Thiam to make it 4 in a row at LA in 2028.
2024 Summer Olympics (Paris)
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The 800m times in the pentathalon have been slashed. 3 years ago best time was 2:07 and Thiam ran 2:16. This year best time was 2:04 and Thiam ran 2:10. Knocking 6 seconds off your PB is some good going.
No worries! They're very low key about how good they are.
Yes it was. He did such a great job stopping Higuchi's single leg, which is honestly the best in the world. Can't believe he got put on his back.
@Darkhorsez - I can't believe this. Yazdani did everything he could there. Awful awful awful luck having an injury like that at a moment like that.
He went out like a warrior though. Wrestling with what, by all appearances, is a dislocated shoulder is some absurd level of physical and mental toughness.
He went out like a warrior though. Wrestling with what, by all appearances, is a dislocated shoulder is some absurd level of physical and mental toughness.
Three in a row for Thiam, simply our nation's greatest Olympian ever. We're lucky to have her. KJT pushed her pretty hard, would've been a worthy champion herself.
And bronze for Vidts, brilliant for her as well.
And bronze for Vidts, brilliant for her as well.
Anna Hall helped this by dragging everyone along with her.
who’s the Japanese grandmother in the 10,000 final?
I am in tears - such a warrior and a true gentleman with a massive heart. Thank you for your messages.
How do they decide the groupings in the heptathalon, like it would have been more fun if these two were in different races & Thiam had to run her own race
Women's Break dancing more fun this evening. I like this Nicka woman from Lithuania.
Woman? She looks about 12.
Also why do they cheer each other on? Surely they should be hurling abuse and discouraging their opponent.
Three in a row is incredible, she's only the second athlete in history, after Włodarczyk in hammer throw, to achieve that at the Olympics. And she's quite young still, who knows if she can go for the fourth in LA!
Hands up if you knew that Nightshade from the original Gladiators was an Olympic heptathlete?
we've got football for that, let's cherish the rare moments of Olympic spirit. Opponents cheered on Duplantis when he went for the WR, you see it quite often here, it's very cool and beautiful that Olympics are full of such moments
That is a big difference, but if KJT had got close to her pb in 200m she would have got another 65 points. She only lost gold by 36 points.
Having Hall in the race is really helpful for KJT. She’s massively improved her PB over the last couple of years. However, Thiam has obviously been really working on that event as well - she did fantastically to stick close enough to an 2.04 and an amazing champion.
Only the second athlete? Is that for field events?
Sorry, I should've added only the second women athlete in track and fields. Obviously you've had men with such feat, like Bolt.
Good to see some consistency from Team GB:
Over at the Aquatics Centre, Great Britain’s Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe have just missed out on a medal in the artistic swimming duet technical routine.
Over at the Aquatics Centre, Great Britain’s Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe have just missed out on a medal in the artistic swimming duet technical routine.
It’s pointless looking at it like that. KJT’s 200m PB time was in 2016, aged 23. She hasn’t got anywhere near that time since her serious injury a few years ago. Same with long jump and hurdles really - she’s clearly not going to do 6.9 or 13.0 now.
She set new PBs at shot putt and 800m and was better or relatively close to her scores from the worlds last year in every other event. It’s her second best ever score so far as I can see at age 31, despite the obvious slight loss of top sprinting speed mentioned above.
They are hardly opponents. More like opening acts at his show.
If there were two equal athletes gunning for the WR they wouldn't be cheering each other on.
He did very well under these circumstances, he can be proud of himself.
17 apparently - she'd be approaching retirement age in women's skateboarding.
Maybe they haven't perfected their derisive laughs yet?
Thank you - yes very proud of him. That injury basically happened in the first few seconds but he fought on.
To be fair... Duplantis is also actually an American. Born and raised in Louisiana. Kendricks was cheering on one of our own.
5 laps to go!
Well done Maroulis, that was quick. 
One of the runners passed out?
Well done Maroulis, that was quick.
Queen Helen!!!Kenya!!
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Very pleased for the Italian runner too. Can't take this one away.
What a run by the Italian to get the silver
Hassan has the marathon Sunday too!
I can manage about 2 mins on 19 km/h (max) on the treadmill. These feckers go on for half and hour at that pace and barely break a sweat.
Women's hockey final goes to penalty shootout
From all accounts KJT has had a tough season. She’s performed fantastically to even get that close all things considered. Shame that she always seemed to be a little compromised with injuries, but I won’t lose any sleep considering she’s a scouser
Triple jump is an Iberian matter - Spain gold, Portugal silver
Yeah, agreed. Olympics is supposed to be an amateur ethos so the less we see of all the ugly side of professionalism the better. One of the (many!) really cool things about climbing is the way they all read the lead route together. Climbers from different countries who are the same height chatting away together, working out the best way up the wall. Have no idea why the feck anyone would want this replaced with trash talking wankers, putting each other down. Which is, in a way, why the men’s 1500m was one of my Olympic highlights.
And the third placed Italian is also Spanish speaking, so.