2024 Summer Olympics from Paris
Amazed we don't have a thread yet. I will do up a fancier OP tomorrow but this will do for now as a placeholder.
Women's softball opens the games in roughly 5hrs with soccer/football, archery and some other sports starting before the opening ceremony Friday night Japan time.
PREDICTIONS: Rona causes a stupid amount of issues, I still waste approx 100hrs of coverage anyway.
I don't get it, Van Niekerk is a former olympic champion and multiple times world champion on the 400m, why is he running dead last in the 200m semi instead when the 400m is later on tonight
Nice
Sick race. 4th and 5th fastest 400m times in history.
The fast finishing in some of these races this year is insane
Hell of a stride last 100m.
the winner's form looked horrible on the home straight, wobbling all over the place, but he just kept getting quicker
If he was Chinese we’d be asking questions
steeplechase so wacky.
occasional giant barriers!
WATER FEATURE!!
That fall was the most savage I have ever seen in that event
20 men to run in the 5k final after that fall.
That should make it a nice, bump and drama free race!
Jamaican Discus bloke called Stona. Seems apt
Didn’t realise that the British bloke who fell in the 5000m is the son of Leeds/Man City Danny Mills
that yank is 1/25 to win the 110m hurdles. pretty short odds for an event where if you clatter one hurdle you're completely ****ed
9/1
To convert from fractional to decimal odds just add 1. 1/25 = 0.04, so 1.04 in decimal. Evens in fractional is 2 in decimal, 4/1 in fractional is 5 in decimal etc.
It's converting to American style that always throws me, although I think that is actually just multiply the fractional odds by 100 (flip the fraction around first and make the result negative if odds on).
Didn't know Bol was such a dog to McLaughlin
I thought it was closer
To convert from fractional to decimal odds just add 1. 1/25 = 0.04, so 1.04 in decimal. Evens in fractional is 2 in decimal, 4/1 in fractional is 5 in decimal etc.
It's converting to American style that always throws me, although I think that is actually just multiply the fractional odds by 100 (flip the fraction around first and make the result negative if odds on).
Same. I find the American system difficult.
To convert from fractional to decimal odds just add 1. 1/25 = 0.04, so 1.04 in decimal. Evens in fractional is 2 in decimal, 4/1 in fractional is 5 in decimal etc.
It's converting to American style that always throws me, although I think that is actually just multiply the fractional odds by 100 (flip the fraction around first and make the result negative if odds on).
We all get it, but this is not good sales job for converting us. USA#1.
Fractional is a holdover from English system of measurement. If a horse is 1/7, it is a lot easier to bark "1 to 7" than "1 point 1 4 2 8 6".
Stock exchanges used fractional for a long time until about 20 years ago.
Fractions is how computers process real (actually floating point) numbers internally. That is finite series of 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc.
American is simply bookie shorthand. For odds between 1:9 and 9:1 it works fine. But for long odds it is awkward. 1000:1 is +100000, too many zeroes.
Since decimal expressions have become ubiquitous and fractional does not format easily in markup and columnar data, fractional has become an artifact.
Another couple of golds for us - Australia no. 1 for the Olympics based on population?
