LO was asking about the nose clips last night and why some backstrokers wear them and some don’t ?
Not to shatter her illusion that I know everything,I answered by looking at the window and saying ‘ooh look a squirrel’ 
But I still don’t have an answer 
Apparently it’s shallow, don’t know why they would build it like that?
Underwater especially after the turn, water can go up nose. I coach breathe out through nose on turns, but some use noseclips and mouth breathe. Personal choice.
But they’ve managed to cock it up because they’ve contravened visa rules. A colleagues friend is a cameraman and they forgot about working time directives so they haven’t got enough staff to cover the hours required.
I can’t say I like ALL the D+ commentators but they don’t annoy me which is a reasonable criteria.
Standard is 3m, Im guessing logistics/infrastructure around the temporary pool
Because it’s a temporary pool in an arena. Adding depth adds a lot of cost for the structure. So I’m guessing they went with the minimum depth required for a pure swimming event pool.
Hasn’t one of the D+ swimming commentators been sent home for making a comment about the Aussie women spending too much time doing their makeup 
I heard the comment live and did wonder about its appropriateness 
oops!
I watched some of the womens mountain bike race yesterday where France has a very clear victory. She was (understandably) over the moon having not won a medal in the previous two olympics and if you get a chance to see the medal ceremony (it’s on Discovery+ and they have one of those shortcut links within the video directly to the ceremony) it’s pretty good. She struggles to hold her emotions and the French fans watching a very vocal. It’s good.
I feel pretty disengaged from this Olympics tbh. Yesterday we tried to watch a few things on BBC1 or iPlayer, but it was limited. In years past I remember doing plenty of watchathons, but alas I think that’s it now for me if it continues like this. Hey ho.
I watched quite a bit of coverage over the weekend, but this is the first Games since 2004 that there hasn’t been a TV screen in the office or I’ve been WFH, so I think it’ll be difficult to catch much live action and I’ll be at the mercy of the highlights show during the working week
This. They explained it on the bbc. Frequently the purpose built pools that will remain are built to accommodate the synchro swimming too later in the games, which needs a 3m depth. For this, they’re only putting the swimming in the massive arena, so went minimum swimming depth for cost reasons. Hence it’s slow, due to the “bounce back” of water off the bottom
Yup - getting on my tits too
I’m bored of the celebratising of these athletes
Pre professionalism/ Nat Lottery they had so much more personality
The Steve Jones’s of this world… Always found Mo an unappetising little sod as well
if they use it for synchro…but that’s in a different pool i believe
yep…it is becoming a bit tiresome…
10 10 10 10
for bravery - all the divers
wearing those skimpy trunks. I don’t know how they do it
I did like the random dude who had to jump into the pool in some budgie smugglers to retrieve a US swim cap from the bottom of the pool before one race. Compared to all the ripped swimmers, he looked so unathletic!
I’ve always said they should get a normal bloke to do every event, either before the race or in a lane of their own, just to show how good the athletes are.
It’s become a running joke in our house with our own commentary, we were watching gymnastics beam and the K1 kayak yesterday and it went something like.
Beam - And here’s Jarok, he’s jumped onto the beam from the side but now appears to be stuck on his stomach, he’s managed to spin round but has now grabbed his pods which must be in considerable discomfort.
Kayak - Next up is Jarok, he’s started his run and has immediately chosen to take the first gate upside down, and the second and now the third. Not sure how he’s going to do the upstream gates with this technique; in fact he doesn’t appear to have moved for quite a while now.
MJ is infinitely better than some of the others, not afraid to criticise a crap performance unlike most of the Brit commentators who are like “well done, so proud, he’s been through so much”
Fish & chips with a pint, quick ciggy… followed by a 2:07 marathon?
I believe hurdler Shirley Strong was also a smoker.