Commonwealth games

[plastic penguin]

Only really started watching it yesterday when the track and field events started.

Swimming and table tennis bores the pants off me

 

[12th Monkey]

We used to swim a lot (still not gone back post-pandemic and will probably wait until the dogs are a bit older) so I enjoy that.

Coverage yesterday from 7 was a pig's ear - supposedly showing us the best of what happened with athletics and swimming, but was almost all chat (with events noisily happening n the background) and one particular post-win celebration that went on for an eternity. Hoping for better!

 

[Gray]

Changed channels the other day to see two boxers punching **** out of each other.
TV / media often give warnings of mildly violent content - often for obviously fictional stuff.
Yet I just stumbled across the boxing.....where was my warning? Just as well I'm not a snowflake.
When the fight finished and they took off the headgear, it turned out the boxers had been women....there had been no previous clues.
I know I'm an old git, but I preferred much (not all) of how the world used to be.

 

[nopiano]

The best bits for me were from the Cycling Velodrome a few days ago. But those races aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. Found the grass bowls interesting too, and the gymnastics.

 

[12th Monkey]

Some good stuff yesterday - the women's 10k, 87KG weightlifting and mountain biking, and the men's swimming medley relay.