I agree. I think Laura Kenny and Lauren Price could both do it, but I think Russia could equal us and then win on the silvers.
Laura Kenny is probably the next strongest chance and then an outside effort with Jack Carlin in the Keirin, but think latter is unlikely and I’m not sure what Kenny’s competition is like. She did look great in the Madison though.
Only India's second ever individual gold medal. Shocking for such a huge country but yes a great story and Indias most successful olympics ever.
Cheers, we may need Carlin to pull something out of the bag.
TBF when cricket is the religion and kabadi probably has more support it’s not a shock. It’s about investment at grass roots, changing attitudes towards sports and getting past sexist attitudes where women are concerned.
Agreed. Also corruption at the sports associations. I don't know if the China model is my ideal example to follow but can certainly learn a lot from them along with countries like Australia and America.
Think they have it better with sports scholarships and institutes of sport. Far too much corruption where college entry is concerned in India. I know it's far from perfect in US especially after the 'Felicity Huffman' scandal but it's more transparent. In India the culture is accepted
yep, from what I’ve read they’re pretty nailed on in the rhythmic gymnastics so we need a double from France to stop them getting anything in the other two. Allez les bleus!
Your stream seems to be fast …
Oh yeah weird, it’s still going on. I thought the official Olympic account had tweeted out that France won. I’ll edit my previous post. Hope they still do!
I’m not sure, was she born in the USA?
Well France have actually won now
Yes, phew! I looked back and realised I’d misread the tweet about France winning the men’s handball.
And a total nail-biter in both fronts! What a fantastic penultimate day from start to finish, from the women's golf to men's volleyball.
I’ll be feeling exactly the same way on Monday morning. I always get so into the Olympics and the positivity of it is like nothing else. All the normal fractiousness of British politics gets temporarily suspended while everyone’s got a common thing to get behind and I love hearing about all the athletes’ different backgrounds and it demonstrating the many different ways you can be British.
Same here. I always seem to really get into it since I was very young, and like you I also feel the positive energy exuding from it is unlike any other sporting events. I was in Germany for a bit and South Africa for the 2006 and 2010 World Cup respectively but sadly I have not experienced the Olympics in person. I'd love to be in Paris in three years time, pandemic permitting, and I wouldn't mind going to Los Angeles, too, when the time comes since I had spent quite a bit of time there in the past.
Congratulations on Egypt! I definitely notice that medals are being spread around participating teams quite nicely this summer. Long may this trend continue.Pretty good Olympics for us imo. Really happy with what was done. Could have done even more.
Our first Gold medal since 2004 in Women's Karate. Finally heard our national anthem again in Olympics.
Silver medal in modern pentathlon, not just our first ever medal in this sport, but also the first ever African medal in it in general. Huge achievement.
4 Bronze medals.
A lot of good results in other sports even with no medals.. The handball team finished 4th and is steadily becoming at least top 6 best handball teams in the world imo. Ton of class and talent but just lacks experience to win against the big guns. Most of the team is young though and I'm sure if they keep on progressing and improving normally, they would be able to achieve even better results in the future tournaments.
Football team reached QF passing through a tough group.
We had a quarter finalist player in Tennis Table which is a sport completely dominated by China and Asian player in general.
Lost a chance to win another Bronze medal in Greco-Roman Wrestling.
Fencing team finished 5th.
We also had a finalist in Diving which wasn't expected at all.
Considering that most if not all of these are mostly individual achievements and not coming thanks to any proper preparations, I'm pleased.
Thanks a lot.
It's cricket for idiots.
One other thing I have noticed is that the athletes seem a lot more humble as well and hence very relatable . Feel like football has lost that and apart from the odd footballer you don’t feel like you have a connection with any of the modern footballers
I'd agree with that actually, eg Tom Daley could be a brat after all the fame and success from such a young age but he's not he's lovely
Isn't it like 4 AM there. It's probably too dark for them to see.
Is it me or the second post is pretty vile? It's not because you are appaled by something that you should call an entire nation sick, warped people?
Yeah it’s not nice . I just posted it because it had the link for the article
To be fair to footballers, I'd say a lot of that is mostly the differing narrative of the media.
Yeah agree. Money hasn’t changed these sports the way football has as most of them are pretty low earning (bar the Usain Bolts of the world) and so the athletes are relatively normal in terms of their living circumstances and just doing it for the love of the sport. I don’t like seeing big money going into cricket now for similar reasons.
