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De Grasse will run next to Bolt in the semis tomorrow. Hope that inspires him! He looked good in the prelims today. Bolt looked bored.

Yeah, GB performed much better here than they have recently (like, the last 4 years) and the Americans have been very good this year, too. So they probably saved themselves for this race. They also got lucky with the Aussies sucking in the first round and giving the Kiwis the place in the bronze race. Well, idk if 'lucky' is the right word since the Aussies didn't look good here at all.

Congratulations Belarus!

Well, the good news for diving is that Abel wasn't as good as she can be today and still finished 3rd by a large margin. If she's clean tomorrow a medal will be attainable, maybe gold if the Chinese screw up. Also, Ware makes the final as well.

LOL, one of the Chinese divers doesn't even need to do her last dive in order to qualify for the final.

Canadian women getting it done again!

Another bronze!

Burnette with a disasterous second routine, don't think he'll make it to the finals of trampoline.

I don't know either of them personally, of course, but to me at least Bolt seems to have fun out there and is talkative with fans, volunteers and other competitors. Phelps seems a little...in his own world...above everyone else. While De Grasse was doing an interview after a race one time, Bolt went over and congratulated him and said he was the future of the sport. I've never seen Phelps even interact with anyone else (besides teammates). I'd rather watch a guy out there having fun and soaking it up than someone so 'above it all', personally.

Yeah, pretty much. If Brianne can finish ahead of KJT and Jones in javelin she'll be in a good position for bronze because her 800m is very strong and you can get a lot of points there. Thiam and Ennis-Hill would both basically have to not get a mark in javelin for her to get the gold. Another worry is Schafer in 6th, just behind Brianne. But her 800m is much weaker.

Theisen-Eaton needed a huge result in long jump. Didn't get it. Good, but not great. Still, 'only' 90 points off the podium now. A medal is still very possible, but probably only bronze.

Canada wins in beach volleyball! Canada loses in beach volleyball...

They looked pretty good in their race (especially compared to yesterday). With the Aussies out, Canada is the favourite for bronze. Hope they perform this afternoon.

De Grasse! Looked like he was out for a morning jog in the park.

Before the meet, I thought Canada could get into the gold medal race for the ladies team pursuit. Now I'm just glad they got into the bronze medal race. But they looked good and with Australia out, they have a better shot against NZ. But still not easy.

You mean: The same way Phelps "won" the 100 Fly in 2008?

Totally unacceptable. Women's 8s used to be a given medal. Worst performance since 1988. Terrible. And now to watch men's 8s where Canada doesn't have a team for the first time I can remember. Much more important to have two terrible 4 man boats instead.

Happy for the silver yesterday, but this is the worst result for rowing in 28 years. Rowing Canada certainly screwed it up good.

Ugh, Canada's eights fall apart at the end. Terrible camera views on the last 500m. Absolutely no shot of the actual race. Frustrating.

The biggest thing I took from this is that COC/athletes have to pay for the ticket to Rio. I always thought since Air Canada is a sponsor the ticket was free. I mean come on. Having done many, many 12 (13...14...two back to back 13s on my way from Korea to Brazil...) hour flights in my life, I totally understand this situation, though. I'm a big guy, my shoulders spread way past the seat on both sides. When I'm in the middle I have to sit cross-armed the whole way and it hurts for days afterwards. And the legs, don't even get me started on that. I also have a nagging lower back issue from an injury years ago and basically need to lie down for 24hours after those flights. Anyway, I like Netty, I think she's a serious medal contender that isn't mentioned much. I hope she recovers well.

Yikes not a good 200m for her. 1st is surely out of reach now, and she'll have to have a great second day to get on the podium.

She's actually slightly ahead of where she was at the Athletics Championships last year right now (points wise). But much further behind the leader, and even the podium.

Another medal!

Another medal for Canada! What a dream Games in the pool!

CANADA!!!