchor runners tied for the fastest final leg and brought their country up from 6 and 5th respectively to 3rd and 2nd with the 2 of 3 WWII Axis powers, failing miserably when it mattered.

[trackercowe]

I was really happy to see South Africa with the silver. So many lesser nations winning big medals throughout these games. They seemed so happy with the result as well. Love that!

[looooob]

Originally Posted by browna

The time splits in the 4x100 are nuts.

https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/r...y/fnl-000100--

Canada was 6th after the first handoff. The next Canadian has the 3rd best time in his leg and Canada was 4th overall. The third Canadian was then 3rd best in his leg for time and Canada was 3rd overall at that point..Degrasse was 4th best time is his leg but Canada was first at the end.

Japan and Italy were 1 and 2 through the first 3 legs for splits and positions, but their anchor runners were 7th and 8th best in the final leg. Aren't the anchor runners supposed to be the fastest? What a dual choke job.

Basically those teams lost it becuase of that wild discrepancy on the final leg and Canada with 4 more or less steady runners, with average times, won it.

Basically average and consistent speed wins the race!

The British and SA anchor runners tied for the fastest final leg and brought their country up from 6 and 5th respectively to 3rd and 2nd with the 2 of 3 WWII Axis powers, failing miserably when it mattered.

some teams do increasingly put a big gun in the 2nd leg


Italy won the Olympics last time with Jacobs running 2 (as I recall) and he's there again this time. Sani-Brown for Japan is their top gun and he ran the 2nd spot too- but that's key for Canada- we've got a guy like Blake- he's our least decorated guy- but he runs that 2 leg and is only behind Jacobs and Sani Brown- well you can concede to those 2 guys because that's the best their country has.



basically our big name guys held ground in the marquee 1st and 4th legs and our unsung guys did really well in theirs- South Africa and UK were thinner

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by looooob

some teams do increasingly put a big gun in the 2nd leg


Italy won the Olympics last time with Jacobs running 2 (as I recall) and he's there again this time. Sani-Brown for Japan is their top gun and he ran the 2nd spot too- but that's key for Canada- we've got a guy like Blake- he's our least decorated guy- but he runs that 2 leg and is only behind Jacobs and Sani Brown- well you can concede to those 2 guys because that's the best their country has.



basically our big name guys held ground in the marquee 1st and 4th legs and our unsung guys did really well in theirs- South Africa and UK were thinner

I’m happy the arrogant Americans lost. Does that make me a bad person?

[Strange Brew]

The mental image of Rodney booking it around turn 3 has been playing in my head all afternoon and evening. What an iconic Canadian moment that race was.

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by browna

Yeah that's going to be the best call in the history of Canadian track by the late Don Whitman.

A relay is really hard to call, Whitman did it flawlessly, and MarkLee was fumbling by the second or third handoff today, but yeah the clapping in the booth and the ferocity of the ripping into the Americans is great.

For the Beach volleyball, would really like to know what trash talk was going on.

Listen to the Whitman call in 1996 again. He only called one team and four runners. He didn’t actually call the race. You’re being too hard on Lee IMO.

[looooob]

One difference is Whitman knew he was possibly/probably calling the winner - that wasn’t so clear to Lee going in

Having said that the DW call is one for the ages

[FLAME ENVY]

I'm so happy for the Men's 4x100 team, what a great race! Super stoked for Brown in particular after he was DQ'd for his false start in the 100M, I felt so bad for him. Gold in the relay is damn sweet redemption!

[flames_fan_down_under]

That was so awesome. I have re-watched that race 10m times now. What a great call by Mark Lee. The emphatic "YES" at the end was pure excitement. Great moment for Canada!

[browna]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

Listen to the Whitman call in 1996 again. He only called one team and four runners. He didn’t actually call the race. You’re being too hard on Lee IMO.

Sure and he doesn’t have to call the entire race, but Lee really had no idea where Canada was until the last 60m…made harder sure, by lane 9 for the bend running and then the angle even on the straightaway.

But a few seconds of silence around the second handoff and then commenting how much space they had on the last place Chinese, didn’t really give any idea of where they were overall… Canada was never near the lead and 4th going into the final handoff.

A very solid handoff got them into third and then the aforementioned failure of the Italian and Japanese guys in the first 50m of the final leg had the steady Degrasse able to hold on.

Great call to end the race though and the euphoria in the booth from him and his partner was evident and exciting.

[DeluxeMoustache]

Mark Lee voices a ton of sports

I don’t care what the nitpickers say

The man deserves appreciation

I sometimes find it hilarious how he sounds so in to a sport that I am still trying to get my head around

Great day! Would have loved gold in beach volleyball, that was anybody’s match. I quite honestly don’t get the 15 point third set.