Rio Olympic Games 2016

[ACVilla]

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.

[taylorsworkrate]

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

[ACVilla]

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.

[taylorsworkrate]

GB womens Rugby 7's team look to have a case of the fourth's also

[Rudy65]

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

[ACVilla]

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.

[ACVilla]

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.

[UK Redsox]

I played Field Hockey as a kid and then again a few years ago. Bloody dangerous sport

[LeeS]

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.

[dave shelley]

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.

[LeeS]

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.

[Dr Butler]

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...

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[ACVilla]

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.

[Stu]

Japan beat NZ in the Rugby 7's.

Shame.

[dave shelley]

Dutch gymnast sent home for being pissed.

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