Olympics Thread

[sparky]

Benjamin Thomas of France wins the Men's cycling Ominum to the delight of the home nation's crowd.

14th Gold for the hosts.

[sparky]

Fabulous 200 metres men's final.

A superb performance from Letsile Tebogo of Botswana to win.

19.46

Ice cold!!!!

[canefan]

Ellesse Andrews wins gold 🥇 in the Keirin!

[sparky]

US Athletics has announced that Noah Lyles has Covid.

He ran 19.70 and secured the bronze medal with Covid. He must be a doubt for the relays.

[sparky]

Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan threw 92.97 and Olympic record to lead in the Javelin.

[MiketheSnow]

Fantastic M Hockey Final

[sparky]

Neeraj Chopra of India in second place in Javelin with 89.45.

Still on second round. A good India Vs Pakistan battle ahead.

[canefan]

@sparky said in Olympics Thread:

US Athletics has announced that Noah Lyles has Covid.

He ran 19.70 and secured the bronze medal with Covid. He must be a doubt for the relays.

Some of the Aussie swimmers competed with COVID, so if he can go he could still race

[Jailbreak7]

Man, the USA track team are Fast....even with covid Lyles and Sydney in the 400m hurdles are a cut above...

[sparky]

Serbia leading the USA 54-43 at half time in the Basketball semi final.

[Windows97]

Always good to wake up to 2 more gold medals!! The kerin win was gusty, get to the front on the last lap and back yourself to stay in front all the way was a brave call but a very good one. K4 was excellent, the girls hung in there to stay close enough to the Germans and then timed their run perfectly at the end to pull ahead.

Dame Carrington with 6 gold medals (and with the potential of more to come) - what a national treasure she is!!

[sparky]

At the end of the third quarter in the men's basketball semi final, it's Serbia 76, USA 63.

Can America's illustrious lineup pull this around in the fourth quarter?

[KiwiPie]

Tebogo looked great - Lyles might have been struggling but Tebogo looked like he had more to give. Also he gave a really lengthy interview to Sky NZ trackside which most champions wouldn't do! He's a sub 45 400m and sub 10 100m man - can't be many of them. I think he knew that if he was ahead coming into the bend he had the strength from the longer distance to see them off.

[sparky]

Four points in the Serbia-US basketball game with five minutes to go.

[sparky]

All tied up 84-84, with 3.30 to play, great US comeback.

[sparky]

Steph Curry and King James stepping up and making it count when it matters. Going to another level. Brilliant!

[SBW1]

We are on 13 medals with three days left, what are our chances over the next few days.

[barbarian]

Serbia carving up USA then decide ‘you know what, let’s stop giving it to Joker and just start lobbing up wild 3s’. Like the other four guys all thought they were the best player but just needed the space to show it. If I were a Serb I’d be rioting in the street

[mariner4life]

Dame Lisa Carrington is a fucking phenom and NZs greatest athlete. She has more than a decade on most of the other people in that K4 race and still, in a "team" event, looked like the dominant athlete.

Someone build a fucking statue. you'll need a lot of bronze to do those shoulders and guns justice.

[JK]

@canefan said in Olympics Thread:

@sparky said in Olympics Thread:

Linda Ko on 6 under in the Golf. In second place. Just two shots behind the leader Metraux.

Lids still two behind Metraux who is in the clubhouse. She's running out of holes to catch up. Korda is closing, two shots back, tied for 4th

Only 36 holes to catch up.....