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Worth noting that EBU includes half a dozen african and half a dozen West asian countries - it is not entirely restricted to the continent of Europe - after all neither Malta or Cypres are geographically in Europe.

If you pick Stapely, or someone like him, you are gambling 1) on the relay and 2) as superdomestique for Yee to make sure he's not left on the swim - if Yee is at or near the front at the bike phase, he becomes big favourite (notwithstanding Pearson's brilliant run yesterday). The problem is everyone knows how to beat him, it's just do they have the lungs for it. If you were taking an absolute outside punt for an individual medal it would and could only be Stapely, anyway, but it would be the outsidest of outside punts. My question basically is how good is his swim-bike - i.e.can he superdom for Yee if needed to drag him back to the peloton, and be up there or thereabout as a lead off man for the relay

On that form, I wouldn't take Brownlee. My understanding is that they can more or less take who they want for the relay, the 30th place is irrelevant. On that showing, I'd pick on pure form with relay in mind, and that' probably Max Stapely. worth noting that Hugo Milner had a terrible bike, but then had more or less the second fastest run split. Brownlee had by far the slowest run split. Thought Waugh was a little underwhelming/undercooked here, but we'll see in Calgiari. on the Para side wins for Cashmore and Ellis welcome, as were the strong races from the Irish/NIrish sisters.

Anything over 4.90 is pretty much evens to win her gold.

What does that lineup on the men's side mean for Conor Hall? Does he need a Turkey - Netherlands final, or would a France-Netherlands final suffice?

I have one very indirect source who has told me that it'll be VERY difficult to get compound in, simply because the IOC think the general public won't get the difference between the bows, and the scoring system in Compound is 'unmodernised'. She thinks field archery, of some description has a better shout, because it could be done with much smaller numbers, and would be televisually quite distinct. However, even that is only likely if nations agreed either to scrap the recurve teams competitions apart from XP, or make them teams of two - this would apparently free about 32 quotas for two very small fields in field archery, but world Archery is not really interested in that sort of compromise (can't blame them). Apparently WA is content to have gotten the extra mixed event without giving up its teams as it is.

Are the live results for this available anywhere?

I thought that might work better in the Modern Pentathlon, in keeping with the cavalryman escape theme... My 'wild archery' idea is probably closer to the early Rambo films... how much cooler would it be if the disciplines were officially called 'Robin Hood', 'William Tell', 'Jack Rambo' and 'Dothraki Screamer' .....

As I understand it, the skill set is not actually directly transferable - there is, I think, a much greater strength element in recurve, where compound is more like darts - all about precision/steadiness. Personally, I want them to go get inventive and have a form of moving field archery in actual forests, robin hood style. all this William Tell fixed position, fixed target stuff is all well and good, but I think Archery is missing a trick not asking to ake over the Mountain Bike course when the bikers are done with it, and creating a real test in the trees! You could set off in pairs through an eighteen target forest, it'd be a bit like golf, at timed intervals, interesting fixed camera positions - it'd be a gas!

Make that two non-Olympic finals, with ella gibson making the women's compound decider.

Doesn't seem to have kicked on for Adam.

Of course they are into the final of the one competition that doesn't have Olympic quotas on offer! Similar issues in Mixed team skeet in the shooting!

I have only one thing to say after watching that last night (under duress!) Bring back the Turkey.

It was, and the original 'pitch' was to not have a world cup any more, and just the Olympics - but wiser heads prevailed as by the time the sport had got into the Games, everyone - IOC included - agreed it would be a backward step to end the world Cup - instead, arguably with the European Games, you're moving to a set of parallel competitions - the Olympics is the 'showcase', the World Cup is the World Championship, and the World Series is the pro circuit.

One has to remember that, although it is global, the Olympic Games is not a 'world championships' for the sport - it's not supposed to be, and given sevens has arguably two world championship formats already - world series and world 7s cup - it doesn't need to be. Obviously, as an Olympic comp, it is important in its own right, but it is also, like most of the teams sports, a big demonstrated event - a taster to create more interest in the sport. And as such it is going to e - and ought to be - smaller, and more driven by representation than pure merit.

I thought I read that the winners of the four individual events at Championships would get selection, but that's seems a hell of a gamble.

I mean Mawdsley going toe to toe with Bol was amazing enough, but Adeleke is ENTIRELY different gravy

Irish sport, historically, has been skewed heavily towards non-Olympic sport - notable GAA, horse racing, golf, rugby, snooker and in the North motorcycles. In olympic terms we were good boxers, and we occasionally pulled a good runner. Facilities and talent pools for anything else was pretty limited. And with a small population, we weren't getting any benefits from numbers. Recently, we've started to produce decent rowers, particularly at lightweight, plus talented one offs in non traditional sport, the stand out of which is of course Rhys McCleneghan. Rhasidat is lightly different as there has been a flurry of good female sprinters, one of which you'd have hoped would have turned up trumps - we saw Gina Akpe-Moses, Molly Scott, ciara Neville and Patience Jumbo Gula come through, plus we now have Sarah Healy and Sonia O'Sullivan's daughter at middle distance. But we still don't have a single Indoor velodrome, hardly any world class pools, and a limited gymnastics infrastructure, and we share the Home Nations tendency to spread ourselves thin, having a crack at everything.

Must be a strong shout now one way or another surely

She's good on the bars. Pitty for Becky but she is prone to a fall. Given the carnage pre-event I'd say GBR would take two bronze medals and run. IF Alice really hits her floor, and they have some team luck, four is not impossible.

where are the individual startlists?

To be fair, Rhasidat is welll used to running about 16 relay heats in a session from the US circuit...

malheureusement, j'ai quelque mots seulement en francais, cúpla focal as Gaeilge, ein bisschen deutsch, but not really enough of anything!

Day 1 : 4 x top 2 to OG Day 2 3x Top 2 repechage to OG Final two spots on ranking

Ah, merci. maintenant, je comprende!