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It's a shame that ultimately the briefest of pauses between elements brings Downie's score down but let's be honest, when we lost Gadirova, then Ondine and then saw their performance during qualifying, nobody would have thought GB would even be close to the podium. 

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Just now, Rafa Maciel said:

It's a shame that ultimately the briefest of pauses between elements brings Downie's score down but let's be honest, when we lost Gadirova, then Ondine and then saw their performance during qualifying, nobody would have thought GB would even be close to the podium. 

So brief the commentators didn’t really notice it. 

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Auntie, interviews later, live swimming on one screen and tennis on the other now please.

As now we come across the world
To share these Games of old
Let all the flags of every land
In brotherhood unfold

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9 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

So brief the commentators didn’t really notice it. 

This was what was frustrating. 

 

But agreed that for this team 4th was excellent.

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17 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

Richards out of the 100 final.

 

Is Proud in the 50 the only individual medal hopeful left. 

Considering how often and loudly you have been voicing your opinion about how badly things have been going, I'm surprised that you would need to ask that.

 

And the answer is, no, obviously.

 

Even if we limit medal hopeful to people who have won recently at global level (so ignoring Greenbank's Olympic bronze), we have the 2023 bronze and silver in the men's 200m IM from the World Champs.

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