The 2020 Tokyo Olympics Thread

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[harrybarracuda]

Unbelievable 400m Hurdles final. Even the bronze medal was only 0.02s outside the world record. The first two smashed it.

Norwegian Karsten Warholm took the gold.

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GB vs Thailand in the laydees boxing - on BBC1 now.

The Thai laydee won it. Never fuck with Thai laydees.

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Now the Japan laydee against the Filipina laydee.

The Japanese laydee wins the Gold.

I think the Filipina laydee will still get a nice wad of cash though.

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Now we're on the Mens 49ers sailing.

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GB need to win and need Germany to keep NZ at bay.

Fascinating gold medal rubber.

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Unbelievable finish. Germany did an Alonso and kept the Kiwis at bay, the GB sneaked across the line just ahead of the hun.

First Gold medal to GB in this event. Tactically brilliant.

Don't know if they get wads of cash and houses though.

[harrybarracuda]

Another gold for GB in the sailing (Men's Finn).

GB have won this in every Olympics since 2000.

Mixed Multihull starts at 13:33 Thailand.

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McCormack's Gold medal bout is at 15:05 Thailand.

Correction: It looks like 17:05 Thailand.

[armstrong]

I don't know what sailing I watched but it was very exciting. GB needed to finish within 4 positions of Hungary.

[harrybarracuda]

I don't know what sailing I watched but it was very exciting. GB needed to finish within 4 positions of Hungary.

That was the Men's Finn.

The earlier race was amazingly close. GB needed Germany to finish between them and NZ, and it was less than a (quite small) boat's length in the end.

[harrybarracuda]

Brits have a tough cycling assignment against the Hun who have set a new world record twice in two days.

Deutschland uber GB in the Women's Team Pursuit.

The impressive Boche set another World Record for the Gold, GB Silver.

[harrybarracuda]

Galal Yafai won his QF in the Flyweight boxing. SF on Thursday.

[VocalNeal]

Women's Soccer semi final Canada 1 : USA 0

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Jason Kenny joins Sir Bradley Wiggins as Britain's most medal-laden Olympian (8).

Has two more chances for medals, too.

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Women's Soccer semi final Canada 1 : USA 0

Sweden-Canada final on Friday.
Australia-USA Bronze medal match on Thursday.

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British track cyclist Ed Clancy withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics and announced his retirement because of an ongoing back and sciatica injury, hours before his pursuit team was scheduled to compete in its first-round ride.

A sad ending to a prolific career.

Ed Clancy - Wikipedia

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Chinastan won a few golds in the gymnastics, which gets them out of "re-education".

Looking impressive in the swinging around on bars thing. Must be good practice for when they try and go over the wire.

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Simone Biles returned to competition despite the mountain of abuse from fat armchair quarterbacks.

She probably didn't do enough to win, but judging by the hugs from her fellow competitors she has done them and the sport a world of good.

[harrybarracuda]

McCormack fell at the final hurdle, unanimous decision.

Cuba win Gold, GB win Silver.

It's time GB won another Gold.

[sabang]

Aussies.



Australian athletes caught 'mingling' with other countries at party





Rowdy Australian Olympians were 'wrestling' when they smashed a hole through the wall of their village rooms, while others were caught 'mingling' with athletes from other countries.

Officials have disciplined members of the Australian men's rowing and rugby teams for their involvement in wild post-Games celebrations on the weekend that saw rooms completely destroyed and soaked in vomit.

The Chef de Mission of the Australian Olympic team confirmed the string of breaches from Australian athletes including the wild party and illegal interaction with other countries' athletes.

'Yes, there was a hole in the wall,' Ian Chesterman said.

'Some big people were wrestling and these are some flimsy temporary walls so I don't think he had to do much actually.'


An illegal party that was held in the park of the Olympic Village was initially cleared as having no Aussies present, but a different gathering did see many 'mingling'.

'On Saturday night there was a similar mingling,' Chesterman said.

'Afterwards we became aware of that and that a few of our athletes had been mixing with other athletes not in the heat of the party but in places… outside of our direct allotment.

'That's clearly something we don't encourage.'

The Australian Olympic Committee confirmed there were 10 Aussie athletes that were illegally 'mingling' with athletes from other countries at a party on Saturday night.

The 10 were immediately told to be tested and isolate until they received their result following their participation.

Australian athletes caught 'mingling' with other countries at party (msn.com)

[harrybarracuda]

At first I thought it said "minging".

[Clark77]

It was nice to see the Biles girl win a medal.

[David48atTD]

The International Olympic Committee is asking China why two gold medalists wore badges featuring the image of the country's former leader, Mao Zedong, during a medal ceremony.

Key points:

• The IOC does not allow politics on the medal podium
• It has relaxed some of its rules around gestures from athletes as they are competing
• The badges the Chinese medallists wore used to be common throughout China

Bao Shanju and Zhong Tianshi wore the badges in what could be a potential breach of Olympic rules on the display of political paraphernalia.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) last month relaxed Article 50 to allow gestures, such as taking the knee, on the field of play provided athletes do so without disruption and with respect for fellow competitors.
Politics on the podium are still banned, however.

Chinese gold medallists Bao Shanju and Zhong Tianshi wear badges featuring Mao Zedong on podium - ABC News

[harrybarracuda]

Strip them of their medals for excessive brown nosing.