You called it!

Geez, so close to silver though!

I think silver was a stretch. The only thing that got him bronze was a great dip at the line.

DA LIGHTNING BOLT!

long legs......... nuff said.

Way to go Di Grasse! :thumbsup:

The first medal from a Canadian man in these Olympics. Finally! LUL

looks like bolt towed him thru that race. without him following bolt i think he might have gotten 6th or 7th. he had to hit a PR to get there

Gatlin blew it. Almost had it but seemed like he choked and tensed up. Grasse almost caught him for 2nd place.

https://i.imgur.com/QnNKKYQl.jpg

:troll:

De Grasse is such a beast. I mean just looking at the guy and his body youre like WTF hows he gonna do anything. Then BAM :fuckyea:

He's gonna be someone to watch in 4 years for sure

Brazilian pole vaulter Thiago Braz Di Silva wins the gold medal and beats the world record holder Frenchman. :thumbsup:

6.03metres. :fuckyea:

diving for the gold!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cp8kedpWAAENoFc.jpg

That was Bahamas' Shaunae Miller. Silver went to Allyson Felix who won her 7th medal.

Egyptian athlete sent home from Rio after refusing to shake Israeli opponent's hand

Fuuuuuuuuck that guy

Canadian women lose to the Germans in the soccer semi final match today.
FeelsBadMan

They play for the bronze medal now. Germany vs. Sweden in the gold medal match.

was watching bits and pieces of it
they honestly lost the game themselves...the Germans capitalized on their chances and the Canadians couldn't bury theirs

Buchanan's boneheaded tackle in the box that resulted in the first goal via PK was just :fulloffuck: :fulloffuck: :fulloffuck:

My sister sent me a Snap of the local news.

My highschool has 4 Olympians in recent years (maybe even this Olympics? I'm not following closely).

God damn, if dodgeball was a sport they'd have 5 ;)

Agree 100%. Things didn't change for Canada until they adopted a more dynamic mindset. They had their chances (I can remember at least 3-4 A1 chances in the German box) but they either muffed it or shot right at the German keeper/defender. Mind you, that was also after Germany decided to sit back as well.

That said, I was pretty impressed by Fletcher. Unlike most of her teammates, she seemed to have the patience, ball skill, and vision to really free up the forwards for chances. She was least guilty of just panicking and giving the ball away/out of bounds. Scott looks like she's going to be a great offensive option going forward as well. Even though this one sucked, it looks like Canada is in good hands going forward.

All those friendlies (losing) with the US is starting to pay dividends :P

Another Gold for Canada! Men's high jump.

It was pretty exciting event. Derek Drouin cleared every single attempt on his first try and had 0 misses. Talk about impressive!

This is high jump and not pole vault, yes? Our medal favourite in the pole vault kind of blew it, from what I heard. Was he the same dude who caught the bar with his pecker?

Gotta tie it down, mang. With those hot track and field chicks scampering about, can you blame these athletes?



EDIT: Found it!



Damn, I thought it would be a black man..................

high jump and pole vault are both pretty great TV

Kinda disappointed at cbc primetime coverage. Always seems to be volleyball or soccer or other 'games', not the quick interesting events like athletics, diving, gymnastics, etc

I want to watch the Irish station/commentators............ they is funny. When Irish eyes are smilin', so is the rest o' the world.