Your Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics anticipation thread!

I could listen to Denise Lewis and Michael Johnson all day. Paula Radcliffe, not.

Women’s climbing has a late breaking stewards enquiry but we don’t know what into.

Imagine: You come 4th in Rio, you go again, train so hard, ‘Tokyo will be my Games’. The big day comes and it’s going brilliantly, you have one of the biggest leads in #Olympics history. And then a random horse ruins your dream. Crushing for Annika Schleu pic.twitter.com/sbXI3C8Ox1

— Jason Keen (@Jason_Keen) August 6, 2021

this horse should get a medal for services to making posh English brats cry.

pro-horse anti-rider

that's hilarious. good for horse.

Wow, Italy in the 4x100! Holy smokes.

"And then a random horse ruins your dream"

lol, yes, a random horse in the horse sport.

labbe vs lindahl

apparently horse are drawn at random from a local pool. what's japanese for 'woah neddy'?

this is too nerve racking

OH MY GOD GO CANADA

:)

my daft cat woke me at 5.45am and im not working today so i managed to watch the majority of that. back to bed for me.

ha, that was quite a game

"that was just athleticism at its highest!"

(hyperbole at the table tennis)

re pentathlon the same horse is randomly drawn to be ridden by 2 diff riders, cos not enough horses, refused to move for either rider which kinda makes whole event unfair imo. clearly a duff horse.

also the leader until then was german not british and the british woman went onto win so really the horse made a posh brit happy you'll be pleased to know calz.

ffs!

british woman was 15s behind going into non-horse event* so it wasn't just the horse.

*laser-tag, or something. i wasn't watching that closely.

those penalties were insane. so so happy for christine sinclair

laser tag/800m run combo was the last event. british woman was 8th going into the horse event(which was penultimate event)
xp

wait the one with the bad horse ended up winning? why did she have to hit the horse so hard then ffs

i want to buy that bad horse, i love him

the one with the "bad horse" was the german rider Annika Schleu, the gold medal winner was the British competitor, whose name, just to make this more confusing, is Kate French

I see the confusion; the crying horsebeater is from Germany, not the UK

Weird that I didn’t get an xpost notification there

That horse got the revenge it deserved pic.twitter.com/rM75NmVEfQ

— Hoet Laureate (@Sean_nanigans) August 6, 2021

lol def a meme in the making.

Is there a non-paid way to see this pentathlon event, I'm grimly fascinated now

you can piece it together with tweets

Imagine: You come 4th in Rio, you go again, train so hard, ‘Tokyo will be my Games’. The big day comes and it’s going brilliantly, you have one of the biggest leads in #Olympics history. And then a random horse ruins your dream. Crushing for Annika Schleu pic.twitter.com/sbXI3C8Ox1

— Jason Keen (@Jason_Keen) August 6, 2021

I love any sport that involves a horse but some of these modern pentathlon showjumping rounds are not comfortable to watch… pic.twitter.com/xvBT4viq3z

— Molly Hunter (@mollhun) August 6, 2021

Modern pentathlon riding seems to be very large jumps for the ability of the horses and some of the riders. Considering they only have a short time to ride a strange horse how safe is this? I’d be wearing a BP and air jacket! And they get back on! 😱🤷🏼‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/mOCitZJVIQ

— Clare E Gabriel (@ClareEGabriel3) August 6, 2021

🐴🐴🐴

lol def a meme in the making.

― pomenitul, Friday, 6 August 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Nothing but support for withholding your labor at the most critical point of production. pic.twitter.com/VsvBjqwYtY

— Brett "Unions 2021" Banditelli (@banditelli) August 6, 2021

Challenge Annika,lol

Bunch of savages

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/aug/07/german-modern-pentathlon-kim-raisner-coach-thrown-out-of-tokyo-olympics-for-punching-horse-annika-schleu

Spanghero wants to know your location

Hassan wins the 10k, to go along with gold in 5k and bronze in the 1500.

Just looks so fucking shattered

Well done Brit posho for saving 🐴

Maher withdraws from team final
Showjumping team event final

It's all over for Great Britain in the showjumping team final as Ben Maher takes the decision to withdraw.

With Team GB sitting ninth in the standings on 24 penalties, he has decided it's not worth risking Explosion W.

daughter of the boss is gonna get a medal in showjumping.

ooh sweden hit last fence to tie usa with one country to jump

and fence down and refusal for france, from first to out on last rider

so belgium bronze and sweden vs usa in jump off for gold.

maybe punching a house can be an actual event come Paris 2024

No typo detected ^

USA could still top the gold medal table. Women's volleyball, boxing and they will win women's basketball.

Team GB might get another gold or two tomorrow (cycling and boxing). Lottery cash means there is some resource to chase sporting dreams. The dominance in cycling is over but that's generational, and there are prospects. It's rowing where it looks like it's a goner.

I would watch competitive house-bashing.

The 'gold medal table' is a rotten artifact of the 20th century.

Should be medals per capita. (San Marino would be top.) Or maybe per gdp.

Well done, Neeraj Chopra. India’s first ever athletics gold and, unbelievably, only the second individual gold in any event.

shoutout to aditi ashok who played her heart out to finish 4th in golf just 2 shots off first place,

Canadian dude who won the decathlon (the event that really matters) seems cool

Artistic swimming... words fail. Truly insane.