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GollyGTFC
July 26, 2021, 9:01am

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It still seems odd to me that GBR are such a medal winning machine these days. The youth of today must just take it for granted that we win medals including a stack of golds at Summer Olympics.

The first Olympics I watched were Barcelona ‘92 where we won just 20 medals including 5 golds. I can still remember each gold medalist (Linford, Sally Gunnell, Boardman, Redgrave and Pinsent & the Searle Brothers with Garry Herbert as Cox.

And then Atlanta. 1 gold medal, 8 silver & 6 bronze. Abject failure.

It’s the reason Britain used to love their plucky losers (like Mansell & Bruno before both became World Champions and countless others who snatched defeat from the jaws of victory) as it was a bit of a defence mechanism against endless failure and embarrassment.
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When the athletics get going which will cause the most controversy, doping or trainers?


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I got up early to watch Adam Peaty win gold in the swimming, not a patch as when I got up early in 2008 to watch Rebecca Adlington and Joanna Jackson to come from, behind to get gold and Bronze in Beijing
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How the hell have the Russians got a surfing team?! Where do they go surfing? The Baltic isn’t “wavy” enough. The Arctic has surely got to be too cold. Don’t think the Black Sea is that ‘wavy’ either. That leaves Kamchatka.


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You’ve got to be committed if you’re from the European end of Russia.


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You’ve got to be committed if you’re from the European end of Russia.


Didn't know the Russians had asylums, I thought they sent them to Siberia!


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I hope Simone Biles can look back on the decision she’s made today without regret in 20 or 30 years time and doesn’t suffer again then. Undoubtedly the best in her field but yet again the world has put the GOAT tag on someone very young and heaped huge pressure on them to perform.
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We're doing really well at the games. Best ever medal haul at this stage of the Olympics, which is good.
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We're doing really well at the games. Best ever medal haul at this stage of the Olympics, which is good.


As that horsey woman presenter said yesterday, Brits called Tom were about 8th in the medal table.


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