Olympics Thread

sparky

Dammit. The German take the lead with her final throw.

Billy Tell

F it. Has to throw for gold.

sparky

Silver for Maddi Wesche after throwing a Personal
best of 19.86.

Ogunleye threw just 14 cms further to win the Gold.

Billy Tell

@sparky said in Olympics Thread:

Silver for Maddi Wesche after throwing a Personal
best.

Such a loser.

(Awesome effort and did us proud!)

sparky

@Billy-Tell A break-through performance for her and she will probably be challenging for medals including the Gold one at World Championships and the Oympic Games over the next four years

MiketheSnow

Spain win the Gold in a cracking football final

sparky

@MiketheSnow said in Olympics Thread:

Spain win the Gold in a cracking football final

Spanish football teams just don't lose finals.

Billy Tell

@MiketheSnow said in Olympics Thread:

Spain win the Gold in a cracking football final

One sport I never ever watch at the Olympics. Only nz being there would get me to watch.

sparky

28 finals and 25 years in a row now for Spanish teams in not losing football finals to anyone but other Spanish teams.

Maybe a winning streak in sport only beaten by the New York Yacht Club.

MiketheSnow

@sparky said in Olympics Thread:

28 finals and 25 years in a row now for Spanish teams in not losing football finals to anyone but other Spanish teams.

Maybe a winning streak in sport only beaten by the New York Yacht Club.

Or Kim Jong Un

sparky

@Billy-Tell With the naked eye it looked like her final throw was over 20 metres.

Obviously the officials saw a mark I couldn't see.

sparky

Great battle in the Heptathlon too.

Nafi Thiam of Belgium won her third Gold medal in a row.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson of Great Britain , twice the world champion in the event, fell just 36
points behind her rival.

sparky

I think both Thiam and KJT ran personal best in the 800 metres. Talk about leaving it all out there after seven events over two days.

MiketheSnow

@sparky said in Olympics Thread:

I think both Thiam and KJT ran personal best in the 800 metres. Talk about leaving it all out there after seven events over two days.

Great competition

sparky

@MiketheSnow

Nafi Thiams's PB in the 800m before tonight was 2.11.79.

Tonight she ran 2.10.62 on a soaked track.

canefan

@sparky said in Olympics Thread:

@Billy-Tell A break-through performance for her and she will probably be challenging for medals including the Gold one at World Championships and the Oympic Games over the next four years

Amazing. Self belief and a medal will do her confidence a world of good

sparky

Beatrice Chebet of Kenya does the women's 5000m and 10,000m double.

sparky

Great support by the Dutch fans for their women's hockey team in the final.

sparky

And the Dutch get double Gold in the men's and the women's Hockey.

sparky

13 Golds for the Dutch now. Wow!

That beats their previous best of 12 Golds in Sydney 2000.

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