Rio 2016 Olympics

[Jedi Shrimper]

SILVER for Cavs, good that the 'incident' didn't effect the overall result, great that he's finally got an Olympic medal.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Laura Trott leads the Omnium at the halfway point, 3 more races tomorrow.

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Athletics suspended due to the weather it's chucking it down!

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Sophie Hitchon takes BRONZE in the Hammer, our first ever medal in the event. :thumbsup:

Absolutely brilliant what an effort and a lovely lady too.
Pity there was only about 1,000 spectators in the stadium, what happened to all the free tickets they were meant to be giving out?

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Excellent effort from the Brazilian Pole Vaulter Thiago Braz da Silva he beats a Frenchman for the Gold Medal.
Brazil's first ever athletics Gold, once again pity stadium very empty but the contest did end at nearly midnight their time.
Mind you a men's beach volleyball match has just started and the arena quite full.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Just wait until 2022, if indeed the World Cup goes ahead in Qatar. They've been assembling expensive talent academies and ferrying in hoards of young, African footballers to nationalise them just in time.

Qatar have a very good handball team these days don't they...

 

[londonblue]

Beating Djokovic and Nadal en route to the final is exceptional - actually, I think the stat is that Murray has never achieved that in a tournament before.

But he's beaten Federer and Djokovic before, which is arguably harder.

 

[londonblue]

Laura Trott leads the Omnium at the halfway point, 3 more races tomorrow.

She is just awesome.

 

[EastStandBlue]

SILVER for Cavs, good that the 'incident' didn't effect the overall result, great that he's finally got an Olympic medal.

Really? I'm glad GB added to the medal tally, but Cavendish is such an ignorant tool.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Really? I'm glad GB added to the medal tally, but Cavendish is such an ignorant tool.

Quite aside from whether one likes him or not (and I do - often annoying, but always interesting) an Olympic medal is well deserved considering all he has done for British cycling.

 

[EastStandBlue]

He's a tad lucky he wasn't disqualified for all he'd done for South Korean cycling.

 

[Pubey]

[video=youtube;KIRmVw3zP4U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIRmVw3zP4U[/video]

 

[RHB]

I've just watched Ireland's Michael Conlan missing out on a medal in the boxing ring after losing a unanimous decision to Russia's Vladimir Nikitin in the 56kg bantamweight division. I'm totally impartial on this but it's hard not to think that an awful lot of money is heading the judges way after that result. Conlan said some very strong words about the result afterwards which may land him in trouble even though they may have an element of truth about them.

 

[Uncle Leo]

 

[Floval Flyer]

Must see this, Russians not so good without the drugs...

[video]http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37099465[/video]

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

Another avalanche of medals in the cycling tonight, 2 Golds (Jason Kenny in the Keirin, Laura Trott in the Omnium) and a Silver and Bronze. We're smashing the cycling to bits, with 6 golds - 4 more than the next best team Netherlands.

We now have one more medal than we had at this stage in 2012!

 

[MK Shrimper]

If the Trott/Kenny household were a country, they'd be above the hosts in the medal table. :hilarious:

 

[Uncle Leo]

 

[MK Shrimper]

Last night it was cycling, tonight Hockey and I've no idea whats going on. Fun though. :smile:

 

[EastStandBlue]

Christ, Hockey's turgid though, isn't it?