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**Official** Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics
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flibbertyjibber
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Max Whitlock you beauty, retains his Pommel Horse gold, our greatest gymnast ever. A true legend for us. Into double figures for Golds for this games now, hunting those pesky Russkis.
RossTaylorsBox
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Excuse me they're the Russian Olympic Committee, completely different.
BoyBrumby
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Maybe there's a place for test cricket in the Olympics after all?
RossTaylorsBox
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lol at Italian dude running 9.84
Howe_zat
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I hadn't considered this approach. Will bear it in mind next time England lose the Ashes.
Burgey
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Love it. Very gracious of him to acknowledge their wayward province.
Also good to see Zamps just apologise for not making the 100 final, to go back to a discussion from a couple of hours ago in here.
dontcloseyoureyes
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Burgey
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Yeah there is. Just say, like Zamps, “sorry I didn’t get it done.” Compare that with the spud Magnussen approach from 2012
Burgey
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Nah, the AIS is taxpayer funded. They need to be grateful for what they get and apologise for wasting money when they don’t perform. A simple “sorry” and we move on
BoyBrumby
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Just checking the golf and thought silver medalist Rory Sabbatini's moniker didn't sound typically Slovakian and it turns out he was born in Durban and represented RSA until 2019.
Also (according to Wiki; usual health warnings apply) holds US and British citizenship, so has quite a few bases covered.
Also (according to Wiki; usual health warnings apply) holds US and British citizenship, so has quite a few bases covered.
weeman27bob
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From what I've seen Team GB was mostly predicted to win about 14 gold medals this Olympics, and we're on 10 so far.
Sounds like the track cycling is much more of a question mark than it has been in the past few Olympics, but if we can sneak one or two there, and then a few in boxing/sailing, we should comfortably beat that and hopefully get up to around the 19 golds we got in Beijing. High 20s like London/Rio very optimistic though.
Sounds like the track cycling is much more of a question mark than it has been in the past few Olympics, but if we can sneak one or two there, and then a few in boxing/sailing, we should comfortably beat that and hopefully get up to around the 19 golds we got in Beijing. High 20s like London/Rio very optimistic though.
Uppercut
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Some of them feel this way but some of it’s for show. I reckon plenty of athletes are proud of their silver medals but feel like they have to pretend they’re not.
Depends on the event too. Losing a final is a much worse way to get a silver medal than doing the second best gymnastic routine.
Howe_zat
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Yeah fair assessment. 2012 and 2016 had basically everything go perfectly.
If you look at the medals from 2008 they’re almost all cycling, rowing and sailing. If we can match that medal tally this year while being a much more all-around team I think it’s a better Games.
GIMH
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Roger Black in 1996 probably a good example of someone who couldn’t be anything but delighted with Silver. There was zero chance of Gold given how good Johnson was. No doubt he’d have dreamed of gold but still.