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Does anyone else think it's unfair that Pistorius is running in the Olympics? Good on him for battling through and doing so well to get to the Olympics with his disability, yet it isn't really an equal playing field in my opinion. He has no lower leg muscles and therefore can't have anything happen in that region. All of the other athletes have muscle there that they have to use...

Bloody hell, Murray is in the final and will get at least a silver. That was unexpected to say the least.

This tennis match is a good one. Murray is doing well so far and is currently beating Djokovic.

Bronze for Adlington. I think we all expected more from her to be honest. She can do better...

Let's check this bloody Ledeckey for drugs...

That's another medal to add to the list. Gold for Pendleton.

Get in! Another gold for us there. Great race (once again) in the men's pursuit. Another new WR too. They've gone and broken it again. Wow...

Our women just broke the WR in team pursuit and the men's final is up shortly.

Bronze in the judo.

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Really the likes of USA, China, Japan, Russia, France and Germany should be at the top. The size of them (and population) makes it easier to get athletes. There are probably more you could arguably add to that list too. Anywhere near them and I would say it's a success. We're doing very well at the moment to be within touching distance of them.

Another bronze in the rowing just then from Campbell.

That bronze in the rowing has just been followed by a gold. Brilliant stuff!

WB I think it was (although I watched it without sound)

So fastest time in the world this year.

Great run though

Yeah, I got a bit carried away there. WB and still a pretty amazing run.

What a run from Ennis then. Broke the WR too.

They were just on then but look to have sold out. The £20 morning ones were still there a second ago though.

Tickets on sale for the athletics tomorrow. £50 for evening ones and £20 for daytime ones. I'ts alright if you can get to London at the last minute I suppose.

Pissed off that they didn't sell these in the first place. I'm not quite sure what the point was in bidding early last year. words removed...

Lack of knowledge on the rules here.

The rules are quite simple and straightforward in that if a mechanical failure occurs a restart can be requested from the team that happens to. You see Chris Hoy raise his hand as soon as it becomes apparent. This is not like the Badminton at all

But it wasn't a mechanical fault.

Hindes said in the interview that he fell off deliberately to get a restart.

Lack of knowledge of the interview from Dratly!

No mechanical fault = should in theory have been disqualifed (or their results should have stood, and they'd have been eliminated legitimately on time).

This is far worse than the badminton IMO.

No, it isn't worse than the badminton and it's funny how quickly you've changed your tune on this whole thing when you were so adamant that the badminton decision was wrong.

This was actually a mechanical failure. Sure you can interpret the interview however you want and say that he meant for it to happen. There is no solid proof that this was the case though. Whereas in the badminton it was bloody obvious and was much worse as they might aswell have broadcast what they were doing.

If the GB team did do it on purpose then they should have been disqualified. Yet it would be very difficult to prove that it was done on purpose at the end of the day. The badminton was worse in my opinion...

Still really annoyed with the whole ticketing side of things. I put bids in three times early last year for tickets to the USA basketball, basketball final, rowing and final two days of the athletics. I ended up with none. It won't change my life but I would have liked to see those things live. Better angles and such on TV to be honest, yet I would have liked the experience.

They have cocked up big time...

Nigeria are bloody dire at basketball. I know USA are the best in the world, yet the final scoreline was just unreal. It was like a training game for USA. Anyway, the final score was 156-73.

Nigeria are bloody dire at basketball. I know USA are the best in the world, yet the final scoreline was just unreal. It was like a training game for USA. Anyway, the final score was 156-73.

The cheapest tickets are ove £100 though for 90% of them.

Anyway it's half-time in the basketball and USA are winning 78-45. That's not a typo either...

Switching over to the USA men's basketball. Nice end to a great day of sport. Obviously it will be a clear USA win.

Odd. We're in a 'lucky losers' match in the women's beach volleyball and can still go through if we win...

It certainly was a schoolboy error, yet to come within one point of the second ranked team in the world is pretty impressive. It could so easily have been a win if they were smarter near the end though...

Very close there in the basketball. At least they gave it a go and came close at the end.

We really need more money invested into basketball (and other sports) in this country.