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That third javelin throw got him the bronze.  Came through when he had to.  

Phew!  Bronze for Warner.  Great decathlon by Eaton and Meyer.  

Bishop makes the final. 

1 minute ago, juddy96 said:

 

Kazmirek's PB was 64.45 from last year what are you talking about lol

Sorry, I guess I had old info (wikipedia).  

Kazmirek beats his PB by more than 5 meters, and he set that PB 4 years ago.  O.....k.....

Great match by Wiebe!  

And enough energy left to lift her coach!  

wOOt!!!

GOLD!

6 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Just saw the replays of the 4x100m heats, I'm turning around on the USA decision being unfair and think it's more and more fair, but f*ck it, our athletics union was still asleep 

 

The exchange from Jamile Samuel to Dafne Schippers was screwed because one of the Ghanese athletes nearly pushed Samuel out of her lane (and stepped way inside the Dutch lane) 

 

Seeing as USA's protest was awarded, a Dutch protest would certainly have been awarded as well, but no, our union didn't pay attention and didn't see it 

As I said earlier, I think it was the least worst decision.  But there's no way the same thing would have been granted to any other country (except maybe, maaaaaaybe Jamaica).  I'm just glad Canada beat the Chinese by a thousandth of a second, otherwise I'd be up in arms right now.  

8 minutes ago, dcro said:

This will probably be the first race in Olympic history with only one participant at the start. I say probably because we can't know all the crazy situations that happened in early Olympics

Don't know about athletics, but don't forget about Eddie the Eel in 2000.  

Canadian TV is interviewing an IIAF official.  He was asked if the decision to let USA run again would have been made for anyone else: "Of course!".  I could have sworn his nose grew a few centimeters right after.  

Anyway, China has launched an appeal about the decision.  The Canadian guy asked if there is any sympathy for them, and the IIAF guy seemed almost bothered by the question.  

Well that's good.  I predicted 2 diving medals, with hopes for more.  Two with two 4ths ain't bad.  

And what a finish by Filion.  Too bad about last round.  

Looks like Benfeito will win a medal!

1 minute ago, intoronto said:

Brooke Henderson is skyrocketing up the leaderboard. 

 What a back-half she's having!  Last I checked was after the 9th hole.  

Kazmarik going out at 5.00 helps.  

But he really needs to make that 4.80

4 minutes ago, juddy96 said:

 

No I mean Mayer, but Kazmirek might get him for bronze too

Warner's PBs in javelin and the 1500m are quite better than Kaxmirek.  So if he's up to 100 points behind after pole vault, Damian shouldn't have too much trouble making up the gap.  

However, Mayer has much higher PBs in everything left (including pole vault) so he's the real threat.  But those PBs by Mayer are quite a few years old.  

I think a re-run is the best solution.  The Americans can argue that the baton was shaken loose by the contact.  Just happy that Canada came out ahead of China to the thousandths.  

Haha, on the Rio Olympics site, next to Tory's name (and others) it says "Probably qualified".  I've never seen that before.  It's true though, as long as he finishes the next race he moves on.  

And Tory wins the 2nd race.  He just needs to stay on his bike (and healthy) to make it through now.  Lots of crashes, lots of the favourites having trouble.  

Nyhaug finishes 1st in his first heat.  But there was a huge crash.  

And CBC didn't show the match, instead showing golf (yawn).  I couldn't even find a live feed on their site.  

Wiebe going for gold!!!!!!!

Wiebe onto the semi-finals in wrestling!