Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Off Topic => Sports Arena => Topic started by: olaftab on July 29, 2016, 08:25:46 PM
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Now that everyone is there or not as in the case of lot of Russians time to look forward to the games.
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Looking forward to it but worried a lot of the best events will be on at stupid o'clock to suit American prime-time TV.
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The best Athletics events will all be on between about 11pm and 3am.
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I have just looked and the 100m Final is on @ 02:20am GMT
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Doubt I'll watch that then. Might stay up for the Saturday night/Sunday morning which features Farah, Rutherford, Ennis-Hill and Johnson-Thomson.
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Also the cycling should be on at a reasonable time and we usually have plenty of medal hopes in that. Rowing might be on while I'm at work but will watch discretely if the boss isn't in.
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I'm looking forward to the women's weightlifting, I especially like the snatch.
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Looking forward to it but worried a lot of the best events will be on at stupid o'clock to suit American prime-time TV.
Firstly, a lot of Brazil is in the same timezone(s) as America, and in fact, NBC were heavily criticised during the London Olympics for insisting on not showing the events live and instead broadcasting the taped version as though they were live for prime time in America. As people noted at the time, in this day and age with streaming media content, it is not necessary. However, NBC plan on doing the same this time around.
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Happy to be corrected. I know Brazil is in the same timezone as America but most World Cup games weren't on so late. Only one kicked off after midnight our time, if I remember correctly.
I thought they often scheduled to suit the US TV market, I seem to recall some fuss over them holding all the swimming finals in the morning when it was in China for that very reason.
Whatever the reason, it's a shame from entirely selfish point of view that (at least) the next two Summer Olympics are in an awkward timezone from our point of view.
It's about time Africa got a go at hosting, that'd be fine for us!
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Lizzie Armitstead is a very lucky lady. First one could be possibly excused but next two.....
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Looking forward to it but worried a lot of the best events will be on at stupid o'clock to suit American prime-time TV.
Firstly, a lot of Brazil is in the same timezone(s) as America, and in fact, NBC were heavily criticised during the London Olympics for insisting on not showing the events live and instead broadcasting the taped version as though they were live for prime time in America. As people noted at the time, in this day and age with streaming media content, it is not necessary. However, NBC plan on doing the same this time around.
NBC are showing more live these days but not necessarily on their main channel.
However, their continuing to show events as-live in prime time is so last century. Hopefully they're up front these days about it being recorded.
Bob Costas is good though. After his pink eye in Sochi, I wonder how worried he is about Zika
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Lizzie Armitstead is a very lucky lady. First one could be possibly excused but next two.....
Would she have got away with this if she was Russian ?
Somehow I doubt it
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80 years ago today
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I can't wait for the Olympics.
I will automatically become an expert in sports I never ever watch.
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Lizzie Armitstead - discuss.
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Shouldn't be there. Tarnished forever.
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She seems genuine in her tears during an interview I just watched on Sky, but really, with all the question marks around British cycling it certainly leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
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If she is looking for sympathy and understanding she may wish to release more details of her "family crisis" she keeps blaming for the missed test.
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Lizzie Armitstead - discuss.
No she rides a bike.
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Very funny Mr Cooper.
3 missed tests sorry but she should not be there.
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Very funny Mr Cooper.
3 missed tests sorry but she should not be there.
Very funny Mr Cooper.
3 missed tests sorry but she should not be there.
Christine Ohuruogu was banned for a year for the same thing despite never failing a test.
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Very funny Mr Cooper.
3 missed tests sorry but she should not be there.
Sorry, couldn't help it.
No, I agree, if that had been an athlete from another country who had missed three tests and was a genuine hope for a medal people would be up in arms about our plucky British cyclist potentially being robbed of a medal. As a bloke (rower I think) on Five Live said, if you miss just one test you spend the next year sleeping by the front door so you don't miss the next one such are the consequences (or should be).
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Lizzie Armitstead - discuss.
Nah, she's entered in cycling
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Very funny Mr Cooper.
3 missed tests sorry but she should not be there.
Haven't they conceded that on one of the tests, the examiners did not try hard enough to locate her?
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This is a lovely story
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/05/uber-driver-olympics-rio-2016-kindness-crowdfunding
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A Greek athlete has just been kicked out of the Olympics for testing positive, didn't take long did it?
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Rather imaginative opening ceremony
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After the disco, the multicoloured Yetis!
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Kasakstan is the world's largest land locked country
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Great to hear about any political unrest and mineral wealth status of each country.
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Dominican Republic - 'Iceland in the sun'
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Guinea - world's second largest producer of bauxite
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There are some terrifically healthy looking people in this parade.
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Last dodo killed in 1681 in Mauritius.
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Nauru - 'the most overweight country' !
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How many Russians will turn up? Tension mounting.
Not really!
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One or two men only teams, looking anachronistic.
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Cool reception for Russian team, quite a lot have made it to Rio.
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Huge cheer for the refugee team.
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USA's first gold is in a shooting event. There's a surprise
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Into the last hour of the road race and Chris Froome is perfectly placed. As are Yates and Thomas. Come on team GB 1,2,3.
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People all over the road as the racers climb for the last time. It's mad!
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Tremendous road race on an absolute brute of a course.
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Apologies if I'm late with this but, Adam Peaty has just broken the world record in the 100m Breaststroke heats.
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Great road race put a real hole in my day!
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USA's first gold is in a shooting event. There's a surprise
That's what Lady Ron said!
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Apologies if I'm late with this but, Adam Peaty has just broken the world record in the 100m Breaststroke heats.
Absolutely took it apart!
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Apologies if I'm late with this but, Adam Peaty has just broken the world record in the 100m Breaststroke heats.
Absolutely took it apart!
When you watch Peaty his technique is everything you are told not to do for breast stroke, his leg strokes are more like a butterfly kick rather than wide and then clicking together. Probably the reason why we seldom win any swimming gongs.
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Apologies if I'm late with this but, Adam Peaty has just broken the world record in the 100m Breaststroke heats.
Absolutely took it apart!
Phenomenal athlete, over a second (in a sub minute race) ahead of anyone else in the world and has been the best in 50 and 100m for a couple of years and yet hardly anyone has heard of him and he has absolutely no chance of any major recognition, bet he won't even make the back covers tomorrow despite destroying his own world record in the heat. He was one of 2 (along with Rutherford) that I tried to champion for sports personality of the year, was far more deserving than the likes of Murray, Hamilton and Fury but profile matters far more than ability.
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Peaty has been the biggest bright spark for Britain so far. Should win gold, shame that hardly anyone will see it as it's on so late. Good win for the hockey girls against the Convictesses.
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The cycling road race was brutal - more like one of the Spring Monuments than the stages of the Tour that most people are familiar with, so fitting then that the winner should be from the heartlands of that form of the sport.
I also enjoyed the women's rugby sevens.
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My nan had the cycling on yesterday. Not my cup of tea but I did enjoy the scenery around Rio
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i hope Van Vleuten is ok from the women's roadrace but her crash looked truly horrific, Nibali broke both collar bones yesterday and her's looks far worse.
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I can understand most sports, but fk me fencings beyond me!
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I can understand most sports, but fk me fencings beyond me!
You just need 2 posts 6ft apart - then nail a panel in between.
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The cycling road race was brutal - more like one of the Spring Monuments than the stages of the Tour that most people are familiar with, so fitting then that the winner should be from the heartlands of that form of the sport.
I also enjoyed the women's rugby sevens.
I enjoyed the beach volleyball and I am pleased Lizard Armistead didn't win a medal.
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I can understand most sports, but fk me fencings beyond me!
Things like fencing and shooting should have no place in modern Olympics.
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That was a horrible leg break that fella had in the vault.
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i hope Van Vleuten is ok from the women's roadrace but her crash looked truly horrific, Nibali broke both collar bones yesterday and her's looks far worse.
Quoting myself but BBC have said she's conscious but has 3 breaks in her back and has severe concussion so she's in intensive care. Not a surprise in the slightest, I'd go so far as to say I suspected worse.
There is a video of it on youtube if anyone wants to watch, it's really nasty though, flips off the bike, lands on her head and then slams into the concrete 'kerb' and just sort of crumples in place and doesn't move.
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Apologies if I'm late with this but, Adam Peaty has just broken the world record in the 100m Breaststroke heats.
Absolutely took it apart!
Phenomenal athlete, over a second (in a sub minute race) ahead of anyone else in the world and has been the best in 50 and 100m for a couple of years and yet hardly anyone has heard of him and he has absolutely no chance of any major recognition, bet he won't even make the back covers tomorrow despite destroying his own world record in the heat. He was one of 2 (along with Rutherford) that I tried to champion for sports personality of the year, was far more deserving than the likes of Murray, Hamilton and Fury but profile matters far more than ability.
I'm soo glad that this was wrong and he's been being bigged up all day, he thoroughly deserves this. On the BBC Mark Foster made a very brief comparison to Usain Bolt (in terms of how far ahead of the field he is) which sums up why I think he needs to be a lot more of a household name.
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He just won the gold and set a new world record again. Twice in 2 days!
Incredible.
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If Peaty was a track athlete he would be world famous.He has in his sport achieved everything by the age of 21.
And he is English!
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Got up to watch the final Peaty made it look so easy. The next race was the women's 400m freestyle Carlin got a very good silver but Ledecky who won it was ridiculously good.
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Peaty looks about 14!
In my state of post-cricket haziness I must have set the BBC app to alert me to British medals, got woken up at some ungodly hour twice as Peaty and Carlin finished their races.
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Well done to Adam Peaty and Jazz Carlin.
That's real dedication and hard work and it puts many footballers to shame doesn't it when you see Britain's Olympic hopefuls competing.
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During the opening ceremonies Twitter appears to have suppressed the hastag #nbcfail from trending.
While the whole world was watching live, NBC was dawdling on about all sorts in the few minutes they weren't showing adverts. We VPN'd into the CBC feed while reading the hilarious tweets about #nbcfail
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/2016-olympics-opening-ceremony-nbc-telecast-too-many-commercials-1201831764/
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Watching the Boxing earlier was sorry to see young Yafai get eliminated against the world best, a Cuban by a split decision.
Cracking little fight more deserving of a bout with a medal at stake. Pure bad luck with the draw i suppose.
Irish lad Paddy Barnes, Bronze medallist on 2 occasions previously also eliminated by a Spaniard.
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Kyle Edmunds knocked out of Men's singles 2nd rd match v Japans Taro Daniel 6-4, 7-5
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Johanna Konta won her first set 6-2 v Garcia (France)
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Johanna Konta won her first set 6-2 v Garcia (France)
She won 6-2, 6-3
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Watching the Boxing earlier was sorry to see young Yafai get eliminated against the world best, a Cuban by a split decision.
Cracking little fight more deserving of a bout with a medal at stake. Pure bad luck with the draw i suppose.
Irish lad Paddy Barnes, Bronze medallist on 2 occasions previously also eliminated by a Spaniard.
Can't get used to the olympic boxing without the helmets. Looks silly
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Heather Watson gone out 3-6 6-1 3-6 to Svitolina (15) UKR
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I can't understand why it's safer for women to wear headgear but considered less dangerous for men to go without.
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Sounds like there was a bit of a scrap in the stands at the tennis in the game between Juan Martin Del Potro and Joao Sousa. Hooliganism at tennis! It's like going back to the dark ages ;)
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If Peaty was a track athlete he would be world famous.He has in his sport achieved everything by the age of 21.
And he is English!
British😉
Anyway superb effort and it was reminiscint of Bolt winning the 100 Ms final. He was so far ahead that he watched the others come in...fantastic😂
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Tom Daley gets far more attention than he deserves but a well fought bronze medal for him tonight with Daniel Goodfellow.
Louis Smith's fall from the pommel horse has looked like its condemed is to 4th.
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Tom Daley gets far more attention than he deserves but a well fought bronze medal for him tonight with Daniel Goodfellow.
Louis Smith's fall from the pommel horse has looked like its condemed is to 4th.
Unfortunate for Smith, would have been a guaranteed bronze without the fall
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Tom Daley gets far more attention than he deserves but a well fought bronze medal for him tonight with Daniel Goodfellow.
Louis Smith's fall from the pommel horse has looked like its condemed is to 4th.
Russian gymnast + severe acne = heightened suspicion.
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GB womens Rugby 7's team look to have a case of the fourth's also
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Tom Daley gets far more attention than he deserves but a well fought bronze medal for him tonight with Daniel Goodfellow.
Louis Smith's fall from the pommel horse has looked like its condemed is to 4th.
Smith might have been better to go safer rather than taking risks. Difficult call but a bronze is better than nowt. Wiomder how his team mates feel about him
See the cheating Russians got a medal
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Tom Daley gets far more attention than he deserves but a well fought bronze medal for him tonight with Daniel Goodfellow.
Louis Smith's fall from the pommel horse has looked like its condemed is to 4th.
Smith might have been better to go safer rather than taking risks. Difficult call but a bronze is better than nowt. Wiomder how his team mates feel about him
See the cheating Russians got a medal
Nah, I disagree. I think we were too far behind and needed a couple of very, very good scores. Fair play to him for going for it, I'm sure it was a team decision.
See my above quoted post regarding the Russians.
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Currently watching GBR women beat India at hockey.
Hockey has the potential to be a very watchable game.
Get rid of the sticks. Let them kick the ball. You've got yourself a sport.
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I played Field Hockey as a kid and then again a few years ago. Bloody dangerous sport
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Tom Daley gets far more attention than he deserves but a well fought bronze medal for him tonight with Daniel Goodfellow.
Louis Smith's fall from the pommel horse has looked like its condemed is to 4th.
Unfortunate for Smith, would have been a guaranteed bronze without the fall
Just caught up on a recording from last night. I think it was Max Whitlock's totally lacklustre all-round performance that cost us. He really underperformed. Smith was told to go for the difficult routine but it wouldn't have made a difference anyway. Unless, of course, his falling off meant the Chinese could go easy with some of their routines on the high bar and he failed to put them under pressure. Sadly, the TV coverage was awful and you didn't know what was happening in what order.
On a separate note - I just cant get excited by bronze medals. I know we set ourselves a total medal target, irrespective of colour, but bronze is worth a tenth of a gold, in my view. I'd be gutted if I was in contention and walked away with that colour. I'd probably hand it to a kid in the crowd.
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I understand your point LeeS but the worst place you can finish is fourth. After four or more years of hard graft, sacrifice and commitment a medal of any colour has to be something an athlete can really be proud of, along with all his/her countrymen/women.
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I understand your point LeeS but the worst place you can finish is fourth. After four or more years of hard graft, sacrifice and commitment a medal of any colour has to be something an athlete can really be proud of, along with all his/her countrymen/women.
If I finished 4th I'd find another sport. Some of the athletes just seem pleased to be there - like its an achievement in itself, rather than an honour. I prefer the Ben Ainslie approach. He was going to win whatever happened and however he had to do it. His victory in Sydney was one of the greatest examples of win-at-all-costs ever. He skilfully blocked the Brazilian chap (who had narrowly beaten the teenage Ainslie in Atlanta) in the final race so that they both came in at the rear and Ainslie won the gold. In 2012 he had a similar experience where the Danish guy accused him of cheating and Ainslie decided to destroy him whilst taking gold. Love it.
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Tom Daley gets far more attention than he deserves but a well fought bronze medal for him tonight with Daniel Goodfellow.
yeah I don't get the "hype" about Tom Daley far too over the top, but well done to him and Goodfellow (who incidently trained at the local pool in Cambridge) and as you say they fought hard for their bronze medal...
UTV
The Doc
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I played Field Hockey as a kid and then again a few years ago. Bloody dangerous sport
I played at school and quite enjoyed it. I also went to a semi final at London 2012 and enjoyed that as well.
Watching it last night however was a different matter. The constant whistling and stopping of the game due to minor ingressions made it totally unwatchable.
As an aside I saw Jane Sixsmith the other day, she lived just round the corner from me and it turns out she still plays hockey for Sutton.
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Japan beat NZ in the Rugby 7's.
Shame.
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Dutch gymnast sent home for being pissed.
Link (https://heatst.com/world/rio-2016-dutch-gymnast-kicked-out-of-olympics-after-night-of-drunken-celebration/)
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What a self absorbed twat, looking at his form for similar down the years.
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David Florence has just had an absolute 'mare in the canoeing.
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Superb womens tennis match taking place our Johanna Konta just taken the 2nd set 7-5 to take match v Kuznetsova into a final set.
Trying to watch this along with T20...
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Superb womens tennis match taking place our Johanna Konta just taken the 2nd set 7-5 to take match v Kuznetsova into a final set.
Trying to watch this along with T20...
Kiss-cam amused me greatly.
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Superb womens tennis match taking place our Johanna Konta just taken the 2nd set 7-5 to take match v Kuznetsova into a final set.
Trying to watch this along with T20...
Kiss-cam amused me greatly.
Fair play to camerawork there.
What a great match though 3 hours 7 minutes and Konta makes it through 3-6 7-5 7-5.
Into last 8 now. Truly was a great match i think they broke each other 7 times each.
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I turned over for the diving (we had a shocker in the last dive which cost us a bronze) but caught the end of the tennis. Good girl Konta, I like her a lot.
I'm watching the gymnastics but its sooooooooo hard to follow what is going on.
I don't watch a lot of TV but love the Olympics.
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Tough match - both ladies looked dead on their feet.
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Tom Daley gets far more attention than he deserves but a well fought bronze medal for him tonight with Daniel Goodfellow.
Louis Smith's fall from the pommel horse has looked like its condemed is to 4th.
Unfortunate for Smith, would have been a guaranteed bronze without the fall
Just caught up on a recording from last night. I think it was Max Whitlock's totally lacklustre all-round performance that cost us. He really underperformed. Smith was told to go for the difficult routine but it wouldn't have made a difference anyway. Unless, of course, his falling off meant the Chinese could go easy with some of their routines on the high bar and he failed to put them under pressure. Sadly, the TV coverage was awful and you didn't know what was happening in what order.
On a separate note - I just cant get excited by bronze medals. I know we set ourselves a total medal target, irrespective of colour, but bronze is worth a tenth of a gold, in my view. I'd be gutted if I was in contention and walked away with that colour. I'd probably hand it to a kid in the crowd.
Really. We all want to be winners but being 3rd best in the world is pretty good for most including me
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I understand your point LeeS but the worst place you can finish is fourth. After four or more years of hard graft, sacrifice and commitment a medal of any colour has to be something an athlete can really be proud of, along with all his/her countrymen/women.
If I finished 4th I'd find another sport. Some of the athletes just seem pleased to be there - like its an achievement in itself, rather than an honour. I prefer the Ben Ainslie approach. He was going to win whatever happened and however he had to do it. His victory in Sydney was one of the greatest examples of win-at-all-costs ever. He skilfully blocked the Brazilian chap (who had narrowly beaten the teenage Ainslie in Atlanta) in the final race so that they both came in at the rear and Ainslie won the gold. In 2012 he had a similar experience where the Danish guy accused him of cheating and Ainslie decided to destroy him whilst taking gold. Love it.
It is an achievement. How can it not be?
If I was 4th place in the Olympics and was getting criticised I think I might be asking that person what have they ever achieved in their lives which is comparable
Maybe its just me
Ainslie was a cut above. On the basis of your comments above he wouldnt have had many to beat if the rest has merely given up
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Phelps - best Olympian of all time, how can there be any debate?
Really pleased to see the Brits doing well in the pool after decades of nothing.
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Phelps - best Olympian of all time, how can there be any debate?
Has he been tested for fish DNA?
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Phelps - best Olympian of all time, how can there be any debate?
Because it's a lot easier to win medals in swimming than any other event. I'm sure there are people who have been similarly dominant in their given sports but haven't ended up with anywhere near as many titles.
I'd say Bolt is better. He's entered six events and won six golds.
Phelps has been beaten a few times.
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Phelps - best Olympian of all time, how can there be any debate?
He's good but he's also a drink-driving arrogant knob who once pushed a mate of mine out of a (albeit stationery) car
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Phelps - best Olympian of all time, how can there be any debate?
He's good but he's also a drink-driving arrogant knob who once pushed a mate of mine out of a (albeit stationery) car
Doesn't he have Asperger's Syndrome? high functioning autism? might explain why he comes across as arrogant. So does Messi, by the way.
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Phelps - best Olympian of all time, how can there be any debate?
He's good but he's also a drink-driving arrogant knob who once pushed a mate of mine out of a (albeit stationery) car
Mutually exclusive. Some of the best people in their fields are knobs, it goes with the territory.
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Phelps - best Olympian of all time, how can there be any debate?
He's good but he's also a drink-driving arrogant knob who once pushed a mate of mine out of a (albeit stationery) car
Doesn't he have Asperger's Syndrome? high functioning autism? might explain why he comes across as arrogant. So does Messi, by the way.
I've just asked my daughter about this and, she says he was diagnosed as ADHD at about the age of thirteen. She thinks she read that swimming was the way they decided to attempt to control it as opposed to going down the medication line. Sorry, I have no links to prove/disprove.
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Its raining in Rio today so conditions for the Men's and Women's road races are not clever - lets hope nobody gets badly injured
Rowing has been cancelled for the day due to it being too windy
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Phelps - best Olympian of all time, how can there be any debate?
He's good but he's also a drink-driving arrogant knob who once pushed a mate of mine out of a (albeit stationery) car
Doesn't he have Asperger's Syndrome? high functioning autism? might explain why he comes across as arrogant. So does Messi, by the way.
I've just asked my daughter about this and, she says he was diagnosed as ADHD at about the age of thirteen. She thinks she read that swimming was the way they decided to attempt to control it as opposed to going down the medication line. Sorry, I have no links to prove/disprove.
Same with Louis Smith, GB gymnast
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Argilagos the little Cuban who beat Galal Yafai in the boxing was on just against a Kenyan and absolutely boxed the life
out of him. I thought the other day that the best 2 boxers met in first round and today only further enhances my belief.
Yafai lost by 1 point this Kenyan lost by 4 points on one of the judges cards here today. Yafai so unfortunate to meet him
so early.
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Looks like another Team GB boxer going out - Ashfaq has been beaten in fact well beaten by a Thai...Butdee
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Been a poor olympics so far for Britain
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Froome got bronze - Cancellara murdered the field.
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Been a poor olympics so far for Britain
Another bronze from Froomy. Meh.
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GB Women beat Argentina women 3-2 in hockey
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Gold for Joe Clarke in the canoeing. Plus we got bronze in shooting (was always gonna happen as the playoff was between two Brits).
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If Staffordshire was a country, where would it be in the medal table?
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That canoeing was great stuff. Looking forward to the judo shortly where Sally Conway fights in the semi after 3 ippons in a row.
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Been a poor olympics so far for Britain
You were saying?
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Been a poor olympics so far for Britain
You were saying?
Knew it would work
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Great gold for Jo Clark earlier.
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Bronze from Manxman Tim Kneale in the shooting. He used to play for the local rugby club my son plays for.
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You only have to say he's Manx and we can all guess that you know him, there's only about half a dozen people there!
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Actually, I was reacting to an erroneous post from a mate of mine who's friends with him, he lost the bronze match, so ignore the post!
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First ever diving gold and an excellent bronze for Max Whitlock in the PE.
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First ever diving gold and an excellent bronze for Max Whitlock in the PE.
Being a teacher is now an Olympic sport?
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First ever diving gold and an excellent bronze for Max Whitlock in the PE.
Being a teacher is now an Olympic sport?
No, but running and jumping about in your vest and pants is.
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Had to turn the swimming off because of those two giggling eejits.
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Had to turn the swimming off because of those two giggling eejits.
It's getting embarrassing isn't it.
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Silver in rowing, I was hoping for gold though. 😣
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Silver in rowing, I was hoping for gold though. 😣
I didn't even know that you were competing in Rio cd.
Still, congrats on the silver
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Justin Rose has had a hole in one.
I don't think Golf should be in the olympics. Unless Britain win the gold
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Justin Rose has had a hole in one.
I don't think Golf should be in the olympics. Unless Britain win the gold
I can't help but wonder what it is that makes golfers so much more susceptible to the zika virus than the rest of human kind.
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Justin Rose has had a hole in one.
I don't think Golf should be in the olympics. Unless Britain win the gold
I can't help but wonder what it is that makes golfers so much more susceptible to the zika virus than the rest of human kind.
I think their fear of the Zika virus was heightened when they realised they would not be playing for prize money.
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It really shouldn't be an Olympic sport anyway.
Neither should Football, Basketball, Tennis, Road Cycling etc in my opinion.
The Olympics should be the absolute pinnacle of your sport. A gold medal at the Olympics should be the ultimate reward. Too many sports it isn't
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I used to think that but have changed my mind. Let all the sports in. I wouldn't mind an extra week or two of Olympics.
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I used to think that but have changed my mind. Let all the sports in. I wouldn't mind an extra week or two of Olympics.
I agree, lets use it as a festival to showcase all sports and make it a little longerso that all sports get a decent amount of coverage. I'd add T20 for a start.
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First ever diving gold and an excellent bronze for Max Whitlock in the PE.
Being a teacher is now an Olympic sport?
No, but running and jumping about in your vest and pants is.
It was indeed an excellent bronze. The commentators here decided it as the Olympics best ever Men’s Individual All-around Gymnastics with all winners finishing with over 90 points.
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I used to think that but have changed my mind. Let all the sports in. I wouldn't mind an extra week or two of Olympics.
I agree, lets use it as a festival to showcase all sports and make it a little longerso that all sports get a decent amount of coverage. I'd add T20 for a start.
Twenty20 should be the first sport added. It would be a wonderful spectacle and add hundreds of millions of extra fans in a very short space of time.
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Rugby 7's concludes later doesn't it? Escaping work shortly so wouldn't mind watching that. And does the indoor cycling start today?
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7's has started GB v SA 19:00
Cycling starts at 20:00
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Medal matches are tonight in the rugby though?
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18:30
Medal matches are tonight in the rugby though?
Fiji v Japan followed by GB v SA
Bronze Medal match 22:30 followed by Gold Medal match
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Sounds like a decent night's sport. Couple of Pakistan wickets followed by half a dozen GB golds, please.
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Murray a set up against an Italian, 3-2 to italy in 2nd going with serve.
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Murray 5-2 down in 2nd
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Just making it interesting! I hope Konta gets a medal. A massive plus for "birds" tennis if so.
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6-1, 2-6 3rd set decider.
Konta on later
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Fucking dancing horses. Absolutely ridiculous. Fuck off you posh fuckers!!!
Worst sport ever.
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I don't like it either but, respect for the training.
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Got a feeling its gonna be last minute heartbreak in the rugby
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Maybe not, fantastic effort!!
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Fiji are a different gravy in this form of Rugby though. Gonna be extremely difficult in the final
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Murray going out by the looks of things
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Could do with some Gold's, been all Silver today
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Did realyy well in the 7s. I can't help but feel that Dan Norton should be changing into some running shoes and going over to the athletics stadium after today, he's rapid.
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After losing eight games in a row, Murray has now won the last four to go a break up in the decider. Barmy game this.
Finish it please, Andy.
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Murray going out by the looks of things
I wouldn't bet on it, his mental strength and sheer fitness wil lsee him through I reckon.
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Yeah he's found his fire here. He looked deflated and beat a short while ago. I suppose it's the mark of how great a champion he is
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After losing eight games in a row, Murray has now won the last four to go a break up in the decider. Barmy game this.
Finish it please, Andy.
He should do now 5 games on the trot. Hope not the kiss of doom!
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Watching athletes with fight and pride and passion..... All missing at VP!!!!!
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Much as I love watching live sport the coverage from the bbc seems a little disjointed to me, I just cant seem to keep up, ie. keep missing things.
I may be missing it but are they not doing a programme at a decent time with all the condensed highlights?
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They talked about the GB 7s rugby team showing the benefits of the psychological training they received. Can we book the Villa players in for some sessions.
Watching a team hold their nerve to come from behind, hold on and defend, and then see out the win.
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How low have the bbc sunk!!!!!!!!!
They've just allowed Jason Kenny to say the word ARSE on a recorded clip! Disgraceful, I'm writing to Points Of View!
Disgraced, NW England.
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Our sprint team just set the Olympic record in the heat!
Fantastic effort. They were considered as around 4th favourites
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Konta 4-1 down to Kerber from Germany...make that 5-1
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Konta losing 1-6, 2-4
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World record :D :D
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That was impressive
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Our sprint team just set the Olympic record in the heat!
Fantastic effort. They were considered as around 4th favourites
and then the Ladies add a world record and looked stunningly good.
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Sexist.
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Girls impressed there in team pursuit setting a world record in qualification 4.13.260 and this with 2 teams...USA & Canada to go
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Konta out
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NZ have got their act together in the team sprint.
Will be a big ask to beat them in the final
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Lets hope its not Silver in the Sprint final and Silver in the Rugby
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Dutch crash out in the men's pursuit, not hurt which is good but probably a delay whilst they do repairs to the track.
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Andy Murray has gone from nearly being eliminated from his only remaining event to still being in two events this evening.
A Romanian duo have withdrawn from the Mixed Doubles so Murray and Watson take their place in the draw.
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NZ have got their act together in the team sprint.
Will be a big ask to beat them in the final
Fk me, for a minute there I thought it said NZ had got his head together.
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P. McCormack 21yr old in the ring now for GB v a Kazhakstan chappie.
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P. McCormack 21yr old in the ring now for GB v a Kazhakstan chappie.
He won...looks decent
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P. McCormack 21yr old in the ring now for GB v a Kazhakstan chappie.
And he wins on a split decision.
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Britain racing for gold on BBC One next.
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Britain racing for gold on BBC One next.
Followed 10-15minutes later with the gold medal match in the 7s, this is a bad evening to be wanting an early night.
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Cabooom
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Boom.
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Team sprint gold!
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GOLD
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Phenomenal 2nd lap from Kenny.
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I think it highlights how good our semi-final was to see Cecil Africa destroying Japan, he was utterly anonymous in our game because Tom Mitchell owned him.
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SA have won comfortably but there's something a bit c**t-y about running in an extra try in overtime after the opposition have had a sending off and you're already 23 points up.
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Josh Kelly boxing in 3 bouts time.....hopefully be able to get 7's out the way first.
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Fiji looking like running away with this.
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Looks like could be embarrassing. Fiji look ace.
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2nd try looked like a forward pass to me.
Either way we need to put them on the floor in the tackle, can't let them offload like this.
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Disappointing...I stayed up for this.
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That was just shocking.
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That's piss poor from the restart, GB heads have gone a little here because we can't get out of our own half.
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Fiji are doing to GB what every team does to Villa. Embarrass us.
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Josh Kelly fighting now
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Ah well, Silver is better than I expected, everyone had this down as a Fiji vs NZ final so we've done well but it was a game too far.
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The comeback is on!
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Glad they scored, they didn't deserve to be whitewashed.
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Kelly beaten by a unanimous decision....Yellusinov superb...World no.1
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Thoroughly deserved drubbing in the final. Still, another medal added and they surpassed expectations.
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A very good silver in the rugby even if the final was a bit of a battering.
What that does show you is that having the kick off against the wind can be a huge disadvantage because if you concede early against an aggressive side they can just kick long from the restarts and pin you in your own half. I think they'd have outclassed us either way but reverse the start and I reckon you'd have had a much closer game.
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I think it would be churlish to not to be just a little pleased for Fiji. The first medal in the nation's history, in a form of the sport that they are able to teach the rest of the world something about.
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Indeed. Britain exceeded expectations to reach the Gold Medal match and may do better in future, I assume now it's an Olympic sport it will receive more Lottery funding?
Fiji were fantastic. They must have been under immense pressure coming from a country that had never achieved a single medal before, but they didn't show it. Fair play to them.
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Is there anything else decent to come tonight?
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Indeed. Britain exceeded expectations to reach the Gold Medal match and may do better in future, I assume now it's an Olympic sport it will receive more Lottery funding?
Fiji were fantastic. They must have been under immense pressure coming from a country that had never achieved a single medal before, but they didn't show it. Fair play to them.
Apparently it's guaranteed a place in the next olympics but negotiations are to take place about further games so not cut and dried. I would have thought the success of this
tournament should help sway the decision.
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Is there anything else decent to come tonight?
Cycling team pursuit later I think.
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Is there anything else decent to come tonight?
Cycling team pursuit later I think.
I think the cycling is done for the day
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Oh yes, so it is, just looked, swimming, badminton and hockey coming up. Wouldn't bother if I wasn't on a night shift, but I am so I will.
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Indeed. Britain exceeded expectations to reach the Gold Medal match and may do better in future, I assume now it's an Olympic sport it will receive more Lottery funding?
Fiji were fantastic. They must have been under immense pressure coming from a country that had never achieved a single medal before, but they didn't show it. Fair play to them.
Apparently it's guaranteed a place in the next olympics but negotiations are to take place about further games so not cut and dried. I would have thought the success of this
tournament should help sway the decision.
I think it would be a shocking decision to drop it now after it's been such a good tournament. Hopefully a lot more countries will show an interest as well because it's actually fairly easy to start up with and it's been around long enough that you've got plenty of decent coaches who'd be happy to get a country started off in the game. If it does take off it will only be good for the 15 a side format if only for the interest level it generates.
I'd like T20 in (as mentioned earlier) for the same reason, get more countries involved in the bite sized versions and people who really take to it will explore the other formats and expand the sports. I'd honestly love to see one or both start to get the sort of partcipation football has because I think they're both better sports for anyone other than ultra casual fans.
Back to the funding I think in the UK 7s is starting to become something the clubs are interested in as well (as a way to generate extra stadium income given they only have 14 guaranteed home games a season) there's been fairly high profile 7s tournaments in the summer for a couple of years now so i'm not sure it needs any more.
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7s were brilliant.
Well done Fiji - genuinely don't mind GB finishing 2nd in that event.
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Great and unexpected win for the cyclists, including Philip Hindes, an excuse to show this toe curling interview after they won in 2012. You can see Jason Kenny and Sir Chris Hoy thinking "nooooooo, don't say that":
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A few times to look out for today if stuck at work:
Jessica Ennis-Hill starts Heptathlon she should be on at 13:50
Jo Pavey in 10000m final at 15:10
Andy Murray singles 16:00
Glover & Stanning Womens pairs rowing final 13:30
Some skeet shooting at 13:00
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"I am not for doping and I have never used it." - Yulia Efimova
Well, except for the steroids and the meldonium.
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Should be winning 2 golds in the next hour or so in the rowing
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Ireland just won silver in Mens double rowing....o'Donovan brothers
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Ireland just won silver in Mens double rowing....o'Donovan brothers
That's a great achievement for those lads. Two likable, laid back individuals who, like all serious athletes that show a happy-go-lucky exterior; hide a steely determination. Great for Ireland, great for their hometown of Skibbereen. A beautiful spot BTW. I'm delighted for them.
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Jess won the 100m hurdles with fastest time in the final heat 12.84 sec
A poor Latvian girl not so lucky, she was put in first heat because officials took her shot put length 13.48 or something like that
as her 100m hurdle time which meant she had to run with the duffers, she won the heat but about.4 of a second below her average time.
She should have been running with Jess i think.
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Womens Pair - Glover & Stanning about to start
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Womens Pair - Glover & Stanning about to start
Gold
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Jo Pavey has started in womens 10000m as well
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Coxless 4's starting now
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Coxless 4's starting now
Gold
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Up to 4th in the Medals table after these 2 Golds
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Above the Convicts. Stay there please (or move up to third, if I'm being greedy).
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"I am not for doping and I have never used it." - Yulia Efimova
Well, except for the steroids and the meldonium.
Ha ha
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Brilliant rowing 2 Brit Golds and Silver for Ireland.
Brilliant
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Andy Murray under way 2-0 up in 1st set. Yank losing his rag already
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Just seen the time for the world record for women's 10000m. That is barely believable!
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Just seen the time for the world record for women's 10000m. That is barely believable!
29:17:45 beat the old one 29:31:78...well smashed it. I think it said on commentary that it was only the 2nd time she had run the distance in competition!!!
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Katie Johnson - Thompson doing brilliant in the heptathlon high jump....just gone clear at 1.95.
Jess went out at 1.92
Only 2 girls left in i think, A Belgian & KJT...the belgian gone clear as well.
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Belgian gone clear at 1.98
Murray won 1st set 6-0
KJT failed first attempt
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KJT gone over at 2nd attempt ...personal...& British record in heptathlon
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Typical Murray 6-0, 2-4
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Murray has Villad the second set.
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Murray in danger now, just been broken in final set.
Johnson serving for 5-3
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Murray broke back 4-4
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Just seen the time for the world record for women's 10000m. That is barely believable!
The old record was set by someone who there were extremely high legality suspicions about.
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Murray through.
Anyone watching the womens' fooball? Sweden v USA. 5 mins from the end of extra time, USA have possible winner ruled out for a foul, rightly in my opinion. Sweden go up the other end and the ball gets crossed in to the centre forward in an onside position but then strays into an off-side position. The US defender makes a pigs ear of clearing the ball and it spins to the Swedish player who says thank you very much and scores a perfectly legal goal only for the stupid lineswoman to flag it for offside.
Now gone to penalties.
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Fucking dressage again!!!
It's a red button thing surely, not prime time?
It's not a sport. Impressive control of the horse, but it's posh wanker bollocks. Fuck it off prime time. So boring as well. Even the commentators sound bored.
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Fucking dressage again!!!
It's a red button thing surely, not prime time?
It's not a sport. Impressive control of the horse, but it's posh wanker bollocks. Fuck it off prime time. So boring as well. Even the commentators sound bored.
I think they are only showing it because the British posho is pretty much nailed on for a gold medal
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USA out on penalties to Sweden. Bit of an upset there.
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I think that's the first time the US Ladies have ever failed to win gold in sahker.
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Silver medal for Britain in the team stripeless zebra taunting. Also in with a chance of a medal in the trampolining.
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Bryony Page has a medal in the trampolining. Crying her eyes out! I didn't even know this was in the Olympics!
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Finished with a silver medal.
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Katie Johnson - Thompson doing brilliant in the heptathlon high jump....just gone clear at 1.95.
Jess went out at 1.92
Only 2 girls left in i think, A Belgian & KJT...the belgian gone clear as well.
The Belgian was lucky not be DQ in hurdles. Wrong card issued for the False start. Given a Yellow conduct card, should have been Yellow and Black. As it was 2nd FS she could have been DQ. Wrong interpretation of IAAF rule 162.8
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Team GB through to the final with a world record time in the cycling team pursuit. Hopefully they can carry that through to the final, I'd like to see Wiggins get another gold.
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Team GB through to the final with a world record time in the cycling team pursuit. Hopefully they can carry that through to the final, I'd like to see Wiggins get another gold.
Unless they fall off they should win comfortably.
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and then Kenny and Skinner looked strong in the individual races as well, cycling looks like it's going to be another good source of medals this year and heptathlon looks good again. Add the rowing and it just shows success breeds success.
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and then Kenny and Skinner looked strong in the individual races as well, cycling looks like it's going to be another good source of medals this year and heptathlon looks good again. Add the rowing and it just shows success breeds success.
I'm enjoying watching sports that I wouldn't usually watch, like Judo and Trampolining. It's a change from my usual diet of football, cricket and rugby.
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and then Kenny and Skinner looked strong in the individual races as well, cycling looks like it's going to be another good source of medals this year and heptathlon looks good again. Add the rowing and it just shows success breeds success.
I'm enjoying watching sports that I wouldn't usually watch, like Judo and Trampolining. It's a change from my usual diet of football, cricket and rugby.
Yeah that's why I'd love them to add things like cricket but also extend it out to 3 or 4 weeks so a lot more of the 'niche' sports can get prime time coverage. The gymnastics has been superb and we've watched archery, table tennis and badminton (me and the kids). I wish we'd had time to catch things like the judo which has always fallen behind something else.
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Murray/Watson lost 1st set 6-4 to Indian pair in Mixed doubles qtr Final
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SIR BRADLEY WIGGINS.
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Fabulous race. Credit to those lads. The Aussies fairly made them work for it.
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Legend.
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Absolutely brilliant, to be put under that pressure and have the confidence to stick to the plan and break the world record for the 2nd time in a matter of hours takes immense mental strength. I hope Ed Clancy, Stephen Burke and Owain Doull get the credit they deserve as well. Clancy has been the backbone of the team pursuit winning 3 straight golds and deserves huge respect.
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How exciting was that?! What a finish, 0.7 seconds behind, then bam, see you later. Brilliant.
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Up to 3rd in medal table as well.
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Got bored with the Olympics and started channel hopping, Fish Called Wanda on ITV, CLASS!!
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Poor evening for KJT and JEH in the shot put. The Belgian girl must be favourite for gold now.
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Rutherford in trouble. Two no jumps. One left to save himself and get in the Final. Maybe he's just remembered he was once involved with Villa.
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Poor evening for KJT and JEH in the shot put. The Belgian girl must be favourite for gold now.
Not sure she is. Poor 800m runner apparently.
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Morning.Its probably me but the obvious lack of support for these games from the Brazilian public means a financial disaster for the country. I am shocked how few are there.
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Poor evening for KJT and JEH in the shot put. The Belgian girl must be favourite for gold now.
Not sure she is. Poor 800m runner apparently.
That sounds promising then. I think Ennis-Hill is favourite again then, I think David O'Leary had a word for people like me!
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Morning.Its probably me but the obvious lack of support for these games from the Brazilian public means a financial disaster for the country. I am shocked how few are there.
High poverty, recession and general apathy over non traditional sports wouldn't help matters. The thousands of tickets that 'disappear' into tout's hand probably have no market and the corporate types may have been put off by the Zika virus scare.
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Morning.Its probably me but the obvious lack of support for these games from the Brazilian public means a financial disaster for the country. I am shocked how few are there.
High poverty, recession and general apathy over non traditional sports wouldn't help matters. The thousands of tickets that 'disappear' into tout's hand probably have no market and the corporate types may have been put off by the Zika virus scare.
On Today the other morning, during the Olympics report, the question was raised over their suitability to host the games, with the IOC seemingly still having to overcome problems on a daily basis. It was stated that when the games were awarded, Brazil was on the verge of breaking into the wealthiest top five countries, in terms of gdp.
It now sits 74th in that list.
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"I am not for doping and I have never used it." - Yulia Efimova
Well, except for the steroids and the meldonium.
What's wrong with Meldonium?
Surely having really white pumps isn't performance enhancing?
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Morning.Its probably me but the obvious lack of support for these games from the Brazilian public means a financial disaster for the country. I am shocked how few are there.
They had a huge amount to live up to after Beijing and London but it's not going to be looked upon as a classic games regardless of what happens on the track.
It's such a shame but the Olympic venues are sure to end up as the whitest of white elephants.
I'm fairly sure Tokyo in 2020 will be different.
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Can we please fk off the tennis
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Can we please fk off the tennis
Put on red button, GB in the badminton.
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What a performance from the girls there, a new World record time to go with their Gold.
Del Potro to play Murray for Tennis Gold.
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another brilliant gold in and world record in the cycling for the women in the team pursuit. Trott becomes the first british woman to get 3 olympic golds, at 24. I think it's now pretty clear that we have the best track coaching team in the world by a long way.
and there's a silver for Becky James in the keirin as well, which is a massive achievement for her.
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It helps that we do so well in it, but I've found the whole cycling circus very exciting, whoever's in it.
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The track cycling is brilliant. I love the Keirin and the scratch race in the omnium is about the most bonkers thing in the entire olympics, but in a brilliantly watchable way.
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The cycling is just superb, fantastic, brilliant.
But, please........
Stop showing FUCKING TENNIS AND GOLF.
I love both sports, but they don't need to be shown wher there is so much other quality sport to watch.
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I agree but a brit leading in the golf and a brit into the gold medal match of the tennis means they're going to get a lot of airtime.
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Women's hockey top the group with 5 wins from 5.
They got bronze last time round and should be in with a good chance of a medal again.
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Mo wins! First British athlete to win three Olympic golds.
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Fantastic Mo Farah what an achievement.
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Got tripped, got up and still won. What a superb athlete.
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Bronze for the Villa reject.
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I feel for Rutherford there, for his fifth jump he clearly changed the run up because thry fouled the fourth so to reverse that is a bit galling.
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What an incredible performer Mo Farah is. Will surely win gold in the 5k now.
Disappointing night for Ennis and Rutherford
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Looks as if it's the end of the road for Ennis, it's a shame she couldn't get gold but the Belgian put in an outrageous performance. Hopefully Ennis can now pass on some tips to help KJT's javelin because it doesn't hapf need it.
Mo is now in legend status.
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Looks as if it's the end of the road for Ennis, it's a shame she couldn't get gold but the Belgian put in an outrageous performance. Hopefully Ennis can now pass on some tips to help KJT's javelin because it doesn't hapf need it.
Mo is now in legend status.
Yeah. It's genuinely incredible what he's done the last 5 years or so.
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Don't you just love Mo Farah. What an athlete and personality.
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Well done Jessica and Mo. We are proud, humble and grateful.
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Slight shame for Jess - great role model.
For everyone
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Looks as if it's the end of the road for Ennis, it's a shame she couldn't get gold but the Belgian put in an outrageous performance. Hopefully Ennis can now pass on some tips to help KJT's javelin because it doesn't hapf need it.
Mo is now in legend status.
The odd thing in the heptathlon is that KJT matched or bettered the belgian in 5 events and finished 6th because she can't throw, if someone can train her to get 14.50+ in the shot and 45+ in the javelin she'll be unstoppable.
Mo was fantastic, he makes it looks so effortless.
Whilst we're still discussing last night Peaty's split time in the relay was ridiculous, head and shoulders above anyone else in that leg and, unfortunately, a class above the rest of the GB team.
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Looks as if it's the end of the road for Ennis, it's a shame she couldn't get gold but the Belgian put in an outrageous performance. Hopefully Ennis can now pass on some tips to help KJT's javelin because it doesn't hapf need it.
Mo is now in legend status.
The odd thing in the heptathlon is that KJT matched or bettered the belgian in 5 events and finished 6th because she can't throw, if someone can train her to get 14.50+ in the shot and 45+ in the javelin she'll be unstoppable.
Mo was fantastic, he makes it looks so effortless.
Whilst we're still discussing last night Peaty's split time in the relay was ridiculous, head and shoulders above anyone else in that leg and, unfortunately, a class above the rest of the GB team.
Watching on Friday night, KJT during the shotput had the demeanour of a broken women, which was strange because she was leading after the high jump. It was almost as if she had resigned herself to throwing poorly
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Looks as if it's the end of the road for Ennis, it's a shame she couldn't get gold but the Belgian put in an outrageous performance. Hopefully Ennis can now pass on some tips to help KJT's javelin because it doesn't hapf need it.
Mo is now in legend status.
The odd thing in the heptathlon is that KJT matched or bettered the belgian in 5 events and finished 6th because she can't throw, if someone can train her to get 14.50+ in the shot and 45+ in the javelin she'll be unstoppable.
Mo was fantastic, he makes it looks so effortless.
Whilst we're still discussing last night Peaty's split time in the relay was ridiculous, head and shoulders above anyone else in that leg and, unfortunately, a class above the rest of the GB team.
Watching on Friday night, KJT during the shotput had the demeanour of a broken women, which was strange because she was leading after the high jump. It was almost as if she had resigned herself to throwing poorly
Yep, she was worse in the Javelin, she'd clearly decided she couldn't throw enough to still be in with a chance. She needs to work on technique and strength but more importantly she needs the belief that the throwing events aren't going to let her down so that, if the first one isn't great, she doesn't throw in the towel.
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Guaranteed gold tonight, Kenny v Skinner, 21.04. Whos favourite?
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I don't think she is going to master either the shot or the javelin which is a great pity. Whether she could develop her long jumping to world class standards is the question she may think about on her return home.
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Guaranteed gold tonight, Kenny v Skinner, 21.04. Whos favourite?
Kenny
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I don't think she is going to master either the shot or the javelin which is a great pity. Whether she could develop her long jumping to world class standards is the question she may think about on her return home.
She needs to get a specialist coach for the Shot and the Javelin like Jess did i.e Mick Hill
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I don't think she is going to master either the shot or the javelin which is a great pity. Whether she could develop her long jumping to world class standards is the question she may think about on her return home.
She needs to get a specialist coach for the Shot and the Javelin like Jess did i.e Mick Hill
Good point. She certainly needs to do something and soon.
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Yep, if KJT can get some proper specialised coaching int he throwing I think she can still become the world class heptathlete she looked like being as an 18-19 year old, don't forget she's still only 23 so time is on her side.
If you look at her points split it's a pretty ridiculous disparity between the running/jumping an throwing.
hurdles - 1053
high jump - 1211
shot - 640
200 - 1053
long jump - 1010
javelin - 598
800 - 958
high jump, hurdles, 200 and long jump are all world record standard or better and she's got more in her in the last 2 I can easily see both of those getting her up around 1100-1150 points. If she can get the throwing up to 700-750 she'll be pushing on 7000 points, that's what makes it so frustrating. I hope Jess has a good chat with her about coaching and mental strength.
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Is there not an event she could enter that just involves running and jumping but no throwing?
Ah, I know! Tell her to give Heptathlon up and do hurdles instead.
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You would think the last event in any Olympics would be the mens 100 metre final which has worldwide fame,but it isn't
It is in fact in 2016, the mens basketball. Why?
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I make it that we have 5 more medals in the bag right now, silver and gold in the sprint cycling, 1 in the tennis, 1 in the golf and the sailing we have a procession for an already sealed gold which wil ltake us to 35. Given the target they set was 48 I think we're looking good to do at least that, probably won't match London but this is still another incredibly impresses games for team GB.
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We have a good chance of a medal/medals in the Men's Gymnastics tonight as well
The medal total is looking good but the number of Golds we have won is not as many as at the same stage of the London Olympics
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You would think the last event in any Olympics would be the mens 100 metre final which has worldwide fame,but it isn't
It is in fact in 2016, the mens basketball. Why?
It would be highly impractical to hold the relays before as people who double up in both events would pull out/not give 100% in these relays in order to maximise their chances in the individual races.
I also think the relays are a much better spectacle and a great way to finish the athletics even when our men inevitably drop the baton.
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I think there is a pretty much guaranteed medal in individual dressage tomorrow as well.
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I think there is a pretty much guaranteed medal in individual dressage tomorrow as well.
Be a huge shock if its not gold
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Isn't Cavendish going in the cycling tonight as well
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I think there is a pretty much guaranteed medal in individual dressage tomorrow as well.
I can get excited about pretty much every olympic sport.
Dressage???
Nah.
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Rose and Stenson tied on -15 after 12 holes
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I think so. Bolt will be burning up the track at 2.30AM and the drug cheat Gatlin will be trailing in his wake....hopefully.
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I fear that may not be the case.
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I fear that may not be the case.
Really ??? If that does happen Social Media may go into meltdown
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I think there is a pretty much guaranteed medal in individual dressage tomorrow as well.
I can get excited about pretty much every olympic sport.
Dressage???
Nah.
Much how I feel about it. Probably because I don't understand how it us scored. Someone who does tried to explain it to me and I could feel myself glazing over so I must have had the look I've often seen when explaining the offside laws in football and rugby union.
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I fear that may not be the case.
Really ??? If that does happen Social Media may go into meltdown
The Olympic movement should hang their collective heads in shame if it does happen but I really think it may.
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I think there is a pretty much guaranteed medal in individual dressage tomorrow as well.
I can get excited about pretty much every olympic sport.
Dressage???
Nah.
Looks a bit cruel to me as well
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Isn't Cavendish going in the cycling tonight as well
Yeah, in the omnium, you'd expect him to get a medal given he's probably the greatest sprint cyclist of all time but over 6 events there's so many things to consider.
In my list I tried to only include medals that were guaranteed, only the golf was a guess but even at the time Rose would've had to have a remarkable breakdown to not get a medal and now it would be a case of one of the most alarming collapses in sporting history so I'm going to stick with it. I'm going to up it to a gold or silver in fact, Rose is playing beautifully but so is Stenson. Kuchar has been superb today to get to 3rd but it's just too big an ask I think.
All the others already have medals but are awaiting confirmation, it's 2 definite golds a definite silver and then 1 more that could be either.
I think there is a pretty much guaranteed medal in individual dressage tomorrow as well.
If you get into events where we look good for a gold then you have Cavendish as above, Trott in the Women's omnium, Dujardin in the dressage, Mo in the 5k, Adams in the womens boxing and Jones in the taekwondo all have a very strong chance.
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I think there is a pretty much guaranteed medal in individual dressage tomorrow as well.
I can get excited about pretty much every olympic sport.
Dressage???
Nah.
Looks a bit cruel to me as well
I firmly believe it's torture for the poor horses but no one seems to agree😟
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Whitlock guaranteed a medal in the floor exercise. Leading with 2 to go
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Odds on favourite up now
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Rose drops a shot behind with 5 to go.
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Probably blowing it!
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At least a silver for Whitlock now
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Fair play to Whitlock, has a good chance for another on the pommel horse later as well.
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This is gonna be gold!
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Fair play to Whitlock, has a good chance for another on the pommel horse later as well.
Odds on favourite for that. Looking like an amazing chance for 2 golds tonight for him
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Brilliant from Whitlock!!
His coaches need to focus him now. He's got another final in an hour!
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Who makes decisions at the BBC nowadays.
Did they really need to cut to BBC1 from BBC 2 when the gold confirmation for Whitlock was imminent. Surely hold it for 10/20/30 seconds. I'd imagine a lot of people missed it.
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Rose and Stenson tied on -14 after 14
Kouchar on -13 after 17
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Who makes decisions at the BBC nowadays.
Did they really need to cut to BBC1 from BBC 2 when the gold confirmation for Whitlock was imminent. Surely hold it for 10/20/30 seconds. I'd imagine a lot of people missed it.
yeah, I thought that. Crazy
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Brilliant win for him, his score put a lot of pressure on the Japanese and American guys and they couldn't hack it.
The pressure in the golf is massive, Stenson drops a shot now so level again after a fantastic par save for Rose.
The important thing is that the last 3 seem to be good to pick up shots and Kuchar is through 2 of them so he might not be as close as it looks right now.
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I'm not a fan of golf being in the Olympics, but I must say the course looks fantastic
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Slight error from Stenson leaving his 2nd to 15 short.
Needs to take advantage here Rose
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He has. Fabulous shot.
Did I say I wasn't a fan of golf in the Olympics!?
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I'm really enjoying it, great course, hugely tense final day and a brit right in the mix for the title.
Rose 1 shot up with 3 to go.
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Kuchar needed the birdie at the last to give himself any realistic hope of gold.
Rose ahead but Stenson is as cool as they come
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If Rose and Murray win, added to our guaranteed cycling gold, we could end up above China!
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Stenson all but guaranteed a birdie. Rose needs to knock this one close
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Poor shot unfortunately
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You have got to be joking!!!
How does that not go in??
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Looking like Rose and Stenson level going down the 17th
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If Rose and Murray win, added to our guaranteed cycling gold, we could end up above China!
Don't forget Giles Scott in the Finn (sailing) it's pretty much guaranteed if he keeps going as he is in the ninth race, his lead is massive regardless but right now it looks like it's going to widen significantly here.
Got a silver in the men's windsurfing as well.
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Looking like Rose and Stenson level going down the 17th
I reckon there's about an inch between them coming up to the third shots on the 18th, this is brilliantly tense.
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Huge chance for Rose, poor shot from Stenson
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Brilliant from Rose!!
Stenson is going to have to hole from 20 feet to force a playoff by the looks of things
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I think this is the first time ever I've found golf even vaguely exciting.
Proper squeaky bum time!
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I reckon that shot wins it, huge pressure on stenson now.
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Sorry if it's been mentioned before, but who is the trackside interviewer. His only remit is to get the athlete he interviews after the race to start sobbing. Last night he succeeded with KJT and Mo Farrah.when he interviewed Jess Ennis, she said that she was determined she wasn't "gonna cry in front of the camera". He kept asking her irrelevant and retirement questions until tears welled up in her eyes. I'm sure I heard him shout "result" as the camera panned away.
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Great stuff from Rose
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Pressure has told on Stenson, Rose's 3rd was the decider it meant Stenson had to go all out for the birdie.
Congratulations to Rose, showed huge character in the last few holes.
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Sorry if it's been mentioned before, but who is the trackside interviewer. His only remit is to get the athlete he interviews after the race to start sobbing. Last night he succeeded with KJT and Mo Farrah.when he interviewed Jess Ennis, she said that she was determined she wasn't "gonna cry in front of the camera". He kept asking her irrelevant and retirement questions until tears welled up in her eyes. I'm sure I heard him shout "result" as the camera panned away.
Phil Jones, he has been doing trackside interviews for years and I for one think he is very good and very knowledgable.
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This has the real potential to be a 6 gold day for Britain now. That would be incredible. I doubt we did that even in London
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Don't you just love Mo Farah. What an athlete and personality.
One of the things I find remarkable about Mo is that in events like the 10,000m he doesn't have the luxury of heats to find his form. He has one shot at it, yet delivers pretty much every time.
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I hope all the golfers that did take part manage to now get out of Brazil alive before bring struck down by this deadly Zika virus.
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Cant wait for the cycling to start!
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I hope all the golfers that did take part manage to now get out of Brazil alive before bring struck down by this deadly Zika virus.
I think that Zika virus specifically targets golfers.
Wasn't many gymnast's, rowers, swimmers who withdrew over it!
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Fantastic Justin Rose.
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Another Gold for Whitlock. What an hour he has had!!!
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Silver for Smith also
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Gold and Silver from the Pommel...........
Go Team GB
Will be above China soon
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It's only when somebody from another team makes a hash of it that I realise just how difficult this gymnastics is. Max Whitlock's talent is stunning.
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Max Whitlock, absolutely brilliant.
2 golds in the space on a couple of hours.
Well done, young man.
Now, bring on the cycling !!
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Max Whitlock, absolutely brilliant.
2 golds in the space on a couple of hours.
Well done, young man.
2 in a couple of hours, after no gymnastics gold for Britain for 116 years!!!!!
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I feel very sorry for Smith. He seems such a likeable guy and looks genuinely gutted with silver.
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Wonderful stuff from both gymnasts. I agree re-Smith, I feel sorry for him but you can't take anything away from Whitlock.
Brilliant from Rose too.
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I feel very sorry for Smith. He seems such a likeable guy and looks genuinely gutted with silver.
Yes, so do I. I thought he was going to win the pommel, based on his experience. Apparently he dropped a difficult move from his routine according to the commentator. I think this affected the maximum mark he could score, compared to MW.
He looks close to tears, on the podium.
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Whilst obviously feel sympathy for Smith, It is great to see a British athlete gutted with silver
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I feel very sorry for Smith. He seems such a likeable guy and looks genuinely gutted with silver.
Yes, so do I. I thought he was going to win the pommel, based on his experience. Apparently he dropped a difficult move from his routine according to the commentator. I think this affected the maximum mark he could score, compared to MW.
He looks close to tears, on the podium.
He tried the harder routine in the team final and fell off, this must have affected his thinking.
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I feel very sorry for Smith. He seems such a likeable guy and looks genuinely gutted with silver.
Yes, so do I. I thought he was going to win the pommel, based on his experience. Apparently he dropped a difficult move from his routine according to the commentator. I think this affected the maximum mark he could score, compared to MW.
He looks close to tears, on the podium.
He tried the harder routine in the team final and fell off, this must have affected his thinking.
That does sound likely, doesn't it.
His interview about the pressures from detractors has just explained a lot.
Why talk down a talented athlete? Incredible to attack someone personally, whether you rate them or not.
Meant to say, excellent from Justin Rose as well!
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Another Gold for Whitlock. What an hour he has had!!!
I bet he shagged Taylor Swift during the break too.
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Wonderful stuff from both gymnasts. I agree re-Smith, I feel sorry for him but you can't take anything away from Whitlock.
Probably a bit unfair but I'm not a fan of the bloke, seems more interested in being a celebrity rather than the best in his discipline.
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It is great to see a British athlete gutted with silver
I thought that when Greg Rutherford was so disappointed with Bronze last night.
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Wonderful stuff from both gymnasts. I agree re-Smith, I feel sorry for him but you can't take anything away from Whitlock.
Probably a bit unfair but I'm not a fan of the bloke, seems more interested in being a celebrity rather than the best in his discipline.
Yet he is the best In the world in 2 disciplines.
Strangely though I'm not a fan either, can't put my finger on it but not sure I like the bloke.
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2nd in the table now ahead of China. Stunning, simply stunning.
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Another Gold for Whitlock. What an hour he has had!!!
I bet he shagged Taylor Swift during the break too.
He turned up at her bedroom door but I told him to sod off because she was otherwise engaged.
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Another Gold in the sailing just confirmed.
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Super Saturday is now stupid sunday.
This is mental.
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Another Gold in the sailing just confirmed.
Won't go onto the official tally until Tuesday. Which means we can only win a paltry 5 golds today!
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Wonderful stuff from both gymnasts. I agree re-Smith, I feel sorry for him but you can't take anything away from Whitlock.
Probably a bit unfair but I'm not a fan of the bloke, seems more interested in being a celebrity rather than the best in his discipline.
Based on what exactly?!
He's just won two gold medals in an hour, the first two golds we've ever had in gymnastics. How would he have achieved that at the age of 23 if he wasn't utterly dedicated? Unless you meant Smith, in which case I agree.
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Wonderful stuff from both gymnasts. I agree re-Smith, I feel sorry for him but you can't take anything away from Whitlock.
Probably a bit unfair but I'm not a fan of the bloke, seems more interested in being a celebrity rather than the best in his discipline.
Based on what exactly?!
He's just won two gold medals in an hour, the first two golds we've ever had in gymnastics. How would he have achieved that at the age of 23 if he wasn't utterly dedicated? Unless you meant Smith, in which case I agree.
I think he means Smith, wasn't he on Come Dancing??
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Sorry, yes Smith. Me not liking him is a big price to pay for him doing Strictly.
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Sorry, yes Smith. Me not liking him is a big price to pay for him doing Strictly.
And he missed out on shagging Taylor Swift, too.
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Who to want to win?
Kenny or skinner? What a horrible decision to have to make.
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Who to want to win?
Kenny or skinner? What a horrible decision to have to make.
I can't make up my mind. They're going to have to settle it by racing on bicycles.
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There are worst jobs in the world than being Becky James' saddle!
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There are worst jobs in the world than being Becky James' saddle!
The only problem with that is that you probably don't want to tell her fella that you want the job.
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Somebody posted a picture on Twitter earlier of the final top 25 of the Atlanta Games to compare the difference. We're nowhere to be seen. Quite startling to see the difference.
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There are worst jobs in the world than being Becky James' saddle!
Certainly at least one up from being Raven Saunders' athletic shorts.
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Somebody posted a picture on Twitter earlier of the final top 25 of the Atlanta Games to compare the difference. We're nowhere to be seen. Quite startling to see the difference.
Two words:
National Lottery
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Somebody posted a picture on Twitter earlier of the final top 25 of the Atlanta Games to compare the difference. We're nowhere to be seen. Quite startling to see the difference.
Didn't we win just 1 gold in that Olympics? Redgrave and Pinsent?
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Never thought i would say it but the cycling and gymnastics has been fab. Superb by all the Brits.
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Yep. None in athletics i think.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics_medal_table
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Pretty crazy really.
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Somebody posted a picture on Twitter earlier of the final top 25 of the Atlanta Games to compare the difference. We're nowhere to be seen. Quite startling to see the difference.
Two words:
National Lottery
When the government talk about cutting funding for the under performing olympic sports (badminton springs to mind) is that in addition to the National Lottery funding or is it simply a case of how the Lottery money gets divvied up across all the sports/arts?
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Somebody posted a picture on Twitter earlier of the final top 25 of the Atlanta Games to compare the difference. We're nowhere to be seen. Quite startling to see the difference.
Two words:
National Lottery
Absolutely.
I was explaining this to my missus the other day, who suddenly knows everything about the onmium and the Kieran, including the best tactics for overtaking, despite never watching track cycling before Friday, and never sitting her arse on a bike.
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Somebody posted a picture on Twitter earlier of the final top 25 of the Atlanta Games to compare the difference. We're nowhere to be seen. Quite startling to see the difference.
Two words:
National Lottery
When the government talk about cutting funding for the under performing olympic sports (badminton springs to mind) is that in addition to the National Lottery funding or is it simply a case of how the Lottery money gets divvied up across all the sports/arts?
I'm guessing but I'd imagine it's just how the money is divvied up.
Whatever way it is it works a treat and it can't be long before lots of other countries copy our investment strategy.
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Info here regarding UK Sport investment.
http://www.uksport.gov.uk/our-work/investing-in-sport/how-uk-sport-funding-works
Interesting to note that lottery money basically pays athletes wages enabling them to be full time athletes.
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Gold for Kenny, Silver for Skinner
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Huge respect for all these athletes.
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Del Potro looks out on his feet, yet is taking control against Murray.
Bit strange
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Well done Kenny, you killed it.
I just cant get excited about the tennis though.
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Reading the info regarding lottery funding it is very good news for local lad Matthew Hudson-Smith who qualified quite spectacularly for the 400 final. This will see him get at least Band B funding.
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Massive hold of serve for Murray
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I tell you what, you really have to admire Andy Murray. It's hard to think that prior to 2012 he was a perennial finals loser, hadn't won a major and was not a hugely popular sportsman especially to your average English person.
4 years later he is a multi open winner, looking likely to win his second Olympic gold and seems very proud wearing the GB vest. Through sheer hard work id say he has also won around most English sports fans.
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Having a bit of a wobble in the second set a break down
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Del Potro starting to put those forehands into the net now. Fancy Murray to break him in this game.
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This next omnium race is brilliant, the elimination race. Laura Trott is an expert at it, let's hope Cav has been taking some tips.
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Lottery funding was the initial catalyst but since then so much has subsequently changed. The culture, expectations, technology, analysis etc.
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This next omnium race is brilliant, the elimination race. Laura Trott is an expert at it, let's hope Cav has been taking some tips.
Bit daft there trying to get through on inside getting eliminated that way when well placed.
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This next omnium race is brilliant, the elimination race. Laura Trott is an expert at it, let's hope Cav has been taking some tips.
My favourite in the whole thing, it's great fun. Cav got himself trapped inside a bit too often but a decent enough result to keep him in touch.
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A great break for Murray...4-2 up
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This next omnium race is brilliant, the elimination race. Laura Trott is an expert at it, let's hope Cav has been taking some tips.
My favourite in the whole thing, it's great fun. Cav got himself trapped inside a bit too often but a decent enough result to keep him in touch.
The Elimination Race is the best event in the entire Olympics.
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Third set... Murray! Please finish it in four, I'd like to be asleep before 2am for once.
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I thought Murray winning the first set was absolutely crucial. I couldn't see Del Potro being able to sustain his peak levels for 4 hours plus, especially after his injury problems and having a tough match against Nadal yesterday. So far, so good.
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Christ, playing Murray must be an absolute nightmare. Del Potro has been hitting some of the best forehands I've ever seen and he's 2-1 down - not to mention pretty shagged out, by the look of it.
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Very shabby from Murray. Gave that game away
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Brilliant first round for Buatsi in the boxing.
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Being the towel boy must be the most frustrating job in sport.
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FFS
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Info here regarding UK Sport investment.
http://www.uksport.gov.uk/our-work/investing-in-sport/how-uk-sport-funding-works
Interesting to note that lottery money basically pays athletes wages enabling them to be full time athletes.
I was listening to a cycling commentator earlier who said that the British cycling budget is roughly equal to the next 9 nations combined. The sustained success is all to do with great full time athletes working in a dedicated environment with top coaches and sports scientists. Apparently the US team has one full time employee.
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Brilliant first round for Buatsi in the boxing.
Wins and has at least a bronze.
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Brilliant first round for Buatsi in the boxing.
Wins and has at least a bronze.
Shame McCormack got beat.
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Let's go Andy, let's go . Apart from the chant I'm loving the late night sport. Last night was so much fun, hope tonight is the same.
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Brilliant first round for Buatsi in the boxing.
Wins and has at least a bronze.
How does he have at least a bronze when he's into a semi final?
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Brilliant first round for Buatsi in the boxing.
Wins and has at least a bronze.
How does he have at least a bronze when he's into a semi final?
Pretty sure the losing semi-finalists each get a bronze in the boxing.
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Brilliant first round for Buatsi in the boxing.
Wins and has at least a bronze.
How does he have at least a bronze when he's into a semi final?
Pretty sure the losing semi-finalists each get a bronze in the boxing.
Yep, no third place fight so you get 2 bronzes in each weight.
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Murray now serving to stay in the set
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Sat in my caravan, kids and wife sleeping, me and my dog chilling. Normally hate Murray but am really backing him tonight. Crowd sound intimidating for a tennis match.
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Now hold your serve
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The best thing about this Murray game is, we don't need to look at his bloody mom every time he gets a point.
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Gold for Murray. Lovely from both players at the end. Enjoyed that.
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Murray wins! What a fucking hero. And hopefully the twat in the jester hat has been left to fend for himself in the City of God.
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Absolutely fantastic from Murray. An absolute winner
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Epic match! Well done Murray!
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Gold for Murray. Lovely from both players at the end. Enjoyed that.
Yeah, the embrace between the two at the end was one of the defining moments of these games
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What a tense match. 5 Golds in one day, amazing. Glad he won just because of that cheating Argie.
Fair play to Del Potro. Great effort saying how tired he must have been. It'll be interesting to see if Murray can win the US Open.
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..... it's raining Gold!
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Very impressive from Bolt. Going to be worth staying up for another hour or so and seeing if he can do it.
I'm not sure if there has been some directive from the BBC, but I keep hearing the commentator saying "X resides in 4/5/6th place" and I find it incredibly grating. Resides !? It's their place of abode ? It seems to be a pretty clear example of someone trying to use a longer word that doesn't really fit, to try and appear a bit cleverer than they probably are. Whatever happened to "sits in" or, even more simply, "is in"... ?
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I hope Bolt destroys drug cheat Gatlin who shouldn't even be in the Olympics imo.
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Still ahead of China in medals table. Incredible!
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Wow. WR in the 400m
From Lane 8
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New WR in the men's 400M.
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Michael Johnson's record gone. Never thought that would happen
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Great 400 men's final. Amazing new WR of 43:02.
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Well done Andy Murray! A true champion. Del Potro pushed Andy really hard. Great match.
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BOOM!
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Shame the cheat got a medal.
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Usian Bolt probably the greatest athlete in history.
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Wow. WR in the 400m
From Lane 8
Amazing from lane 8. Can't remember whether Michael Johnson's record was run in that lane.
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Usian Bolt probably the greatest athlete in history.
He's a force of nature. Thought Gatlin got a great start but Bolt just reeled him in. Gatlin winning would have ruined it for me.
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Can someone explain how Russians that have never failed a test, are banned and Gatlin, who has failed two, is allowed to compete?
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Delighted, not just for Bolt but for the sport itself. I'd convinced myself that Gatlin was going to win, so much so that I didn't watch it so to wake up this morning to this news is great.
I then read about van Niekerk beating Michael Johnson's record and the cynic in me immediately raises doubts about the legality of him. A quick Wikipedia read through assures me that he seems to be just a very special athlete.
A quick mention for Matthew Hudson Smith who, despite coming 8th in the final, has had a meteoric 6 months or so and has secured himself some pretty decent lottery funding which is great.
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Well done Andy Murray! A true champion. Del Potro pushed Andy really hard. Great match.
If Murray could improve his first serve he would be number 1 in the world no problem. Still, it was a great match as you say with both players giving their all. I felt a bit for Del Potro as he comes across as a decent bloke.
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Usian Bolt probably the greatest athlete in history.
"Hey, Usain... how about a quick smile for the camera?"
(http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/57b11ccd1700002c00d1eb34.jpeg?cache=b08n3qrkm7)
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Can someone explain how Russians that have never failed a test, are banned and Gatlin, who has failed two, is allowed to compete?
No
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I hope Bolt destroys drug cheat Gatlin who shouldn't even be in the Olympics imo.
These Olympics are in a perfect timezone for you, aren't they ? :)
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Usian Bolt probably the greatest athlete in history.
"Hey, Usain... how about a quick smile for the camera?"
(http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/57b11ccd1700002c00d1eb34.jpeg?cache=b08n3qrkm7)
Probably the photo that sums him up more than anything else, canters over the line with a big grin on his face whilst the rest are working their bollocks off to get within a couple of meters of him. Phenomenal athlete and the next olympics is going to be a much poorer event for his absence.
For Van Niekerk I think being in lane 8 was the difference for him, he had 2 very quick guys inside him and just went for it because he didn't know where they were, great start and finish but the power in the middle 200 was the key.
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Those two O'Donnovan brothers who won the silver in rowing are giving some great interviews. Tactics for the final..."Get your head down and pull like a dog"
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Those two O'Donnovan brothers who won the silver in rowing are giving some great interviews. Tactics for the final..."Get your head down and pull like a dog"
Asked about food, one of them replied "plenty of shpuds and shteak!" They really are brilliant. Down to earth doesn't really cover it. They did an interview with national t.v. and said they were starving, next thing, RTE had Pizza delivered and they were munching on that. Great fun.
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They are brilliant, I love the interview after they got the medals that Dave mentioned, they get asked about what it's like back home and you honestly get the impression that they'd rather get all the nonsense of interviews, etc out of the way so they could just go to the pub.
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I'm not over keen on boxing, sorry boxing fans but, can someone who has knowledge of these things; please explain why headguards are not in evidence during these games? I've just seen a clash of heads resulting in a cut eye which, had headguards been in use, would not have happened.
Also, why did the referee not take action in the same fight when one boxer punched the other in the bollocks, not once but twice?
I'm only watching because I can't be bothered with dancing horses. Horses are only good enough for pulling beer wagons, glue and, if you're French, sandwiches.
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I've been neglecting my duties to keep score this Olympics... so here you go....
GREAT BRITAIN 16 (Sixteen)
Australolia 6
and the swimming has finished!
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I'm not over keen on boxing, sorry boxing fans but, can someone who has knowledge of these things; please explain why headguards are not in evidence during these games? I've just seen a clash of heads resulting in a cut eye which, had headguards been in use, would not have happened.
Also, why did the referee not take action in the same fight when one boxer punched the other in the bollocks, not once but twice?
I'm only watching because I can't be bothered with dancing horses. Horses are only good enough for pulling beer wagons, glue and, if you're French, sandwiches.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/35701948
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Thanks Paul_e.
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I was trying to find the actual study to post some of the evidence but the basics of it is that people are more willing to punch the top and back of the head which are the really dangerous ones.
It's related to studies on american football which have shown a clear increase in the number of injuries and the severity of injuries as a result of body armour.
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It's a strange one isn't it? You would think that cracking heads together would bring more of a risk of concussion but there you go.
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I've been neglecting my duties to keep score this Olympics... so here you go....
GREAT BRITAIN 16 (Sixteen)
Australolia 6
and the swimming has finished!
Having turned up for the first day or two, the Aussies now seem to have packed up and gone home.
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Brilliant from Trott to take the lead after 2 events and the elimination to come today which she has a great reputation in.
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I've been neglecting my duties to keep score this Olympics... so here you go....
GREAT BRITAIN 16 (Sixteen)
Australolia 6
and the swimming has finished!
Having turned up for the first day or two, the Aussies now seem to have packed up and gone home.
While you're here... I was wondering, do all Manx people sound like Cavendish? Sort of an odd mix between Scouse and Mancunian?
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Great performance by Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge in the men's doubles badminton today. Through to the semi-final now so chance of another medal there.
You don't see much badminton coverage on the telly which is a shame because it's a great sport. The BBC's onlne coverage has been realy good though.
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Not really sure why Cavendish hasn't been disqualified? Will they wait until the end or has he got away with it?
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I've been neglecting my duties to keep score this Olympics... so here you go....
GREAT BRITAIN 16 (Sixteen)
Australolia 6
and the swimming has finished!
Having turned up for the first day or two, the Aussies now seem to have packed up and gone home.
While you're here... I was wondering, do all Manx people sound like Cavendish? Sort of an odd mix between Scouse and Mancunian?
Pretty much!
Can anybody explain what on earth is going on is this last omnium race?!
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I'm not sure but I like it... fucking mental event!
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Good Silver for Cavendish, but I can't help that think after his bitching and whining he really needed to win Gold to make any sort of point
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Elimination Race! My favourite.
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I think Trott will be our best Olympian ever eventualy
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I think Trott will be our best Olympian ever eventualy
Agree, she's got "age" on her side as well as extraordinary talent and fitness
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I'm more of a road racing fan than track but bloody hell the elimination and points races in the omnium are tremendous to watch.
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I think Trott will be our best Olympian ever eventualy
She is awesome. Nothing to her but bloody hell the power of her sprint
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Good Silver for Cavendish, but I can't help that think after his bitching and whining he really needed to win Gold to make any sort of point
Bit like Louis Smith?
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I think Trott will be our best Olympian ever eventualy
She is awesome. Nothing to her but bloody hell the power of her sprint
And she's got 9 centuries for england
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Elimination Race! My favourite.
Never seen it before but I loved it. Feels like it was designed by Stephen King
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Men's heavyweight final on now.
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Rajiv Ouseph just reached the quarter final in the men's singles Badminton. Fantastic performance against Tommy Sugiarto, a very talented Indonesian player.
What an Olympics this is for the Brits.
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Controversial decision in the heavyweight final.
It wasn't quite Jones Jr vs the Korean bloke, but I'm not sure about it.
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They stopped the final round in the men's heavyweight boxing final to tend to the Russian bloke, who's head was bleeding, for an absolute age. Must have been frustrating for the Kazakh, who seemed on the verge of knocking him out at the time.
Also watched a splendidly dirty matchup between an Egyptian and a Mexican earlier. The Egyptian was punching to the back of the head, pushing his opponent's chin up with the back of his hand and finally did a low blow smack where it hurts. The Mexican on the other hand spat his gumshield out about 6 times to delay the fight and take a breather, suspect he knew that he was ahead.
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Adams just started...defending her Gold against girl from Ukraine
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Adams won to progress into last 4, guaranteed a Bronze.....only had 1 fight!!
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Anyone see the conlan fight? Disgraceful decision.
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Not really sure why Cavendish hasn't been disqualified? Will they wait until the end or has he got away with it?
Because it was a racing incident and not deliberate, he was covering what he thought was a move by Viviani to come down from high and misjudged it. Go to your local velodrome and watch any track race and there will be a crash, shit happens its part of track racing.
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Okay. Sound off in the pub. Can anyone explain what is going on?
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So what happens now in the cycling. Stopped once and Kenny looking like he got a big let off. Second infringement from the German seemingly, are they going to disqualify him?
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I don't quite get it but you can't be ahead of the shit green bike before it peels off. There was a chance that Kenny faced DQ on the first false start but was ruled that it was too difficult to judge. Then wouldn't you believe it, one of them does it again. Sure to be a DW this time.
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Brilliant. Decided the technology is shit so they don't have the grounds to disqualify anybody. This could go on all night.
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Update imminent....
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GREAT BRITAIN 19 (nineteen)
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Australolia 7
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Chuck another gold on the barbie.
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The thing is with the motorbike, it has to leave the track at a certain point. that point is marked on the track, he kept going over. Imagine formula 1 , they line up on the grid, just on the painted line, then go. The cyclists are looking at that line to go, if the bloke on a bike hasn't got off the track, that's his fault, not the cyclists
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Elimination Race! My favourite.
Never seen it before but I loved it. Feels like it was designed by Stephen King
It's brilliant, best thing I've seen so far too, love it.
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Usian Bolt probably the greatest athlete in history.
"Hey, Usain... how about a quick smile for the camera?"
(http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/57b11ccd1700002c00d1eb34.jpeg?cache=b08n3qrkm7)
Wonderful!
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The thing is with the motorbike, it has to leave the track at a certain point. that point is marked on the track, he kept going over.
It was the last time people were going to see the natty gentleman on his funky futuristic bike. Maybe he just couldn't let go...
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With the Keirin last night I think the problem was that he motorbike wasn't accelerating off the course, they normally give it a bit of gas of the last corner so the first bike or 2 behind don't have a massive disadvantage but the guy yesterday wasn't doing that so everyone was concertina'd up behind him. It can't be good for the race to have people back peddling to stay behind the pace bike at the start of the sprint and Kenny was having to do that on the 2nd attempt. For the third I thhink they all agreed to let the motorbike get 5-6 yards on them so they could just get on with it, but again that's not ideal.
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I've just seen Laura Muir in the 1500m final and I tell you what she may not have ran a tactically great race at all but bloody hell fair play to her, she really gave it a go.
Wonderful effort.
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Surely the Brazilian crowd should know more about Olympic etiquette than the Beijing public in 2008, in that respect it was really poor form to boo the French pole vaulter the other night when he was jumping but to boo him when he stands on the podium to receive his silver medal is pretty damn shocking.
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Surely the Brazilian crowd should know more about Olympic etiquette than the Beijing public in 2008, in that respect it was really poor form to boo the French pole vaulter the other night when he was jumping but to boo him when he stands on the podium to receive his silver medal is pretty damn shocking.
Grace, in a sporting context, comes with practice. We can see from the tiny number of medals they've won and the shameful attendances that Brazil just aren't a big sporting nation.
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Bit odd, could maybe understand them booing him (but not condone) if the Brazilian had finished second behind him, but their guy won!
Brazil are crap at sport. 200M people and they've got 2 golds so far. The only sport they're any good at is football.
Beach Volleyball doesn't really count.
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Even Brazil being good at football is more open to question than it used to be.
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Mo Farah was lucky not to fall in the 5000 heat! I wish he'd keep out of the bunch - move clear of the pack ffs!
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I'm really conflicted about Farah, on the one hand he seems like a really great guy, but on the other, his who support structure absolutely stinks.
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They're very good at their type of football. Unfortunately the rest of the world has caught up to them and there are other ways to play now that are just as effective. Brazil rule at the 'street' football (footsal is it?) thing they play and that's clearly shown by the close control and tricks that their best players all have (Neymar being the best example, the guy is a magician with the ball at his feet but at times struggles to convert that to end product).
The biggest problem they have with other sport is the sheer degree of poverty in the country, so many of the olympic events are just out of reach of most of their public and they, like so many countries, don't have any system in place to brin gout the potential. GB probably do it better than anywhere in the world, for an island of our size we really have no rights being in the top 2-3 in cricket, rugby, cycling, rowing and gymnastics alongside the random world class competitors in other sports with people like Farah and Peaty. We have a better conversion rate from young potential than pretty much any other country in the world when you bring in all sports.
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Brazil 2 up, Honduras defending like we did last season, especially for the first.
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Brazil 2 up, Honduras defending like we did last season, especially for the first.
6 nil now. Have Honduras got Lescott and Richards in defence?
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I'm really conflicted about Farah, on the one hand he seems like a really great guy, but on the other, his who support structure absolutely stinks.
Stink? In what way?
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I'm really conflicted about Farah, on the one hand he seems like a really great guy, but on the other, his who support structure absolutely stinks.
Stink? In what way?
I'm presuming it is in reference to Alberto Salazar.
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And Jama Aden. As I say, I hope he's clean, but there's serious questions to be asked.
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And Jama Aden. As I say, I hope he's clean, but there's serious questions to be asked.
There are questions to be asked, but I just cannot see him not being clean.
None of his times come close to breaking world records or anything like that
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And Jama Aden. As I say, I hope he's clean, but there's serious questions to be asked.
There are questions to be asked, but I just cannot see him not being clean.
None of his times come close to breaking world records or anything like that
I totally agree that he is clean but you can't use world records as a barometer to decide if he's clean or not.
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And Jama Aden. As I say, I hope he's clean, but there's serious questions to be asked.
There are questions to be asked, but I just cannot see him not being clean.
None of his times come close to breaking world records or anything like that
I totally agree that he is clean but you can't use world records as a barometer to decide if he's clean or not.
The point was that none of his performances look suspicious when you watch them. His career has been steady progression, there hasn't been a massive spike in his performance
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British women look like they're going to be in the gold medal match in the hockey for the first time ever.
Beating New Zealand 3-0
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And Jama Aden. As I say, I hope he's clean, but there's serious questions to be asked.
There are questions to be asked, but I just cannot see him not being clean.
None of his times come close to breaking world records or anything like that
I totally agree that he is clean but you can't use world records as a barometer to decide if he's clean or not.
The point was that none of his performances look suspicious when you watch them. His career has been steady progression, there hasn't been a massive spike in his performance
It's a crying shame that athletics make us have this discussion. Until they rid themselves of the Gatlin's of this world this conversation will continue to happen.
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Surely the Brazilian crowd should know more about Olympic etiquette than the Beijing public in 2008, in that respect it was really poor form to boo the French pole vaulter the other night when he was jumping but to boo him when he stands on the podium to receive his silver medal is pretty damn shocking.
Grace, in a sporting context, comes with practice. We can see from the tiny number of medals they've won and the shameful attendances that Brazil just aren't a big sporting nation.
I know a fella from California who is out there at the moment to support a friend of his in the athletics. He has posted some great pics on Facebook and I asked him how come he has seen so many great events (athletics finals including Bolt and Farah, Velodrome Tuesday, boxing last night, diving etc)and he said it is all down to cost.
Very simply the tickets are out o ft he reach of most Brazilians, so there are loads of unsold tickets for many events. Throw in the absence of medal hopes for Brazil in many events and you can basically turn up on the door.
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Despite generally being good at sport the BBC have been shite for the Olympics.
Watching the hockey tonight and ey must have switched channels twice. Why don't they just show the whole bloody game on one channel and stick with it.
It feels like they have been bought by ITV.
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Despite generally being good at sport the BBC have been shite for the Olympics.
Watching the hockey tonight and ey must have switched channels twice. Why don't they just show the whole bloody game on one channel and stick with it.
It feels like they have been bought by ITV.
Shocking isn't it, they don't deserve to retain the rights. Even Sky with their continuous adverts would do better. Hugely dissapointed in the BBC.
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Bizarre reports emerging regarding Ryan Lochte and his teammates.
Despite some fantastic individual performances and great successes for us I'm afraid this Olympics will go down as one of the worst in living memory.
Roll on Tokyo 2020.
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Bizarre reports emerging regarding Ryan Lochte and his teammates.
Despite some fantastic individual performances and great successes for us I'm afraid this Olympics will go down as one of the words to in living memory.
Roll on Tokyo 2020.
Relating to the gunpoint robbery? Sounds well dodgy, CCTV at the Olympic Village blows a hole in their story allegedly.
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Bizarre reports emerging regarding Ryan Lochte and his teammates.
Despite some fantastic individual performances and great successes for us I'm afraid this Olympics will go down as one of the words to in living memory.
Roll on Tokyo 2020.
Relating to the gunpoint robbery? Sounds well dodgy, CCTV at the Olympic Village blows a hole in their story allegedly.
Yes John. The stories emerging don't make sense. Then reports coming that Lochte and a teammate were not allowed to leave the country but had apparantly left two days earlier but two other teammates had been detained at the airport on their way home.
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Despite generally being good at sport the BBC have been shite for the Olympics.
Watching the hockey tonight and ey must have switched channels twice. Why don't they just show the whole bloody game on one channel and stick with it.
It feels like they have been bought by ITV.
Yes it 's been poor. I'm sure they would have had a few complaints if they had, say, made BBC2 the dedicated Olympics channel, all the main coverage on there, no switching, but surely they would have been allowed to for an event that only happens every four years?
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Despite generally being good at sport the BBC have been shite for the Olympics.
Watching the hockey tonight and ey must have switched channels twice. Why don't they just show the whole bloody game on one channel and stick with it.
It feels like they have been bought by ITV.
Yes it 's been poor. I'm sure they would have had a few complaints if they had, say, made BBC2 the dedicated Olympics channel, all the main coverage on there, no switching, but surely they would have been allowed to for an event that only happens every four years?
I think it has been improving (or I'm getting used to it). The coverage on the iPlayer is the way to go for me.
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Despite generally being good at sport the BBC have been shite for the Olympics.
Watching the hockey tonight and ey must have switched channels twice. Why don't they just show the whole bloody game on one channel and stick with it.
It feels like they have been bought by ITV.
Yes it 's been poor. I'm sure they would have had a few complaints if they had, say, made BBC2 the dedicated Olympics channel, all the main coverage on there, no switching, but surely they would have been allowed to for an event that only happens every four years?
I think it has been improving (or I'm getting used to it). The coverage on the iPlayer is the way to go for me.
It's not great having to switch channels but I do have some sympathy, 7000 hours of sport and the BBC is showing over 3000 hours of it.
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And they also made the sensible decision to push the 10pm news back while we watched Kenny make history. They got that right, at least.
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Yeah I think the BBC have done a decent job really, I've been using iplayer rather than sticking to the schedule.
My only complaint is that I'd like them to have everything available on catchup, all neatly organised by sport and date so if you want to go back and watch, for example, the race where the dutch girl road along the wall (which was fucking brilliant) then you can easily find it.
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Despite generally being good at sport the BBC have been shite for the Olympics.
Watching the hockey tonight and ey must have switched channels twice. Why don't they just show the whole bloody game on one channel and stick with it.
It feels like they have been bought by ITV.
Shocking isn't it, they don't deserve to retain the rights. Even Sky with their continuous adverts would do better. Hugely dissapointed in the BBC.
I strongly disagree that Sky would be better. It would be a disaster for sport in the UK. Part of the beauty of the Olympics is that the BBC allows pretty much everyone to have access to it which is vital for the minority sports. I appreciate that I've twisted your words slightly there as you're referring to the quality of the coverage rather than the merits of the actual broadcaster (apologies).
In defence of the BBC - from a coverage perspective - I think it's best enjoyed via the iPlayer app and BBC website rather than watching the traditional BBC1/BBC2 TV channels. It's the same for Glastonbury too.
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Bizarre reports emerging regarding Ryan Lochte and his teammates.
Despite some fantastic individual performances and great successes for us I'm afraid this Olympics will go down as one of the words to in living memory.
Roll on Tokyo 2020.
Have any newspapers reported on the alternative theories? I'd be interested to read if links are available.
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Bizarre reports emerging regarding Ryan Lochte and his teammates.
Despite some fantastic individual performances and great successes for us I'm afraid this Olympics will go down as one of the words to in living memory.
Roll on Tokyo 2020.
Have any newspapers reported on the alternative theories? I'd be interested to read if links are available.
I haven't read anything apart from what is being reported mainstream but it's all just a little bit strange, not least the American officials initially stating they hadn't been mugged and then changing their official line to they had.
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Brownlee brothers first and second in the Triathlon. Great achievements both.
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Bizarre reports emerging regarding Ryan Lochte and his teammates.
Despite some fantastic individual performances and great successes for us I'm afraid this Olympics will go down as one of the words to in living memory.
Roll on Tokyo 2020.
Have any newspapers reported on the alternative theories? I'd be interested to read if links are available.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-37115778
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Brownlee brothers first and second in the Triathlon. Great achievements both.
Absolute dedication to their chosen sport. A credit to this country.
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Bizarre reports emerging regarding Ryan Lochte and his teammates.
Despite some fantastic individual performances and great successes for us I'm afraid this Olympics will go down as one of the words to in living memory.
Roll on Tokyo 2020.
Relating to the gunpoint robbery? Sounds well dodgy, CCTV at the Olympic Village blows a hole in their story allegedly.
Oh dear it looks like they have been found out. Not good for the USA.
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Brownlee brothers first and second in the Triathlon. Great achievements both.
Absolute dedication to their chosen sport. A credit to this country.
Sports.
They're amazing athletes, it was a great shame Javier Gomez is injured, I think he'd have been there or there abouts with Alistair on previous form.
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Brownlee brothers first and second in the Triathlon. Great achievements both.
Absolute dedication to their chosen sport. A credit to this country.
Sports.
They're amazing athletes, it was a great shame Javier Gomez is injured, I think he'd have been there or there abouts with Alistair on previous form.
And the Brownlees said before the event that they were disappointed that Gomez was injured as they wanted to test themselves against the best in the world and his injury would mean that one of the best would not be there.
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Brilliant Brownlee brothers!
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I watched the 200 metres live and about four times since.I still think Gemini got the bronze!!
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Another gold for Jade Jones. That's us on 22 now.
Fair play to Australia. They've nearly won a third of our golds.
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Pfftt....,Jonathan Brownlee not even the best triathlon competitor in his own family!
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British women won a sailing gold.
Was that the one where they just needed to complete the race to win the gold? If so I was hoping that they'd turn up in pirate outfits.
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Bizarre reports emerging regarding Ryan Lochte and his teammates.
Despite some fantastic individual performances and great successes for us I'm afraid this Olympics will go down as one of the words to in living memory.
Roll on Tokyo 2020.
Relating to the gunpoint robbery? Sounds well dodgy, CCTV at the Olympic Village blows a hole in their story allegedly.
Oh dear it looks like they have been found out. Not good for the USA.
It's a disgrace....they should strip the USA of all their medals...
Liars and cheating has no place in Olympian sport.
Doh!
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Bizarre reports emerging regarding Ryan Lochte and his teammates.
Despite some fantastic individual performances and great successes for us I'm afraid this Olympics will go down as one of the words to in living memory.
Roll on Tokyo 2020.
Relating to the gunpoint robbery? Sounds well dodgy, CCTV at the Olympic Village blows a hole in their story allegedly.
Oh dear it looks like they have been found out. Not good for the USA.
It's a disgrace....they should strip the USA of all their medals...
Liars and cheating has no place in Olympian sport.
Doh!
12 gold medals and this will be his ultimate Olympic legacy. What a fool, what on earth was he thinking?
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12 gold medals and this will be his ultimate Olympic legacy. What a fool, what on earth was he thinking?
I think this explains that he's just an entitled man-child. (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/18/ryan-lochte-rio-olympics-robbery-gunpoint-ileana-reality-tv)
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Another gold for Jade Jones. That's us on 22 now.
Fair play to Australia. They've nearly won a third of our golds.
I've missed the rivalry with the shackle draggers, they've been shit at sport for a while now, cricket, rugby, the Olympics. It's fucking great.
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Aaron Cook eliminated early doors. That is pretty humiliating since he kicked up such a fuss over being dropped by GB last time around. I wonder how much the Moldovans paid him to take their passport.
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I haven't watched any of it but I have just seen some pictures in the paper of Sam Quek. She might have been hit by some hockey sticks in her time but she certainly hasn't been hit by any ugly sticks.
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I haven't watched any of it but I have just seen some pictures in the paper of Sam Quek. She might have been hit by some hockey sticks in her time but she certainly hasn't been hit by any ugly sticks.
Hands off, she's mine!
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I haven't watched any of it but I have just seen some pictures in the paper of Sam Quek. She might have been hit by some hockey sticks in her time but she certainly hasn't been hit by any ugly sticks.
Hands off, she's mine!
Surely it's down to who gets in there 'Quekest'!
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I haven't watched any of it but I have just seen some pictures in the paper of Sam Quek. She might have been hit by some hockey sticks in her time but she certainly hasn't been hit by any ugly sticks.
Hands off, she's mine!
Surely it's down to who gets in there 'Quekest'!
I see your Sam Quek and raise you an Ellen Hoog.
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I haven't watched any of it but I have just seen some pictures in the paper of Sam Quek. She might have been hit by some hockey sticks in her time but she certainly hasn't been hit by any ugly sticks.
Crikey!!
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I'm loving the BMX. It's like crash test dummies on bikes.
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In this BMX, one of the most predictable pieces of commentary has to be: "Oh, there's a crash".
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Nick Skelton, 7 Olympics?, must be a record.
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Wow, a 58 year old Olympic champion, that's fkn mad.
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The Olympics where even our near-pensioners are whipping the world's arses. Unbelievable.
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The Olympics where even our near-pensioners are whipping the world's arses. Unbelievable.
Complete with a hip replacement. The epitome of old age.
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Can I be arsed to watch the hockey?, probably not but I hope they win.
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Can I be arsed to watch the hockey?, probably not but I hope they win.
Ditto, they deserve to be watched but.......nah. Good luck to them,
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Can I be arsed to watch the hockey?, probably not but I hope they win.
Ditto, they deserve to be watched but.......nah. Good luck to them,
It's good so far, cloggers missed a pen and we are 1 up in Q1
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great goal , juggling involved
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1-1 Van der Valk equalises.
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I've decided that hockey is shite. Do they ever manage to go 30 seconds without a penalty of some sort? Plus we're losing now!
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Getting swarmed 1-2
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2-1 Van der Molen
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2-2 :) :)
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2-2 great goal and response.
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Dutch are relentless
Good to see Muhammad through to final
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3-2 Van der Stiggels.
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They take the lead now. It was coming.
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3.3
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Yes game on
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3-3
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Pens
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1-0
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Can we sign this GB keeper please?
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It's gOLLLLLLD 2-0
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We won the gold but even the shootout was crap. Still, well done girls.
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Excellent entertainment
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That was a bit exciting! Villa should sign that goalie.
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Cracking. Saw them beat Aussies in first game and thye have been briooiant throughout
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Bonkers but brilliant.
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An o.g. of Okore proportions in the womens football final.
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Best Olympic team moment I've seen. The Dutch were the better team but happened to be up against a brilliant keeper. She was immense. Felt a bit for the Dutch but at least the coach got to dish out plenty of hugs and support to her team which by the look of her I'm sure she liked.
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Yep the GB keeper was exceptional in the woman's hockey, the Dutch will no doubt be aggrieved as they were far the better team in the match.
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Not good news for the Paralympics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/37135083
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Yep the GB keeper was exceptional in the woman's hockey, the Dutch will no doubt be aggrieved as they were far the better team in the match.
Maybe, but they only got through by winning a penalty shootout whereas Britain qualified by right. I don't think they can have too many complaints on that basis.
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It's time we won a penalty shoot out, even if it was the Hockey women that showed us how it's done.
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I watched one of the group games in the hockey and thought the keeper looked brilliant and every game since she seems to have just got better, she was immense today and was the key difference between the teams.
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Best Olympic team moment I've seen. The Dutch were the better team but happened to be up against a brilliant keeper. She was immense. Felt a bit for the Dutch but at least the coach got to dish out plenty of hugs and support to her team which by the look of her I'm sure she liked.
To quote Barry Davies, frankly, who cares.
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Excellent entertainment
Completely agree. A rally good game and only a great goalkeeping display, dogged defending and a very good conversion ratio for the few chances created saw the Brits win it.
From the very beginning when a couple of the Dutch girls had the giggles during their anthem it was fantastic entertainment.
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The Olympics where even our near-pensioners are whipping the world's arses. Unbelievable.
Complete with a hip replacement. The epitome of old age.
It's that attention to detail that really pisses the others off!
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37140834
Has there been anymore on this?
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Really well done to Nick Skelton. I remember my nan taking me to Canwell Show near Sutton Coldfield in the 70s and seeing him jumping there, so that really is an impressive career span. The hockey final was brilliant TV as well, their penalty shoot outs are mental.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37140834
Has there been anymore on this?
Ridiculous if that's upheld, smacks of cheating or at the very least influencing an official by the Brazilians.
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The London-centric media bleating about the inconvenience of the Olympic/Paralympic victory parade being in Manchester, conveniently forgetting that tens-of-thousands of their fellow residents in the South East don't seem to have any problem making the trek every fortnight between August and May.
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Lutalo Muhammed must be devastated. Losing in the last second must be incredibly difficult to take
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The London-centric media bleating about the inconvenience of the Olympic/Paralympic victory parade being in Manchester, conveniently forgetting that tens-of-thousands of their fellow residents in the South East don't seem to have any problem making the trek every fortnight between August and May.
Very good
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Brazil win the gold medal in Football after beating Germans on pens.
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Boom! Mo does it again.
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Whatever the questions, I want him to be knighted, just to annoy / confuse the daily mailers.
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Never looked troubled. Superb athlete. Worth staying up for.
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Mo is remarkable.
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Truly incredible athlete. In complete control from start to finish
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Good run by Butchart too.
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4x400 Bronze.
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Two of the heptathletes jumped higher than the winning jump in the individual high jump.
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If you take out their two main sports from GB and USA then you end up with GB winning 18 golds against USA 14 golds
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If you take out their two main sports from GB and USA then you end up with GB winning 18 golds against USA 14 golds
Yes, the British spread across different events is incredibly impressive.
I've just read that Britain will officially finish ahead of China in second place. That's absolutely nuts.
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If you take out their two main sports from GB and USA then you end up with GB winning 18 golds against USA 14 golds
Yes, the British spread across different events is incredibly impressive.
I've just read that Britain will officially finish ahead of China in second place. That's absolutely nuts.
Yep an unassailable lead over China, bonkers.
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Delighted as I am with the achievements of British athletes, I'm finding the obsession with the medal table just a little bit disconcerting. I don't recall the same focus when we weren't winning anything but a handful of medals in the Olympiads of the late twentieth century.
I've had a family member post on Facebook, "...just surprised no one seems to be suggesting joining up with 27 other European nations as a super team to ensure our future success..." To which my response was:
(1) Now there's an idea as to how to catch the runaway leaders who are a federation of fifty states with a single currency.
(2) Who are you going to follow in next month's Ryder Cup?
(3) Now that we've supposedly got our country back, how do you feel about celebrating the "British" gold medal success of, amongst others, on the athletics track a Somalian refugee based in Oregon, in the velodrome cyclists who were Belgium-born (with an Australian father) and German-born (with a German-mother), and on the rowing lake a men's coxless four that contained the sons of Moroccan and Greek fathers (coached by a German)?
I've yet to get a response.
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All the highlights are on BBC1 from 8.00pm tonight
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Good luck Joe. This is going to be good.
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It's coming home,
It's coming home,
Handball's coming home.
I'd be impressed if I knew the rules.
Although beating France who apparently had won the last 10 Olympic/European/World championships sounds quite good.
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That French bloke stole that and he appears to be a cock.
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That French bloke stole that and he appears to be a cock.
It's hardly a surprise. Aren't all boxing judges either blind or corrupt?
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Delighted as I am with the achievements of British athletes, I'm finding the obsession with the medal table just a little bit disconcerting. I don't recall the same focus when we weren't winning anything but a handful of medals in the Olympiads of the late twentieth century.
I agree. I can just about remember Montreal in '76 and clearly remember Moscow in '80 and can't remember anything of that nature until Seoul in '88, where after, with each passing Olympiad it's become an almost pernicious yardstick for whether it was worth turning up.
Everything in life is reduced to a business analyst's ROI and ROCE metrics these days, including human life itself.
As for the impressive medal haul itself, an effect in partsof so many Russians (quite rightly) missing?
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I remember the medal table being rammed into our faces every Olympics back to 1960:
USA 1,000
USSR 999
East Germany 50
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GB 2 Gold, 3 Silvers (due to cheating judges), 5 (plucky) bronzes
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Yeah, I remember the medal table being a source of shame in 96. I don't see a problem with celebrating it, remember what it really represents is that we have absolutely mastery of 1 sport (track cycling) but more importantly we have found a formula to achieve success in a vast number of events. Being proud of that is perfectly reasonable. What we need to start looking at now is finding ways to improve in the sports/areas where we've failed or at least not had much success. We've done very little in field athletics for example.
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Boxing judges are a fucking disgrace to the games.
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We've done very little in field athletics for example.
Agreed, I love watching field athletics. Oh for the glorious failures of Dalton Grant and Steve Backley. And the perennial eigth place for Mick Hill.
Does anyone know what happened to Steve Lewis?
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We've done very little in field athletics for example.
Agreed, I love watching field athletics. Oh for the glorious failures of Dalton Grant and Steve Backley. And the perennial eigth place for Mick Hill.
Does anyone know what happened to Steve Lewis?
The American sprinter? I vaguely remember him in Seoul I think.
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We've done very little in field athletics for example.
Agreed, I love watching field athletics. Oh for the glorious failures of Dalton Grant and Steve Backley. And the perennial eigth place for Mick Hill.
Does anyone know what happened to Steve Lewis?
The American sprinter? I vaguely remember him in Seoul I think.
GB pole vaulter, looked very good at one point.
Carl Lewis is no better than Ben Johnson.
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We've done very little in field athletics for example.
Agreed, I love watching field athletics. Oh for the glorious failures of Dalton Grant and Steve Backley. And the perennial eigth place for Mick Hill.
Does anyone know what happened to Steve Lewis?
According to Wikipedia he finished 29th at the World Championships last year.
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We've done very little in field athletics for example.
Agreed, I love watching field athletics. Oh for the glorious failures of Dalton Grant and Steve Backley. And the perennial eigth place for Mick Hill.
Does anyone know what happened to Steve Lewis?
According to Wikipedia he finished 29th at the World Championships last year.
Thanks. He turned average then. We had a female pole vaulter who I think broke the UK record as well recently. I'll have to wiki her
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We've done very little in field athletics for example.
Agreed, I love watching field athletics. Oh for the glorious failures of Dalton Grant and Steve Backley. And the perennial eigth place for Mick Hill.
Does anyone know what happened to Steve Lewis?
According to Wikipedia he finished 29th at the World Championships last year.
Thanks. He turned average then. We had a female pole vaulter who I think broke the UK record as well recently. I'll have to wiki her
Holly Bradshaw apparantly, not who I was thinking of, it was Kate Dennison.
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Well, on the whole I really enjoyed the Olympics. GB have outdone themselves, with a magnificent medal haul in wide variety of sports. A few things though:
Take out Mo, and we're exceedingly crap in Track and Field. Where are the sprinters and middle distance runners, and all of the other events ike discus, hammer and pole vault etc?
Surely they need to even out the medals available in the various events. The USA got 33 medals, about a quarter of their total in swimming. Also, as pleased as I was for Nicola Adams, she was guaranteed a bronze after winning one fight. And sort the bloody judges out for the boxing, they were a disgrace.
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What we need to start looking at now is finding ways to improve in the sports/areas where we've failed or at least not had much success.
No. What we need to start looking at now is why the easily-cited inspiration of winning a large haul of medals doesn't translate into increased participation. Why two hours per week of P.E. is no longer statutory in schools. Why cuts in council budgets inevitably mean a disproportionate cut in funding of leisure and sports facilities. In an ideal world, developing and delivering world class performers should be the by-product of a culture of mass participation by all - and especially the young.
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Funding for scholarships at universities where the thick fast kid can get a "degree" in some made up shite like sociology while spending 90% of their time training for the 400 metres. That's how the Americans do it.
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Funding for scholarships at universities where the thick fast kid can get a "degree" in some made up shite like sociology while spending 90% of their time training for the 400 metres. That's how the Americans do it.
This is not a million miles away from GB's recipe for success, is it?
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What we need to start looking at now is finding ways to improve in the sports/areas where we've failed or at least not had much success.
No. What we need to start looking at now is why the easily-cited inspiration of winning a large haul of medals doesn't translate into increased participation. Why two hours per week of P.E. is no longer statutory in schools. Why cuts in council budgets inevitably mean a disproportionate cut in funding of leisure and sports facilities. In an ideal world, developing and delivering world class performers should be the by-product of a culture of mass participation by all - and especially the young.
Not really, that's a very different problem and comes down to the effect of austerity and the politicising of education.
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I don't have any stats, but the number of people cycling and jogging around this neck of the woods seems to have massively increased over the last ten years. Focus seems to be on individual exercise and fitness rather than competitive sport.
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I don't have any stats, but the number of people cycling and jogging around this neck of the woods seems to have massively increased over the last ten years. Focus seems to be on individual exercise and fitness rather than competitive sport.
Maybe a reflection of the diminished social cohesion. We are all more solitary in our outlook now.
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Well, on the whole I really enjoyed the Olympics. GB have outdone themselves, with a magnificent medal haul in wide variety of sports. A few things though:
Take out Mo, and we're exceedingly crap in Track and Field. Where are the sprinters and middle distance runners, and all of the other events ike discus, hammer and pole vault etc?
Surely they need to even out the medals available in the various events. The USA got 33 medals, about a quarter of their total in swimming. Also, as pleased as I was for Nicola Adams, she was guaranteed a bronze after winning one fight. And sort the bloody judges out for the boxing, they were a disgrace.
I think once Bolt is gone Gemilli will be up there in the 200 metres. He's got a good flat speed and runs a great bend. He's also got plenty of scope to improve.
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What we need to start looking at now is finding ways to improve in the sports/areas where we've failed or at least not had much success.
No. What we need to start looking at now is why the easily-cited inspiration of winning a large haul of medals doesn't translate into increased participation. Why two hours per week of P.E. is no longer statutory in schools. Why cuts in council budgets inevitably mean a disproportionate cut in funding of leisure and sports facilities. In an ideal world, developing and delivering world class performers should be the by-product of a culture of mass participation by all - and especially the young.
Not really, that's a very different problem and comes down to the effect of austerity and the politicising of education.
I disagree. The potential gold medal winners of 2032 are already born and, for the most part, already at school. If they're not hooked on participation and have easy/cheap access to grass-roots facilities over the next few years, then all the Lottery funding in the world is not going to delivery success at the very pinnacle of sport, at least not on the scale and breadth that we are becoming accustomed to, when they hit their twenties.
However, my wider point is, given the choice between millions of people participating in sport and physical recreation or the feel good factor of a hundred-odd of our citizens winning medals every four years, I think the former is not only the preferable option for our collective long-term health and well-being, but has the potential of actually delivering even more success. I'm not advocating that UK Sport no longer funds the top level programmes, but I wonder whether additional - and much greater amounts of - Lottery money shouldn't be directed towards creating that base.
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What we need to start looking at now is finding ways to improve in the sports/areas where we've failed or at least not had much success.
No. What we need to start looking at now is why the easily-cited inspiration of winning a large haul of medals doesn't translate into increased participation. Why two hours per week of P.E. is no longer statutory in schools. Why cuts in council budgets inevitably mean a disproportionate cut in funding of leisure and sports facilities. In an ideal world, developing and delivering world class performers should be the by-product of a culture of mass participation by all - and especially the young.
Not really, that's a very different problem and comes down to the effect of austerity and the politicising of education.
I disagree. The potential gold medal winners of 2032 are already born and, for the most part, already at school. If they're not hooked on participation and have easy/cheap access to grass-roots facilities over the next few years, then all the Lottery funding in the world is not going to delivery success at the very pinnacle of sport, at least not on the scale and breadth that we are becoming accustomed to, when they hit their twenties.
However, my wider point is, given the choice between millions of people participating in sport and physical recreation or the feel good factor of a hundred-odd of our citizens winning medals every four years, I think the former is not only the preferable option for our collective long-term health and well-being, but has the potential of actually delivering even more success. I'm not advocating that UK Sport no longer funds the top level programmes, but I wonder whether additional - and much greater amounts of - Lottery money shouldn't be directed towards creating that base.
They were making a similar point on R5 on the drive home. Apparently Finland is the fittest nation in Europe by most available criteria, but managed one bronze in Rio. I don't see why the two have to be mutually exclusive. My two eldest both enjoy swimming, Taekwondo and horse riding, and both have been hugely inspired by watching the success of the GB team. Cycling is hugely popular over, inspired in part by Mark Cavendish and Peter Kennaugh. The country needs a combination of good facilities, good parenting, good teaching of sport in schools, and people to look up to. The government has a huge part to play in that, of course.
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What we need to start looking at now is finding ways to improve in the sports/areas where we've failed or at least not had much success.
No. What we need to start looking at now is why the easily-cited inspiration of winning a large haul of medals doesn't translate into increased participation. Why two hours per week of P.E. is no longer statutory in schools. Why cuts in council budgets inevitably mean a disproportionate cut in funding of leisure and sports facilities. In an ideal world, developing and delivering world class performers should be the by-product of a culture of mass participation by all - and especially the young.
Not really, that's a very different problem and comes down to the effect of austerity and the politicising of education.
I disagree. The potential gold medal winners of 2032 are already born and, for the most part, already at school. If they're not hooked on participation and have easy/cheap access to grass-roots facilities over the next few years, then all the Lottery funding in the world is not going to delivery success at the very pinnacle of sport, at least not on the scale and breadth that we are becoming accustomed to, when they hit their twenties.
However, my wider point is, given the choice between millions of people participating in sport and physical recreation or the feel good factor of a hundred-odd of our citizens winning medals every four years, I think the former is not only the preferable option for our collective long-term health and well-being, but has the potential of actually delivering even more success. I'm not advocating that UK Sport no longer funds the top level programmes, but I wonder whether additional - and much greater amounts of - Lottery money shouldn't be directed towards creating that base.
No they shouldn't be, that's my point. We shouldn't be using those funds to improve sport in schools or provide community sports facilities, those are things that should be paid for out of taxes but that have been purposely cut by successive governments. The lottery funding is a finite pot that is spread across numerous areas including sport so additional funding means a withdrawal of lottery funding from other areas (such as culture and the arts) in favour of sport, even if that's not what you intend. Those areas that would lose are equally underfunded/undervalued from the government at school and community level and need the money just as badly.
As I've said the issue is that austerity has cut funding to the point where councils are only delivering essential services, and sports facilities don't fit in and education policy has been screwed with repeatedly for years to make everything measurable and almost entirely academic focused. I completely agree that it's something we need to address and that it will be for the good of the country to do so I just don't think lottery funding and UK Sport direction is the right way to do it. May has said that she wants this to be a government that serves everyone, she needs to be held to that promise and this is a key area that she should be measured on.
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With regard to school sport, schools are still in receipt of what is known as the Sports Premium. It is actually reasonably generous and has the potential to give greater and wider opportunities to all children and also to the more talented. Unfortunately, far too often at primary level it is used to bring in an outside coach to deliver P.E. lessons allowing the class teacher their contracted non-contact time without the need to employ another teacher to cover it (as a result of the squeeze on other areas of the school budget). I'm certainly not decrying children getting an hour a week of coaching from, say, a basketball specialist, but I rather they were paid to deliver that as an extra-curricular hour in addition to the P.E. lesson delivered by the class teacher.
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Third position where the top two are USA and China is very good indeed. I know it's about a million pounds per medal but nothing inspires our future generations like winning so well done all involved.
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Whatever happened to Peri Shakes Drayton? She seems to have gone off the radar.Has she given up through injury or perhaps was over hyped by the press?
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Third position where the top two are USA and China is very good indeed. I know it's about a million pounds per medal but nothing inspires our future generations like winning so well done all involved.
Eh? I thought we finished second, behind USA and in front of China?
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Third position where the top two are USA and China is very good indeed. I know it's about a million pounds per medal but nothing inspires our future generations like winning so well done all involved.
Eh? I thought we finished second, behind USA and in front of China?
China got more total medals but we got more golds and silvers. We're 2nd officially but some sites have just reported the medal count and have us 3rd.
Olaf you're a long way short with your valuation, it's closer to £4m per medal, the head of UK sport gave that very figure at the weekend. However even at that level I agree with you that it's worth every penny.
With regard to school sport, schools are still in receipt of what is known as the Sports Premium. It is actually reasonably generous and has the potential to give greater and wider opportunities to all children and also to the more talented. Unfortunately, far too often at primary level it is used to bring in an outside coach to deliver P.E. lessons allowing the class teacher their contracted non-contact time without the need to employ another teacher to cover it (as a result of the squeeze on other areas of the school budget). I'm certainly not decrying children getting an hour a week of coaching from, say, a basketball specialist, but I rather they were paid to deliver that as an extra-curricular hour in addition to the P.E. lesson delivered by the class teacher.
See again this is what I mean about the way sport in education is handled. Throwing extra lottery funding into the mix won't help. There needs to be a fundamental shift in education policy to a point where areas which are difficult to measure teacher performance are given just as big a priority as subjects where the government can produce stats and tables.
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Third position where the top two are USA and China is very good indeed. I know it's about a million pounds per medal but nothing inspires our future generations like winning so well done all involved.
Eh? I thought we finished second, behind USA and in front of China?
China got more total medals but we got more golds and silvers. We're 2nd officially but some sites have just reported the medal count and have us 3rd.
We are not anything 'officially' because there is no such thing as the official medal table. In fact, the IOC has said in the past that it doesn't recognise medal tables and doesn't encourage them. It is even documented as such in the IOC charter. Different countries and different media present things for their own audiences. In the US, for instance, the convention is total medals - meaning they see China as 2nd and us as 3rd.
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Then they should probably tell themselves as much because if you go to the website for rio 2016 - https://www.rio2016.com/en/schedule-and-results - and click on medals on the left you get a fairly clear medal table in the format that I called official. That's why I said it that way because that's what their own website reports.
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Then they should probably tell themselves as much because if you go to the website for rio 2016 - https://www.rio2016.com/en/schedule-and-results - and click on medals on the left you get a fairly clear medal table in the format that I called official. That's why I said it that way because that's what their own website reports.
They provide it for information purposes only. And they do say that. The IOC charter is as clear as day. Medals are awarded to individuals and not countries. So although they provide a list of winners in lots of formats, they do not determine winners or runners up in the medal table. So there is no official 2nd place. Which is great as it allows us to debate it on a football forum 😄
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I get what you're saying and I agree that fundamentally athletes win medals not countries but I'm afraid i'm calling bullshit. If they put a medal table ranked by country on their own website then they implicitly support it as a concept regardless of what they say. If they don't wan to have a table then just put every country in alphabetical order and list the number of medals they got, gives the same info but removes the implication of 'winning'.
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I get what you're saying and I agree that fundamentally athletes win medals not countries but I'm afraid i'm calling bullshit. If they put a medal table ranked by country on their own website then they implicitly support it as a concept regardless of what they say. If they don't wan to have a table then just put every country in alphabetical order and list the number of medals they got, gives the same info but removes the implication of 'winning'.
I think there is just an issue of semantics, I perceive a difference between, "here is a list of medals won by country, ranked in order" versus, " here is the official medal table and the winner is..." Especially when the IOC themselves are very explicit in saying they do not recognise the medal table has having anything other than an information basis and it is not official.
The Olympic Charter, Chapter 1, section 6 states that:
"The Olympic Games are competitions between athletes in individual or team events and not between countries..."
The Charter goes even further in Chapter 5, section 57, expressly prohibiting the IOC from producing an official ranking:
"The IOC and the OCOG shall not draw up any global ranking per country"
But I accept that in a stats obsessed world we will naturally look to these tables as an indicator of success.
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I get what you're saying and I agree that fundamentally athletes win medals not countries but I'm afraid i'm calling bullshit. If they put a medal table ranked by country on their own website then they implicitly support it as a concept regardless of what they say. If they don't wan to have a table then just put every country in alphabetical order and list the number of medals they got, gives the same info but removes the implication of 'winning'.
I think there is just an issue of semantics, I perceive a difference between, "here is a list of medals won by country, ranked in order" versus, " here is the official medal table and the winner is..." Especially when the IOC themselves are very explicit in saying they do not recognise the medal table has having anything other than an information basis and it is not official.
The Olympic Charter, Chapter 1, section 6 states that:
"The Olympic Games are competitions between athletes in individual or team events and not between countries..."
The Charter goes even further in Chapter 5, section 57, expressly prohibiting the IOC from producing an official ranking:
"The IOC and the OCOG shall not draw up any global ranking per country"
But I accept that in a stats obsessed world we will naturally look to these tables as an indicator of success.
The bold bit is the problem, that's exactly what they've done on their own website because they have a medals table and headline it with 'top 5', that's a ranking by nation so their own website breaks their charter. That's not semantics it's quite clearly what they've done.
As I say, I don't feel all that strongly either way but the official website for the games having a 'top 5' medal table with GB in 2nd is an official placing for the country, the charter doesn't really matter at that point, anyone looking for an official placement for their country in the medal tables will look on that website and find it.
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Third position where the top two are USA and China is very good indeed. I know it's about a million pounds per medal but nothing inspires our future generations like winning so well done all involved.
Eh? I thought we finished second, behind USA and in front of China?
China got more total medals but we got more golds and silvers. We're 2nd officially but some sites have just reported the medal count and have us 3rd.
We are not anything 'officially' because there is no such thing as the official medal table. In fact, the IOC has said in the past that it doesn't recognise medal tables and doesn't encourage them. It is even documented as such in the IOC charter. Different countries and different media present things for their own audiences. In the US, for instance, the convention is total medals - meaning they see China as 2nd and us as 3rd.
I'm pretty sure America only adopted that "convention" when they finished below China on golds but above them on total medals.
The general consensus is you rank by gold, then silver, then bronze.
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I think they should do it on points:-
3: Gold
2: Silver
1: Bronze
Or 5,3 and 1.
The current system means that bronze medals become more or less irrelevant.
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It should be 4, 2 and 1. Then the number of points gained in each sport should be divided by the number of medals available in said sport. That way you wouldn't have the ludicrous situation where being good at swimming is better than being good at about nine different sports.
Add all the totals together to get an overall score.
Merge the Winter and Summer Olympic Medal Tables while you're at it for a grand total to work out which is really top nation.
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If they had a double dutch America would have won another, Hey Ebo, Ebonettes!!!
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If they had a double dutch America would have won another, Hey Ebo, Ebonettes!!!
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