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I’m utterly in awe of the rowers. I row 5km every morning (on an ERG, obviously, not on a lake…) at 30 strokes per minute, which I increase to 31 or 32 for the last 500 metres. And that hurts quite a lot. This lot are racing in the mid 40 strokes per minute - and today I saw a Dutch crew take...

I can’t believe you are genuinely in favour and supportive of people on our streets with machetes and baseball bats, especially in the current volatile atmosphere. Please dial it back a bit - thanks.

Back in my drinking days, this sounds like an event I’d have medalled in. And I wouldn’t have even needed a horse.

@Triggaaar gave the perfect response just a little further up. It is precisely because this is a serious issue of universal interest that @Bozza and the rest of us have been discussing options for preventing it descending into the usual tribal arguments involving the usual three or four...

Fully support this. I was going to ask for the weekend off but I’m more than happy to turn up for the usual time and a half to do the Thread Bans.

Pheobe Gill :bowdown: 17 years old. This time last year running in English schools championships and now through to the Olympic 800m semi final. What an outstanding talent

Ok. So what do we make of the lavender coloured track? I suppose it looks quite fresh but it’s not great for lane definition. I reckon they would have been better switching it and using the darker colour they have used on the service areas for the track and vice-versa.

Yes, sorry, 23, not 28. Whilst I believe most people watching recognise what is probably going on here, I feel desperately sympathetic for those competing against them.

Well, 28 of them tested positive relatively recently but the IOC accepted their explanation of ‘food contamination’ in a restaurant. Really unlucky how it’s always the Chinese competitors who unwittingly get served dodgy food loaded up with banned performance enhancing substances. I guess with...

Feels like ‘Olympics proper’ now the track athletes are involved. Looking forward to seeing Keeley Hodgkinson go in the first round of the 800m at 6:45pm 🇬🇧

You were asked only very recently (by another Moderator, not me) to refrain from the amateur sleuthing. Yet here we are again. Not only does it derail threads, you don’t have access to the data that would show you are invariably wrong. It’s getting tedious now. Please give it a rest. Thanks.

And Fiona Bruce is using it to sniff cocaine of a stripper’s tits! :angry: Probably.

Were you training to be a vet?

Is the Rachel Reeves who said she wouldn't raise taxes but who's now raising taxes the same Rachel Reeves who published a book in October 2023 (The Women Who Made Modern Economics) that featured over twenty passages simply lifted from other sources, including Wikipedia :facepalm: without...

Are they police officers? They’re not dressed like Essex police officers. I assumed they were security from a nearby amusement arcade or something, but could be wrong.

Now I’m confused. I though that was The Spy Who Loved Me

I don't think you are allowed to 'release' new kits these days. I believe they have to "drop" :rolleyes:

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We'll thank you for not using the toilets if you've wolfed down an Uncle Sams double-chilli burger and 7 pints of Old Peculiar before the game.

Did they need a carpet fitted?