The Tokyo 2020 Non Athletics Thread

[carterhatch]

'Annoying as GB has now won the last five golds in this class'... and probably why its being removed from the Olympics hahahaha

[marra]

Last 6 golds, in fact.

[alfie]

Amazing finish ! Scott made up two places in the last dash to the line and wins another gold !!!! Fantastic comeback : retains his title from Rio.

Sadly that is the last Finn class race for the Olympics. Annoying as GB has now won the last five golds in this class...Percy , Ainslie , and Scott : salute !

[marra]

Okay THAT was intense.

[marra]

If I've done my maths right, we've guaranteed a medal in the women's 470 class. Sailing taking rowing/cycling's crown for most reliable medal gatherer at this point!

[alfie]

One sailing gold in : but Giles Scott is in some trouble in the Finn medal race. Had to restart and currently needs to gain a few spots to beat the Hungarian sailor...

[alfie]

While we are discussing great Olympic performances check out NZ Lisa Carrington winning two gold medals on the canoe course about an hour apart... Pretty good I think...

[marra]

That was incredibly tense. One metre less and the Kiwis would have got the gold. Nice of the Germans to do exactly what we needed by keeping in between us and NZ!

[Taffy2]

How close was that sailing gold. Superb

[Runny]

I’m focussing on us beating the Aussies - we can’t let them beat us in the medal table!! We need a few more golds and we will get there!

[marra]

First sailing race goes against us - W 49er FX finish in 6th. They were in 5th before and the least likely to medal.

Heartbreak for Caroline Dubois in the boxing. Loses in the QF on split decision by 1 point. I thought she'd done enough. One too many of the judges disagreed.

[alfie]

Not quite that long ! 1984 was the most recent and a couple in the sixties..But not a long list.

[marra]

So the only stories that I can find about it are on Daily Mail.com and Sky News Australia. And the people complaining appear to be a handful of random twitter users. I can't find any comments from a swimmer, any swimming website, any coaches or anything like that.

Whilst those people complaining are clearly being ridiculous, they are hardly indicative of some mass US hysteria over this.

[trickstat]

If they can see a twenty-fifth of a second with the naked eye that clearly they must have special powers!

[philipo]

Just read on a site that the yanks in swimming are up to to their old tricks stating that the aussies cheated them in the medley relay with an illegal takeover which was not correct. It was .04 which is very tight but not illegal. They reckoned they saw better.
They never change and are of course one of the great cheating countries which we all saw with their attempt to select banned athletes
Yuk😒.