Well, the USA way of calculating the medal table does have some attractions. Anyway, enjoyed these Olympics, vive la France!
Great effort from Holland for a 17m or so population. India letting everyone down with zero golds from a 1.3bn population.
Great achievement for NZ, more than Canada who won 9 Gold medals (27 total), our most ever in a non boycotted Games.
Australia achieved a record tally 18 gold and only slipped on the last day, from 3rd to fourth. Very proud of 99.9% of them.
Spent the morning at the Stade de France watching the Paralympic Athletics. Quite inspirational. If I were blind, the temptation would be to stay home, stay safe and survive. The lady in the picture below decided she'd rather become an elite long jump athlete. Hats off to her, quite incredible.
Really good coverage by C4 of the Paralympics, with the single exception of the ubiquitous Claire Balding turning up again. I do spend a lot of time looking up what all the different categories mean though. For those with the same challenge this website is helpful https://lexi.global/sports/ Paris doing the competition proud by the look of it. Today has been sensational for GB.
Been a wonderful day ...very golden Sabrina Fourtune my favourite. We don't usually win shot put. Paris have done it very very well. Vive la France
The Aussies have a gent on their team .................. one arm no legs! How the hell does he even compete let along try to win. These para Olympians from all countries, really are quite amazing people. Regardless of where they place, they have already achieve what 99.9% of could never dream of. Well done to them for having the grit to do so. They are all true winners.
Today was the Wheelchair basketball. Playoff womens match for 7-8 (???) between Spain and Japan followed by men's, Germany vs Canada for the bronze medal. Didn't realise wheelchair basketball is so aggressive...they smack into each other and a number of the players ended up with their wheelchairs turned over and needing help to get upright again.
