Olympics, who's watching ?

[wheelnut]

One idea he found was that putting poles "in series" in a breeze results in lower drag than you'd expect so he got an undergrad (chap called Joe who I ended up hiring on Tony's recommendation) to dig into that idea for his Master's thesis..

That reminded me of the Tyrell 6 wheel F1 cars of the 70s.

[Yorick]

Can't remember a race with so much hype.
Hope she wins this 800

[Mr. Dazzle]

Can't remember a race with so much hype.
Hope she wins this 800

Won it by miles

Reminds me of this.

[Yorick]

Only the 11th GB women's athletics gold medal winner.

I remembered 9 of the previous 10

[Docca]

Morocco lost. I was there. Great fans. Massive atmosphere.

No beer at all in the stadium

[Mr. Dazzle]

Mens 1500m....LOL. After all that neither of them win

[Yorick]

Wow. Olympic record to win.
British record to get 2nd

[Nordboy]

Wow. Olympic record to win.
British record to get 2nd

The Norwegian was so interested in pushing the Kerr out he totally left the inside track open for the american, who tbf, totally made the most of the opportunity, didn't need a 2nd invite.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Yep, this is why silly rivalries are exactly that, both so focused on beating the other guy they didn't think about all the rest of the field

[Yorick]

Bit baffled by YMCA

[Ian]

Really pleased to see GB take silver in the team sprint, Ed Lowes dad was my boss he is mad for cycling and will be so proud

[Yorick]

I'm baffled by the choice of swimming in the Seine.

Surely the rowing venue would have been cleaner and easier.

[JamJar]

I'm baffled by the choice of swimming in the Seine.

Surely the rowing venue would have been cleaner and easier.

I guess because it is iconic, the rowing venue was the fallback if the Seine was too dirty.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

I watched climbing this morning, it was good.

[MingtheMerciless]

They had Chris Hoy on the Beeb last night, apparently the handlebars on the Brit bikes are 3D printed Titanium and have to take a force of 750 Nm from the riders as they start accelerating!. My ZH2 peak torque is 137Nm.

[Mr. Dazzle]

750N on the end of a 0.75m bar sticking out actually

The ones I did were proper dinky little things stuck on top of carbon lower bars. The athletes were a bit concerned with how insubstantial they looked so the techy guys from BC sent them a pic of me sitting on the end of the extension bar/tube sticking out (the bit you actually hold).

Wiggo was allowed a different lower bar cause he's over a certain height, you can see how his (third back) is higher in the middle.

The little riser bit is a carbon tube made custom for each rider, we shaved more than 100g out of the bars doing that to replace the stacked up bits of ally they had before.

[Yorick]

I've always loved track cycling and followed all the stars including Laura Kenny.

But WTF when she talks . I hate the London accent at best of times, but she sounds common as muck to make it worse I turn the sound off

[Yorick]

One thing Iove about the athletics, is that they have live links to their family watching at home, so winners can go straight to them to celebrate

[Yorick]

What a great 400m race

MHS has dropped the British record by nearly a full second in last 2 years

5th best of all time.

[Yorick]

Just watched Taikwondo.

It's just handbags

They can't hit hard. But only touch to score points.

Dull compared to stuff like karate etc