Paris Olympics

Another fantastic gold for Emily Craig and Imogen Grant in double sculls If anyone is in any doubt about how much the Gold means to an athlete, then just watch their medal ceremony. Superb

It’s the last time this particular classification? will feature in the Olympics apparently. So they’re forever champions

Lisa Nandy getting stuck into the Algerian boxer :/

Fucking yes- Gold, that was some excellent trampolining Bryony.

Unlikely to type that sentence again.

Has she? Unless she has said something else since, she was saying that this particular case was far more complex than being presented by some people.

Here is the quote:

"It was an incredibly uncomfortable watch for the 46 seconds that it lasted. I know that there’s a lot of concern about women competitors, about whether we’re getting the balance right in not just boxing but other sports as well.

"The decision that successive governments have made is that these are complex decisions that should be made by sporting bodies. In this case, for example, I understand that the biological facts are far more complicated than is being presented on social media and in some of the speculation.

"I think as sporting bodies try to get that balance between inclusion, fairness and safety, there is a role for government to make sure that they’ve got the guidance and the framework, and the support, to make those decisions correctly and it’s something that I’ll be talking to sporting bodies about over the coming weeks and months."

Just seen the trampolining win, which was great (although I have no idea why it was better than others). I think the presenter on the BBC just said she has completed the Olympics, now that she has won bronze, silver and gold. So, I assume everyone can go home now.

I always struggle with sports that are measured by judges opinions.
Surely the day can’t be far away when motion tracking gathers the data and compares it to preset criteria to generate a consistent score

Cheers? Ugh

Even Sunderland supporters stopped chanting “he shags who he wants” after Adam Johnson was sent down and everyone who likes football is awful.

Loved her emotional reaction.




Not getting much work done today.

Yeah, that is the way I'm interpreting the situation (or, at least, I've not seen anything that really contradicts that she was born a woman). Reading between the lines of what Nandy is saying, she seems to be confirming that too, whilst also acknowledging that there is a conversation to be had on the topic more generally (which is mostly up to sporting bodies to sort out, with government guidance).

Her statement to me seems to be the complete opposite of what someone that wants to flame culture wars would be saying.

That end to the trampolining (which I've never watched before, is it new?) was very sudden and dramatic.

It was weird to see half the competitors in tears because they were happy, half because they were sad, and half just grinning like mad because they were happy to be there.

Gold for hoss

8 8 8 - The number of the beast!

The end of that sailing race is insane.

Didn’t need Dujardin anyway