Paris Olympics 2024 Discussion Thread

[maniac]

16 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Funny thing is all our gora coaches have spoken about bad umpiring calls against India. When they coached us they too felt the pain and were outspoken about it. Like Oltmans who coached Netherlands before, or Graham Reid who coached Aussies before. Fulton who coached Belgium before will experience this same sinking feeling now that he is part of our setup. 

we need to take over hockey like cricket and keep all these gora umpires under payroll. 

[Gollum]

2 golds and a handful of bronze will guarantee a top 40 finish in the medal table. 

 

Countries that failed to win 2 golds in Tokyo include Ukraine, RSA, Romania, Portugal, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Azerbaijan, Argentina, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Colombia, Finland......many reputed sporting countries. 

Edited August 6, 2024 by Gollum

[Gollum]

So many poor Olympic performers seem to be great at football.

 

Argentina

Portugal

Colombia

Mexico

Spain, Croatia, Belgium (at least compared to European standards)

Morocco who made the 2022 WC SF

Greece

Nigeria

Saudi

etc

 

 

[IndianRenegade]

10 minutes ago, maniac said:

we need to take over hockey like cricket and keep all these gora umpires under payroll. 

We need a hockey league at least half as popular as IPL.

[AKane]

Look at it this way - We were hoping for maybe gold/silver from hockey team and maybe bronze for Vinesh Phogat.

 

Now we will get gold/silver for Vinesh Phogat and maybe bronze for hockey team.

 

It is still the same count.

 

I know, I know.... just kidding. Apologies.

 

[Gollum]

Sunil Taneja is our GOAT commentator, Hindi is his medium but all language commentators should learn from him, just elevates the viewing experience. Across so many sports. Inhe dekh kar main bhi prabhu, prabhu karne lag gaya hoon @randomGuy

 

And then we have Harsha Bhogle with 'what a ball', 'what a catch', 'what a shot' type chwtiyapa. 

[maniac]

13 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Sunil Taneja is our GOAT commentator, Hindi is his medium but all language commentators should learn from him, just elevates the viewing experience. Across so many sports. Inhe dekh kar main bhi prabhu, prabhu karne lag gaya hoon @randomGuy

 

And then we have Harsha Bhogle with 'what a ball', 'what a catch', 'what a shot' type chwtiyapa. 

@randomguy was spot on there with his hockey commentary acumen

[Gollum]

3 minutes ago, maniac said:

@randomguy was spot on there with his hockey commentary acumen

Whole Olympics I switched to Hindi commentary when it came to hockey.

 

First 5 minutes of Ind-NZ in English commentary and found goras so biased and patronizing towards Indians that my ears couldn't take any more. Hockey must change, too white a sport atm. 

[Kron]

Knowing our luck this time,

I think nadeem takes gold

Then silver for neeraj or bronze

 

And vinny loses in finals. 

Edited August 6, 2024 by Kron

[IndianRenegade]

21 minutes ago, Kron said:

Knowing our luck this time,

I think nadeem takes gold

Then silver for neeraj or bronze

 

And vinny loses in finals. 

I am literally going to cry.

Edited August 6, 2024 by IndianRenegade

[vvvslaxman]

15 minutes ago, Kron said:

Knowing our luck this time,

I think nadeem takes gold

Then silver for neeraj or bronze

 

And vinny loses in finals. 

Neeraj may not win gold. I am 100% sure Nadeem won't win

[Kron]

27 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Whole Olympics I switched to Hindi commentary when it came to hockey.

 

First 5 minutes of Ind-NZ in English commentary and found goras so biased and patronizing towards Indians that my ears couldn't take any more. Hockey must change, too white a sport atm. 

What exactly did they say

[Kron]

55 minutes ago, Gollum said:

So many poor Olympic performers seem to be great at football.

 

Argentina

Portugal

Colombia

Mexico

Spain, Croatia, Belgium (at least compared to European standards)

Morocco who made the 2022 WC SF

Greece

Nigeria

Saudi

etc

 

 

Great is if you are in top 5 to top 10 consistently in world football and have won titles or atleast reached semis finals. 

 

Some of these teams haven't. They aren't exactly great.

[Kron]

1 hour ago, maniac said:

we need to take over hockey like cricket and keep all these gora umpires under payroll. 

Why. Why do we need to pay them? Are other teams paying refs? We just need to whinge and whine and force them to make changes. Problem is Asia block is india and nothing

[coffee_rules]

7 hours ago, bharathh said:

 

Games like Sepaktakraw, Squash, Compound Archery, Kabaddi are more universal than these US centric games.

Look at this Monkeying around is an Olympic sport.

 

 

Edited August 6, 2024 by coffee_rules

[Sandz]

4 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

Do not emotionally invest in Indian sports activities lol.you know what is going to happen. Just try to be pleasantly surprised when they win

Says the person with 180k posts 

[Sandz]

3 hours ago, Gollum said:

I will always be grateful to Djokovic for smashing the egos of these western goras bad. Faced great hostility but brought them all to their knees in the end. 

Dunno man, he is also a gora and Eastern Europeans also dislike brownies.

[coffee_rules]

1 hour ago, IndianRenegade said:

We need a hockey league at least half as popular as IPL.

The attacking strategy has to change. Why do India always go for PC and then to goal? They can devise a few plans of field goals as well. 

[Sandz]

5 hours ago, Ultimate_Game said:

 

We should've abandoned the tour instead of just threatening to do so. Combination of Bucknor and Aussies cheating openly was a disgrace.

Naw man, never run away from a fight, you will be forever ridiculed for running away.

Edited August 7, 2024 by Sandz

[The Hound]

 

 

 

Apart from Indian athletes I'm rooting for her to win the gold, especially after how she got attacked by bigots and white supremacists.