Epic Failure

Generally decent morning in the pool. Both relays through, the men in 3rd after the heats. Freya Anderson split the best for the women, so early signs that the focus on the relays might be a wise decision. Keanna MacInnes squeaks through into the SFs of the 100 fly, with a narrow PB. Kieran Bird doesn't make the final of the 400, not unexpectedly. In the main individual event of the morning, both Peaty and Wilby comfortably through in the heats of the 100m breast, in 2nd and 6th overall.

Steenbergen split 52.4. The others just left her waaay too much to do. did about as well as could be hoped.

[hide] *"Double-the-points" distributed as follow: Each user will have 10 during the Games. Each user will have to mark their matches with "Double-the-points" with an "*". Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Men's 400m Freestyle Day 1 July 27th 2024 Samuel Short x Elijah Winnington x Felix Auboeck Lucas Henveaux Guilherme Costa Zhang Zhanshuo Oliver Klemet Lukas Martens x Kieran Bird Daniel Wiffen Marco De Tullio Danas Rapsys Kim Woomin Any American Athlete Any Other Athlete Women's 400m Freestyle Day 1 July 27th 2024 Jamie Perkins Ariarne Titmus x Gabrielle Roncatto Maria Da Silva Costa Summer McIntosh x Li Bingjie Liu Yaxin Isabel Gose Simona Quadarella Erika Fairweather Katie Ledecky x Paige Madden Any Other Athlete Women's 4x100m Free Relay Day 1 July 27th 2024 Australia x* Brazil Canada China x France Great Britain Hong Kong Italy Netherlands Poland Sweden United States x Any Other Nation Men's 4x100m Free Relay Day 1 July 27th 2024 Australia x Brazil Canada China France Germany Great Britain x Greece Hungary Israel Italy Spain United States x Any Other Nation Men's 400m Ind. Medley Day 2 July 28th 2024 Brendon Smith Leon Marchand x* Max Litchfield Apostolos Papastamos Balazs Hollo Gabor Zombori Alberto Razzetti Tomoyuki Matsushita Daiya Seto x Lewis Clareburt Carson Foster x Chase Kalisz Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Butterfly Day 2 July 28th 2024 Emma McKeon Alexandria Perkins Lana Pudar Margaret Macneil Yu Yiting Zhang Yufei x Marie Wattel Angelina Kohler Mizuki Hirai Rikako Ikee Louise Hansson Torri Huske x Gretchen Walsh x Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Breaststroke Day 2 July 28th 2024 Evgenii Somov Sam Williamson Qin Haiyang x Sun Jiajun Melwin Imoudu Lucas Matzerath Adam Peaty x Nicolo Martinenghi Ludovico Viberti Casper Corbeau Arno Kamminga Omer Ogretir Nic Fink x Charlie Swanson Any Other Athlete Women's 400m Ind. Medley Day 3 July 29th 2024 Jenna Forrester Ella Ramsay Summer McIntosh x* Freya Colbert x Katie Shanahan Vivien Jackl Anastasia Gorbenko Sara Franceschi Mio Narita Ageha Tanigawa Katie Grimes x Emma Weyant Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Freestyle Day 3 July 29th 2024 Maxmillian Giuliani Pan Zhanle Lukas Martens Matthew Richards x Duncan Scott x Katsuhiro Matsumoto Danas Rapsys David Popovici x* Hwang Sunwoo Kim Woomin Chris Guiliano Luke Hobson Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Backstroke Day 3 July 29th 2024 Xu Jiayu Yohann Ndoye-Brouard Mewen Tomac Oliver Morgan x Jonny Marshall Apostolos Christou Evangelos Makrygiannis Huber Kos Thomas Ceccon x Ksawery Masiuk Pieter Coetze Hugo Gonzalez Hunter Armstrong Ryan Murphy x Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Breaststroke Day 3 July 29th 2024 Tang Qianting x Angharad Evans Mona McSharry Lisa Angiolini Benedetta Pilato Ruta Meilutyte x Kotryna Teterevkova Reona Aoki Satomi Suzuki Tes Schouten Tatjana Smith Sophie Hansson Lilly King x Emma Weber Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Freestyle Day 3 July 29th 2024 Mollie O'Callaghan x Ariarne Titmus x Maria Da Silva Costa Marie-Sophie Harvey Li Bingjie Yang Junxuan Barbora Seemanova Siobhan Haughey x Nikolett Padar Erika Fairweather Erin Gemmell Claire Weinstein Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Backstroke Day 4 July 30th 2024 Iona Anderson Kaylee McKeown x Kylie Masse x Ingrid Wilm Wan Letian Wang Xueer Beryl Gasteldello Emma Terebo Any British Athlete Danielle Hill Maaike De Waard Carmen Weiler Sastre Katharine Berkoff Regan Smith x Any Other Athlete Men's 800m Freestyle Day 4 July 30th 2024 Samuel Short x Elijah Winnington x Guilherme Costa Sven Schwarz Florian Wellbrock Daniel Wiffen Luca De Tullio Gregorio Paltrinieri Kim Woomin Ahmed Jaouadi Mykhailo Romanchuk Bobby Finke x Luke Whitlock Any Other Athlete Men's 4x200m Free Relay Day 4 July 30th 2024 Australia x Brazil China France Germany Great Britain x Greece Israel Italy Japan South Korea United States x Any Other Nation Women's 100m Freestyle Day 5 July 31st 2024 Shayna Jack Mollie O'Callaghan x Margaret Macneil Wu Qingfeng Yang Junxuan Any French Athlete Barbora Seemanova Anna Hopkin Siobhan Haughey x Marrit Steenbergen Michelle Coleman Sarah Sjostrom x Kate Douglass Gretchen Walsh Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Butterfly Day 5 July 31st 2024 Ilya Kharun Leon Marchand x Richard Marton Kristof Milak x Giacomo Carini Alberto Razzetti Tomoru Honda x Genki Terakado Krzysztof Chmielewski Noe Ponti Wang Kuan Hung Thomas Heilman Luca Urlando Any Other Athlete Women's 1500m Freestyle Day 5 July 31st 2024 Moesha Johnson Lani Pallister Beatriz Dizotti Gao Weizhong Li Bingjie x Anastasiia Kirpichnikova Isabel Gose Leonie Maertens Vivien Jackl Simona Quadarella x Eve Thomas Katie Grimes Katie Ledecky x* Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Breaststroke Day 5 July 31st 2024 Zac Stubblety-Cook x Joshua Yong Dong Zhihao Qin Haiyang x Matti Mattsson Leon Marchand Yu Hanaguruma Ippei Watanabe Casper Corbeau Arno Kamminga x Matt Fallon Josh Matheny Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Freestyle Day 5 July 31st 2024 Kyle Chlamers Josh Liendo Jordan Crooks Pan Zhanle x Maxime Grousset Matthew Richards Nandor Nemeth Alessandro Miressi David Popovici x Andrej Barna Jack Alexy x Chris Guiliano Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Butterfly Day 6 August 1st 2024 Abbey Connor Elizabeth Dekkers Lana Pudar Summer McIntosh x* Chen Luying Zhang Yufei x Helena Rosendahl Bach Keanna Macinnes Laura Stephens Hiroko Makino Airi Mitsui Alex Shackell Regan Smith x Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Backstroke Day 6 August 1st 2024 Bradley Woodward Xu Jiayu Mewen Tomac Apostolos Siskos Hubert Kos x Adam Telegdy Thomas Ceccon Pieter Coetze Lee Juho Hugo Gonzalez Roman Mityukov Oleksandr Zheltiakov Keaton Jones x Ryan Murphy x Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Breaststroke Day 6 August 1st 2024 Ella Ramsay Jenna Strauch Sydney Pickrem Ye Shiwen Thea Blomsterberg Mona McSharry Satomi Suzuki Kotryna Teterevkova Tes Schouten x Kaylene Corbett Tatjana Smith x Kate Douglass x Lilly King Any Other Athlete Women's 4x200m Free Relay Day 6 August 1st 2024 Australia x* Brazil Canada China x France Great Britain Hungary Israel Italy Japan Netherlands New Zealand United States x Any Other Nation Men's 50m Freestyle Day 7 August 2nd 2024 Cameron McEvoy x Josh Liendo Maxime Grousset Florent Manaudou Benjamin Proud x Kristian Gkolomeev Szebasztian Szabo Gabe Castano Bjoern Seeliger Dylan Carter Vladyslav Bukhov Caeleb Dressel x Chris Guiliano Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Backstroke Day 7 August 2nd 2024 Jaclyn Barclay Kaylee McKeown x Kylie Masse Liu Yaxin Peng Xuwei Emma Terebo Honey Osrin Katie Shanahan Anastasia Gorbenko Margherita Panziera Phoebe Bacon x Regan Smith x Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Ind. Medley Day 7 August 2nd 2024 Finlay Knox Wang Shun x Leon Marchand x Tom Dean Duncan Scott x Ron Polonsky Alberto Razzetti Daiya Seto Lewis Clareburt Hugo Gonzalez Shaine Casas Carson Foster Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Butterfly Day 8 August 3rd 2024 Matthew Temple Ilya Kharun Josh Liendo x Maxime Grousset Hubert Kos Kristof Milak x Gal Cohen Groumi Katsuhiro Matsumoto Nyls Korstanje Jakub Majerski Noe Ponti Caeleb Dressel x Thomas Heilman Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Ind. Medley Day 8 August 3rd 2024 Kaylee McKeown x Ella Ramsay Summer McIntosh Sydney Pickrem Yu Yiting Abbie Wood Anastasia Gorbenko Sara Franceschi Yui Ohashi Marrit Steenbergen Kate Douglass x Alex Walsh x Any Other Athlete Women's 800m Freestyle Day 8 August 3rd 2024 Lani Pallister x Ariarne Titmus x Maria Da Silva Costa Li Bingjie Anastasiia Kirpichnikova Isabel Gose Ajna Kesely Simona Quadarella Erika Fairweather Eve Thomas Katie Ledecky x* Paige Madden Any Other Athlete Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay Day 8 August 3rd 2024 Australia Canada China x France Germany Great Britain x Italy Japan Netherlands Poland Sweden United States x Any Other Nation Women's 50m Freestyle Day 9 August 4th 2024 Meg Harris Shayna Jack Taylor Ruck Wu Qingfeng Zhang Yufei Any French Athlete Meg Harris Anna Hopkin Katarzyna Wasick x Michelle Coleman Sarah Sjostrom x* Simone Manuel Gretchen Walsh x Any Other Athlete Men's 1500m Freestyle Day 9 August 4th 2024 Samuel Short x Fei Liwei David Aubry Sven Schwarz Florian Wellbrock Daniel Jervis David Betlehem Daniel Wiffen x Luca De Tullio Gregorio Paltrinieri Ahmed Jaouadi Mykhailo Romanchuk Bobby Finke x Any Other Athlete Men's 4x100m Medley Relay Day 9 August 4th 2024 Australia Canada China x France Germany Great Britain x Italy Japan Netherlands Poland Spain United States x* Any Other Nation Women's 4x100m Medley Relay Day 9 August 4th 2024 Australia x Canada China x France Germany Great Britain Italy Japan Netherlands Poland Sweden United States x Any Other Nation Women's 10km Open Water Day 10 August 8th 2024 Chelsea Gubecka Moesha Johnson Ana Marcela Cunha x Any French Athlete Leonie Beck x Arianna Bridi Lisa Pou Sharon Van Rouwendaal x Angelica Andre Maria De Valdes Mariah Denigan Katie Grimes Any Other Athlete Men's 10km Open Water Day 11 August 9th 2024 Kyle Lee Nicholas Sloman Logan Fontaine Marc-Antoine Olivier Oliver Klemet Florian Wellbrock x Hector Pardoe Tobias Robinson David Betlehem Kristof Rasovszky x Domenico Acerenza Gregorio Paltrinieri x Any Other Athlete [/hide]

Question of the Day Artistic Gymnastics: Which Brit gets the most total points (all-around)? Jarman Badminton: Do Lane and Vendy win at least one game? No Boxing: Does Davison advance? Yes Canoe Slalom: Do they both get through the heats? No Cycling Road: Do we get a medal? Yes Diving: Medal today, yes or no? Yes Equestrian: Are the team in a medal position by the end of the day? Yes Hockey: Do we win our opener? Yes Rowing: Is it a clean sweep of advancing to the next round? Yes Shooting: Do the mixed relay team get to the final stage (top four)? No Swimming: How many RELAY medals do we get today? One, Men's 4x100m Silver Tennis: How many of the four Brits win our games? One

He probably made a wise choice playing for France, given how our 7s team has been in recent years. I mean, we could support . They do have our flag on their flag...

The pitch and timing issues go hand in hand. A smaller pitch makes it easier to defend, which reduces some of the spectacle. But a longer game would get too exhausting. We saw from the Fiji v Ireland game how quickly a team can score in 7s, so I'm not sure that a stopped clock is really necessary.

Yeah the wrestling is where I've mostly noticed it. Like you, I have everything set up through youtube TV as well. And also have a VPN at the ready if I want commentary more biased towards my team from the BBC.

I've been meaning to post this for a while, but I thought it would be fun to try and track the 'almost' Brits competing here, who we can root for and claim half a medal if they do well (especially if they are in events where there are no actual Brits for us to cheer for) I'm sure it is a lengthy list, but here's a few to get started. Add more if you know them! The Irish team obviously has plenty of Ulster men and women. That includes Dan Wiffen, who also attends Loughborough University. There are plenty of other swimmers who either train in the UK or have done previously, including the Hansson sisters from Sweden, Felix Aubock from Austria and, of course, Reuta Meilutyte. Jessica Fox (Australia, canoe slalom) - she's the daughter of Richard Fox who competed in the same event for GBR. Chase Jackson (USA, shot) - she is married to a Brit and I believe she lives and trains there. Larissa Iapichino (Italy, long jump) - she's the daughter of Fiona May, who jumped for GBR and then (much more successfully) for Italy.

If you were trying to watch the stream whilst the event was still live, I know Peacock sometimes doesn't let you go back more than 2/3 hours when it is happening live. I've encountered that a few times before now. When the full replay is posted online it works fine for the whole thing.

Yeah I don't like the optics of teams being effectively finished before the opening ceremony (and I don't think the day off tomorrow will benefit the players much) but it has still been a good tournament. Like CB, I'm tacitly supporting because it makes our defeat in the qualifier look better the further they go. I do think they need to sort out the seeding/draw issues for the future. I'm not sure the current setup gives us the best chance of the best teams getting through to the later stages, which should be the ideal (obviously that doesn't account for shocks but it is the best idea in principle).

picked the wrong day to completely forget how to catch the ball. Had plenty of opportunities to make something happen but showed a complete lack of composure and invention in the face of solid defence from . With all due respect to the Aussies, you would fancy Fiji's chances against them. But this is 7s, so you never know. First SF is much harder to call. are probably the better team generally speaking but you just cannot write off the Blitzboks.

Just never, ever write off an rugby team.

Yeah, I was coming to say something similar to this. It's a weird quirk of the set up. Not a particularly great set of ranking rounds but to be relatively expected at this level.

I don't think are as locked in as it seems. It wouldn't shock if we saw Dawson or Harris on the backstroke and Jimmy Guy on the fly. I realise that the times this year don't support it right now, but it has the potential to be the quickest combo if the form is right. That's a huge if obviously though.

On the evidence of today, no. On the evidence of the season as a whole, maybe. Fiji have been very inconsistent this year.

Not necessarily, we're assuming that Fiji will hold their form into tomorrow and that France won't find theirs. Both big assumptions. The last round of pool games have the position deciders - vs , vs and vs . And that's assuming that don't do something here.

I haven't checked the actual amount of injury time but just looking at the goals scored and there's three +10s and a +11 and a few +7s. So I suspect it was there.

There was a bone crunching tackle from Serevi in that first half. I actually winced.

Nothing sharpens the mind like the prospect of a medal!

Fiji are probably wishing that the entire tournament was happening today. They are just on a different level right now.

I'm feeling more confident about my prediction of Fiji three-peating than I am about my football prediction of Argentina.

The tour is almost impossible to police, given that it is essentially on open roads. People tend to be well behaved when they visit China and Russia because they worry that they won't be heard from again if they don't. They aren't worried about that when in England, where the worst that will happen is someone will look at them disapprovingly.

I mean, for Moroccan fans (of which there are many in France), it's probably a bigger game than it would be for some teams in that position.

I mean, they've been one of the best teams during the season, so it would have been weird if they weren't considered amongst the favourites, especially at home. But they haven't been particularly impressive today.

So, a nice quiet start to the Games, we can all agree right? I take the blame for Argentina's loss. I have them as gold medal winners in my predictions, which is a kiss of death for any chances they had.