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    Spain win the Gold in a cracking football final

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    • MiketheSnowM MiketheSnow

      Spain win the Gold in a cracking football final

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      @MiketheSnow said in Olympics Thread:

      Spain win the Gold in a cracking football final

      Spanish football teams just don't lose finals.

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      • MiketheSnowM MiketheSnow

        Spain win the Gold in a cracking football final

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        @MiketheSnow said in Olympics Thread:

        Spain win the Gold in a cracking football final

        One sport I never ever watch at the Olympics. Only nz being there would get me to watch.

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          28 finals and 25 years in a row now for Spanish teams in not losing football finals to anyone but other Spanish teams.

          Maybe a winning streak in sport only beaten by the New York Yacht Club.

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          • sparkyS sparky

            28 finals and 25 years in a row now for Spanish teams in not losing football finals to anyone but other Spanish teams.

            Maybe a winning streak in sport only beaten by the New York Yacht Club.

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            @sparky said in Olympics Thread:

            28 finals and 25 years in a row now for Spanish teams in not losing football finals to anyone but other Spanish teams.

            Maybe a winning streak in sport only beaten by the New York Yacht Club.

            Or Kim Jong Un

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            • Billy TellB Billy Tell

              @sparky said in Olympics Thread:

              Silver for Maddi Wesche after throwing a Personal
              best.

              Such a loser.

              (Awesome effort and did us proud!)

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              @Billy-Tell With the naked eye it looked like her final throw was over 20 metres.

              Obviously the officials saw a mark I couldn't see.

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                Great battle in the Heptathlon too.

                Nafi Thiam of Belgium won her third Gold medal in a row.

                Katarina Johnson-Thompson of Great Britain , twice the world champion in the event, fell just 36
                points behind her rival.

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                  I think both Thiam and KJT ran personal best in the 800 metres. Talk about leaving it all out there after seven events over two days.

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                    I think both Thiam and KJT ran personal best in the 800 metres. Talk about leaving it all out there after seven events over two days.

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                    @sparky said in Olympics Thread:

                    I think both Thiam and KJT ran personal best in the 800 metres. Talk about leaving it all out there after seven events over two days.

                    Great competition

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                    • MiketheSnowM MiketheSnow

                      @sparky said in Olympics Thread:

                      I think both Thiam and KJT ran personal best in the 800 metres. Talk about leaving it all out there after seven events over two days.

                      Great competition

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                      @MiketheSnow

                      Nafi Thiams's PB in the 800m before tonight was 2.11.79.

                      Tonight she ran 2.10.62 on a soaked track.

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                      • sparkyS sparky

                        @Billy-Tell A break-through performance for her and she will probably be challenging for medals including the Gold one at World Championships and the Oympic Games over the next four years

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                        @sparky said in Olympics Thread:

                        @Billy-Tell A break-through performance for her and she will probably be challenging for medals including the Gold one at World Championships and the Oympic Games over the next four years

                        Amazing. Self belief and a medal will do her confidence a world of good

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                          Beatrice Chebet of Kenya does the women's 5000m and 10,000m double.

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                            Great support by the Dutch fans for their women's hockey team in the final.

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                              And the Dutch get double Gold in the men's and the women's Hockey.

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                                13 Golds for the Dutch now. Wow!

                                That beats their previous best of 12 Golds in Sydney 2000.

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                                  USA domination on the track

                                  Benjamin wins the Gold in the M 400m Hurdles

                                  Disappointing track meet for the Norwegians

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                                  • MiketheSnowM MiketheSnow

                                    Breakdancing is on, excuse me Breaking

                                    We've hit rock bottom

                                    Absolute fucking shambles

                                    It's like watching a Bar Mitzvah

                                    Breaking? Broken

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                                    @MiketheSnow said in Olympics Thread:

                                    Breakdancing is on, excuse me Breaking

                                    We've hit rock bottom

                                    Absolute fucking shambles

                                    It's like watching a Bar Mitzvah

                                    Breaking? Broken

                                    I don't why we didn't enter Razor into the Olympic Breakdancing.

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                                      Absolutely terrible camerawork at the end of the wonens shot put final. You had one job ....

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                                      • ACT CrusaderA ACT Crusader

                                        @SBW1 said in Olympics Thread:

                                        https://www.1news.co.nz/sport/ Watching the games in Oz is insufferable, Channel 9 News in particular, virtually hijacked by reports on the games, reporting like no other country was in the Olympics and not even putting on much news. Gave a whole lot of their journalists including the weatherman a cushy gig in Paris.

                                        Stan is the only way to go.

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                                        @ACT-Crusader said in Olympics Thread:

                                        @SBW1 said in Olympics Thread:

                                        https://www.1news.co.nz/sport/ Watching the games in Oz is insufferable, Channel 9 News in particular, virtually hijacked by reports on the games, reporting like no other country was in the Olympics and not even putting on much news. Gave a whole lot of their journalists including the weatherman a cushy gig in Paris.

                                        Stan is the only way to go.

                                        I meant to post how good Stan has been

                                        Watch what you want, when you want, with international commentary. It's been the best Olympics viewing since Fox Sports.had like 8 channels for the winter Olympics years ago

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                                        • N Nevorian

                                          Surely Lisa Carrington is our greatest Olympian of all time

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                                          @Nevorian said in Olympics Thread:

                                          Surely Lisa Carrington is our greatest Olympian of all time

                                          Ours?

                                          In the conversation for the greatest Olympian of all time.

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