It was the perfect way to end our miserable Olympics. Boomers were enormous in that final quarter, as were Spain, that last clutch play you cant blame on the refs.

this loser know a lot about how to fix basketball games in Europe

you want to call it bad luck that the 3 Aussie big got 13 fouls and Gasol got 1 foul....i call it, ok what the fuck is going on here

I take solace knowing we didnt lose the gold medal game like that.

that last foul didn't get called on till after it mist the basket....in fact, so late the ref called that foul, I though the ref called reaching foul Gasol

what are you talking about?     that was Australia basketball gold medal game, ...this was the game they came to win

do i speak for all Australia?

i'm a pro gambler , i've seen lots of games....i understand luck in sport, I understand when something not s right, i understand distribution of fouls...

Spain could not have ask for the distribution of the fouls to go better then they did....

by the way, I didn't  be on this game....

Spain the best team in Europe...but they have average age 30 years

but Spain had max help today from lady luck (or something else)...I'm amaze Australia had this game close

why do  think the  favorite have to lose, to only make money?   :D 

 

I'll be glad when this is over. 

It was just for fun but it wouldn't be that hard.  All your transitions are setup before the race anyway and under the 'complete any leg in any order' system there'd be less competitors in each transition rather than everyone arriving at once.

You choose your legs before you start which would also throw up some tactical decisions and strategies for the other competitors who have to decide whether to follow your choices or go with what they think is better for them.

It was really just a thought experiment but it'd be interesting none the less.  I've done triathalons before and hate running last.  Would rather finish on the bike because I can't run for shit and when I finish the swim and ride I'm fucked.

I got that it was a thought experiment for the fun of it. I like to expand upon ideas I like.
I don't think the issues would come in the transitions but having to have volunteers on every stage of the course at all times tracking the competitors to ensure their safety and prevent cheating.
The way it is set up now you can also be eliminated early for not completing a section quick enough in relation to the rest of the field. Not sure how you would judge that when the athletes are starting and finish all over the place

The finishing and starting lines would ideally be side by side for timing reasons and so that you can have the theatre played out in the one place of having a swimmer, runner and cyclist approaching the same line at different paces. That would make choosing the location interesting.

The ones I competed in you had a timing thingo strapped to your ankle and as you went through a gate or over the mat it clocked your time so that rules out cheating and it as a bonus it would provide constant updates to a central scoreboard.  Swimming updates would difficult but they could clock them as they enter the water and then visually clock them as they went past markers.

Not sure about how you'd eliminate slow racers except to have a minimum qualifying time prior to the race.

I agree with finishing at the one spot.  That should happen.  Most lakes or beaches have a road right near them so you could set up 1 lane of that road for the bike, the other for the run and the swimmers finish with a 50m dash to the line where the other 2 finish on the road.

Great, 7 have the rights for 2020 olympics too :roll:

Can 7 at least get ray warren to commentate every event