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You reckon? We won 29 Golds in 2012. France have 11 now, so it'll be quite an acheivement for them to match that especially as their medal machine has finished his games now.

Sarmiento may play in a similar position but is nowhere near the player that Enciso is.

There have been some proper dodgy performances over the years, and defeated athletes are generally very gracious. Remember Flo Jo in 1988? Went from never previously medalling in a major 100m to absolutely smashing the Olympics in 1988 with a 100m WR that still stands today, when she was 28...

Was this a joke? I cannot imagine the Olympics where the athletics kicks it off. I love track and field, but not delaying it until day 7, as is tradition, will just put all the minority sports in the shade.

Yes, the lottery starting in 1994 was a game changer. Atlanta was a bit too soon, but we started to see it from Sydney onwards. Got to credit the management and targetting of lottery funding as well. It could easily have gone into a black hole but it does seem to have been spent in all the...

Remember Atlanta when we only won 1?

I enjoyed watching that earlier. Whenever there's gymnastics on and it gets a bit exciting, especially if it's a potential GB medal, I can't help but think that the BBC commentator's voice sounds like he compering at a northern working-mens club on a Friday night - Jerry St Clair style.

Let’s not give credit where it isn’t due. His conviction had nothing to do with the Sun, did it?

Same issue as Caster Semenya, isn’t it? If she’s not allowed to compete in women’s sport, then where should she compete??

Not sure it’s been mentioned and is from a couple of days ago, but I really enjoyed seeing that Irish guy win in the pool the other night and with such a tight finish for a long-distance event. The most endearing thing was that once he’d covered up his Greek-God like body with his tracky and...

It’ll probably be forwarded to you on a WhatsApp group, but unknown to you it’ll actually be dubbed over the sound of that woman making really loud sex noises and/or suddenly have a shot of that bloke in the hat with the infeasibly long penis.

I was wondering this. Did he maybe think his identity wasn’t revealed to the blokes he was getting the pics off of?

Isn’t the derivation of the British 2-fingered salute from archery when England and France were at war a lot? Something to do with one side cutting the 2 fingers off the other so that they could no longer shoot an arrow.

But haven’t we got a load of potential golds coming in the rowing towards the end of the week? Also, when does the velodrome start? Or are we not quite as dominant as we have been in previous Olympics?

Wasn’t able to watch but I see we’ve lost another boxing bout on a 3-2 split 🙄 Any controversy with this one?

Fair to say that they’re a reasonably attractive couple. And bloody talented.

Beaugrand of France has definitely gone into my would list this morning 🤤

More or less, but there is a factor that a tough 40K on the bike can take a lot out of the legs of the weaker cyclists just trying to keep pace with the pack.

I would not fancy cycling in those high cut tri-suits. Imagine skidding across the tarmac without even a layer of Lycra to protect you 😬

Japan was as much a PR exercise as anything and the only player who was definitely going to go, if fit, was Mitoma. I wouldn't read too much into any other player staying behind for a bit of extra treatment.