Weightlifting. Aside from the doping, it's gladiatorial and always a spectacle worth watching. On now...
You set a weight you want to lift as a mark in each of the three disciplines, then try and lift this. You have three lifts per discipline. But you also can try and intimidate your opponents with a big initial lift, or just creep up slowly. Total for three disciplines is summed and the highest total is the winner.
How can they claim a world record at speed climbing, is every course identical?
Yes.
Sorry two disciplines. Clean and Jerk, sub 61 kilos now. And the list of shame. Spoiler, they're not failing for recreational drugs 😉
Blimey, that was some race.
What actually happened to the guy on the front of the GB TP squad? I'm in Italy, so watching in Italian (which I don't speak?)
In the 1500? Not who anyone thought. Great race.
I thought him and/or Nguse could cause an upset and get on the podium, watched them both on the US indoors and outdoor circuit. He was particularly impressive some time ago doing a 1500 and 3000m double (from memory) and both times were impressive.
As an aside, isn’t it great how far Hope have come in thirty years?
Women's TP up now for Bronze.
Hamish Turnbull winning his sprint heat by a single thousandth of a second!
Chris Hoy famously had that once as well.
The men's discus is shaping up to be a cracking competition.
Shout out to the (fellow) oldies in the skateboarding!
I thought Andy Mcdonald put in a good run. He's not typically a park skater and the new generations are a step above, even the older of them like Pedro Barros (who very much is a park skater!). To put a good score on the board at the age of 51 amongst those guys is impressive.
We've had a Chariots of Fire montage, we know what happens next. I reckon bronze, maybe silver
It appears to be the year of silvers
0.04
Bloody hell.
Big up to Zambia for their first medal though 🙂
The Steeplechase is always a bit mad but that one was extra mad. Massive respect to the USA athlete who came in 2nd, that was a really bold move!
I hope the lad who fell is OK, it looked a bad fall.
Talking steeplechase, this is my mates brother.
He was so gutted.....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/crgmj2lylv1o
worth noting he’s achieved all this without being a full time athlete and works a “normal” job too!
Yeah, Adam Blythe explained it well on Eurosport – they pull so hard on the bars they can come too far forward and off the saddle.
That’s not what happened, he basically ‘bonked’, lost all the strength in his legs and slid forwards off his saddle. Watch him in slomo and he’s all over the place, he said afterwards that he could barely stay upright. BBC News keeps saying his saddle broke, but there’s no evidence of that, he actually said “my whole body went weak, I could barely hold myself upright”, I’m quoting him because he’s just been on the telly saying exactly that.
I’ve been watching all of the archery matches from the beginning, which Discovery+ allows me to do. Fortunately I get it for free, so I can keep it for future use. South Korea’s women’s team just managed to beat China’s team in a very close shootout; it got very tense!
Does anyone know when the 'one man' sailing dingy race will be re-run? It was postponed yesterday due to light winds. GB were in the silver medal position near the end.
Does anyone know when the ‘one man’ sailing dingy race will be re-run? It was postponed yesterday due to light winds. GB were in the silver medal position near the end.
Yesterday
Whilst we all hope that what we're seeing are clean, undoped performances, this makes you wonder what really is the case.
Yesterday
And I think we missed the medals in the rerun?
Whilst we all hope that what we’re seeing are clean, undoped performances, this makes you wonder what really is the case.
As a spectator, enjoy the spectacle, the details will just depress you.
As a spectator, enjoy the spectacle, the details will just depress you.
Oh I do.... but I don't naively presume all is clean and all performances are just the result of genetics, hard work etc. I use the word "all" as I also don't think they are all at it. USADA is a pretty major player.
Men's track omnium just starting on EuroSport now. Ethan Hayter up for Team GB - hopefully recovered after his efforts in the Pursuit yesterday!
Nasty crash on the track there - rear disc wheel completely collapsed/shattered!
Masterclass from Ethan in the Devil. The hardest Omnium race to gauge. Nice to see all four events in one go. Looks like a standard track meet! All to play for in the points race now.
Women's Keirin final - Katy Marchant and Emma Finucane both in this so potential for 2 medals!
Wow felt Letsile Tebogo had a little more there.
Men's Omnium was a corker!
Not the race I was hoping for but can't knock a WR in the 400m H!
Loving the javelin too 🙂
Covid seems to be affecting a lot of athletes.
Big morning for KJT in the heptathlon. I hope she got a good night's sleep. Got a PB in her bête noir, the shot put, and 'won' yesterday's high jump (equal best). Fingers crossed
^ Yeah, Denise Lewis seemed pretty confident on the BBC last night given the way she has performed so far.
Maybe a few more points in the 200m than she got? Gonna be a brilliant last day and would be so thrilling to see her join Jess and Denise as Olympic champion.
Not sure these climbers are actually human?!? Hamish M with an astonishing one handed rotating move on the lead route.
Feels like they're getting a decent balance with the climbing of making it viewer friendly and still representative of the competitive strand of climbing.
Possibly splitting all 3 disciplines in 2028 I believe?
Gold for Toby Roberts in the men's climbing combined - amazing!
