Inseine...Para-Oly commentary with spoilers

Breaking was woeful, definitely not worth a watch

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KJT 800m in 5 mins

She needs 8 plus seconds on Thiam for

:1st_place_medal:

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is that possible? seems like a big difference

ah ok 6 seconds difference in PB. seems like a big ask :crossed_fingers:t2:

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Probably not, I think their gap is at best 5-6 secs but anything can happen :crossed_fingers:t2:

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aaah that was close

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:face_exhaling:

Another 2 secs and she’d have done it

Ran a PB… a silver - that’ll keep the lottery money coming for another 4 yrs

Maybe Thiam will have retired by then… 3 Olympic golds :hushed:

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right now GB 4th in medal table

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Quote of the day from Michael Johnson “the last time USA men won the 4x100 I was still competing.”

It might be the only men’s track event they don’t get a medal in.

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Men’s climbing was great today. :+1:

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a real standout performance of the games…

it’s a shame the Beeb didn’t mention the other brit until about 10 mins after…

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Neck and neck with les frogs

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a bronze ahead…

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Yeah saw another brit doing the celebration lap at end … was like, ‘there was another one?!…’

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That Hincliffe was absolutely flying - what happened to him in the 100m qualifiers?…

… almost tripped. That was realistically the only opportunity. KJT should have stuffed more in the brown envelope

:email:

Hassan just chilling at the back of the pack in the 10,000m - I mean she may as well, she’s only got the marathon in a couple of days :astonished::laughing:

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FIFA offer training sessions on that…

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Lord Coe knows all about that already

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… the ignominy of being lapped by a slow race

See there’s an angry Brit steeplechaser who missed out on selection by 0.15 secs or something. He’s calling UK athletics out as being a bunch of suits

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Awful ugly race that

That was emotional seeing the last Brit roll home… she looked absolutely spent. Others dropped out by she stuck it to the end

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Is Iwan wearing some of Tom’s knitwear?

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