Tokyo 2020 - Day 14 (Fri 6th August)

[Indie]

Earliest start ever.

They've been doing the 50k walk for an hour now. Such a stupid sport.

 

[Madíson]

It’s also the one men’s athletics event that doesn’t have a women equivalent.

(Also the longest distance athletics event - a good pub quiz chestnut).

 

[Madíson]

 

[Indie]

Ooh there's also live golf. All the thrills.

 

[Madíson]

Oh wonderful - it’s the @Madison at 09:15AM.

 

[Indie]

When's the Indie?

 

[Madíson]

Discontinued in 1908.

 

[win_the_game]

Race walking is not really a spectator sport.

 

[Ellie]

I feel for the poor people roped in to commentate on this

 

[rhythmbandit]

Not the best of starts for Tom in the diving.

 

[Madíson]

Daley doing better. I’d forgotten just how many failures there are in preliminaries.

 

[Madíson]

Dutch are down in the @Madison - must be good news.

 

[Ill Advised]

This has been stellar from GB so far. Surely can only be gold now??

 

[Madíson]

@Madison GOLD

 

[Ellie]

Wow, look at Laura Kenny go for that final sprint!

 

[FetchFugly]

I obviously know nothing about this event but that looked ridiculously good.

 

[Ellie]

Team GB in general outside of swimming/diving has really all been about the women so far.

 

[Ill Advised]

Stunningly good GOLD!!

 

[Ill Advised]

Back up to 4th in the medal table too?

 

[Indie]

Laura now confirmed as the best Kenny in Tokyo.

 

[Madíson]

We move from 6th to 4th on the medal table, leapfrogging Australia and ROC.

 

[Indie]

I've got the medal ceremony music stuck in my head, despite not having heard it for about 5 days. ARGH

 

[Penelope]

The team GB women's hockey have Euphoria as the song that plays when they score a goal

 

[Madíson]

This German pentathlete is utterly distraught. Record breaking lead, but then she lost the horse lottery completely. Stupid sport.

 

[Madíson]

This poor woman

 

[rhythmbandit]

This poor woman

I felt more sorry for the horse she was repeatedly beating.

 

[dmlaw]

I suspect we won't see that horse in the Men's event. But, on the plus side, all of the competitors will have ample supplies of glue.

 

[Madíson]

The horse to join Madsen in the cunt of the Olympics contest.

 

[BoysForSeles]

The horse just didn’t make a connection with its rider and didn’t trust in her, though he’s got some form apparently.It’s odd they get allocated horses. I thought the reign yanking and whipping was a bit much.

 

[Madíson]

Any idea how long this run is? 3.2km?

 

[Madíson]

Last lap

 

[Ellie]

How exactly do you get into the modern pentathlon? Are there clubs?

 

[Madíson]

And it’s Swimming/Swordy/Horse-lottery/Laser-tag/Running GOLD!

 

[Madíson]

How exactly do you get into the modern pentathlon? Are there clubs?

It’s hereditary like the House of Lords.

 

[dmlaw]

How exactly do you get into the modern pentathlon? Are there clubs?

There are clubs, although they mostly seem to be based at public schools, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and Sandhurst.

 

[dmlaw]

So, what Madison said.

 

[Madíson]

Must resist posting about Nick Hope in the thirst thread.

 

[Penelope]

That's two golds Australia/the Russian Olympic Committee need to get to overtake us now, right?

 

[ButterTart]

That's two golds Australia/the Russian Olympic Committee need to get to overtake us now, right?

Keep finding myself shocked at the harsh punishment doled out to the cheating Russians. The horror of being allowed to compete but only if they add two extra words to their name.

 

[Madíson]

Keep finding myself shocked at the harsh punishment doled out to the cheating Russians. The horror of being allowed to compete but only if they add two extra words to their name.

They were punished in a few individual sports too: e.g. only ten ROC athletes allowed in the Athletics and only two weightlifters.