Rio 2016 (The Olympic Games)

[Lewis]

I maintain that, outside of a lot of the athletics, weightlifting is actually the best Olympic sport.

It's fucking brilliant.

It's currently in the absolute toilet thanks to Ilya Ilyin (the top man) and the Russians. Mark Henry will be at home smugly shaking his head.

[ItalAussie]

Best thing about today has been the judo thus far, the Zambian donning the shit out of the bronze medallist at the Worlds was great but the Italian geezer who won the gold was amazing. He was pulling off some really awkward techniques and even slapped out the gold medal favourite.

I watched his match against the German guy which had the best throw I've seen in my (non-extensive) watching of judo. Absolutely amazing, came from nowhere, and the other guy had no idea what had happened. He just went from upright to on his back in an instant.

[ItalAussie]

Separated at birth?


The Office Actor B. J. Novak
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/04/07/12/1AA486E3000005DC-3528078-image-a-18_1460028233854.jpg

Olympic Bronze Medallist Juan Del Potro
http://cdn.thewire.com/media/old_wire/img/upload/2012/06/27/novy1/lead_large.jpg

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I watched his match against the German guy which had the best throw I've seen in my (non-extensive) watching of judo. Absolutely amazing, came from nowhere, and the other guy had no idea what had happened. He just went from upright to on his back in an instant.

:nodd:

It was a cracking bit of technique.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z-KbklyFQg

[ItalAussie]

And that video doesn't capture how incredibly fast it came out of nothing.

Incidentally, if anyone's up, the Djokovic-Del Potro match is looking fantastic.

[7om]

And now the Murray lads are down 0-1 in the doubles tennis. If Peaty doesn't bring home a medal tonight I'm giving up.

[ItalAussie]

I'm surprised the tennis isn't on clay. Is the Olympics restricted to hardcourts?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm surprised the tennis isn't on clay. Is the Olympics restricted to hardcourts?

Nope, it was on the grass in London.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Chloe Tutton is fucking hot.

[7om]

Murray brothers out :harold:

We've been a bit of a shambles so far.

[7om]

I wish they'd stop interviewing Adam Peaty's family. They're barely able to string two sentences together.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I wish they'd stop interviewing Adam Peaty's family. They're barely able to string two sentences together.
He's done well with his girlfriend though.

[ItalAussie]

Djokovic goes down to Del Potro. That was an astoundingly high-class match.

Sjostrom broke her own world record in the 100m butterfly. If she makes it through her heats, she'll be competing in every single night of the swimming.

[ItalAussie]

Del Potro was stuck in a lift for 40 minutes earlier in the day. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Adam Peaty is a fucking national hero.

Cracking swim.

[ItalAussie]

Britain's on the board. :nodd:

Smashed it.

[Pleb]

What a fucking don :cool:

[7om]

Smashed it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

His Dad might have brain damage.

He's proper fucking thick.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Beating your own world record by almost 2 seconds is fucking mental.

Jazz Carlin though :cool:

[7om]

Records dropping all over the place. What a night.

[ItalAussie]

Watching Brazil fail in the football is always a little bit amusing, but you do get the feeling that the final will be a lift-the-roof affair if they can make it.

Brazil want an Olympic gold medal in football so badly.

[Pepe]

Managed to miss all of the swimming. :face:

[ItalAussie]

Still two events to go - women's 100m backstroke (semis), and the 4x100 men's freestyle. The latter should be very good.

[ItalAussie]

That Iraqi player is lucky to still be on the pitch.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Phelps's leg was massive, especially his second 50m.

[Spoonsky]

Anyone catch the Japanese golazo?

[Pepe]

Swimming gives a ridiculous amount of medals.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, it's definitely one of the best routes to medal table satisfaction, as our antipodean friends learned many moons ago.

Has Fiji ever won an Olympic gold? Hope their (mens) sevens team can do it if they haven't - are they favourites?

[Shindig]

They've never won any medal.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, I wondered if that might be the case.

In other Australasian news, I like the cut of this Horton fella's jib, even though he appears to have a daft first name.

[bruhnaldo]

Phelps's leg was massive, especially his second 50m.

He has the best turn I've ever seen. (though I'm obvs no expert)

Just glides underwater.

[Reg]

Djokovic goes down to Del Potro. That was an astoundingly high-class match.
Only saw highlights but looked like Del Potro was on fire, the power he generates is amazing.

The men's 100m is on at about 1am Sunday night (Monday morning), bit gutted about that. Hoping I'll avoid hearing how it went and watch it as if it's live.

--
Edit: Just seen the Williams sisters went out (The Czechs had Safarova so it wasn't to nobody, but still). Murray brothers also out. What's going on in the tennis?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Surely you can wake up for 9.8 seconds or however long it will take.

[Pepe]

The new boxing format is much better. Should benefit Mexico in the long run, maybe we'll win a medal again some day.

[Reg]

Surely you can wake up for 9.8 seconds or however long it will take.
Suppose so, probably wouldn't be very enjoyable.

What's likely to be good this evening, Mahow/anyone?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Judo, weightlifting and archery.

The judo especially if it goes to form in the mens and you get the top 2 going to the final.

There's not much unless you're staying up until 2-3am.

There's a Brit in the judo right now too. Not sure what her chances of a medal are though, she looked quite good in her first fight.

[Reg]

Cheers. :thbup: Google reckons the judo men's 73kg final is on at 9pm so I'll catch that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/36832395

Here's BBC's overview.

I forgot the gymnastics team final which is always good.

Fuck the synchronised diving though.

[Pepe]

The gymnastics should be quality. I'll be balls deep in the diving though, one of the few chances Mexico has of grabbing a medal.

[Magic]

I enjoyed the synchronised diving.

[Reg]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/36832395

Here's BBC's overview.
Cheers. Watson and Konta is a very good team.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Oh balls, the top 2 guys in the judo will meet at the quarters :(

I just assumed they'd put them at the opposite ends of the draw.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.businessinsider.com/namibia-boxer-jonas-junius-reportedly-arrested-rio-olympics-2016-8?r=UK&IR=T


Namibian boxer Jonas Junius has been arrested in Rio in connection with an attempted sexual assault of an Olympic Village housekeeper, according to Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo.

Junius, 22, was Namibia's flag-bearer during the opening ceremony. Police reportedly told Elizondo that Junius allegedly tried to force himself on a housekeeper in the athlete village.

Played.

A Moroccan boxer was also arrested for sexually assaulting two housekeepers.

[Giggles]

Of all the things that shouldn't be in this it's judo. I've just had the misfortune of seeing some and how the fuck is that even a sport? It's closer to a poor quality dance-off.

[Bernanke]

http://i.imgur.com/COLajrN.jpg

:cool:

[Byron]

Ed Ling has won bronze in the trap shooting. He was 25th and 21st at the last two Olympics he was in.

Good stuff, but he has this constant face of someone who just saw someone sneak in and snatch his parking spot.

[bruhnaldo]

Men's medal round syncronized diving starting in 13 minutes.

Your boy Tom Daley involved apparently.

[Magic]

Gymnastics or diving? Hmm.

[bruhnaldo]

Oh fuck the Men's all around is coming up isn't it.

Not sure if our men's team is meant to be good or not.

[Spikey M]

Gymnastics. Daley can fuck off.

[Reg]

Your man Tsonga's playing, Mahow. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0424zzb/olympic-tennis-watson-v-svitolina-court-four#group=p04375l6

Also Konta has just come on court. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p043zpy3/olympic-tennis-court-two-caroline-garcia-v-johanna-konta#group=p04375l6
Oops, Konta wasn't live. I'm clearly crap at the internet.

[bruhnaldo]

Just got a notification that "After finishing 5th in London, the Men's Gymnastics team FIGHT to make the podium LIVE ON NBC!"

So basically we're going to finish last.

[Magic]

Lol that American bottled it there.

[Pepe]

Fuck the Chinese. Why did they have to take up diving? :(

[Magic]

GBR medal here.

[Kikó]

What's wrong with a pair of massive shorts?

[Magic]

The Brazilian divers look like a pair of mongs. :D

[Magic]

Chinese hacking here.

[Magic]

Fantastic. Used to be a dick who thought who care about anything other than gold.

[bruhnaldo]

This dude is crying over winning a fucking silver.

Send him to fucking Guantanamo.

[Magic]

Lol perfect timing.

Women's team final tomorrow and the women's diving at the same time.

Sucks how the proper swimming is at 3am.

[bruhnaldo]

Well. :harold:

[bruhnaldo]

Just made the same "Send him to Guantanamo" joke at the office. Also alluded that "If my boy Donald Trump was President this would've never fucking happened."

The office Latinas are not pleased.

[Magic]

Think we're on for a medal in the gymnastics here.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Your man Tsonga's playing, Mahow. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0424zzb/olympic-tennis-watson-v-svitolina-court-four#group=p04375l6

Also Konta has just come on court. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p043zpy3/olympic-tennis-court-two-caroline-garcia-v-johanna-konta#group=p04375l6
Oops, Konta wasn't live. I'm clearly crap at the internet.
Sadly I'm not a fan of Tennis (or football) at the Olympics, just seems a bit pointless.

The judo was good again today, the Japanese lad is seriously fucking good.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Think we're on for a medal in the gymnastics here.

We should do. Gold will more than likely be out of reach but a fight for silver/bronze is on.

Also, Whitlock and Smith should get Gold and Silver in the pommel horse final later in the week.

[Magic]

Why is the 2012 guy not doing anything?

[P_3]

He's GB's pommel horse expert. Bit crap at everything else I guess.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He's GB's pommel horse expert. Bit crap at everything else I guess.

More than likely, he does nothing else.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://i.imgur.com/P6kqwdN.png

Louis Smith gets all the plaudits and attention but Max Whitlock is the real star of the team.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Nice one dickhead.

[Byron]

Yeah he's cocked it up there.

[P_3]

Fuck's sake.

[Spikey M]

Deserves that for his shit hair.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He had one fucking job...

[Magic]

STAR MAN.

:harold:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

IOC have robbed China of a silver and the UK of a bronze.

Fuck them all.

[Shindig]

We'll get them back retrospectively, man. Cool your tits.

[Magic]

I still wouldn't bang Tweddle.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Tweddle is desperate to hang off Louis's cock.

[Spikey M]

Yes you fucking would.

[Byron]

I still wouldn't bang Tweddle.

You'd screw a dead horse if there was something you could fondle while doing so.

[Magic]

I really wouldn't. She has no redeeming features now and looks as boring and stiff as my hip flexors. Probably a rancid shag too.

[Magic]

You'd screw a dead horse if there was something you could fondle while doing so.

A far more attractive proposition than Twedds.

[ItalAussie]

This dude is crying over winning a fucking silver.

Send him to fucking Guantanamo.

When it's against the Chinese divers, you're only competing for silver in the first place.

[ItalAussie]

The Russian gymnasts are probably clean, in fairness. It's not really a dopey sport in general.

Australia v New Zealand in the rugby. :cool:

[Mike]

Enjoying Rugby Sevens. Never really watched it due to bring Union but it's much better than I thought it'd be.

[Spikey M]

The Russian gymnasts are probably clean, in fairness. It's not really a dopey sport in general.

Australia v New Zealand in the rugby. :cool:

Even their football fans are on roids.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

In 2001, she won the gold in the hoop and silver in the individual all-around, ball, clubs and rope at the 2001 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Madrid, Spain, but Tchachina and her teammate Alina Kabaeva tested positive for a banned diuretic and were stripped of their medals. Irina Viner, the Russian head coach, who also served as the Vice President of the FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics Technical Committee at the time, said her gymnasts had been taking a food supplement called "Hyper" containing mild diuretics, which, according to Viner, the gymnasts were taking for pre-menstrual syndrome. When the supply ran out shortly before the Goodwill Games, the team physiotherapist restocked at a local pharmacy. According to Viner, the supplement sold there was fake and contained furosemide.

Their fucking artistic gymnasts have been caught before.

All they do is shake around a fucking ribbon and play with a hoop.

[Magic]

Even their football fans are on roids.

So are ours #lolboom

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Chen Lijun, the world record holder in the clean and jerk and total here, is fucked.

Clearly he's got a major calf injury or some serious cramp. Blown the weightlifting wide open.

[Pleb]

Are we waiting till we hit the athletics track for a massive influx of medals or something?

We're shitting the bed at the moment. Gutted about the Women Rugby Sevens though, thought we would of got at least a silver considering the start they had.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The Colombian lad here :cool:

Roof is going to be blown off if he manages the gold.

[7om]

Pleased for Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow. They did well to get a bronze considering they never really pulled off a 'great' dive like the Americans and Chinese.

[Pleb]

At this point Mahow you would just pat this Indonesian bloke on the shoulder and tell him to fuck off because he's never gonna lift 176kg with the strength he's got for christ sake.

I know he's got three strikes but still...

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He won silver in London but now a gold at 33.

He's a proper fucking geezer and these are some great scenes in front of a massive Colombian crowd.

Tearing up here.

Retiring with a gold by taking his shoes off and kissing the bar too. Fucking hell, it's brilliant. By far the best moment of the games thus far.

[7om]

What a geezer.

He'll be snorting some grade a coke tonight.

[Pleb]

That's gutting.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://i.imgur.com/sqxUN8V.jpg

:cool:

[ItalAussie]

You'd have to imagine Japan are furious at the way the Judo have gone. In general, anything less than a hatful of gold medals is considered abject failure by the Japanese judokas. They're sitting on one gold and five bronzes, but if they don't get a few more golds soon, they'll be frozen out by the higher weight divisions.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Is Rebecca Adlington shameful lustage? I'd be all over her.

[Queenslander]

Can we please reform the Empire if the Chinese continue to lose the plot of this drug stuff?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ledecky :harold:

Sjostrom playing games with her in that semi-final.

[Luca]

Donned your lot when it mattered in the rugby. :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Oh and lol at all the Aussie medal hopes in the pool fucking up.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

762233093981872128

Adlington is after Mark Foster.

[John]

You'd have to imagine Japan are furious at the way the Judo have gone. In general, anything less than a hatful of gold medals is considered abject failure by the Japanese judokas. They're sitting on one gold and five bronzes, but if they don't get a few more golds soon, they'll be frozen out by the higher weight divisions.

The Japanese only got one Judo gold in London. They've dominated the medal table in a big way historically, which is to be expected since they invented the art, but through some combination of the sport itself becoming more famous and its promise as a route into MMA becoming clear more athletes in more nations are getting involved. Long term America and Brazil will likely dominate the field, Cuba too if they can sort their shit out.

[Spoonsky]

More of an Henry-Carragher moment tbh.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

More of an Henry-Carragher moment tbh.

She's constantly looking at him as if he's a piece of meat.

[ItalAussie]

The Japanese only got one Judo gold in London. They've dominated the medal table in a big way historically, which is to be expected since they invented the art, but through some combination of the sport itself becoming more famous and its promise as a route into MMA becoming clear more athletes in more nations are getting involved. Long term America and Brazil will likely dominate the field, Cuba too if they can sort their shit out.

They were furious about it after London, and it prompted some soul-searching within the sport (very much like Australia and the swimming). That's why they were specifically hoping for a stronger showing here.

[ItalAussie]

Oh and lol at all the Aussie medal hopes in the pool fucking up.

Australia didn't have the favourite for any event that we've lost so far. :sorry:

We're favourites for:

Mens 100m free (1.4)
Mens 200m back (1.25)
Womens 4x100m medley (1.83)
Womens 100m free (1.33)
Womens 50m free (1.57, 5.5)

Those are the races we're favourites to win (and second-favourite, in the 50m freestyle). Larkin probably has to up his game a little for the 200m, but it's by far his stronger event. The medley is going to be tight, with the Americans at 2.1. I imagine the Americans will come good, but if we even have a chance going into the freestyle leg, we'll bring it home.

[John]

They were furious about it after London, and it prompted some soul-searching within the sport (very much like Australia and the swimming). That's why they were specifically hoping for a stronger showing here.

They can soul search all they want, but there's an avenue to make big money from being shit hot at Judo now so they'd better get used to getting biffed at their own sport.

It's nothing new either. In pure Judo competitions the French have been doing them in per capita terms for years now, and on the same scale Cuba does everyone in Olympic combat sports.

[Ian]

Enjoying Rugby Sevens. Never really watched it due to bring Union but it's much better than I thought it'd be.

I like Sevens. Went to see it at the Commonwealth Games and there were some great matches. Papua New Guinea. :drool:

[niko_cee]

Are we waiting till we hit the athletics track for a massive influx of medals or something?

We're shitting the bed at the moment. Gutted about the Women Rugby Sevens though, thought we would of got at least a silver considering the start they had.

The women were quite funny in the 7s. Such a bottle job. And then Smith falling off the pommel horse at the same time was fairly :face: as well.

Not that we win many medals early usually, the odd shooter or a horse dancer aside, and we're not getting close to London levels anyway. I suppose in the last few Olympics it's when things have started in the velodrome that we've started hauling them in. What does the cycling tt look like? Is it going to be another case of some mook who doesn't die on a descent winning it?

[Shindig]

We don't really get going til the Rowing.

[Mazuuurk]

Shit, I haven't watched any Olympics at all yet :(

I usually love watching a bunch of random sports at the Olympics, but I don't have much time when at work, and/or when I get home.

[ItalAussie]

I've adjusted my sleeping habits. Up at five to watch a few hours of sport before I leave home at 8:30. Early nights, though.

[bruhnaldo]

Women's All-Around today at 8pm* BST :drool:

* - or 3PM Gold Standard Time.

[Magic]

Women's team final and women's syncro diving for me tonight.

EDIT: By the way I've got a complete hard on for Aly Raisman. She looks like a total tran on TEAM USA's website and other Google Images but for some reason she looks astonishing at the Olympics. Fuck! :wub:

[bruhnaldo]

Women's team final and women's syncro diving for me tonight.

Which they've inexplicably put at the same time.

Nary a single fucking medal event until then but they put both the all-around and that at 7BST.

*kicks over small trash bin*

[Magic]

https://usagym.org/pages/athletes/athletephotos/97680.jpg

:D

That can't be the same fucking person.

[Magic]

Which they've inexplicably put at the same time.

Nary a single fucking medal event until then but they put both the all-around and that at 7BST.

*kicks over small trash bin*

Gymnastics = TV
Diving = Laptop

The Chinese are going to fucking don the diving and the Yanks will decimate the gymnastics.

[bruhnaldo]

Apparently we're all up for "Eventing" at the moment.

And by "we're all" I mean that TTH must be pretty well represented given 6 of the 8 finalists are GB, Ireland, Canada, Italy, Sweden and the USA.

[bruhnaldo]

https://usagym.org/pages/athletes/athletephotos/97680.jpg

:D

That can't be the same fucking person.

Aly BAEsman
:wub::wub::wub::wub::wub::wub:


Gymnastics = TV
Diving = Laptop

Genius, except that I'll be stuck at work and only with my phone :violin:

[Magic]

Apparently we're all up for "Eventing" at the moment.

And by "we're all" I mean that TTH must be pretty well represented given 6 of the 8 finalists are GB, Ireland, Canada, Italy, Sweden and the USA.

Are you getting it live over there?

[bruhnaldo]

Are you getting it live over there?

I don't believe it's on actual television to be honest as my stream lacks commentary.

on the NBC Sports app over here they're streaming every event online.

Certainly helps the day go by I can tell you that.

[Magic]

https://s10.postimg.org/ga3v9koh5/lol.jpg

[Pepe]

Ffs.

[bruhnaldo]

:\

[Jimmy Floyd]

http://i65.tinypic.com/1zxbjbo.png

My work computer thinks I'm Korean. Brilliant.

[bruhnaldo]

Mine thinks I'm in Tennessee. Weird how that works, location w/r/t where the server is actually located.

[bruhnaldo]

This is going to sound ignorant as hell but there's a black guy on the Japanese rugby 7's team and I'm legit shocked.

I had no idea there were black people in Japan.

Edit: Apparently they have two and both were born in Fiji.

[Spammer]

I saw a documentary a while back about black people in Japan. Apparently they like it out there.

[Spammer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJWAuVjKGOQ

[Magic]

Shit forgot we're playing Fleetwood tonight.

[Luca]

They're probably routing your connection through Korea as a means of monitoring Mr. Lee via your rants.
@ Floyd

[Magic]

Are legal to be banging Madison Coacin now?

[Magic]

Fucking lol at the water at the diving.

[P_3]

Magic's got it bang on with Raisman. Looks quality on TV.

[Magic]

The Chinese are just immense at diving men and women.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Woof, what an upset in the judo. American geezer put in a beautiful armbar on the world number 1 and HEAVY gold favourite.

[bruhnaldo]

Woof, what an upset in the judo. American geezer put in a beautiful armbar on the world number 1 and HEAVY gold favourite.

Damn! Going for the gold in 20 minutes apparently.

Another medal on the tally at least, either way.

[igor_balis]

Enjoyed Japan winning the 7s earlier.

[bruhnaldo]

Enjoyed Japan winning the 7s earlier.

I wish I better understood Rugby.

Argentine player seemingly dropped the ball before he reached the touchline (?) but they still called it a try.

Mind you, USA got pummeled and a loss was deserved, but it was annoying that I didn't understand how that still counted.

[Magic]

GBR looking very good in the diving and gymnastics.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Deng Wei :cool:

Clean and Jerk World Record and total weight World Record.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Here is an American basketballer (Deandre Jordan) with an American gymnast btw:

http://i.imgur.com/AG2u1Te.jpg

[ItalAussie]

Australian TV is currently airing the football and the rugby.

I got up early to watch the diving and gymnastics. :(

[Kikó]

Mon Konta.

[Kikó]

Donned it.

[Magic]

Fucked the diving right up. Oh well.

[bruhnaldo]

I'd quit my job and just let Aly Raisman use my face as a personal seat cushion if I'm honest.

[Shindig]

But in that situation, neither of you make any money.

[bruhnaldo]

Money isn't everything ;)

[bruhnaldo]

Though I could work a night shift while she sleeps if anything.

[Magic]

I bet her snatch could crack a walnut but at the same time delicately open a pistachio.

[Shindig]

Is that what you're training your kid to do?

[Magic]

I've noticed a few sexual posts from you Shinners relating to children. I'd say you're a specimen ripe for some child abuse.

[Shindig]

How dare you refer to me as a specimen.

[Kikó]

The boxing is right tear up between Russia and Algeria.

[Kikó]

Proper bar fight :D The red dude is just sprinting at the guy in blue like a mental.

[bruhnaldo]

Judo final about to kick off

[Magic]

Bottled the gymnastics now.

[bruhnaldo]

Judo final about to kick off

And we fucking lost. Fuck.

[ItalAussie]

Massive turnaround in the final stanza of the fencing.

[niko_cee]

The 'Japanese' 7s team are awesome.

[Magic]

Commentator saying that might be the finest Gymnastics team ever. I can quite believe it. They did a PSG. The gap between 2nd and 8th was half what the US won by. Incredible.

[7om]

Another bottle job at the final hurdle. Women's synchronized 10m platform only needed a half decent dive to take bronze and they may as well have belly flopped. This Olympics is looking like a write off.

[Shindig]

But... Rowing. ROWING!

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The male commentator for the BBC was getting a bit ahead of himself.

If she (Simone Biles) nails this floor routine to win her 5th Olympic gold you could argue that she's the greatest athlete at the games.

Phelps mate...

[ItalAussie]

Phelps isn't what he used to be, in fairness. He's still very good, but he doesn't have the air of inevitability about him that he did four years ago.

Right now, she's further ahead of the field than he is.

[GS]

I suspect mahow's assessment is based on historical achievement, rather than where they stand against their peers right now.

[ItalAussie]

I suspect mahow's assessment is based on historical achievement, rather than where they stand against their peers right now.

In that case, Bolt > Phelps, numbers be damned.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ledecky is up there after hammering her world record.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

This weightlifting round is shaping up very nicely.

[Pepe]

Mert's cousin. :drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That lift by the Turk was incredible.

Looked like he was going to seriously hurt himself but recovered like a true alpha.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Mert's cousin. :drool:

He's far too alpha to be related to Mert.

[Pepe]

Even gave it the big'un after like a proper wanker/don.

[ItalAussie]

Both Williams sisters are out of the singles. Svitolina just took out Serena. That's a hell of an upset.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Easily been the best lifting competition thus far.

Proper tight.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The Chinaman :cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Oh and I thought it was great that the North Koreans basically said 'fuck off' to the silver and bronze, clearly gold or bust attitude there.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Thought Sjostrom was going to catch her but Ledecky found an extra burst there.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ital, that one was for you.

Phelps > *.

[7om]

That weightlifting was amazing, although the North Korean lad will probably be put in a concentration camp as punishment.

Shi's lifting method is pretty special to watch. 'Snatch jerk' I think they were calling it. The leg power was just incredible.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Oh and fuck 'Boomer', what a shit name to give to a kid.

Equal with Ethiopia in the all time medal table for Phelps now.

[7om]

James Guy :cool:

Genuinely delighted for him. He looked so down last night and he beasted that final 200 for us. Great stuff.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Indeed, his leg was mental.

Also, I've shed some more tears. Siobhan seems like a genuinely lovely person.

Second time this Olympics after the Colombian weightlifter.

1:44.7 for James Guy's 200m which was the quickest from any swimmer in the relay.

[Pepe]

The Namibian rider on a regular road bike. :drool:

[Magic]

Fucking lol, it looks like an incredible place to cycle, but there is hardly anyone there due to safety concerns and security? And also it looks fucking miserable weather wise as it's their winter/spring isn't it?

[Pepe]

The Namibian rider on a regular road bike. :drool:

Vuillermoz too. Weird choice.

[Magic]

Dunno about your coverage Pep but this is shit, you get about 1 second's worth of visual as to where a rider is at any point, what the fuck use is that? I want a a bar right down the side like Moto GP or something with each rider's times and estimates etc rather than watching 1 bloke cycle round and a blink and you'll miss it time with no context whatsoever.

[Pepe]

TT coverage is mostly useless. Eventually you get some time checks, like two or three throughout the course, but otherwise there really is nothing to see. Best bet is to just look at the last five or so riders, but even then there is not much to see.

I agree having motorsports-like timing would be cool. Also, having the power/speed/hr/cadence data like they did in Tour of Switzerland would at least make it mildly interesting.

[niko_cee]

By the looks of the course/weather it's going to be a last man standing type affair. Those massive yellow lines on the road look super deadly.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The OBS coverage in general is completely budget compared to anything we're used to on Sky or even the BBC. Suppose that comes from foreigners being in charge.

With cycling time trials you could do all sorts, overlay maps of where riders were at equivalent points, use GPS, literally anything other than the 1970s fare you tend to get.

[SincereTheRebel]

Roy Krishna is playing gemmany at 8pm. Germany trail mexico on goal difference by four goals so they need to make that up against fiji. Could be goals.

[Pepe]

Surprisingly slow first leg from Froome.

If Cancellara wins this. :drool:

[niko_cee]

Aye, Spartacus dialing it up. Long way to go though.

[Magic]

Dat slipstreaming by the Aussie. :D

Horrendous slippy conditions, fuck opening a gel thing whilst going down a bendy descent like that.

[niko_cee]

Feels like the timings might be all over the shop on this.

[niko_cee]

Cancellara must have bike swapped on to a moped between the 1st and 2nd time checks. What a ride.

[Pepe]

I thought 2nd and 3rd would be 1st and 2nd. Cancellara, what a don. :drool:

[niko_cee]

Love the medal chairs. Massive thrones in London, a couple of sun loungers with a badge on them here.

[Magic]

Brits are fucking crap.

[Lewis]

That young weightlifting lass is from somewhere crap in West Yorkshire, so the local news has just had her family and that on. Alright. Not unu... Oh, and here's the local butcher (still in his white apron) to tell us about the free meat he provides.

[Disco]

I haven't watched any of this but I did hear Victoria Pendleton on the radio this morning refer to former Ugandan leader 'Eddie' Amin.

[niko_cee]

I see New Zealand somehow scabbed their way through in the 7s, by a single point of points difference by the looks of it. How do the points work in those tables? You can get a losing bonus point but not a winning one?

We'll no doubt lose to them later in the knock outs.

[Byron]

Two British lads in the Double Trap Bronze Match, so we're guaranteed another medal.

If we collect enough bronze medals we should try to trade them in for some gold medals.

[Shindig]

I haven't watched any of this but I did hear Victoria Pendleton on the radio this morning refer to former Ugandan leader 'Eddie' Amin.

She's lost all her attractiveness now she straddles horses.

[Pepe]

Some proper tings in the weightlifting.

[Magic]

Uchimura is proper trans material.

[Kikó]

Pissing medals now. Gwan GB.

[Magic]

Wow. Gold in diving here unless they completely fuck the last dive.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That dive by the Americans was beastly.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

lol @ the Chinese :harold:

They're going to be executed at home.

[Magic]

Brilliant!

[Pepe]

Is this the first diving event they don't win?

[Reg]

Got to be gold in the gymnastics?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Uchimura really is fucking amazing which is a damn shame.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

First all round medal for 108 years for GB.

That really is mental.

Whitlock :cool:

[ItalAussie]

Uchimura sneaked that one in out of nowhere.

It's the Ukrainian guy's fault for putting in a relatively anaemic high bar performance though. Low difficulty compared to some of the other top gymnasts, which meant that a slight deduction got him.

[Magic]

It was by far his weakest apparatus so that's unfair.

[Kikó]

Standard definition sucks arse.

[7om]

Should be another good night of swimming tonight.

100m freestyle at 3am UK time.

[niko_cee]

Having your best event last in the gymnastics seems like it would be a fairly massive advantage. Gutted for the Ukrainian.

Can't believe we out droned the Chinese in the diving. All living relatives killed.

Fairly dream line-up in the 7s semis, all things considered.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Weighlifting :drool:

Olympic and World Record in the snatch to Lyu. Hero.

[Raoul Duke]

When is the men's 100m? That's about the only thing I care about in this.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Elbow gone :\

[Vim]

Australia really working well, their passing is good and they're actually trying to play basketball, USA are just hoping that Durant scores at least in the first half. Not even trying to get him a good look.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That Kazakh is a fucking hero.

Beats the World Record for the clean and jerk by 4 fucking kilos to take the gold.

Beat his PB by 7kg too.

Strong as a fucking ox.

[ItalAussie]

Australia really working well, their passing is good and they're actually trying to play basketball, USA are just hoping that Durant scores at least in the first half. Not even trying to get him a good look.

The US deserved the win, but to be honest, we were right there with them until we got into foul trouble at the end.

Brilliant game. Can't begrudge the US, but I'd love to see this group of guys get silver at least. Mills and Bogut are playing as well as anyone else in this tournament (except when Carmelo got hot and started hitting threes in his sleep).

[ItalAussie]

It was by far his weakest apparatus so that's unfair.

That is true. I suppose he put the difficulty just high enough that if he pulled it off cleanly, he'd get gold.

He was outstanding on some of the other apparatus though. Hope he gets an individual gold somewhere. He's pretty young too, so presumably he's going to spend the next four years hanging off a high bar until he get reliably hit 15.1 scores.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://streamable.com/m7y3

Absolutely fucking amazing.

Bonus points for his coach walking round the warm up room 30 seconds after the video shouting 'Kazakhstan number 1'.

[ItalAussie]

Fencers definitely get routinely more excited than most other competitors. It's very fun to watch.

EDIT: Although the Hungarian guy is absolutely rolling this final. Good Olympics for Hungary overall, actually.

[ItalAussie]

The best thing about Hungarians is that they all sound like people who have supervillian secret identities.

You can't tell me that Aron Szilagyi, Katinka Hosszu, and Emese Szasz haven't had run-ins with Batman at some point.

[ItalAussie]

TIme for the table tennis women's gold medal match. China v China. Huge upset in the bronze medal match, as the North Korean world #50 won against a Japanese top-ten player.

The Singaporean world #4 went out in the quarterfinals. Although the world #3 isn't here, because you are only allowed two competitors per country. Seems a little bit unfair, when the rankings are so polarized. The men's contest is missing the world #3 and #4 for the same reason.

[ItalAussie]

Table tennis is a blinder. Two sets all.

Switched over to watch the swimming for a bit. The Kazakh came from nowhere to win from Lane 8. Huge upset. Great to watch. Good day for Kazakhstan.


EDIT: Three sets all. This is a fantastic match.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Larkin :harold:

[ItalAussie]

You're weirdly into Australia not winning things. At least wait until he gets touched out in the final.

[ItalAussie]

Groves has gone out really hard in this race. Difficult to see her keeping that speed up for the whole 200m.

EDIT: Indeed.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

She went far too hard too quickly.

Belmonte :cool:

[ItalAussie]

Losing by three hundredths of a second must be painful, but Belmonte really seemed to have it under control for the last 50m. I was worried Groves wouldn't hold off Hoshi.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yep, I thought Hoshi would take her but Groves seemed to have enough left in the tank.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bollocks :moop:

[ItalAussie]

That was... unexpected.

Figures. Australia gets an upset win, and it's an event where another Australian is the favourite. :moop:

[ItalAussie]

Was a weird race though. First, second and fourth were all basically unknowns. The big names all struggled.

EDIT: Just watched it again. Chalmers was absolutely nowhere until the last 20m of that race. He must have kicked something phenomenal.

[7om]

What the fuck is going on with the BBC team covering the swimming? Every time the camera comes back to them they seem to be engaged in some kind of in-joke that we're all unaware of.

Foster and Addlington are definitely screwing.

[ItalAussie]

Phelps has come to these Olympics on a mission. He's swimming better than he did in London.