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Just now, KingKunta said:

Is that fencing round so bad for Choong he’s completly chanceless now?

 

I will have to hope the horses are completly up for causing carnage. 

Joe is normally at the top after the fencing. He was initially 6 wins out of 7 so I can only assume the injury mentioned above is accurate.

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9 minutes ago, cjsavory said:

This is just the Semi Final though, right? Does anyone know how many advance to the Final, and whether scores get reset at that point?

No reset the final for the fencing. They simply have the bonus round in the final which gives you a limited opportunity to move up. That’s why today was so critical.

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11 minutes ago, RussB said:

No reset the final for the fencing. They simply have the bonus round in the final which gives you a limited opportunity to move up. That’s why today was so critical.

Gosh, yeah - looking back at previous competitions, that's Choong's gold medal hopes pretty much done and dusted (and possibly his chances of getting any medal at all). How gutting. 

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8 minutes ago, Jon said:

Disaster for Laugher. Medal hopes over in the men’s 3m springboard.

We are stumbling towards a dreadful ending towards this games. The press reaction will be fascinating- - we could have a 10 or more medal drop and a huge Gold drop with how things are going. 

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