So we have a thread for the olyroos and matildas but thought it might be worth having one for all the other Olympic sports. I don’t usually follow other sports during the year but I’m keen to watch as many AUSSIEs compete as I can.

Doesn't seem to be much interest this time- for obvious reasons (they should not be held in a country that doesn't what them because of covid)

There was a time when people knew the name of many Australian track and field athletes- now I don't know any of them and have no interest in them- many people I know feel the same.

The Australian media still go into ecstasies over Aussie swimmers and talk them up all the time. That's a good reason for taking no interest in them- can't stand competitive  swimming and the show off swimmers,

I'm happy to watch boxing and field hockey- pity we can only see them once every four years. As for shooting, I would rather watch grass grow. Archery- they don't even use proper bows, they use high tech contraptions that you can hold at full draw for a minute or so.

And I don't want to listen to aussie commentators screaming for aussie gold, whilst ignoring any non-aussie achievement.

I'm looking forward to it. Won't be the same without the crowds but in many ways I'm a simple man: put on a sport with an Aussie in it and I can cheer.

We’re playing Japan in softball tomorrow night flick it on 

Always enjoyed the Olympics. Going to be different but hopefully the sport will prevail and it'll be something to enjoy. Early events on soon and it all kicks off very soon.

The official website only starts becoming very informative once the events actually start. By that I mean the start lists for all the heats in the swimming haven't been uploaded yet. They also don't necessarily appear in the overwhelmingly massive daily schedule until very close to the event. The filter per country was good last time but that doesn't seem available yet. It was very easy having a daily chronological list of all Australian participants.

Aus softball about to start. 10am.

We peaked in 2000. Funding wise, other countries are matching/exceeding us. Unless there is heavy investment again, I can't see us reaching our previous heights (not to mention the home team advantage).

and yet we hear this is biggest team ever.
I suppose the new sports allowed in contributed to this.

In other press I saw something on "predicters" re medals, were meant to be getting a motza of Gold, amazing where all this comes from.

Hopefully with the Brisbane announcement, we will get more funding and reach new heights by that stage. This time, we will still get a respectable top 10 (maybe top 5) result. 

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

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. 

Softball team got smashed 8:1.

Brisbane 2032, great news.

Some football is on now @7plus

Interesting is Brisbane was unopposed but they'll do well I think. 

Sweden lead USA in Matildas group.

Plenty of football today! I’m even going to follow the softball 

Fuck John Coates is a cockhead. I always thought he was an arrogant arse but he's confirmed it in spades.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/olympics/australia-stunned-by-annastacia-palaszczuk-slap-down-in-tokyo/news-story/fbbfafd3d7fda64b6521dae94b005463

Absolute pig of a human being.

Lol, that's a bit of a dick move. 

Particularly from a prick that's been swanning around the world for decades on public money.

Channel 7 have 45 Olympic channels, there are 2 events on right now, they are only showing 1

If its going to be that kind of Olympics then hopefully somebody gets the rights for the next ones

Let’s see how the weekend goes: football, hockey, basketball, waterpolo and volleyball 

enjoyed it immensely so far even without crowds, have even had the softball on

Anyone watching the opening ceremony?

Yep.

Glad they got in Kumi Taguchi from SBS to give some cultural context to things the 7 bogans would have no clue about.

The Olympic rings made from wood from trees planted by athletes in the 1960 Tokyo games is a nice touch.

I'm sure it would have been a much bigger show if not for covid, such a shame.

The Ukrainian outfit including a bumbag, peak Slav lol

Those volunteers lining the athletes' entrance are working their arses off!

Thought so too. Probably on Pocari Sweat.

Consistent AFC sponsor 👍

Was that Jill Biden?

Yes

https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/all-sports/noc-schedule-australia.htm

Useful chronological schedule for Australia events. Swimmers will be listed once start lists produced.

I’m find 7mate doesn’t load with the new events. 

Yeah, tried to open the rowing today and it didn't work.

Anyone watching the hockey? The Australian men's team who are ranked number one have just thrown away a 0-2 lead and are trailing 3-2 to Japan just before half time.

I watched it I really enjoyed the match. Good win in the end watching the gymnastics now as the other half half took the remote 

Such a shame seeing all these temporary stands that'll be taken down with nobody ever sitting in them.

The tennis snippets I got were just sad. So dead there. Fencing had the screaming anyway.

The cycling road race at least has the public there. 

All these fans crowded together long streets. Thank God they're not sitting in the arena in a chess board system with distance.

It just baffles me how they couldn't even come up with a safe concept to allow just a few in to watch the beach volleyball or judo. Meanwhile plenty of officials and even relatives appeared to be at the shooting. 

German TV seems to work with  Australia VPN  so maybe less hassle with 7plus here and there.

https://www.zdf.de/sport/sport-im-zdf-livestream-live-100.html

Disappointing in Men's 100m Breaststroke but some very good results elsewhere. Unfortunately this means they'll flop in the final

7Plus works fine with VPN for the normal 7 channels. If I click on a specific sport channel ending in, say, TOK11 I get the error message. Annoying but the vast majority of things will either be on 7 live or ZDF. UK viewers were shocked to learn of the Discovery rights purchase pushing it all to Disney and Eurosport. German broadcaster sub licences everything Eurosport shows here.

Great Britain vs Italy in women’s archery is going to be fun 

Swimming finals begining at 11:30am AEST. Skateboarding starts for the first time ever at 09:30 with finals at 1:30pm.
Egypt v Argentina are on before us at 5:30pm.

this afternoon/evening is delicious we’re in waterpolo, basketball, hockey and then the main event Australia vs Spain. Even New Zealand vs hondraus is worth flicking on 

Terrific world record and gold by the Aussies in the women's 4x100. It was cute when the Canadian team gave their silver medals to each other, they might have just started a tradition.

Good to see the Japanese girl get the gold in the individual medley, they needed a win.

Girls delivered massively. Congrats to the Tunisian who swum brilliantly. McLoughlin did well. Smith with a bronze which is great for medley. Germans were massively disappointed in their swimmer. 

Bit disappointed about Barty. Those silly gold projections nail on every decent chance and dream upset. 

Wouldn't mind seeing indoor Volleyball and European Handball more in Australia, they're both pretty cool sports

It's a shame they Sydney games didn't get more out of having top quality handball played. We played a little in high school but it never took off like junior basketball in the 90s.

Yeah I also played it a bit in high school, which I only remembered today lol

Anyone watching the basketball? USA are moments away from losing to France.

They missed so many 3 pointers in the final minute, Frustrating long for the game to end.

rip America, Brazil vs Korea volleyball is still on

Triathlon very early Monday morning. 6:30 local time it appears.

Very impressive last gasp effort to get the bronze in the men's 4x100 freestyle, we weren't expected to do that we'll.

Titmus obviously the star of the show today.

Two young Aussies coming 9th in semi finals, missing finals by single hundredths of a second each, but both taking it admirably.

I would have paid to see this on Optus or Kayo instead of channel 7

The on demand service is shit. Only about 20% full replays of some events. Its not like rights are an issue as they are listed to be available for 5 months. Throwing a full replay up doesnt take much effort

There is also no "coming soon" section like other live sports apps. Instead when an event starts it just magically appears in the live section and then disappears when it is finished. This may not be a problem but they arent showing all events

Its not often there is an Olympics in prime time and not often half the country are on stay at home orders. This is such a wasted opportunity for channel 7 to sell itself. SO much money and planning and this is the best they were able to do

yes frigging annoying when your having to change from channel to channel staying on the coverage your watching.

Other than that, hey I'm thankful there is sport to watch whilst were in lockdown.
Complain complain is todays norm and I'm guilty as well But I have to spin the positives.

Seeing the varying sports is good, not all some suck or take too long like the cycling (yes I admire their fitness etc) but its a wlecome relief.
I'm not a full on WFH, during the week I can still go to my office to break the monotomy of being in the one place thankfully and the wife LOL.......

and worse......
The Shinya show.
WTF - and that Maher try hard, thankfully the remote is at hand, what PIA that guy comes across as.....

My favorite sports to watch have been water polo, hockey and archery 

Lots of people have been hooked on archery and other events they otherwise wouldnt watch. This is where 7 need to stop trying to guess what is popular and simply present all content in a non bias way. We dont want to just see Aussies and gold

Its not hard to publish a full replay and their Olympics team should be at it around the clock

Agreed plus more.
The gym floor comps are pretty mad for you normally don't go out of your way to watch.
I cringe when watching them on the pummel horse or floor - the thought of breaking something with the landing makes me grab my ankle or picture broken legs.
The heights they generate is impressive.
The beam, omg another disaster waiting to happen.

The rapids are pretty cool, I'm a surfer of the past so watching that now competing is pretty cool.
Rowing.
The fitness of the water polo.
I'd like to see more table tennis.

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

https://twitter.com/7olympics/status/1419843463374376961

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

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

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.

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.

So yeah, poles just won the mixed relay in running

RUNNING

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

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

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. 

Three Jamaicans, three medals for Jamaica.

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

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. 

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.