Easy opener, lets fecking go
2024 Summer Olympics (Paris)
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Last of the women's marathon runners has now finished. An hour behind the next to last and with a hard fought personal best. Kinzang Lhamo of Bhutan. The other stragglers dropped out as the temperature rose on the course, but she stuck at it and some of the spectators jogged sections along the side of the road to encourage her. She finished in 3 hours 53 minutes.
Apparently in Bhutan she'd normally compete in ultra-marathons so the marathon is not really her favourite event. Explains where the resilience comes from though.
Apparently in Bhutan she'd normally compete in ultra-marathons so the marathon is not really her favourite event. Explains where the resilience comes from though.
German girl in the sprint final, destroyed the Dutch lady in the last semifinal run
God damn
126, lets gooooooooo
Emily Campbell looking good for the silver here
How come Li the last one to come out to lift? Didn’t even spot her on the scoresheet until now.
These are some scary ladies.
Nothing but net.
Emily can be loud but is an absolute sweetheart
I think US will finish with 41 or 42 golds, China possibly on 40
China 40, USA at least 40 from here
Yup China now locked on for 40. USA will get 3 more at least imo.
GB riders racking up more high speeds crashes than gold medals on the track at these games 
How the feck did anybody predict 8 gold medals for GB on track out of 12 events?!?!? Like, other than Finucane, GB didn't bring a single rider here who'd be favoured to take gold?
Yeah, it was just really dumb, biased commentary. I get that if you’re still very close to the camp you want to hype them up but I think it’s backfired, as it now makes it look like they’ve massively underperformed, whereas the reality is we were never going to hit previous heights.
The modern pentathlon ended up being a massive disappointment for us as well. We looked so strong in the semi yesterday, then our more experienced athlete has to pull out unwell and our other can’t get anywhere near that level. Shame we don’t get that last high.
USA will win the omnium
With the keirin final coming up here’s another chance to look at this superb ride from Jason Kenny the defending champion in Tokyo
Comfortably so
It was Laura Kenny I think - seeing the first gold come early and saying now the sprinters had opened the door, the new squad would unleash their potential. I think she wanted to emphasise the whole "changing of the guard" thing. Plus, Jason Kenny works with the squad as a coach - so she's used to the whole vibes and confidence thing around the competition squads. I think you have to forgive her for exaggeration.
The regulator commentator was much more in the - "well, we're not really favourites in anything" mood, but that's not such a fun headline.
What the feck, Japan has 7 gold medals in wrestling? And they have the chance to win another soon. They actually have more gold medals than the next 3 countries combined! I did not know that wrestling was a big sport there.
Finucane finishes with 1 gold & 2 bronze medals which is amazing for a 21 year old but I think she will be slightly disappointed overall
Finucane is going to be a real talent going forward. This is her learning Olympics, and will be 25 at the next one.
Was mentioned earlier in the thread, they're the third most successful country in terms of Olympics medals historically
In wrestling or overall? The latter doesn't surprise me. Japan is good at many sports and I believe they finished 3rd in the last Olympics (albeit on their home turf).
I feel like Finucane could have beaten Friedrich. She put up more of a fight against Andrews in the semi
Andrews was completely unbeatable in the two events though. Finucane looked the second best sprinter to me - just didn’t get the luck of the draw.
Yes, sorry, just in wrestling. I think @JPRouve mentioned this. They're only behind US and Soviets. Not sure what's the tally after this Olympics.
Agree Finucane had a really good Olympics overall. She wasn’t helped by an unrealistic level of hype but hopefully she has plenty more Olympics in her.
feck, I've never seen Emily so in form
That was medal 64 for GB, and Campbell should be 65 in the weightlifting. Carlin could make it 66, which would be one short of our best total (not counting 1908)
Handball final between Germany and Denmark about to start
Let's go Denmark! Bring home the gold!
@Carolina Red's boys took a hell of a beating. Haven't China been restricted in terms of how many athletes they have as well?
We won the first set of a game I'm too emotionally invested to watch
Yup certain bronze in the weightlifting
From first look that crash looked like Carlin's fault.
Denmark hatchet job on our best player
Netherlands win the gold in cycling.
See in the men’s keirin final there were two Aussies and there was a clear plan in place to make sure they were ending up with silver at least but potentially two medals. In the women’s keirin final there were two Brits but had no clear plan and ended up with just a bronze