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1 Peaty/100 breaststroke 2 Kenny, Archibald, Barker and Evans/Women's Team Pursuit 3= Liam Heath/Sprint Canoe 3= Men's 4 x 100 medley relay 1 Lightweight Men's double sculls 2 Women's single sculls 3=Kellie Harington 3=Rhys McClenaghan

Oh dear. That's a LOT of temptation.....

I think it's going to be a test of the discipline of the athletes, and the control the respective NOCs have over them. I suspect some teams are going to hit very serious problems at various points, while some teams will profit - I expect the teams from more disciplinarian countries may prosper, e.g. China, while I can see Scandinavian Teams or the like suffering, as they are admirably freespirited folk usually. Countries with large vaccine uptakes will probably do ok, and GBR fits in that category.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Men's 400m Ind. Medley Day 2 July 25th 2021 Brendon Smith Wang Shun Leon Marchand Max Litchfield Broadie Williams Any Hungarian Athlete Alberto Razzetti Daiya Seto x Yuki Ikari x Lewis Clareburt x Ilya Borodin Chase Kalisz Jay Litherland Any Other Athlete Men's 400m Freestyle Day 2 July 25th 2021 Jack McLoughlin Elijah Winnington x Felix Auboeck Guilherme Da Costa Ji Xinjie Lukas Maertens Kieran Bird Gabriele Detti x Marco De Tulio Danas Rapsys Martin Malyutin Jake Mitchell Kieran Smith x Any Other Athlete Women's 400m Ind. Medley Day 2 July 25th 2021 Sydney Pickrem x Yu Yiting x Aimee Willmott Katinka Hosszu x Viktoria Mihalyvari-Farkas Ilaria Cusinato Sara Franceschi Yui Ohashi Ageha Tanigawa Hali Flickinger Emma Weyant Any Other Athlete Women's 4x100m Free. Relay Day 2 July 25th 2021 Australia Brazil Canada x China Czech Republic Denmark France Germany Great Britain Hong Kong Japan Netherlands x Poland ROC Sweden United States x Women's 100m Butterfly Day 3 July 26th 2021 Emma McKeon x Anastasiya Shkurdai Maggie MacNeil Zhang Yufei Marie Wattel Anna Ntountounaki Any Japanese Athlete Svetlana Chimrova Arina Surkova Louise Hansson x Claire Curzan x Torri Huske Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Breaststroke Day 3 July 26th 2021 Ilya Shymanovich x Yan Zibei Lucas Matzerath Fabian Schwingenschloegl Adam Peaty x James Wilby Nicolo Martinenghi Any Japanese Athlete Arno Kamminga Anton Chupkov Kirill Prigoda Michael Andrews x Andrew Wilson Any Other Athlete Women's 400m Freestyle Day 3 July 26th 2021 Ariarne Titimus x Summer McIntosh Li Bingjie Tang Muhan Isabel Gose Sarah Koehler Waka Kobori Miyu Namba Anna Egorova Anastasiya Kirpichnikova Katie Ledecky x Paige Madden x Any Other Athlete Men's 4x100m Free. Relay Day 3 July 26th 2021 Australia Brazil Canada France Germany Great Britain x Greece Hungary Italy Japan Netherlands Poland ROC x Serbia Switzerland United States x Men's 200m Freestyle Day 4 July 27th 2021 Kyle Chalmers Felix Auboeck Tom Dean x Duncan Scott x Katsuhiro Matsumoto Danas Rapsys x David Popovici Ivan Girev Martin Malyutin Hwang Sun-woo Townley Haas Kieran Smith Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Backstroke Day 4 July 27th 2021 Kaylee McKeown x Emily Seebohm Kylie Masse x Taylor Ruck Kathleen Dawson x Cassie Wild Margherita Panziera Kira Toussaint Anastasia Fesikova Maria Kameneva Regan Smith Rhyan White Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Backstroke Day 4 July 27th 2021 Mitch Larkin x Guilherme Basseto Marcus Thormeyer Xu Jiayu Yohann Ndoye Brouard Thomas Ceccon Ryosuke Irie Kliment Kolesnikov Evgeny Rylov x Pieter Coetze Hunter Armstrong Ryan Murphy x Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Breaststroke Day 4 July 27th 2021 Chelsea Hodges Tang Qianting Molly Renshaw Sarah Vasey Martina Carraro Benedetta Pilato Alia Atkinson x Any Japanese Athlete Evgenia Chikunova Yulia Efimova Tatjana Schoenmaker Sophie Hansson x Lydia Jacoby Lilly King x Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Freestyle Day 5 July 28th 2021 Emma McKeon x Ariarne Titimus x Summer McIntosh Penny Oleksiak Yang Junxuan Barbora Seemanova Charlotte Bonnet Isabel Gose Freya Anderson Siobhan Haughey Federica Pellegrini Katie Ledecky x Allison Schmitt Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Butterfly Day 5 July 28th 2021 Any Australian Athlete Leonardo De Deus David Thomasberger James Guy Tamas Kenderesi Kristof Milak x Federico Burdisso Tomoru Honda Daiya Seto x Aleksandr Kudashev Chad Le Clos Gunnar Bentz x Zach Harting Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Ind. Medley Day 5 July 28th 2021 Kaylee McKeown x Bailey Andison Sydney Pickrem Yu Yiting x Alicia Wilson Abbie Wood x Katinka Hosszu Anastasia Gorbenko Yui Ohashi Miho Teramura Kate Douglass Alex Walsh Any Other Athlete Women's 1500m Freestyle Day 5 July 28th 2021 Maddy Gough x Kiah Melverton Li Bingjie Wang Jianjiahe Sarah Kohler Martina Caramignoli Simona Quadarella x Anastasia Kirpichnikova South Korea Katie Ledecky x Erica Sullivan Any Other Athlete Men's 4x200m Free. Relay Day 5 July 28th 2021 Australia x Brazil China France Germany Great Britain x Hungary Ireland Israel Italy Japan Poland ROC South Korea Switzerland United States x Men's 800m Freestyle Day 6 July 29th 2021 Jack McLoughlin x Thomas Neil Felix Auboeck Guilherme Costa Florian Wellbrock Daniel Jervis Gabriele Detti Gregorio Paltrinieri x Henrik Christiansen Aleksandr Egorov Mykhaylo Romanchuk x Michael Brinegar Bobby Finke Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Breststroke Day 6 July 29th 2021 Zac Stubblety-Cook Matti Mattsson Marco Koch James Wilby Ryuya Mura x Shoma Sato Dmitriy Balandin Arno Kamminga Anton Chupkov x Kirill Prigoda x Nic Fink Andrew Wilson Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Butterfly Day 6 July 29th 2021 Brianna Throssell Zhang Yufei x Yu Liyan Alys Thomas Katinka Hosszu Boglarka Kapas x Suzuka Hasegawa Svetlana Chimrova Hali Flickinger Regan Smith x Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Freestyle Day 6 July 29th 2021 Kyle Chalmers x Any Athlete From Brazil Maxime Grousset Duncan Scott Nandor Nemeth Alessandro Miressi David Popovici x Kliment Kolesnikov Andrei Minakov Zach Apple Caeleb Dressel x Any Other Athlete Women's 4x200m Free. Relay Day 6 July 29th 2021 Australia x Brazil Canada China France Germany Hong Kong Hungary Italy x Japan New Zealand ROC South Africa South Korea Turkey United States x Women's 200m Breaststroke Day 7 July 30th 2021 Any Australian Athlete Sydney Pickrem Kelsey Wog Yu Jingyao Molly Renshaw x Abbie Wood Kanako Watanabe Evgenia Chikunova Maria Temnikova Tatjana Schoenmaker x Jessica Vall Lisa Mamie Lilly King Annie Lazor x Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Backstroke Day 7 July 30th 2021 Tristan Hollard Xu Jiayu Yohann Ndoye Brouard Christian Diener Luke Greenbank x Adam Telegdy Ryosuke Irie x Keita Sunama Evgeny Rylov x Roman Mityukov Bryce Mefford Ryan Murphy Any Other Athlete Women's 100m Freestyle Day 7 July 30th 2021 Cate Campbell x Emma McKeon Penny Oleksiak Yang Junxuan Charlotte Bonnet Marie Wattel Freya Anderson Anna Hopkin Siobhan Haughey Femke Heemskerk x Ranomi Kromowidjojo x Sarah Sjostrom Erika Brown Abbey Weitzeil Any Other Athlete Men's 200m Ind. Medley Day 7 July 30th 2021 Mitch Larkin Wang Shun Philip Heintz Joe Litchfield Duncan Scott x Hubert Kos Alberto Razzetti Kosuke Hagino Daiya Seto x Andrey Zhilkin Jeremy Desplanches Michael Andrew x Chase Kalisz Any Other Athlete Men's 100m Butterfly Day 8 July 31st 2021 Matthew Temple Josif Miladinov Mehdy Metella James Guy x Kristof Milak x Takeshi Kawamoto Naoki Mizunuma Jakub Majerski Andrei Minakov Mikhail Vekovishchev Noe Ponti Caeleb Dressel x Tom Shields Any Other Athlete Women's 200m Backstroke Day 8 July 31st 2021 Lena Grabowski Kaylee McKeown x Emily Seebohm x Kylie Masse x Liu Yaxin Peng Xuwei Kathleen Dawson Cassie Wild Katalin Burian Margherita Panziera Phoebe Bacon Rhyan White Any Other Athlete Women's 800m Freestyle Day 8 July 31st 2021 Kiah Melverton Ariarne Titimus x Summer McIntosh Li Bingjie Wang Jianjiahe Sarah Koehler Martina Caramignoli Simona Quadarella x Any Japanese Athlete Anna Egorova Anastasia Kirpichnikova Katie Grimes Katie Ledecky x Any Other Athlete Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay Day 8 July 31st 2021 Australia Belarus Brazil Canada China Germany Great Britain x Greece Hungary Israel Italy Japan Netherlands Poland ROC x United States x Men's 50m Freestyle Day 9 August 1st 2021 Cameron McEvoy Bruno Fratus Yu Hexin Ari-Pekka Likkonen Any French Athlete Ben Proud x Kristian Gkolomeev Maxim Lobanovszkij Any Italian Athlete Thom De Boer Pawel Juraszek Vlad Morozov x Michael Andrew Caeleb Dressel x Any Other Athlete Women's 50m Freestyle Day 9 August 1st 2021 Cate Campbell x Emma McKeon Wu Qingfeng Zhang Yufei Pernille Blume x Melanie Henique Marie Wattel Femke Heemskerk x Ranomi Kromowidjojo Kasia Wasick Maria Kameneva Sarah Sjostrom Simone Manuel Abbey Weitzeil Any Other Athlete Men's 1500m Freestyle Day 9 August 1st 2021 Jack McLoughlin Guilherme Costa Alexander Norgaard Any French Athlete Lukas Martens Florian Wellbrock Daniel Jervis Gregorio Paltrinieri x Shogo Takeda x Aleksandr Egorov x Kirill Martynychev Bobby Finke Any Other Athlete Women's 4x100m Med. Relay Day 9 August 1st 2021 Australia x Belarus Canada China Denmark Germany Great Britain x Hong Kong Italy Japan Netherlands ROC South Africa Spain Sweden United States x Men's 4x100m Med. Relay Day 9 August 1st 2021 Australia x Belarus Brazil Canada China France Germany Great Britain x Greece Hungary Italy Japan Lithuania Poland ROC United States x Women's 10km Open Water Day 10 August 4th 2021 Kareena Lee Ana Marcela Cunha Kate Sanderson Xin Xin x Lara Grangeon x Leonie Beck Finnia Wunram Anna Olasz Rachele Bruni Sharon Van Rouwendaal x Paula Ruiz Haley Anderson Ashley Twichell Any Other Athlete Men's 10km Open Water Day 11 August 5th 2021 Kai Graeme Edwards David Aubry Marc-Antoine Olivier Rob Muffels Florian Wellbrock Hector Pardoe Athanasios Kynigakis Kristof Rasovszky Matan Roditi Gregorio Paltrinieri Mario Sanzullo Ferry Weertman Alberto Martinez Jordan Wilimovsky Any Other Athlete [/hide]

I think Adlington is waiting on Nekoda Smyth Davis' continental place - since Nekoda is both injured AND pregnant. I think Sarah's chances are pretty solid, but it would be nice to confirm it.

Tokyo and Paris. She'll not be back until 2026, by which time she will be 34. She's probably done, me thinks

It's been an issue for decades - all the way back to Stella Walsh.

Pretty good answer. A sport like Weightlifting, where EWF and IWF are almost broken beyond repair, the kindest thing might be to kick the port out and try and rebuild from the ground up, abandoning IWF and seeking recognition for a new confederation altogether. Sort of AIBA on steroids (parden the pun) A sport like Swimming where FINA are clearly pretty shit and pretty corrupted, but the sport itself is not hopelessly riddled shoud be punished, but not to the same extent.

He does, and Sha' mysterious tweeted "I am human" about 6 hrs ago, which gives a lot of credence to this, If she has smoked weed the week of trials, she's a fool. Ban may be very short or even non-existent; the problem will be the invalidation of her trials results. If she is gone, seems likely to be a straight battle between Shelly Anne and Dina in the 100. Also tonight, namibian prodigy Mboma withdrawn from the 400 but not 200, strongly suggesting rumours of another Semenya situation are in fact true. Hell of a night for Athletics fans

More likely, given their youth, I suspect, is simply that the coach ran them in the 400m when he probably should not have.

If this is true, if they have dropped the 400, for which one of them was a cast iron gold medal favourite, it pretty much confirms the growing suspicions that we have another two intersex athletes on our hands. The 400 is one of the athletes covered by the Semenya rule. Tellingly, 200m is not.

I know, post in haste, repent at leisure - Shaunae can't catch a break!

Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Heptathlon, if she's fit. If not, women's 4x1 relay Mark English has a puncher's chance in the 800, no more.

I'd say the removal of Nasar may change Shaunae's mind in a hurry - 400 has suddenly become hers to lose - especially with no left field danger from Femke Bol, whereas there's a dogfight in the 200 with the two Americans, Dina and Shelly Anne

I'd rather see the dumping of the Fed than the sport - and the recent ITA document, damning as it is, gives plenty of justification. But the sport is utterly, utterly riddled with doping culture - makes 1990's road cycling look vegan.

You got to feel a bit for Godley. To be fair, she's not a medal chance at -76 - all the other Brits are.

Comhghairdeas, a Mharcais!! Tóiceo, seo linn!

I agree whole heartedly on futsal - as I've said already, for a lot of the big, cumbersome ball sports, small sided 'Games friendly' versions should be encouraged - beach volleyball, 3x3 and 7s show the way, and Futsal would do the same. The old pre T20 version of cricket invented by the Kiwis (basically six a side cricket, all-rounder friendly, small field, everyone but wicketkeeper bowls 2 overs each, done and dusted in an hour, rewards big hitting, and having '5' wickets instead of 10 is mathematically neat) would fit very well, I dare say baseball could invent something similar if it wanted to, leaving really only hand ball and hockey (water polo is already small sided by nature I think). If I want a full blown world cup experience, I'll seek one out - to some extent the Olympics should be an amazing 2 week taster menu for those sort o sports, preferably with a version the Olympics is the pinnicle of. The Commonwealth Games used to have a rule that no team sports were allowed, and while that's a bit too drastic, I think 'small sided' is the way forward. Agree, with great sadness, on weightlifting - it is, in fact, a brilliant spectator sport, crazy as it sounds. The tension, the poker of picking your lift, is magic, but the sport is utterly, utterly corrupted. It's interesting that bmx freestyle, skateboard, surfing and breaking have all basically got in at once. If there's an itch for 'judged' youth sports beyond gymnastics, it's been well and truly scratched - though I wonder if ignoring dancesport in a world of "dancing with the stars" is actually a mad missed opportunity. see also 'Parkour pursuit'.

Ninja Warrior can be fit in relatively easily, believe it or not - you take a step back - and its an extreme obstacle race - in other words, it fits pretty neatly in the wider family of cross country athletics. One might imagine 4 cross country styles 'SprintX' - basically ninja Warrior, time trial format (one on course at any one time) followed by QF, SF and F 'MilitaryX' - basically an assault course, in the nature of Krypton Factor - much longer and more aerobic than NW, much more obstacle based than 'standard' 'Cross country' - What we recognise currently as World Athletics Cross country - highly aerobic 'EnduranceX' - basically Tough Mudder

On that note, I'd like to see Gaelic Football and hurling reintroduced. Yep, that's right, REintroduced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_football_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics

Hard agree on inclusion of Darts and Cue Sports (suspect would ned to get Pool, billiards and Snooker together to make a presentation - plus it would feel more like a family of sports being included) - Darts is to Archery as table tennis is to tennis (and arguably Snooker is to golf, come to think of it). for darts, men's single, women's singles, men's pairs and women's pairs. I'd hold off on the 'team' event for a cycle or two - GBR and NED would still be far too dominant (fight between IRL, CAN, AUS, BEL and USA for the bronze would be cool though). It occurred to me that such quintessential indoor sports as snooker and darts might actually be best placed at Winter Games, where a small pre-existing multi purpose hall, and relatively small number of players and officials, could create a relatively profitable event for a host. And it would VERY quickly become the pinnacle of the sport! On bowls and Bowling - again, it seems perverse that the entire family of bowling sports is absent - 10 pin has more world reach, while lawn bowls has a much longer history of Games involvement, especially Commonwealth, and a very established event system - the latter also is rare in being a sport that one can continue to play as one gets older, and while we talk about the Youth of the world, sports that might encourage older people back into activity must be considered a genuine aim with an aging world population. On the one's to dump, I'd hesitate at dumping 3x3, because I think small sided versions of the big team ball sports should be encouraged - better to have 24 nations repped in 3x3 than try and add an extra 4 teams to the main version, and having watched 3x3 at Youth Olympics, it does have some of the excitement and buzz of rugby sevens (a HUGE hit in Rio, which actually seems to have sparked interest in Rugby in general in Brazil). Indeed, a bigger 3x3 would justify a smaller pool of teams for the 'big event'. That said, the team sports - especially basketball and football - are big ticket sellers for hosts, which ha to be factored in to why they keep their place. To be honest, I can live without Karate - it's great fun to watch, but I find the scoring system impossible - the idea that a punch that connects must have some sort of artistic merit....nah - sort that out, you'd be welcome back - if Judo can have 15 events on its own, Taekwondo and Karate can have 16 events between them - so sort out the scoring and THEN come back. On that note, I'd ditch Greco-Roman wrestling. Male only, somewhat obscure, and wrestling already has 24 events - chop those 8, and all the 'fighting' styles have a rather nice East v west, grappling v striking 'balance' that feels 'complete' 'Western' grappling = wrestling = 16 'Western' striking = boxing=15 'Eastern grappling = judo = 15 'Eastern' striking = Karate + taekwondo = 16 for full balance, i'd split the Judo team events into men's and women's, and add one women's weight category in Boxing. Skateboarding...I dunno, I'd rather have it than surfing, personally

Agreed. BUT what if...The big team sports were brought together across, say, one moth as a Team Olympic Games....

Karate : remove Kata, replace with a weight category. I just can't be having competitive punching of invisible people as a sport. Have done my fair share of Kata, enjoyed them. they ain't sport. Gymnastics - Team Rythmic gymnastics; replace with either double mini trampoline or tumbling. Archery. Ditch mixed team, add Field Archery; kind of like Mountain bike for archery Canoe-Kayak - completely rejigged Slalom courses are expensive; you need to use them!! C1, K1, C2 and Extreme or relay 'Sprint' - ditch K4 events altogether, then C1, K1, K2 200 - C1, K1 1000, - K1 5000 My own controversial favourite : Major Team ball games sports should be on an eight year cycle, not a 4 year cycle - make Olympic basketball, baseball, football and, say, cricket a real 'one in a lifetime' chance; in return encourage all the major sports to go the basketball, rugby, volleyball route of creating a small sided game that can be at every games - 3x3, 7s, beach volleyball - this might be particular useful to football (futsal) and hockey (unihoc) . Rule would also NOT apply to team sports where Olympics are clearly the pinnicle - handball, volleyball, water polo.

I think Andy's super low current ranking was an issue - he really wanted to play doubles (where he might still actually have a shot at a medal if the gods smiled) but he and Jaime couldn't get in on combined ranking and Jamie had shown some prior reluctance. His only route in was Salisbury who as a top 10er had a basically free choice. Looks like the first mixed doubles team will be Salisbury and Konta, which actually sounds quite strong. I do wonder if Dan or Neal might try and hook up with Heather Watson who's actually a pretty accomplished mixed doubles player. I'd assume, unlike 2012, Andy's neither got the ranking nor the hip to do all three events. Romantically, it's fabulous the two time Olympic champ is coming back for one last roll of the dice - The Games are a part of Murrays legacy, and Murray part of the Games legacy in tennis that even the Big three don't quite match. Even with two Wimbly wins, in a sense the Olympics are Murray's Major (not unlike how the Ryder Cup became, in some ways Monty's Major).

It does say that. Unfortunately it also says other things that are incompatible with that. There's no definitive answer to be found in an internally incoherent document.