Your Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics anticipation thread!

not sure why that would be necessary.

from what I understood it had been raining, so the grass and the rocks would be slippery, whereas everything was dry the day before

"NBC is reporting that Biles didn’t withdraw due to injury but due to her mental health, according to her coach."

One of the Chinese gymnast's floor routine was to an orchestral version of "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran.

the ROC female gymnast tracksuits are so fire.

Was anyone else like, lol taiwan doing well with all these russian ringers

One for the Real England thread?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/07/27/nicola-sturgeon-snp-criticised-failing-support-team-gb-olympics/

I always like to see British athletes do well, except when they're dickheads, but there's almost nothing more pleasing in sport than watching overhyped British athletes fall on their arses - sometimes literally.

so does the russian ban actually affect anything at all beyond 'having a slightly different team name' and 'listening to tchaikovsky'?

ROC used in much the same way as 'Team GB' come to think of it, except nobody forced british media to stop saying britain or great britain, they just kind of did

that guy who won the surfing is my new god

the "olympic channel" (?) cycles the same content too often but i enjoy seeing the athlete interviews

simone mid air on that vault looked like a boxer out on his feet imo, scary

Fiji beating the All Blacks is awesome

Looks like Argentina and France are both going out in the football, with Egypt and Mexico qualifying.

big upset in badminton men's singles, top-seeded mamota kento lost in 2 games to heo kwang-lee. good match! heo had some insane smashes and the net was kind to him

canada over brazil on pens in women's qf. been impressed here and in euros how quickly goalies have refined their technique when facing pens to keep one foot on or behind line at impact.

gymnastics was good y'day although beam seems basically impossible to look good on to me. or as one of the commentators put it - 'a horrendous piece of apparatus'

gb awarded well dodgy pen in extra time vs aussies. saved.

then aus score 30 secs later

aus add their 4th but gb pull it back to 4-3 with 5 mins left. epic.

aus have basically stopped attacking the last 10 mins, barely been out of their half.

aus see it out. great game.

Djokovic lost thank fuck. Shame it was Zverev who inflicted it.

novak (w/ stojanovic) also loses in mixed. will hope to settle for two bronzes

havent seen zverev once this tourney but his stats (v minimal double faults + lotsa winners) look like hes playing amazingly

Lol I was wondering about this but not caring enough till I saw this piece on ROC

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/30/roc-olympic-successes-mean-absent-russia-more-present-than-ever-tokyo-olympics

For a paper that goes on about Russia this was p even

badminton mixed doubles final was great.

yeah, loved that

straight up cackled at Djokovic going home without a singles medal for the third Olympics in a row

I'm glad to say I was there on Court no.1 nine years ago when Del Potro beat him for the bronze... and I stayed up until about 4am to watch DP knock him out of Rio too. No mixed medal either - looks like he's pulled out of the 3rd-place match. Excellent (though that sucks for Stojanovic).

First time Novak has lost back-to-back singles matches since... Tour Finals 2019 (Thiem/Federer)?

He'll be back in Paris 2024 though :(

Athing Mu looks phenomenal in the 800m. Won the semi final barely breaking a sweat.

Jamaica 1-2-3 in the women’s 100m. Thompson-Herah just broke Flo Jo’s Olympic record.

they only showed the gbr female and male runs of the bmx freestyle, two runs each. these were heats, actually down as 'seeding' because *everybody* qualified, there were only 10 women and 8 men competing. finals tonight.

(actually one of the Americans may've thrown his two runs so as to keep his final run secret, will be interesting to see)

svitolina over rybakina in the bronze match was p epic, especially the last game. svitolina is scarily intense.

bencic just gave a break back in the deciding set vs vonderosa. both players feeling it now that gold is tantalisingly within sight.

bencic comes out of a medical timeout at 4-3 to play a perfect game to break. serving for gold.

15-40

back to deuce now mp

saved. now bp

bencic does it!!! so happy for her.

Just left the tennis venue at a little over 1 am cursing both women’s matches for dragging this on for way longer than necessary. I also blame my editor who sunnily told me I would be able to go home early since Djokovic withdrew - not a chance. It’s been a crazy, insane week of tennis and I both don’t want it to end and can’t wait for it to be over.

I'm usually a fan of the obscure sports - but I'm skeptical of 3x3 basketball. Anyone a fan of 3x3? Does it have a following?

I hadn't even heard of it before the games, but I find it very enjoyable. It's like condensed greatest hits version of normal basketball.

bbc 6music news has just spoilered the bmx results for me 8(

Bit bummed we only got to see Logan Martin’s safety run.

bbc 6music news has just spoilered the bmx results for me 8(

The guardian spoils pretty much every result for me.

Tried to watch some judo last night. Incomprehensible.

7 man playoff for bronze in golf right now lol.

During the BMX, especially during Nakamura Rim’s round, they kept cutting away to a line of fans on the bridge by the arena. A little bit of pathos, there.

Enoshima is a great location for the sailing. (I really need to go and visit, that area is on Japanese TV a lot)

bbc changed channels halfway through the women's second bmx with the gbr having fallen during first run...

No Jamaican in the men’s 100m final.

love the Kenyan singlets

Yulimar finally smashes the World Record in the triple jump. Beaten after 26 years.

Aw, Bashim and Tamberi were given the option of having a jump-off in the high jump or sharing the gold and they chose to share.