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As it should be. Winning *any* Olympic medal is an incredible achievement. Winning a gold medal is a spectacular achievement.
 
Reading some of the comments on here, you would think that people believe that have some kind of God given right to win golds and that the other nations don't train just as hard as our folk do.
 
Yes, it is frustrating that we haven't won as many golds as we would like. But that's all it is. Each and every medal we win should be cheered to the rafters. Not frowned upon because it isn't the colour we want.

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.

Annan somehow made this very limited China team a silver medalist. Magical coach 
 
 
 
 

That's extremely unlikely to happen though? We're 5th as things stand (and 4th for total medals), with lots of good opportunities still to come. If 20 golds is 'about' where we should be at, and we finish on 17 or 18, plus make it to the upper half of the target total medal band, plus finish 5th in the medal table, shouldn't that actually be considered a success, by UK Sport's own criteria? 

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’ll take it!

I’ll take it!

I’ll take it!

Nope you very kindly let GB get a goal in! Made my day! 

A little under 2:30 to go in Q1

I shall leave this here! Yesterday’s atmosphere at the QFs was electric and made me so proud to be part of the hockey family. We’ve got one hec of a great sport, and long may it continue

Phenomenal. India fought to the beyond the whistle, and that last play. Spectacular. What. A. Match.

I shall leave this here! Yesterday’s atmosphere at the QFs was electric and made me so proud to be part of the hockey family. We’ve got one hec of a great sport, and long may it continue

I shall leave this here! Yesterday’s atmosphere at the QFs was electric and made me so proud to be part of the hockey family. We’ve got one hec of a great sport, and long may it continue

I shall leave this here! Yesterday’s atmosphere at the QFs was electric and made me so proud to be part of the hockey family. We’ve got one hec of a great sport, and long may it continue

Medals aside I’m just not going to be ok without a constant buffet of sport to watch next week.
 
There’s been fantastic performances and heroic moments aplenty so far (triathlon, mountain biking and todays poison of skateboarding to name a few!) and I shall just be here savouring the next five days! 

Let us and his jewels hope he was wearing his groin guard today... 

Gonna be very hard to catch them i think, they have a slam dunk gold in the sailing as well

Very happy for Sky after all those injuries, great medal!

He could at least have given it a bash on his own.  Is that the Olympic spirit?

KEELEY!!! 

Went absolutely feral. 
 
Best they’ve played all tournament and a better outcome than I was expecting. I’ll take the joy of having the Dutch at 1-1 for a lot of a quarter and watching my team score a goal at the Olympics!!! 

1-1 in the hockey hope @G-ann went wild

Greetings from the women’s hockey QF. LETS GO GB because I am so outnumbered by the Dutch 

Greetings from the women’s hockey QF. LETS GO GB because I am so outnumbered by the Dutch 

Greetings from the women’s hockey QF. LETS GO GB because I am so outnumbered by the Dutch