Day 13 - Unlucky For Some

Day 13 of the Rio games saw Australia win yet more minor medals. But The Falcon does not GAF about silver and bronze when Gold is trading at $1350/oz.


Let's start with the main highlight - which was Usain Bolt completing the triple-double by taking the 100m/200m double for the third straight Olympics - the first man in history to do so. Rain just before the event meant it wasn't the most dynamic Olympic gold we've seen from Bolt. But after running a dominant first 100m he was never going to be beaten and cruised home to win his 8th Olympic gold. Given the Swimming gold deflator is generally thought to be in the realms of 1.5-2 per athletics gold, he'll have to go to another Olympics to challenge Michael Phelps for the title of greatest every Olympian. Still - he is by far and away the greatest track athlete the world has ever seen.


Today's masters of being near enough without being good enough in the Aussie team were our sailors - who took silver in both the 470 and the 49er classes, and our Kayakers. Wallace and Tame took bronze in the Men's K2 1000 - even this was an underperformance as they had finished behind ze-gold winning Germans in the last two World Champs but here were beaten by the Serbs for silver. Turns out heat form is in fact meaningful and this was always on the cards after they dogged it in the heat. In the diving, Michelle Wu could only manage 5th in the Women's 10m Springboard which unsurprisingly saw a Chinese quinella. Say what you want about Communism but it does help your diving ability!


At the BMX we qualified both 2 men and 2 women through to the Semi's. In the Men's the French World Cup leader crashed out leaving Australia's Sam Willoughby as the new gold medal favourite - that usually means a 4th! A shoutout is also due to Ryan Gregson who became the first Australian male to qualify for the Men's 1500m final on the track for over 40 years.


The track descended into farce in the heats of the Women's 4x100m relay, with the US allowed to re-run their heat in isolate after the baton was 'knocked out of their hands by an opponent' in their heat. FFS - harden up athletic officials. Most of the US runners will just be happy they are out of their home country and therefore don't face the risk of being shot on sight by their domestic police force.


Social Media Call of The Day


I wanna see the Shot Putters do the high jump and the High Jumpers to do the shot put.


Medal Tally


1 - US - 35-33-32
2 - GB - 22-21-13
3 - China - 20-16-22
10 - Australia 7-10-10*


*Of the top 10 on the Medal tally, only 25% of Choketralia's medals are gold - the only country with a worse gold to total medals ratio in the top 10 are the cheese eating surrender monkey's.






Kitty Chiller Bullshitmetre


If there has been an individual embarrass themselves more than Kitty Chiller this Olympics I'd like to see it. She has been nothing more than a national disgrace and banning Emma McKeon from the Closing Ceremony just because she didn't call to say she was staying is absolutely unacceptable by any metric. As far as I'm concerned KC can GAGF.