August 2024 – Olympic Sports Showdown – Win £10

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Frances – DOB 25/02/1982
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Previous Answers

1. Archery
2. Football
3. Tennis
4. Golf
5. Weightlifting
6. Hockey
7. Athletics
8. Badminton
9. Baseball (Softball)
10. Shooting
11. Karate
12. Canoe (Slalom)
13. Rugby (Sevens)
14. Lacrosse
15. Diving
16. Table Tennis
17. Surfing
18. Cycling (Mountain Bike)
19. Equestrian
20. Squash
21. Boxing
22. Breaking (Break Dancing)
23. Triathlon
24. Skateboarding
25. Basketball
26. Swimming
27. Fencing
28. Beach Volleyball
29. Gymanstics
30. Sailing
31. Rowing

August 2024 – Olympic Sports Showdown – Win £10

Get ready to take your shot at the Olympic Sports Showdown – Paris 2024 Edition! To celebrate the Paris 2024 Olympics, each day this month you’ll be in the competitive lane, trying to identify one of the sport categories that are being played over the course of the Olympics. To give you a head start we are only looking for the sport category, not the specific sport. It’s time to show off your game and score big. With 31 days of daily challenges, this is your chance to bring your A-game. Lace up, dive in, and see if you can clinch the title in this ultimate Olympic Sports Showdown!

Guess right, and you’ll earn 2 entries into our monthly draw. Even if you’re unsure, taking a stab at it still gets you 1 entry – it’s all about the fun and the chance to win! At the end of the month, we’ll randomly select one lucky participant from the pooled entries to receive an exciting prize.

The competition started on 1st August 2024 and runs until the end of the month. The last question will be shown on 31st August 2024, with the winner being announced here on 1st September 2024. The winner will then have 24 hours to claim their £10 cash prize. If you don’t claim your prize by 11am on 2nd September 2024 you will unfortunately lose out. No late claims accepted.

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Adrian
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Adrian

Well done Frances !

Justin
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Justin

Well done Frances hope you claim your winnings in time. Good to all for September’s Game. 👍

Wendy
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Wendy

Congratulations Frances, hope you claim in time 😁👍

Susan
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Susan

Congratulations Frances!

Stuart
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Stuart

Congratulations Frances! Hope you claim!

Stuart
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Stuart

I sense another controversial answer today 😁😂🤣😒

Stuart
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Stuart

I was correct. Not rowing in a million years. Paddles in picture not oars used in rowing and the people holding them have their hands far too close to the ends.

krispii
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krispii

Good Luck everyone for tomorrow 🤞🤞

tracy
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tracy

Good luck to you too

tracy
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tracy

There are a lot of things that started off years ago as a bit of fun being turned in to a sport, now these things are taken seriously and the competitors must need to do a lot of training to compete like they do. They are also sponcered now, in skateboarding, breakdancing, and beach volleyball just like mountain bike riding. Darts has always been classed as a sport like snooker, they have been a sport for as long as I can remember.

Stuart
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Stuart

I didn’t realise Beach soccer was an olympic sport 😁😉

Heather10
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Heather10

Yep it sure is

DivitLad
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DivitLad

it’s not, beach volleyball is

Stuart
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Stuart

James Bond today 🤣😂😁

Alison
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Alison

🤣🤣

Alison
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Alison

Triathlon? There were only two pictures, so I put – which is an Olympic sport – Biathlon.

Anyone else?

Heather10
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Heather10

There were 3 pics, the cycling on the background then the 2.smaller pictures of someone running and someone just out of a swim

Alison
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Alison

I didn’t see the cycling. Last week when the background showed lanes swimming, the answer was Diving. It’s difficult to know what is relevant in this month’s pictures. Roll on September.

tracy
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tracy

I saw 3 pictures for this sport

Justin
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Justin

Break dancing could never be classed as a sport. Even things that are shown on sports channels shouldn’t be classed as a sport. I would never class darts as a sport either. Whoever said break dancing should be in the Olympics needs their head testing.

Hilde
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Hilde

For me it’s along the same line as the skateboarding

Andrew
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Andrew

If London ever gets the games again. I’d like to see cheese rolling, bog snorkelling, welly wanging and conkers introduced.

Hilde
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Hilde

Thursday’s ‘sport’ should never even have been in the olympics. I don’t think it’s a sport at all. what’s next? Rope jumping?

Paul
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Paul

I put parkour lol. I’m assuming that’s not an olympic sports either but I’d never have guessed that it was break dancing!

Heather10
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Heather10

I actually watched some of it, must be a new thing but it’s definitely a thing now!

DivitLad
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DivitLad

Break Dancing has been around a long time, never expected it to be in Olympics

tracy
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tracy

Stamp Collecting

Aileen
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Aileen

I agree, Hilde. Who on earth could class that as a ‘sport’?

Andrew
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Andrew

Already been dropped as an Olympic “sport”.

Hilde
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Hilde

Good!

Stuart
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Stuart

Climbing today 🤣😂😉

That’s definitely a wall in the background 😉

tracy
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tracy

PMSL. My husbands comment was “people making a fool of themselves”, but when I told him what I thought is was, he said “is what their calling an olympic sport now”.

Heather10
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Heather10

Squash has never been in the Olympics this year, or any year,. although I put badminton after Google lensing it

Lynne
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Lynne

Squash wasn’t in the Olympics, racquetball was, so why is the answer squash?

Maurice
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Maurice

I had the same thought so I asked around – seems it never has been as you say BUT it will be in 2028 so counted enough to be included it seems.

DivitLad
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DivitLad

racquetball wasn’t

Hilde
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Hilde

I’ve never heard of racketball in my life (as a foreigner). I put squash since I saw the wooden floor.

DivitLad
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DivitLad

Squash was not in the Olympics this year, get your act together Daniel 🙂

tracy
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tracy

I put racquetball for yesterday’s answer will it be counted as right or wrong I wonder.

DivitLad
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DivitLad

What looks like what I think it is today, isn’t an Olympic sport yet

DivitLad
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DivitLad

So put down tennis and then see we’ve already had that lol, Be glad when this one finishes

tracy
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tracy

It is not tennis as they don’t play on a wooden floor.

DivitLad
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DivitLad

Squash was not in the olympics this year

Heather10
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Heather10

My question today is why does the man have different colour shoes on?

Stuart
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Stuart

Its because the answer is going to be 10 pin bowling 🤣😉

Alison
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Alison

I went to a 3 day National Meeting where we met the Client who we were trying to impress in a posh hotel wearing odd boots!

Rather than wait for anyone to notice and start whispering, I waited until we were all in the room, stood up and said if you expect me to get up at 5am and travel half way around the country, just be grateful I am not still in my fluffy slippers.

If you can’t beat them, join them!

tracy
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tracy

I didn’t notice that lol, so went back to look again.

tracy
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tracy

my husband said, “is so he can tell which is his right foot and which is the left”

Heather10
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Heather10

So I put dressage for yesterday as I believe that is the activity covered. Equestrian isn’t an actual event is it?

Heather10
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Heather10

Actually just googled, equestrian actually covers 3 disciplines so I think any of the three answers should be correct

Stuart
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Stuart

Dressage here as well. Can’t see any fences in the picture beyond the perimeter fence that would make me think equestrian.

tracy
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tracy

I put horseriding/showjumping and Dressage.

Hilde
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Hilde

I put horseback riding as all the google images said horseback riding

Alison
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Alison

American’s say horseback riding, it is to remind them which part of the horse they are supposed to sit on.

Hilde
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Hilde

HAHAHAHA

hornetcarp
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hornetcarp

this month is the most controversial ever!!! lol
today’s wasn’t even in the Paris 2024 games!!

Hilde
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Hilde

Mountain biking is what I put because ‘cycling’ would be more like Tour De France I think.

tracy
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tracy

I put mountain bike riding

Stuart
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Stuart

No idea what to put today based on previous correct answers 🤣😂😁

I think I’ll put……..

I’ll let you know if i get it right tomorrow

purplevamp
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purplevamp

This month it seems that the answers could be anything!! 😆

Stuart
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Stuart

Guess it’s not Dressage then…. 😒☹️ 🤣

purplevamp
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purplevamp

That’s what I put too

Hilde
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Hilde

I wrote ping pong LOL

David
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David

Should be ok, just another name for it, also whiff-whaff.

Hilde
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Hilde

Never heard of whiff-whaff LOL

Lee
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Lee

It’s an old name that boris johnson uses.

Alison
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Alison

I don’t agree with yesterday’s answer, it was swimming, not only was a person going into the water from the side, not a diving board, the area around the picture showed lanes, for lane swimming.

I know this is just a game and I never win anything anyway, but let’s do it right.

Andrew
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Andrew

I think ‘aquatics’ would have been a better answer, seeing as they both happen in the aquatics centre, but we could have said moonwalking and still got an entry, so it doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.

Paula
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Paula

I put swimming too because of the lanes in the picture

Justin
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Justin

I looked at it and thought both swimming and diving from the standing position and swimmer who dived into pool.. and with the lanes there, so i put swimming. It could have been diving and swimming with what the picture shows. And i’am related to a Professional swimmer. Just saying.

Hilde
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Hilde

I seemed to have missed yesterdays or I don’t remember writing swimming lol probably wrote swimming and forgot about it

tracy
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tracy

I do that, I think I have entered and then find out I missed a day somehow, but then not sure if I entered or not.

June
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June

I put swimming too

STEVEN
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STEVEN

Unfortunately, the quality and integrity on here is slipping.

Aileen
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Aileen

Ironically, I put diving as my answer, then read Alison’s comment on the day about there being a ‘clue’ in the picture and was kicking myself for missing the lane dividers!

Alison
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Alison

I really thought it was a clue, so you no longer need to kick yourself, you can kick me instead 🙂

tracy
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tracy

I put Diving/Swimming, as the person is standing on what looks like a diving board. The lanes are a bit weird as they go across where the diver is standing and not in the same direction he is going, but it is not until he is in the water and they are the same way.

hornetcarp
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hornetcarp

could be 2 things today – more ambiguity

Alison
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Alison

Look closer, I thought it was between two, but there is a clue to show it is just the one.

GillP
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GillP

I don’t even recognise the tools he is holding today,14th. He looks as though he going out to do some sort of weird gardening.🤣🤣

Hilde
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Hilde

I have never seen this in my life, and google said Lacrosse and I don’t know this word, and I read ‘Lacrosse hockey’ so I wrote hockey 🙁

Stuart
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Stuart

This months competition is being very divisive 😊😁

They do sprint canoe as well… Canoeing would be the correct term I would think based on the rules

June
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June

I put kayaking

Aileen
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Aileen

Me too

GillP
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GillP

Me as well

Hilde
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Hilde

Same…

ChelseaFan
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ChelseaFan

Me too, as that is what is said when i used Google Lens to search for image (as I wasnt sure which exact watersport is was haha)

https://www.freebirthdatelottery.com/august-2024-olympic-sports-showdown/#comment-12418

ChelseaFan
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ChelseaFan

👍

Heather10
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Heather10

Well I put taekwondo for yesterday

tracy
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tracy

I put Martial Arts as it covers them all, but we get 1 point at least

hornetcarp
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hornetcarp

they wear head guards and vests for that

Stuart
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Stuart

Karate isn’t an Olympic sport. Judo is 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️

hornetcarp
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hornetcarp

was going to say the same!

Khadija
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Khadija

I put judo too.

Alison
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Alison

I was stuck between two today, anyone else?

Hilde
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Hilde

At first I was as well but I remembered category of which the two belong.

Lostkiwi
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Lostkiwi

I put martial arts. Covers all. Karate, judo etc

Stuart
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Stuart

Karate isn’t an Olympic sport

Alison
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Alison

I wanted to put that, but I thought that would be cheating. To me, it looked Japanese, so I put Judo, arggh! It’s the first one I have got wrong

Wish I’d put martial arts now, lol.

Stuart
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Stuart

Martial Arts is still wrong apparently????? The answer given is Karate which was specific for 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, it has never been an Olympic sport other than this event.

Hilde
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Hilde

Shoot! I also put martial arts as I thought it was supposed to be the category not the sport. If it were the sport I would’ve put Karate too.. oh well.

tracy
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tracy

I put Martial Arts too for yesterday

Stuart
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Stuart

Only Judo is an Olympic Sport

Hilde
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Hilde

Same as I thought it was supposed to be CATEGORY not the actual sport..

DivitLad
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DivitLad

nvm , stupid post lol

June
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June

I put running too for yesterday 🤭

Mandy
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Mandy

I don’t think today’s is an Olympic sport

David
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David

It’s not part of this year’s games.

Heather10
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Heather10

I also put running yesterday

Hilde
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Hilde

My first thought was running but remembered it’s category not sports

PAUL djsmokey001
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PAUL djsmokey001

I put Track! 🤞
Probably just get 1 point as more of a American term.lol 🤗

tracy
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tracy

I put Sprinting/Running for yesterday oh well at least I get a point lol

DivitLad
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DivitLad

snap 🙂

Susan
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Susan

I put running too. 🤦‍♀️

Jackie
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Jackie

I put Running/Women’s Sprint. I am surprised all of the 20 odd events that make up Athletics have been used up in one day! Will there be enough left for the rest of the month!

Wendy
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Wendy

Me too, i put running 🤣

purplevamp
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purplevamp

Today’s one could be anything really. I’ve put what I think it is, but it’s probably wrong. I’m not up on sports 😉

Stuart
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Stuart

i had second thoughts and just put the generic term

purplevamp
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purplevamp

I put sprinting 😀

jan
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jan

Official title for yesterday’s Olympic event was field hockey

Wendy
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Wendy

As stated by Daniel in a reply further down, it doesnt have to be precise, just the categories. Remember its a bit of fun dont take it too serious 😆

Susan
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Susan

Daniel, upon trying to answer today’s olympics question I got a message saying my access was blocked. It asked for my email address and what action I was trying to do?

Any idea what is going on?

Jen
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Jen

Thank you so much for the £10 I won in the daily competition last month. It arrived in my bank account super fast.

janet
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janet

Congratulations Jen! x

Khadija
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Khadija

Glad you claimed. Enjoy.

June
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June

Congratulations Jen

Susan
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Susan

Congratulations Jen 🎉

tracy
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tracy

Congratulations Jen

Hilde
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Hilde

I don’t understand the competition. It says sports category not the actual sports but I don’t know what that means 🙁 What are sports categories? Like if it were swimming what would that be for category or is that the actual category? I’m confused and I don’t understand. Can someone explain to me what is required here please? (explain it to me as if I’m 6 y.o. please)

Alison
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Alison

I also found the explanation more confusing than not having one at all, lol.

So I wondered if Archery was the sub category and the category was maybe… Shooting (?) but opted to put Archery and was relieved when I saw the answer.

Justin
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Justin

Good luck everyone for august’s game. Remember it’s just a bit of fun, don’t take it so seriously. 👌

Marie
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Marie

Congratulations Jen and many happy returns for your upcoming birthday.

GillP
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GillP

Congratulations on your win Jen👏👏

tracy
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tracy

Congratulations Jen on your win, I hope you claim. Good luck to all for this month’s comp.

Khadija
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Khadija

Congratulations Jen
Good luck to everyone for this months.

Susan
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Susan

Congratulations Jen on your win and good luck to everyone for this month’s competition

ColinR
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ColinR

Congrats on your July win Jen 👍 Good luck everyone for August’s comp 🤫