Tokyo Olympics 2021

Great scenes in the high jump with Barshim and Tambieri sharing the gold. Neither had any interest to go into a jump off!

A great 20 minutes for Italy!! Forza!!

Apparently GCN had one in a wind tunnel and they did the tests twice as the numbers were a bit of a surprise.

*high jump

In a good way or a bad way?

pretty neat to win after falling down in the last round of the 1500m run

The wheels fell off the Aussie women’s team pursuit there. What happened @hippy ?

I've been in Hingham with no TV for the last 4 days. No idea what's been happening other than my airbnb host dropping the BMX gold and silver SPOILERs.

Alex Bok & Richard McAinsh of Kú Cycle are not amused because McAinsh patented this fork construction in 2016.

raggedy finish from GB

wow that's a big rip off huh

looks like it, but afaik patents are a very tricky business, so who knows there will be a loophole after all. This article (google translate) says a patent request from Team GB was rejected last March.

I don't know anything about patent law, I guess it depends what exactly is covered. Lotus bike has a 'traditional' bar/stem setup compared to the Kú one that has the bars and stem all integrated into the design.

Apparently GCN had one in a wind tunnel and they did the tests twice as the numbers were a bit of a surprise.

With a rider on?

positive or negative surprise... ?

Hinted very positive but their film comes out after Olympics on GCN+ channel I think.

Ganna doing his thing. Great to see he prioritised the track over the road.

The Dutch company will not be going to court (they implied), they just want recognition for the invention/design. The patent is not valid in Japan, they only applied in western countries, as you have to apply per country) and I'm also not sure about the revenue that Hope/Lotus makes out of this bike. And they don't want to be sued by Hope/Lotus in the future of course.

Denmark proper team effort 🙌

Strange taping up the Danish riders shins

That’s some scary stuff with the Aussie team handlebars snapping that at speed…

ooft, aussie bike just collapsed. sore one

They were fortunate he was in last position.

Looks like he did a nose ride on the timber

Yeah - that's going to hurt later.