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with a possibility of a double qualification in both men & women trap.

It’s our worst result since they stopped using dug out canoes.

Those songs the Fijians sing are Christian Hymns! All the other Pacific nations perform wild pagan war chants: the Fijians sing gospel music.

They need the venue for a pre-booked pedigree cat show.

And this is why these draconian COVID lockdowns will never work. No matter how much planning & preparation go into them, there’s always a weak link somewhere, someone in authority who’s doing things on the cheap, or who thinks the rules don’t apply. Panic at the Tokyo Games as 12 police officers guarding athletes at the Olympic Village test positive for Covid and 38 more are told to isolate - with all 50 officers aged in their 20s and sharing cramped accommodation https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-9834659/Tokyo-Olympics-Panic-Tokyo-Games-12-police-officers-guarding-athletes-test-positive-Covid.html

Not a good week for the Land of Cows. Alex Wilson also gets a ban, despite a masterful deployment of the Contaminated Beef manouevre. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/57995460

Not really worth speculating on sports that haven’t started yet. Could be rubbish like rowing, sensational like swimming.

Damn, had the Cook Islands down in my Fantasy Olympics team.

Rowing will never get cut off because in Olympic terms it is, or should be, easy medals for us. Don’t know how many golds, but only about ten serious rivals. What is annoying is that there are four famous ex-rowing pundits in the BBC, and not one of them will tell us what’s wrong, although they all clearly know. That’s not good enough.

women’s eight win their repechage. Set a WB, but had an absolute hurricane behind them.

Got some way to beat Wolfgang Wolf, ex-manager of VfB Wolfsburg.

Crushing win by in the 4x200!

Great win!

Condemn to B-Final hell.

I did think at first they’d actually managed to sink the boat, but it was just unbalanced with only one guy in it.

Hoping for a better day for Honduras.

Wind & choppy water.

That’s one down.

The mess the four made of it was a national humiliation, frankly. That has been one of our bankers for decades, something is horribly wrong.

Well, he didn’t literally lose his oar. Lost control & had to miss a stroke or two.

Dutch lead lost his oars there

But they did interfere, which is the rule.

They were having problems earlier, someone must have stopped rowing.

Curse of Lane 6!

That’s two Olympic Bests in two races, guess the wind is helping.