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mrbrownstone wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 4:39 am Made him work for it at least. Attention back to Carrington then.

Good result all the same to come home with a bronze in heavyweight. Well done that man!

Men's 400m Hurdles

Previous WR: 46.70
Previous OR: 46.78

1st Karsten Warholm (Norway) 45.94 WR
2nd Rai Benjamin (United States) 46.17 AR
3rd Alison dos Santos (Brazil) 46.72 AR
4th Kyron McMaster (British Virgin Islands) 47.08 NR
5th Abderrahman Samba (Qatar) 47.12 SB
6th Yasmani Copello (Turkey) 47.81 NR
7th `Rasmus Mägi (Estonia) 48.11 NR
8th Alessandro Sibilio (Italy) 48.77

What a race!

Yusssss!

Woohooo!

Another gold .

Fair to say things were briefly nervy here as the Poles looked strong but we had a real kick at the end.

Lisa Carrington rocks!!!!

And again! 2 golds and two Olympic records in an hour for Carrington. What a legend.

trapper wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 4:43 am Good result all the same to come home with a bronze in heavyweight. Well done that man!

No shame in losing to that boxer.

Winner winner chicken dinner!

And it’s Carrington for 2,and 2 for Carrington!

Not just an Olympic best, but a world best time, apparently.

And pushes her equal top of the most medalled NZ athletes, with 2 more events to come. What a legend.

MOST OLYMPIC MEDALS WON BY NEW ZEALANDERS

5: Lisa Carrington (including 4 gold), Ian Ferguson (4 gold), Paul MacDonald (3 gold), Mark Todd (2 gold).

4: Valerie Adams (2 gold), Blyth Tait (1 gold).

3: Peter Snell (3 gold), Hamish Bond (3 gold), Simon Dickie (2 gold), Danyon Loader (2 gold), Mahe Drysdale (2 gold), Barbara Kendall (1 gold), Andrew Nicholson (0 gold).

Lisa Carrington is an absolute legend!

terangi48 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 2:55 am Well.....I've seen most things with medal tables......NYT today with their version.....to stay ahead of the chinese....

On par with this effort from the Stuff live blog:

"Something interesting. Currently AUS is crushing the Olympics, however this is purely due to swimming, if you look at all sports excluding swimming, NZ is now sitting ahead of them with 5 Gold, 3 Silver and 4 Bronze, while AUS has 5 Gold, 1 Silver and 7 Bronze."

So we're beating them if you exclude all those medals they won, which don't count. I want to beat Australia as much as the next guy, but that's very much a 'if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle', situation.

mrbrownstone wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 5:06 am

terangi48 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 2:55 am Well.....I've seen most things with medal tables......NYT today with their version.....to stay ahead of the chinese....

On par with this effort from the Stuff live blog:

"Something interesting. Currently AUS is crushing the Olympics, however this is purely due to swimming, if you look at all sports excluding swimming, NZ is now sitting ahead of them with 5 Gold, 3 Silver and 4 Bronze, while AUS has 5 Gold, 1 Silver and 7 Bronze."

So we're beating them if you exclude all those medals they won, which don't count. I want to beat Australia as much as the next guy, but that's very much a 'if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle', situation.

Why am I not surprised. I guess every country does it to some extent though.

Does anyone who follows more closely know what Carrington's chances are like in her other two events? Any medal and she'd become NZ's most decorated Olympic athlete.

Pretty good hour or so for NZ, 2 Golds and a Bronze. Awesome.

Onya again Lisa and Caitlin.......and boxer boy....superb

mrbrownstone wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 5:16 am Does anyone who follows more closely know what Carrington's chances are like in her other two events? Any medal and she'd become NZ's most decorated Olympic athlete.

I got the impression she's a shot in the k1500. She got a bronze in that in Rio. The other not so much.

mrbrownstone wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 5:16 am Does anyone who follows more closely know what Carrington's chances are like in her other two events? Any medal and she'd become NZ's most decorated Olympic athlete.

She’s favourite for the K1-500 on Thursday (330pm NZ time)

BBB wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 5:19 am

mrbrownstone wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 5:16 am Does anyone who follows more closely know what Carrington's chances are like in her other two events? Any medal and she'd become NZ's most decorated Olympic athlete.

She’s favourite for the K1-500 on Thursday (330pm NZ time)

Cheers

I understand the jealous French have taken away her main event for 2024?

Super f**king stoked to LC. I'm hoping she goes on to get 5.

Now it's on for PB and BT. By the time I wake up I'm hoping there's more good news.

trapper wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 4:43 am Good result all the same to come home with a bronze in heavyweight. Well done that man!

Yup. Especially considering that he failed to qualify for Rio. Bringing home a bronze from Tokyo is a top effort from him.

trapper wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 5:16 am Pretty good hour or so for NZ, 2 Golds and a Bronze. Awesome.

And Burling and Tuke about to sail with a chance of gold.

First time I've ever watched sailing & I haven't a clue how it works, but go NZ.

As far as I can gather, NZ needs to come second if GB stays in first.

mrbrownstone wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 5:44 am As far as I can gather, NZ needs to come second if GB stays in first.

Germans making life difficult for us.

This is farkin close!

It’s not looking good.

Come on Germany!

Come on Germany.

Best chance seems to be if Germany win this race.

Burling and Tuke in the final leg of the yachting and placed 3rd. Need to hold that position for a win but if GBR get ahead of Germany, they will win gold.

GBR now leading by a foreskin

Knowing nothing about sailing, it looks like the GBR have it.

GBR win by about 2 feet dammit

Bugger, still another medal to the table, well done boys.

Another countback loss to the Poms.

Pete and Blair have hardly trained for this at all. They basically rocked up to the Olympics and won silver.

NZ is briefly back in the top 10 on the table after this afternoon. We are clinging on to that spot .

So n the last 2 hours or so we have won 2 Gold a silver and bronze. I’ll take that any day if the week.