Rio 2016 Summer Olympics Discussion Thread

[Jack_]

:sad:

[Macie Lightfoot]

women's gymnastics time

[Macie Lightfoot]

15.1 Laurie, 15.833 Aly, 15.933 Simone on vault

[Macie Lightfoot]

GB's in third after first rotation why does nobody care

[Novo]

Konta!!!!!

[Macie Lightfoot]

oops Ellie Downie just fell on beam

[Headie]

Omg this Brazilian gal doing a floor routine to Crazy in Love <333

[Pete.]

The Diving pool colour is a bit questionable :suspect:

[Macie Lightfoot]

Uneven bars... 14.8 for Simone, 15.766 Gabby, 15.933 (!!!) Madison

[Braden]

Omg this Brazilian gal doing a floor routine to Crazy in Love <333

That was a cool routine. Shame about the fault at the end.

[Macie Lightfoot]

I love how we went from "oh wow poor Rebeca Andrade was mistakenly given Crazy In Love instead of her floor music" to "oh wait no that actually is her floor music" :love:

[James]

The Diving pool colour is a bit questionable :suspect:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpcSo7HWcAQDwWI.jpg

:unsure:

[Black Dagger]

GB's in third after first rotation why does nobody care

Because we know we're unlikely to stay there :joker:

[Macie Lightfoot]

yeah you guys are in sixth now

[Jack_]

The sky looks beautiful at this rugby match

[Shaun]

the last Brazilian floor routine <3

[Macie Lightfoot]

15.0 on beam for Aly, 15.233 Laurie, 15.3 Simone

[Black Dagger]

Rugby 7's has been a great watch. Definitely warranted being added to the programme.

Will we say the same for ****ing speed climbing in 2020.

[Macie Lightfoot]

I don't understand rugby but it's interesting to watch

[Shaun]

Our floor routines look so basic compared to the others' :/

[Macie Lightfoot]

Ellie Downie's first tumbling pass looks a lot better when she doesn't fall on her head at the end of it

[Braden]

I remember one of the American gymnasts did her floor routine to Wild Dances by Ruslana during London 2012 :love: I think her name was Jordan something.

[Macie Lightfoot]

Jordyn Wieber!

[Braden]

That's her^ :p

[Macie Lightfoot]

eek at that Chinese girl not only siding out of bounds but sliding off of the floor entirely :eek: not that I'm a gymnastics expert but I've never seen anything quite like that before

[Macie Lightfoot]

14.833 for Laurie :love:

[Shaun]

I presume we're down in about 7th after all of this

[Macie Lightfoot]

15.366 for Aly!!!!

[Macie Lightfoot]

alol Simone needs a 7.6 for USA to win

[Macie Lightfoot]

15.8 for Simone!!!!!! I love this team so much :love:

[Denver]

im over Pathetic GB

[Pete.]

Legend Simone

[EspeonBB]

US women gymnastics team :clap1:

[Denver]

Yet another 4th place we will be lucky to get a qaurter of Londons medal haul

[Shaun]

Does Claudia have much of a chance in the individual events? Or the sisters idk

[Novo]

Thank God you weren't around for Atlanta 96, you would have committed suicide by now

[Black Dagger]

Literally everybody gets less medals then they would a home games.

And the diving and Gymnastics were never really supposed to be challenging for medals anyway.

Start whining if the Brownlees and Laura Trott flop x

[Drew.]

Thank God you weren't around for Atlanta 96, you would have committed suicide by now

:joker:

[Black Dagger]

Does Claudia have much of a chance in the individual events? Or the sisters idk

Nah.

I think Beckie is the only one in an individual finals and even then she only just qualified for it?

Whitlock in the All Round and Pommelhorse, Smith in the Pommel and Wilson on the Bars look like our most likely chance of medals.

[Macie Lightfoot]

the medal ceremony is giving me chills :love: I love how the crowd was chanting Aly's name after her floor routine omfg

[Novo]

I will start preparing the noose when Froome flops in the time trail

[Shaun]

Poured out a nice trail of painkillers for myself to OD on when Mo ends up tripping over himself after 4000m.

[Novo]

If Jo Konta wins any kind of medal that Is the equivalent of 25 Golds

[Novo]

So Jamie Murray/Konta have a place in mixed doubles and Andy and Heather Watson need 2 withdrawals to enter

[Black Dagger]

Hopefully they both get in :clap1:

[Novo]

Serena 4-6 2-3 down to Svitolina at the minute, another upset on the cards

[Pete.]

BYE

[Black Dagger]

Konta is coming for that medal.

[EspeonBB]

Cancel the tennis tournament

[Novo]

Serena with 5 double faults in 1 game, unreal scenes

[Ross.]

Serena gurl

[Novo]

BREAKING NEWS - @nickdempsey1 awarded redress for RSX race 6. He will be given average points from his first 9 races #sailing #sailforgold

We are getting Gold Medals handed to us now, thank God the officials have stepped in and gave us a helping hand

[Novo]

Drew will be hailing this the greatest olympics ever when he sees what Svitolina is doing

[Ross.]

This is intense :worry:

[Ross.]

Serena out

[Black Dagger]

Them being generous with Nick bc they know he's going to be our only other gold of the games bc we're such flops :amazed:

[Black Dagger]

It was already the greatest games though when Del Po won.

[Headie]

Welp Serena </3

[Novo]

Konta v Kerber
Keys v Kasatkina
Siegemund v Puig
Kvitova v Svitolina


Do we dare to dream

[Black Dagger]

Yeah. Kerber will destroy her. This court is too ****ing slow for Konta.

[EspeonBB]

I'm shocked Kvitova is still in

[Novo]

She did play Caro in an earlier round and thats almost like a bye these days

[Shaun]

Drew will be hailing this the greatest olympics ever when he sees what Svitolina is doing

Pretending he hasn't spent the past year looking for an excuse to delete his Twitter fan account

[Novo]

:joker:

[Black Dagger]

He unfollowed me on that ****ty account.

[Jack_]

And now handball gets its BBC1 promo :clap1:

[Jack_]

Mess the Swedes call a timeout and the commentator declares 'let's listen in' as if any of us are gonna understand :joker:

[Shaun]

That was quite exciting actually, well done Egypt :clap2:

[Pete.]

Serena

http://i42.tinypic.com/23wqkhv.jpg

[Pete.]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpV9RpJWcAAb4b8.jpg

[Braden]

Team GB had less medals during London 2012 at this stage...I remember us starting quite slow, there's hope for us yet.

Do The Olympic Games follow the same schedule each time?

[Black Dagger]

Pretty much. This is the day we got our first gold last time.

We will be alright when the Athletics have their first couple of days and the track cycling begins.

[Novo]

Rutherford to finally flop at a big event
Brienne to destroy KJT and Jess
Mo to get run out Into 4th in 5000 and 10000

[Novo]

Was gonna say these times are ridiculously slow compared to 2012 but just seen the course is 6 miles longer

[James]

.....Team GB's medal target is a minimum of 48 to make it their best overseas Olympics. UK Sport said the best medal tally it could hope for was 79.

GB finished with 65 medals at London 2012 - a best ever total.

Gracenote Sport's Virtual Medal Table predicted 56 medals for Britain ahead of the Games - with 18 golds, 16 silvers and 22 bronzes putting them in third place.

Their projections also suggested GB should have won 13 medals by the start of day five.

Head of analysis Simon Gleave said: "There is a shortfall of seven medals. These will have to be made up somewhere if GB is going to get anywhere near that total of 56.

Gleave acknowledged that GB got off to a slow start at London 2012, but added that they then claimed five medals including two golds on day five, and three more golds on 'Super Saturday'.

"Obviously we get some medals wrong but generally most right," said Gleave. "The only other country which is currently underperforming what we predicted by more than two medals is Mongolia - who have one instead of our predicted four at this stage.".....


From http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37035068

Here's the Viirtual Medal Table - http://sportsdemo1.gracenote.com/documentation/vmt/

[Headie]

From http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37035068

Here's the Viirtual Medal Table - http://sportsdemo1.gracenote.com/documentation/vmt/

Well no wonder they're not reaching their target, some of the predictions are absolutely ridiculous.

There's no way Tiff Porter will get anywhere near the medals in the 100m hurdles, so not sure why she was predicted silver. Greg is not as clear favourite to win Gold as usual so I'm expecting him to get a bronze or something. Jess will probably beat BTE to Gold so not sure why she's predicted silver. Men's 4x100m most likely won't get bronze. Eilidh Doyle has a chance at the bronze predicted but she needs to sort her run up out. KJT nowhere to be seen on there yet I'd say she most likely will medal.

[Novo]

Tiffany Porter predicted for silver :joker:

[Black Dagger]

We've already ballsed up on half those predictions. We will get about 36 medals imo

[Denver]

yay another bronze

[Shaun]

Clarke!!!!!!!!! :clap1:

[Jack_]

yaaaasss

Now FLOP plz

[Denver]

starting to pull in medals now

[Denver]

yesss at least silver

[Shaun]

YAAAAAAAAS silver at least <3

[Jack_]

We just cheered when he hit the pole :joker:

[Jack_]

please please please :fc:

[Denver]

yesssssssssssss

[Shaun]

GOLD!!!!!!!!! :amazed:

[Jack_]

HDHFUFIDIYWAAAASDOmg

[Pete.]

Come THROUGH :clap1:

[Denver]

feels weird us winning gold

[EspeonBB]

Yay another gold :clap1:

[Jack_]

I love this sport :love:

[Shaun]

erm at them having a framed picture of themselves together overlooking some scenery

more diving gays? :think:

[Headie]

Well done Joe Clarke :clap1:

[Headie]

That was a ~shock~ wasn't it? As in people who follow the sport wouldn't have expected it

[GiRTh]

Good to see Beth Tweddle back on BBC4 after the bad injury she had on the jump.

[Shaun]

I predict a bronze for Chris/Jack :think:

[Jack_]

That was a ~shock~ wasn't it? As in people who follow the sport wouldn't have expected it

Yeah he qualified in third in the semis but was definitely an outsider to medal

[Braden]

:amazed:

[EspeonBB]

Lmao the diving pool is still green

[Jack_]

^ it's vile, does anyone know the reason yet?

[Shaun]

Come on Conway!!!!!!!! Cripple that Colombian bitch!!!!

[Shaun]

smh Sally should just win on judges decision, forget this golden score nonsense

[Shaun]

:(

[Denver]

stupid bitch

[Headie]

stupid bitch

Mess

[Denver]

deport the ****ing Colombian bitch

[Pete.]

^ it's vile, does anyone know the reason yet?
Algae forming apparently :shame:

Rumour that it could be to lessen the sun's reflection

[Pete.]

deport the ****ing Colombian bitch
Adam chill

[Shaun]

make the pool pink imo

[Denver]

Adam chill

i cant take another 4th place

[Shaun]

Never seen a dive that bad on here before :worry:

Poor guy :/

[T*]

why do they keep putting the olympics graphics over the bulges :sad:
Stop this homophobia bbc

[T*]

deport the ****ing Colombian bitch

why would she need deporting...?

[Denver]

Not Tom only watching for Dique

[Denver]

why would she need deporting...?

So GB can claim their rightful Gold ****ing medal

[Headie]

why would she need deporting...?

Because she's a colombian bitch, god Tom have you not been watching???

[EspeonBB]

The 'Colombian bitch' is a three time world champion lol. Sally did well against her and still has a chance to snatch a bronze

[Denver]

The 'Colombian bitch' is a three time world champion lol. Sally did well against her and still has a chance to snatch a bronze

Sally should have beat her fact

[EspeonBB]

Hoping Max Whitlock can get a medal in the gymnastics all around, he's in the lead now but he did his best apparatus (pommel horse) first

[Shaun]

the albino Russian is scaring me

[T*]

i'd like him to try and call her a columbian bitch to her face and see what happens to his bones...

[T*]

the albino Russian is scaring me

shEILD HIM FROM THE SUN

[T*]

This is the first time this year i've sat and watched the olympics properly- i missed the ceremony and everything :(

[Shaun]

Yay we're in the lead <3

[Pete.]

Come through divers

http://i.imgur.com/BoiFvex.gif

[Shaun]

poor Germany </3 that looked great

Oh well here for us getting rigged the win

[EspeonBB]

The green pool is so distracting

Also it looks greener than yesterday

[Shaun]

welp

looks like we're already guaranteed a medal so long as chris doesn't decide to belly-flop one round

[Denver]

How many rounds is diving?

[Shaun]

^ Six rounds (this is the 4th)

[Denver]

aww thats good i thought it was 10

[T*]

would it not be more beneficial if they dived naked @IOC

[Shaun]

Jesus. We're nailing it.

[T*]

The green pool is so distracting

Also it looks greener than yesterday

it's not this green lmao
https://i.redd.it/tqjfkxt0kgex.jpg

[T*]

don;t know much about diving but they're being cheered so :clap1:

[Denver]

i hope we win gold

[T*]

Come on girl :clap1:

[Shaun]

Basically we've left the trickiest two dives (the highest scores if we do at least "alright" at it - 8.0s+) to the end and some of the others (Russia, USA) have already done one of them and we're still beating them :think:

I think USA might just pip us to gold but we should be in with a strong chance.

[Denver]

Come on Sally

[Shaun]

She wins the Bronze

[Denver]

oh yay she is forgiven

[Shaun]

:clap1: nice one Sally pal

[T*]

YAAAS GIRL <3

[Headie]

Yass Sally :clap1:

[EspeonBB]

Slay hun :clap1:

[Shaun]

Ooop maybe an American mistake too :fc:

(I feel bad hoping for this but oh well)

[Denver]

come on lads

[Shaun]

I thought that looked quite bad (how far apart they were) but apparently it's good :joker:

[Jack_]

Leon Taylor's excitement is my fave

[Shaun]

Just need China to be a little bit awry and we may well do it :amazed:

[Shaun]

Damnit. China :clap1: 90.30. Still second though :flutter: We just need to beat them by 3.

[T*]

no but really if they were naked would their dicks get whiplash or somethin

[Denver]

GB needs to put out a final stellar dive

[Shaun]

come on Chris & Jack!!!!

[Braden]

Get the gold :love:

[Firewire]

Jack's speedos literally will burst open

[T*]

Jack's speedos literally will burst open

:fc:

[EspeonBB]

Max Whitlock in 2nd rn! (and is only like 0.6 behind 1st)

[Shaun]

Welp the dramz

[Shaun]

Bit unfair :/

[Denver]

What a farce

[T*]

me @ the divers https://67.media.tumblr.com/5ef13617de670ea4472e77e20b9c790c/tumblr_inline_oa8dh5uhru1rst3xj_500.gif

[Pete.]

This drama > Anything Bear has manufactured

(Yes I have switched over)

[Braden]

Oh my.

[Firewire]

Scared for Jack and Chris

[Shaun]

Daaaamn.

[Jack_]

Max Whitlock in 2nd rn! (and is only like 0.6 behind 1st)

How much left to go? I don't like to join until it's near the end cause it bores me a little

[Headie]

Watching this is far more exciting than CBB :clap1:

[Shaun]

86 to win... that's doable :worry:

[Shaun]

:fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc: :fc:

[Denver]

nail it please

[Shaun]

omg :worry:

[Denver]

yesss

[Firewire]

Omg

[Denver]

should go top

[Shaun]

YAAAAAAAAAAAS

[Headie]

Silver confirmed?

[Shaun]

Just need China to get under 94 for us to get gold

[Jack_]

This is too tense for me

[Denver]

China to break a leg? :fc:

[Pete.]

The diving seems less long winded in Rio?

[Shaun]

omg if we win by like 2pts <3

[EspeonBB]

Cah the drama

[Shaun]

omg :omgno:

[Headie]

Oop we've snatched Gold?

[Firewire]

Omg they floppee

[Denver]

Yaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssssssssss

[Headie]

YASSSS :amazed:

[EspeonBB]

We've won?

[Shaun]

oh my giddy vagina

[Firewire]

KINGS OF DIVING

Tom who

[T*]

YES :love:

[Pete.]

Talent won ✓✓

[Denver]

We made history

[T*]

KINGS OF DIVING

Tom who

wait wha


oh you mean daley

[Headie]

Not us coming through on Day 5 again :clap1:

[Jack_]

OH. MY. GOD.

How?!?!?! How were the Chinese beat?!?!

[EspeonBB]

Britain's Ray of Light era has begun?

[Jack_]

Two underdog victories in one day :clap1:

[Braden]

Fantastic :love:

[T*]

the brazillian bulges :omgno:

[Wizard.]

Yesss! Been watching this in anticipation. Well done boys. But will it get press coverage cause the beloved Tom Daley didn't win?

[Headie]

Not ha begging for a redive

[Firewire]

Wow I didn't just shout "drop your towels" at the screen

[Denver]

Not ha begging for a redive

Id understand if they could medal but they wouldnt

[Wizard.]

The Mexican coach running after the judges I'm screaming

[Shaun]

I think this'll have to be our equivalent of Super Saturday if Max manages to secure his medal later

[EspeonBB]

Halfway through gymnastics and Max is second :clap1:

[Firewire]

Hope Max gets a medal

[Shaun]

I presume the guy in the lead is that Japanese guy that's been winning everything since 2008?

[EspeonBB]

I presume the guy in the lead is that Japanese guy that's been winning everything since 2008?

No he's in third surprisingly. Some Ukrainian guy is first

[Shaun]

Oh... that vault was amazing tbf.

[Denver]

Japan getting another unlikely victory in Rugby 7s :clap:1:

[Novo]

I go out for a few hours and it all happens

[Shaun]

would be nice if they would keep some form of scoreboard on display to the viewers... even Matt/Christine/Otherone don't really bother to keep us informed outside of gasping and going "OH MY WORD" every so often.

[EspeonBB]

Max is in 2nd right now (although he'll be third once Uchimura goes) but 4th and 5th aren't that far behind him :worry:

[Shaun]

:( @ how far ahead Uchimura & Venaiyev are

[Novo]

GB and Argentina match just ended 0-0 in Rugby 7s, sudden death now

[Novo]

And Argentina missed a last ditch drop goal

[Jack_]

It's all going on today bloody hell

[Novo]

Yessssssssss

[Jack_]

YESSSSS!!!!!!

[Shaun]

The vibration/something else from inside the arena is making the sound ****ing unbearable :inamood: (gymnastics)

[Shaun]

One Chinese guy down :worry: think the other one or Belyavskiy will dethrone him though.

[EspeonBB]

Hopefully Max has done enough for bronze :fc:

[Novo]

Some of these reactions after the Rugby 7s are classy from the players, puts football to shame really

[Shaun]

Just the Russian left :worry:

[Shaun]

smh. That'll beat Max.

[Shaun]

YESSSSSSSSS

[Denver]

yassss

[EspeonBB]

Max (basically) confirms bronze :clap1:

[Ross.]

Max :clap1:

[Novo]

Adam isn't happy Max didn't win Gold

[Denver]

Adam isn't happy Max didn't win Gold

im happy he medalled had he come 4th id have slapped him

[Shaun]

Nile managed to go up from 14th to 8th in the last two rounds as well :clap1:

[Novo]

Patrick Huston fires himself into the second round in the men's individual archery with an impressive victory against 2015 world silver medallist Rick Van Der Ven of the Netherlands.

Get us an Archery Gold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Novo]

It's all over for Patrick Huston in the men's individual archery as he is beaten 6-0 by South Korea's Bonchan Ku.

Never mind

[Black Dagger]

What a ****ing day.

You know a couple of what if performances, what if Sarah took one of the 3 chances to make the final, or what if Scott performed like he did in the bronze in the semis.

But when you get diving gold medals you're never expected to get :love:

[Novo]

Would love us to win a team event, The Womens Hockey team always seems to get Silver or Bronze at the Worlds and Olympics in recent years so a Gold there would be great, and Mens Rugby 7s Fiji haven't looked amazing in their matches today against USA and NZ so if we beat South Africa and face them in the final you never know

[Headie]

Honestly just can't wait til Athletics begin on Friday.... really excited for the Heptathlon as I think that's gonna be the event of the games for me, so many possible winners and as we saw in Beijing last year it only takes one mistake to lose a medal.

I love Jess but I really hope Kat takes it tbh, she seems to have had such bad luck recently but I feel she's coming into form nicely now :clap1: Hopefully BTE buckles under the pressure again like she did in Beijing.

[Jack_]

Well Michael Jamieson is looking good these days isn't he

[Jack_]

I would love Kat to claim the gold, I really felt for her last year and she's so lovely :love: and hot too

[Novo]

Love how Ashton just wins everything and Brianne has never actually won a big Heptathlon title

[Novo]

The scenes tonight if Brazil go out in the group stage and fail to beat Denmark

[Headie]

Love how Ashton just wins everything and Brianne has never actually won a big Heptathlon title

She won Commonwealth 2014 and World Indoors this year, but other than that she always seems to peak early at Gotzis then fade when it comes to the World Champs/Olympics

[Novo]

World indoors was a Pentathlon and Commonwealths as far as the Heptathlon was concerned was a poor line up, 3 English girls that weren't KJT or Jess in the top 10 says it all, really don't think she hasn't got enough to beat a strong field over 7 events

[Shaun]

Never realised just how boring hockey is.

Beach volleyball isn't much better unless they're hot.

[Headie]

really don't think she hasn't got enough to beat a strong field over 7 events

Well she manages to do it in Gotzis every year so she'll need to replicate that firm again to win Gold