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Nothing but French people.

Now that is - open the scoring with a planned training-field move. Blindsided.

As was always likely, there’s a bacon & eggs crisis in the Olympic Village. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0xj26w651qo

Canada Ice Hockey had a good streak going in the early Olympics, don’t know how many it was, until they were beaten in 1936.

It’s popular in about five towns, sure.

Sport in France is very regional. In the south both R15 & R13 are very popular.

The biggest British teams are mostly amateurs from Poland, Spain, France etc. It’s growing, but there’s a lot of other sports.

What they need is a DJ & dancers to come on during breaks in play, that got the kids going. But in London handball was pretty much the cheapest ticket, so lots of families. Probably more expensive here.

Off to the early lead, need a taller goalie!

Looks like a nice venue too - big crowd for 09:00 in the morning. Hopefully they will recreate the atmosphere at the Copper Box in London.

Believe the 7 extra ES Channels pop-up tomorrow on Sky & Virgin. To resume - 4 of them will be dedicated to the big fortnight long team sports & three others will be divided up as need be with the shorter-running sports like archery, canoe slalom, badminton etc etc.

Like I say, there are two different things, depending on what your source is. On the Eurosport 1 & 2, it will always be the Eurosport Commentators from the different ES nations. And then with maybe the very same pictures, several different World Feeds Commentators provided by the official OBS. Or probably no commentator at all on some feeds like the 4 Fencing pistes. What makes it even more confusing is that some commentators work for both. So the guy who is the third-choice ES English Cycling commentator said that he will be working on the World Feed for the Olympics. But at the end of December when copyright goes back to the IOC, only the World Feed will survive.

Maybe there are alternative results systems out there. People like the BBC, NBC etc usually have their own.

Once the table tennis & badminton finals are played.

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.

The difference between football & rugby is that in rugby players pretend NOT to have injuries. “Dislocated? This arm? No, it always sticks out at this angle.”

If you scroll though the page the live events are always highlighted in red, but I don’t see an alternative.

Max will be the World Feed, but ES2 will be the local feed, with local commentators.

Would be funny if he over-ruled it.

I once saw an African Cup of Nations game that ended 4-3 after 1-2 in the 87th minute. Late 90s, Congo were one if the teams.

BBC have got the Argentina Morocco game.

And if you have tickets to the next game, better get your money back because it’s going to be closed doors for sure.

So what you’re saying is that the 1966 World Cup final is not finished? No, i did notice some of the Argentinians were flinching, obviously being hit by something.

Not believing that Maximum Altitude stat: did you go as far as ?

Will bet that has been focus-grouped and market researched at some point and…..