Olympics Paris 2024

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LindsD
LindsD
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Absolutely to that
FreshStart
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If I could rewind the clock 35 years, I'd love to have a go at the modern pentathlon :-)

Can we include Ash Barty in people who have switched sports theguardian.com
Nellers
Nellers
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Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr was CrossFit World Champion 7 times (and might win it again this coming weekend.

She's also represented Australia at a Winter Olympics in the Bobsleigh and the Summer Olympics in weightlifting (and won a Commonwealth Games gold medal for weightlifting).
Cheg
Cheg
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Nellers wrote:Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr
A sport for each of her names.
HappyG(rrr)
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Great name! ;-) :-) G
Nellers
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She was just Tia-Clair Toomey until she got married to Shane Orr and went double-barrelled.

In the CrossFit world she’s just called Tia and everyone knows who you mean.

Either that or “champ”.
Cheg
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I did watch a netflix series on crossfit a few years ago. That can definitely have an Olympics spot, those guys and girls are ridiculous.
Nellers
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In a masterstroke of maximising the publicity that a new sport needs to grow, @Cheg , the Crossfit Games 2024 started today, running against the Olympics, and ends on Sunday to clash with the closing ceremony. Genius!

(Oh, and Tia won the first event, a 3.5mile run and 800m lake swim, finishing ahead of all but 2 of the men!)
Nellers
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it won't even be considered as an Olympic event because CrossFit is a trademark owned by a for-profit company. However, "Functional Fitness", which is an unbranded version of the same thing basically, might be in with a chance and is a growing thing in the Scandi-region. Sweden have government funding for their Functional Fitness team.
Little Nemo
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Gold in the kite sailing! :-)

About This Thread

Maintained by Curly45
Couldn't find a thread so thought I would start one.

Who else is off to watch or who is watching at home?

We're doing Lille and Paris and a mix of sports. Currently trying to find travel insurance that includes ticket cancellation as some of the trains in the UK might be difficult and we have some internal French trains to do as well.

Also need to work out the new Paris metro ticket/app combo (Navigo I think).

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