Nickyc707

Which begs the question why target the eights if you have a shortage of suitable athletes? I always think of two and four-man boats as being Italy's speciality.

Tahiti? They do know its bicycles and not surfboards don't they? 🏄‍♂️

crews rowing well again this morning. Unlike their gymnastics programme they really seem to have begun to turn things around over the last year or two.
 

So he was after some athletic tips then. 😊

Because I was like 14 years old and I liked those swimsuits

because Nicole Eggert knew how to run
 

Sounds like something I saw during a lifeguard competition on "Baywatch" 25 years ago

Laurie Mains and other senior AB officials claimed the players had been poisoned by Suzie the waitress prior to their defeat in the RWC final. Turns out Suzie never existed.
 
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/rugby/arid-10128478.html

Good point. I'm not sure which is the more vulnerable the lightweight double sculls or the eights, probably both. I guess another problem is that if you have 6-8 really good rowers it makes more sense to put them in a pair and a four to optimise your medal chances rather than gamble on one boat given that doubling up is often not a realistic option given the schedule.

Or worse, the IOC drops both and adds a mixed eights 

Disappointed that GB didn't enter a women's eight and the same goes for NZ. With only six entries on the women's side I do worry about the future of this boat - and by extension the men's boat - in the Olympic programme. For me the eights are one of the blue riband events of the Games but I'm sure the IOC would be more than happy to get rid of an event involving so many athletes.

Pretty impressive shooting from Sam Gowin to be four clear of some high quality opposition at this stage.

One could say that Dufour lost this title on the one tempis, but more likely it was due to her decision to ride Vamos Amigos instead of the much more experienced, and more refined Bohemian. Sure, Vamos posted some nice scores in Aachen, slightly higher than Bohemian, but that was an outlier.

Anyways, the new champion got slightly overscored, as it is very often the case with British riders, but hey, at least she doesn't have a fake, rehearsed persona like her more popular namesake. Fry seems to be quite shy in fact. Sort of like Rybakina of dressage.
 
Dinja van Liere got the bronze with a hilariously inflated score. Sure, Hermes has very nice and elegant piaffe and passage, but they are still largely unpolished (doesn't matter, the judges are turning the blind eye). In transitions his legs go every-which way, more like a deer rather than a horse.
 
And finally Isabell Werth got robbed. She should have won the bronze medal. She got demoted to 4th, basically, single-handedly by the British judge whose scores have been eye raising more often than not, to put it lightly. Hopefully he will not be returning for any major championships any time soon.

Meanwhile, in unrelated news, the Belgian team has announced they will 'boycott' the next European Championships to be held in  due to fears of flooding. 😎

Quota great britain 

In a sense I agree with you but I wonder if GB really were the underdogs against Sweden. Last November the same Scotland/GB team beat the same Swedish team 8-5 in the round-Robins and 7-4 in the final of the European Championships. They then followed that up with an 8-2 win in the round-Robin in Beijing so the form line actually favoured GB.

Four years ago  lost to  in the semi-final and  in the bronze medal match. This time they beat  in the semis and play in the final.

Four years ago  lost to  in the semi-final and  in the bronze medal match. This time they beat  in the semis and play in the final.

It was 's best result since Terry Monaghan finished 5th in the 10,000m at Squaw Valley in 1960.

It was 's best result since Terry Monaghan finished 5th in the 10,000m at Squaw Valley in 1960.

It was 's best result since Terry Monaghan finished 5th in the 10,000m at Squaw Valley in 1960.

Tomorrow's events:
0105 Mixed Doubles Curling: vs
(0845 Men's Luge Training Run 3 and 4: Rupert Staudinger)
1000 Women's Moguls Qualification 1: Leonie Gerken Schofield and Makayla Gerken Schofield
1145 Men's Moguls Qualification 1: Will Feneley
1205 Mixed Doubles Curling: vs
 

Beautiful graphics, best one ever, congrats to Beijing!

A belated happy birthday to Félix Sienra of  who competed in sailing at the 1948 Games in London where he finished 6th in the Firefly class behind Danish legend Paul Elvstrøm. Yesterday was his 106th birthday which makes him the third longest lived olympian in modern Olympic history.