Tokyo Olympics day 9 - Saturday 7 August

[RunUnlimited]

That's Britain's first medal in ANY Olympic middle distance event for a man since Peter Elliot won silver over 1500 m at the Seoul games in 1988, 33 years ago!

[LuckySpikes]

Ha, amazing! A third of a century!

[trickstat]

I'm sure you would have got good odds in 1988 of there being that long a wait.

[jjimbojames]

Kerr is funny - self-aware but you need his self-belief

[treadwater1]

Very competitive athlete, has an air of Andy Murray

[Ursus]

Vadlejch moving up to within a metre of Chopra.

[trickstat]

Vesely lying 3rd in the JT is 38 - oldest medallist in the event?

[Occasional Hope]

Nicola McDermott the only HJer over 1.98 first time. Lasitskene down in 8th at the moment due to three attempts needed at 1.95.

[alfie]

Nicola McDermott the only HJer over 1.98 first time. Lasitskene down in 8th at the moment due to three attempts needed at 1.95.

McDermott was , I thought , the best chance for an Australian gold in Athletics. Hasn't got it yet , of course - but she's giving it a real go...

[trickstat]

Gold for Chopra and (historically) for India.

At 23 there may be more to come.

[LoveSprints1]

Just Wow. How great for Chopra and for India.

[Ursus]

Well done Chopra. Great bounce back from injury.

Only just over 4m between the top 8.

For context, 21 years ago Backley threw 89.85 for silver……

[MysteryBrick]

Yeah, weirdly low levels in both javelins. Suggests the runway is doing something.

[philipo]

Vadlejch moving up to within a metre of Chopra.

Well done first Indian gold in track and field. Poor Vetter.🤭

[Occasional Hope]

Gerashchenko and Lasitskene get 1.98 at the second attempt.

[Occasional Hope]

Mahuchikh over at the third attempt. Cunningham and Levchenko pass.

[SprintRelayFan]

Six left in it but two only have one jump at 2.00

[Occasional Hope]

McDermott clears 2 metres first time.

[SprintRelayFan]

Cunningham and levchenko both out so only four left in it now

[Christy93]

Tough fiirst leg from Pipi, and GBR are gone. No medal here.

[SprintRelayFan]

Yes I’d worried she might be tired. Think that’s the chance of a medal gone

[trickstat]

Pipi is still relatively inexperienced at 400 and probably not well suited to leg 1 in lane 9.