This has been a great olympics for the bespectacled, nerdy average person who is (not so) secretly an insane athlete 
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Henry has spent time in the gym. He looks like Ozil.
Ah didn’t know that. Should be good then!
Thanks for the comment re 10,000m was wanting to watch it and didn't realise it had started as discovery was showing 800m heats
1-2-3 for France in the men's BMX
Clean sweep for France.
The BBC don't show the other heats seemingly so we're fooled into believing this mythical Aussie BMX'er doesn't exist and Beth is indeed miles clear
French 1, 2, 3 in the mens bmx. 
What a night for france. That race was just wild.
There is 4*100 medley relay and a mixed relay. Think he might be involved in the medley one though his best stroke is freestyle and Matt Richards is a better freestyle guy but I am sure they will have Scott involved in some way
When was the last time all athletes on the podium were from the same nation?
Unreal.French 1, 2, 3 in the mens bmx.
This 10,000m race looks attritional
10000m finish is going to be electric.
Even looking at the odds, Beth Schriever isn't that far ahead, the BBC really HAVE deceived us.... and their own commentary team who are outright claiming she is the mega favourite. That's odd coverage, but let's hope she just slams it home anyway.
Think Cheptegei is primely positioned here for a late burst.
The American guy Young has been absolutely dying for the entire race, no idea how he’s still hanging on in this 10,000km!
Beth Shriever always looks like she’s having a whale of a time
What a finish!
13 blokes broke the previous Olympic record on 10k. Wtf!
Timed it to perfection. An OR for good measure. What a race from the Ugandan.
That was such a fast paced 10,000m
That was such a fast paced 10,000m
Gutted for Beth.
What a disaster for Shriver
So the british rider finished last after the hyping up of the caf?
Just have a one shot lap for the final in BMX seems a bit fecked there
What happened there? Crowded out and killed her strategy dead.
Wow, Shriever demolished everyone in all runs I saw (not all), but fecked up completely in the final?
Jesus that’s brutal. You get crowded out at the start and you’re done.
Beth just didn't get off the line did she?
Ethiopia set the pace of that 10k but only 1 got a medal, did they go too quick or just less sprint?
Ethiopia set the pace of that 10k but only 1 got a medal, did they go too quick or just less sprint?
Wow.
She’s defending champ and smashed the prelims. She was worth the hype. Disaster of a final though.
Dominated the qualifying, no one really hyped her up.
Bad start by the looks of it.
I'm being facetious, people were more surprised by the BBC coverage.
Its going to be that kind of athletics meet. The track is absolutely rapid. Records will fall left and right.
She won gold at the last Olympics too.
Yeah, they were wild about her in the beeb studio tonight and yesterday, but they legit only showed her heats and never mentioned the winner also being as dominant in her heats.
That’s the thing with BMX, it’s one of those sports where you make one mistake and that’s it - four years of your life wasted. Seems a little unfair. I remember feeling the same way when Shanaze Reade messed it up in the final in 2012.
BMX just seems like if you get through the first corner in the lead then you win. In all my knowledge of precisely two races watched. Could do with doubling the length.
Axelsen through to the SF of the men's badminton singles
Zheng/Huang destroyed the mixed doubles final earlier today.
Zheng/Huang destroyed the mixed doubles final earlier today.