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Now hold on, Fernando Gaviria is the favourite in the men's omnium

1. I'm watching it to see good fights, and even though GBR won, the men's team sprint was an amazing fight 2. Despite what they've shown so far, we actually do have a few medal chances and I'd like to see them try I've been watching the table tennis as well and the chance of a non-Chinese nation winning the gold there was significantly smaller than the chance of a non-British nation winning a track cycling gold

Well Müllenberg up against Mammadov of Azerbaijan, so as long as he doesn't KO him, there's no way our guy would win. And that shows.

A Pacific island winning gold by beating a European nation which beat an African nation in the semi's after beating an Asian nation themselves while said European nation eliminated an American nation, talk about a great widespread set of countries in the knock-out stages Great debut in the Olympics, I'm guessing rugby sevens is here to stay

I'm sure the average Fijian would dream that to be true

10:20am there, people are probably taking a bit longer coffee break before getting back to work

- Only pass backwards - Get the ball on the ground behind the line --> 5 points, kick the ball behind the posts after that --> 2 extra points Easy

Fiji is destroying Team GB

Second try for Fiji

Sad to see the interview with Henk Grol now, who seems to be thinking about the end of his long career Especially about the change of rules since 2008, when "lifting" someone became illegal. "Basically everything I was really good at is now illegal in the rules." Not using it as an excuse by the way, not saying they changed it because of him (that would be a stupid thought), it's just a simple fact. But it's sad and has cost him so much in his career

And a breathtaking final

Me neither for the next 20 hours or so

Totally in line with our swimmers and the team sprinters, they decided to have a crash in qualifying.

Hello Dutch team

The Brits are peaking at the right time apparently, not exactly the strong point of some other nations. World championships are all fun and stuff, but the Olympics are the real deal after all.

This was a disappointing bit of qualifying.

Reports coming in that hckosice has exploded

Czechs

But the Olympics is not the event to just try and show some event, it's the place where the best events should be fought in Anyway, they could have just added that women's C1 then if they were so desperate to have more women's events, instead of taking away C2

I thought I heard women's C1 is not very competitive...at least not compared to men's C2. That would mean it's bad news..replacing a competitive event with a less competitive one is never good.

Really? That's bad news...

What's the rule by the way, there are no eliminations here right?

Verkerk lost to Castillo after an immense battle of 11 (!) minutes

Ma Long wins, not surprising of course but it was a good fight. Alright, now come on Samsonov, defend the non-Chinese honour (apart from that it would be amazing if he makes the final at his age and after his career of course)

Breathtaking men's semi-final going on between Ma Long and Mizutani