Another medal, a great silver in the womens 800m. Almost got silver and bronze, but gold was clearly won by the dominant American. (View Post)

It depends somewhat what you use as the benchmark. Generally hosts have a huge boost, a small slip back 4 years later, and then a big drop-off 4 years after that as the home-benefit wears off entirel… (View Post)

Yes, the truth is we are actually having a really good games overall - with slightly disappointing gold performance and significant underperformance by a couple of big sports being balanced out by re… (View Post)

Looking likely. Could have been third if Japan hadn't gotten an astonishing gold medal ratio. Speaking of medal count bets, the Ladbrokes line for UK was 44.5 medals overall. I had a punt on Over, bu… (View Post)

We've got a load of potential golds in the boxing still to come, and may well win at least one on the track even if we aren't dominant like at London/Rio. On overall medals we will definitely come To… (View Post)