Tokyo Olympics 2020

Womens Rugby 7s was good earlier, so frenetic! Shame GB couldn't hold on but should give them some confidence they can take it to NZ if they meet them again!
 
robfosters said:
If we don’t get gold in the 4X100 men’s swimming relay, I’ll eat my bloody hat. Absolutely destroyed everyone in the heats and broke the OR.
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I wouldn't bet on it. You can rest your top swimmers and get lesser team members to compete in the heats. They'll still be good enough to easily qualify but then the top boys take over in the final and they all get medals for being part of the team. I would expect USA to win it.
 
Hotwired said:
What, we're good at swimming? :eek:
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We've had our best games in the pool since 1908 or something. 100m breaststroke gold for peaty, 200m freestyle gold AND silver for Tom Dean and Duncan Scott. We also won the 4x200m freestyle relay. Not many will have heard of Tom Dean before (I hadn't :p) but he has 2 gold medals.

More relay medals to come I think but probably not gold.
 
Duncan Scott wins another silver in the pool to add to the 1gold and and 1silver he already had. Or to put it another way, more medals than the entire rowing team combined. :p
 
Feek said:
Can we get back to the discussion of the actual sporting events now please.
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Well, to segue from one subject to the other, I was very impressed by Lee in the women's all-around yesterday.

She clearly realised that, with Biles out, this was literally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win gold and she just went for it. Good on her.

fez said:
Who is this "Russia". Russia are banned. The Russian Olympic Committee won the team gymnastics. No affiliation to a disgraced and banned country. I mean, they are clearly not Russia because if they were Russia they would use the Russian national anthem. Which they don't.

I do love the toothless bans that sports usually dish out as punishment but this one is especially comical.
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Completely agree.

Not only the fact they're still called 'Russia' but also that team events are allowed.

I fully understand and agree that individual athletes who can prove they are clean should be allowed to compete as it's not their fault Russia's sporting organisations are all corrupt. Even in the Olympics, where technically everyone is competing as a representative of their nation, individual athletes should be allowed to compete but under a generic title or grouping without the name 'Russia' anywhere.

Further though, why are they allowed to compete in team events at all? If the nation of Russia is banned then any team event, where by definition you're representing your country, should also be excluded.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
GOLD!!! In the BMX of all things. And Silver!
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Finally after reades bad luck when at the top of her game in London. Shame White couldn't pull off the double, all came down to that start from the Dutch too far behind to catch up! But he looked ecstatic either way. Funny seeing him pick up schreiver as she was clearly in agony!
 
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