Olympics Thread
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<p>I would to see the girls beat the Brits to avenge their fourth place loss to them in 2012. Then anything can happen in the final. They seem to be on a mission rather than being just happy to be there this time</p>
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<p>Yep - would be gutting to see them miss a medal again and I think it might well be easier to beat the Brits to make the gold medal match and ensure at least silver, than to beat (most likely) the Germans (or the Dutch!) in the bronze match.</p> -
<p>How bad was Kieth Quinn commentating the mens pole vault. And I thought he was bad enough taking rubbish during rugby 7's...</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Smudge" data-cid="605755" data-time="1471316270">
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<p>Unfortunately, we didn't get to see the winning vault live in NZ, as Sky Sport NZ (not the host broadcaster, and I'd love to see Sky Sport try and pin it on them) decided to roll in a post-race IV with the women's 400m winner, simply because their own Andrew Mulligan had convinced her to stop for a chat. They had snuck in an IV with Alison Felix a few minutes earlier, but that was a close-run thing.</p>
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<p>I actually saw the winning vault live. There were two athletics pop-up channels, one showing the 400m and other distances, the other showing the pole vault final. I only found out by accident when I decided to change channels because the constant switching from one athletic discipline to the other started to annoy me.</p> -
<p>Awesome effort by the chick sticks, as someone else said, they look like they've grown some steel this time. But the real test will be GB, if they can overcome that mental block, the gold is there for the taking.</p>
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<p>Lisa darling, no pressure, but we really need a solid gold boost up that medal table (and not the per capita one).</p>
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<p>The bloke sticks were stars, then four minutes of fucking embarrassment. That was a Barker-esque choke.</p> -
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Just watched the replay of the Cavendish crash. He looked at the South Korean rider before cutting him off. I reckon it was a definite strategy to try and take out his rivals, that was a dog act and he should have been DQ'd</p></blockquote>
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Same.<br><br>
You could tell he wasn't 'surprised' when he made contact with the Korean, hence he was braced and stayed upright easily. And his rival piles into the Korean.<br><br>
Not that I know much about cycling.<br><br>
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If we want to go any higher up that medal table we need 3 more golds
