Epic Failure

Michael Olise in the  football team was born and raised in London. 
 
Yona Knight-Wisdom In the  diving squad is UK born and raised and is good friends with many of our Diving squad. 
 
Adele Tracey in the  athletics squad is also UK born and raised.

Ann Katrin - Berger in the  is the partner of lionesses Jess Carter. 
 

Flora Duffy -  - Both parents English went to school in Devon.
 
ruta meilutyte -  - Studied at Plymouth college from age 15

Well, in rugby, most countries do 

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.

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...

Aaron Grandidier, rugby 7's, born in London from a british father, raised in Kent, has represented England (15-a-side) as a youngster
 
GB was not qualified, Ireland is out, the Aussies and Saffas are still in, so really you have no other choice to cheer for us 

They're not bad propositions to be honest, but they are either impractical (longer playing time when the sport is very demanding on the body or smaller fields within already existing stadiums) or politically very unlikely (changing the points system from the 15-a-side game).
 
For one, i much prefer rugby union for precisely its diversity of scoring and its momentum building. But I'd say rugby seven as an olympic event is perfectly fine.
 
EDIT: also to add a bit of rugby historical background for people puzzled by the try/conversion dynamic. Originally, a "try", was just that : a try for kicking over the bars, the try by itself didn't award any point. World Rugby is not going to throw that away.

It's what Peacock does. They do it with wrestling too.    I didn't know about TDF since I'm on the west coast I watched it later in the day.  But it will be horrible.  Thank God the main events are on the regular channels so I will probably go a lot to regular broadcast TV since YouTube TV will record every event on every channel.   Also no chance of spoilers
 
Also we can try out nbc olympics app or nbcolympics.com

Epic Failure - I think you are spot on.  I encountered that during the Tour de France, sometimes I wouldn't turn it on on Peacock until about 5 hours into the race, and it would only go back so far.  Maxim was watching a 6+hour stream of rugby, so similar problem.  Fortunately, handball matches are only 1.5 to 2 hours.  
 
Another thing about Peacock, which should seem obvious, and that is when the live stream ends, no matter where you are in the event, the stream stops and you get the message that replay will be posted soon.  So I've rewound the handball match, I'm at about the 45 minute point in the match, and then suddenly without warning it stops.
 
 

Don’t forget Noemi Fox, her sister, also in the KX.  And Cindy Ngamba (Boxing W75), competing for the Refugee team but training with the rest of the British squad, seems to have been claimed as GB by the British press.  I think there are one or two other refugees that are training here as well. 

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.

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.

I kinda miss it. It made the final even more special.

Just come home from the stadium, some thoughts on the quarters:
 - French crowd were insane for their match vs Argentina. Stadium was absolutely rocking.
 - TMO quick decisions seem to being prioritised over getting the correct decisions [ 2 odd ones from the stadium views were the disallowed Arg try and the winning try Fiji were awarded despite a seemingly blatant knock on]
- NZ were really poor relative to the group stage, the rain had started lightly falling 10 mins before and they made a number of handling errors. SA scored two tries from bits of magic from their best player.
- Ireland were all too often looking for Kennedy for creative spark, but were slightly unfortunate to come up short.
- I expect France to win the first semi, but Fiji vs Australia is too tough to call.
- The quality of rugby in general was really high, especially the defensive structure that all teams maintained.

Opposite way around for me 
 
Expecting a battle in France-South Africa, and think Fiji will win in the other semifinal.  

In all honesty, two of the best four teams are gone. Fiji Ireland was a stone cold classic - as was NZL South Africa.
 
Still, this tournament has been a great advertisement for the format, most 'casuals' i've spoken to have absolutely loved it, and a number have mentioned that it serves as almost a perfect lead in to the Olympics. I still don't agree with teams being already out before the Opening Ceremony, but the idea of using the Athletics Stadium in Week one for Sevens seems to work very well. Now if we could only get some of the energy- and the crowds -  into the SVNS

Wonder where our NZ friend is right now? Thought NZ where better than Fiji and Australia and not using NZ as an example was "embarrassing"? Think I forgive  for beating us in the final qualifier. 

Just never, ever write off an rugby team.

Just never, ever write off an rugby team.

Just never, ever write off an rugby team.

75...

Just for info, I went and browsed a horsey message board. They are 90% shocked and appalled, and that's a crowd that is...more understanding of the 'need' to 'train' horses in a manner similar to this.
 
Whilst the video was less distressing than I worried it could be, it's still someone whipping a clearly distressed animal. When the best that can be said is "it's not as awful as I worried it could be", it's not a good luck.
 
I also see from the BBC report today that a Danish reserve was replaced after a training video came to light. Different level of impact to their team but at least that shows that this is a more widespread issue and maybe a reckoning is coming.
 
Put me in the camp that would not be worried if we lost this sport.

Just for info, I went and browsed a horsey message board. They are 90% shocked and appalled, and that's a crowd that is...more understanding of the 'need' to 'train' horses in a manner similar to this.
 
Whilst the video was less distressing than I worried it could be, it's still someone whipping a clearly distressed animal. When the best that can be said is "it's not as awful as I worried it could be", it's not a good luck.
 
I also see from the BBC report today that a Danish reserve was replaced after a training video came to light. Different level of impact to their team but at least that shows that this is a more widespread issue and maybe a reckoning is coming.
 
Put me in the camp that would not be worried if we lost this sport.

They need to do what happens in many other sports - have a stadium clock controlled by an off-field official who stops it when play stops.  The on-field Ref has enough to do controlling 22 idiot players.

Nothing sharpens the mind like the prospect of a medal!