It’s Opening Ceremony Day! After the quiet start that inevitably happens with the preliminary matches in some of the team sports preceding the ceremony, the real ‘meat’ of the Games starts tomorrow (or today, depending on where you are in the world). For a nerd like me, this next fortnight will be magical, even inContinue reading “Weapon Sports at the 2020 Olympics”
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Gymnastics at the 2020 Olympics
I considered just calling this article ‘Simone Biles at the 2020 Olympics’. Because – especially if you live in the USA – you’re going to be hearing about her a lot over the next week or two. Put simply, Biles is on another level to most of her competition. She has won 23 gold medalsContinue reading “Gymnastics at the 2020 Olympics”
Rowing at the 2020 Olympics
To quote the esteemed Lt. George in Blackadder Goes Fourth – “Row, row, row your punt, gently down the stream…” I’d best stop there. However, the rowing at the Olympics will be considerably less sedate than that suggested in the above ditty. Lt. George himself might not have known this, but the actor playing him,Continue reading “Rowing at the 2020 Olympics”
Weightlifting at the 2020 Olympics
The podiums for the Weightlifting events at this summer’s Olympics will have both a familiar and yet different feel to them, if such a thing is possible. The familiarity will come from China. Chinese lifters won 5 golds at the 2016 games and could easily match – even potentially comfortably exceed – that record thisContinue reading “Weightlifting at the 2020 Olympics”
Cycling at the 2020 Olympics
For the last 3 Games, it would be fair to say that Cycling was a discipline dominated by the British. There were 54 gold medals awarded in Cycling between 2008 and 2016. The British won 22 of them. The next most successful nation over that same period – the Netherlands – won just 4. ForContinue reading “Cycling at the 2020 Olympics”
Team Sports at the 2020 Olympics
For today’s predictions, I’ll be looking at those sports which are (loosely speaking) the team sports at this summer’s Olympics. As ever, per my previous post, take these predictions with at least a grain of salt – I’m not an expert at the best of times but the events of the last 18 months haveContinue reading “Team Sports at the 2020 Olympics”
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