"Fuck yeah!" and the double shakas; 'Straya!

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Can anyone explain why we’re so good at hockey?

maybe its the cricket DNA MCG.
We've always been handy with any sort of racket/stick in our hands plus we've always had that aggression that seems to be needed in team sports as well.

Yeah it's a mystery. (British commonwealth sport perhaps?)

As much as we whinge about poor coverage in the media re: football imagine those poor buggers.  Constantly winning or near winning world cups and Olympic golds and you'd be lucky to hear about them. 

Cause nobody really takes it seriously? Isnlt like India and a few other countries really into it?

Not really, European nations are really strong in hockey. Netherlands in particular.

It's up there with Union as a pretty worldwide sport.

Here's a list of teams from the 2018 WC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Men%27s_Hockey_World_Cup

Titmus, what a race! Really left it to the last few strokes, but it seems a strong finish is part of the strategy.

ARNIE = LEGEND.

When life imitates art.  https://www.betootaadvocate.com/sports/ioc-confirms-3-on-3-basketball-to-be-trialled-at-2016-rio-olympics/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/basketbull/

https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/3x3-basketball/olympic-schedule-and-results.htm

I think the pivot to urban based sports is a good move.

So volleyball,swimming, hockey, basketball and olyroos vs Egypt all on tonight!

What a golden day for Australia. Shocking scenes as two German rowing teams stuff up big time near finish. It was funny seeing the British go diagonal too. 

Some great swims. Absolutely livid about the women's relay. Boilover. Chalmers so close. 

I don't know why we had our weakest swimmer at the end for the relay

Incredible swim by the other teams. Had a glimpse at the times. The heat swimmers seemed to have the edge. The order was bad and we seemed incredibly complacent.

It evens out that you get some surprise wins and losses but the relay was something we'd been banking on.

Canoeing again today. Last time they were both in it and it went bad at the end. I feel canoeing should add up all race times for an overall score. 

Fox wins gold. Crazy to think she was favoured in the other event but made an error. The guy was second in the semi but had a tough final. Add Chalmers and the relay plus the surfing and we could've been in double figures for gold by now. 

Water polo at 8:50

Glad to see Jeff Risely had a good run in the 800m heats, hope he qualifies, good bloke.

Another gold for Mckeown, fuck yeah! Hopefully Titmus to back that up in the 800m free on now, taking on Ledecky again.

Good to see Risely through, he had a faster time than a few of the guys that qualified in the first three places so I would have been salty if he didn't go through.

I'm not sure it's been mentioned on here, but Thorpe's commentary is excellent.

China pulling ahead in the gold and overall medal tally, probably something we should get used to seeing.

I think we'll see USA pull up now that Athletics have started, I don't think China do well in it

Morning highlights for me: 

Swimming's mixed medley relay, was really chaotic and awesome to watch, Australia got bronze , America bombed hard

Armenia vs Azerbaijan boxing match, two countries that were recently at war, they went HAM, Azerbaijan refusing to shake his hand and leaving early - Armenia won

There's an Aussie guy tearing up the BMX park, he's seeded first and looking like the one to beat

McKeown/Titmus

Did anyone catch the 10,000 run last night? An Aussie guy is collapsing and in all sorts trying to finish the race and Bruce McAvaney is frothing at the mouth with the biggest stiffy you've ever seen, total prick.

Oh and another thing, Australia is very close to topping the medal tally for the Swimming, America on 8 gold, Australia on 7.

I don't know much about basketball, but I know that Patty Mills is bloody good at it.

3 wins from 3 and the Boomers enter the quarter finals as a seeded team. Luck of the draw to potentially avoid USA in the semis. They bottled it in the 2019 world championships in the semis and third place playoff, hopefullly they can do at least one better here.

Do you know when the boomers play next? 

Should be Tuesday. Have to wait for the draw before we know at what time and against whom.

A warning for a false start unsettling the field in the 100m heats and someone else gets a disqualification in the restart, that sucks.

Did not see that coming! Rowan Browning winning his 100m heat in 10.01 seconds!

Fastest ever by an Aussie in the Olympics. His previous PB was 10.05. One of the fastest qualifiers for the semis. We've never had an Aussie male in the 100m final since Melbourne 1956. He got an ATAR of 99+. Bloody hell.

Holy shit the Czechs are narrowly ahead of the USA in the basketball just before half time. Their best player plays for Chicago Bulls, last I Czeched.

USA are virtually guaranteed to qualify in at least a best 3rd place, but a loss could mean they'd advance as a non-seeded team, and we could possibly face them in the quarter finals.

These mixed relays have been terrific entertainment, a great adittion.