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In Depth Product Reviews
You probably stumbled upon here looking for a review of a sports gadget. If you’re trying to decide which unit to buy – check out my in-depth reviews section. Some reviews are over 60 pages long when printed out, with hundreds of photos! I aim to leave no stone unturned.
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Read My Sports Gadget Recommendations.
Here’s my most recent GPS watch guide here, and cycling GPS computers here. Plus there are smart trainers here, all in these guides cover almost every category of sports gadgets out there. Looking for the equipment I use day-to-day? I also just put together my complete ‘Gear I Use’ equipment list, from swim to bike to run and everything in between (plus a few extra things). And to compliment that, here’s The Girl’s (my wife’s) list. Enjoy, and thanks for stopping by!
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My Photography Gear: The Cameras/Drones/Action Cams I Use Daily
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The Swim/Bike/Run Gear I Use List
Many readers stumble into my website in search of information on the latest and greatest sports tech products. But at the end of the day, you might just be wondering “What does Ray use when not testing new products?”. So here is the most up to date list of products I like and fit the bill for me and my training needs best! DC Rainmaker 2023 swim, bike, run, and general gear list. But wait, are you a female and feel like these things might not apply to you? If that’s the case (but certainly not saying my choices aren’t good for women), and you just want to see a different gear junkies “picks”, check out The Girl’s Gear Guide too.
Lots of swimming, a lbit of road cycling, starting to enjoy the track and field now.
Swimming and athletics mostly
Womens rugby sevens – great fun to watch – Fiji men showed us Brits how to do it though.
Swimming, Athletics and will watch triathlon.
Tennis, Cycling, Swimming
I watched swimming a lot. Then I also checked out cycling and beach volleyball.
Swimming has been fun and also basketball
Cycling of course!
M & F Marathon, M & F Mountain Bike
Sailing
Cycling, more cycling and the heptathlon
Everything in the velodrome and the diving!
Trap shooting
swimming and soccer
Swimming, swimming, swimming.
As much cycling as can be found, various volleyball. Lots of the other stuff not normally available
The women’s road race had a great finish
I enjoyed Nishikori’s tennis win earlier in the week.
a lot of swimming and volleyball or whatever else is on.
Cycling – what else is there to watch?
Definitely the cycling. Nothing like those tumbles.
Swimming and cycling.
Swimming, team handball, water polo
Swimming and Running and waiting for MORE running!
Oh yeah… kicking back and watching track and field this weekend. Looking forward to triathlon later this week!
Swimming for sure.
Woohoo! Err, I mean Wahooit would be great to win.
Track cycling has been awesome in Rio…makes you want to dust off the old fixie and go hell for leather!! Also been watching the swimming, tennis and looking forward to the track and field events :)
Nx
Swimming, cycling and football.
Modern Pentathlon
Road race men and women, some swimming, some gymnastics (forced by the wife),…
swimming
Diving, Swimming, and Volleyball
mostly the road race (Go Gregg!!!!!) and gymnastics
Swimming!
Track cycling!
I’ve been watching swimming, gymnastics, and volleyball.
Love me some Clever Training. Been watching mostly cycling. Watching fencing right now but don’t really understand it,
Swimming and Gymnastics. Going to watch some Track & Field tonight/tomorrow though!
Swimming and cycling road race.
Cycling, T+F, Volleyball, Rowing
Mostly whatever is on TV when i have the remonte for me :-).
Swimming. And anything else I can catch, love the Olympics!
Swimming, diving, track and field, gymnastics… and whatever else happens to be on as I drift to sleep on the couch after a long day.
Been watching cycling, swimming, and looking forward to track & field as a friend of ours, Jenny Simpson is running the 1500.
I’ve watched swimming, volleyball, cycling, soccer, and gymnastics so far. Plan on seeing track and field events next. Go USA!
A lot of swimming, and also some judo !
Team Pursuit Track – Woman Bronze $$$
Mens/Womans Road and TT
Swimming and will watch triathlon!
Swimming, Swimming and more Swimming …
Team pursuits!! (I’m British ;))
Watching anything, but mainly, cycling, kayaking, rowing, athletics, volleyball and handball.
Watching everything .. looking fwd to the tri’s :)
Cycling and whatever else is on when I have some time to watch. That cycling inspires me to get on my trainer – oh wait I don’t have one at the moment!
Other than the usual swimming and cycling, rugby has become really interesting to me all of the sudden.
Swimming, volleyball, tennis, hand ball, diving, shooting, archery, gymnastics. I guess it’s obvious I had the week off…
Swimming, Boxing, Athletics Volleyball.
Been watching trampoline gymnastics and badminton. ??
Swimming
You can’t beat watching Men’s gymnastics!
Beach volleyball for the uniforms.
I tought of once again boycotting the Olympics because lawn bowling isn’t part of it anymore. But I’ve settled for Cycling (road/track) and volleyball (the real one, not the beach one).
Well I am partial to watching the smaller nations get some of the limelight – loved Fiji in rugby
Swimming, track, and diving in the green pool
Athletics and all the cycling.
diving into green jello pool
Swimming, cycling, track and field
Beach volleyball ;)
Cycling!! And fencing, volleyball, swimming.
Looking forward to 100m & 200m
As an Aussie I have been watching swimming mostly, but have lost a lot of sleep watching whatever I can!
Swimming, soccer, track, anything that happens to be on ;)
All the events that are on television when i’m home.
gymnastics. daughter will not watch anything else. she figures thats where she’ll bin in 8 years!!
Swimming domination!!!
Been watching swimming and cycling naturally
Swimming & Track are my favorite and what I’ve been watching.
It’s a wold record year for commercials, so watching a ton of those. In between, lots of crashing (I mean cycling), swimming, gymnastics.
I’ve been watching plenty of swimming and gymnastics.
swimming, track and a touch of velodrome action
Rugby!
100m, 200m, 800m and track&field events.
Swimming
Soccer, Beach volleyball, Cycling, Rugby, Hockey. The list goes on.
Is ALL THE SPORTS an acceptable answer? Still recovering from the crushing defeat of US women’s soccer yesterday though.
10k womens and mens
Gymnastics, beach volleyball, swimming, and very soon, my favorite sport – freestyle wresting!
GO TEAM USA
I basically watch everything! Right now 100m sprint for women, Go schippers!!!
Swimming, cycling, hockey
Swimming, diving and track. And cycling!
I’ve been looking forward to the Men’s 10,000m for quite some time…and we are half way through as I type this comment!
Cycling and swimming and every other one I can.
Swimming and Track and Field!
Cycling (all forms), swimming, rowing, basketball, rugby7.
New Zealand rowing events
Swimming and Track and Field. It’s amusing to see all the sports that never get any attention otherwise tho…
Watched road and track cycling, 7’s Rugby and Sailing!
Track cycling and athletics.
Swimming and track and field
Swimming, cycling and track.