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Like others, I've massively enjoyed these games, despite having very little interest before they started. I'd like to get out to Paris in three years time to support Team GB, but LA 2028 is a definite for me (if we're allowed in by then!) I'm also going to start doing the National Lottery so...

Feared he was going to get taken there, but he had so much left in the tank. Great performance that had me scaring the dog with my shouting.

Outstanding! Imagine having to hold that pistol and hit five targets knowing the gold was on the line. Nerves of steel.

That last showjumping round of the modern pentathlon was pretty brutal to watch. It's not often I'll feel sympathy for a German.

Well, wasn't that just ****ing magnificent!

Not sure I've ever cheered showjumping like that before.

What's astounding is our level of medal success relative to similar-sized nations of comparable financial means, the likes of Germany, France, Italy and Spain for example. And, as others have said, the breadth of our competitiveness across such a wide-range of disparate disciplines.

Take that shouty Danish prick-man.

Followed by roaring "**** them". Looked an absolute arse, quite frankly.

Anyone else cheering on the ****-ups of those who went after our boy Max?

It's all broken down here: https://www.uksport.gov.uk/our-work/investing-in-sport/current-funding-figures £24m+ go to each of athletics, cycling and rowing, with sailing only just behind. Significant sums also to swimming, gymnastics, equestrian, hockey, canoeing and boxing.

Oliver Townend, world number 1. Always been a fan* * unless he doesn't win gold

Same. But at least the triathlons were live and we also had decent shouts in both. I have no idea what this horsey stuff on now is - I thought the dancing horses stuff had finished. I might as well block out alternate hours in my Friday for naps now.

I fall into this trap every bloody night. Just about to go to bed and the Olympics starts. "I'll watch the first few bits" I think. The first few bits are ALWAYS a re-cap of the previous day so I sit here often re-watching stuff I've already seen about eight times before the new stuff comes on...

All the handball keepers seem to have a touch of the Ryan-itis. Almost every shot on target is a goal.

Yeah, he’s great isn’t he? A real natural.

I wasn't at all before it started, but having watched a bit I've now remembered that I'm a knowledgable expert in rowing, badminton, boxing, swimming, hockey, taekwondo and shooting so I'm invested once again.

It's how basketball is played out on the mean streets. And also on that basketball court on The Gallops in Findon. I had no idea it was included until it just came on. I guess it's part of "bringing the Olympics to the young" thing that has been discussed this week. See also: skateboarding and...

The problem is once you're still up and start seeing stuff it's difficult to go to bed. In related news, loving the style of the Zambia wonen's striker for clutching the match ball as if she intended to take it home as she completed her hat-trick. A hat-trick in a 10 (ten) -3 defeat, with...

Stay up late or get up early? Or don't go to bed for two weeks? What is going to be the optimum strategy?