Epic Failure

Splits were: Dawson - 1:00.18 Wilby - 59.35 Litchfield - 51.37 Hopkin - 52.83 Fair play to Joe, even with the relay takeover, that's about as solid a split as could be hoped. Compares positively to Jimmy's 52.23 in the individual. Makes Peters disaster at trials even more frustrating though.

I had Bryony down to repeat her Rio silver, but delighted (in the nicest possible way) that the Chinese women wiped out. Yay bonus gold and she completes the set!

Not on this season's form it wasn't. Her SB was only 1.93m, so she would have had to equal it effectively. I'm sure she's disappointed but this wasn't a shock. There were other big names that missed out - 2 of the 5 women who beat her in Rome last month join her in looking at the final as a spectator, one of whom was also World Indoor bronze. It's tough at this level!

I mean she came 4th at the Worlds last year, so I wouldn't quantify that as "doing nothing". A brief glance at her record shows she has represented 24 times in her career (jnr and snr), and has made the final 19 times. She's only missed it 5 times. That's a pretty fine record. She's in the unfortunate position of being world class but not medal winning class. It happens. This season she's been relatively off form, so missing the final wasn't a huge shock. I'd have been pleasantly surprised if she had made it.

She's looked great but so have Sakakibara and Willoughby. In a clean race those 3 look like the most obvious podium, in some order. Now let's hope for a clean race....

Solid evening in the pool. Duncan, Tom and Ben all got the job done with little fuss. Honey and Katie both did excellently to make the final. The 5th place in the relay is about as good as we could have hoped without misfortune for one of the teams above us. Same with Laura really, she might have been 1 or 2 places higher but she was never going to be in medal contention. The big "what if" is Greenbank's DQ the other day. Not sure he'd have had the pace to medal but we'll never know...

I don't think Olympicsnell was *expecting* a gold in the road race. They were using that as an example of the events which are a lottery and which can determine whether this is a 'good' Olympics or a 'great' Olympics. Hell, the BMX racing is another one. Shriever has looked great but the event has so many crashes that you wouldn't expect a gold from it, even if you have a strong contender. You can easily get taken out even if you do nothing wrong. It's not like, say, swimming, where the chance of being taken out should be pretty low.

If Zharnel somehow medals, I shall be demanding it henceforth be GB & NI & Anguila. Sadly, Cav retiring means that the Isle of Man loses its best chance to get added.

I agree that it has been a great start. But in the interests of fairness, we've had our share of positive 'luck' as well - the Aussies mucking up the diving on day 1, the Germans losing a horse in the eventing and the quad sculls coming out on top being some of the obvious examples. Swings and roundabouts, as always happens at sporting events! In fact, part of why I track the top 8s is because I think that sometimes gives a truer reflection on overall strength than just medals/golds do sometimes.

Spain beat South Africa in the hockey, which means the women join the men in qualifying for the QFs.

I'm not sure on that, because the changes in scheduling means that I can't directly compare. But in terms of total medals won by the end of day 5, it's definitely the most in the last 30 years. My personal predictions coming into this were that we were likely to be down on golds this time out but roughly the same as we have been the last 3 cycles in terms of overall medals. The first 6 days have done nothing to change that view. In fact, we're currently 1 medal ahead of where I thought we would be, in terms of both gold medals and total medals.

If anyone ever thinks that we are having a bad games, I can only think that they aren't old enough to remember 1996. Now THAT was a bad games. Incidentally, we just passed the total number of top 8 finishes we got in Atlanta. And we're only about a third of the way through the games.

Women's hockey team finally seem to have hit some form; they are 5-2 at the end of the 3rd quarter.

I mean, this is what the BOA website says in their FAQs about "what is Team GB" I can see why people call it that way, if the BOA is incorrectly choosing to name it as such as well.

I'm confused. I thought the official name of the team was Great Britain and Northern Ireland (or, to be very precise, the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team)?

The margins in shooting tend to be incredibly tight. It also tends to be one of the least predictable sports, at least in my experience.

Can you tell me what Olympic sport you excel at? Whilst I'm sure she's disappointed, 10th in the world is still damn fine.

McIntosh having what can only be described as a disaster in the standing. She's going to miss the final by 1 place.

Archers appear to be like London buses...

Her pace wasn't really the problem. It was her inability to get through the gates that was the issue.

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Neugebauer x Lindon Victor Any Norwegian Athlete Ayden Owens-Delerme Heath Baldwin Harrison Williams Zachery Ziemek Any Other Athlete Women's High Jump Day 4 August 4th 2024 Nicola Olyslagers x Eleanor Patterson Any German Athlete Morgan Lake Lamara Distin Maria Zodzik Angela Topic x Lia Apostolovski Iryna Gerashchenko Yuliia Levchenko Yaroslava Mahuchikh x Vashti Cunningham Rachel Glenn Any Other Athlete Men's Hammer Throw Day 4 August 4th 2024 Ethan Katzberg x* Any Chilean Athlete Yann Chaussinand Merlin Hummel Any Greek Athlete Bence Halasz Eivind Henriksen Pawel Fajdek Wojciech Nowicki x Mykhaylo Kokhan x Daniel Haugh Rudy Winkler Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Day 4 August 4th 2024 Letsile Tebogo Any Canadian Athlete Zharnel Hughes Lamont Marcell Jacobs Ackeem Blake Oblique Seville x Kishane Thompson Ferdinand Omanyala Emmanuel Matadi Favour Ashe Akani Simbine x Kenneth Bednarek Fred Kerley Noah Lyles x Any Other Athlete Men's Pole Vault Day 5 August 5th 2024 Kurtis Marschall 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Helander Teura'itera'i Tupaia Julian Weber x Anderson Peters Neeraj Chopra x Kishore Jena Edis Matusevicius Andrian Mardare Arshad Nadeem Alexandru Mihaita Novac Keshorn Walcott Curtis Thompson Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Day 8 August 8th 2024 Letsile Tebogo x Aaron Brown Aaron De Grasse Alexander Ogando Joshua Hartmann Zharnel Hughes Andrew Hudson Bryan Levell Joseph Fahnbulleh Any South African Athlete Tarsis Orogot Kenneth Bednarek x Erriyon Knighton Noah Lyles x Any Other Athlete Women's 400m Hurdles Day 8 August 8th 2024 Kemi Adekoya Hanne Claes Savannah Sutherland Any French Athlete Jessie Knight Ayomide Folorunso Rushell Clayton Janieve Russell Shiann Salmon Femke Bol x* Any Ukranian Athlete Anna Cockrell x Jasmine Jones Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone x* Any Other Athlete Men's 110m Hurdles Day 8 August 8th 2024 Wilhem Belocian Sasha Zhoya Lorenzo Ndele Simonelli x Orlando Bennett Rasheed Broadbell Hansle Parchment Shunsuke Izumiya Rachid Muratake Louis Francois Mendy Enrique Llopis 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Karsten Warholm x Abderrahman Samba Carl Bengstroem CJ Allen Trevor Bassitt Rai Benjamin x Any Other Athlete Men's Marathon Day 10 August 10th 2024 Bashir Abdi Kenenisa Bekele Deresa Geleta x Sisay Lemma Morhad Amdouni Amanal Petros Gashau Ayale Eluid Kipchoge x Benson Kipruto x Alexander Mutiso Abdi Nageeye Gabriel Gerald Geay Kaan Kigen Ozbilen Any Other Athlete Men's High Jump Day 10 August 10th 2024 Any Australian Athlete Donald Thomas Thomas Carmoy Luis Enrique Zayas Tobias Poyte Gianmarco Tamberi x Ryoichi Akamatsu Hamish Kerr Norbert Kobielski Mutaz Essa Barshim x Woo Sanghyeok x Oleh Doroshchuk Andrii Protsenko Shelby McEwen Any Other Athlete Men's 800m Day 10 August 10th 2024 Slimane Moula Djamel Sedjati x Any Athlete from Botswana Marco Arop Any French Athlete x Max Burgin Ben Pattison Koitatoi Kidali Wyclife Kinyamal Emmanuel Wanyonyi x Adrian Ben Bryce Hoppel Hobbs Kessler Brandon Miller Any Other Nation Women's Javelin Throw Day 10 August 10th 2024 Mackenzie Little x 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My apologies to the entire Horse Disco community.

Time for all Guatemalans to take up Trap at an early age. Let's set up a legacy for generations to come!

It's not that complicated, but it goes against what most people who aren't Americans think about sport, which is the concept of a draw. Essentially I just think the way the scoring system is presented causes more problems than it solves.

I hope not. If we had to give medals to place of birth, I think might lose a bunch of medals over the years.