Out of the stadium 
2021 Summer Olympics (Tokyo)
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They're all expecting the US to come through and win it 
Great pen under pressue!
The commentator is cursing all of these players. An epic monologue only for them to miss.
An epic monologue only for them to miss.WTF?!
Also: did she scream "feck" the moment she kicked the ball?!
Also: did she scream "feck" the moment she kicked the ball?!
This is the worst shootout ever. Even worse than United-Sunderland
Canadia win!
Even the last pen was fecking awful
Well done Canada!
Well done Canada!
And Canada win it - in the end
Even the winning pen was crap
Out of those 12 penalties, only 2 were decent
Steady on.
I don't think Canada deserved that. Their penalty in normal play was soft and Sweden dominated proceedings for much of the game. Sweden's penalties in the shootout were indefensible, though.
What percentage of field hockey goals come from corners? All I ever see is players trying to play it into someone's foot to get a corner and score. Great argument for never imposing such strict handball laws.
what a bunch of wumsActually, they were super-easy to defend for Canada's goalkeeper
I am really suffering with our ladies. Worst possible way to lose a pen shootout This really sucks.
Congratulations to Canada, what a heroic championship!
This really sucks.Congratulations to Canada, what a heroic championship!
I watched it for a few minutes, but I got bored quite quickly.
Lfggggg ladies!
Canada finally gets the job done & Sinclair cements herself as the goat of her respective sport! What a moment !!!!
Canada finally gets the job done & Sinclair cements herself as the goat of her respective sport! What a moment !!!!
I didn't think I'd hear that Euro 2020 theme song again, but the stadium in Tokyo's actually playing that song right now whilst the Canadians are still out there celebrating.
why not? They beat Sweden. Penalties or not.
I watched a little bit of the show jumping and was surprised that the horses are strangers to the riders and the selection is random. I watched the German girl (I think) and her horse just gave up and refused to trot, not to mind jump.
That seems wrong. They (the IOC) shouldn’t allow that much chance in the mix.
Love Laura Muir been following her for a while now such a gritty athlete..
Thats just a crazy idea and I can’t believe that olympics allowed it . Overall it’s actually a fun competition though and the fact that they are ready to change with time makes it an event with great potential
It does. These women are something else.
I think they need to drop the horsey part and insert some other event. That way it’s all on the athlete and their preparation, not some random & shitty horse selection for 1/5 of the events.
I think they need to drop the horsey part and insert some other event. That way it’s all on the athlete and their preparation, not some random & shitty horse selection for 1/5 of the events.
She obviously puts so much work into it. l liked that in her interview with the BBC that she rolled off the championship results leading to the silver with real anger. It's great she's got a medal.
Too right up against a world class field and she still performs, she was more than happy with her silver too great to see..
About 2 of those pens were hit with any force or conviction, proper Phil Jones Hoicking(an agricultural swipe) chippy nothing pass backs, one of the girls looked as she didn't want to get to the spot and just kind of jabbed her foot at the ball at the last moment. God awful pens after a decent tournament. From watching the last Womens World Cup it looks as if a lot of the other teams got closer to the USA physically which was the key difference before.
What the feck are these Italians on is there a state sponsored doping scheme going on over there, the way that guy took over the Team GB athlete wasn’t natural….
Probably going to catch a lot of flak for saying this..,
Probably going to catch a lot of flak for saying this..,
Nah, i get it. Must be tiring, losing everything to Italy everywhere that matters. Next we'll have your Queen kneel before Mario Dragons
It’s just strange never seeing Italians even involved in the running races now they’re tearing up the track as well as winning medals across the board forgive me for being a little sceptical..
Have you put a lot into these games?
On BBC they were explaining you do have the option of requesting a different horse in the modern pentathlon, but it’s from a “reserve list” so the risk is they could be worse.
They were also saying more than you think is down to the rider and the fact she got so hysterical and wasn’t able to calm herself down made things much worse. That’s part of the skill of it from the athlete’s point of view, the right balance of calmness and control.
They were also saying more than you think is down to the rider and the fact she got so hysterical and wasn’t able to calm herself down made things much worse. That’s part of the skill of it from the athlete’s point of view, the right balance of calmness and control.
Canada won a soft penalty in the semis which proved to be the winner and they won another soft penalty last night having being comfortably second best from the get-go. I didn’t watch their game in the quarters but from all accounts it was won in similar fashion.
Well done to Canada for winning gold, sure, but deserving winners they just aren’t. But that’s tournament football for you: with luck on your side anything is possible.
The women doing 20 km in 70 minutes in this heat and they aren't even halfway. I barely manage 10-11 km in an hour on the treadmill!
Run faster!
I reckon I could keep up with their pace for 10-15 minutes.
This however, maybe a km if I have a good day:
My fastest 10k was 47m, I’ve seen one of them things down in Dublin but only an idiot would risk injury going on it before a Marathon after all your training..
The guy who won the swimming marathon averaged 65 seconds per 100m. That’s an insane pace. Try it! He did it 100 times in a row. Genuinely mind blowing.