Swings and roundabouts though…….she was miles better than expected in the shot, Thiam was crap (for her) in the high jump etc etc.
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[Other Sport] Paris 2024 Olympics & Paralympics ***Official Match Thread***
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Dave the OAP
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Did the lady boxer from Bolton,( but because the home office wouldn’t give her a passport, even though she has been here since she was 11 ) who boxes for the non aligned team, get a medal. She was a beast when I saw her the other night
KZNSeagull
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Bronze
Olympic boxing: Cindy Ngamba beaten in semi-final but takes historic first refugee team medal
Cindy Ngamba is beaten in her boxing semi-final but will still return from Paris 2024 with a historic bronze medal - the first by an athlete from the Refugee Olympic Team.
www.bbc.co.uk
Dave the OAP
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Nice one
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Georgia Bell - Bronze. 
Storming finish by her to get on the podium.
Storming finish by her to get on the podium.
Fantastic run from Bell, and so nearly silver too!
Pavilionaire
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Bell with a GB record-reaking run, superb from her but to my untrained eye it looks like Laura Muir got her tactics all wrong there.
But Kipyegon - 3 Olympic golds in a row, that is incredible.
But Kipyegon - 3 Olympic golds in a row, that is incredible.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
She ran a PB!
Pavilionaire
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Indeed. Yet never in contention for a medal, near the back for the first 1000 metres, left herself to much to do. All about Kipyegon, that was the performance of a true champion.
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To my equally untrained eye, I thought she did well to run her own pace and get close towards the end. Sometimes there are people who are just too fast for you.
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I think you're right, she said so in her interview, she had to run her own race. That was an insanely fast start, not sure Muir could've gone with that with the injuries she's had in the last couple of seasons.
But then fair play to Georgia Bell, did go with it and had enough in the tank to take Bronze. Was a mad race
Men's High Jump goes to a jump-off after the Yank and Kiwi decline the offer to share Gold.
Quite a story behind Bell…..
From the BBC
Bell was once a hugely talented junior athlete, winning the English Schools 800m in 2008, but mentally and physically she was unable to sustain that promise.
It was only during the pandemic that she rediscovered her enjoyment of running and, noticing continuous improvement, she chose to get back in contact with former coach Trevor Painter - the man who, alongside wife and world 800m medallist Jenny Meadows, has overseen Keely Hodgkinson's rise to Olympic 800m champion.
The progress she had made since, despite holding down a full-time job in cyber security, has been remarkable.
Bell beat Muir to the British title in June to secure her Olympic debut, having taken a summer sabbatical from work to pursue a dream that seemed unlikely even at the start of the year.
And in Paris, in her first final at a global championship, she completed a fairytale journey to the Olympic podium.
From the BBC
Bell was once a hugely talented junior athlete, winning the English Schools 800m in 2008, but mentally and physically she was unable to sustain that promise.
It was only during the pandemic that she rediscovered her enjoyment of running and, noticing continuous improvement, she chose to get back in contact with former coach Trevor Painter - the man who, alongside wife and world 800m medallist Jenny Meadows, has overseen Keely Hodgkinson's rise to Olympic 800m champion.
The progress she had made since, despite holding down a full-time job in cyber security, has been remarkable.
Bell beat Muir to the British title in June to secure her Olympic debut, having taken a summer sabbatical from work to pursue a dream that seemed unlikely even at the start of the year.
And in Paris, in her first final at a global championship, she completed a fairytale journey to the Olympic podium.
WTF? Why would they do that - sharing still means you get gold!
That would be my view too - it happened in Tokyo and the two athletes that time agreed to share.
Pavilionaire
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Bar now lower than the height both men cleared 20 mins ago. What a surreal end to the competition.
Do we know which one declined (or was it definitely both?)
Not sure.