Italy completing the Euro and Olympic 100m double!

I really hope this showboating Qatari prick in the high jump doesn't win anything tonight, but he's way in front so far. 

Sweden-based son of an athlete Qatar poached from Sudan.

Won gold in the last two Asian Games and the last two IAAF World Championships, the last of which was held in Doha. Silver and bronze in the last two Olympic games.

That's a shame, Risley had a much better season best than that, he just couldn't come back from the back of the pack. That's his last race.

Good on the two guys who fell over finishing their race with honour.

Well in Bol.

Hope Jeff Risley can join him in the final.

hey, lets see now that the swimming is done.
Mind you we got bonus from the new sports introduced, BMX/Surfing getting medals but yer its been good.
More medal chances coming the next few days.
Hey how was that Kookburras pens win, I've never seen it done that way, was great contest and brilliant wipeout done by us.
Great medicine considering our covid situation.

I'm incredibly surprised at our results. I've not seen any reporting on certain top athletes not making it to the games. Perhaps Australia had some of the most comfortable preparation in Covid conditions. Fairly free in training but the big rivals would've set themselves up the best anyway. 

Looks like I was wrong on that front! Good to see :)

Another day of gold for Australia. McKeon the most successful Olympian ever now. 20 medals in the pool, 9 gold. Only two gold off the Americans. It appears we've never been that close on the gold tally. 12 medals ahead of GB. It doesn't feel like it as GB and China always seemed to be harassing in the pool. 

As much as he's a complete flog, McAvaney doesn't normally do stuff like that.  
I've noticed it during swimming, athletics and a few other events that when there is no aussie competing they tend to just gloss over everything and talk about something else. 

1-2-3 for Jamaica in the 100m womens sprint

Three Jamaicans, three medals for Jamaica.

Hopefully 7 get the memo and don't talk all over the men's final intro as well.

Loving the presentation ahead of the 100m women's final, world class.

So yeah, poles just won the mixed relay in running

RUNNING

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Do you know when the boomers play next? 

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Water polo at 8:50

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.