The Olympics

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Ah how the fuck did we all miss that here. A tap in.

A great finale to the Men’s All Around gymnastics final there as Hashimoto of Japan moves from 3rd to 1st as he overtakes Xhao Roteng of China with the very last performance of the competition on the high bar. The gymnastics equivalent of the sacking of Nanking.

The packed arena is going crazy for the home favourite.

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The Olympics is not a time for word play or jibes.

Watching the 3x3 basketball final here. This is a cracking variation on the sport

I thought it was a weird camera angle for the basketball here at first and it turns out it’s some weird half court version of basketball.

Yeah. watched some of it last night. Very good

Latvia scalp Russia in the 3 x 3 basketball.

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Brazil 2 sets down in the men’s volleyball to the russkies.

Just catching up on a few events,
What actually happened with the British four? You wouldn’t see it in a junior 14 regatta, how did they end up there?

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How did the American 4x200m freestyle collapse like that?

Any video clip of it ?

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Just watched it there on Eurosport. No idea how it happened.

Pressure, heat, hypoxia and extreme fatigue I’d imagine.

What happened?

They took a wrong turn at Albuquerque

Jacqui and David are back outside at least but surely Peter Collins should be brought in with some rowing expert in studio in RTE for this and give him tomorrow during the day off