2020 [2021] Olympics

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Congratulations to Australia's newest gold medallists
Qian Yang - women's individual - class 10 (table tennis)
Men's 4 x 100m freestyle relay (swimming)

Current Aussie medal tally
(11 gold medals)
(17 silver medals)
(14 bronze medals)

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Aussie Gold Medals #12 and #13

Darren Hicks - men's road time trial C2 (cycling)
James Turner - men's 400m T36 (athletics)

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Gold medal bonanza. Awesome performances.

William Martin - men's 100m butterfly S9 (world record)
Benjamin Hance - men's 100m backstroke S14
Rachael Watson - women's 50m freestyle S4
Vanessa Low - women's long jump T63 (3 jumps setting world records)

 

[k_sheep]

Can I just say - how good does goalball look?

I imagine that would be super fun with a group of friends.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Australia's 18th paralympic gold medallist

Curtis McGrath - men's KL2 (paracanoeing)

Tomorrow at 11am AEST, Australia's current highest public profile paralympian Dylan Alcott goes for gold in the tennis to continue his progress towards a Golden Slam.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Congratulations to two Aussie gold medals in about 15 minutes of each other earlier today.

Dylan Alcott - quad singles (tennis)
Curtis McGrath - men's VL3 (paracanoeing)

Both quite intense events when watching them.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Final medals awarded and one more Australian gold medal on the final day of competition.

Congratulations to Madison de Rozario - women's marathon T54

Final medal tally positions

China 1st - 96 Gold Medals
Great Britain 2nd - 41 Gold Medals
USA 3rd - 37 Gold Medals
...
Australia 8th - 21 Gold Medals, 29 Silver Medals and 30 Bronze Medals. (6th based on total medals)
...
New Zealand 21st - 6 Gold Medals, 3 Silver Medal and 3 Bronze Medals

 

[k_sheep]

Now the real withdrawals start.

On the bright side - only 3 years til the next lot!

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Off topic - but think we just extend this thread to include the 2022 Winter Olympics.....

Congratulations to Tess Coady Bronze medal Women's snowboard slopestyle

Well done to NZ's Zoi Sadowski-Synnott Gold in the same event

 

[jase05]

What a performance from Jakara Anthony. Miles ahead of her competition and absolutely dominated the field to win Gold

 

[Happy Dude]

I was surprised to hear the commentator during the mens moguls on Saturday night mention that the judges hold back on the scores of higher ranked skiers going first to allow them to score better the following lower ranked skiers.

Impossible for all but the most highly experienced and qualified viewer to understand the scoring in events like this. Good viewing though, especially for those univested in the result. The reaction of disappointment by some of the skiers also showed that even they thought a better score was deserved.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

I was surprised to hear the commentator during the mens moguls on Saturday night mention that the judges hold back on the scores of higher ranked skiers going first to allow them to score better the following lower ranked skiers.

Impossible for all but the most highly experienced and qualified viewer to understand the scoring in events like this. Good viewing though, especially for those univested in the result. The reaction of disappointment by some of the skiers also showed that even they thought a better score was deserved.

To me, it’s a bit like say figure skating. Some technical (starting score), plus some variable artistic (judgment) - the judgment part gives room in case later overall would wipe out earlier. Judges would 75% know who ‘deserves’ it (Gold)

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Congratulations to Scotty James Silver medal Men's snowboard halfpipe

And at the halfway mark of the women's skeleton, Aussie Jaclyn Narracott is in the lead. Event finishes tomorrow night - good to tune in to watch from about 11pm tomorrow

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Congratulations to Jaclyn Narracott Silver medal Women's skeleton

First time Australia has 4 medals at a single Winter Olympics.

 

[k_sheep]

Freeski big air is just a ridiculous event. I'd die 18 times before even getting to the jump.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

With a couple of days remaining in the Winter Paralympics, Australia's representatives has secured 1 bronze medal.

Congratulations to Ben Tudhope - men's snowboard cross.