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Seems to me that Radcliffe was never really in with a chance given her recent injury problems so perhaps it'd have been better to give her place to someone in need of the experience.

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Another Gold for GB and a new World Record in the cycling team pursuit!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olym...ng/7567845.stm

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They ripped apart that Danish team which as the Danish team broke the world record twice in this olympics is totally amazing...

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That should put us back into 3rd place ahead of the Australians

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oh dear china have not had a good day i do feel sorry for Liu Xiang
the whole country had put way to much under pressure to win

done be shocked by that any member of the Chinese that gets less than gold is thought of as a failure by the rest of China sad so sad :(

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New women's pole vault record:

Link
Wonder if that was Stanislaw Tomaschewski... :erm:

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this is not in the olympic spirit at all it true she could be stripped of her medal

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/o...ph-901736.html

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Hopefully not the last but our 13th Gold goes to Paul Goodison in the laser class sailing event. We're still in 3rd place in the medals table

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Chris Hoy is unstoppable in his latest heat and is through to the final alongside Jason kenny :)

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well HOY got the gold along with Kenny getting the obvious silver.

Another gold for cyclist Victoria Pendleton in the womens sprint which brings our current tally to 15 golds, 8 silver and 8 bronze, no wonder the AUSSIE tabloids are going crazy ;)

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LOL, I typed the aussie comment before I watched the replay of the Pendleton final......

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Christine Ohuruogu's fantastic win in the 400m race brings us upto 16 golds our best ever gold haul since the 1908 olympics (that one doesn't realy count as we were sometimes the only competitors after Italy pulled out from hosting the event and we took over)

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Christine Ohuruogu's just claimed the gold in the 400m and a surprise silver for Germaine Mason in the highjump has built on medals won earlier :)

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Victoria Pendleton's semi-final was somewhat "straight-forward" in comparison to the semi Australian Anna Meares had to come through.
Meares Chinese opponent Guo Shuang, was tipped to face Pendleton in the final, but after falling off her bicycle, causing a restart Guo won the third leg only to be disqualified for having been judged as to impede Meares along the back straight, a truly dramatic semi-final.

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Keri-Anne Payne and Cassie Patten take silver and bronze in the 10km swim, and Bryony Shaw takes windsurfing bronze for GB.

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Usain Bolt may have won 2 gold but Chris Hoy won 3 who's the better
i will let the record book deside ;)

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michael phelps?

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Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson won Britain's fourth sailing gold