Anyone watching it?
Women's road race on now and it looks like a very dodgy course, scary
Cmon Lizzy

Fencing now. Kruse is trying to foil his opponent, how droll

Fencing
Well done Kruse
Just beat the two time olympic champ Cassara

Fencing
Kruse in quarter final now
Good luck Kruse

Men's floor gymnastics!!! Kieran Behan team Ireland.

He's are best hope but watched him last night and he twisted his knee as he landed.

Fencing
Get in there Kruse
In the semi final

There is too much happening at once isn't there
Cmon Behan

Canoeing slalom
Florence leading

Women's cycling road race
Voss in the breakaway
Not good

Still pulling away
Marion Voss will win this unless the peleton get there heads together

I best get the shop for a couple of beers to catch the end of the race
Running commentary to follow

ooooooooooooooooh

bad crash

Does not look good for the dutch girl
Come on Lizzy

Lizzy you can do it girl
Medal hopes at least

What a sickener for the American girl, hard lines
She was taken over by 3 within a couple of hundred of metres of the finish line
What a c**t of a way to miss out on a medal

Such a shame but more of a worry for the Dutch girl.

what time is the women's diving on , does anyone know ?

Oh...it's now. Brits first.

I hope Van Vleuten is ok
That was a bad, bad crash
Poor lass

That was a belter of a race granny and I have to agree about Van Vleuten, it did not look good for the poor girl

Kruse in the semifinal of fencing

Cmon Kruse
Close match

T**t
Kruse beaten 15 - 9
Still has a chance of a bronze

The synchronised diving is something else
Well done to China

Kruse just missed out on bronze
Womens Cycling Road Race
The Dutch girl is ok, poor lass
“Van Vleuten conscious, transported to the hospital for further examination. KNWU doctor is with her,”
Read more at http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news...lympics-crash-272455#hDs58wTtyiT2MQi4.99
I feel for the girl.
I watch the tour de France every year and crashes that bad are rare
Hope she can recover and return to the sport

Great news. That was horrific to watch

Enjoyed the diving, but didn't watch the fencing as I don't understand it at all.

Happy to hear the cyclist is at least conscious, as all sorts of horrible thoughts came flooding in when the delay in an update seemed to take a long time.

Would like to watch the swimming but it's not on until 3am, and that's not acceptable.

The whole thing is a huge bore, and I cannot see why the Beeb has to devote itself to showing it to the total elimination of anything worth watching.

Brazil would have been better doing something to improve the lot of its millions of favella dwellers than mounting this ridiculously extravagant show.

It is high time that the whole Olympic thing were cut down to size. Perhaps a limit set to the cost of mounting it so that poorer countries can host it without wrecking their economies. Even in the UK is sucked funding from sports venues up and down the country, and the net result of this is fewer people taking part in sport, not more as we were told would be the case.

I am suspicious of the timing of the Russian ban too, and sceptical of the implication that it is only them who are guilty. I bet every country is at it. The pressure to win medals is too strong to resist.

It is not a bore excoriator
It is brilliant and brings the whole world together. Absolutely brilliant

Have to agree with you on the Russian subject though

Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten says she is "fine" in hospital after a serious crash while leading the women's road race in Rio on Sunday.

The 33-year-old had pulled clear with 10km to go, but came off her bike on a sharp turn while travelling at speed down the Vista Chinesa descent.

She lay motionless while help arrived.

Van Vleuten was taken into intensive care after suffering severe concussion and three small fractures in her lower back.

She later tweeted to say she was "super disappointed after best race of my career".

Van Vleuten sent a further tweet on Monday, which read: "Waiting for some research and hope I can leave today. Knowing that this chance is one in four years doesn't make it easy."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37005595

I remain unconvinced as to it's bringing the world together. I think it encourages tribalism, and the way the media treat it is frankly jingoist. "Another gold for Team GB!" and similar phrases makes me cringe.

It is not even a healthy thing to aim at. You have to ne a monomaniac and devote your life to it to the exclusion of all else, and push your body to breaking point and beyond. Hardly mens sana in corpore sano is it!

I have nothing against sporting competition, but when it becomes a media spectacle involving billions, with massive bribes and various inducements involved, and the massive spending of what should be spent on social improvement in countries like Brazil it ceases to be sport and becomes a ridiculous and dangerous charade.

Enjoy it if you think this is all worth while. It isn't for me, and we'll just have to agree to differ on the matter.

Can't agree with your viewpoint Ex. but we are all different.
Enjoyed the diving last night and now watching the rowing.
I think we should be so proud of our boys and girls, for their dedication and determination, medals or no medals. They deserve every bit of praise.
How boring it would be if we were all the same without drive to succeed.


Sinclair and Innes, second in the semi final..

women's Thornley and Granger, second in their semi final. Great!

Mens, Walton and Collins Heavyweight Double skull. Third in semi final. Great race.

I can't agree with Excoriator either granny
Competition is a natural thing in humans and animals, survival of the fittest
Lets have a healthy competition, that is what sport is
The world is brought together through sport and the majority like at least one sporting discipline, or more

Go on Andy Murray!!! 3 round awaits!!!

Missed him ... Watching gymnastics. The Chinese are so amazing , tiny girls they fly like birds.

Sunny !!!

Brits, just missed out on the doubles 10 meters synchronized diving. Was a good watch!!

Quite enjoyed the rugby sevens.. only 7 minutes a half. fast and furious tactical and skilful and not too boring and drawn out like some of the sports.
Watched the brit in the trap shooting ---was expecting a rabbit to be running along the back wall. Couldn't see what the heck he was shooting at.

Cricket commentators were taking the mick about the easiest gold medal to get.. the cox in the rowing.

Agreed fish
The woman's competition was very exciting and one of the best sports I have watched so far

Why was the water green for the woman's diving but was blue the day before in the men's diving?

Have they not come up with an answer yet ? Maybe officialdom is waiting to see if anyone has V & D this morning !

Hahahaha, I thought it might have been the ladys waterproof makeup products
It seems it was “a proliferation of algae.” “This was because of heat and a lack of wind,”
http://time.com/4446210/water-rio-olympics-pool-green-blue-algae/

Another British medal
Chris Froome, bronze in time trial
Even though he was born in Kenya

newsflash

Hahahahaha

Joe Clarke Kayak now
May get a gold

Yeeees
Well done Joe

On now
We are leading on the synchronized springboard diving
Hope it holds

GB leading in the 3m synchronized diviing. Half way.

Pool still green, more like pea soup below the water level. Mosquitoes will be amassing on the top soon.

Spitting and snotting in the warm up bath. Yuk.

Sally Conway just got bronze judo
Well done girl

Back to diving
Still leading

YEEEEEEEEES!
First olympic diving gold for GB EVER!
YYYYEEEESSSSSSS!

3m synchronized GB GOLD

well done lads

Quality day for GB today granny

synchronised diving whatever next. How and why did that ever become an Olympic sport. If they both do exactly the identical poor dive with the same mistakes do they get extra points? What else can we synchronise---pole vault would be interesting. Pretty much the same as diving.

Hahahaha
I like your thinking fish, Synchronized pole vault I will watch

Max Whitlock GB Yay ! Well done. BRONZE
Gymnastics


Fish, get back in your pond !

Perhaps we could simultaneously dive in together with a triple back somersault and half pike--make a splash

Ermmm ! She's not coming in here, far too sexy.

The abandoned sites of Games gone by
A small 30 second clip from the BBC Click to view
It is a shame what happens to a lot of them

England mens rugby seven through to semis after a golden score via Argentina. Thrilling end saw Argies blow it. Good to see new rugby nations starting to compete...few years and we will be mediocre

I missed this
The Argies have been improving for many years so I am not surprised how good they have done
The rugby sevens has been the most exciting sport in the Olympics this year
Excellent debut into the Olympics

Is right
Yeeees!
GB in final of rugby sevens final V Fiji

You would not want to jump in with them they are Gropers

The best olympic sporting discipline on now, track cycling

watching

Rowsell, Trott, Archibald and Barker fooking yes
WORLD RECORD!

Technology
Gaffer tape on the velodrome

Team sprint final v New Zealand
YYYYEEEEEESSSSS!
GOLD

Love it

Callum Skinner Fantastic. Well done boys.

Skinner, Hindes, Kenny
Well done
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics...olympics-track-cycling-team-sprint-live/

All good aint it granny
Love it

This year, I was hoping that there'd be no more sitting on the edge of ones seat. Too many near heart attacks in 2012. Nothing has changed, it's sheer magic , trauma, and nail biting stuff. Loving it .

Coffee time and then Rugby Sevens. (Hate rugby normally) This is different.

Me too granny
Come on GB, another gold please
Them Fijians look formidable

Hence the name 'Warriors'

We are gonna get our fooking arses kicked here

Fiji are just pushing them away with one arm ! Every time.

This is the final
It looks like the first round, the minnows getting a huge lesson

We need some of those girls with blue hair to spur us on.

FFS granny
What is going on?

They've got the strength of elephants.

That score is not even normal for a 15 v 15 90 minute for Fiji

Ah well!
At least we got second

Well, I'm pleased for Fiji....their first gold medal ever. They were unbelievable .

yes a well deserved Gold.

I actually enjoyed the rugby!!

Thornley and Grainger Silver.

Literally pipped at the post by Poland !!

The rugby has been the highlight of the olympics so far

Today, the rowing is brilliant. Another 2 Golds

Glover and Stanning.. wonderful. and now the 4 man . So exciting.

Heptathlon High jump... KJT just about to attempt, for the third time, 2m.01.

She's the only one left in now .


No... too much !

What a girl and she's into the lead , Jessica Ennis HIll is 3rd atm.

Team GB fourth in the medals table.

Cmon Bradley and co
World record already
Gold now

Fooking YEEEEEES!
Another gold and world record
Unbelievable

Absolute champion/s. Bradley Wiggins, what a legend ! We are now 3rd in the table.

Great isn't it granny
World record in qualifying and another in the final
How can you not love sport?

Jess and KJT will get gold/silver (I hope)


And climbling

GB playing badmington on BBC4 atm. sorry, can't stop for long, I might miss something.. Yes,, brilliant watching all this Mikey.

This has been the best day yet . Loved the rowing, cycling, gymnastics, and looking forward to tomorrow. It's really getting exciting now. Lots more medals to be won and really looking forward to what Katerina J T produces..

1ST place in the medal table. Team GB !!!!! Rocks...

???

Jazz Carlin,GB SILVER 800m freestyle. .

Yes granny keep up!!! We did go first at some point through the night. Maybe not now, but we did!!!

Just got back from a good session in the pub (gold for pints necked)
Have I missed something?

Loads !

Hahahahaha

Gold..... form the girls in the velodrome. Team GB have done it again !!!

They are the best. World record too.

Can anyone tell why they have 4 cyclists and one always drops to the back and eventually one drops out ? Still haven't caught onto why they do that.

The grandchildren have been somewhat banished to the garden today. Feeling guilty now. (no I'm not). Thoroughly enjoyed all of the races today.. The tennis seems tame after these high powered sports.

They take turns at the front, where it's hardest because of air resistance, while the others "shelter" in the leader's slipstream. When the leader is tired, he/she drops to the back for a rest. Eventually one who is in the lead rides him/herself to exhaustion, increasing the group speed, then drops out. The time is taken from when the third rider crosses the line, and it wouldn't actually help to have another rider at the end.

Thanks Chris. I thought the final three could be due to being little point in four of them getting in each others way, but did not at all understand the reason for dropping back.

Didn't they do well ?

stayed up late last night to watch Mo Farah. Incredible man. Another Gold and it's not really possible to find suitable words .

Mo Farrah, what a legend.

He is something else and makes it look too easy

Well done Andy Murray.. GOLD

5 Golds yesterday, we are flying
2nd on the medal table
What is happening? It is unbelievable

Another gold
That horsey dancing rubbish thingy, hahaha

It's not horsey dancing rubbish, it's 'Dressage'. You wouldn't be able to make your wife do that, let alone a four legged friend. So there ! Well done GB.

Cycling again....Laura Trot in the next 5 mins.

Hahahaha, fair enough granny. Well done Dujardin
I still don't get it though

Laura Trott is just amazing. How can someone so small have so much power?
I don't want to jinx here, but it's a gold in the omnium
Her fiancee, Kenny is fav for the Kieran and we have James and Marchant in the sprint
It's looking good for 3 golds tonight
I hope I haven't jinxed it

Seems like the velodrome tonight, is on fire. Little Laura Trot. Wow ! Fingers crossed.

James and Kenny still in the running. I think Marchant is out (is she ?)

no, she's not yet. ready steady good luck.

Trotty GOLD Fantastic

Katy Marchant BRONZE Brilliant

Becky James SILVER Another impressive race.
Only just missed gold by about an inch, literally.

Brilliant, girls.

JASON KENNY. Wow ..... nail biting stuff.


Congratulations Jason and to team GB an absolutely fantastic night on the track..

Didn't know this. No wonder the yanks are so rich so young.

Interesting....

According to TIME, Michael Phelps could leave Rio owing up to $55,000 in income taxes.

That's because the U.S. Olympic Committee awards prize money to Olympic athletes who medal at the Games – $25,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze.

These awards, like other prize money (from a lottery jackpot to a Nobel Prize to game show winnings) is taxable income in the eyes of the IRS.

This so-called "victory tax" varies depending on each athlete's tax bracket. Top earners like Phelps (who is estimated to have a net worth between $50 and $55 million, according to CNBC), will owe $9,900 on each gold medal, while athletes without the star swimmer's lucrative endorsement deals will end up owing far less

Lower-earning athletes can also reduce the amount they owe in taxes by deducting training and traveling expenses. The athletes' medals themselves are also taxed, but given that the metal used in a gold medal is worth $564, these taxes are negligible, according to CNN.


http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20996464_21024785,00.html

Is it all over yet ? Getting tired of listening to sports commentators almost having orgasms over gb performances. Would love to hear golf commentator peter alliss commentating on the long and triple jump ...am sure he would comment about them getting sand where it shouldnt be. now the footy season again....agh!

It was a cracker granny
Its a shame the track cycling has finished my favourite part of the olympics
Ah well

Hey fish, they have fly fishing competing in the Tokyo Olympics 2020 for the 1st time

Never seen a hockey penalty shoot out. Amazing!!! Well done the Netherlands.

Now us!! Come on GB, women's hockey....just starting!!

GB women's hockey, through to the Olympic final.

What a game
I have £10 on them to win gold @ 5/1

Them Brownlee brothers have just won gold and silver, they are just head and shoulders above the rest. Unbelievable

Watched the Brownlee brother. Incredible ! 1hr 45 mins, non stop. It exhausted me just watching it. What a duo !

well done brownlee brothers

How do they do it with ease, for so many years?

Right, who we got tonight?
Ahh! Jade Jones
7.30pm
Come on Jade girl

Hmmm ! China is catching up on the medal table.

Bestbit for me was the irish boxers interview after dodgy decision..couldnt understand a word of it. Nothing like an angry breathless irishman venting his feelings.

Think about this one.

It does make you think granny, thanks
Even taking our medals off because of brexit the EU is still streets ahead
Saying that though, the EU population is way higher than the US which they don't understand or take into account when they beat everyone else
Still, the EU is whooping everyone's ass

Does that mean Team GB ARE the BEST in the world ? I think so.

Tonight GB girls in hockey final v Netherlands
On at 9
A must view for sports fans
For those that don't like sports 'fish' at 9, 'George Clarke's shed of the year' CH4+1 (which I would be watching if the Olympics was not on )

Granny, indeed it does
What I didn't know until this mornings news was, and a bit shocked at, was that we have not got as many medals as London 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/medals/countries
But still granny, team GB are the best in the world

Neither have USA or China or Russia, so who has got them ? Still a couple more to be gained yet so fingers crossed, although I don't know how many more events are coming up.

Totally agree granny but it just feels like we have won more because they have won less. If that makes sense
Lets add another tonight with the hockey GB girls

GOLD in Equestrian.. experience tells. VERY well done !

Missed that one granny, Was watching the boxing.
Get in there GB, we are getting the medal tally up

Joe Joyce super heavyweight just got through to final

This is it, hard slog of an hour for our girls
Fingers crossed GB

Quite a keen sportsman--just depends on the sport and the attached hype. I see BBC anoraks have tried to predict that we will end up with more medals than China---big deal. I can go into my local Chinese take away and brag "we got more medals than you na na "

Watching.

Hahahahahahahaha

Level again

The pitch looks waterlogged. Every time they hit the ball it sprays .

yeeeeeessss
What a game this is

Its tough!!! But come on GB.

I'm not even a hockey fan or even know the rules but this is a great game
2-2 Come on girls

Drama!!!! Mikeeb??? Will they do it???

Oh my god !!!! We done it xxxxxxxxxxx

GOLD

Drama at it's best lollipop
Love it. What a game
Well done girls

Bloody hell!!! The dutch finally came over to them after there pep talk!!

Ha ha . More sour grapes and more finger pointing. Why are all these other teams SO jealous ?

I must say, that was my highlight of the games so far
Well done GB hockey girls

Granny you mentioned about the pitch being water logged, I think that it is meant to have water on it.
I don't know for sure but astro turf was horrible to play on when is full of sand. I have had some nasty burns off it in the past

Thank you for the explanation, Mikeeb.

They did dice with death a bit, but GOLD is GOLD and it was well deserved .

What's left ? Mo Farah, Tom Daley , there is a paddle one (I think) boxing, ..... any more ?

4x100 relay tomorrow final

Mo maybe spent. It is unfair having a qualifying round for the 5000m. Hope I am wrong
Tom Daley, I missed that but he got the highest score so fingers crossed
Joe Joyce got to the super heavyweight final today
Any more?

Exhausted after that....night all!!

Goodnight lollipop

We have Holly Bradshaw in pole vault at 12:30 tonight

Just watched the highlights. Cant get into hockey but great fight back and win.

I know you don't like sport fish and it must be a pain in the left one
In work yesterday my mate said "what has happened to the bbc news in the morning? there is only olympics and no other news"
It didn't even cross my mind at how much it must be winding up the millions of people that hate sport
Ah well, its nearly over

cool. Thanks. All tucked up now so reliant on Iplayer which tends to buffer. Hoping to stay awake long enough for Usain Bolt's last fling.

Lollipop, it is exhausting. Yesterday after the triathlon, I had to lie down. Son said.."you haven't done anything "

Disqualified men's relay !! They won too. No one really knows why they have been.

Women's relay BRONZE.

Took a while
Its like the press just forgot about it
A load of bo**ocks
You would think it was more newsworthy than the weather
Ah well, they still haven't shown the infringement

How life can change so much, at the bat of an eyelid.

Senor Olympic Official ,Pat Hickey is now in maximum security prison. Bail refused and it could be that he won't be going anywhere for at least 12 weeks, when the inquiry could be completed.

A pretty grim experience for anyone in a Brazilian prison.

Not quite true-- having played rugby for Old Instonians, football, done a marathon, competed in town games for BI at shot put and always 2nd in 100ms at school. Think I may have medalled in the egg and spoon race.

Any more evidence for relay disqualification...all the runners seem to changing batten over in the same manner.

There still doesn't seem to be an update on the relay. Pretty cruel call.

On a brighter note, Heath won GOLD in kayaking. Didn't see it though.

Sitting comfortably. Ready for Mo Farah.

Been thinking I might enter for the synchronised swim in 2020.

YES YES !! Incredible race. GOLD for MO

Yeah!!! Thanx Granny, that's nice news to wake too.!!

Incredible Mo !!

That is great news to wake up to. Love it. Go Mo
I am gutted when the the Olympics ends
Takes me about a week to get over it

Are you on a water meter? Will cost a bit to fill the bath every day so you can practice by ducking under and holding your nose. After watching the Russian synchronised girls Weightlifting looks easier.

If you want to watch this incredible race, whilst it's on replay.. you can pick it up at

01.33 on here. Well worth watching..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/olympics/36773271

I see they have given a reason and evidence for the GB mens relay disqualification--what a load of rubbish. Seems to me the Brazil nut ref got it wrong and they have been looking for some reason to uphold their decision.
I don't know how the red line runs across the track but if its parallel to the white line that all the runners right foot is next to then I cant see how the GB guy is at fault any more than the others. if a judge is just looking at the feet how does he know who the foot belongs to could easily get it wrong. ROBBED.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/37146826

It all seemed very iffy ! Too late now, but gutted for them.

Think the closing ceremony might just be binned tonight. Far too many late nights to manage yet another.
SO good night, and Mikeeb, assuming you are still down the pub, thanks for posting the topic. A few of us enjoyed it.

Team GB are the best in the world .

POLDARK, mikeeb, don't be sad, we've that to look forward too...lol, well us Ladies anyway.

Yes granny, I enjoyed it too. About time we were on the same team. Thankyou for yours and mikeebs company over the fortnight. Oh and a little bit of fish.

Lovely pics Sunny. Did you watch it ?

Phelps is something from another planet. Incredible record and a multi millionaire to go with it.

i did watch the games and thoroughly enjoyed them,

I am back after a weeks work in London and have just about got over the Olympics being over
Thank you granny and lollipop for your company
I was talking to my mate after work (having a pint ) regarding what the highlight of our Olympics was and my highlight was the GB women's hockey gold and he said Sam Quek was from Wirral.
We have another home grown Olympian from our neck of the woods, happy days


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Quek

Thought you disappeared!!

Big Brother ending tonight.....sad I know

Hahahaha
Sad it is but it beats Jeremy Kyle
We all have to watch something
I have a 3 weeks worth of BBCiplayer to catch up