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That sounds about right to me. Of course, you can turn it round and say that 1 in 5 medallists are ranked outside the top 5. Not all rankings are the...

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This doesn't appear to be a golden era for German sport. Outside of Vetter and one or two others I can't see them getting many athletics medals. Maybe...

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I can only assume they were getting mixed-up with the fact that he is the first British swimmer to successfully defend an Olympic title.

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I think whoever he is, he is doing the world feed as the commentary is the same on Eurosport.

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The US athletics team do seem to going out quite late and many of them are going via a stopover in Hawaii which itself doesn't seem a bad idea.

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To be pedantic he has always been a triathlete who happened to be an excellent runner, but he has done fewer purely running events the last couple of...

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I do think some of these British coaches are just coaching abroad because another country offered them a top job which they decided to take rather than...

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Unusually BBC and Eurosport were using exactly the same commentary for the Taekwondo. I've been flicking around between BBC and Eurosport 1 and 2.

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It is arguable that the gamble will have been considered to have at least partly paid off if we get a medal in the 200....

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It might be that the venue for the judo, which I think was built for the '64 Games, doesn't have anywhere else for these people to be so there are people...

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That was only her second 800 this year. She won the 1500 at the English Schools and was just outside the standard for Tallinn, but maybe 800 is her better...

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Media, coaches and team mates perhaps.

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The coach for the woman who beat Jones is actually formerly part of the British set-up and therefore was ideally placed to know her strengths and wea...

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My gut feeling is that withdrawing from Tokyo might actually slightly increase the chance of him being in Paris in 2024 and running well.

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My gut feeling is that swimming sees more golds won by first-time Olympians than most other sports....

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It's worth pointing out that the GB medal haul at Rio was exceptional as host nations' medal 'bounces' tend not to be sustained at the next Games.

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It was mentioned that one thing that was significant about Naomi Osaka lighting the flame is that she is mixed-race and people who are 'half-Japanese'...

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Yes I can see us returning to a level where we get about 10 golds and about 35 medals in total which is still pretty darned good for a country of our...

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Lopez does seem to fit the very definition of a dark horse worth keeping an eye on. There have been a few examples of men's 800 champs who hadn't run...

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Probably a combo of a few older athletes in decline or retired and Covid making access to tracks difficult for many. Multi-eventers arguably need access...