2024 Olympics - Day 12 (August 7)

[Surlympics 1,242]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

Dead last by a mile. Way to jinx it 

Haha he was near his personal best 

[Josh 11,646]

7 minutes ago, Surlympics said:

Haha he was near his personal best 

If you consider 6 seconds off close then sure, but his PB is 8:13.11, and his time was 8:19.34. 

Edited August 7, 2024 by Josh

[Surlympics 1,242]

What it’s that low ? Wow

[Josh 11,646]

6 minutes ago, Surlympics said:

What it’s that low ? Wow

At the Paris Diamond League a couple of weeks ago. 

 

He also has a few 8:15/8:16’s from this and last year. 

[Josh 11,646]

Today was a much better day for Canada overall, even though there was less events going on, and a couple of major (and not so major) disappointments too. 
 

Alysha Newman won a somewhat surprising (I knew she had it in her, just didn’t think she could pull it together at the Olympics) bronze in women’s pole vault with a NR of 4.85m, Melissa Humana-Parades/Brandie Wilkerson swept Alvarez/Moreno to advance to the semifinals in women’s beach volleyball, Sarah Douglas finished 3rd in the medal race to record a top 8 in women’s ICLA6, Michelle Russell (women’s K1-500m) and Connor Fitzpatrick (men’s C1-1000m) both advanced to the semifinals, Kelsey Mitchell and Lauriane Genest both through to the quarterfinals in women’s keirin, and although Josipa Kafadar lost 0-2 to Stojkovic in the women’s 49kg round of 16 it was a valiant effort. 
 

Unfortunately, we had a few bad results today too, and a couple were medal contenders

 

Andre DeGrasse failing to qualify for the men’s 200m final is at least somewhat understandable as he re-aggravated his hamstring injury, but no excuses for Mo Ahmed (not as if DeGrasse’s was an excuse, but you get what I mean) as he got clipped from out in front. 
 

Edit: Oh and also our teams flopping in track cycling. 

Edited August 8, 2024 by Josh