Rich

That's not really the press having a go. Nobody has been called a flop of a turnip. I've seen four back pages and it's words like 'pipped'. They reflect frustration not anger.

Sure, but it's also a target that you can't really hold anybody accountable for. If each governing body has met their target then what you going to do. The rest of the world had raised its game. And just like we learnt from the Aussies post 96 so, in turn, others have learnt from us - the Aussies themselves to some extent but also the Dutch and others I'm sure.

Gutted for Matt. Love watching him. Same with Josh and Molly. But there's no divine right and I'm sure the two men would take their performance over Molly's. I'm equally sure both would have good words for her - they've lived through their own athletic disappointments. The silvers are frustrating when so close, no question. But there is a reason that the target is about medals not golds and it's because GB success has been built on controlling the controllables. Sometimes, like tonight and yesterday, no matter what you do to prepare, no matter how extraordinarily fast you run, no matter how much you want it, somebody else is just better. Medals not golds allows for that uncontrollable.

I agree. They would have fixed the problems with the combinations and pitter patter shots if they had wanted to but they wanted in on the money and prestige of professional boxing and so set up their weird in-between boxing league and made loads of changes. Professional boxing is too dangerous for the Olympics and they need to move away from it again.

A beautifully made point, @mpjmcevoy but I would say the 'nobility' of such moments often comes from their clarity. Yes, sometimes it's a context dependent clarity, but the most timeless of sporting moments aren't. Kelly running through the line (almost every kid knows what it is to race), Redmond and his dad hobbling down the track. Gemma Gibbons looking to the sky and whispering to her mum. Forgive my British bias. Kayak X may well produce these, but when events become too harum-scarum then that clarity can be lost in the seemingly random and faintly comical. I just think it needs a bit of evolution. A bit more space. To give a 'cross' example, the greatest snowboard cross moment was Lindsey Jacobellis falling on her face, which only happened because the course was long enough for it to happen. If Kayak X is doing its best to encourage incident every single second then the great moments might be drowned in incidents. Stephen Bradbury might disagree with me but, for all the chaos of short track, it is, essentially, just a race.

Watched Kayak X medal races this eve and wasn't completely convinced. I like the idea but the inflatable posts, the compulsory roll... Seemed a bit total wipeout. Couldn't it just be from point A to point B with some upstream turns? Maybe I just didn't get to watch enough.

A golden evening for our women. Highs and lows (mostly just 'not-as-high-as-I-would-like-lows' not actual lows (apart from poor Molly)- the Olympic rollercoaster.

She tried so hard. Frustrating silver. A brilliant race from first to last.

How exciting is this race?!

On that basis, how'd he do? Didn't look anything special but I've not seen splits.

Well done to him! A poor Olympics for Britain's boxing team but sports will have ups and downs and the funding (dare I say the F word 🤣) needs to reflect that. I hope the sport is reformed (seems to have lost its way in every way since it tried to be more like the professional sport) and stays part of the Olympics because it has produced many a great moment down the years (and many a controversy to be fair).

Emma Wilson: "I think it's obvious I'm at a disadvantage, and I think they [sailing officials] should think about it, and think about people's mental health as well," Wilson said after the event. "It's not OK to put people in this position every time. I had a 60-point lead at the World Championships and a 30-point lead here. "I don't know how many times you can come back. I think I'm done with the sport." "I just made a mistake on the lay line," added Wilson, referring to the calculation required to reach the next mark, or buoy, in the quickest time. "I hadn't done a race yet and all these girls knew where the lay line was. "I'm really happy for her [Maggetti] but I'm just not sure I can keep putting myself through that format." Not a good look for a sport for a top competitor to feel this way.

Dressage is a sport that not even a British medal can make interesting to me. I'm watching the Chinese table tennis championship instead.

Not keen on events that change their format for the final to rather artificially create drama and draw TV eyeballs. Can leave you feeling you've the wrong champion (windsurfing) or the wrong medalist (Shriever). Clearly being on the wrong end of it can make it feel bitter but it's not a new thing; it why playoffs suck and why DL final three could never work if the whole result depended on it. Let's just run the 100m over 20m. It'll be 5 times as exciting.

A fair bit resting on Richardson and Lyles for the US athletics team.

Fantastic dominant performance by the 8! I do get the theory of the stroke rate but when they're losing it's hard not to want them to go faster🤣 Medal table is 10 10 9, right? Almost perfectly neat. Shows really good strength in depth.

I don't really know anything about rowing but I liked seeing the women going above 40 strokes. From a rowing idiot's POV it has been frustrating to watch British boats sticking fairly rigidly to 38/39 when other boats have been upping and seeming to out-sprint us.

I think there a lot of truth to what you say @mpjmcevoy but I've never felt frustrated by Jodie or Harry in the same way. Jodie always seems to get injured when she's on the cusp of something and seems to be a woman that knows who she is and is very happy with that. I don't think Harry has ever looked unhappy in his whole life. Pidgeon never really had a senior career for me to feel frustrated by. @Epic Failure is right that body language may not mean anything but it does at least impact the way I feel about sportspeople. The fact Morgan also says some things that I can't understand ('thinking about the final'?? Come on, this isn't your first champs!). I thought this season was going to be better: coached by Robbie G, saying positive things, approaching the bar with more intent, best Champs last year... It all adds up to a feeling of underachievement. All that said, if she sticks with the sport because she wants to, not because she doesn't know what else to do with herself, I still believe she'll clear 2m before she's done.

All true and she's good enough to deserve her place but Morgan is one of those athletes it feels could, and should, have done more. She's been very good at staying fit in general but could she have pushed harder? Has she worked hard enough on her mental preparation? I'm sure there have been challenges (it's been hinted, correct me if I'm wrong, that Dad pushed her too hard and as a junior she never looked happy and has said the multis basically traumatised her) but have you ever seen her carry herself with the confidence of a champion? Even at UK champs?

Funnily, with my relative lack of knowledge compared to some of you guys, I was pretty optimistic having seen her over the years. I assume her recent form hasn't been great?

Two brilliant golds. My silver frustration is eased😂 Re: beach rowing. I think (was only half listening) they said Glover has had a go and is thinking of doing it.

Getting a bit bored of silver (very over privileged). Come on now lightweight sculls!

But that's what I mean; they haven't capitalised on the success that fell in their laps (similar to badminton). Not even compared to the canoe slalom. Is it the same governing body?

I always feel that this is a sport we should be better at as there are plenty of lakes and watersports centres where you can paddle. Have they ever tried letting underperforming sports be run by those with better programmes ? Surely rowing could help them out?

So glad that Andy went out fighting. It looked like they'd limp out but, as the commentators said, they somehow got us believing again. It was a little too late for this match but still amazing to watch Andy (with Dan's help) rage against the dying of the light. The 42 consecutive weeks at number 1 and the 2 Olympic titles probably a better measure of his quality than the number of slams. If he was 10 years older he would have had three times as many. The people who love to put him down like to say it was never a big 4 but for about 4 years it absolutely was.