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If you told me the women’s 3x3 had a bet on to win I’d believe you

Biles is so far ahead of the field in vault. 7th career gold medal coming up.

I hate this event so much. Deciding the tie-breaking weight class by random draw is such a joke.

Extremely happy for Yulo, especially after the crushing disappointment of missing out the final in Tokyo.

The NBC commentator was also expecting the routing to content for gold, so this isn't just BBC homerism

Very happy for , this pair deserve it.

Personally I am *extremely* pro cross country running, cyclocross and snow volleyball being added to the Winter Olympics (and raising the athlete cap to like 4k).

Unlikely to work, but tbh I appreciate the gusto behind that strategy. Because every so often (*cough* Tokyo *cough*) it pays out.

4th again

Djokovic qualifies for the first Olympic final of his career.

The finish isn't touching the wall, it's applying pressure to the wall.

has a gold

Bronze for FAA and Dabrowski! Only Canada's second ever Tennis medal.

Yup! It was an outside chance, but a very outside chance, bronze is an incredible result for her. Also very happy for Page.

That semi feels almost like a final to me. Normally (as in if this was a random venue) out of those fours I would say Marks is the favourite, but of the remaining athletes Weston-Webb and Hennessy seem to be the best suited for Teahupoʻo.

She's mad she got punched in the face in the punching people in the face as hard as possible competition.

Likely AIN's best medal shot is in men's trampoline tomorow.

The wave conditions were very bad for the women's quarterfinals, but we've made it through the day. The semis and the finals are scheduled to be Saturday.

and all have an opportunity to win their first medal in this young Olympic sport. could also win the first European medal in this sport (North America, South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania all already have medals, Europe is the only continent to have yet to medal)

Men's semifinals Alonso Correa vs Kauli Vaast Gabriel Medina vs Jack Robinson Women's semifinals Caroline Marks vs Johanne Defay Tatiana Weston-Webb vs Brisa Hennessy

So far my mom (who is an extremely casual Olympic watcher) has only mentioned two athletes she’s been impressed with: Summer McIntosh (duh, she is Canadian and my mom used to be a fairly serious swimmer) and… Rebeca Andrade. So I guess Andrade is winning the old French Canadian demographic :P

Men's semi finals will be: - - Still three quarterfinals to go, but they are all team kills xD

There is no such thing as the IBA here. The tournament are being run under the 2016 rules because that's the last time Boxing had an IF. We don't have any real clarity about what the gender test they failed was, outsdide of uncomfirmed rumours (and anything the IBA says isn't exactly reliable, they clearly have an agenda here), and whether or not that would lead to a ban in athletics or swimming or any other sport. But what is clear is that neither of the athletes involved are trans, so this doesn't really fit in that narative. It's a situation similar to the various runners with DSDs that we had in athletics over the past decade.

Really hard to know when a swimmer will peak. You have people like Penny and Ruck who peaked as teenagers, and then on the complete opposite side you have people like Wilm who peak in their mid 20s. We all assume Summer will get better, but these *could* be her best Olympics. Or just a prelude to how good she’ll be at 21. It’s impossible to predict.

Western media? The story came out of Russia. And the parts of the Western Media that is running with it are all your favourite right wing reporters. This is basically something your side of the culture war is using to attack the left.