Brit chances at the Olympics?

I got up early to watch Kimberly Woods through to the final of the womens kayak slalom, top 10 of the 24 semi finalists. Looked a decent run, no touches on the poles (2s penalty) but not the quickest on time. Only 3 clean runs, she needs another of those to stand a chance of a medal I'd say. 8:15 the final.

Always impressive by any Dutch to get through in white water canoeing, their only course is on a theme park rafting ride.

I'll take back my comments of the canoe slalom course looking fucking shit. The problem with some man made courses is the water can surge a lot towards the end of the course and is unpredictable. I had a go on the course in Augsburg Germany and at the bottom the water was rising/falling 30cm in the eddies at the side. The slab sides are part or the cause of that, and here its no different, but not too much surging going on. I guess with the removable plastic 'rocks' they can control the flow a bit more. Being so narrow they limit the variations in course layout, there cant be any long crosses across the river. I'd say its good for an artificial course.

Just out of curiosity as an ex street skater, I watched the women's street skating. Part from one trick which wasn't invented back in my day it was shockingly underwhelming. If trans had been a thing in the 90s I'd have bringing home a medal. Massive, massive difference in men and women's skateboarding. The women completely lack explosiveness and height in the tricks. Most of the H street 'shackle me not' video from 1988 is probably better than anything I saw. As an olympic event I think it was a mistake.

Skateboarding is what it is and it's kind of ironic that street, which came into being as people got bored of organised ramp crap is now organised crap. I remember never wanting the local council to provide any sort of facilites as it would mean you'd just get more grief for actually skating on the street but that was part of the thrill of it. Find a spot and see what you could make of it, originality and freedom not confined to one place. It'd be like being into motorbikes but you had use your local track or nothing.

In the slalom, gate 4 caught out Woods and favourite Fox. That 2s penalty early in the run really makes you push even harder and increase the chance of another mistake.

Surfing in the Olympics for the first time I think. I wondered if that was going to be an artificial wave machine, but no, on the sea. For the final day they arranged for a typhoon to pass by to kick up some swell. Impressive. The mens final had just started when the Brazilian caught a meaty wave and broke his board when the wave dumped on him.

All I've seen is the handrail jump and slide, nothing else...there's the "Park" discipline it to come though, right?......I find that more interesting as it's a bit more like the old school bowl parks.

Guess its like gymnastics where there is vault, parallel bars etc which form part of it all. 

Although it looks like there are medals for street and park as separate events.
The street scoring was best 4 scores from 2 runs and 5 tricks?

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