Big opening Saturday in swimming with both 400m and 4x100m relays. Women's 400 belongs to Titmus. The 200m it's her vs O'Callaghan. Both relays in with a big shout at gold and Samuel Short, a world champ, not to mention Winnington, are top 400m chances.

I see the entire competition of men's football play Wednesday. Uzbekistan Spain will be a good watch to gauge the AFC.

Well, got to say in the past I haven’t seen it much, snippets here and there probably part due to timing.
I want to look out for it this one being it’s coming up and I like our players who are pretty damn good at it.
It’s my other weekly pastime MSC hence my interest.
Prick of a game but I enjoy the time.

Oh yeah, its frustrating as hell but enjoyable... 

Yes Golf is one of those sports to me that are amazing to play, but absolutely shithouse to watch.

Alongside Cricket and Baseball

I watched "The Long Game" on Netflix last night after getting home from the game... Its a bit schmaltzy but interesting golf movie... 

got to say I was pretty lucky being born with good hand eye co ordination.
Gimme a ball sport I'll get the hang of it bit by bit, I took up golf due to business and convenience late 30's, you know that feeling, 1 good shot out of 20 hahaha
Its a bug now around a 18HC not that I work on it BUT got to say its the HARDEST game I've ever tried !
How hard is it to hit a little static ball whereas gimme a football and I can put it on the spot where I want to !
So I admire these robots who hit a thousand balls a day and put it on a dial.
I like watching the top flight, PGA/LIV golf and right now the British Open, these guys are assasins so to speak.

So our olympic 4 players are pretty hot - the young Lee bro and sister, Jason Day and Hannah Green.

Yer I'm over cricket, went too commercial, too many tournaments and after the eras I grew up with nothing compares and the game like many sports changing rules have sanitised the larrikan DNA we treasure.
Baseball, yer watch paint dry haha

https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/schedule/24-july

The sort by NOC filter is now up so you can sort by Australia etc. 

Thought they'll be flogging Matildas playing in the Olympics 

https://www.zdf.de/sport/olympia#videoId=breaking-dream-of-paris-2024-battle-der-generation-olympia-episode-1-doku-100

https://www.ardmediathek.de/sport-olympia-paris

German public broadcaster with all football matches as individual live stream.

https://www.footballaustralia.com.au/news/football-australia-allianz-australia-announce-multi-year-partnership

The announcement of this partnership sets the stage for a major Allianz Australia Paris 2024™ marketing campaign, which will launch prior to the Matildas' opening match at the Olympic Games on 25 July.

Right  lads are we going for new Zealand in the Olympics then? 

In men's football I mean 

Since they have a few a league players 

No, because kids can't watch at 3 am.

No.

Nope - no interest in NZ they are an opponent and hope they get flogged :)

Dominican Republic for Gold.
Lowest ranked team to qualify. Currently ranked 150. In comparison, NZ is the second lowest ranked at 94.

8 games of men's football today. Curious to see Uzbekistan Spain

Israel v Ukraine gold medal match would be nice ... just to see the pearl clutching :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_at_the_Summer_Olympics#Results

Interesting looking at past winners, European teams won every gold from 1936 to 1992 but haven't won since.  France are fav this time from Spain and Argentina. Also interesting Brazil not qualifying after making the last 3 finals.  

sucks we arent playing... the mens football has got the best timeslot of all the sports. 

Didn't Germany win it fairly recently?

They lost the shootout to Brazil in the gold medal game in Rio. They did win the womens that year. 

Uzbekistan-Spain 1:1 at HT. Uzbekistan with a fortunate penalty but when the game involves Spain, the threshold for what constitutes a foul in the box is diminished anyway.

Morocco lead Argentina 1:0.

2:0 Morocco with a light hand in the back. The Moroccan just falls but as if the Argentine wouldn't have if it were the other way around. These teams clashing is hilarious because of the gamesmanship on both sides.

It's so frustrating we aren't playing amongst this as it would've been one extra opportunity to show clubs what the players can do.

9Now player on laptop is terrible. No rewind function. At least it's better than all the dodgy individual 7 players last time where you couldn't watch what you wanted specifically.

German public broadcaster takes issue with Australia vpn but a German vpn can fix that for a more seamless selection of streams. 

A few challenges already that would've been reds in Australian leagues.

Oh Morocco, butchered the win

Argentina level with the last kick of the game with no more than 3 blocks, 2 of which hit the woodwork. Bottles and cups flood the pitch as do some Moroccan fans who get pushed away to prevent any violence. Streets will be dangerous post game. 

What an utter disgrace that is! The Dominican steals the ball off the Egyptian and shoots first time into the net but the whistle had been blown immediately. Replays show a clean win of the ball and an airs wing kick by the Egypt players. Whistle had gone so VAR can't come in. 

NZ lead Guinea. Garbett scores.