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    #51
    Did anyone see the mascot take one in the nads?

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      #52
      Argh. For fuck's sake. Denise Lewis is as thick as mince.

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        #53
        Shame the Botswana people aren't still in the studio for this.

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          #54
          What a mess

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            #55
            Completely going round in circles, now, time to pull the plug.

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              #56
              Shame Pam didn't explode. "What the fuck do you people expect? Would you rather half the fucking athletes dropped out with norovirus? Fuck's sake"

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                #57
                Anyway it saved the embarrassment of having to spend half an hour talking about Team GB's one fucking medal

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                  #58
                  Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
                  What does he mean by government?

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                    #59
                    Originally posted by Mumpo View Post
                    Anyway it saved the embarrassment of having to spend half an hour talking about Team GB's one fucking medal
                    The Olympic superpower is currently level on the medal table with New Zealand, whose team consists of a builder from the South Island chucking a rock.

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                      #60
                      Presumably he means Public Health England, the government agency that is handling the situation.

                      Botswana seem a strong team, even without, ahem, "Badman". Nice to see another African country rising in athletics, outside of the usual mid-long distance specialists. Cote d'Ivoire have a decent female sprinter as well.

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                        #61
                        Originally posted by Gerontophile View Post
                        Did anyone see the mascot take one in the nads?
                        Tens of thousands of people have been willing that to happen every night.

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                          #62
                          Originally posted by tee rex View Post
                          The Olympic superpower is currently level on the medal table with New Zealand, whose team consists of a builder from the South Island chucking a rock.
                          We're not, or haven't been for a long while, a superpower in Athletics though - in either the Olympics or Worlds.

                          I have been wondering how below par this Worlds is looking compared to previous ones. I chose to take 2001 as the starting point as lottery funding of sport started in 1997 so would probably begin to bear fruit around then :

                          2015 4 golds/7 medals overall
                          2013 3/6
                          2011 3/7
                          2009 2/6
                          2007 1/6
                          2005 1/3
                          2003 0/3
                          2001 1/2

                          So, by my slightly bleary calculations, we average 1.875 Golds and 5 medals overall. We may beat the first figure solely due to Farah if he he delivers in the 5000m but look to have little hope on the overall one even if the relay squads over-perform.

                          Clearly that's a disappointing result especially for a home games (though I think the importance of that is over-stated) and a reversal of the trend so far this century but maybe not by the margins people are making out.

                          If you add in the medals from Olympic Athletics from 2000 inclusive we average 2.077 Golds in major global championships and 5.23 medals overall. We up our game a little there but really it just goes to show that we haven't been anything like major players in track & field for a very long time. I'm not sure we've ever been that good, though we're somehow third overall in the all time Olympic Athletics Medal table (just ahead of Finland, interestingly).
                          Last edited by Ray de Galles; 08-08-2017, 23:50.

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                            #63
                            The IAAF have insisted tonight that Makwala visited their medical centre on Monday. Their description has him being diagnosed on symptoms, so his stance of "I've not been tested" would be accurate but also incomplete.

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                              #64
                              Britain's also had lots of 4th/5th finishes that, in another year, could have been bronze (Hawkins, Johnson-Thompson, Muir, Langford). It doesn't feel that much below par. Add in the injury to Greg Rutherford and

                              And, I think it's absolutely standard for all Olympic host countries to peak at, or around, their host year. I was surprised we kept going so well through 2015.

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                                #65
                                Makwala now set to run an individual time trial in an attempt to qualify for the 200m semi-final. No news yet on whether they are making him run it in his underpants.

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                                  #66
                                  Why could they have not put him in lane 1 in one of the semis?

                                  Trying to do 20.53 in these conditions is going to be tough. There's been heavy rain all day.

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                                    #67
                                    20.20

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                                      #68
                                      Would appear that Ms Logan has a thing for French accents

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                                        #69
                                        Is it wrong to want FIFA to fall on his face and make a fool of himself just because of his name?

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                                            #71
                                            There was a Spanish runner called Fifa who briefly hit the front in the 5000m heat.

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                                              #72
                                              Ah, missed that.

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                                                #73
                                                yes! Arguments in the middle of the 5000m

                                                Edit: Oh, he's fallen over now. That's less fun

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                                                  #74
                                                  YAY.

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                                                    #75
                                                    van Niekerk looks completely gassed

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