This gymnastics events are brutal, all those years of training and 1 mistake ruins it all.
2024 Summer Olympics (Paris)
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Irish bloke wins the pommel horsechoking event
This Poundland Homelander celebrating the pommel horse is a bit much.
Wiffen isn’t finished yet either. And Rory is bang in contention too.
Zheng wins tennis gold.
China winning 6-1 against France in hockey.
Anyone have a view on who is likely to take the overall lead in medals? China has a solid lead in golds over the US, but I'm not sure about the disciplines remaining.
Track and field is usually where US pick up a lot no?
The US will get a few in the athletics.
China 7-1 against France in hockey.
I would love to see a breakdown on what percentage of the BBC1/2 coverage has been inane studio waffle. Yes, there are reasons but it feels like so often the momentum of the sport is halted with it.
I'd 7-1 be a France fan
Today is a little bit like Thursday and unless your name is China you will have quiet days in Olympics
Judo team final going to extra fight, division picked at random, picks Riner's. Couldn't make this up 
Algerian girl boxing now
The french
"Random"Judo team final going to extra fight, division picked at random, picks Riner's. Couldn't make this up
Glad Khelif won that
Thi judo final is an absolute disgrace. Pathetic
TEDDY!!!!!!!!
Won by Ippon in the end. Never in doubtWe cheated well.
What happened?
très intelligent
Refs gave France the win.
Saito wasn't very active and went easily to the ground. The same was true for Dicko earlier.
No different to many other sports. Swimming for example where the training regime really is brutal can be won on the touch of the pad just because a swimmer has a bit of a longer arm.
I am under the charm of Emura.
It can be won just by touching with a bit more force. See the 2008 100m butterfly. Phelps actually touched the plate after Cavic
True, but at least in Swimming you might have 1-8 lengths for example to get yourself into position to make that slightly longer arm less of a factor, and if you do lose you can still have done your best. Sports with a high level of technical skill required that are also very short events making near perfect runs essential are a different animal mentally.
Don't say that makes it feel worse now
Ah cheers, that’s why I’m not a judge. I guess they’re looking for things that us mere mortals don’t see.
Great run from Doyle to get into 1500m semi. Hoping Coscoran can join him, he is the national record holder
I was saying similar to my wife. I guess one misstep in a race can send you tumbling but it does feel cruel when the stakes are so high and the margins so thin as they are in gymnastics.
Saito didn’t attack. But in the end, Riner won with an Ippon.
Women's 100m coming up in a bit right?
9:20 pm local. 3:20 pm ET.
Shelley Ann Fraser out