Paris 2024

[rosy]

Duplantis is incredible; I reckon he could have gone even higher.

[Disco]

I thought he was punching that other Swede guy next to his girlfriend!

[kiwi]

I thought that too Dics. :lol:

[Disco]

I rewound it a couple of times and I still think he was :lol:. The other bloke looked really crestfallen after three punches to the chest.

[Rosa]

It did look like it! :lol:

[Disco]

I've just seen it from a different angle and while it still looks agressive, they just look like bro frat twats punching each other in a bonding moment. From the BBC angle I thought there might be a fight later back at the village. :lol:

[Rosa]

Bro frat twats! :lol:

[Disco]

Someone on Twitter has written this:

Why is Duplantis and the other Swedish athlete punching each other omg what in the straight nonsense

[Epponnee Rae]

I am done in. Today I popped to see la vasque (flame), baked at the kayak cross and then dashed across the city to catch the end of GB (almost literally) in the women’s hockey. I don’t know how you all survived in hotter temps than this, Pip, but the shadeless stands are very cruel (and potentially unsafe I think in such high temps!).

Anyway, while the kayak was indeed good fun I have never envied a kayak roll more (ever) than today as the thought of being submerged in icy cold water was frankly titillating. But I have decided that I’m a GB curse as both our rowers who should easily have had golds came away with silver and bronze, and obvs the hockey team crashed out.

[Epponnee Rae]

Netherlands vs GB hockey - most of the crowd was Dutch!

[Epponnee Rae]

Apparently I’ve walked 20k steps and up 110 flights of stairs and I can feel every single step in my aching body! :lol: :cry:

[Estrella]

That all looks amazing, Epp. Your pics and Pip’s have me very excited for Brisbane 2032!

[Rosa]

Looks and sounds amazing (if hot and tiring!).

[Epponnee Rae]

It is all those things, rosa!

The weather in Tahiti looks worse than Paris!

[Flora Poste]

Epp - it looks so brilliant!

I too was taken aback by Duplantis and his vigorous sports bro celebration - his mate definitely looked like he'd taken it a far!

[Marth]

Wow, Epp. Great pics

[Turtle Bean]

The speed climbing is cock out crazy.

[lazzbo]

I want to start skateboarding now.

[Chicky]

I don’t know how I feel about 11 year olds at the Olympics but the skateboarding was fun.

I’m currently cheering on Andrea SS in the diving. She’s not diving as well as she did yesterday unfortunately.

[SunnyMum]

Yes, I thought there must be a minimum age for competing. But apparently not.
Her Tiger Mom is a bit scary.