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I only meant that I was disappointed she didn't get gold. I had no doubt she would come back to get bronze.

If he does have Covid he's pretty irresponsible to be mingling with all the other athletes. So either Lyles is a liar, or he's an asshole for endangering others.

Sad for Lebanon, happy for Canada!

Yay Botswana!!!!! Had the pleasure of visiting the country a month ago. Beautiful people, animals and landscapes!

Catching up here. Wow,what a comeback by the volleyballers! Last time I checked their were down a set and tied 19-19 in the second one. Great news! Also great news about SkylAr! Cyclists

Woohoo!

Skyler out. Another disappointment.

The Korean gets a mysterious 3 points when the replay clearly shows she did not make contact with the head.

Her throw would have been bronze in Tokyo, 2cm behind silver. She's looking great.

With 19 medals, it'll be a race to see if they can top 24 for Tokyo. Despite my recent pessimism, I'd wager that they'll at least tie it. We'll have a much better idea after tomorrow, of course. Although they're only 1 short of their record 7 golds from Tokyo, I think that'll be harder to match. I don't want to jinx anyone, so I will vaguely say there are still chances in athletics, canoe and, uh, breaking with outside shots in cycling and beach volleyball. And hey, anything can happen in combat sports. We'll see. Sad that it's almost over, but excited to see what the next few days will bring.

Busy at work again tomorrow morning, so I won't be able to watch anything 6am-noon-ish. But I'll pop in here every so often to keep up to date. I really want Mitchell and Genest to work it out, but not sure they can. At least semi-finals.

Rugby will be hard to beat for me. But this and fencing are way up there. Love surprises!

She's so CLOSE!

Medal for Newman in pole vault!

MEDAL!!!!!

Swiss girl passing, going to 4.90. If she misses that, Newman on the podium. Edit to say, unless Czech girl has massive comeback.

I hate rooting for others to miss but YEEEEESSSS!

She still needs the American or the Swiss to miss here.

Woooo!

Are we taking bets on that either/or?

The Aussie clearing it is not good.

Thought she had it.

Does anyone here know what happened in the women's pole vault in 2020(1) that only 4 women cleared 4.70? More already cleared it today.

I didn't mean to imply that it was. I just mean home athletes always have an extra motivation, so it'd be nice to not face them in every event.