Olympics Thread

[Mokey]

<p>Cool we have two silvers already, with the prospect of another medal very soon in equestrian if Sir Mark can keep his nose up and over the long white lengths. (And the others don't crap out, after a really, really good cross country.)</p>
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<p>Swimmers have been fucking mediocre, but.</p>

[mariner4life]

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Mahe just won his quarter final. Tight race between him and the Czech Synek for the first 1500m but Synek couldn't keep up and Mahe won by exactly 4 seconds.</p></blockquote>
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The Czech definitely backed off

[Billy Tell]

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<p>BBC iPlayer is a god option for those of you without other access but have a VPN or DDNS. It is being used to fill the gaps between what they are showing on BBC1 and BBC4..</p>
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[TeWaio]

<p>Frenchman had 2 rails down and Clarke Johnstone jumps clear! We're in the gold medal position in the team event now, with our best rider Sir Mark still to come!</p>

[TeWaio]

<p>Sir Mark 2nd last to go, then the Aussie Chris Burton is last.<br><br>
We're >8pts ahead of them, so assuming Burton jumps clear we have <strike>2 </strike>1 fence<strike>s</strike> in hand.</p>

[TeWaio]

<p>Course looks pretty easy for Olympics, lots of clear rounds and under the time allowed. Meaning that we're in the box seat, as we aren't relying on anyone ahead of us to slip up. </p>

[TeWaio]

<p>Maths a bit wrong: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(247,250,252);">At this point, New Zealand has one rail in hand over Australia, but Australia cannot have a rail to stay in front of France.</span></p>

[TeWaio]

<p>Frenchman clear, bronze at least guaranteed for them. Toddy up next...</p>

[Crucial]

Fuck

[TeWaio]

<p>4 fences down. Burton has two fences down meaning both us and Aussie slip behind both France (gold) AND Germany (silver). Aussie get bronze and we're fourth.<br><br>
Individual jumping is later, but 4 fences down means Mark Todd unlikely to be in the medals for that either as scores are carried forward.</p>
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<p>Gutted. We'd never won team gold before despite our pedigree and that must've been our best ever chance.</p>

[TeWaio]

<p>And now we're down 14-12 to Japan in the 7s with 1min to go and SBW off injured. Not a great 20min period for NZ.</p>

[KiwiMurph]

Nz 7s in big trouble - so many missed tackles.

[rotated]

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<p>Nz 7s in big trouble - so many missed tackles.</p>
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<p>Terrible performance. Could still pull it out of the fire here - 1 minute left.</p>

[Tordah]

<p>unbelievable, Japan win against AB7s. 14-12</p>

[TeWaio]

<p>Fuck.</p>

[Bones]

Wow, awful performance. Like we'd never played 7s before, some really dumb stuff. Ormond you fucking idiot.

[KiwiMurph]

This could be a real sad end to Titch's career - they looked atrocious.

[Bones]

Handling errors from over half the team and our 2 set moves were just to hit a crash ball runner. Then give it to the most inexperienced guy to try and finish.

[Davesofthunder]

Can we still make it through to the quarters?

[TeWaio]

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<p>Can we still make it through to the quarters?</p>
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Yes, top 2 of each pool + 2 extras (I guess on points diff? or repechage?). Need to thrash Kenya and ideally beat GB.</p>