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Tamara Thibault lost a very close fight to Ngamba. It was a really close bout that could have gone either way.

Technically the factoid is a little wrong without the caveat that it is the same finals lineup, since the prelims swimmers were different in Tokyo and in Paris (and if we're going to be super pedantic Guy and Dean switched spot, so it isn't exactly the same finals lineup either). Still extremely impressive, and unprecedented in a summer sport, to have the same four guys win the relay twice in a row.

The men’s and women’s triathlon are on for tomorrow, they won’t be duathlons and they *will* do the swimming leg in the 💩 river!

Very real shot of a first ever medal for tomorrow!

I guess one medal tomorrow would be a relative success? My biggest interests tomorrow re: team Canada will be the men's 200m butterfly, both the women's and mixed doubles matches in tennis and Tammara Thibeault's first fight. And of course the women's soccer team.

You can't change the scoring system to avoid corruption, you have to take fighting corruption seriously as an organization. The IBF was incredibly corrupt, there is literally no scoring system that would have changed that. The Task Force has no power, they can't fight corruption. The only solution is that we need an organization that organizes boxing that is serious about fighting corruption, we need a way to evaluate the accuracy and the bias of judges, we need clear scoring criteria (and no those criteria cannot be "who punched who more" if we want the sport to thrive) and judging at the Olympics has to be a reward for being among the best judges in the world. But at the end of the day boxing is a judged sport, there will always be some subjectivity. Which is why we need good and impartial judges and a lot more communication. Sports like surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding and freestyle skiing have even vaguer judging criteria than boxing, yet they generate a lot less controversy because the judges take their jobs seriously and communicate freely with athletes and coaches about what the criteria are and why they made certain decisions.

The old scoring system sucked *and* didn't solve any of the controversies, lets not get back to that nonsense please. Boxing is legitimately one of the hardest sport to judge accurately. The only way Olympic boxing can be fair is to have a very competent organization that takes officiating very seriously in charge. Changing the scoring system so it becomes "fencing with fists" won't help and it will create bad fights.

These are really good Olympics so far. Obviously there are some issues, but it feels so good to have crowds again. Like, it’s good. is doing a good job as hosts, team is performing well so far. We are so back after what were, for me, the worst Olympics of my life so far (Beijing 2022).

Quite a good day overall I would say. Dissapointing day in judo and in volleyball (though, tbh, our men's volleyball is sort of a hot mess and probably lucky just to qualify xD ), otherwise I think everything was at or above expectations.

building up a real dynasty in the men's 4x200m free.

advances in the tennis mixed doubles, comfortable win in the super tie-break.

As an FYI tennis fans use FAA for him.

The people who said should boycot the rest of the fencing tournament need to never speak in public ever again

You really think that's the only hardware she'll have? Because I disagree :D

I'm French Canadian, throwing English tongue twisters at me is basically discrimination :P (I kid, but I really can't do tongue twisters xD )

Oh I am not surprised you are a Korkina fanboy. You really have that same... personality type that she has.

Surely has to be up there as one of the best moment ever in Gymnastics. This will be a really popular medal among Gymnastics fans in general I think

Yup xD

I'll remember that when Nemour wins a medal on Russia's best aparatus

Pieters to the Ro16 in the shoot-out

Simone Biles haters in shambles.

Oh ya, this is the best the Canadian 7s team has look this entire Olympiad. A medal of any kind was a real stretch, beating and back to back before losing to by a single score? That's so much better than was expected. And this is a young team too.

We made work for it

Shame about all the mistakes in the second half, gold was a real possibility for this team.

That was XVs, not 7s