Oooh, love this French Sevens change kit.
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The excitable colour man on the Sevens has suddenly been replaced by a female voice for the Women's final but there is a weird automated quality to it. It's as if it's the same guy tapping brief comments in to his phone and pressing 'Speak'.
12-5 to NZ and almost half time.
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New Zealand win 26-12.
So many fantastic stories in this Women's Sevens ; an All Blacks side finally getting Olympic Gold, France's phenomenal success after only qualifying weeks ago through a repechage and Fiji's wonderful progress.
Really going to miss the sport for the rest of the Games.
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Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View PostPleased for Fiji's women but that's another 4th place at the games for Team GB. What is that now, about eight such finishes?
They are also stymied in general by the fact they are four separate Sevens nations jammed together every four years or so.
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I'm sure I'm late to asking this question - but how loaded is the baseball tournament? I assume that the US team doesn't have any of the big name MLB players, given that they're playing in the MLB right now. Have the Japanese and Korean leagues gone on break for this so the top players from those leagues are available, or are all the teams short of the big stars?
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We recently mentioned Pietro Mennea. Marcell Jacobs (Italy) is now 0.07 secs ahead of him in 100m, having run 9.94 today, but that's over a span of 42 years. These were Italy's all-times before today:
https://www.worldathletics.org/recor...Day=2021-07-30
This is the European progression:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27...rd_progressionLast edited by Satchmo Distel; 31-07-2021, 11:18.
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De Grasse lays down a 9.91. Nigerian seems very unlucky to have been disqualified.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 31-07-2021, 11:42.
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Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View Post
The BBC interview where she announced this wasn't easy watching, they should really have cut it short.
Tore the hamstring three or four weeks ago and was a major doubt to appear at the Games at all, it appears.
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Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostGB has got all 3 of its entrants into the women's 800m final. Impressive (and I think one was a reserve).
I have to qualify that by saying I haven't managed to get to an athletics meeting for over two years for obvious reasons and, as I've previously complained about, the BBC have buried their coverage of it outside major championships in recent years.
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