Tokyo Olympics 2021

Imagine a pat on the back taking them out of medal contention! :S

the danes would have slipped past unnoticed if it wasn't for all that carbon fibre scaffolding sticking out from the back of teams gb's bike

GB expands track cycling breeding program to include Scandinavian donors

outrageous from Germany!

Kristina Vogel had tears in her eyes.

That 200m heat from Erriyon Knighton was seriously impressive. 17 years old, scarily good.

Didn't read the CTT rules about head-down riding.

What a fucking shambles.

Huge ride from Italy. Feel for the Kiwis - what was it, 0.09s?

It’s like he was going for a tailwind Strava KoM

Tanfield was racing. 100% Denmark's fault.

Overreaction from the Dane, sure, but it's the Olympics ffs and he was going full gas so I can understand the insta-rage. I'm guilty of it all the time.

They didn't hit the boards at 65kph though.

LOLd

Danes should have just flown by higher on the track?

Yeah, in hindsight, or in this case, any sight...

Seems crazy that a silver in both women’s Team pursuit and men’s team sprint feels a bit disappointing!

The various teams seem to capitulate in the finals which I don’t think has really happened before. Not quite the well oiled machine we’ve seen before.
Still unbelievably rapid though, can’t be too disappointed with world / Olympic records.

Getting a huge headstart in terms of mega-funding was only going to last so long.

We copied Australia, now everybody copying us

I didn't say otherwise. The hooked bars looked to have brought Evans down, ordinarily she would have had a better chance of staying upright perhaps. Archibald was hitting the deck either way.

I guess it’s a bad culture where the country expects gold, anything less is a failure.

Terrible mentality but I guess when you’ve been winning all the time, you expect this to be the norm.

Reminds me of the article this morning I read about China and how they feel they let their country down by getting sliver. Wasn’t helped by the internet trolls either.

Whatever gets the group going, I guess.

A British swimmer was talking to the Guardian last week about how he attributes their recent success to adopting a gold or nothing mentality. He said previously they applauded anyone qualifying to the finals but they changed the culture to define success as winning, which worked.

I wouldn’t say bad necessarily, though I’m Korean so not getting 100% is a failure.

See Piers Morgan on twitter since the beggining of the Olympics. Has been strong on his stance that 'silver is the first loser' kind of stuff. Obviously the replies to him have gone both ways. He also thinks that nobody has cared about this Olympics and it should have been cancelled.

Fortunately he’s not a sports coach, and if he were, he would probably been in prison for something by now.

Well, there's a very strong argument that it should have been cancelled, as there's a bit of a bug going round, but we're all pretty emotionally invested now.

I’ve heard there’s a vaccine, so it’s fine.

Any sport with shorter events than speed climbing?

speed climbing is sick... how many other variants are there?