juddy96

I am fine with losing bronze if it means getting one

Silver for in Men's 10m Air Rifle!

Men's -85kg Weightlifting Gold Silver Bronze

That is a ridiculous swim by Taylor Ruck, what a meet she's having

wins bronze in Men's Individual All Around!

Women's -58kg Weightlifting: Gold Toomey Silver Darsigny Bronze Wini

First ever medal for Solomon Islands at the Commonwealth Games

Penny was by far the slowest on this team today, she's struggled to get back to her Rio form between injuries and personal stuff

Women's -48kg weightlifting: Gold Silver Bronze to nice to see some different nations

2 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Braddock Lost an easy medal, what disaster  Btw, probability silver for ! 

Should tell you everything about Canadian weightlifting lol, can't even win medals against the not extremely obvious doping countries

fighting for silver with after the clean and jerk in -48kg weightlifting! out in front

Men's Triathlon: Schoeman Birtwhistle and Austin take the medals, neither Brownlee on the podium

Sally Pearson is withdrawing from Commonwealth Games due to an ongoing achilles injury, absolute shame for her, she is a hometown girl

I'm watching Australian channel, good coverage

Indoor World Record in Men's 400m for Michael Norman (USA) 44.52 at NCAA championships just now

National record in the women's for Kendall Ellis (USA) 50.34 and WJR for Sydney McLaughlin (USA) 50.36

At the Scottish world trials, both their Olympic teams lost, so it will be Bruce Mouat and Hannah Fleming's rinks that will be at Worlds. In fact, on women's side, only 3 2018 Olympic teams will be at Worlds (Gold medalists Sweden, Silver medalists South Korea, and Russia). Sweden and Italy's Olympic teams on the men's side will be at worlds, Japan and South Korea are yet to be decided

15 minutes ago, dcro said:

The only thing that is nice is mixed curling with 16 teams. Welcome   (they would have all qualified if WCF had a spine before Pyeongchang 2018).

Considering like 40 teams participated at last year's Mixed Doubles world championships, there are definitely enough competitive nations to warrant this, which is great for the sport of curling

1 minute ago, MHSN said:

 

yeah I know them, they rarely participate in Asian tournaments but I'm sure they will be there in Jakarta. Asian Games matters a lot for Asian athletes , that wll be a shame if Taftian fails to win a medal (while some weaker Iranian athletes had won medal in other events where the level is low in Asia)

 

Qatar and Bahrain can't buy someone new (Ogunode will be there of course) OCA has some strict rules about this, as far as I know you have to live in that country at least for 3 years to be eligible for the Asian Games.

Well, it will be hard for Taftian sadly, his 10.22 last year was tied 16th amongst Asian athletes in 2017 (behind 8 Japanese, 3 Chinese, a Korean, a Bahraini, a Qatari, a Taiwanese, and tied with another Japanese) and also barely ahead of athletes from Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Oman, and Kazakhstan. It should be the best quality Asian field for sprints amongst actual Asians in quite some time

2 minutes ago, MHSN said:

well done Taftian, 5th place is a great result for Iran with no history in sprint events.

 

despite this, he was 3rd among the Asians . damn China 

Asian Games will be interesting this year in the sprints! Taftian will have to fight it out with the Chinese and Japanese guys and maybe some bought Qatar/Bahrain athletes. The Japanese guys in particular are very young and could dominate Asian sprinting in the years to come.

The people who were expected to perform mostly haven't, and the people who weren't really expected to perform have

This has been an awful olympics for our whole speed skating team outside of Ted-Jan

Blondin

Why are the points needed, why can't it just be a regular mass start

https://olympics.cbc.ca/news/article/canadian-athlete-arrested-released-after-alleged-drunken-car-theft.html

Also, Kim Boutin will be flagbearer for closing ceremony

Edit: the athlete is reported to be Dave Duncan from the Ski Cross team

Harvey

Niskanen is basically a statue on rockets