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DUNFEE!!!!!

Farewell 50 kilometers, you've been the ultimate Olympic endurance test for nearly 90 years

Can hardly believe breakfast was already almost 4 hours ago, time has been flying

Meh, two-way battles for silver/bronze are underwhelming since there's not that much to either win or lose anymore anyway

Ah fuck, yeah, true

I am honestly getting curious, where did you get the 'Japan is almost sure to win a medal here' thing? I did have them as having a decent medal chance, but mostly because all three had an alright chance and together that meant a decent chance. Nothing too special though, I've seen bigger surprises basically every day... Not trying to make myself seem like an expert btw, I also gave decent chances to Diniz and Toth after all and I hadn't even written Tomala in my list at all

I'll raise my hopes again in three years. Strong fight though.

Garcia gritting his teeth, gonna be a painful hour

Luo going in the pace of a leisurely stroll by now.

Tomala needs some sort of huge breakdown to risk losing this.

Usually, yes Often it's when the sprint teams start moving away from the front of the peloton and the peloton gets wider instead of stretched.

Huh, Kawano hitting the ground (literally, as in punching it) and then getting up and continueing.

Garcia still in the top half of the race

Surely Korzeniowski is getting more confident? @Monzanator

Right. Yeah, his outsider shot is pretty much gone indeed Still one in the main group, so a medal is still possible for the home team.

Where did you see? In the stream I saw nothing special, just him walking behind the main group and the live timing also shows nothing

He does have a decent chance, but would not at all be the first one to have a total collapse. There's still an hour to go, a whole lot can happen

Toth is having an increasingly difficult time.

Ah damn, I had missed he was caught doping

Not counting anything out considering the way Italy's been going Although their 100m runner has rather little influence on their 50km race walker, one would assume

Fine, but we'll see it when he gets lapped, deal?

After standing and talking to his coach, Diniz is now sitting on the sidewalk. Time to use the cameras for something else

Diniz is not the master of picking a drink, is he?

Villanueva closing in on a pace for 5+ hours.

Me too, but I think that's the argument I've seen on here mostly. It's easily the most ridiculous thing in the entire Olympics to have a junior tournament, and a senior men's tournament would be useless, but I doubt they'll ever accept to have only women's football at the Olympics (which would be great)