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Olympics - does anyone actually care anymore?

Meridio

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Yeah, get absolutely ****ed, how the hell do you lose from 2-0 up with 4 minutes to play? Unbelievable. Obviously the ball moves very quickly in hockey, so a lot can happen in a minute, but two goals with 45 seconds left on the clock? FMD. It's a definite habit of our hockey teams, I think that's about the fifth time the men have been knocked out of a tournament in the last 10 years to a last-minute goal, and the women have done it on a few occasions too.

The women have just started vs Aus; we're 1-0 up after the first quarter but look dodgy as **** at the back. I predict an Australian win with 0.3 seconds left on the clock.
 
Meridio

Meridio

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Well well, what do you know, pretty comfortable 4-2 victory in the end. Probably could have put another goal away too. Either GB or Spain in the semi for us; I'd give GB about a 75% chance of taking that but either way it's a very winnable semi final. GB are in good form but are a clear level below the likes of the Dutch, and in recent years we've beaten them as much as they've beaten us. Just hope we don't have our patented once-a-tournament **** performance.
 
Howe_zat

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Valegro's part owner Carl Hester on BBC One: "He has a brain like a human. You just feel like you press his buttons and he gets on with his job.

"He makes everything look so smooth. Charlotte is amazing – the way she sits on a horse, the way she can communicate with the horse.

"I have never cried watching dressage but I cried today. This horse has done more for the world of dressage and British dressage. If she feels she has achieved all she can I would more be happy to say to her let him go out into a field and enjoy his days.
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Only problem I have with dressage is that the horse doesn't get any medals. Sounds like they do all the blinkin work.

He has a brain like a human. You just feel like you press his buttons and he gets on with his job.
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Also this was funny I when I didn't know it was about a horse. Assumed it was a sprinter
 
flibbertyjibber

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Cavendish is the marmite of the cycling team. Glad we got the medal but had he been thrown out I wouldn't have moaned.

Trott looked very impressive tonight.
 
Bahnz

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Meridio said:
Well well, what do you know, pretty comfortable 4-2 victory in the end. Probably could have put another goal away too. Either GB or Spain in the semi for us; I'd give GB about a 75% chance of taking that but either way it's a very winnable semi final. GB are in good form but are a clear level below the likes of the Dutch, and in recent years we've beaten them as much as they've beaten us. Just hope we don't have our patented once-a-tournament **** performance.
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Yeah it's very pleasing. It would've been very easy for the girls to have let last nights result get in their heads (I heard a report saying they didn't get to sleep until very late because of how stunned they were), but from the sounds of things they produced a professional and composed performance under pressure. Here's hoping that continues in the semi.
 
Burgey

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The ABC website's "Who's our next gold medal chance?" section has proven nothing but a cruel joke. There's usually some random who pops up for us in a field event to secure a silver or bronze but I can't even see that happening.
 
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Burgey said:
The ABC website's "Who's our next gold medal chance?" section has proven nothing but a cruel joke. There's usually some random who pops up for us in a field event to secure a silver or bronze but I can't even see that happening.
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Starceh!!!!

Basketballers should be in with a chances at medals and maybe a sailor but unless someone random comes up, it'll be a dry old week
 
Zinzan

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Burgey said:
The ABC website's "Who's our next gold medal chance?" section has proven nothing but a cruel joke. There's usually some random who pops up for us in a field event to secure a silver or bronze but I can't even see that happening.
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I know she's not quite over yet, but raises a good question, which team has performed further below expectations this games (thus far) , Australia or New Zealand?

Certainly if the various "pre-games medal prediction models" are anything to go by, they've both been wayyy below expectations with most of the models predicting NZ would have their best games ever winning between 7-10 golds and between 17-24 overall medals, while predicting Aust to win between 9-21 golds and between 39-50 overall medals.

Here's Sports Illustrated's model, which predicted across every single event, picking Aust to win 20 golds and NZ 8 Olympic predictions: Picking every medal of Rio 2016 | SI.com & here's a more generic one showing a number of different models. http://www.topendsports.com/events/summer/medal-tally/predicted-2016.htm
 
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Just got around to watching Carrington's heat and semi-final - so good. She looks really strong at the moment and is even starting well now. Hard to beat in the final, surely.
 
Zinzan

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According to that Sports Illustrated link, Carrington was predicted to win both the 200 & 500. Is she still on for both events?
 
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