Tokyo 2020 Olympics/Paralympics

[Citizen of Legoland]

Matthew Walls looking good for gold in the men's omnium.

Totally dominated that. I love the omnium event, even after the changes.

 

[andyhinch]

Totally dominated that. I love the omnium event, even after the changes.

Nice to see no Dutch riders crashing into him ;-)

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Fantastic gold medal win for Oldham lad Mat Walls in the Omnium.

 

[supercity88]

Totally dominated that. I love the omnium event, even after the changes.

It remains a brilliant event, but the type of riders is very different with the time trial removed. Walls was incredible, just looked the fittest by a mile. Played the strategy in all events perfectly and fully deserved the gold. Pretty comfortable in the end because of his superior fitness. Nice to finally get a gold on the track. Let's hope it kickstarts a few more. Can't see Carlin taking gold ahead of the Dutch riders, but might be inspired to now....

Women have a good shout. Laura Kenny in the omnium too. But we'll see. This games is seeing a continued changing of the guard, which started at the last world champs. But the Brits will come back strong I'm sure.

 

[MCFC1993]

Loving this pole vault competition.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Loving this pole vault competition.

Great bronze medal.

 

[willipp]

Great bronze medal.

North west are flying for medals. Gold for the lad from Oldham earlier and now bronze for Chorley.

 

[chesterbells]

When you look into how the sports are funded you get some interesting results.

If you treat a Gold as 3 points, Silver as 2 points and Bronze as 1 point then divide the total for each sport you get the following cost for each sport per points earned.

• Weightlifting and Skateboarding have cost us nothing at all.
• Swimming has the best return with each point costing £985,876.
• Athletics at £11,503,766, Rowing at £8,218,469, Judo at £6,564,334, Shooting at £6,008,790 and Canoeing at £5,448,231 are the worse.
• The rest range from a high of £2,681,738 (Gymnastics) to a low of £1,007,053 (Triathlon).

UK Sport needs to take a long hard look at how they fund our Olympic sports and a redistribution is long overdue.

P.S. - These figures will change especially if our Athletes pull their collective fingers out.

Useful post, cheers.

I do wonder swimming is distorted by the sheer number of events/medals available, which maybe makes it slightly easier for that sport to boost its medal haul(?)

 

[kaz7]

Loved the cycling ,my fav since 2012

 

[foetus]

Crazy ending in the men’s climbing final. Tense stuff, thoroughly enjoyed it. Ondra went from potentially a gold medal to 6th after Schubert overtook his high point in the final lead climb.