Tokyo 2020 Olympics/Paralympics

[I'm With Stupid]

Surely out there somewhere there are some tall long limbed men and women who could be trained to throw things. We should put more effort into the field events, much better chance of a good return for a modest outlay.

Don't a lot of them train at Loughborough University? I worked there for a while. Never felt so unfit in my whole life.

 

[urban genie]

Not a golf fan but sat here enjoying the womens individual stroke match, probably at the right levels of chilled out action for the middle of the morning finishing off my rum.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Not a golf fan but sat here enjoying the womems individual stroke match, probably at the right levels of chilled out action for the middle of the morning finishing of my rum.

I'm not into golf either, but I could listen to this commentator all day. I wonder if he has a podcast I can go to sleep to.

 

[LongsightM13]

Thursday 5th August
All start times listed below are in BST, which is 8 hours behind local time in Japan.

Most of the action should be available on BBC or Eurosport.

Medal events are HIGHLIGHTED.


Team GB Schedule

22:30 Starts on Wednesday	Marathon Swimming	Men’s 10km FINAL	Hector Thomas Cheal PARDOE (GBR)
23:30 Starts on Wednesday	Golf	Women’s Individual Stroke Play – Round 2	Mel REID (GBR) – (+2) – Tee time 12:03 Jodi EWART SHADOFF (GBR) – (+3) – Tee time 01:36
01:10	Athletics	Women’s High Jump – Qualification – Group B	Morgan LAKE (GBR)
01:10	Athletics	Women’s High Jump – Qualification – Group A	Emily BORTHWICK (GBR)
01:30	Canoe Sprint	Men’s Kayak Single 200m – Semifinal 1	Liam HEATH (GBR)
01:40	Athletics	Women’s Heptathlon – Long Jump – Group A	Katarina JOHNSON THOMPSON (GBR) – Unlikely she continues after injury, potentially DQ'd too.
01:58	Canoe Sprint	Women’s Kayak Single 500m – Semifinal 1	Deborah KERR (GBR)
02:00	Athletics	Women’s 4 x 100m Relay – Round 1 – Heat 1	Great Britain
02:00	Diving	Women’s 10m Platform – Semifinal	Andrea SEPNDOLINI SIRIEIX (GBR) Lois TOULSON (GBR)
03:30	Athletics	Men’s 4 x 100m Relay – Round 1 – Heat 1	Great Britain
03:35 – 03:42	Canoe Sprint	Men’s Kayak Single 200m – FINAL	If Liam HEATH qualifies.
03:55	Athletics	Men’s 110m Hurdles FINAL	Andrew POZZI (GBR)
04:15 – 04:29	Canoe Sprint	Women’s Kayak Single 500m – FINAL	If Deborah KERR qualifies.
04:30	Athletics	Women’s Heptathlon – Javelin Throw – Group A	Katarina JOHNSON THOMPSON (GBR) – Unlikely she continues after injury, potentially DQ'd too.
05:00	Modern Pentathlon	Women’s Individual – Fencing Ranking Round	Kate FRENCH (GBR) Joanna MUIR (GBR)
06:48	Boxing	Men’s Fly (48-52kg) – Semifinal 2	Galal YAFAI (GBR) v Saken BIBOSSINOV (KAZ) LOSER GETS BRONZE, WINNER MAKES FINAL
07:00	Diving	Women’s 10m Platform – FINAL	If Andrea SEPNDOLINI SIRIEIX and/or Lois TOULSON qualify.
07:30	Cycling Track	Men’s Omnium – Scratch Race – Event 1 of 4	Matthew WALLS (GBR)
07:54	Cycling Track	Men’s Sprint – 1/8 Finals – Heat 3	Jack CARLIN (GBR)
08:00	Cycling Track	Men’s Sprint – 1/8 Finals – Heat 5	Jason KENNY (GBR)
08:06	Cycling Track	Women’s Keirin – Quarterfinal – Heat 1	Katy MARCHANT (GBR)
08:21 – 08:24	Cycling Track	Men’s Sprint – 1/8 Finals – Repechage Heats	If Jack CARLIN and/or Jason KENNY struggle.
08:27	Cycling Track	Men’s Omnium – Tempo Race – Event 2 of 4	Matthew WALLS (GBR)
08:30	Athletics	Men’s 20km Race Walk FINAL	Tom BOSWORTH (GBR) Callum WILKINSON (GBR)
08:30	Modern Pentathlon	Men’s Individual – Fencing Ranking Round	Joseph CHOONG (GBR) James COOKE (GBR)
08:45	Cycling Track	Men’s Sprint – Quarterfinals – Race 1	If Jack CARLIN and/or Jason KENNY qualify.
08:57 – 09:02	Cycling Track	Women’s Keirin Semifinals – Heats	If Katy MARCHANT qualifies.
09:07	Cycling Track	Men’s Omnium – Elimination Race – Event 3 of 4	Matthew WALLS (GBR)
09:25	Cycling Track	Men’s Sprint – Quarterfinals – Race 2	If Jack CARLIN and/or Jason KENNY qualify.
09:37	Cycling Track	Women’s Keirin Final 7-12	If Katy MARCHANT struggles.
09:45	Cycling Track	Women’s Keirin FINAL	If Katy MARCHANT qualifies.
09:50	Cycling Track	Men’s Sprint Quarterfinals – Decider	I think this is placings for the losers in the quarterfinals, so if Jack CARLIN or Jason KENNY struggle.
09:55	Cycling Track	Men’s Omnium – Points Race – Event 4 of 4 – FINAL	Matthew WALLS (GBR)
10:27	Cycling Track	Men’s Sprint Race for 5th – 8th Places	If Jack CARLIN or Jason KENNY struggle.
11:00	Athletics	Women’s Pole Vault FINAL	Holly BRADSHAW (GBR)
11:37	Athletics	Women’s 4 x 400m Relay FINAL	Great Britain
12:00	Athletics	Men’s 1500m – Semifinal 1	Jake WIGHTMAN (GBR)
12:10	Athletics	Men’s 1500m – Semifinal 2	Josh KERR (GBR) Jake HEYWARD (GBR)
13:20 – 13:30	Athletics	Women’s Heptathlon – 800m – Heats	Katarina JOHNSON THOMPSON (GBR) – Unlikely she continues after injury, potentially DQ'd too.

These thread updates have been really useful, cheers for doing them

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Have Mexico always had a big diving team? I think they've had divers in every event.

 

[chesterbells]

Plus we've got past athletes with serious experience of winning medals in those events.

The nearest thing we have to ‘one roof’ - in actual terms - is Loughborough; fabulous facilities there, and many of our top prospects train out of there already - and in financial terms, is the National Lottery funding. It’s not been so obvious this championship, but in the past it has been so cringe to have every post race interview peppered with reference to ‘I really want to thank the national lottery, … and mum and dad etc’. But that said, it has done a decent job.
Outside of Farah & Ennis Hill, and maybe Asher Smith now, I don’t think athletics provides a decent, lasting financial outcome for any of them. What they earn, compared to an also ran on something like the global tennis circus, is not a great deal. Even if Holly had got gold in pole vault, it wouldn’t have meant a massive long term earnings increase imho. Laura ‘she’s a vet you know’Muir, will still be a vet after her silver etc.
In terms of our medal haul, I actually think for the country we are. we do about right.
Our standard of throwing and jumping isn’t great though - our best javelin throwers for example aren’t anywhere even near getting the qualifying standards to enter the global competitions, never mind getting a medal.

Btw mate, before I forget, and as we are nearing the last lap here, can I just say a big thanks to you for this thread and for the daily schedule updates - you’ve done a great job. It’s been a really enjoyable 2 weeks (although I’ll be pleased if I never have to see another bloody dive again).

 

[willipp]

Have Mexico always had a big diving team? I think they've had divers in every event.

Always associate Mexico with cliff diving.

These Chinese divers are unreal and so consistent. Daley been brilliant so far but he just can’t afford anything other than perfection from now.

 

[andyhinch]

Always associate Mexico with cliff diving.

These Chinese divers are unreal and so consistent. Daley been brilliant so far but he just can’t afford anything other than perfection from now.

A bronze would be a result tbf

 

[willipp]

A bronze would be a result tbf

Yeah he’s been brilliant so far hasn’t he. Chinese just don’t look like making a mistake.

 

[andyhinch]

Yeah he’s been brilliant so far hasn’t he. Chinese just don’t look like making a mistake.

And they didn’t great last dives