Paris Olympics 2024

scarps · 28 Jul 2024 at 21:02

What do the US girls put on their faces in the swimming? Most the US team look like they've been in the sun all week.

CaptainRAVE · 28 Jul 2024 at 21:07

explicit4u said:
bah thought he won that, great effort!

Same, so so close.

teejay73 · 28 Jul 2024 at 21:07

Great effort from Peaty! So close to that gold - lets hope he can get gold in the relay.

Psycho Ned · 28 Jul 2024 at 21:14

Hopefully Pidcock will get us off the mark on the Gold front tomorrow, he'll win the Mountain biking unless his wheel falls off (jinxed him now!).

UTmaniac · 28 Jul 2024 at 21:17

Fractions cost Peaty, good effort after his journey over the last few years.

Vertigo · 28 Jul 2024 at 21:18

The schedule on the main website is totally broken. Was trying to work through each sport and mark my favourite events but it keeps forgetting them as you add more rendering it useless.

dave28 · 28 Jul 2024 at 21:23

UTmaniac said:
Fractions cost Peaty, good effort after his journey over the last few years.

Must be quite frustrating, he probably used to beat that Gold medal time for fun in practice at his best

drakulton · 28 Jul 2024 at 21:24

Did Boris Johnson just win the 100m breaststroke?

CaptainRAVE · 28 Jul 2024 at 21:24

dave28 said:
Must be quite frustrating, he probably used to beat that Gold medal time for fun in practice at his best

I suspect why he’s emotional, he knows this’ll be his last.

Psycho Ned · 28 Jul 2024 at 21:32

He's 29 so would be 33 in LA, it's doable but realistically he'd only want to do it to win a gold medal and I find it unlikely he's gonna be better at 33 than he was tonight.

Merlin5 · 28 Jul 2024 at 21:34

drakulton said:
Did Boris Johnson just win the 100m breaststroke?

I was going to say the same thing.

Cosimo · 28 Jul 2024 at 21:36

Psycho Ned said:
Hopefully Pidcock will get us off the mark on the Gold front tomorrow, he'll win the Mountain biking unless his wheel falls off (jinxed him now!).

He is a favourite for the race which starts at 13:10 BST.

SPG · 28 Jul 2024 at 21:37

Yep, he singlehandedly brought the breaststroke kicking and screaming into 21st century.

A GOAT of that discipline.

Psycho Ned · 28 Jul 2024 at 21:59

Cosimo said:
He is a favourite for the race which starts at 13:10 BST.

Oh he's a beast on a mountain bike (well on any bike really but especially a mountain one!) I know he had to drop out of the tour with covid but hopefully that was just a positive test rather than him being properly ill with it.

jpaul · 28 Jul 2024 at 22:16

was the Marchand 400m medley victory margin that was phenomenal (had Peaty won by such a margin previously),
french lady margin on mountain biking too, puncture put paid to lady with margin on 2nd place though.

booyaka · 29 Jul 2024 at 09:53

Psycho Ned said:
He's 29 so would be 33 in LA, it's doable but realistically he'd only want to do it to win a gold medal and I find it unlikely he's gonna be better at 33 than he was tonight.

I don't see him continuing to LA - His coach Mel Marshall is leaving UK to go and coach in Australia - She's been his coach for 15 years +

I just don't see him wanting to start over with new coaches etc - He's got nothing left to prove and like he said in his post race interview - the "young guys" are coming faster/harder than ever.

booyaka · 29 Jul 2024 at 09:54

SPG said:
Yep, he singlehandedly brought the breaststroke kicking and screaming into 21st century.

A GOAT of that discipline.

Crazy that he holds the 14 fastest times EVER in 100m Breast.... That's wild to think about.

Merlin5 · 29 Jul 2024 at 10:28

Tom Daley and Noah Williams currently in silver medal position in the 10m synchro diving.

marc2003 · 29 Jul 2024 at 10:41

Silver looks in the bag, They ain't catching the Chinese.

Merlin5 · 29 Jul 2024 at 10:59

Brilliant last dive from GB! Silver!