Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Titmus beats Ledecky, double rowing gold for Australia, cycling time trial and more – live!
And now we have the women’s four final. Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, Netherlands, China and Poland are your teams.
Meanwhile, Nick Honeywell writes in on sports that shouldn’t be in the Olympics. My nomination is kitten killing. No way they should let it back in. Britain disgraced themselves in the 1896 Games. Anyway, here’s Nick:
“Football. I don’t understand why that’s in the Olympics at all, not least because there’s a perfectly good World Cup held every four years already. With 90 minute matches, it feels too big of an event to take up so much time. If football must be included (and I grant that the novelty of having one Team GB instead of four national teams is interesting), why not do it like rugby and have football sevens instead, with smaller teams and a much shorter game time? Say, two 15-minute halves and that’s your lot.” There’s be quite a few 0-0 draws though. Although plenty of penalty shootouts.
