Olympics Thread

[sparky]

Third Gold today. 9th overall.

[MiketheSnow]

Great High Jump competition

[MiketheSnow]

Yanks are on fire at the athletics

[sparky]

That breaks the record from Los Angeles.

This is New Zealand's most successful Olympics ever!!!!!!!

[MiketheSnow]

Congratulations

[Billy Tell]

@sparky said in Olympics Thread:

That breaks the record from Los Angeles.

This is New Zealand's most successful Olympics ever!!!!!!!

Once again the Russians not there. Bloody Russians.

[sparky]

Team GB has hit the British Olympic Association's target for 60 medals with a day to spare. This is good news for sports funding in the UK.

Unlike previous recent games, there was no BOA target for Golds.

[Damo]

Watched the last hour of the high jump in bed. Great to see gold for Lydia.

Amazing night for the Kiwis.

Totally perfect and unblemished night for NZ sport.

[MajorPom]

Brilliant for Kerr!

I fucking love it when sports people prove me wrong. Good for him!

[Billy Tell]

Watching the basket now. Cmon France.

[sparky]

USA leading France 20-15 at the end of the first quarter.

[Smudge]

First medal for an NZ male in a field event with Kerr's gold.

We've got the faster with Snell, Lovelock, Halberg, and Walker. Now the higher.

Stronger: can we use Val?

[Billy Tell]

Watching the break dancing semis. Yeah, Robertson wouldn’t medal.

[sparky]

@Smudge

Stronger = Ted Morgan's Gold (NZ's first one) in Welterweight Boxing in Amsterdam in 1928.

[sparky]

USA 72 France 66 entering the final quarter of the Basketball final.

[Billy Tell]

Curry is just a machine at 3 pointers. Soul destroying for the French.

[sparky]

Steph Curry rather good.

[SBW1]

Do we still have a shot at more medals or does that look like our final total?

[Billy Tell]

France weren’t bad but their shooting percentage was too low.

[sparky]

USA 98 France 87 in the Men's Basketball Final.

Curry unbelievable.