Your Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics anticipation thread!

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.

there are some Olympic events that seem insanely difficult like beam for instance and then there are those in which I truly believe some sort of sorcery must be involved in navigating successfully like rhythmic gymnastics and synchronised swimming.

Insanely hard yes but also the whole idea, the expressions, even (or especially) the way they walk up to the pool! (The free routine, haven't seen the technical.)

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

― Sam Weller, Friday, 6 August 2021 13:12 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

no way, Paula is a good commentator

Enjoyed the marathon this morning. It’s nice to see Sapporo even if I’m a bit sad I won’t make it to the food festival this year. (Normally takes place at odori park inside the loop they did at the start). Found an interesting restaurant on the run north from the station.

Great end to the velodrome programme. Excellent silver from the Malaysian in the men’s Keirin. (Tiger strip track tops are a strong contender in the best uniform stakes). Strong showing from Trinidadian and Surinamese riders too, who come out of the non-traditional cycling countries programme.

Now all we have left is to see if the Japanese woman’s can overtake the American in the points race for the Omni I’m, which would be a great finish.

Tiger strip track tops are a strong contender in the best uniform stakes

lol the tiger is our country mascot and I hate it. :D

Azizulhasni is a beast though for a guy who’s 5’5 - feel like I mention this every Olympics but he’s most famous for this incident back in 2011 when he crashed, got a wooden shard pierced through his leg, got back on his bike and still finished third.

US beats China to win volleyball, basketball and a cycling gold to finish top on golds.

Ha Roz, I can’t say I’m a fan of the Team GB strip, it’s not modern and cool like the Kenyan, neither is it a stone cold classic like the Belgian.

I note "Over the moon" has made a major comeback in interviews with athletes.

Oops, Nicola Adams talking about the successes of England's boxing team after Lauren Price had won the gold.

lol I was not expecting so much ska at this closing ceremony

is that a moth on the podium?

Definitely a moth.

needs less sound of music and more kaiju imo.

pretty excited about the us women's volleyball win! i remember them watching them take silver in 1984 with the late flo hyman

They dominated. Got hot at the right time

can't wait for

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Ive just seen the horse punch and my god its as well twitter has never had to work on a farm isnt it

it is insane in the horse mane

if you consider the horse to be an Olympic athlete, then punching it enters a different light

Guess this was never going to happen anyway what with the pandemic and all, still a shame

https://aramajapan.com/news/tokyo-2020-opening-ceremony-original-plan-leaks-in-full/114631/

a friend (and former member of Dweeb) went to cover the archery and wrote this:

http://www.theinfinitecurve.com/archery/tokyo-2020