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Damn, Henk Grol came with a mission for gold in his final tournament (unlikely as it was), but within 25 seconds an Uzbek throws him on his back and a day later in the team event the same Uzbek does the same thing...in 19 seconds

I don't think Jacoby's goggles issue cost her team a chance at a medal, that's highly wishful thinking They were more than one and a half second behind the medals and she posted a time which was just excellent, there was no way she would have been able to go a second faster otherwise (let alone 1,63 seconds), no way at all.

I dare say no country has a stronger medal table obsession than a country where the biggest media actually changes the way the table is presented (not the usual and official gold first, then silver, then bronze, but total medals first) just to make them look like they're in 1st place when they're actually not.

Which really looked like a horrible stoppage...it felt like the referee has his mortage bet on Davis.

100m breast women: 1:05.0 100m breast men: 59.0 100m free women: 53.0 100m free men: 47.0 W breast + M free = 1:52 M breast + W free = 1:52 Right, in this specific case the difference is tiny Fastest American man on breast wins as much on the fastest American woman on breast as the fastest American woman on free loses on the fastest American man on free (In ideal circumstances, there is a bit more space in these times in M breast than in M free)

Jealousy for what? Nothing was expected from the Dutch team here and seeing awesome events is way more important than seeing the same nationality as in one's own passport win things. This is not an awesome event. A mixed event can be good, but make it only the 4x100 free if a mixed is so badly needed, and have a set starting order.

Also absolutely unbelievable US went for Dressel in the 100 free and not a woman. And even worse, also a woman in the breaststroke

It's bad enough when men/women order can be chosen at will, but when there's entirely different strokes (in which the differences between men and women are far from the same), it's a whole different kind of nonsense.

Ugh, even the unwatcheable shooting is easier to follow than this nonsense

Showing she's the main favourite for a reason

And that's Van Klinken showing what nonsense the small hype was after her 70+ in a place impossibly to compare with this

Pesiridou had her ankle go over already after 5 meters or so, way before the first hurdle, that is just terribly sad Shortest Olympics for anyone here so far (DNS's don't count of course)?

Ponti! And damn Milak, that was a close final after all!!

Hard to expect anything else from Souleiman, hasn't competed at all since 2019.

R Lavillenie makes it in the third attempt

Denia Caballero most likely out.

Easy 2nd attempt for Duplantis.

This has been done before, I think. Not sure in which event.

Whoops

Tony Two Laps van Diepen not exactly living up to his name

Femke Bol just confirmed she won't run the mixed 4x400m. There goes the remote medal chance that was left after USA and DOM were placed back in the final. Although it's entirely understandable, of course.

Part of Nigeria's brilliant tactics @hckošice?

Huh our team missed that memo