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None of the US relay teams, men and women, seem to actually like each other as team mates, do they?

The Germans have an amazing team.

I wonder how the Italians have suddenly become so good at the sprint events?

I see after all the fuss and controversy that trans lifter, Lauren Hubbard, didn’t even progress into the clean+jerk phase of the women’s heavyweight competition after she failed to register a snatch. You could not make it up, could you?

That Italian guy is 27 next month and had never even made the final of a major championships, neither had he run under 10 seconds until this season. That’s quite a rise to prominence and a hell of a margin to have taken off your PB in such a short time.

It’s only now that they’re in the Olympic stadium that the lack of crowds is really noticeable. Team mates, coaches and presumably journalists have been able to make some sort of atmosphere in the smaller arenas, but that’s not really possible in an empty 80,000 stadium!