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well, gold medal is only Kaul's to lose...the real fight should be on paper between Shkurenyov, Uibo and Warner for silver and bronze...

by the way, Shaunae Miller-Uibo is a very nice woman...just saw her interview and she looks a really positive and smiling girl...

KJT 6981 pts (5th best score ever after Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Kluft, Thiam and Nikitina, the only 4 girls over 7000 pts so far in history) Thiam 6677 pts Preiner 6560 pts and Ahouanwanou 8th with 6210 pts!

wow! 2.07.26 for KJT! that should be a new British record... and it is!!! 6981 pts for her!

she has a 2.07 PB...she definitely can...

I don't think she can go for any of those...she needs 979 points for Ennis' score and more than 1000 for the 7000 pts mark... and 2.12 only gives around 930/940 points...she should go for a 2.10 mark to beat Ennis and for something around 2.06/2.07 for the 7000 pts mark...

Anouk Vetter DNS in the eptathlon's 800m...

super...suspicious, you'd rather mean?

they're wrong... or maybe not... actually, looking at her while being interviewed, her skin is slightly less dark than the usual Nigerian girl's...

Shaunae's face right now says it all...she just can't believe what just happened... and frankly I'm in troubles, too...

3rd best time ever for Naser...behind only Kratochvilova and Koch...

Eid Naser!!!!!!!! 48.14!!!!!

but wasn't it "the eye of the tiger"?

to me, it was perfectly legal...she should get the gold medal, imho... the problem is that they won't strip the Chinese from her gold medal in any case, which would make it a farce...

Miller-Uibo hairstyle tonight is almost perfect...

the more I watch Thomas-Dodd's phantom shot, the more I think any Jamaican protest would eventually be successful...double gold incoming, I fear...

no improvement for Warner in the last round...the scores posted a couple of posts above are official...

so, before the last 1500m run... Uibo 7869 pts (PB over 1500m, 4.25) Warner 7854 pts (PB over 1500m, 4.24) Kaul 7850 pts (PB over 1500m, 4.15) Shkurenyov 7826 pts (PB over 1500m, 4.24) Lepage 7796 pts (PB over 1500m, I don't know)

Kaul passed the last throw in the decathlon's javelin...he's trying to save as much energy as he can for the final 1500m...

she's asking to measure the throw in any case...protest incoming (and probably 4 medals, too)...

best ever javelin throw mark in a decathlon! with this, if his main rivals don't improve by meters in their javelin performance, the gold medal is in his hands...

in Athletics, the only married couple to win Gold in the same day are the Zatopeks (Emil and Dana)...Helsinki 1952... then, if we look at other sports, well, the list is quite long...in figure skating (both on the ice and roller skating) there are quite a good number of lifemates who won gold in the same event and same day... but there's only one couple of 2 married people of the same sex to win the Olympic Gold medal in the same day (and event) so far...Kate Walsh and Helen Richardson of the British field hockey team...

yeah, also Devon Allen still has some remarkable digits with the Oregon Ducks football team...he could have been chosen by the NFL for sure, if he didn't stay in the T&F world...

by the way, really brave approach by the Italian TV interviewer, Elisabetta Caporale, to Sifan Hassan...after the usual congratulations, she tried to ask her something about NOP and Salazar... I didn't expect that, especially from her (she's normally very much hyper-friendly with the athletes and definitely almost always avoid a certain kind of questions that could prove uncomfortable for the athltes)...

according to the US press, yeah..he's got the talent...