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Offline taylorsworkrate

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Re: Rio Olympic Games 2016
« Reply #435 on: August 15, 2016, 01:13:12 AM »
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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Re: Rio Olympic Games 2016
« Reply #436 on: August 15, 2016, 01:15:00 AM »
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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Re: Rio Olympic Games 2016
« Reply #437 on: August 15, 2016, 01:18:28 AM »
  .....  it's raining Gold!

Offline luke:lamf

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Re: Rio Olympic Games 2016
« Reply #438 on: August 15, 2016, 01:24:44 AM »
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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Re: Rio Olympic Games 2016
« Reply #439 on: August 15, 2016, 01:41:46 AM »
I hope Bolt destroys drug cheat Gatlin who shouldn't even be in the Olympics imo.


Offline taylorsworkrate

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Re: Rio Olympic Games 2016
« Reply #440 on: August 15, 2016, 02:00:52 AM »
Still ahead of China in medals table. Incredible!

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Re: Rio Olympic Games 2016
« Reply #441 on: August 15, 2016, 02:02:07 AM »
Wow. WR in the 400m

From Lane 8

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Rio Olympic Games 2016
« Reply #442 on: August 15, 2016, 02:02:08 AM »
New WR in the men's 400M.

Offline taylorsworkrate

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Re: Rio Olympic Games 2016
« Reply #443 on: August 15, 2016, 02:02:41 AM »
Michael Johnson's record gone. Never thought that would happen

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Re: Rio Olympic Games 2016
« Reply #444 on: August 15, 2016, 02:14:00 AM »
Great 400 men's final. Amazing new WR of 43:02.

Offline Villafirst

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Re: Rio Olympic Games 2016
« Reply #445 on: August 15, 2016, 02:17:17 AM »
Well done Andy Murray!  A true champion. Del Potro pushed Andy really hard. Great match.

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Re: Rio Olympic Games 2016
« Reply #446 on: August 15, 2016, 02:27:18 AM »
BOOM!

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Rio Olympic Games 2016
« Reply #447 on: August 15, 2016, 02:27:45 AM »
Shame the cheat got a medal.

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Re: Rio Olympic Games 2016
« Reply #448 on: August 15, 2016, 02:58:22 AM »
Usian Bolt probably the greatest athlete in history.

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Re: Rio Olympic Games 2016
« Reply #449 on: August 15, 2016, 02:58:32 AM »
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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