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Tuned in just now. Polish ES says two minutes until finish!

Yeah, that makes sense on second thought. Sailing as an old school art will get no free pass from the TikTok dancing generation and guess IOC doesn't even try to pretend it can be sold as a sport with future. All this on a planet whose surface is covered by water in 71%

This is for cycling die-hards. Everything will be decided in the last kilometer (or 200m) anyway?

So will the overall athletes quota actually go down for sailing? And that is IOC's point? Mixed events mean fewer sailors out there opening room for quotas in other sports like the totally infamous break-dancing crap that is upon us in Paris?

I have no idea why this mixed gender craze would ruin the sailing classes like that. Hell, the mixed events are aimed to prove only one thing: that women can do just as great as the men and 470 proves that in spades without any additional nonsense already. Why on Earth would 470 be a mixed event then? That makes no sense at all. I'm not even gonna say a word about kitesurfing. That idea totally blows. A lot of sailors who will be forced to switch to new event will be fuming IMO. Sailing hangs around the same top names a lot so it's not like some new talent will suddently swamp the new event. Another change for a change there. IOC is really losing the plot trying to make radical changes in literally every single sport out there.

I believe the 470 could be safe and women's RS:X is the one getting canned? I heard Zofia Klepacka saying she will probably switch to this kitesurfing thing in the fall already?

Some frustrated Australians in trash mode in Olympic village? Rugby & football? I assume those weren't swimmers https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/58072039

You'd be amazed how often that 1976 final gets repeated on Polish TV. It remains one of only two Olympic gold medals in team sports for Poland (football (soccer) 1972 is the other but we rarely get to see that anymore since 1974 World Cup matches are repeated more often instead).

Three more years of non-stop repeats of Montreal 1976 final on Polish TV now

5th straight QF loss at the Olympics for Poland This is truly pathetic. We lost to both our bogey rivals here: and vs will be the premature final IMO.

We have two bronze medals @hckošice

vs into the tie-break

has won an Olympic medal in women's K2 500m in SIX straight Olympics. That must be our record for a single specific event. We have won 21 medals in sprint canoeing in OG history but still no gold (8 silver, 13 bronze)

Djuraev is only 21 years old? Is he like the next prodigy or what? Latvia winning a medal here must be a major surprise?

Nagle włączyliśmy 5 bieg. Zaczynam wierzyć, że Andrejczyk uda się zdobyć medal. Do tego siatkarze i obaj młociarze i może dociągniemy do 10. Jeszcze osada 470, która musiałaby mocno zawalić wyścig medalowy żeby spaść z podium? Już nawet nie liczę czwórki kobiet w kajakarstwie.

Only the 5th time wins two medals in the same event at the same Olympic Games (3x weightlifting 1960, 1964, 1968, 1x pole valult 1980)

Joanna Fiodorow (hammer) announced her retirement after finishing 7th in the Olympic final.

Yes, but Asher-Smith's presence makes you a medal contender. Funnily enough the British 800m women got hot only after Semenya got banned (Muir's lack of sprint finish doesn't make her a medal threat at 800m global champs IMO).

Yes, unlike 800 the 200 is one event where you can upset all three powerhouses at the same time (USA, GBR and Jamaica). That might be too much to overcome.

BBC live ticker hasn't even mentioned Mboma once yet All about Thompson & Thomas there.

If WA allows Mboma to compete in Paris, she will break FGJ WR there 100%. She would have beaten Marita Koch's 400m too if only allowed. This is where Semenya played it smart. She was just slow enough not to threaten Kratochvilova's WR hence she was allowed to keep her London & Rio medals.

SAFP will be totally bitching about Mboma. Totally.

Thompson 21,53!!! SAFP 4th!!

I'd say Thompson wins, SAFP silver, Mboma 3rd and Ta Lou 4th... again.

Four medals for today. We finally look remotely respectable!!