seems that the heptathlon may have gone for KJT. Thiam has just been too consistent and outscoring her comprehensively on the throwing events. KJT's long jump and 200m were strong but needed to be nearer her PBs. Still, there's a chance
Yup. Sadly looks like silver. KJT's 800m PB is 6 seconds quicker than Thiam's but she needs over 8 seconds for gold?
It'll still be great to see KJT get a medal. She's not got one yet, even though she's actually one of the all time heptathlon high scorers. Thiam is incredible!
She's a better heptathlete than Ennis and Lewis but just competing at the same time as Thiam. Aside from Colin Jackson who's way out there, probably best GB athlete to never get olympic gold?
Silver for Team GB (Elinor Barker and Neah Evans) in a chaotic but very entertaining Women's Madison.
Could easily have won the women's 4x100m with a better final changeover. Excellent silver though.
Bad changeovers for the men too but great final leg to get bronze.
Made Thiam run a PB by more than a second. You can't be disappointed with silver if someone else is just that bit better and still has to produce that level to hold you off.
Got a bit dusty in here watching Megan Keith finish.
Breaking.......it's not for me
Ooh a weird cover of Horse With No Name by America!
Mrs Slow said "that's A Horse with no Name". I said "nah". Then "Oh yeah". Awful wasn't it? Anyway I thought the horses danced better.
I see I wasn't the only one spotting an awful cover of Horse With No Name! 😆
Glad the real sports have now begun. Superb breakdancing tonight. If in the next Olympics they include robot dancing I may have a chance.
Women's bouldering on now. Two boulders in, Erin McNiece is doing really well.
Taekwondo on before women's lead climbing. I'm having a flashback to one of the all time great threads...glupton and his band of millionaire CEO mates in Scotland who were lethal at taekwondo and would routinely beat all comers from UFC
Oh Dutch hockey player being a complete knobber. Only one thing worse than a bad loser.....
Oh there's a surprise everything is ok because "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done it"
Oh my! just having a browse through the iPlayer on demand stuff and the Women's B Girl was amazing. Not sure why it had this effect on me but i was struggling not to cry. 10 minute segment on iPlayer and I want to see more! Climbing also jaw dropping.
Diving could be a really high standard.
I couldn't find out why Ethan Hayter was injured and replaced by Mark Stewart. Did EH not recover from the incident in the TS?
Dutch guy headbutts Ollie Wood off his bike in the Madison... nothing seems to have been done about. It looked totally deliberate...
Ooh that 800 was fast...
Hell of a run by Georgia Bell!
Not sure why likes once again not working. But yes Georgia Bell! Apparently has same coach as Keeley Hodgkinson. And it def looked like a deliberate headbutt from the Dutchman - I'm sure the Paris constabulary have a video evidence submission site
The bit where the relay teams come out of the tunnel and have to do a little wacky dance or pose is so shit. Just like the icebreaker on the office training course. Just no, get on track, run fast.
And the Aussie B-girl
"Hey Cortana; can you show me Trump's latest speech......but can you do it in the form of interpretative dance?"
(stolen from elsewhere)
Jamaican girl didn't injure, she just hit the Irish girl with her hand and dropped the baton
Gutted for adeleke, two 4th places.
in the relay, who gets the medals, the 4 who ran the final or do the others who ran the semis but were dropped for the final etc get a medal for being part of the team?
I'm pretty sure the 'whole team' in the relay gets a medal each, even if they got dropped before the final. (seem to remember a competitor getting a medal yesterday along with his team mates, even though he wasn't in the final).
Anyone that has ran in any round gets a medal
Georgia Bell, a level 51 Zwifter and also a good runner. Well done
He pulled a thigh muscle
Dutch guy headbutts Ollie Wood off his bike in the Madison… nothing seems to have been done about. It looked totally deliberate…
Definitely looked deliberate, wonder if it was a bit of a dig after Carlin's move yesterday
Late on Saturday evening, the Netherlands were disqualified from the Madison due to what was termed a “blow with helmet” by Van Schip on Wood. The Dutchman was also fined CHF 1,000 (£900).
Guardian saying Netherlands DQd
GB targeted the relays with a bunch of extra runners brought over to help through the rounds. It was noticeable that they always had 5 or even 6 on the podium when most other teams only had 4.
Hudson-Smith looked oh so bored on the Olympic podium.
He looked ready to fall asleep during the Mixed Zone interview with the BBC.
Would weightlifting be easier if the athletes had a better proportion of lean muscle mass? It just looks like some of them are carrying 5-10 kgs of weight which needs moving alongside the metal ones.
no, the gold medal is decided by who can lift the most weight, not who looks the "best".
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no, the gold medal is decided by who can lift the most weight, not who looks the “best”.
I think the question relates to having to lift an extra 5kg (for example) with the legs from the squat position.
I was wondering the same, but I guess whatever works for them, works for them.
Well done Emily. That atmosphere was electric. Everyone was fighting for silver. Had a last minute ticket for the velodrome yesterday, and decided to attended the 81+ ladies too. I was not disappointed. Although I hate to admit it, weightlifting is a better spectator sport than the crash fest of MADison racing
Wife and I were just saying the same watching the womens lifting. No doubt they are strong but they look obese. Seems to be common to them all so must be the optimum physique but hard not to think they'd be better off with less fat?
I love how armchair experts are so much better than the best athletes in the world.
And yesterday in the velodrome.
Lii Wenwen is not as big as you think she appears and has slimmed down from her world record weight. She is a class apart.
Body shaming female Olympians?!
