orangeman

3 hours ago, Josh said:

One and done! Sarah Mitton through to the women’s shot put final! 19.77m!

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. 

Just now, Topicmaster1010 said:

This might be my favourite medal so far!

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! 

Just now, intoronto said:

Newman needs to clear 4.85 or its 4th

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. 

Just now, Josh said:

Sprint isn’t judged, it’s by time. No one’s fault but themselves. 

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. 

15 minutes ago, Surlympics said:

I was wondering what was happening with our track cycling team. But Mitchell confirmed basically the entire team got sick from the food they were fed 

Gee, I hope the food wasn't laced with performance enhancing drugs that affected the whole team. Otherwise, they'd have to do an internal investigation that will conclude a mysterious actor dropped the dope in the athlete's food and then cleaned up so good afterwards there is absolutely no evidence of this statistical anomaly, and then WADA will sweep it under the rug after getting an unrelated large sum payment. That'd be awful! 

5 minutes ago, orangeman said:

Good news, both Canadians are in the same repechage heat for the sprint. Bad news, only one can move on. 

Aaaaaand they both lose to the French. 

If Canada could stop facing the home team in every single event, that'd be great.

Good news, both Canadians are in the same repechage heat for the sprint. Bad news, only one can move on. 

Michelle Russell and Riley Melanson make it to the K1 SF. 

And Mitchell off to the repechage. Don't expect a medal in cycling, folks. 

2 minutes ago, Josh said:

Will she advance?

She'll go to the repechage. 

According to the CBC, Ahmed says he was clipped and there was an appeal. It was denied. 

Going to need to have that emoji ready for the rest of the Olympics. 

Genest