The Tokyo 2020 Non Athletics Thread

[trickstat]

Emily-Jane Campbell gets silver behind a dominant Chinese lifter in the heavyweights. I think that means she would have beaten a certain controversial Kiwi amongst others?

[Christy93]

I'm pretty sure only GB have a five woman team, yeah.

[SprintRelayFan]

Couple more medals guaranteed - first ever British woman's weightlifter and in the individual horse eventing. Been a good week for the horses

[Taffy2]

Difficult on the men’s side for sure.

The women should be there or thereabouts although a little worrying that Archibald had to check back over her shoulder to make sure her team mates were with her (a gap was opening). A more even paced ride and possible changes should see them go quicker.

I didn’t see the men’s, but it does seem to be the trend for the 4th rider to drop off much earlier than before. Even when Denmark set the men’s WR they were down to 3 before 2,375m.

I think GB has a better 5th rider to come in than other teams. Some teams only have 4 that can ride.that could be a huge factor if Germany and the USa don not have a 5th lady .

[SprintRelayFan]

Armenia's first medal of the games? Just picked one up in the vault

[Grassmarket]

Italian Team Pursuit have the problem that one rider - Filippo Ganna - is just so ridiculously better than the others that he has to hold back to stop creating gaps. Danes are better balanced.

[Grassmarket]

Idea is that one rider leads the team out for a couple of long multi-lap stints, then drops.

[marra]

Hurrah for Horse Triathlon!

[RunUnlimited]

That's gold for the GB equestrian team in the eventing! GB's 11th gold of these Olympics.

[trickstat]

First GB team gold in the 3 day event since 1972 achieved.

[Ursus]

Well, we beat the Aussies on the Men's side, so somehow, we're still technically in with a shot of Gold. Would have to beat the Danes though, which I just don't think we can do. Getting a bronze would be a success of sorts I think.

The German performance was unreal. Did not expect them to competing for the top step, let alone be almost 2 seconds clear! Thought it would be a shootout between GB and the US for Gold - now that's a race to get into the final!

Difficult on the men’s side for sure.

The women should be there or thereabouts although a little worrying that Archibald had to check back over her shoulder to make sure her team mates were with her (a gap was opening). A more even paced ride and possible changes should see them go quicker.

I didn’t see the men’s, but it does seem to be the trend for the 4th rider to drop off much earlier than before. Even when Denmark set the men’s WR they were down to 3 before 2,375m.

[SprintRelayFan]

Another medal for Italy! Veteran Ferrari gets silver on the floor. Jade Carey keeps the title American. Twins 6th and 7th, both executed their routines really well, just need to build the difficulty.
Biles has confirmed she's doing beam

[marra]

Well, we beat the Aussies on the Men's side, so somehow, we're still technically in with a shot of Gold. Would have to beat the Danes though, which I just don't think we can do. Getting a bronze would be a success of sorts I think.

The German performance was unreal. Did not expect them to competing for the top step, let alone be almost 2 seconds clear! Thought it would be a shootout between GB and the US for Gold - now that's a race to get into the final!

[Ursus]

2nd in qualifying for the women’s team pursuit which is always one of my favourite events.

Germans lead the way with a new WR. We were also under the old WR (ours) but an uneven ride - well up on WR pace but then faded in the last kilo. Katie Archibald is just a machine though.

[marra]

Don't know how Gracenote cooks up these figures. Nice if they are right but honestly I cannot quite see where another 28 medals are coming from. Perhaps the golds could actually do better than 16 if the cards fall favourably but I am not placing bets at the moment. Prefer to watch and see

In my predictions I still have 32 of my medal shots for GB still to compete. Now, don't get me wrong, even I don't think that all of those will medal. But with all the boxing and sailing medals still to officially come in, we'll likely get a steady boost from them.

What will likely determine where we end up is probably the track cycling - we're pretty clearly not going to sweep the board as we have done in previous years. But I still think we're in for a reasonable chunk of medals from them - the W Team Pursuit was excellent in their qualifying ride, just beaten by an unreal German performance. Still a solid medal chance. The M Team Pursuit was, sadly, roughly where I expected it to be. It just isn't the powerhouse it was in years gone by. I didn't have them medalling in my predictions and nothing in that first ride makes me doubt that.