It has to be "tiny" if its with Labcrooks Edit: Is this thing not highly influenced by the BBC. In which case I couldn't see a guy, in a sport which they just dumped, get the gong.
Radio 5 Live insisted on giving a replay of Tom Daley and his friend diving to a bronze medal the other morning, a commentary that lasted a good three seconds consisting roughly of “They’re standing on the edge of the board; they jump; they spin together; they hit the water; now what did they score? They beat the Germans – they’ve got bronze!” And I thought golf was pointless on radio...
They're at the start. Lining up now. Both on their toes on the edge of the board. And they're off. In the air they go together and it looks like they are at the same height, on the descent, both spinning in synch. It's looking good and Splash!. They've fallen in the water . Photo. And here is the result of the photo, It's a bronze. We've beaten the Germans, Yes!
More gold for Team GB Joe Clarke in the kayak Jack Laughler and Chris Mears in the diving Well done. So far all the gold has been won in the water or in the case of the diving the "dodgy green pool" "
Quite an article by Tom Peck of the "Independent". Poor old Supernova, a hoss performing in front of near-empty stands, after being flown in to Rio on a specially adapted private aircraft. Quite possibly, the world has gone completely mad? http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...ity-and-champagne-for-supernova-a7183411.html
Extracts from an article by Sally Jenkins in "The Washington Post" 11/08/2016: "In vilifying Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova, Americans are splashing murky waters. Lilly King and sport’s other moralists ought to take a closer look before casting labels. For starters, Efimova doesn’t live in Russia; she lives in Los Angeles, where she has trained with Southern Cal Coach Dave Salo since she was 19. He says via email, "She is a sweet kid and not the monster she is being branded." She was born in the war-torn Chechen capital of Grozny and raised in the Russian swim-club system in Volgodonsk, but in 2011, her coaches feared she was wearied by the grind of the Russian program, so they asked Salo to take her on. Efimova has two offenses for performance-enhancing on her record, and let’s take a closer look at them. One day in 2013 she went to a local GNC in L.A. and bought a nutritional supplement. Her English was poor, and she didn’t check the contents, which included the banned hormone DHEA. Efimova’s offense was deemed unintentional, and the normal two-year suspension was reduced to 16 months. No American would do such a thing, right? Actually, as NBC correspondent Alan Abrahamson has pointed out, Efimova’s case was very similar to that of Jessica Hardy, banned for ingesting a tainted supplement in 2008 only to win two medals at London 2012. No one splashed water in Hardy’s face or refused to shake her hand. Efimova is deemed a chronic cheat here mainly because of her second offense: testing positive for the heart medication Meldonium in the midst of the crisis over the exposure of state-sponsored doping in Russia. Meldonium was in broad use by Eastern European athletes legally until WADA prohibited it in January 2016. This spring, WADA declined to ban more than 200 athletes who tested positive for meldonium after January, including Efimova, because it’s unclear how long it takes to clear the system. It’s quite possible that she obeyed the WADA ban but the medication remained in her system anyhow. Efimova tried to explain these circumstances in her Olympic post-race news conference as King refused to look at her. Regardless of what anyone thinks of Efimova, it’s hard to see how the American censoriousness against her — or any individual athlete — is a solution to state-sponsored doping. And it’s just begging for anti-American backlash. King is just 19, and you would never want to curb her outspokenness or competitiveness. But it’s worth suggesting to her that a lot of beloved American athletes take supplements and use medical assistance not on the banned list. It’s also worth suggesting that she’s never walked a mile in the shoes of someone born in Grozny in 1992."
Congratulations to Fiji in winning the Rugby Sevens Final. There is just no one who can touch them in this type of Rugby. Awesome!
I've been waiting months for the woman's 10000 and now it's almost here. London winner Tirunesh Dibaba has to fight off the new kid on the block, Almaz Ayala. Dibaba had last season off to have a bub, and hasn't quite hit her straps. Ayala is flying though. This is the clash of the titans. I think Almaz Ayala will leave these games a super star. But I could be wrong, I usually am.
Boom, Ayala smashes the world record for the 10,000 which was set in the early 90s. Unfreakin' believable. And a true superstar is born.
Too good to be true Cyc ??? That's phenomenal running. The past record was done by drug addled Chinese and Sonia O'Sullivan, our greatest distance runner is also saying it's almost too good to be true as well, smashing an already dodgy record by 14 seconds
Catching up on the GB/NI golds Mens sprint cycling team Helen Glover and Heather Stanning in the rowing Mens 4 in the rowing Currently standing 4th in the medals table
Some fantastic high-jumping by the Belgian and British girls in the Heptathlon. Katarina Johnson-Thompson ís an amazing athlete, she seems to me to be so tiny for such an event as the Heptathlon?
Brilliant jumping wasn't it, was glued to it myself for the past 45 minutes there. 2.01 just a bit too far.
Yes, STH, it certainly was. I was impressed with the good nature and sportsmanship of both girls, applauding each other at 1.95m and 1.98, I think it was. This is the true Olympic spirit. . (Just to think, both of them can jump over me, by just over 10cm!! ).
Michael Phelps. Call yourself a champion? Cherry picking competitions you can win. Shame you dodged the 100 metres breast stroke where you would have been comprehensively beaten
