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It hasn't been bad in the women's event, but in the men's event so far an American just has to make it down on his feet and is handed a gold.  Hopefully better scoring this time.  

Americans in first, shocker

Americans in first, shocker

Perhaps by day? We aren't a huge group and it would be easier than jumping between threads...

Hello guys!
 
I think this would be one of the most active National Threads during the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games and I have the feeling keeping everything into one single thread is not enough. I wrote the quoted message some weeks ago, but I have thought instead of that will be better to use a feature of the forum we have never used but which I would like to start using from now on: the clubs.
 
Basically they are a sort of sub-forums where invited users can have their own section where they can have more threads rather than just one National Thread. So you can have separate threads for each sport, for who will be the flag bearer etc, and have different sections (like one for Beijing 2022 Olympic Games, then you can create the section for Paris 2024 qualifications etc.).
 
I have created the Canadian Club and I am now going to invite there all active Canadian users: https://totallympics.com/clubs/2-canada/
 
Now I would need one user who would become the "owner" of the club, a sort of moderator who can decide which threads to open, how to sort them etc. Also, I can change the name of the club from "Canada" to something else if you prefer (Canadian Club? Canadian Corner? Whatever you want), and where you see "Description here!" I can add everything you want. Any suggestion? And any candidate to be the owner of the club?
 
I hope you like it and you will make this club active. If this idea will be successfull, this National Thread should be closed and the discussions would move to the club.
 
Good luck to Team Canada in Beijing!

Sindo
 
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I suspected that the OBS announcer was John Anderson from ESPN, and just realized that it actually is him. Weird 

Ahmed does it!!!!

Just popping in folks to say how happy I was to see de Grasse win today. Congrats Canada

Sara Douglas in 4th place heading into the medal race in the Laser Radial, with a legit shot at a medal. 

Very cool watching the women's eight medal ceremony - world feed announcer naming the hometown of most of the athletes as they get their medal. 

Sara Douglas in 4th place heading into the medal race in the Laser Radial, with a legit shot at a medal. 

I'm kind of relieved they didn't qualify, on current form they would have been humiliated in the QF.

See, I told you they had a chance! It almost happened lol

Ironic that your user name is Triplecast  

I kind of hope that is the main thing.

ugh what an awful crash

Didn't even try anymore sadly (understandably)  

All colourful and flashy and 'new', whereas this looks so gray, as if it's somewhere on the outskirts of a medium-sized industrial town where local kids race after school  

To then play NZL and lose... they wont medal sadly

No no, not unless the miracle I just described happens

Absolutely, they are the most painful!
 
Would love to see an analysis post-Games on which country had the most "close calls"

But GB is sure it's them, and even in the Netherlands (which is nonsense of course) people are saying the same  
 
4th places and near-misses are somehow always remembered more than successes, it seems.

Insane  4 fourth place finishes in the pool and all smashing the NR

So damn close....
 
Women's BMX semi was going at the same time as the 100m final and I had the double screen up - solid 3rd place finish for Mechielsen in the first heat 

So damn close....
 
Women's BMX semi was going at the same time as the 100m final and I had the double screen up - solid 3rd place finish for Mechielsen in the first heat