Daft Olympic commentary

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Aug 2021
8:18pm, 6 Aug 2021
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swittle
:)
Aug 2021
8:23pm, 6 Aug 2021
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Fragile Do Not Bend
No wonder she’s been having problems :)
Aug 2021
8:40pm, 6 Aug 2021
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Dibble
"she's undoubtedly perhaps the greatest 1500m runner"
Aug 2021
9:32pm, 6 Aug 2021
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Chrisity
Britain's last gold medal in 1952 - a bronze in Helsinki

Nigel Starmer Smith (with reference to hockey, won in 88, bronze in 52)
Aug 2021
9:39pm, 6 Aug 2021
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Chrisity
He also came up with

"Hard to penetrate the German circle, but that's the task that Curly's so inept at."
Aug 2021
11:07pm, 6 Aug 2021
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Dvorak
More prescient then daft: paraphrasing something said before the men's 4x100 "there's Tortu, and remember, the Tortu always wins the race".
Aug 2021
11:34pm, 6 Aug 2021
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Dooogs
(I kept incorrectly assuming Tortu was Finnish, just from the sound of his surname)
Aug 2021
4:00pm, 8 Aug 2021
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Mushroom
Chris Boardman, on GB's cycling performance:

"For me it is the richest performance they have had, even though it was not as rich as before."
Aug 2021
4:26pm, 8 Aug 2021
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Cheg
I think he meant richest like broad range of medals. But not as rich as before in terms of absolute gold medals.
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9:41pm, 22 Aug 2021
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Silent Runner
I've just been catching up on the men's marathon (I'm a little behind...)

"I don't think Kipchoge will slow down until either he has to, or he wants to."

I can't fault the logic, but I'm not sure it really needed saying.

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