[GT] Day 11 (PM of August 2 - AM of August 3)

[CofR]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

LangLois not near the podium in her race.

That New Zealand athlete is incredible, just smoked the whole field in that race.

[keenan87]

Nm

[Derek Sutton]

Originally Posted by CofR

That New Zealand athlete is incredible, just smoked the whole field in that race.

I don’t get the A and B final. Langlois in the B, did she even have a chance at a medal?

[CofR]

Originally Posted by keenan87

Nm

Tomorrow morning, starts at 05:50

[CofR]

Originally Posted by Derek Sutton

I don’t get the A and B final. Langlois in the B, did she even have a chance at a medal?

Langlois was in the A Final and had a shot, Michelle Russell was in the B Final. B Final is just for finishing positioning. I put the wrong times earlier and had them for the B Final times. So the A Final of the Men’s C2 with Varga and Fitzpatrick is coming up next

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by Derek Sutton

I don’t get the A and B final. Langlois in the B, did she even have a chance at a medal?

Langlois was in the A final. She finished last in it.

[You Need a Thneed]

What a race in the canoeing.

Cuba comes from behind to take gold over the favoured Chinese duo.

[CofR]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

What a race in the canoeing.

Cuba comes from behind to take gold over the favoured Chinese duo.

Great race, too bad the Canadians weren’t really in it, but incredibly entertaining still!

[keenan87]

Man, am I the only one who thinks the American athletes are just self absorbed and sore losers?

So many random examples over the past days where they don't really acknowledge other athletes. Especially in the women's sports, all the other women would be cheering and hugging but I don't see the same with the Americans. It's like they expect everyone else to come to them.

It might just be me though.

[ajr4013]

That 400m hurdles was crazy. Wow.

[MRCboicgy]

That was a race!

[You Need a Thneed]

What a pull away to break the world record by 3/4 of a second!

[CofR]

Otherworldly speed, that was insane

[surferguy]

Did I hear them say the regular 400m was done at 46 seconds? And he clobbered that with hurdles??? Wow!

[EldrickOnIce]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

De Grasse looking pretty gassed there afterwards. Still a little tired from the 100m competition, combined with classic "Canadian in 38 degrees & humid" conditions probably.

Yeah. Brutal conditions, obviously.
But I thought De Grasse just eased through the race, trying to conserve energy/stress on body. He still qualified easily. Maybe I'm just hoping that is the case.

[CofR]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1422399033587478528

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by surferguy

Did I hear them say the regular 400m was done at 46 seconds? And he clobbered that with hurdles??? Wow!

The world record for the 400m is just over 43 seconds. He’s less than 3 seconds off.

Only 3 other people in history have broken 47 seconds, he just broke 46.

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce

Yeah. Brutal conditions, obviously.
But I thought De Grasse just eased through the race, trying to conserve energy/stress on body. He still qualified easily. Maybe I'm just hoping that is the case.

He clearly wasn’t going full out for at least the last 50 metres.

[looooob]

that race is ridiculous- the commentators can't believe themselves- Michael Smith is in awe- as we all are!


that was a sad news update regarding Angela Bailey, RIP to a great Canadian sprinter

[You Need a Thneed]

With a 200m time of 1:58 recorded in the heats, all of us can now claim to be faster than an Olympic sprinter.