Tokyo Olympics day 5 - Tuesday 3 August

[TrickyFinish71]

What a fantastic final! Incredible run by Hodgkinson !!! All 3 Brits ran brill. What a future we have in women's middle distance.....

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[Occasional Hope]

Jemma was a bit unlucky, Rogers had a hell of a finish.

[SprintRelayFan]

Braz and renaud out so America have at least another silver medal.
just seen mu interviewed, she seems a very composed young lady.
nilsen pb 5.97! Must admit I’d never heard of him.
coppell finishes 7th

[trickstat]

Nilsen is I think only slightly older than Duplantis but has always been a little in his shadow.

For those who remember the '70s I think Nilsen looks a little like one of the Walton boys from the TV series.

[Occasional Hope]

Agree, Mu seems like a very level headed young woman.

[SprintRelayFan]

Thank you TS! Well he’s done well today

[trickstat]

Kelly set that record about six and a half years before Keely was born! She was 2 when Kelly won the double in Athens.

[Occasional Hope]

And that record broke Ann Packer's set in the 1964 Olympics in, yes, Tokyo!

[Occasional Hope]

Coppell finishes 7th, one place ahead of Lavillenie.

[alfie]

Apart from Keely's performance that race overall must be up there with the best ever "non-gold" events for GB : NR (from a nineteen year old !) plus second fourth and seventh all in PBs.

Pity the 4x800 isn't on the programme 😉

[Croadymeister]

Jemma was a bit unlucky, Rogers had a hell of a finish.

Yeah really thought she had done enough for bronze

[alfie]

Yeah I was willing her to hold on that last twenty yards...just needed a dip ! She ran her heart out , can't do more...

[Ursus]

Mondo making 5.97 look like a warm up.

[carterhatch]

I can only echo what others have already said ... A fantastic race by the Brits. Keely Hodgkinson, amazing, silver medal in a national record, and only 19, this sort of thing does not happen in British athletics. Reekie, did all she could, and was so unlucky not to medal, but a PB, and as she said, she will learn. Alex Bell, made the final, on what must have been minimal expectation and last minute call up, ran a PB, and not a penny of funding. Chapeau to all the girls.

[Runny]

British athletics at its best!

[drobbie]

WTF - a one hour coronavirus special on bbc scotland cutting off the olympics

[Occasional Hope]

21.53 for ETH, silver for Mboma.

[jjimbojames]

No doubt WA preparing the paperwork to extend the DSD events as we speak…

Double double for ETH is pretty special. Really wanted SAFP to get a medal. Looks like SMU clearly saving herself - credit to her not just doing a false start to get it done

[Ursus]

Mondo making 6.02 look like a warm up.

[Christy93]

Elaine Thompson-Herah might just be the most biomechanically beautiful sprinter I've ever seen. Perfection. Sad to see SAFP denied a medal.

[trickstat]

Pity the 4x800 isn't on the programme 😉

GB v USA would be a humdinger!

[carterhatch]

infact, wouldn't that be a nice way to end the season, a British line-up (just add Muir) try to break the world record in w 4 x800 ...according to wiki 7:50.17 (run by Soviet Union in 1984 in Moscow - so basically dodgy hahahaha)

[trickstat]

SMU was so far back off the bend she gave up as the first 4 at least were out of reach.

[Occasional Hope]

I wonder if she regrets trying the double? Or is grateful she did because she's still in the 400?

[jjimbojames]

I think the races over 200m will have been good training runs for the 400m, having missed a few proper races lately with the injury